The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Notebooks is one of the few books I’ve defaced, manically underlining sentences out of unbridled enthusiasm, such was their elegance and cleverness. Rilke is the greatest poet of the twentieth century and in this, his only novel, his devotion to 'the lyric' reaches its shimmering apotheosis.
- Sam Voulters, Classics Brand Director