Storia vera
10 best books like Storia vera (Lucian of Samosata): The Late Mattia Pascal, The Child Of Pleasure, The Golden Ass, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, On the Republic / On the Laws, Heroides, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living, The Haw Lantern, In Catilinam 1-2, Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| ISBN | 1590171152 |
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as...
| Author | Gabriele D'Annunzio |
| ISBN | 1595690581 |
The Child of Pleasure (written in 1888 and published in 1889) and its protagonist Andrea Sperelli introduced the Italian culture of the late 1800s to Aestheticism and a taste for decadence. Sperelli is a young count, who - like Joris Karl Huysmans' Baron Des Esseintes or Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray - following...
| Author | Apuleius |
| ISBN | 0253200369 |
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass....
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0151686564 |
T.S. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat. There's the cat who can never be pleased, for example, the thieving...
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0674992350 |
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his...
In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope...
| Author | Liezi |
| ISBN | 1570628998 |
The Lieh-tzu is a collection of stories and philosophical musings of a sage of the same name who lived around the fourth century BCE. Lieh-tzu's teachings range from the origin and purpose of life, the Taoist view of reality, and the nature of enlightenment to the training of the body and mind, communication,...
Seamus Heaney describes the haw lantern as "small light for small people" but there is more than tiny illumination emanating from one of Ireland's premier poets. Heaney peppers this short collection of poems with crafty language and natural objects: "I heard the hatchet's differentiated/Accurate...
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0862920140 |
مضمون هر چهار خطابه توطئه ی کاتیلینا برای به دست گرفتن قدرت در رم است. کاتیلینا در دوران کنسولی کیکرو برای آتش زدن رم و گرفتن قدرت توطئه ای می کند. پس از کشف...
| Author | Jonathan Barnes |
| ISBN | 0192854089 |
The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics,...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0906515173 |
A betrayal of hospitality
2 Mar 2012
It looks like Goodreads has taken the Latin title for this play (Hecuba) to which Philip Vellacott, the translator of the version that I read, takes serious offence. Personally, being a Philhelline (a lover of Greek culture) I pretty much agree with...
| Author | Aristophanes |
| ISBN | 0198143958 |
This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and extensive notes and commentary. Dover examines the two versions of the play, recounts the history of the text, and analyzes a number of problems surrounding the play's overall interpretation, including...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0521288363 |
The Gourdification of Claudius the God has instant and lasting appeal. It is a uniquely surviving specimen of prose-and-verse satire from the Roman world - and satire, a Roman speciality, is one of the few types of ancient literature to survive, and thrive, in modern society. Its author, Seneca, was...
