The Life of Merlin
10 best books like The Life of Merlin (Geoffrey of Monmouth): A Season in Hell, Dr. Faustus, The Gift of the Magi, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Book of Margery Kempe, Revelations of Divine Love, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, The Two Cultures, An Essay on Criticism
| Author | Arthur Rimbaud |
| ISBN | 0821224581 |
I'm an organized person. Psychotically organized. Except when it comes to books. I try to plan my readings, I try to finish one book in order to begin a new one, but it's all in vain. I read what I want to read, whenever I have the need of reading it. So, with four books on my currently-reading shelf, today I...
| 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...
One dollar and eight-seven cents is all the money Della has in the world to buy her beloved husband a Christmas present. She has nothing to sell except her only treasure -- her long, beautiful brown hair. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this classic piece of American literature tells...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0451528182 |
Contains the greatest "OH FUCK" moment in medieval literature!
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - listed here as written by Unknown, though I believe it may have been penned by that prolific Greek author Anonymous - is a classic tale from Arthurian legend in which the code of honor attributed...
The Book of Margery Kempe
| Author | Margery Kempe |
| ISBN | 0393976394 |
The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Known as the earliest autobiography written in the English language, Kempe's Book describes the dramatic transformation of its heroine from failed businesswoman and lustful young wife to devout...
Revelations of Divine Love
| Author | Julian of Norwich |
| ISBN | 0140446737 |
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a classic of Medieval religious literature
After fervently praying for a greater understanding...
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 1450562795 |
”One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed--as those...
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0813519772 |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation...
| Author | C.P. Snow |
| ISBN | 0521457300 |
The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures—the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other—has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a...
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| ISBN | 1419106406 |
Ahem. It's kind of awkward, trying to review a great poem about reviewing. I have to reread everything I type and examine it for Pope's fiercely lambasted Follies. I believe I shall confine my comments to this:
-This is as true now as it was 301 years ago, when it was published. (It both pleases...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1595406492 |
The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms, to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy. Yet he was unwilling to take leave, treating his engagement as settled, without some more conventional...
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 1594561788 |
This is one of the eeriest and most morbid stories I ever read from Poe. The narrator describes a mesmeric experiment on a dying man named Valdemar. The person acts in a peculiar way when in a mesmeric trance induced in the moment of death. What does the hypnotist do and how long can the mesmeric condition...
The Colour Out of Space and others
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0318047101 |
« La ferme tout entière baignait dans cette couleur mêlée, inconnue et hideuse : les arbres, les bâtiments, et mêmle la verdure et l'herbage qui n'avaient pas complètement tourné à la fatale désintégration dans la grisaille. Les branches se tendaient toutes vers le ciel, coiffées...
