Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare

10 best books like Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare (Jonathan Bate): Possession, Titus Groan, Alphabet of Thorn, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Metamorphoses, Richard II, The Master of Ballantrae, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, 4 A.M. Breakthrough: Unconventional Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction, How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play

Possession

Author	A.S. Byatt
ISBN	0679735909

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from...

Titus Groan

Author	Mervyn Peake
ISBN	0879514256

What an odd fantasy! No swords, no sorcery, no elves, no thieves, no imaginary beasts, no multiple planes of existence . . . nothing but a cavernous castle peopled by eccentrics with Dickensian names (Sepulchrave, Prunesquallor, Swelter, Flay) whose lives are determined by centuries--perhaps...

Alphabet of Thorn

Author	Patricia A. McKillip
ISBN	0441012434

Deep inside a palace on the edge of the world, the orphan Nepenthe pores over books in the royal library, translating their languages and learning their secrets. Now sixteen, she knows little of the outside world — except for the documents that traders and travelers bring her to interpret.

Then,...

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Author	Stephen Greenblatt
ISBN	0393343405

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.

Nearly...

Metamorphoses

Author

Ovid

Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...

Richard II

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0198320043

Tragedy of King Richard II , William Shakespeare
King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some...

The Master of Ballantrae

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN	0543896722

Set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in the exotic French Indies, and in the North American wilderness, the story has as its hero one of the most compelling yet horrifying studies of evil in nineteenth-century fiction—James Durie, Master of Ballantrae. The Master is about his infective...

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Author	Stephen Greenblatt
ISBN	0393352609

A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an...

4 A.M. Breakthrough: Unconventional Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction

Author	Brian Kiteley
ISBN	1582975639

Realize All That Is Possible in Your Fiction

Writers have long turned to exercises for help with beginning—be it a new piece of fiction, a daily routine, or a serious writing life. Behind the theory of exercises is an attitude of curiosity and expectancy, a desire to ask questions of yourself...

How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play

Author	Barbara Baig
ISBN	1582978050

Athletes practice. Musicians practice. As a writer you need to do the same. Whether you have dreams of writing a novel or a memoir or a collection of poems, or you simply want to improve your everyday writing, this innovative book will show you how to build your skills by way of practice.

Through...