#and dante book

[oldtreeinanalley]

i habe so many books i want to read

[diioonysus]

rings + art

[megumisgirl]

making out with them as the kiss gets more rough, more fast. tugging and pulling each other more and more even though there is barely any space left. panting in each other's mouth, as you grind on their kness, your movements getting ragged and unsteady as his hands grip your waist tightly.

"stay still other wise we might have a problem."

— 𖦹. megumi, eren, gojo, jean, daisuke, geto, kageyama (i can also see a few book boyfriends doing it... maybe cardan, dante russo?? )

[kajaono]

The most intriguing thing about The Count of Monte Cristo is that - everytime a new character appears - you look for tiny hints that this is in fact not a new character but just Dantes with a wig

[ambxtxo]

donna tartt’s reading list

In an interview, Tartt lists her favorite authors and the names of a few works. I have listed the most popular works from each author and the specific ones she recommended as well.

Homer

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Greek Poets and Tragedians

Argonautica

Antigone

Prometheus Bound

The Oresteia

Medea

Oedipus Rex

The Bacchae

The Frogs

Dante

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Shakespeare

“I went back and read Macbeth and Hamlet during the pandemic”

Macbeth

Hamlet

Dickens

“Dickens was a part of my familial landscape, the air I breathed.”

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Nabokov

Pale Fire

Lolita

Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Swann’s Way

Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Borges

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Ethan Frome

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Helena

Salinger

Catcher in the Rye

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Orlando

Edward St. Aubyn

The Patrick Melrose Novels

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Norwegian Wood

Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Don DeLillo

White Noise

Underworld

W.G. Sebald

Austerlitz

The Rings of Saturn

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

The White Album

Other Specific Books

Memoirs d’Outre-Tome by Chateaubriand

Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford

All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski

A Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

[lets-get-lit]

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. 

- Dante Alighieri, Inferno

[songoftrillium]

Happy Halloween!

As a November treat, we're going to be releasing pages of the Werewolf: the Essentials comic Cracking the Bone every day! Look out for our book release on Storyteller's Vault, coming November 30th! Writers: Me, @wolfgirlbites @excelgarou @balthazarslostlibrary

Art: @mekanikaltrifle

Proofreading: Me, @balthazarslostlibrary @bekandrew

Enjoy!

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Trigger warnings in the tags

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

[lunamonchtuna]

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, from Aristotle And Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (via lunamonchtuna)

[thereinart]

A new Count of Monte Cristo movie is out in France and it got me hyped to make a drawing, I adored the book as a teenager so, I hope the movie will be nice 👉👈

Anyway :3 This is Edmond Dantes and Mercedes Herrera 😁

[forsapphics]

Korra & Asami from The Legend of Korra

Art by @/scarecrux

[cyberianpunks]

[firelise]

We laughed and we talked and looked up at the stars. "I wished it was raining," he said. "I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you." Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2023)

[wolfsnape]

Moi, sachant très bien que Dantès se fait trahir par tout le monde dès le début, à chaque fois qu'il se fait trahir : AH LA PUTE

[zegalba]

Alexander McQueen “Dante” Fall/Winter 1996 Photographs from Inferno Picture Book, 2015

[lighthousepigeons]

Rhys: Christian, we want you to be the godfather to our baby.

Christian: You know, I'm not really a kid person...

Bridget: You don't have to be the godfather if you don't-

Christian: No, that's my godchild. Back off!!!

[hayleylovesjessica]

Tumblrinas like to talk about what's canon and what's not, but what about the actual literary canon? Which of the following works of Western literature have you read?