#classic lit recs

[therealrichardpapen]

Can I have some classic lit recs…make me feel like Henry please <3

Oh, this would be my pleasure, my dear friend!

Caligula by Albert Camus (It's a play about Caligula)

Oresteia by Aeschylus

Cicero

Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare. Coriolanus speaks about men's hubris and how pridefullness brings your downfall, while Titus Andronicus, well, I'll let you discover it by yourself:))

Marcus Aurelius, amazing works regarding stoicism

Seneca, letters to Lucilius, another great stoic

Petrarca's letters to classical authors

Ovid, the roman writer exiled by Augustus to the Black Sea, at Tomis, part of the Kingdom of Thrace (now Constanța, Romania), where he kept writing.

Bacchae by Euripides

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (a nobel awarded historical fiction about the life in Nero's Rome, written by a Polish writer)

Sappho, but I suggest finding a good translation with footnotes as her works have been barely maintained, and some of her poems are literally one word long.

Beyond good and evil by Nietzsche

Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky (I won't add more as I recently conducted a full ass campaign here on how and why this book is worth it)

E.M. Cioran, A short history of decay, The demiurge, The troubles with being born. He is a bit of a nihilist. Romanian philosopher that wrote mostly in French

Machiavelli, The prince. This should be a good introduction into Machiavellism

The sacred and profane by M. Eliade is also worth a try

I believe there's no point in mentioning the Iliad and the Odyssey since everybody knows them by now. Hope you'll have fun!

[nejjcollectsbooks]

thrifted and annotated copy of 'to the lighthouse' by virginia woolf.

so lovely, buying a book at the second-hand store and finding someone's annotations between the pages.

[dysphoresque]

“You mean I have a home to go to, as long as I don't go there?”

— James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[academic-vampire]

𝚃𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸’𝚕𝚕 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚗 𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚜

[midnights-wish]

''Let me fly with you.''

Sylvia Plath, 'The Bell Jar' (1963).

[elysiumaze]

The room where she had spent so many afternoons glittered in the crescendo of an orchestra, silently, avenging itself for her distraction.

Clarice Lispector in, Near to the Wild Heart.

[worlds-of-ink-and-paper]

oh, you can't read a book if it doesn't have a lil bit of ✨spice✨????

well I can't read a book if it doesn't have a lil bit of ✨homoerotic subtext amidst victorian fears of plague and the mysterious disappearance of a ship's crew✨

[shiveringfrogspawn]

florence + the machine’s bird song and edgar allan poe’s the telltale heart are written about the same guy who is Just Not Having a Great Day

[keepingupwiththekaramazovs]

Okay, so I finally finished scheduling out all of the chapters, and as of right now, this read-along is scheduled to finish up toward the end of July! There are only 96 chapters in The Brothers Karamazov (I say only—I guess what I mean is "only" in comparison to like, Les Misérables) but I've paced them out to try to give us adequate time to discuss each chapter, and so that hopefully everyone is able to keep up around their other obligations. You are, of course, welcome to read ahead, and we even have a channel for that in the Discord!

The (very short) preface dropped yesterday, but the read-along officially kicks off with Chapter 1 next Monday. You're still welcome to come join us! The discord is shaping up to be a great place to hangout.

[rileys-battlecats]

Favorite epic song???

Love ur art btw <33

hi i know this probably means my favorite song that i consider to be epic sounding BUT ive been bingeing EPIC the musical for the past few weeks so my brain instantly went to “just a man”

[can-of-w0rmz]

What are the most haunting classic lit books you’ve ever read?

I’m feeling silly and looking for some good good fucked up old gothic horror. Bonus points for anything related to childhood trauma

[nejjcollectsbooks]

thrifted & annotated copy of 'frankenstein' by mary shelley

whoever had bought this copy ended up dog earing it like a third of the way through so this was all the annotating/underlining they did. such a treat to open up a thrifted book and see the thoughts and words of another reader. It's incredibly endearing and makes me look forward to reading the book purely so I can look through their notes and compare my opinions and thoughts on the passages against theirs.

[zannolin]

friends what queer media shall i consume during pride month. drop me your recs.

[academic-vampire]

“I see the darkness where you see the light.”

-Tom Odell, song: “Black Friday”

[midnights-wish]

''He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.''

Osamu Dazai, 'No Longer Human' (1948).

[elysiumaze]

Never suffer because you don’t have an opinion on this or that topic. Never suffer because you are not something or because you are.

Clarice Lispector in, Near to the Wild Heart.