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Thomas Mann · 1924 The Magic Mountain A young engineer climbs to the Alps to visit his cousin in a sanatorium and stays seven years. 7 chapters · 10 characters · 8 symbols · 7 themes

Stendhal · 1830 The Red and the Black The son of a carpenter wants to rise in the France of the Restoration, and he chooses the cassock because the uniform no longer does him any good. 75 chapters · 10 characters · 6 symbols · 7 themes

Gustave Flaubert · 1857 Madame Bovary The wife of a country doctor trades the life she has for the one she read about in novels, and pays for it in money. 35 chapters · 10 characters · 4 symbols · 7 themes

Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 The Master and Margarita The devil arrives in Moscow in the 1930s, and a novel about Pontius Pilate decides the fate of a writer and of the woman who loves him. 32 chapters and an epilogue · 18 characters · 8 symbols · 7 themes

Virgil · 19 BC Aeneid A Trojan prince flees the burning city and, by the order of fate, crosses the sea to Italy to found the lineage of Rome. 12 books · 18 characters · 6 symbols · 6 themes

Homer · VIII century BC The Iliad In the tenth year of the Trojan War, the greatest Greek warrior withdraws from the fighting over an offense to his honor, and his wrath costs the lives of many. 24 books · 18 characters · 6 symbols · 6 themes

Homer · VIII century BC The Odyssey Ten years after the fall of Troy, Odysseus still tries to return home, while suitors occupy the palace and court his wife. 24 books · 18 characters · 6 symbols · 6 themes

Machado de Assis · 1891 Quincas Borba A schoolteacher from Barbacena inherits the fortune and the philosophy of an eccentric philosopher, moves to Rio de Janeiro, and is devoured by the friends who surround him. 17 sections · 9 characters · 4 symbols · 6 themes

Machado de Assis · 1881 The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas A dead man writes the memoirs of his own life and, being already dead, tells without shame the loves, vanities, and ambitions of a rich and idle man of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. 12 sections · 12 characters · 5 symbols · 7 themes

Machado de Assis · 1899 Dom Casmurro An old man, alone, writes his own life to answer whether his wife, Capitu, betrayed him with his best friend, and the reader only hears the version of the one who accuses. 13 sections · 6 characters · 4 symbols · 6 themes

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky · 1866 Crime and Punishment A poor former student in St. Petersburg kills an old pawnbroker to prove a theory, and the book shows what the crime does to the one who committed it. 7 parts · 11 characters · 6 symbols · 7 themes

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky · 1869 The Idiot A good, guileless prince returns from Switzerland to St. Petersburg and, in a world where everything has a price, tries to save a woman who considers herself lost. 4 parts · 16 characters · 7 symbols · 7 themes

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky · 1880 The Brothers Karamazov A debauched father is murdered, and each of the three sons, the sensualist, the skeptic, and the novice, carries a part of the guilt and of the question about God. 13 books · 15 characters · 7 symbols · 7 themes

Dante Alighieri · 1321 Inferno Lost in a dark wood in the middle of life, Dante descends with Virgil through the nine circles of the Inferno, where each sin receives the punishment that corresponds to it. 8 sections · 12 characters · 7 symbols · 7 themes

Dante Alighieri · 1321 Purgatory Having left Hell, Dante climbs with Virgil the mountain of Purgatory, where souls are purified ledge by ledge, until he meets Beatrice again in the Earthly Paradise. 8 sections · 11 characters · 7 symbols · 7 themes

Dante Alighieri · 1321 Paradise Guided by Beatrice, Dante crosses the heavens from sphere to sphere until the vision of God, the love that moves the sun and the other stars. 8 sections · 15 characters · 7 symbols · 7 themes

Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 Don Quixote A gentleman who read books of chivalry until he lost his wits sets out across La Mancha to live what he read, with a farmhand as his squire. 14 sections · 14 characters · 7 symbols · 7 themes

Luigi Pirandello · 1926 One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand A man learns from his wife that his nose is crooked, and from then on he realizes that everyone sees him differently. He resolves to destroy the hundred thousand Moscardas the others see in him. 8 books · 8 characters · 6 symbols · 6 themes

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky · 1872 Demons In a provincial Russian town, a group of conspirators around an enigmatic aristocrat moves from ideas to crime, and the book shows what the lack of faith does to each one of them. 11 parts · 18 characters · 7 symbols · 7 themes

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky · 1864 Notes from Underground A forty-year-old former clerk, hidden in his corner of Saint Petersburg, attacks reason and progress, then recounts the humiliation he suffered at twenty-four. 2 parts · 7 characters · 6 symbols · 6 themes

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky · 1848 White Nights A solitary young man from St. Petersburg meets a young woman on the embankment on a white night, and over four nights lives the only romance of his life. 3 nights · 6 characters · 6 symbols · 5 themes

Leo Tolstoy · 1886 The Death of Ivan Ilyich A successful judge learns that he is going to die and, faced with the pain and the lies of those around him, asks himself whether he has lived as he should. 3 sections · 7 characters · 6 symbols · 5 themes

William Shakespeare · 1597 Romeo and Juliet Two young people from the feuding families of Verona fall in love and marry in secret, and within five days haste decides everything. 5 acts · 9 characters · 3 symbols · 7 themes

William Shakespeare · 1599 Julius Caesar Brutus kills Caesar in the name of Rome's freedom, and Mark Antony's word turns the city against him. 5 acts · 8 characters · 5 symbols · 6 themes

William Shakespeare · 1601 Hamlet The king's ghost orders his son to avenge him, and the Prince of Denmark thinks before he acts. 5 acts · 9 characters · 5 symbols · 6 themes

William Shakespeare · 1604 Othello A Moorish general in the service of Venice comes to believe, on the word of the ensign Iago, that his wife is betraying him. 5 acts · 7 characters · 3 symbols · 6 themes

William Shakespeare · 1606 Macbeth Three witches promise the crown to a Scottish nobleman, and he, pushed by his wife, kills the king to hasten the prophecy. 5 acts · 7 characters · 4 symbols · 6 themes