Books like Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Felix Krull, the handsome son of a bankrupt Rhineland champagne maker, sets out to make his way through Paris hotels and European society on charm, mimicry and imposture.
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Lotte in Weimar
In 1816, Charlotte Kestner, the woman who inspired Goethe's Werther forty-four years earlier, arrives in Weimar and hopes to see the great man again.
Buddenbrooks
Four generations of a Lübeck merchant family from their commercial height through their slow bourgeois rot, in the novel that made the 25-year-old Mann.
Colas Breugnon
A year in the life of Colas Breugnon, a fifty-year-old carpenter and wine-lover of Clamecy in Burgundy in the early 1600s, who tells his story through war, plague and family with unshakeable good humour.
Henderson the Rain King
Eugene Henderson, a huge, restless millionaire pig farmer from Connecticut with a voice in him crying I want, I want, flies to Africa and walks into the interior looking for something.
The Late Mattia Pascal
Unhappily married and in debt in a small Ligurian town, Mattia Pascal wins a fortune at Monte Carlo and, reading of his own death in the newspaper, decides to start a new life under a new name.
The Bonds of Interest
A play in the commedia dell'arte style: two penniless adventurers, the clever Crispín and his master Leandro, arrive in a rich city and talk their way into credit, society and a fortune.
Dead Souls
A swindler travels through provincial Russia buying up the ownership papers of dead serfs, and the scheme exposes the absurdity and corruption of the entire system.
Confessions of Zeno
Zeno Cosini, a Trieste businessman, writes out his life for his psychiatrist, his last cigarettes, his choice of the wrong sister to marry, his father's death, in a comic confession that keeps missing the point.
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry, a hard-drinking, womanising college football hero, is pushed into the ministry and finds that preaching suits his appetites.
The Women at the Pump
In a small Norwegian coastal town, the gossip at the pump follows Oliver, a sailor who came home crippled, and everyone else whose business is everyone's business.
The Guide
Raju, a former tour guide just out of prison, shelters in a riverside temple and is taken by the villagers for a holy man, and when drought comes they want a miracle.
The Hamlet
Flem Snopes, son of a barn-burning tenant farmer, takes a job clerking in Will Varner's store at Frenchman's Bend, and his family begins to take over the hamlet.