Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works
10 best books like Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Aphra Behn): Saint Joan, Clotel: or, The President's Daughter, Saturday, Dr. Faustus, Theogony / Works and Days, The Word for World is Forest, The Rape of the Lock, The Beggar's Opera, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
| Author | George Bernard Shaw |
| ISBN | 0140437916 |
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known...
| Author | William Wells Brown |
| ISBN | 0142437727 |
First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. The Virginian who buys Clotel falls...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 1400076196 |
Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man — a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day...
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN | 0486282082 |
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different...
Theogony / Works and Days
| Author | Hesiod |
| ISBN | 0192839411 |
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European literature. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of their violent struggles before the present order was established. The Works and Days, a...
The Word for World is Forest
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning...
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| ISBN | 1557429162 |
I’ve always believed that miracles can happen and that great physical and/or mental suffering can engender greatness. This indeed proved to be the case with this splendid work by Alexander Pope.
I find Pope a fascinating individual. He was a catholic, at a time when legislation was repressive...
| Author | John Gay |
| ISBN | 0140432205 |
An 18th Century parody of the Italian Opera
23 December 2013
I want to give this play a high score simply because of it's context and content, and as it is one of the only satirical operas that has survived from the early 18th Century should also give this play, or more properly opera, some...
| Author | Kim Addonizio |
| ISBN | 0393316548 |
The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life—including self-doubt and writer's block—are here, along with tips about getting published...
| Author | Catharine Maria Sedgwick |
| ISBN | 0140436766 |
Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women.
For more than seventy...
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
| Author | Gerald Graff |
| ISBN | 0393924092 |
Very interesting premise, namely, looking at academic writing as participating in a dialogue. It's a fascinating idea that goes back to at least Greek roots in the Socratic dialogue. (Come to think of it, some Eastern teachers use that technique as well; I'm just not well-versed in non-Western history)....
