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"The court also provided the forum for forging alliances to further interests in the localities: the court was the obvious meeting point for the 'feminine gang of three'—Alice Chaucer, Elizabeth Talbot, and Elizabeth Woodville— to whom Colin Richmond has attributed a successful campaign to wrest two manors of the Fastolf inheritance from the Pastons and into the hands of Alice Chaucer's son, the king's brother-in-law, John de la Pole. Again this was a queenly role that usually left no evidence but its political importance must not be overlooked."
J.L. Laynesmith, "The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503"
#historicwomendaily#english history#elizabeth woodville#alice chaucer#elizabeth talbot#elizabeth talbot aka eleanor talbot's sister. who would have obviously known if her sister was secretly married to the King#WHY would she be willingly allied with Elizabeth Woodville if that was actually true? she would've know that EW'e marriage was bigamous#and that her queenship was false#15th century#queenship tag#my post#queue
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“24 August 1482
From the fairytale turrets of Saumur Castle, atop which golden fleur-de-lys glistened in the summer light, to the bulbous towers of Angers, where the château loomed on a cliff edge above the River Loire, the funeral cortege of Margaret of Anjou carried the queen on her last journey.
For six years she had been exiled back to the lands in which she grew up, a half-welcome guest of her father and King Louis, with little more than hunting dogs, books and a casket of relics to remind her of past glories. She was going now to rejoin her ancestors. Her last request to King Louis was that he would allow her to be buried with her parents: in their sepulchre at Angers Cathedral.
Since her capture at Tewksbury in 1471 Margaret's life had become one of solitary retirement. She had not stayed long in the Tower of London, although she must have been there when Henry was killed.
For a time she was kept at Windsor Castle, and by January 1472 she had moved to Wallingford in Oxfordshire, where her keeper was her old friend, Alice Chaucer, dowager duchess of Suffolk.
The women had once been close, Alice perhaps even having something of a maternal place in Margaret's heart. Since Suffolk's murder their lives had taken very different courses, and their enforced time together during Margaret's imprisonment cannot have been entirely happy.
Where Margaret had resisted the Yorkist regime with all her strength, Alice had come to terms with it even before Henry VI was first deposed. In 1458 Alice had overseen the marriage of her only child, John, to York's daughter Elizabeth. At the time this must have seemed a dangerous move, but her gamble had paid off. Her son still lived, a prominent member of the court of King Edward IV, and a king's brother-in-law.
Margaret, by contrast, had lost her family to the wars. Under house arrest, she was reliant on Edward to provide her with enough money to cover the expenses of herself and her servants.
One of those servants was Lady Katherine Vaux. Katherine had lost her husband, Margaret's old servant Sir William, at Tewksbury and the pair were bound so tightly together, whether through shared grief or the loyalty of many years' service, that Katherine stayed with Margaret until the end.
The pair of them probably appear in an image in the Guild Book of the London Skinners' Fraternity in 1475. Margaret wears an ermine-lined dark gown, her head covered like a nun, kneeling forward to read a religious text from her prayer book while a discarded crown and sceptre lie beside her. Behind Margaret is a more fashionably dressed woman, evidently in attendance on the queen, with her prayer book in her hands, her eyes more on her mistress than her prayers.
Both Katherine and Margaret were members of this fraternity in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary who Margaret, like Henry, always particularly revered. As this image in the Skinners' record suggests, Margaret's imprisonment under Edward IV was not especially stringent.
Other members of the Skinners' Guild Fraternity included Queen Elizabeth Woodville and her ladies, so the fraternity would not have risked their ire by welcoming Margaret without their consent.
Margaret was provided with clothing, mostly black, at royal expense and had enough freedom not only to join this guild but also to enjoy the services of the dean of Edward's chapel in 1474. Having moved from Wallingford to London for most of the intervening years, in 1475 an international treaty between Edward and Louis XI was finalized that ransomed Margaret to Louis for £50,000.
