18 books like In memoriam

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Alcestis Euripides · 1818 · ★ 3.8 · 83p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "Euripides' Alcestic - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama - is an ideal test for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in this new student edition, C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman remedy such deficiencies." "The introductory… Shares In literature, Open_syllabus_project, Poetry

Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton · 1940 · ★ 3.9 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This book is the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, " We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from… Shares In literature, Open_syllabus_project, History and criticism

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Charlotte Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the… Shares Poetry

The Complete Poetical Works Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

Songs of innocence and of experience William Blake · 1794 · ★ 4.1 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Illustrations, Open_syllabus_project, Poetry with this book.

Evangeline Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1847 · ★ 4.4 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging An epic poem set during the expulsion of the Acadians from Acadie, following the fictional Evangeline and her search for her lost love, Gabriel. Shares Illustrations, History and criticism, Poetry

Marmion Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

Helen of Troy Andrew Lang · 1882 · 108p · ≈ 3h · Challenging In Greek mythology, Helen, better known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen was described as having the face that launched a thousand ships. Helen or Helene is probably derived from the Greek word meaning "torch" or… Shares In literature, Poetry

The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll · 1876 · ★ 4.0 · 90p · ≈ 3h · Challenging A nonsense poem recounting the adventures of the Bellman and his crew and their challenges hunting a Snark. Shares Illustrations, History and criticism, Poetry

Poems William Blake · 1783 · ★ 3.9 · 61p · ≈ 2h · Challenging William Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith… Shares Illustrations, History and criticism, Poetry

Rime of the ancient mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1827 · ★ 4.0 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Challenging A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance… Shares Illustrations, History and criticism, Poetry

Ariel Sylvia Plath · 1965 · ★ 4.2 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "A restored edition of Sylvia Plath's collection of poems that were published after her death that restores the selection and arrangement of the poems as Plath left them at the point of her death." Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by… Shares Open_syllabus_project, Poetry

Inferno Dante Alighieri · 1767 · ★ 4.0 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 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. Shares Illustrations, History and criticism, Poetry

The oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century Martha Pike Conant · 1908 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares In literature, History and criticism with this book.

Elaine Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1867 · 81p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Illustrations with this book.

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Volos, i︠a︡zycheskoe bozhestvo slavi︠a︡no-russov, sravnennoe s Odinom skandinavov Stefan Sabinin · 1843 · 36p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares History and criticism with this book.

King Arthur in history and legend William Lewis Jones · 1911 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares History and criticism with this book.

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