Henry James can often be difficult, but more in terms of complex sentences than with vocabulary. It is still enriching to read his works.
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Henry James can often be difficult, but more in terms of complex sentences than with vocabulary. It is still enriching to read his works.
I could never finish any Stephen King novels. Otherwise, I'm pretty good about finishing books.
1. The Bible
2. The Turning of the Screw by Henry James
3. Emma by Jane Austen
4. Hamlet by Shakespeare
5. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
All of these books have helped shaped many of my outlooks...
You have to give him credit for coming up with the idea of the Pattern and the land of Chaos, though.
The Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny are fantasy novels far superior to any harry potter or twilight books, and yet it's very rare for me to come across someone who has even heard of...
The beggar sounds like a modern day Socrates to me
I recommend Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens. It's an intellectual look at Christianity
A midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare I think is superb for lifting one's spirits
Perhaps Meditations by Marcus Aurelius would be ideal?
I appreciate everyone's response, certainly leaves me with more than enough to chew on. I will show some appreciation towards MorpheusSandman's 6th point on how the themes in Shakespeare's plays...
Why is Shakespeare so popular?
As the title says, why is Shakespeare so popular? What is so appealing about Elizabethan plays 400 years old that we continue to study them? Is it the language, the themes, the iambic pentameter,...