Siddhartha

>>23322270
no memes please

gat greatsby

In Hrafnkels saga the protagonist Hrafnkell loses all of his property, has his temple burnt to the ground and his favourite horse pushed over the cliff, but he eventually becomes very successful again and takes revenge on the man that did that to him

redburn, his first voyage

Job

>>23322256
Gone With The Wind is the quintessential text for this vibe. Every main character you meet in the first hundred pages loses everything; the second half of the book is their various ways of dealing with it (or not).

Lots of Faulkner tackles the same subject-matter but he doesn't usually tell "riches to rags" quite so starkly. Absalom, Absalom! is "rags-to-riches-to-rags". The Sound and the Fury is "riches in the final stages of becoming rags even though it can't admit it", etc.

The Magnificent Ambersons is about the fall of a family rather than an individual.

The Count of Monte Cristo starts off with a protagonist on top of the world getting kicked to the bottom.

Great Expectations is another "rags to riches to rags" story, although unlike A, A! the protagonist doesn't get the riches through his own efforts.

>>23323166
>The Count of Monte Cristo starts off with a protagonist on top of the world getting kicked to the bottom.
the antagonists of The Count of Monte Cristo fit OP's bill even better

Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe

>>23322256
Odysseus is a king but most of his life is spent either on the battlefield or shipwrecked on various islands of monsters.

>>23322256
A Clergyman's Daughter