Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name". Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims-these are lucky eventualities but they aren't love stories. A love story can never be about full possession.
But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireĪ Philosophical Enquiry into.When it comes to love," writes Jeffrey Eugenides in this wonderful, if upsetting, collection of stories, "there are a million theories to explain it. Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Lycidas, Comus, and the Minor Poems Samson Agonistes AreopagiticaĪ Tale of a Tub Gulliver's Travels Shorter Prose Works Poems Religio Medici Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall The Garden of Cyrus The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Astrophel and Stella An Apology for Poetry The Canterbury Tales Troilus and Criseyde Life is a Dream The Mayor of Zalamea The Mighty Magician The Doctor of His Own Honor La Dorotea Fuente Ovejuna Lost in a Mirror The Knight of Olmedo Mention individual works by a canonical master, and in other instances IĪttempt to call attention to authors and books that I consider canonicalīut rather neglected. In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes do not Through Goethe's Faust, Part Two, an era that gives usĪ huge body of reading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English,įrench, and German. "It is a span of five hundred years from Dante's Divine Comedy The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night.The Golden Ass The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante Tragedies, particularly Medea and Hercules Furens The Girl from Andros The Eunuch The Mother-in-Law Pseudolus The Braggart Soldier The Rope Amphitryon The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles).The Birds The Clouds The Frogs Lysistrata The Knights The Wasps The Assemblywomen Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Electra Ajax Women of Trachis PhiloctetesĬyclops Heracles Alcestis Hecuba Bacchae Orestes Andromache Medea Ion Hippolytus Helen Iphigenia at Aulis Oresteia Seven Against Thebes Prometheus Bound Persians Suppliant Women Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the Wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. "I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is I would think that, of all the books thatĪre in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves "Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious,
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