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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFaust: First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 336 pages
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his ban
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 108 pages
An epic poem set during the expulsion of the Acadians from Acadie, following the fictional Evangeline and her search for her lost love, Gabriel.
The Demon: A Poem
Mikhail Lermontov, Michael Lermontoff · 88 pages
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
Murder in the Cathedral
T.S. Eliot · 88 pages
A dramatization in free verse and with features derived from ancient and medieval theatre of the killing of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II. Eliot used the device of a chorus, an ancient Greek invention, to express certain concerns and observations, and the killers take their turn to justify their action. When I read this play as a grammar school student in England, I
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 Raven and Other Poems
Edgar Allan Poe · 73 pages
Welcome to the weird and intense world of Edgar Allan Poe. Inside you will find dark mid- nights, mysterious tappings, and countless dead souls. Terror lives here. So does unrest. From the immortal word of the raven to the mourn- ful tomb of Annabel Lee, Poe's work abounds with eerie thoughts and strange sensations. Read on, and you will enter the heart of your deepest fears. --back cover
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.
Selected Poems
Anna Akhmatova · 173 pages
Includes selections from Evening, Rosary, White flock, Plantain, Anno Domini, Reed, The Seventh book.
The Highwayman
Alfred Noyes · 32 pages
Returning by moonlight to the inn where his true love, the landlord's daughter, awaits him, the highwayman is unaware that the king's soldiers also lie in wait for him, concealed in the girl's bedroom.
Les Fleurs du Mal
Charles Baudelaire · 244 pages
*Les Fleurs du mal* est un recueil de poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, reprenant la quasi-totalité de sa production en vers de 1840 jusqu'à sa mort, survenue fin août 1867. Publié le 21 juin 1857, le recueil scandalise aussitôt la société française. Son auteur subit un procès retentissant. Le jugement le condamne à une forte amende, réduite sur intervention de l'Impératrice ; il entraîne la censure d
A Shropshire Lad
A.E. Housman · 95 pages
First published in 1896, this is Housman's first and most widely known collection of poems. Dismal and fatalistic, Housman speaks of the cruelty of life. In contrast to the dreary subject matter, the poetry itself is brisk and lively. Considered by many to be among the finest works of modern British poetry.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda · 68 pages
Synopsis: First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poet's most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the ge
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 349 pages
A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries a wealthy patient, Nicole. Eventually, this marriage destroys him.
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner · 378 pages
The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand · 225 pages
Cyrano de Bergerac, verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year. It was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose. Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woma
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
Alice Oswald · 84 pages
"[An] original new poem which is also a translation of Homer's Iliad, by a poet who is also a classicist"--Jacket.
The Complete Works
William Shakespeare · 1,248 pages
First published in 1906 this edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works by W• J. Craig has been many times reprinted. The spelling has been modernized, and the punctuation revised. A short glossary of obsolete words is provided, and there is also an index of characters and of the first lines of songs. The drawing on the jacket, a reconstruction of the Fortune Theatre, 1600, is by C. Walter Hodges,