The Recognition of Śakuntalā
10 best books like The Recognition of Śakuntalā (Kālidāsa): History, Grande Sertão: Veredas, The Sound of the Mountain, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, Ramayana, Romancero gitano, Njal's Saga, Poems of Paul Celan, The Weavers, Tales from the Kathasaritsagara
| Author | Elsa Morante |
| ISBN | 1586420046 |
History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events...
| Author | João Guimarães Rosa |
| ISBN | 8520912095 |
A estilização das peculiaridades das falas sertanejas, sempre recorrente na obra de Guimarães Rosa, atinge seu auge neste consagrado romance. Rosa reinventa a língua e eleva o sertão ao contexto da literatura universal, compondo o cenário de uma narrativa lírica e épica, uma lição de...
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 0679762647 |
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Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive...
| Author | Xun Lu |
| ISBN | 0824813170 |
This collection of short stories by Lu Xun, commonly considered one of the greatest writers in 20th-century China and often referred to as the father of modern Chinese literature, includes the celebrated short story, "A Madman's Diary". This short story is considered to be one of the first and most...
| Author | Vālmīki |
| ISBN | 0520227034 |
El Ramayana es un libro de la India antigua. Se cree que sus orígenes se remontan al siglo IV a.C. ya que forma parte de los smíriti hindúes (textos no aportados directamente por Dios, sino transmitidos por la tradición). El Ramayana es una de las obras literarias más importantes de la India, este...
| Author | Federico García Lorca |
| ISBN | 9871165293 |
Over the course of 2017, I have read a number of poetry collections both by American born and foreign poets. While I find myself preferring contemporary poetry, I do respect classic collections and have some favorite poets who I prefer. As this is Hispanic Heritage Month, I decided to step out of my comfort...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140447695 |
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control....
| Author | Paul Celan |
| ISBN | 0856462659 |
"In the writing of Paul Celan even we readers who can hear poetry only dimly in German can sense the greatness of his invention: the cadences of a music tilted against music's complacency; words punished for their plausibility by being reinvented and fused together and broken apart; syntax chopped...
| Author | Gerhart Hauptmann |
| ISBN | 0413476308 |
No play in the history of theater presents a deeper or more lacerating vision of the inhuman nuts and bolts of starvation, from the poetics of paucity to the politics of poverty, than Gerhart Hauptmann’s 1892 naturalistic masterpiece The Weavers. Based on fact – a riot by the horrifically oppressed...
Tales from the Kathasaritsagara
| Author | Somadeva Bhaṭṭa |
| ISBN | 0140446982 |
Took me forever to find this online and in the end my Mom grabbed this for me from Bahri and Sons Booksellers in New Delhi. I'm super into frame-tales so discovering this was like hitting a gold mine.
This 11th century collection of stories from earlier "lost" sources (notably the Brhatkatha)...
| Author | C. Rajagopalachari |
| ISBN | 8172763689 |
Originally published in the year 1951, the huge popularity of the book has resulted in the book being re-printed several times. Centuries ago, it was proclaimed of the Mahabharata: "What is not in it, is nowhere." But even now, we can use the same words about it. He who knows it not, knows not the heights...
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz, Saadi
Bustan ("Būstān") is a book of poetry by the Persian poet Saadi, completed in 1257. Saadi's first work, and its title means "the orchard". The book contains the fruits of Saadi's long experience and his judgements upon life, and is illustrated...
| Author | A.K. Ramanujan |
| ISBN | 0140442707 |
Speaking of Siva is a selection of vacanas or free-verse sayings from the Virasaiva religious movement, dedicated to Siva as the supreme god. Written by four major saints, the greatest exponents of this poetic form, between the tenth and twelfth centuries, they are passionate lyrical expressions...
| Author | Takeda Izumo |
| ISBN | 0231035314 |
Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perenially popular of all Japanese dramas. Written around 1748 as a puppet play, it is now better know in Kabuki performances. In the twentieth century, cinema and...
| Author | Giacomo Leopardi |
| ISBN | 0374235031 |
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways....
| Author | Sima Qian |
| ISBN | 0231081693 |
Das Geschichtswerk des antiken China
Das "Shi Ji", hier als "Records of the Grand Historian" präsentiert, ist mit die wichtigste Quelle für Informationen über das antike China vor und während der Han-Dynastie. Ganz gemäß dem Temperament der konfuzianischen Chinesen mit ihrer Vergangenheitsfixierung...
| Author | Pierre Corneille |
| ISBN | 0140443126 |
You can see my general thoughts on Corneille here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....
Here are my thoughts on the plays in this volume as I read them:
The Theater of Illusion *** 1/2 – What a wonderful change from Corneille’s tragedies! This is a lively, witty drama...
| Author | Hui-Neng |
| ISBN | 0231083610 |
The "Platform Sutra" records the teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch, who is revered as one of the two great figures in the founding of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. This translation is the definitive English version of the eighth-century Ch'an classic.
Phillip B. Yampolsky has based his...
| Author | Barbara Stoler Miller |
| ISBN | 0836427076 |
In Sanatana Dharma, there are various ways of expressing Devotion (Bhakti) for God. We can love God like a Father (the mode of Devotion most common in Western culture), or we can love God like a Mother, or a Friend, or a Child (the devotions to Baby Jesus would be the Christian equivalent of this), or even...
| Author | Molière |
| ISBN | 0451530330 |
<< BE firm, my heart!! NO human weakness now!! >>
‘33‘ is one of my magic numbers (beside 7 and any multiple of 3 – no wonder why my apartment number is also 33) but is also the grand total (& I do hope the counting is officially correct) of the Farces, Comedies, Satires, and...
By the Bog of Cats - Acting Edition
| Author | Marina Carr |
| ISBN | 0822218569 |
Loosely based on Euripides' tragedy , this is the prophetic tale of Hester Swane, an Irish Traveller, who attempts to come to terms with a lifetime of abandonment in a world where all whom she has loved have discarded her. Set on the bleak, ghostly landscape of the Bog of Cats, this provocative drama discloses...
