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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Complete Poems
Catullus · 273 pages
Includes an introduction to this Roman poet, selections from his poetry, vocabulary and grammatical notes, and glossaries on meters and figures of speech.
The Aeneid
Virgil
Aeneas, a Trojan warrior, searches for a new homeland after the fall of Troy. His journey becomes years of wandering. His tales of wars fought, cities built and burned, new kings, and struggling alliances spread the histories of heroes and their willingness to believe in their own resources and the miraculous help of the gods.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images
The Satyricon
Petronius Arbiter · 218 pages
An incomplete Roman novel believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius Arbiter. What remains of the novel is a picaresque story concerning the narrator’s battle to keep his lover, a handsome sixteen year old boy, away from his many rivals.
The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis
Petronius Arbiter, Seneca · 256 pages
The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope · 79 pages
A satiric poem about Belinda and the evil Baron who wants to steal a lock of her hair, it is a commentary on the battle of the sexes and the contemporary social world of high society.
Don Juan
George Gordon Byron, George Gordon · 348 pages
Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in ottav
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 506 pages
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, Hous
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker · 610 pages
Collection of Parker's stories, poems, essays. It's a small size, but wow, is it full of her great writing! Someone stole my copy, and I'm missing her humor and instinct for saying it like it is, or was, during her days with the Algonquin Round Table. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. One of the most quotable of twentieth-century authors, Dorothy Parker has attained a wide-ranging and enthusiastic following. T
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
Vladimir Mayakovsky · 317 pages
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri · 288 pages
Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God.
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin · 233 pages
The Russians, revering Alexander Pushkin as a national hero, see his novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, as the pinnacle not only of his oeuvre, but of their entire literature. Its brilliant sonnets are traditionally memorized by youngsters, and even today nearly any Russian adult can quote many passages with fervor. No literary work plays a comparable role in the English-speaking world. The plot swir
Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs
Aristophanes · 624 pages
What Narcissism Means to Me
Tony Hoagland · 111 pages
From the Publisher: In What Narcissism Means to Me, award-winning poet Tony Hoagland levels his particular brand of acute irony not only on the personal life, but also on some provinces of American culture. In playful narratives, lyrical outbursts, and overheard conversations, Hoagland cruises the milieu, exploring the spiritual vacancies of American satisfaction. With humor, rich tonal complexity
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Lew Wallace · 551 pages
A bestseller since 1880...The classic saga of the Roman EmpireFrom a thrilling sea battle to its famous chariot race to the agony of the Crucifixion, this is the epic tale of a prince who became a slave and by a twist of fate and his own skill-won a chance at freedom.
Titus Andronicus
William Shakespeare · 132 pages
Dismemberment, rape, cannibalism and murder make 'Titus Andronicus' Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy. The boundless grief and savage justice of Titus explores the expression of tragic passion, the Senecan tradition, Roman history and government, the body and structures of interpretation.