In return for being able to return to her father's territories with a small pension from Louis, Margaret was forced to renounce all of her claims not only in England but also in France. The woman who had clung so tenaciously to her family's right to the English crown was now willing to give up virtually everything she owned to go home. After all, there was no one to inherit her titles or lands after her death. Thus, in November 1475, she was transferred into the keeping of Sir Thomas Montgomery to be escorted to France.
For several years Margaret lived in her father's castle at Reculée, near Angers, but when René died in 1480 she had to rely on one of his servants to provide her literary interests. Some years earlier she had commissioned the Burgundian memoirist Georges Chastellain to write Le Temple de Bocace, a consolation piece dwelling on the changing fortunes of the world and the unjust criticism that had been levelled at her.
Presumably she also occasionally rode or hunted through the verdant rolling fields and woodland surrounding her, enjoying at least one pastime from her old life. Margaret may have ridden from her modest home at Dampierre to the more imposing Château Montsoreau on the banks of the River Loire, over time she developed enough of a relationship with he castle's owner, Madame de Montsoreau, to gift her all of her hunting dogs shortly before her death - a high-status offering for a lady who had perhaps been a friend in the queen's last years.
In the summer heat of 1482 Margaret fell ill and, with the faithful Katherine Vaux at her side, she made her last will and testament on 2 August. Louis XI, who had once mocked her proud writing style, would have found little to displease him in the humble petitions that filled this short document.
'Sound of mind, reason and thought, however weak and feeble of body', Margaret asked to be buried in the cathedral church of St Maurice in Angers beside her parents, 'in whatever manner it pleases the king to ordain, or in another place if he prefers'.
She wrote that she did not have enough money to cover the cost of the funeral and suggested that Louis sold her remaining possessions to pay for her burial - as indeed he did.
And perhaps thinking of Lady Katherine, she 'recommend(ed] very humbly and affectionately' her 'poor servants... to the good grace and charity of the said King'. She had evidently lived on the charity of others for some time, and implored Louis, as her sole heir, to cover any remaining debts she had incurred.
Louis did as Margaret asked and had her honourably buried with her parents, but he insisted on reclaiming the hunting dogs that she had gifted to Madame de Montsoreau. 'You know (Margaret] has made me her heir, the king reminded Montsoreau in a letter written days before the queen actually died, 'and that this is all I shall get; also it is what I love best. I pray you not to keep any back, [or] you would cause me a terribly great displeasure’.
Even in death, Henry and Margaret were the pawns of others.”
JOHNSON, Lauren. “Life and Death of Henry VI”.
Fan cast: Sophie Turner as young Marguerite and Lena Headey as Queen Marguerite.
#margaret of anjou#Marguerite d’Anjou#reine marguerite d'angleterre#queen Marguerite#queen margaret of Anjou#queen margaret#house of lancaster#Plantagenet dynasty#wars of the roses#cousin’s wars#Katherine vaux#Alice chaucer#Edward iv#Elizabeth of York#duchess of Suffolk#Henry VI#king Henry VI#Louis XI of France#Louis XI
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The secret Suffolk himself threatened to expose to the public (and intimated by his speeches in parliament) was that he had not acted alone — much of the nobility had lent their support to the truce negotiations with France, and Suffolk was not solely to blame for the fiasco in Normandy. So the duke was saved by the king, and sent into exile for five years. (Perhaps the greater secret was Henry VI’s incapacity to rule, clearly apparent to those at the centre.) The night before he set out for the continent, Suffolk, who was married to Alice Chaucer, granddaughter of the poet, wrote to their seven-year-old son in loving terms — this letter too is preserved in the Paston letters. He instructed his son John "to be trewe liege man in hert, in wille, in thought, in dede, unto the Kyng…to whom bothe ye and I been so moche bounde to…" and "to love, to worshepe youre lady and moder, and also that ye obey alwey hyr commaundements, and to beleve hyr councelles and advises in alle youre werks". Private correspondence, particularly to someone of Suffolk’s station, was one of courtesy and intimacy, as too was the world of poetry in which he was also immersed through his friendship with Charles d’Orleans. Thus how alien this world of public writing with its slanderous attacks must have seemed to him, one which seemed deliberately to parody the ballades and roundels of the aristocratic world. But isn’t this is what tabloids do? They parody both elite and middlebrow forms of communication.
