18 books like Immortality
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa hates his job. He works himself to exhaustion as a traveling salesman to support a family that takes him for granted. One morning, his whole life changes. He wakes up to discover that he has turned into a giant insect. As he and his family come to grips with the fantastical event, The Metamorphosis explores themes of alienation, family loyalty, and unconditional love.
Shares Continental european fiction
Les belles images
Shares Continental european fiction with this book.
The Gadfly
The Gadfly was published in 1897, and its original publishers feared a hostile public reaction to its theme of revolution. Instead, it quickly became a classic of socialism, one of the very first politically aware novels. A story of love and conspiracy, it was based in part on the early life of Sidney Rosenblum, better known as "Reilly Ace of Spies" -- Voynich's boyfriend at the time.
Shares Continental european fiction
Seven Gothic tales
Originally published in 1934, *Seven Gothic Tales,* the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" *(The Atlantic),* is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann,…
Shares Continental european fiction
Creatures That Once Were Men
The Boni and Liveright edition of 1918 introduced by G.K. Chesterton and translated by J.M. Shirazi contains five stories - 'Creatures that once were men', 'Twenty-six men and a Girl', 'Chelkash', 'My Fellow Traveller', and 'On a Raft'.
Shares Continental european fiction
White Nights
White Nights
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover.
As the narrator falls in love…
Shares Continental european fiction
The deluge
This is Volume 2 of the Curtin translation, first published in 1898. This is NOT the more modern Kuniczak translation of 1991 that many people prefer, despite what you can see as the book cover on the screen.
Shares Continental european fiction
Physiologie du mariage
Shares Continental european fiction with this book.
The Cyberiad
OMG I can't believe there's no description for this - but then I can because this book defies description. Stanislaw Lem is a genius and your minds will be expanded to bursting when you begin this journey into a world where machines are the dominant species. It is hugely entertaining, inventive, witty, and above all, laugh out loud funny. The book concerns two "constructors" - Trurl and…
Shares Continental european fiction
Směšné lásky
"In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don…
Shares Continental european fiction
Abel Sánchez
Shares Continental european fiction with this book.
En route
The plot of the novel is as simple as it could be. I've taken the principal character of Là-Bas, Durtal, had him converted and sent him to a Trappist monastery. In studying his conversion, I've tried to trace the progress of a soul surprised by the gift of grace, and developing in an ecclesiastical atmosphere, to the accompaniment of mystical literature, liturgy, and plainchant, against a…
Shares Continental european fiction
Trionfo della morte
Shares Continental european fiction with this book.
Anton Reiser
xv, 456 p. ; 23 cm
Shares Continental european fiction
Undine, eine Erzählung
Despite misgivings about Undine's supernatural powers, a nobleman still wants to marry this water nymph he finds living in the forest with a poor fisherman and his wife.
Shares Continental european fiction
Казаки (Kazaki)
**The Cossacks** (Russian: *Казаки [Kazaki]*) is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine *The Russian Messenger*. It was originally called **Young Manhood**. Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, with Turgenev calling it his favourite work by Tolstoy. Tolstoy began work on the story in August…
Shares Continental european fiction
Il barone rampante
Il romanzo racconta le vicende di Cosimo di Rondò, vissuto nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo in piccolo paese della Liguria. Cosimo, per sfuggire ad un punizione, decide di salire su un albero e non scenderne mai più: si costruisce un mondo aereo dove diversi personaggi della cultura e della politica (Napoleone compreso) lo vanno a trovare, testimoniandogli la loro ammirazione. Vive anche una…
Shares Continental european fiction
The scapegoat
Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon, ' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.I was looking at myself."Two men--one English, the other French--meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are…
Shares Continental european fiction
About the book { book.title } → · Compare with The Metamorphosis ⚔