Classics Revisited

53 Works 444,565 Livros 4,625 Críticas 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
The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides (458 BCE) por Aeschylus
Njal's Saga (1350) por Anonymous
The Golden Ass (159) por Apuleius
The Meditations (170) por Marcus Aurelius
Baudelaire: Poems (1993) por Charles Baudelaire
Beowulf (1000) por Beowulf Poet
The Conquest of Gaul (44) por Julius Caesar
History of My Life, Vols. 1 & 2 (1997) por Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
The Canterbury Tales (14) por Geoffrey Chaucer
Plays (1912) por Anton Chekhov
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems Selected and Translated with an Introduction and Notes (1973) por Arthur Cooper
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) por Fyodor Dostoevsky
Euripides I por Euripides
Tom Jones (1749) por Henry Fielding
Sentimental Education (1869) por Gustave Flaubert
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788) por Edward Gibbon
The Epic of Gilgamesh (1700 BCE) por Gilgamesh Poet
Pages from the Goncourt Journal (1962) por Edmond de Goncourt
The Histories (420 BCE) por Herodotus
The Iliad (750 BCE) por Homer
Haiku: Gems of Intimate Beauty in a New Collection of Classic Japanese Poetry (1970) por Mary Dawson Hughes
Volpone, or The Fox (1606) por Ben Jonson
History of Rome, books 1-5 [in translation] (27 BCE) por Titus Livy
Kalevala (1849) por Elias Lönnrot
On the Nature of Things (54 BCE) por Titus Lucretius Carus
The Prince (1513) por Niccolò Machiavelli
Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) por Thomas Malory
The Communist Manifesto (1848) por Karl Marx
The Book of Job (1986) por Stephen Mitchell
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays (1580) por Michel de Montaigne
Utopia (1553) por Thomas More
The Tale of Genji (2015) por Shikibu Murasaki
The Satyricon (1) por Petronius Arbiter
The Last Days of Socrates (399 BCE) por Plato
The Republic (380 BCE) por Plato
Plutarch's Lives (100) por Plutarch
The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) por Marco Polo
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532) por François Rabelais
Rimbaud: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (1994) por Arthur Rimbaud
Sappho: A New Translation (580) por Sappho
The Tempest (1610) por William Shakespeare
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus (442 BCE) por Sophocles
The Red and the Black (1830) por Stendhal
The Histories (100) por P. Cornelius Tacitus
The History of the Peloponnesian War (400 BCE) por Thucydides
War and Peace (1869) por Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) por Mark Twain
Mahābhārata {retold by William Buck} (1973) por Vyasa
Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (1929) por Helen Waddell
The Compleat Angler (1653) por Izaak Walton
The Duchess of Malfi (1614) por John Webster
Leaves of Grass (1855) por Walt Whitman
Dream of the Red Chamber (1791) por Cao Xueqin

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