Literature

Top 10 Books

Submitted by litgeek on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 12:35
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  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (Emmuska Orczy)
  • The Riverside Shakespeare
  • Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
  • The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
  • Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)
  • Kon-Tiki (Thor Heyerdahl)
  • Homo Ludens (Johan Huizinga)
  • Sailing Alone Around the Room (Billy Collins)
  • Nine Horses (Billy Collins)
  • I'm A Stranger Here Myself (Ogden Nash)

Books Read in 2009

Submitted by litgeek on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 12:37
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  1. JANUARY-MARCH
  2. Chocolat (Joanne Harris)
  3. Through the Grinder (Cleo Coyle)
  4. On What Grounds (Cleo Coyle)
  5. Latte Trouble (Cleo Coyle)
  6. Through Violet Eyes (Stephen Woodworth)
  7. The Miracle Worker (William Gibson)
  8. APRIL-JUNE
  9. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemmingway)
  10. Captain Blood (Rafael Sabantini)
  11. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
  12. The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
  13. Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
  14. JULY
  15. Return of the Jedi (James Kahn)
  16. Library (Matthew Battels)
  17. The Great Gatsby (F.

Books Read in 2010

Submitted by litgeek on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 12:17
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  1. JANUARY

  3. A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest J. Gaines)
  4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)

  6. FEBRUARY

  8. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
  9. Arcadia (Tom Stoppard)

  11. MARCH

  13. 100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Farvotestecasdesfagbfivesssttst pieces of Literature of all-time

Submitted by Feif Umgotnn on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 11:13
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  1. "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."

  2. T.S. Eliot: The Sacred Wood

Favourite Writers

Submitted by neptune on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 12:05
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1. James Joyce (1882 - 1941) Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), Finnegans Wake (1939)
2. T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), The Four Quartets (1945)
3. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) Julius Caesar (1599), Hamlet (1600), Othello (1603) The Tempest (1610)

Author Comments: 

Listed works aren't all or necessarily the 'greatest', merely my favourites.

Descriptions to come soon, and further ordering

works to read: a massive list, forever changing.

Submitted by sanspaper on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 17:32
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  • american

  • mark z. danielewski - house of leaves
  • charles darwin - the voyage of the beagle
  • philip k. dick - do androids dream of electric sheep?
  • dave eggers - a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
  • dave eggers - you shall know our velocity
  • t.s.

Russian Literature

Submitted by litgeek on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 11:09
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  1. Chekhov, Anton. Five Plays.
  2. Chekhov, Anton. The Steppe
  3. Chekhov, Anton. The Duel
  4. Chekhov, Anton. Three Years
  5. Chekhov, Anton. My Life
  6. Cooper, Joshua, tr. Government Inspector and Other Russian Plays
  7. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov.
  8. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.
  9. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Devils.
  10. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot.
  11. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from the Underground, Friend of the Family, Poor People
  12. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. An Honest Thief
  13. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
  14. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Greatest Poems Of All Time

Submitted by jjimmyson on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 06:06
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  1. Homer: Odyssey (700 BC)
  2. Dante: Divine Comedy (1321)
  3. Milton: Paradise Lost (1667)
  4. Baudelaire: Les Fleurs Du Mal (1857)
  5. Eliot: Four Quartets (1943)
  6. Valery: Le Jeune Parque (1917)
  7. Homer: Iliad (750 BC)
  8. Blake: Jerusalem (1820)
  9. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (1400)
  10. Virgil: Aeneid (19BC)
  11. Beowulf (900)
  12. Donne: Holy Sonnets (1611)
  13. Nibelunglied (1210)
  14. Troyes: Perceval (1191)
  15. Yeats: The Tower (1928)
  16. Keats: Odes Of 1819 (1819)
  17. Mallarme: Apres-Midi D'un Faune (1876)
  18. Rimbaud: A Season In Hell (1873)
  19. Pushkin: Eugene Onegin (1833)
  20. Wordsworth: Prelude (1805)

Greatest Plays Of All Time

Submitted by jjimmyson on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 05:34
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  1. Shakespeare: Hamlet (1600)
  2. Shakespeare: King Lear (1606)
  3. Shakespeare: Macbeth (1606)
  4. Goethe: Faust (1832)
  5. Aeschylus: Oresteia (458 BC)
  6. Chekhov: Uncle Vanya (1899)
  7. Brecht: Mother Courage And Her Children (1939)
  8. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (1592)
  9. Shakespeare: Othello (1603)
  10. Sophocles: Oedipus The King (429 BC)
  11. Chekhov: The Seagull (1895)
  12. Moliere: Tartuffe (1664)
  13. Wilde: The Importance Of Being Ernest (1895)
  14. Arthur Miller: Death Of A Salesman (1949)
  15. Chekhov: Three Sisters (1900)
  16. Jarry: Ubu Roi (1896)
  17. Moliere: Le Misanthrope (1666)
  18. Schiller: Maria Stuart (1800)
  19. Beckett: En Attendant G

Greatest Novels Of All Time

Submitted by jjimmyson on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 04:04
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  1. Kafka: Der Prozess (1915)
  2. Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
  3. James: The Golden Bowl (1904)
  4. Mann: Buddenbrooks (1901)
  5. Joyce: Ulysses (1920)
  6. Cervantes: Don Quixote (1617)
  7. Stendhel: Le Rouge Et Le Noire (1830)
  8. Rabelais: Gargantua Et Pantagruel (1552)
  9. Zola: Germinal (1885)
  10. Dostoyevsky: Crime And Punishment (1866)
  11. Kafka: Das Schloss (1924)
  12. Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
  13. Thomas Mann: Doktor Faustus (1947)
  14. Hugo: Les Miserables (1862)
  15. Goethe: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1796)
  16. Balzac: Le Pere Goriot (1835)
  17. Tolstoy: War And Peace (1869)
  18. Proust: A La Recherche Du Temps Pe