Books like House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
12 books with a reading profile close to House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Howl and Other Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Published in 1956, this collection centers on the title poem, a frantic catalog of mid-century American struggle.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
The poem recounts a sailor’s harrowing sea voyage that spirals into disaster after he shoots an albatross without provocation.
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3
Ojos de perro azul
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
This collection of short stories documents the early development of Gabriel García Márquez’s narrative style before his shift into Macondo.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
J.D.
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Orlando
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
The narrative follows Orlando, a young Elizabethan nobleman who begins as a favorite of the court and lives for over three centuries without aging significantly.
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Woyzeck
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Franz Woyzeck is a low-ranking soldier stationed in a provincial German town, struggling to provide for his common-law wife, Marie, and their infant son.
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The Hour of the Star
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
In Rio de Janeiro, a self-absorbed narrator named Rodrigo S.M.
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Clevinger's trial (from 'Catch-22')
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Joseph Heller’s standalone play, Clevinger’s Trial, adapts the eighth chapter of his novel Catch-22 into a rhythmic, one-act script.
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Amerika
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Karl Rossmann is a teenager banished by his parents to America after a scandal with a maid.
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Heart of a Dog
Also deep and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary
In 1920s Moscow, the surgeon Professor Preobrazhensky performs a radical medical experiment by transplanting a human pituitary gland and testicles into a stray dog named Sharik.
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11
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
Also deep and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary
Henry Miller's first published novel is a loose, first-person account of an American writer living in Paris in the early 1930s with little money and a great appetite for food, sex, talk, and ideas.
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Difficult Loves
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
This collection gathers fifteen short stories centered on the internal friction between private desire and social reality.
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