Clementine Oliver, "Murdered in the Tabloids: Billposting and the Destruction of the Duke of Suffolk in 1450". Anales de la Universidad de Alicante. Historia Medieval, N. 19 (2015-2016)
#william de la pole duke of suffolk#henry vi#charles duke of orleans#alice chaucer duchess of suffolk#the court of henry vi#the death of suffolk#historian: clementine oliver
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Detail of Alice Chaucher’s tomb, St Mary's Church, Ewelme, 1470s
Duchess of Suffolk and granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer, Alice is buried in an elaborated cadaver monument, a two-tiered tomb that was fashionable in the Late Middle Ages. While the top tier shows a dignified effigy of Alice in life, wearing the Order of the Garter, in the one at the bottom she is shown as a decaying corpse staring at a painting of the Annunciation.
Photo by Fiona Charters [x]
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Margaret of Anjou, queen of England as the wife of Henry VI, depicted in widow's garb alongside a lady-in-waiting (possibly Alice Chaucer), from the Guildbook of the London Skinners’ Fraternity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, 1475
#I have dived headfirst into my hobby of finding contemporary images of medieval figures in digitized manuscripts#in HIGH DEFINITION BAYBEE#so there's gonna be a lot of that#manuscript#plantagenets#did you know there are like 112 editions of Froissart's Chronicles bc I am simultaneously delighted and furious#one of them has Joan of the Tower but WHICH
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Marlene sat on the stairs at James' house, surrounded by strangers chatting and drinking. One couple next to her were snogging, and kept almost falling into her. But Marlene remained, watching Dorcas from across the room.
It felt strange, seeing Dorcas Meadowes in the Potter's house. But Dorcas had strolled in, chatted to various people and was now standing with a beer in hand, laughing at something Sinistra had said.
Marlene's grip on her drink tightened, ans she felt an anger blossom.
A giggle suddenly came from next to her, and she turned to see a very drunk Peter beside her.
"You look sad", Peter pouted, the buttons on his shirt half undone.
"I'm not sad."
He laughed, "Well you look it", then held out a hand for her.
She took it, and suddenly he was running upstairs to one of the bathrooms. He winked before opening the door, revealing Lily and Remus sitting in the bathtub. Alice, Kingsley, and Xenophilius were sat on the floor. Books and ink surrounded them all.
"Welcome to our humble abode", Peter grinned, grabbing a blunt from Xenophilius and lighting it.
"Is this some sort of book and smoke club?"
Kingsley glanced up, "We're writing a short memoir."
Marlene glanced around the room, accepting the cigarette from Peter, "Why?"
Remus shrugged, his eyes still on the book in his hands, "Because Sirius wanted to do shots and we needed an excuse to escape that disaster."
"No, Remus", Lily kicked him, "Because we have meaningful things to say; our thoughts, our words, our lives are passing through time like insignificant specks, but literature is a short immortality. We may forget tonight, but what we write will live on."
She paused for a moment, and slowly frowned, "Okay. I'm too sober for this, I need a drink."
Lily hopped out of the bathtub, and headed downstairs.
Marlene sat down on the floor, "Meadowes is here."
Peter has climbed up to the window sill behind the sink and as he opened it, turned to her, "James invited them, said he likes their fervent attitude towards quidditch."
"You have a crush on Meadowes?" Alice asked, ripping a page out of Chaucer, which Remus was now trying to wrestle from her.
