The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard

10 best books like The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard (Søren Kierkegaard): The Raven, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Aesop's Fables, The Nose, Death of a Naturalist, The Holy Bible: New American Standard Version, NASB, Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs, The Jolly Corner, Aeneid Book VI, Le Roi se meurt

The Raven

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	0486290727

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak...

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0141026286

Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries....

Aesop's Fables

Author	Aesop
ISBN	0192840509

Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620-560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving anthropomorphic animals. Many stories included in Aesop's...

The Nose

Author	Nikolai Gogol
ISBN	0688104649

Gogol’s “The Nose” (1835), is an early triumph of surrealism, daring and delightful in the way it jars and disjoins one realitiy from another, but it is also a vivid realistic depiction of the sights and sounds of early 19th century St. Petersburg (including the essential bridges, buildings...

Death of a Naturalist

Author	Seamus Heaney
ISBN	0571202403

Some books are thin and light, yet they carry so much weight, like Heaney's Death of a Naturalist. Each poem in this collection is a work of art, a masterpiece. There is neither pretentiousness nor symbolism here. The collection is one of his most accessible and the best place to start with his work. Each...

The Holy Bible: New American Standard Version, NASB

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	1585161780

Bible = The Holy Bible, Anonymous
The Bible is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans. With estimated total sales of over 5 billion copies, it is widely considered to...

Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs

Author	Aristophanes
ISBN	0140441522

The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and...

The Jolly Corner

Author	Henry James
ISBN	1419167936

The Jolly Corner was first published in 1908 in The English Review. Henry James describes the adventures of Spencer Brydon as he explores the empty New York house where he grew up. He encounters a "sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity." The Jolly Corner is the...

Aeneid Book VI

Author	Virgil
ISBN	0374104190

A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century

In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of...

Le Roi se meurt

Author

Eugène Ionesco

MARGUERITE, se dirigeant vers le Roi : Sire, je dois vous mettre au courant.
MARIE : Non, taisez-vous.
MARGUERITE, à Marie : Taisez-vous.
MARIE, au Roi : Ce n'est pas vrai ce qu'elle dit.
LE ROI : Au courant de quoi ? Qu'est-ce qui n'est pas vrai ? Marie, pourquoi cet air désolé ? Que...

Daddy

Author

Sylvia Plath

Daddy
By Sylvia Plath
You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time——
Marble-heavy, a bag full...