The Poems of Alexander Pope

8 best books like The Poems of Alexander Pope (Alexander Pope): Darkness at Noon, The Beggar's Opera, The Skystone, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, Love Poems, Eugene Onegin and Other Poems, When Darkness Falls, Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels

Darkness at Noon

Author	Arthur Koestler
ISBN	0553265954

Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government...

The Beggar's Opera

Author	John Gay
ISBN	0140432205

An 18th Century parody of the Italian Opera
23 December 2013

I want to give this play a high score simply because of it's context and content, and as it is one of the only satirical operas that has survived from the early 18th Century should also give this play, or more properly opera, some...

The Skystone

Author	Jack Whyte
ISBN	0765350696

How do you find a new way to approach a story as familiar as any in the English language? If you're Jack Whyte, you begin your retelling of the Arthurian saga by taking one giant step backward to the latter days of the Roman Empire in Britain, sometime between the first breaching of Hadrian's Wall and the...

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

Author

Nir Eyal

"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results." (James Clear, author of Atomic Habits)

You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a...

Love Poems

Author	Peter Washington
ISBN	0679429069

It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal...

Eugene Onegin and Other Poems

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	0375406727

Eugene Onegin (1833) is a comedy of manners, written in exquisitely crafted verse, about two young members of the Russian gentry, the eponymous hero and the girl Tatyana, who don't quite connect. It is also the greatest masterpiece of Russian literature—the source of the human archetypes and the...

When Darkness Falls

Author	Mercedes Lackey
ISBN	0765341433

When Darkness Falls, the third book in The Obsidian Trilogy from Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory

A great working of Wild Magic and High Magic strikes at the heart of the Demon Queen's plots, but the human city, the Golden City of the Bells, falls farther under her sway with each day that passes....

Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels

Author	Colette
ISBN	0374527857

Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.

Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest...