Books like A Hero of Our Time
12 books with a reading profile close to A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Il fu Mattia Pascal
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Mattia Pascal, a small-town librarian in Italy, is trapped in a miserable marriage and weighed down by his mother-in-law's temper.
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The Kreutzer Sonata
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Pozdnyshev, a Russian landowner traveling by train, recounts the events leading to his wife’s murder.
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Franny and Zooey
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Franny and Zooey consists of two connected narratives centered on the youngest members of the Glass family, a group of former child prodigies.
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Demian
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Emil Sinclair grows up in a conventional, pious household, struggling to reconcile the "world of light" represented by his family with the "world of darkness" he observes in the streets.
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
by Leo Tolstoy
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Ivan Ilych is a high-ranking judge in nineteenth-century Russia who builds a life around social status, material comfort, and strict professional decorum.
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Notes from Underground
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
The narrative follows a retired civil servant residing in St.
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Steppenwolf
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Harry Haller is a middle-aged intellectual living in a rented room, paralyzed by a perceived duality between his refined human persona and a savage, solitary identity he calls the Steppenwolf.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set on a Mississippi Delta cotton estate, the narrative centers on the Pollitt family during Big Daddy’s sixty-fifth birthday.
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The End of the Affair
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set in London during and after the Blitz, the novel follows Maurice Bendrix, a novelist who begins a physical relationship with Sarah Miles, the wife of a civil servant.
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The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Konstantin Treplev, an aspiring playwright, stages an experimental outdoor performance to impress Nina Zarechnaya, a young actress whom he loves.
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The Heart of the Matter
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Henry Scobie, a deputy police commissioner in a West African British colony during the Second World War, is a conscientious Catholic who has been passed over for promotion.
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Oblomov
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a young Russian nobleman who lives in a state of terminal inertia within his dusty St.
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