11 Best literature books like Cancer Ward by David Burg, Nicholas Bethell

Cover of Cancer Ward by None, David Burg, Nicholas Bethell

Cancer Ward

By: None , David Burg , Nicholas Bethell

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Wardis both a deeply compassi…

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Cover of Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther, Stephen J. Nichols, Henry Eyster Jacobs

1. Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses

By: Martin Luther , Stephen J. Nichols , Henry Eyster Jacobs

3.88

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

2018 Reprint of 1910 Harvard Classics Edition. The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power o… read more

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  • classics
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2. I and Thou

By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been accl… read more

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  • classics
"All real living is meeting."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

Cover of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, John Bayley, Manya Harari, Max Hayward

3. Doctor Zhivago

By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward

4.01

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Only the superfluous is sordid"

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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4. Kolyma Tales

By: Varlam Shalamov , John Glad , Варлам Шаламов

4.36

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • literature
"I'm dressed appropriate for the season mama, I'm dressed appropriately for the season."

-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

"Only one group of people kept their humanity in the camps, the believers, whether Orthodox or sectarians."

-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

"Помню,  как в  предзимнюю пору  холодом, льдом уже схватывало грязь на тропе, и грязь будто засахаривалась, как варенье."

-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

"If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever."

-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

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5. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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6. My Brother Jack

By: George Johnston

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Through the story of two brothers who grew up in patriotic, suburban Melbourne, George Johnston cre… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

7. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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8. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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9. The Insulted and Humiliated

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Insulted & Injured, published soon after Dostoevsky's political imprisonment, clearly foreshado… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
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10. Cancer Ward

By: None , David Burg , Nicholas Bethell

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Wardis both a deeply compassi… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank, Alan Myers, Anna Brailovsky

11. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

12. Resurrection

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.00

Format: None pages,

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more

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13. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
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  • historical fiction
  • novels
"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

14. And Quiet Flows the Don

By: Mikhail Sholokhov

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Tikhii Don, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epi… read more

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15. Waiting for God

By: Simone Weil

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

"My dear father, I have made up my mind to write to you....I have been wondering lately about the w… read more

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16. Guignol's Band

By: Bernard Frechtman , Louis-Ferdinand Céline , None

3.93

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

In Guignol's Band, first published in France in 1943, Celine explores the horror of a disordered wo… read more

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17. The House of the Dead

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Ergin Altay

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of h… read more

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18. The Master and Margarita

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None

4.29

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more

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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

19. The Same Old Story

By: Ivan Goncharov , None

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The Same Old Story (1847) tells the story of Alexander Aduyev who leaves the idyllic setting of his… read more

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20. Ce désir me point

By: Claire Legendre

3.70

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

« Mon désir n’avait pas besoin d’objet, il était prêt à se poser sur n’importe qui, il frétillait d… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Cywilizacja Słowian. Prawdziwa historia największego ludu Europy

By: Kamil Janicki

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Czy Słowianom udało się stworzyć własną cywilizację? Czy Słowianie znaleźli się na ziemiach pols… read more

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Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward

4.01

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Oblomov

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4.12

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My Brother Jack

George Johnston

4.32

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Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

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Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach

Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak

4.44

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Odrzania. Podróż po Ziemiach Odzyskanych

Zbigniew Rokita

4.03

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Jacek Hołub

4.10

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Bartosz Józefiak

4.20

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