The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. In Search of Lost Time
By: Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
4.34
Format: 4211 pages, Paperback
On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, t… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- philosophy
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- 20th century
- novels
"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the Ne…"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are …"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
3. The Guermantes Way
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne
4.27
Format: 619 pages, Paperback
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- philosophy
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- 20th century
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"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش میآید، چون تخیل با توست"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک میشناسد"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
4. Sodom and Gomorrah
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , John Sturrock
4.33
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexua… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- philosophy
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- 20th century
- novels
"He lives at Balbec?"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"کار ذهنن تا زمانی که مطیع واقعیت نیست آسان است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"از شکل انداختن یک شاهکار خیلی از ساختناش مشکلتر است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"هر خطای برطرف شده آدمی را از حس تازهای برخوردا میکند"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
5. Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)
By: Marcel Proust
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Albertine disparueest le dernier volume revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Prevu d'abord sou… read more
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- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
6. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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- classics
- literature
- 20th century
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7. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
8. 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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- classics
- literature
- philosophy
- 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
9. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- german literature
- literature
- germany
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- novels
10. The Castle
By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more
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- german literature
- classics
- literature
- philosophy
- fiction
- novels
11. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- classics
- literature
- philosophy
- fiction
- novels
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
12. 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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- classics
- literature
- philosophy
- 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
13. The Tin Drum
By: Günter Grass
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wield… read more
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14. The Glass Bead Game
By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more
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15. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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16. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
"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)
17. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- unfinished
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- 20th century
- novels
"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
18. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
19. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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- german literature
- literary fiction
- classics
- unfinished
- literature
- germany
- philosophy
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
20. Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg: Erläuterungen und Dokumente
By: Daniela Langer
4.25
Format: 478 pages, Paperback
Thomas Manns Zauberberg ist einer der eindrucksvollsten Romane der deutschen Literatur. Der Band er… read more
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21. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