"Merlin, no", Marlene groaned, leaning her head against the cool, tiled wall, "I hate them."
Alice nodded, as if she understood, and leaned towards Kingsley in a whisper, "Just like my Narcissa."
Kingsley laughed, lighting another blunt.
Peter leaned out the window, glancing at the back garden, below, "Hey Marlene, Meadowes is out here."
Marlene shot to her feet, climbing over the sink to reach the window sill. She looked out into the dark garden, spotting Dorcas with Pandora.
"What are they doing?" Marlene narrowed her eyes, watching as the two sat together by one of the bushes.
"You seem like a stalker, Marlene", Kingsley commented.
"I am not. I'm just curious. Meadowes is literally standing right by the fence to my house, maybe they know I live there somehow."
Alice snorted, "You think they're breaking into your house? Pretty, wild accusation."
"Well, I don't know! That's why I'm trying to see!"
Lily opened the door, slamming it shut behind her, and pointed a finger at Remus, "I hate your boyfriend... Okay, I'm ready to write now."
She joined the three on the floor, Remus peering over the tub to watch them.
"Update", Marlene called out, "James is now with them. With a glass of water. I have no clue what's going on."
Peter squinted, sticking his head out the window, "I think Lovegood threw up."
"Oh."
"She did?" Xenophilius stood up, clammering up to the window, "Dora!" He yelled, "Are you okay?"
All three turned to the bathroom window.
Pandora held her thumbs up, and waved.
James yelled back, "What are you doing up there?"
"We're writing!"
He frowned, "At a party?"
Dorcas was staring at Marlene, a small smirk on their face.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Marlene shouted to them.
Dorcas' smirk grew, "Were you watching me?"
"No!" Marlene answered, quickly, her cheeks growing red.
Peter turned to her, "Well, you were."
#just watched kill your darlings for the millionth time because allen ginsberg is one of my favourite poets ever <3#anyway. felt like writing a party. and james would have A LOT of parties at his in the summer holidays#marauders era#marauders#marlene mckinnon#dorcas meadowes#dorlene#peter pettigrew#james potter#lily evans#remus lupin#alice fortescue#kingsley shacklebolt#xenophilius lovegood
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Os 100 livros para ler antes de morrer
Os livros lidos estão riscados!
A arte da guerra (Sun Tzu)
Hamlet (william Shakespeare)
O banquete (Platão)
A divina comédia - Inferno (são 3 livros) (Dante Alighieri)
O processo de Kafka (Kafka)
O morro dos ventos uivantes (Emilly Bronte)
O pequeno príncipe (Antoine de Saint – Exupéry)
Orgulho e preconceito (Jane Austen)
O princípe (Nicolau Maquiavel)
A Odisseia (Homero)
O vermelho e o negro (Stendhal)
O velho e o mar (Ernest Hemingwai)
Homem invisível (Ralph Ellison)
Dom Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
1984 (George Orwell)
Crime e castigo (Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky)
A Ilíada (Homero)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
A montanha mágica (Thomas Mann)
Cem anos de solidão (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Otelo (William Shakespeare)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Guerra e Paz (Leo Tolstoy)
As viagens de Gulliver (Jonathan Swift)
O nome da rosa (Umberto Eco)
Alice no País das maravilhas (Lewis Carroll)
Vinte mil léguas submarinas (Julio Verne)
Leviatã (Thomas Hobbes)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Armas, germes e aço: os destinos das sociedades humanas (Jared Diamond)
O diário de Anne Frank (Anne Frank)
O conto da aia (Margaret Atwood)
O iluminado (Stephen King)
O sol é para todos (Harper Lee)
A revolução dos bichos (George Orwell)
A flecha de Deus (Chinua Achebe)
Utopia (Thomas More)
Gargantua (François Rabelais)
Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (José Saramago)
Édipo Rei (Sófocles)
Os miseráveis (Victor Hugo)
Os Lusíadas (Luis de Camões)
Os três mosquiteiros (Alexandre Dumas)
Decamerão (Giovanni Boccaccio)
As mil e uma noites (Sem autor)
Amor no tempo do cólera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
A epopeia de Gilgamesh (Sem autor)
O livro do Desassossego (Fernando Pessoa)
Livro de jó (Bíblia Sagrada)
O retrato de Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Ismael: um romance da condição humana (Daniel Quinn)
Medeia (Euripides)
Robinson Crusoé (Daniel Defoe)
Contos de Andersen (Hans Christian Andersen)
Conde de Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
O mundo de Sofia (Jostein Gaarder)
A condição humana (Hannah Arendt)
Laranja mecânica (Anthony Burgess)
O elogio da loucura (Erasmo de Roterdã)
A sangue frio (Truman Capote)
Ardill 22 (Joseph Heller)
Adeus às armas (Ernest Hemingway)
Admirável mundo novo (Aldous Huxley)
Todos os Contos (Edgar Allan Poe)
A morte de Ivan Ilyuich (Leo Tolstoy)
Mahabharata (sem autor)
