Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl
10 best books like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl (Unknown): Pumpkinheads, The Once and Future King, Thief of Time, Battle Angel Alita, Volume 02: Tears of an Angel, Dr. Faustus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, The Waste Land, Troilus and Criseyde, The History of the Kings of Britain, Arthurian Romances
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.
Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye...
| Author | T.H. White |
| ISBN | 0441627404 |
This book terrified me, on many levels. It's 667 pages long, to begin with. It's been a while since I read a serious chunkster like that (besides Harry Potter, which somehow in my mind doesn't really count...).
Besides that, I am just not a fan of "Authur" stories, despite my deep love of the Disney...
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0061031321 |
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.
And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater -- how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.
But the construction...
Battle Angel Alita, Volume 02: Tears of an Angel
| Author | Yukito Kishiro |
| ISBN | 1569319510 |
This was a great second installment! Everything seems so much deeper and developed in this one. We are treated to a new character called Yugo, and Alita takes an instant shine to him. I cannot say I'm enjoying his character as yet, but there is definitely still time! I do think that the supporting characters...
| 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...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
| Author | Aeschylus |
| ISBN | 0140443339 |
Alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here, here
In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.
Moving from darkness to light, from...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0393974995 |
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.
For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition...
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| ISBN | 0140442391 |
Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning uncle Pandarus, and the lovers experience a brief period of bliss...
| Author | Geoffrey of Monmouth |
| ISBN | 0140441700 |
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous...
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0140445218 |
Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen...
| Author | William Langland |
| ISBN | 0393975592 |
Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely voiceless proletariat class. E. Talbot...
Catechism of the Catholic Church
| Author | John Paul II |
| ISBN | 0385479670 |
Here it is -- the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholic throughout the world believe in common. This book is the catechism (the word means "instruction") that will serve as the standarad for all future catechisms.
The Catechism...
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0872206335 |
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, by Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), John M. Cooper (Editor)
Five dialogues, Plato; Introduction by A.D.Lindsay. London: J.M.Dent & sons Ltd, 1947...
Alternate cover edition of ISBN10: 0140422536; ISBN13: 9780140422535
Written in the middle of his career, Idylls of the King is Tennyson's longest and most ambitious work. Reflecting his lifelong interest in Arthurian themes, his primary sources were Malory's Morte d'Arthur and the Welsh...
| Author | Rod McKuen |
| ISBN | 0394403789 |
I decided to read one of my old books of poetry today called “Listen to the Warm” by Rod McKuen. Rod McKuen was one of my favorite poets back in the 1960s. He was born in a nearby city, Oakland, California. He worked in many types of jobs from newspaper man to laborer until he served in the Army who put him...
We did it! Dear husband and I took our pastor's challenge to ‘read the Bible and the Catechism in a year’. We began on the 4th of February last year and we followed this guide a handy little fold-out which you mark off as you go. We would read a couple chapters from the Old Testament, something from the...
Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows
| Author | Rod McKuen |
| ISBN | 0394404505 |
I remembered
words are only necessary after love has gone.
I got this book from the library. Someone who had it out before me found it very inspiring.
McKuen reading one of the poems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233rT...
Singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE65f...
He...
