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暁の寺 三島由紀夫 · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A young man expends his spirit in the obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and a passionate search for mystical enlightenment. "Yukio Mishima's The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s,… Shares Japanese, Japan

ダンス・ダンス・ダンス 村上春樹 · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 393p · ≈ 13h · Moderate He burst upon the international scene with the wildly acclaimed *A Wild Sheep Chase*. He quickly came to represent the quirky voice of a new generation of Japanese writers. Now Haruki Murakami gives us his wittiest, boldest, most daring work to date. *Dance dance dance* continues the extraordinary adventure of an ordinary man. At thirty something, Murakami's nameless hero lives in a hi-tech,… Shares Near and far eastern fiction, Japan

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

The Complete Poetical Works Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 220p · ≈ 7h · 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 picturesque

The picturesque Christopher Hussey · 1927 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, General with this book.

Story of Meriadoc King of Cambria

Story of Meriadoc King of Cambria Mildred Leake Day · 2019 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, Poetry, General with this book.

Cross Purposes and The Shadows George MacDonald · 2006 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Light The fairy Peaseblossom and the goblin Toadstool set off on the oddest mission: to lure a girl and a boy to Fry, to bring before the Queen -- for her subjects in Fairyland are too well-behaved to be amusing. Can they find the right dreamers? Then Peaseblossom encounters Alice, who wishes she could watch a setting sun at all times -- while Toadstool runs into the nearly penniless Richard, who wants… Shares Fiction - General

The haunted major Robert Marshall · 1932 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Inspired by the new craze for golf that had developed at the dawn of the 20th century, this comic story recounts the efforts of sports-mad Major Gore to beat Lindsay, a young golf champion. The Major receives supernatural assistance in his cause from the ghost of Cardinal Smeaton, a Scottish renaissance figure who is still nursing a grudge against his opponent's family." - - Description by… Shares Modern fiction, Fiction - General, General

Take Back the Night Dennis Foley · 1996 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Modern fiction, Fiction - General with this book.

Martin Bircks ungdom Hjalmar Söderberg · 1904 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Hjalmar Soderberg's partly autobiographical second novel was originally published in 1901, and traces the development of the title character from a seemingly idyllic Stockholm childhood to maturity as a thirty-year-old man, an introspective outsider, critical of society, constantly searching for the truth but going through a gradual process of disillusionment. He dreams of being a poet, but is… Shares Modern fiction, General

陰翳礼讃 (In'ei raisan) 谷崎潤一郎 · 1977 · ★ 4.0 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "This is a powerfully anti-modernist book, yet contains the most beautiful evocation of the traditional Japanese aesthetic, which cast such a spell on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. "The contradiction is easily explained: Tanizaki sees the empty Japanese wall as not empty at all, but a surface on which light continually traces its fugitive presence against encroaching shadow.… Shares Japanese, Literary Criticism, General

Romance of Tristan Béroul · 2019 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, Poetry, General with this book.

Potterism Rose Macaulay · 1920 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Others in the Potter newspaper empire are drawn into Jane’s destructive little ways. Mrs Potter is a well-known romantic novelist, whose cheap novelettes appear in the shop-girls’ magazines. She has become unable to distinguish fact from fiction, and her success gives her an unhealthy estimation of her own influence. When she visits a medium to try to find the truth about the murder of her… Shares Fiction - General, General

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

Imagining Culture Jonathan Hart · 1996 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, General with this book.

Poetry and belief in the work of T.S. Eliot Kristian Smidt · 1949 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, Poetry with this book.

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus Walter Hawkesworth · 1988 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, General with this book.

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