9 best-selling novels books like The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Dows Herter Norton

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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public…

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1. The Hothouse

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

3.47

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Grieving over the death of his wife and disillusioned by the political corruption that surrounds hi… read more

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"Knurrewahn hatte viel durchgemacht; aber er war nicht weise geworden."

-Wolfgang Koeppen, The Hothouse

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2. Les Chants de Maldoror

By: Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one… read more

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  • poetry
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"...the police, that shield of civilization..."

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?"

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thou…"

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

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3. Hymns to the Night

By: Novalis , Dick Higgins

4.05

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete A… read more

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  • poetry
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"Ama geceye sadık kalır Gizli yüreğim Ve gecenin kızı olan Yaratıcı sevgiye. Gösterebilir misin bana Sonrasız sadık bir yürek? Senin güneşinin Sevgi dolu gözleri var mı Beni tanıyabilen?"

-Novalis, Hymns to the Night

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4. The Thirtieth Year: Stories

By: Ingeborg Bachmann , Michael Bullock

4.02

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

This is collection of the stories written by a distinguished Austrian author who died in 1973. Read… read more

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"No new world without a new language."

-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories

"As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he knew now that he was living in a prison, that he had to make the best of it in there and would soon ra…"

-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories

"Kendi yasama ihanet etmeden bu tasaları nasıl haklı görebilirdim? Girdiğiniz çıkmazların önemine nasıl inanabilirdim? Size gerçekten inandıkça, o güçsüz ve kendini beğenmiş sözlerinizden, o miskin da…"

-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories

"Etimin konuk ettiği ruhum, ikiyüzlü ev sahibinden daha da büyük bir düzenbazdır. Her şeyden önce onunla karşılaşmaktan çekinmeyelim. Çünkü düşündüğüm hiçbir şeyin benimle ilişkisi yok. Her düşünce, y…"

-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories

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5. The Temptation of St. Antony

By: Gustave Flaubert , Lafcadio Hearn , Kitty Mrosovsky

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud & was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptatio… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
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6. Niels Lyhne

By: Jens Peter Jacobsen

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' With the novel Ni… read more

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7. Drawn and Quartered

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
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8. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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9. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more

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  • german literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
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  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of L'indifferente by Marcel Proust, Giorgio Agamben, Mariolina Bongiovanni Bertini, Philip Kolb

10. L'indifferente

By: Marcel Proust , Giorgio Agamben , Mariolina Bongiovanni Bertini , Philip Kolb

3.41

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

Ο "Αδιάφορος" και άλλα κείμενα των νεανικών του χρόνων Από το 1893 µέχρι το 1896 ο νεαρός Προυστ… read more

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"مادلن گل‌ها را خیلی دوست داشت و با حسابگری زنانه می‌دانست چه‌قدر زیبا هستند و چه‌قدر زیبا می‌کنند. زیبایی، شادابی و حتی اندوه گل‌ها را هم دوست داشت و آن‌ها را زیبایی‌های جانبی گل‌ها می‌دانست. وقتی دی…"

-Marcel Proust, L'indifferente

"کودکی که از بدو تولد غیرارادی نفس کشیده است، نمی‌داند هوایی که سینه‌اش را آرام پر می‌کند تا چه حد برای زنده ماندنش ضروری و حیاتی است. حالا اگر در آتش تب دچار تشنج و خفگی گردد چه می‌کند؟ در تلاشی مستأ…"

-Marcel Proust, L'indifferente

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11. The Death of Virgil

By: Hermann Broch , Jean Starr Untermeyer

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Cae… read more

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12. The Confusions of Young Törless

By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more

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13. Doctor Faustus

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

3.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now rendered into English by acclaimed … read more

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14. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

Cover of Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, William T. Vollmann

15. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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16. Michael Kohlhaas

By: Heinrich von Kleist

3.54

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

Based on historical events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridges the gap between… read more

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"Because dearest Lisbeth, I will not abide in a country in which my rights are not protected. If I am to be trampled underfoot, I would rather be a dog than a man. I am certain that, on this point, my…"

-Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas

17. Murphy

By: Samuel Beckett

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in… read more

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18. Hell

By: Henri Barbusse , Robert Baldick

4.28

Format: None pages, Paperback

A young man staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed. Alternately v… read more

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19. The Assistant

By: Robert Walser , Susan Bernofsky , ناصر غیاثی

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling")… read more

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20. You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

By: Rachel Corbett

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke―then a struggling poet in Germany―wen… read more

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  • poetry
  • philosophy
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21. The Light Room

By: Kate Zambreno

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in clo… read more

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12 must-read fiction books like The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Dows Herter Norton

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The Hothouse

Wolfgang Koeppen

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Les Chants de Maldoror

Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Hymns to the Night

Novalis , Dick Higgins

4.05

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The Thirtieth Year: Stories

Ingeborg Bachmann , Michael Bullock

4.02

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A Sentimental Journey

Laurence Sterne , Paul Goring

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

Joseph von Eichendorff , Konrad Nussbächer

3.31

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Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre

Friedrich Schiller

3.28

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Minna von Barnhelm

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

3.31

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