Classic Literature
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White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2025
The Tell-Tale
Edgar Allan Poe · 1983
No Longer Human
太宰治 · 1958
<p> Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. </p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p><p>Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)</p>
The Virgin Suicides A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2018
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 2005
Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1994
To Read
The Fall
Albert Camus · 1956
The Stranger
Albert Camus • 2022
Ariel Poems by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath • 1966
The Setting Sun
太宰治 · 1968
A Gentle Creature
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2020
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls · 2006
