18 books like The Metamorphosis

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Immortality

Immortality Milan Kundera · 1992 Shares Continental european fiction with this book.

Eden's eyes Sean Costello · 1989 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Karen Lockhart has been blind all her life. Now she can see with a dead man's eyes but with her new blessing come an even greater curse: terror. Karen's world had grown dark until a vicious punk named Eden Crowell is killed one night in a barroom brawl and doctors salvage what they can from his ruined body. His heart goest to an old drunk, his kidney to a young girl, and his silver blue eyes… Shares Literature

World mythology Donna Rosenberg · 1986 · ★ 5.0 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Shares Literature with this book.

Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature

Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature Norris J. Lacy · 2013 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Literature with this book.

Kristin Lavransdatter III Sigrid Undset · 1922 · ★ 4.0 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally's award-winning definitive… Shares Continental european fiction, Literature

Les belles images Simone de Beauvoir · 1966 · ★ 3.8 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Continental european fiction with this book.

Il purgatorio Dante Alighieri · 1768 · ★ 4.0 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Com’ io l’ho tratto, saria lungo a dirti; Shares Continental european fiction, Literature

Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend John McKinnell · 2005 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the dead"--Provided by publisher Shares Literature

Norse Mythology Volume 1 Neil Gaiman · 2021 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Literature with this book.

The Gadfly Ethel Lilian Voynich · 1897 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 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 Isak Dinesen · 1934 · ★ 3.9 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 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

Fantômas Pierre Souvestre · 1900 · ★ 3.7 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate “One episode simply melts away as the next takes over” (The New York Times) in this deliciously sinister turn-of-the-century tale of a French evil genius run rampant. Three appalling crimes leave all of Paris aghast: the Marquise de Langruen is hacked to death, the Princess Sonia is robbed, and Lord Beltham is found dead, stuffed into a trunk. Inspector Juve knows that all the clues point to one… Shares Literature

Creatures That Once Were Men Максим Горький · 1905 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate 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 Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate 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 Wake Neil Gaiman · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Literature with this book.

Lamb

Lamb Christopher Moore · 2002 · ★ 4.4 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia… Shares Literature

Доктор Живаго Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1957 · ★ 3.5 · 558p · ≈ 18h · Moderate ***This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987.*** One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. ***The book quickly became an international… Shares Continental european fiction, Literature

Anaphora ston Gkreko Nikos Kazantzakis · 1961 · ★ 4.0 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Autobiography Shares Continental european fiction, Literature

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