Classics Revisited

53 obres 435,287 Llibres 4,509 Ressenyes ½ 3.9
Selected by Kenneth Rexroth for his book Classics Revisited, a volume of brief, radiant essays discussing 60 key books that are for him "basic documents in the history of the imagination."
Obra
L'Orestea (458 BCE) de Aeschylus
Njal's Saga (1350) de Anonymous
L'ase d'or (159) de Apuleius
Meditations (170) de Marcus Aurelius
Baudelaire: Poems (1993) de Charles Baudelaire
Beowulf (10) de Beowulf poet
Guerra de les Gàl·lies (44) de Julius Caesar
History of My Life, Vols. 1 & 2 (1997) de Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
Contes de Canterbury (14) de Geoffrey Chaucer
Plays (1912) de Anton Chekhov
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems Selected and Translated with an Introduction and Notes (1973) de Arthur Cooper
Els germans Karamàzov (1880) de Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Euripides I de Euripides
Tom Jones (1749) de Henry Fielding
L'educació sentimental (1869) de Gustave Flaubert
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788) de Edward Gibbon
Epopeia de Guilgameix (1700 BCE) de Gilgamesh Poet
Pages from the Goncourt Journal (1962) de Edmond de Goncourt
Història (420 BCE) de Herodotus
Ilíada (750 BCE) de Homer
Haiku: Gems of Intimate Beauty in a New Collection of Classic Japanese Poetry (1970) de Mary Dawson Hughes
Volpone, or The Fox (1606) de Ben Jonson
Història de Roma (27 BCE) de Titus Livy
El Kalevala : la gran epopeia del poble finlandès (1849) de Elias Lönnrot
De la natura (54 BCE) de Titus Lucretius Carus
El Príncep (1513) de Niccolò Machiavelli
Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) de Thomas Malory
Manifest del Partit Comunista (1848) de Karl Marx
The Book of Job (1986) de Stephen Mitchell
Assaigs (1580) de Michel de Montaigne
Utopia (1553) de Thomas More
The Tale of Genji (2015) de Shikibu Murasaki
Satiricó (1) de Petronius Arbiter
The Last Days of Socrates (399 BCE) de Plato
La República (380 BCE) de Plato
Vidas Paralelas (100) de Plutarch
Libro de las maravillas (1298) de Marco Polo
Gargantua i Pantagruel (1532) de François Rabelais
Rimbaud: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (1994) de Aurthur Rimbaud
Sappho: A New Translation (580) de Sappho
La Tempesta (1610) de William Shakespeare
Tragèdies tebanes: Antígona ; Èdip rei ; Èdip a Colonos (442 BCE) de Sophocles
El roig i el negre (1830) de Stendhal
Històries (100) de P. Cornelius Tacitus
Història de la guerra del Peloponès (400 BCE) de Thucydides
Guerra i pau (1868) de Leo Tolstoy
Les Aventures d'en Huckleberry Finn (1884) de Mark Twain
Mahābhārata {retold by William Buck} (1973) de Vyasa
Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (1929) de Helen Waddell
The Compleat Angler (1653) de Izaak Walton
The Duchess of Malfi (1614) de John Webster
Hoja de hierba (1855) de Walt Whitman
Dream of the Red Chamber (1791) de Cao Xueqin

Etiquetes

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