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10 best books like The Major Works (Alexander Pope): Hallowe'en Party, The Summer of the Ubume, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, The Complete Poems, 世界から猫が消えたなら, The Complete Poems and Major Prose, Edmund Spenser's Poetry, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems

Hallowe'en Party
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0007120680
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples... At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That...
The Summer of the Ubume
AuthorNatsuhiko Kyogoku
ISBN1934287253
In Japanese folklore, a ghost that arise from the burial of a pregnant woman is an Ubume.

The Summer of Ubume is the first of Japan's hugely popular Kyogokudo series, which has 9 titles and 4 spin-offs thus far.

Akihiko "Kyogokudo" Chuzenji, the title's hero, is an exorcist with a twist:...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN0486223051
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 and featuring...
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
AuthorSuzette Boon
This training manual for patients who have a trauma-related dissociative disorder includes short educational pieces, homework sheets, and exercises that address ways in which dissociation interferes with essential emotional and life skills, and support inner communication and collaboration...
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
AuthorRichard Bach
ISBN0099427869
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald...
The Complete Poems
AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN0333949293
Neutral Tones


We stood by a pond that winter day,
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod,
—They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.

Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles solved years...
世界から猫が消えたなら
AuthorGenki Kawamura
ISBN4838725027
‘Like love,life is beautiful
because it has to end ‘

A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love,of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life.
Our narrator’s days are numbered.
Estranged from his family,living alone with...
The Complete Poems and Major Prose
AuthorJohn Milton
ISBN0872206785
I won't write a long review for this work, as I've written individual reviews for most of the works contained in it (Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Comus, Samson Agonistes, Doctrine of Divorce, Christian Doctrine, etc.).

I picked up this collection about 8 or 9 years ago with the intent...
Edmund Spenser's Poetry
AuthorEdmund Spenser
ISBN0393962997
To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by...
Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
AuthorElizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN0486270521
Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese, and Other Poems
In the very heart and center of our modern world of the nineteenth century there was enacted and immortally sung one of the most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge. The marriage of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett...
Collected Poems
AuthorE.E. Cummings
ISBN0151185638
Librarian note: pages were hand counted from table of contents to last poem.

This selection from Cummings' first six books of poetry - Tulips and Chimneys (1923), XLI (1925), & (And) (1925), Is 5 (1926), W (Viva) (1931), No Thanks (1935) - also contains some additional poems and an introduction.

Later...
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
AuthorWilliam Wordsworth
ISBN0375759417
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth's prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late "Yarrow Revisited." Wordsworth's poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the...
Canzoniere
AuthorFrancesco Petrarca
ISBN8806179497
In concomitanza con il settimo centenario della nascita del poeta, la curatrice, tra i massimi specialisti del Petrarca volgare, conclude un lavoro durato quasi vent'anni. Commentando minuziosamente ogni verso e ogni espressione petrarchesca, il fittissimo richiamo dei testi classici e della...
Harry Potter: The Prequel
AuthorJ.K. Rowling
ISBN1156923441
The Harry Potter Prequel is an 800-word story written by J. K. Rowling, and was published online on June 11th, 2008. Set three years before the birth of Harry Potter, the story recounts an adventure had by Sirius Black and James Potter.

J.K. Rowling announced on May 28, 2008 that she was writing...
La Locandiera
AuthorCarlo Goldoni
ISBN8804236167
Messa per la prima volta in scena sul palcoscenico del Teatro Sant'Angelo a Venezia nel 1753, La locandiera piacque subito molto, anche se forse non riuscì ad affascinare del tutto il pubblico del tempo. Originale, spiazzante, giocata su una storia d'amore che non si sviluppa secondo gli schemi consueti,...
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