Books similar like That Mighty Sculptor, Time

The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to r…

Buy this book on Amazon

Invisible Cities

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Veneti…

Buy this book on Amazon

Il portale delle tenebre

Buy this book on Amazon

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

Buy this book on Amazon

Camere separate

"'Camere separate' è uno straordinario e felice romanzo d'amore e di morte, di nostalgia e maturità, di impotenza e grandezza, nel quale riconosciamo la crisi del nostro tempo e le sue misteriose ragi…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Man in the Red Coat

Buy this book on Amazon

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration—"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to hav…

Buy this book on Amazon

Death in Venice

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim.

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Ma…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Name of the Rose

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven…

Buy this book on Amazon

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

From one of the greatest writers of our time: the most spellbinding, entertaining, wildly imaginative novel of his great career, which blends history and myth with tremendous philosophical depth. A ma…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Order of Time

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Magic Mountain

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exh…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Kreutzer Sonata

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kr…

Buy this book on Amazon

Narcissus and Goldmund

Narcissus and Goldmund tells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposite: Narcissus, an ascetic monk firm in his religious commitment, and Goldmund, a romantic youth hung…

Buy this book on Amazon

Against Nature

With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats…

Buy this book on Amazon

In Praise of Shadows

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descri…

Buy this book on Amazon

Silk

When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour leaves his doting wife and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu and travels across Sib…

Buy this book on Amazon

Nada se opone a la noche

Buy this book on Amazon

The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)

The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedo…

Buy this book on Amazon

Ficciones

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obse…

Buy this book on Amazon

That Mighty Sculptor, Time

Similar books (20)