Contos de Canterbury (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Os irmãos Karamazov (Fyodor M Dostoyevsky)
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
A consciência de Zeno (Italo Svero)
Amada (Toni Morrison)
Os filhos da meia-noite (Salman Rushdie)
O tambor (Gunter Grass)
O idiota (Fyodor M Dostoyevsky)
As metamorfoses (Ovídio)
O som da montanha (Yasunari Kawabata)
Ensaios (Michel de Montaigne)
Senhor das moscas (William Golding)
As vinhas da Ira (John Steinbeck)
O grande Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
O jogo da amarelinha (Julio Cortázar)
O estrangeiro (Albert Camus)
Memórias de Adriano (Marguerite Yourcenar)
O lobo da Estepe (Herman Hesse)
O apanhador no campo de Centeio (J. D. Salinger)
Rumo o farol (Virginia Woolf)
O castelo (Franz Kafka)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
O som e a fúria (William Faulkner)
O homem sem qualidades (Robert Musil)
As aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Almas mortas (Nikolai Gogol)
Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo)
Folhas de relva (Walt Whitman)
Viagem ao fim da noite (Louis Ferdinand Celine)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Eneida (Virgílio)
Em busca do tempo perdido (7 livros) (Marcel Proust)
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How many have you read out of the hundred?
Me: 64/100
Reblog & share your results
1. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
2. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
4. "1984" by George Orwell
5. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
6. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
7. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
8. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
9. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
10. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
12. "The Odyssey" by Homer
13. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
14. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
15. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
16. "The Iliad" by Homer
17. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
18. "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo
19. "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes
20. "Middlemarch" by George Eliot
21. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
22. "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
23. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
24. "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen
25. "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo
26. "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells
27. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
28. "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer
29. "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James
30. "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling
31. "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
32. "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
33. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
34. "The Trial" by Franz Kafka
35. "Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen
36. "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas
37. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
38. "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift
39. "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
40. "Emma" by Jane Austen
41. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe
42. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy
43. "The Republic" by Plato
44. "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
45. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle
46. "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
47. "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
48. "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
49. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
50. "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens
51. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
52. "The Plague" by Albert Camus
53. "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
54. "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
55. "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal
56. "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
57. "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand
58. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
59. "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
60. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
61. "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle
62. "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins
63. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
64. "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
65. "Ulysses" by James Joyce
66. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
