Plays, Prose Writings and Poems
10 best books like Plays, Prose Writings and Poems (Oscar Wilde): Sanditon and Other Stories, Auden: Poems, A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literatures, Shirley & The Professor, The Complete Henry Bech, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology, The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower, Symposium / Phaedrus, The Annals/The Histories
| Author | Jane Austen |
| ISBN | 0679447199 |
Readers of Jane Austen’s six great novels are left hungering for more, and more there is: the marvelous unpublished manuscripts she left behind, collected here.
Sanditon might have been Austen’s greatest novel had she lived to finish it. Its subject matter astonishes: here is Austen...
| Author | W.H. Auden |
| ISBN | 0679443673 |
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises. One...
| Author | Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson |
| ISBN | 0140442472 |
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated...
| Author | Charlotte Brontë |
| ISBN | 0307268217 |
Shirley is the story of a complicated friendship between two very different women: shy and socially constrained Caroline, the poor niece of a tyrannical clergyman; and the independent heiress Shirley, who has both the resources and the spirit to defy convention. The romantic entanglements of the...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 1857152646 |
From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naïve, wry and avuncular,...
| Author | H.G. Wells |
| ISBN | 0307593843 |
Gathered together in one hardcover volume: three timeless novels from the founding father of science fiction.
The first great novel to imagine time travel, The Time Machine (1895) follows its scientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finally to Earth’s last moments—and...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0307266613 |
P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) was perhaps the most widely acclaimed British humorist of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, he brilliantly examined the complex and idiosyncratic nature of English upper-crust society with hilarious insight and wit. The works in this volume...
| Author | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 1857152476 |
Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit, intellectual breadth and narrative brilliance, applied to the different traditional forms into which...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0486277984 |
On the Symposium:
First things first, the reason I found this translation so smooth and entertaining is the language, this is by far the easiest English book I've read.
In the Symposium, Agathon holds a supper with his friends (writers and philosophers) and they all decide to make their devotions...
| Author | Tacitus |
| ISBN | 0812966996 |
Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius,...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0140446249 |
The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0679433198 |
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
As a dedicated book reviewer, it is my job to say why I like certain books and dislike others. When it comes to nonfiction, this is reasonably straightforward: if the exposition is clear, if the arguments are logical, if the ideas are reasonable—then it is a worthy...
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN | 0143104950 |
The poetry gets five stars, but the edition only gets two. With modernized spelling but no notes or context, Marlowe's translations of Ovid's Elegies and of Lucan's First Book are especially difficult to understand. This slim, inexpensive book (Dover Thrift Editions) might be useful if you already...
| Author | Nina Baym |
| ISBN | 0393978982 |
I’m done I’m done I’M DONE!!!! **Happy Dance**
Okay had to get that out of the way first. Okay so it is really difficult to rate this book a) because it was a “work” book rather than a “for fun” book but mostly, b) because it is an anthology therefore containing many works for which...
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 0684868741 |
"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling," writes Harold Bloom in his introduction to this enchanting and much-needed anthology of...
| Author | Irène Némirovsky |
| ISBN | 0307267083 |
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are...
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
| Author | Albert Camus |
| ISBN | 1400042550 |
From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century–two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913—1960) de-ployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0140441298 |
The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt, and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides (484-407 BC) made his characters speak in human terms and face the...
Culture and the Death of God
| Author | Terry Eagleton |
| ISBN | 0300203993 |
New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why “authentic” atheism is so very hard to come by
How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this...
