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Taking some liberty with the genre classification, you may want to check George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I, by Miranda Carter

"Olivar Asselin" and "Colette" are the only biographies I have ever read.

One is about a french canadian journalist who, despte his quite advanced age and statut as a french canadian surrounded by englishmen, still rolled with it and fought on WW1. He was one of the few french canadian to actively participate in the war and most likely the reason frenchies got out of the british Commonwealth.

The other is an european author, who wrote a popular novel serie, starring Claudine, a young student who likes gay inuendos. What's interesting here is that Colette had a famous mentor for a husband, who took most of the praise though. Colette was bisexual too kek.

Plutarch

>>7637743
Fuck off retard

Should have majored in English, Literature, Great Books, or something else in Humanities. Sure, you'd have no job, but you would have the sense of personal fulfillment you now crave.

nice meme

Guess that answers THAT question, then.

I don't know, I don't get it.

>>7637598
Pretty dumb, desu.

>>7637598
he's gay
for you

Actually just found it, Dragons of Deltora.

No idea but it reminds me of Mother 3 for some reason, where you have to pull seven swords from the ground to awaken a dragon that will either destroy or fix the world depending on whether the swords are pulled by the good or the evil.

the rest of the holy sonnets obviously.

you can also read his earlier stuff which are just really cerebral/convoluted ways for donne to convince women to sleep with him, not quite in the same vein as late-life metaphysical donne

andrew marvell and george herbert are the other two big metaphysical poets.

>>7637530
thanks anon, I'm checking out the rest of the holy sonnets right now! Any recommendations for similar stuff from a different time period too?

>>7637564
depends on what aspect you're most intrigued by.

subject matter (life and death, overcoming it, etc.), try stuff like:
-On Time, milton
-When I have fears I may cease to be, keats
-Ozymandia, shelley
-Sonnet 55, 60, 73, 107, shakespeare
-Do not go gentle into that good night, and death shall have no dominion, dylan thomas

Get Nabokov's

no no no NOT Nabokovs

>>7637421
the randall translation is widely accepted as better

>>7637354
Yes nigga, buy that shit.

FUCK THUH JAPANESE

Yes. Also if you don't enjoy it's pretty self contained so you don't have to read the other three to get any feeling of completeness.

>>7637308
Jekyll and Hyde is a bit underwhelming, worth reading only really because of it's influence on later works

>>7637308
I agree with the first comment, Jekyll and Hyde was a bit underwhelming.

Thank you for the answer

I would also like to have comment on Typhoon of Conrad

>>7636918
Her mortgage isn't going to pay itself.

>>7636918
she loves geek culture that much xD

>>7636805
Well, you should tell me since you are the one who just read it.

>>7636808
This response is as much of a meme as the op.

>>7636805
I haven't read it and no it's not good

>>7636641
>and tell me how shitty it is?
Why do you want us to read it if it's shit? Just write something else instead.

>>7636668
well by tell me how shitty it is I mean give me feedback and tell me what you think. Not that it's actually shitty, but rather that if you think it's shitty after reading it then tell me.

I'll bite.

Reform? It's called Sunni, Shia, Sufi, Ahmadiyya, Baha'is. All a total and utter failure. Those "moderate" Muslims preaching reform are involved in Taqiyya. Muslims are low IQ people, worshipping a mass murdering pedophile that's deemed perfect and must be emulated as much and as closely as possible. He’s the source of all evil. A source that no muslims is willing to denounce.
The Christians, at least, had Jesus, the Ten Commandments and Martin Luther.

Jesus the hippie > Muhammad the rapist.

Read Islam by Maajid Nawaz and Sam Harris.

>>7636887
>Sam Harris.

lmao

Emilio Salgari

Pirates of the Caribbean novelizations ya fn inverted question mark fag

Cities of the Red Night, by William Burroughs

>>7635753
rats in the walls, shadow over innsmouth, horror at red hook, dreams in the witchhouse, under the pyramids, at the mountains of madness, dream quest of unknown kadath

>>7636011
thanks anon, nice dubs too <3

>>7635753
at the mountains of madness for sure