The Remains of the Day
1989 · 245 pages
Driving across England in 1956 to see the housekeeper he worked beside, a butler remembers the Nazi sympathizer he served with pride. What he cannot bring himself to say is the whole novel.
★ 7.7
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The Vocation Lectures
1919 · 100 pages
Weber told students in a collapsing Germany what science and politics demand: science can give you clarity but never choose your values, and politics is the slow boring of hard boards.
★ 6.7
Narcissus and Goldmund
1930 · 320 pages
Two friends split the world between them: Narcissus stays in the monastery with logic and God, and Goldmund walks out into women, wandering, and the Black Death, then carves it all in wood.
★ 6.3
The Beautiful and Damned
1922 · 364 pages
Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria decide to wait for his grandfather's millions rather than work. Fitzgerald follows the waiting year by year, as the parties thin out and the drinking never does.
★ 5.1