Bibliothèque Idéale – Henry Miller’s List
Various. Stories from the Arabian Nights (for children). Various. Greek Legends (for children). Various. Knights of King Arthur’s Court. Grimm. Fairy Tales. Anderson. Fairy Tales. Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. Peck, George W. Peck’s Bad Boy. Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn. Dumas, Alexander. The Three Musqueteers. Cooper, […]
Bibliothèque Idéale – Marianne Moore’s list
Auden, W. H.. The Double Man; Collected Shorter Poems Blake, William. Poems. Burke, Edmund. Speeches. Byron. Letters. Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Cavalcanti, Guido. Donna Mi Prega. Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Cressida; Canterbury Tales. Cocteau, Jean. Poemes; Theatre; Essais critiques. Coleridge, Samuel. Poems; Biographia Literaria. Comtesse de Segur. Les Malheurs de Sophie. Corbiere, Tristan. […]
Bibliothèque Idéale – Raymond Queneau’s list
1. Shakespeare, Théâtre 2. La Bible (y compris le Nouveau Testament) 3. Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu 4. Montaigne, Essais 5. Rabelais, Les Cinq Livres 6. Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal 7. Pascal, Pensées 8. Molière, Théâtre 9. J.-J. Rousseau, Les Confessions 10. Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir 11. Platon, Dialogues 12. […]
Bibliothèque Idéale
A list of books that have contributed to my understanding, with the understanding that it could be different on the next blue moon. Homer: The Iliad (850 B.C.) Herodotus: Histories (480-425 B.C.) Plato: Dialogues (427-348 B.C.) Aeschylus: Oresteia (459 B.C.) Sophocles: Oedipus (496-406 B.C.) Lycophron: Alexandra (285-247 B.C.) Vergil: Aeneid (19 B.C.) The Bible Petronius: The […]
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