Lily Wangs Favorite World Classics (Novels)
Explore Lily Wang's favorite world classic novels with this curated list of timeless books. Discover must-read literary masterpieces that inspire and captivate readers globally.
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Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty …
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Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner and author …
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The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata
From the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age—about an elderly Tokyo businessman …
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Beauty and Sadness
by Yasunari Kawabata
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a …
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The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata
A collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature. Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for his innovative short …
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis: Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year …
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety, and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story — considered by …
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an …
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly …
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international …
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Immortality
by Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind …
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Presents a poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life as Clarissa Dalloway makes preparations for a party …
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Narcissus and Goldmund
by Hermann Hesse
This is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character who set each other on different paths in life.
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The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse
Setting his story in the distant, post-Holocaust future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals occupying themselves with an elaborate game that employs all …