500 Great Books By Women
7 best books like 500 Great Books By Women (Erica Bauermeister): Inferno, I, Claudius, A Doll's House, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, Women of the Left Bank, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0812970063 |
I just want to start off by saying that "Through me you enter into the City of Woes" would make an EXCELLENT tramp stamp. Jump on it!
Being that I am an atheist living in the "Bible Belt," I was certain that reading this would lead to some sort of goodreads tirade, which can at times feel about as good...
Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culminate in the deified insanity...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1406914835 |
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on the stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life".
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The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work
| Author | Germaine Greer |
| ISBN | 1860646778 |
If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting--Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia...
| Author | Sharon Rudahl |
| ISBN | 1595580646 |
The anarchist and radical hero Emma Goldman, brought to vivid life in a graphic biography by an acclaimed artist.
"You are a terrible child and will grow into a worse woman! You have no respect for your elders or for authority! You will surely end on the gallows as a public menace!"—Emma Goldman's...
| Author | Shari Benstock |
| ISBN | 0292790406 |
Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's...
| Author | Claudia Roth Pierpont |
| ISBN | 0679751130 |
With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through...
