And the winners are...:
Clic Literature Discussion Deck
If ye would like to moderate the Clic Literature Discussion Deck, please drop becket@jollyroger.com a
line.
Clic Literature & And the winners are...
[Open Source CMS
Renaissance][Postnuke Hosting][Gallery
Hosting][Blog Hosting]
DR. ELLIOT'S NORTH AMERICAN GREAT BOOKS TOUR--COMING TO A BOOK
STORE NEAR YOU
[GREAT
BOOKS: DISCUSS THE
TRAGEDY OF DRAKERAFT.COM][Great Books Lovers Match]
[Physics Forums][Poetry][Shakespeare's Plays][Great Books][Open Source Business]
[Great Books Games][Federalist Papers][Poetry Contest][Classic eCards][Great Books
Forums]
The new Classic Literature Forum is at
killdevilhill.com/philosophyforums.
The
World's Largest Literary Cafe: Carolinanavy.com
[Carolinanavy.com][Nantuckets.com][BusinessPhilosophy.com][Classicals.com][Quarterdeck]
[
Jolly Roger Live
Chat][The Jolly
Roger][KillDevilHill.com][Western Canon University]
[Federalistnavy.com Spirit of
America][Starbuck.com Clical Poetry Port]
[ussconstitutions.com]
[Free jollyrogermail]
[Shakespearean
Greetings]
[nantucketnavy.com][hatteraslight.com][Clicgreetings.com]
[SEARCH]
[Follow Ups][Post Followup][Clic Literature Forum Frigate]
[]
[The
World's Largest Literary Cafe: Carolinanavy.com]
Posted by A. F. Spackman on October 31, 19100 at 11:36:03:
For drama, the winners are:
Shakespeare, Moliere, Marlowe, Johnson, Wilde, G.B. Shaw, Chekhov
For novels:
Tolstoy, Austen, Bronte (all three), Scott, Hardy
For poetry: all of the Romantics, with the addition of Yeats and Donne
For history:
Julius Caesar, Plutarch, Livy, Suetorius
Individual works of note:
Hamlet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, The Duchess of Malfi, Dr. Faustus, An Ideal Husband
Anna Karenina, Tess of the d'Ubervilles, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jane Eyre, the Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Ivanhoe, all of Jane Austen's books except Northanger Abbey...
Caesar's Gallic Wars, the lives of the famous Greeks and Romans by Plutarch, Livy's histories and annals, Suetorius' biographies (memoirs of famous Romans)..
As for Greek drama, Euripedes. Also the Lysistrata, Oedipus Rex, and whatever the play is with Hippolytos... is it Phaedra?
Well, I can't remember any more off the top of my head. But those are my picks for the best.
Follow Ups:
Post a Followup