Books I Like.
A BookList by emilyyoung
Some books I like.
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | Everyone should read Leaves of Grass! Reading Walt Whitman always makes me happy. | |||
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||||
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | The Shakespeare play most representative of the 20th century? Important themes in King Lear: despair, insanity, "nothingness", death. Today, considered to be one of Shakespeare's best plays. | |||
| A Study in Scarlet | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Sherlock Holmes's debut. See how Holmes and Watson meet, and get to know them both! | |||
| The Speckled Band | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | My favorite Sherlock Holmes story! Also Conan Doyle's favorite Holmes story, according to a list published in The Strand in 1927. | |||
| Poems of William Blake | William Blake | ||||
| Sonnets | William Shakespeare | ||||
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | Really interesting how Kafka treats Gregor Samsa's transformation into a huge bug. Has been very influential in the development of other literary styles: magical realism, etc. | |||
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Edgar Allan Poe | My favorite Poe story - great storytelling technique, and completely horrifying and twisted. | |||
| Poems by Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson | ||||
| Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||||
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | ||||
| Cyrano De Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | ||||
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Totally creepy, ha! And important, in terms of ideas of mental health and feminism. | |||
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | ||||
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | No, not the albatross! Coleridge is awesome. | |||
| Wikipedia Tours: Famous Women Throughout History | DailyLit | ||||
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | ||||
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | Considered obscene when first published. Excellent and interesting descriptions and style of writing; important for Realism. |
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