18 books like The lady of the lake

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Idylls of the King Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1859 · ★ 4.0 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The Idylls are a series of twelve long blank verse poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, telling the tale of Arthur and his round table. While some of them are stories of adventure and daring of the kind you’d expect from an Arthurian epic, many take on a darker tone, relating how Arthur was betrayed and how his kingdom grew decadent and eventually fell.The poems stand on their own as carefully… Shares: Shorthand, Texts, Poetry

Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith · 1111 · ★ 3.3 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Demanding Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Shorthand, Texts, History

We Find Ourselves in Other People's Stories Amy E. Robillard · 2018 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Moderate We Find Ourselves in Other People’s Stories: On Narrative Collapse and a Lifetime Search for Story is a collection of five essays that dissolves the boundary between personal writing and academic writing, a longstanding binary construct in the discipline of composition and writing studies, in order to examine the rhetorical effects of narrative collapse on the stories we tell about ourselves and… Shares: Writing, American

Marmion Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Challenging It is a poetry book. Sir Walter Scott’s love of the country induced him, after his marriage in 1797, to settle in a cottage at the pretty village of Lasswade, near Edinburgh. Four years after leaving this district he took Mr. Morritt of Rokeby to see the little dwelling, telling him that, though not worth looking at, ‘it was our first house when newly married, and many a contrivance it had to… Shares: Poetry, History

Festus, a poem Philip James Bailey · 1830 · ★ 3.3 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Challenging An extended poem detailing the story of a man who sold his soul to the Devil. The poem doesn't have a definitive structure and is disorganized. It is seen as a parallel to Goethe's Faust. Some of Bailey's later works, including The Angel World, and The Mystic weren't as successful as Festus and were subsequently integrated into the continuing versions of Festus. Shares: Victorian, Poetry

Jacobite Relics Of Scotland James Hogg · 1819 · 490p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares: Texts, Poetry

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Les Contemplations est un recueil de poésie de Victor Hugo, publié en 1856. Il est composé de 158 poèmes rassemblés en six livres. La plupart de ces poèmes ont été écrits entre 1841 et 1855, mais les poèmes les plus anciens de ce recueil datent de 1830. Les Contemplations est un recueil du souvenir, de l’amour, de la joie mais aussi de la mort, du deuil et même d'une certaine foi mystique. Le… Shares: Poetry

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 The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works in American literature. But Poe is also the author of some of the most haunting poetry ever written–poems of love, death and loneliness that have lost none of their power to enthrall in this unique Signet Classic edition. Shares: Poetry

The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 970p · ≈ 32h · Demanding The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. Shares: Texts, Poetry

Bible Various authors · 1200 · ★ 4.6 · 1284p · ≈ 42h · Demanding The purpose of The Original African Heritage Study Bible is to interpret the Bible as it relates specifically to persons of African descent and thereby to foster an appreciation of the multiculturalism inherent in the Bible. The Original African Heritage Study Bible offers a number of unique features which reveal the African/Edenic contribution to Judaism and Christianity, including: 1)… Shares: Texts, History

Canto a Mi Mismo Walt Whitman · 1904 · ★ 3.9 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date of Song of Myself. One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation's most prominent writers and literary figures, Christopher Merrill, carry on a dialog with Whitman, and with each other, section by section, as they invite readers to enter into the conversation about how the poem… Shares: American, Poetry

A Rare Benedictine Edith Pargeter · 1988 · ★ 3.8 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate These three short stories form a prequel to the Ellis Peters series featuring Brother Cadfael, a medieval monk detective. The first story describes the circumstances around Brother Cadfael’s decision to renounce his former life and become a monk. The second and third stories give Brother Cadfael the opportunity to solve mysteries that occur at Shrewsbury Abbey in the years just preceding the… Shares: American, History

Poems of rural life William Barnes · 1844 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Beautiful poems in the Dorset dialect. Quite comprehensible but containing a number of words which might not be understood outside Dorset. Barnes inspired Thomas Hardy to a large extent. Shares: Texts, Poetry

Montezuma's daughter H. Rider Haggard · 1893 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Fictionalized story of the first interactions between Native Americans and European explorers. Shares: Texts, History

Bābar-nāma Babur · 1844 · ★ 3.0 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Memoirs of Babur, Emperor of India. Shares: Texts, History

Once an Eagle Anton Myrer · 1968 · ★ 4.5 · 1312p · ≈ 43h · Challenging Required reading for West Point cadets, Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self-interest. Massengale, however, brilliantly advances by making the right connections behind the lines and in Washington's corridors of… Shares: American, History

Spies of the Balkans Alan Furst · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece—the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, with its wharves and warehouses, dark lanes and Turkish mansions, brothels and tavernas, a tense political drama is being played out. On the northern border, the Greek army has blocked Mussolini’s invasion, pushing his divisions back to Albania—the first defeat… Shares: American, History

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