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10 best books like The Miller's Prologue and Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer): The Poems, The Elizabethan World Picture, Piers Plowman, The Battle of Maldon, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I, Selected Poems, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, Storia vera

The Poems
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0553213091
The Poems

Shakespeare’s greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic young man, a rival poet, and a mysterious “dark lady.” More profound than...
The Elizabethan World Picture
AuthorEustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
ISBN0394701623
This brief & illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age & later is an useful companion for readers of the great writers of the 16th & 17th centuries: Shakespeare, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Milton etc. The basic medieval idea of an ordered...
Piers Plowman
AuthorWilliam Langland
ISBN0393975592
Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely voiceless proletariat class. E. Talbot...
The Battle of Maldon
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0951620908
The Battle of Maldon
Composed in approx. 1100 AD

This narrative poetry right away made me think of « The Song of Roland.»

Taking my copy off the shelve, I went to compare the dates of these historical events that became legendary related poetry.

The battle in which Roland...
Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN1401307809
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
Selected Poems
AuthorLouis MacNeice
ISBN0571233813
'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.'
Louis MacNeice's prescription...
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes.
'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?'
Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man...
The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation
AuthorJames J. Wilhelm
ISBN0815315112
Since their first appearance, the three volumes of "The Romance of Arthur" have become the standard anthologies of Arthurian literature. Now, combined into a single convenient volume, the New, Expanded Edition of "The Romance of Arthur" covers nearly a thousand years of translated texts in a broad...
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
AuthorGeorge Walter
ISBN0141181907
Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here...
Storia vera
AuthorLucian of Samosata
ISBN8879835432
La Storia vera, capolavoro di Luciano, viene considerata la prima narrazione fantascientifica, l'antesignana e il paradigma della funzione scientifica che supera gli spazi e i tempi logici delle conoscenze umane. Frutto di una affascinante e liberissima fantasia che si diverte a giocare con una...
Selected Poems
AuthorCarol Ann Duffy
ISBN0141025123
This selection includes poems from five of Carol Ann Duffy's previous collections, including: Standing Female Nude , Selling Manhattan , The Other Country , Mean Time , and The World's Wife ...

From Standing Female Nude (1985)...

There are not enough faces. Your own...
The Dream of the Rood
AuthorCynewulf
ISBN0859895033
The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius.

This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading described in the notes. In his introduction...
The Prussian Officer
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN0140005137
His first published collection, these twelve stories were written between 1907 and 1914, during a crucial period of development for Lawrence from which he emerged a leading figure of the modernist movement. Reaching new levels of feeling and experience, these stories range from the tale of a Prussian...
The Lifted Veil / Brother Jacob
AuthorGeorge Eliot
ISBN0192832956
First published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859, The Lifted Veil is now one of George Eliot's most widely read and critically discussed short stories. A dark fantasy drawing on contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology, and experiments in revification,...
The Man of Mode
AuthorGeorge Etherege
ISBN0713666897
Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves being represented on the Restoration stage. Yet idealisation and satire, as this edition of Etherege's masterpiece shows, are flip sides of the same coin, and...
Sir Orfeo
AuthorUnknown
ISBN1177696711
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
Le Lai de Lanval
AuthorMarie de France
ISBN2253138134
When I led my Survey of British Lit class in a discussion of this short tale, I suggested a Freudian interpretation of the story; eyes got wide and the discussion got going.

Maybe that story of fairy love in the deep forest away from everyone is a different kind of fantasy!

Maybe the story...
T.S. Eliot Reads: The Wasteland, Four Quartets and Other Poems
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0694522767
The Poems:


The Wasteland
The Hollow Men
Journey of the Magi from the Ariel Poems
La Figlia che Piange
Landscape: New Hampshite, Virginia, Usk, Rannoch, by Glencoe, Cape Ann
Morning at the Window
Difficulties of a Statesman from Coriolan
Sweeney Among...
The Second Shepherd's Play
AuthorWakefield Master
Lisl Beer adapted this famous play from the Towley Manuscript of Old English. As observed in FaceBook, “The play is actually two separate stories presented sequentially; the first is a non-biblical story about a thief, Mak, who steals a sheep from three shepherds. He and his wife, Gill, attempt to...
Milton's Comus
AuthorJohn Milton
ISBN1434632466
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
Woman Much Missed
AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN0141398310
'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'

After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for...
Premier bilan après l'apocalypse
AuthorFrédéric Beigbeder
ISBN2246777119
L'apocalypse, serait-ce donc l'édition numérique, ou comme dans Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury, la température à laquelle le papier se consume ? Frédéric Beigbeder sauve ici du brasier les 100 œuvres qu'il souhaite conserver au XXIe siècle, sous la forme d'un hit-parade intime. C'est un...
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