18 books like Livro do Desassossego

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Cowper Goldwin Smith · 1800 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In this masterful biography, Goldwin Smith presents the life and works of William Cowper (1731-1800), whom Samuel Taylor Coleridge called “the best modern poet". Tracing Cowper's life—from his beginnings in England to his death—Smith analyzes his major lyrical works and as well as his hymns. Smith also offers an examination of the writer's lasting influence on Romantic poetry. Shares: Poets, Authors, Biography & Memoir

The prelude William Wordsworth · 1850 · ★ 3.9 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Selected sonnets and poems with bibliography and chronology of the life of Wordsworth. Shares: Poets, Poetry

Confessions of an economic hit man Perkins, John · 2004 · ★ 3.9 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Sinhalese translation of a controversial book on the economic policies of U.S. government with respect to developing countries. Shares: Biografía, Biography & Memoir

Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts Joseph von Eichendorff · 1864 · ★ 3.3 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Der Taugenichts ist Sohn eines Müllers und durch und durch Romantiker. Mit den elenden Philistern und der engen Welt, in der sie leben, will er um keinen Preis etwas zu tun haben. Als sein Vater ihn aus dem Haus wirft, damit er endlich lernt, für sich selbst zu sorgen, zieht er mit seiner Geige zu Fuss durchs Land bis nach Italien und lebt seine Freiheit. Auf einem Schloss hatte er sich in eine… Shares: Modern fiction, Continental european fiction

A preface to Wordsworth John Arthur Purkis · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Probably the most famous of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth worked with and influenced many of the leading poets of the age. This excellent introduction to his life and works sets his writing firmly in the context of his times. John Purkis provides an outline of Wordsworth's life and cultural background and their effect on his work, and examines his verse, from the earliest school poems to… Shares: Poets, Authors, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Letters to a young poet Rainer Maria Rilke · 1656 · ★ 4.3 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908 (p. 81-123). Shares: Poets, Authors, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Yeats's Autobiography Joseph Ronsley · 1968 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares: Poets, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Oliver Goldsmith Washington Irving · 1840 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Irving wrote this biographical sketch of the poet Goldsmith from his estate, Sunnyside, near Tarrytown, N.Y. It is a biography of the english author oliver Goldsmith a sad life and he didn't profit from his work. Shares: Poets, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Quand j'étais vieux Georges Simenon · 1970 · ★ 3.6 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 421 S. 18 cm Shares: Notebooks, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Among my books James Russell Lowell · 1870 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A book of essays by American poet and writer James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). There are six essays: Dryden Witchcraft Shakespeare Once More New England Two Centuries Ago Lessing Rousseau and the Sentimentalists Shares: Poets, Poetry

On the Move Oliver Sacks · 2015 · ★ 4.4 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate An impassioned, tender, and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the… Shares: Biografía, Biography & Memoir

Letters of Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens · 1966 · ★ 4.3 · 890p · ≈ 29h · Moderate Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens's famous criterion for poetry - "It should give pleasure" - informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer… Shares: Poets, Biography & Memoir

Oracle Night Paul Auster · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A novelist recovers from an accident. He begins to write again, after buying a blue portugese notebook. The words flow, but at some point, strange things begin to happen: his beloved wife behaves strangely, fiction and reality get mixed up, and what about this strange stationary shop where he bought the notebook? It disappears over night. Shares: Notebooks, Authors

Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Moderate This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different… Shares: Biografía, Biography & Memoir

Идиот Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1874 · ★ 4.2 · 655p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin—known as "the idiot"—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his circle. But after becoming… Shares: Notebooks, Continental european fiction

Tennyson Harold Nicolson · 1923 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victorias reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain… Shares: Poets, Biography & Memoir

Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda Paramahansa · 1946 · ★ 4.3 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952) details his search for a guru, during which he encountered many spiritual leaders and world-renowned scientists. When it was published in 1946 it was the first introduction of many westerners to yoga and meditation.The famous opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci said about the book:"Amazing, true stories of saints and masters of India, blended… Shares: Biografía, Biography & Memoir

Design of Biographia Literaria Catherine M. Wallace · 2016 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate First published in 1983, this book examines a work whose intricacies have baffled and infuriated generations of readers and proposes a theory of Coleridge’s writing habits that "explain(s) his explanation". The author painstakingly analyses the Biographia’s organising structure distinguishing between the daring conception and often inept execution of Coleridge’s idea of critical discourse. It is… Shares: Poets, Authors, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

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