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Poems Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1844 · ★ 4.1 · 526p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shares: Modern Poetry, Collections, Poetry Shares: Modern Poetry, Collections, Poetry

The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman · 2008 · ★ 4.4 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings—such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the… Shares: Cemeteries, Dead

Poems Matthew Arnold · 1853 · ★ 3.5 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Facsimile. Of O.U.P. 1909 Ed. Shares: Modern Poetry, Poetry

Poems Robert Frost · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 259p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The long awaited comprehensive and authoritative edition. The Poetry of Robert Frost brings together for the first time the full contents of all eleven of Frost's individual books of verse, from A Boy's Will through In the Clearing. More than 350 poems comprise this new volume, scrupulously prepared under the editorship of Edward Connery Lathem, a Frost scholar, Librarian of Dartmouth College,… Shares: Modern Poetry, American poetry, Poetry

Mexico City blues Jack Kerouac · 1959 · ★ 3.7 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A series of poems deals with music, life, religion, literature, dreams and mortality. Shares: Non-Classifiable, American poetry, Poetry

Tender Buttons Gertrude Stein · 1914 · ★ 3.6 · 51p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words - clustered, juxtaposed, redefined and played off one another - to subterfuge their common meanings, which Stein felt had become watered down, and to re-infuse them with expressive force. Shares: Modern Poetry, Poetry

The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1915 · ★ 3.8 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Paulvitch still lived and sought vengeance against Tarzan. As part of his plot, he lured Tarzan's young son away from London. But the boy escaped, with the aid of the great ape Akut. They fled to the savage African jungles where Tarzan had been reared. There the civilized boy had to learn to meet the great beasts and face the dangers only his father had ever conquered. But he grew in time into… Shares: Non-Classifiable, Classic Literature

Rolling Stones O. Henry · 1910 · ★ 2.5 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar), Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie The Rolling Stones (also published under the name Space Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert A.… Shares: American poetry, Classic Literature

The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II Emily Dickinson · 1890 · ★ 4.3 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world" - the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This Modern Library edition presents the more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her concepts of life and… Shares: Collections, American poetry, Poetry

Drum-taps Walt Whitman · 1865 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum-Taps, his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,' Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America's most tragic conflict, Drum-Taps also helped to… Shares: American poetry, Poetry

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1916 · ★ 3.9 · 372p · ≈ 12h · Challenging From the book:Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, the frightful isolation and the loneliness had wrought a… Shares: Non-Classifiable, Classic Literature

Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire · 1920 · ★ 3.8 · 173p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A la fin tu es las de ce monde ancien Bergere o tour Eiffel le troupeau des ponts bele ce matin Tu en as assez de vivre dans l'antiquite grecque et romaine Ici meme les automobiles ont l'air d'etre anciennes La religion seule est restee toute neuve la religion Est restee simple comme les hangars de Port-Aviation Seul en Europe tu n'es pas antique o Christianisme L'Europeen le plus moderne… Shares: Collections, Poetry, Classic Literature

Poems Federico García Lorca · 1900 · ★ 3.7 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet, has long been admired for its emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance. Few poets take us more directly and memorably to what Lorca described as "the dark root of the scream," the terrain of the duende, where inspiration delivers a new poetic reality and "intelligence" discovers its limitations. For many years, until the… Shares: Modern Poetry, Poetry

North of Boston Robert Frost · 1910 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the book:SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I… Shares: American poetry, Poetry, Classic Literature

Poems Francis Thompson · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging It is a poetry book. Francis Thompson, a poet of high thinking, 'of celestial vision', and of imaginings that found literary images of answering splendour, died in London in the winter of 1907. His life—always a fragile one—doubtless owed its prolongation to 'man's unconquerable mind', in him so invincible through all vicissitude that he seemed to add a new significance to Wordsworth's phrase. To… Shares: Collections, Poetry

Poems Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1847 · ★ 3.5 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Interspersed are passages from the author's "Essays" and "Journal". Shares: American poetry, Poetry

Day of doom Michael Wigglesworth · 1666 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Demanding "The Day of Doom: or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment" is a religious poem by clergyman Michael Wigglesworth that became a best-selling classic in Puritan New England for a century after it was published in 1662 by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson. The poem describes the Day of Judgment, on which a vengeful God judges and sentences all men, going into detail as to the… Shares: American poetry, 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 Sylvia… Shares: American poetry, Poetry

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