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http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Goethe-Johann-Wolfgang-von/dp/0691162905
1056 pp.
Princeton University Press
>Selected poems
>Four complete dramas: Faust Part I, Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso
>The complete novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
>A selection from the travel journal Italian Journey
>Selected essays on art and literature
>Selected essays...
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>no Faust II
DROPPEDI might get it.
>>7563450
overrated, reactionary blithering idiot. if i had a time machine i wouldn't travel back to kill hitler, i would kill goethe instead.
Hey /lit/. I've never come here, but I'm really looking for books on existentialism, mostly on death and dying and stuff in that category
I found some lectures on this sort of stuff that was really interesting to me, if there's anything discussing stuff like in this video I'd be really interested in that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cQWYoS64Gw&feature=youtu.be&t=16m38s
thanks if you help
bump or something
use google
>>7563371
>>>/his/phil
They will be able to help you out
Book 1: Count of Monte Cristo IN SPACE where everyone is cunty lesbians
Book 2: the adventures of robo-captain on a shitty space station
Book 3: the adventures of robo-captain on a shitty space station: the reckoning
Why were books 2 and 3 such a complete letdown after the first?
Where do you get your ideas?
check em
>>7563226
well done
>>7563244
These won't go unnoticed
>first half is gothic explorations of madness and occultism with a spooky, cryptic motif connecting each story
>second half is overly-florid, boring, francophile circlejerking without anything that made the first half interesting
Well that was disappointing.
>>7563183
i didn't 'get' it either. is this supposed to be a single piece of work, or is it just a collection of, sometimes, loosely connected short stories. and why is this one guy in the mademoiselle d'ys story called hastur, this has to be of some significance.
>>7563183
I thought the same. The first part was pretty good. I really enjoyed In the Court of the Dragon and The Yellow Sign, specially. I couldn't get even to the half of the second part though.
>>7563239
i read to the end, because i expected some big revelation that ties everything together, but, nothing
Do you guys torrent textbooks, or actually pay the exorbitant fees and buy them?
I buy used, but also torrent.
>>7563071
what site do you use?
Guys, I need a pdf. It doesn't have to be in english but it would help.
Sorry for the bother, thank you very much.
gen.lib.rus.ec
>>7562970
Gotcha covered, brofamtbqhseph:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11/11-pdf.pdf
What are the essential works for the student of literature besides these?:
>Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
>Edward Said's Orientalism
>William Hazlitt's Character's of Shakespeare's plays
What else?
>>7562917
Replace Bloom's Shakespeare book with Harold Goddard's The Meaning of Shakespeare, a book Bloom himself highly recommends and is better than his book.
Bloom's The Western Canon
>>7562952
>y r all dese feminazis bullying muh timeless masterpieces :(((
Yeah, that book is a must-read.
Is the fifth head of Cerberus good place start with gene wolf?
Cool thanks!
Anyone read this? Not usually my taste, but a nice neighbor lady loaned it to me so I felt obligated to give it a shot. About 100 pages in and enjoying the hell out of it.
Thoughts? Anything else good by this guy? No spoilers please.
Only thing I read by him was Cathedral
Good pleb tier action/suspense novel with some politics and Irish history mixed in for flavor.
Nothing deep, but a quick fun read with serviceable dialogue
>>7562721
>Thoughts
shit
>Anything else good
no
read a real book, cuntface
p.s. There's a huge twist in the very last chapter when you realizethat you've wasted hours and hours of your life on a hollow book for old women
How should I go about reading him? His mythology seems rather dense, so I want to read his works in an order that won't make it seem more complicated than it needs to be.
I'd strongly recommend buying an edition with the illustrations. Then, uh, just read it?
>>7562741
Does it make sense to read his works in the order in which they were published?
songs of inno&exp
marriage of heaven and hell
the rest of his poems
mythology
granted i never got through his mythology, good luck
So, spoilers!
I loved Andrej's character, i like the idealism and the changes of Pierre, but Bolskonski was a way more interesting character for me. His wounds at Austerlitz and at Borodino both a great moment in the book for me, as is the moment Natasha walks into his fever dream.
This mischievous fairy can magically turn all that you have written into YA, making you the next John Green milliardaire.
Everything (published or not), every scrap of idea on a scrap of paper, every worthwhile literary idea you've ever expressed through written or oral communication will vanish from existence.
Instead will magically appear an award winning YA series with movie deal, audience pu$$y and worldwide fame. Also /lit/ will hate you and you will have to make youtube videos and have an online resence for your fans, and attend bookfests etc.
What...
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>>7562579
While I don't mind /lit/ hating me, since they hate almost everything, I don't write to be a bestseller or cash money. I write because I want to tell a story and enjoy the art of storytelling.
So I decline wee fairy, now piss off.
>>7562579
Oh, I'd sell out in a heartbeat. Everyone has their price, and mine is a little under three bucks.
/lit/, please, be fast. Is there anything good ffom him?
>>7562536
Doors of Perception is an interesting long essay I guess.
Brave New World has had massive cultural influence but I read it almost two decades ago for the first time.
Yes. Brave New World and Island are mediocre novels, but his non-fiction is great. Check out The Doors of Perception and The Perennial Philosophy.
>>7562536
I've read most of his writing and Point Counter Point is the only thing I'd read again. It's a "novel of ideas" featuring characters who are based on real intellectuals, artists, and politicians (among them, DH Lawrence) from early 20th century England.
Make a cheap tablet book that contains all the classics in the public domain so that people from poorer demographics have access to the words that shaped history.
Bad idea?
The cheaper the tablet, the shittier the working conditions in the sweatshops.
>>7562470
i actually recall reading this anime
You will just alienate some people from their cultures, meaning you will get most of them killed. You should check out some of the problems the OLPC project had in rural 3rd world communities. Kids started to ask questions and the village elders basically outlawed the machines. For some people, being an uneducated piece of human trash is a cultural definition.
