 | Spring Torrents (Penguin Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
Buy new: $12.82 / Used from: $1.79 It seems that Tugenev read the Sorrows of Young Werther, and was inspired.
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 | The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Buy new: $8.80 / Used from: $0.90 Everyone should read this moving story.
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 | The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry James
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.01 The Beast in the Jungle is Henry James' most enthralling tale.
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 | Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $2.30 This is a very good introduction to Nabokov.
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 | Cane (Norton Critical Edition) by Jean Toomer
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $1.81 My favorite work from the Harlem Renaissance.
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 | Dubliners (Signet classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 This brief collection of related stories culminates with one of the finest short stories in English, The Dead.
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 | The Sebastopol Sketches (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy used from: $2.80 This bit of non-fiction is Tolstoy's first work, but his beautiful prose make this a gripping read.
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 | A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $1.98 OK, so this isn't fiction either; it IS an excellent collection of short episodes from Hemingway's life.
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 | Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse
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 | Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: $9.10 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.73 Beat masterpiece.
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 | Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $0.98 |
 | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.97 This is Gertrude Stein's autobiography. It is her most accessible work, and one of her best. If you only read 1 item from my list, this should be it.
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