67. "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray
68. "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett
69. "Walden Two" by B.F. Skinner
70. "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
71. "White Fang" by Jack London
72. "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys
73. "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A.A. Milne
74. "Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor
75. "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" by Margaret Fuller
76. "Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence
77. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig
78. "The Aeneid" by Virgil
79. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
80. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
81. "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
82. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin
83. "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
84. "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler
85. "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
86. "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk
87. "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov
88. "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
89. "The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
90. "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
91. "The Clue in the Crumbling Wall" by Carolyn Keene
92. "The Code of the Woosters" by P.G. Wodehouse
93. "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
94. "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
95. "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller
96. "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon
97. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown
98. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy
99. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon
100. "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells
#book#booklr#books#classical literature#classic academia#penguin clothbound classics#classical books#english literature#listing#that's bloody#william shakespeare#shakespeare#anne frank#the odyssey#the divine comedy#french#literature
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I libri nominati da Rory Gilmore
1 – 1984, George Orwell
2 – Le Avventure di Huckelberry Finn, Mark Twain
3 – Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, Lewis Carrol
4 – Le Fantastiche Avventure di Kavalier e Clay, Michael Chabon
5 – Una Tragedia Americana, Theodore Dreiser
6 – Le Ceneri di Angela, Frank McCourt
7 – Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoj
8 – Il Diario di Anna Frank
9 – La Guerra Archidamica, Donald Kagan
10 – L’Arte del Romanzo, Henry James
11 – L’Arte della Guerra, Sun Tzu
12 – Mentre Morivo, William Faulkner
13 – Espiazione, Ian McEvan
14 – Autobiografia di un Volto, Lucy Grealy
15 – Il Risveglio, Kate Chopin
16 – Babe, Dick King-Smith
17 – Contrattacco. La Guerra non Dichiarata Contro le Donne, Susan Faludi
18 – Balzac e la Piccola Sarta Cinese, Dai Sijie
19 – Bel Canto, Anne Pachett
20 – La Campana di Vetro, Sylvia Plath
21 – Amatissima, Toni Morrison
22 – Beowulf: una Nuova Traduzione, Seamus Heaney
23 – La Bhagavad Gita
24 – Il Piccolo Villaggio dei Sopravvissuti, Peter Duffy
25 – Bitch Rules. Consigli di Comune Buonsenso per donne Fuori dal Comune, Elizabeth Wurtzel
26 – Un Fulmine a Ciel Sereno ed altri Saggi, Mary McCarthy
27 – Il Mondo Nuovo, Adolf Huxley
28 – Brick Lane, Monica Ali
29 – Brigadoon, Alan Jay Lerner
30 – Candido, Voltaire
31 – I Racconti di Canterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer
32 – Carrie, Stephen King
33 – Catch-22, Joseph Heller
34 – Il Giovane Holden, J.D.Salinger
35 – La Tela di Carlotta, E.B.White
36 – Quelle Due, Lillian Hellman
37 – Christine, Stephen King
38 – Il Canto di Natale, Charles Dickens
39 – Arancia Meccanica, Anthony Burgess
40 – Il Codice dei Wooster, P.G.Wodehouse
41 – The Collected Stories, Eudora Welty
42 – La Commedia degli Errori, William Shakespeare
43 – Novelle, Dawn Powell
44 – Tutte le Poesie, Anne Sexton
45 – Racconti, Dorothy Parker
46 – Una Banda di Idioti, John Kennedy Toole
47 – Il03 al 09/03 Conte di Montecristo, Alexandre Dumas
48 – La Cugina Bette, Honore de Balzac
49 – Delitto e Castigo, Fedor Dostoevskij
50 – Il Petalo Cremisi e il Bianco, Michel Faber
51 – Il Crogiuolo, Arthur Miller
52 – Cujo, Stephen King
53 – Il Curioso Caso del Cane Ucciso a Mezzanotte, Mark Haddon
54 – La Figlia della Fortuna, Isabel Allende
55 – David e Lisa, Dr.Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
56 – David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
57 – Il Codice Da Vinci, Dan Brown
58 – Le Anime Morte, Nikolaj Gogol
59 – I Demoni, Fedor Dostoevskij
60 – Morte di un Commesso Viaggiatore, Arthur Miller
61 – Deenie, Judy Blume
62 – La Città Bianca e il Diavolo, Erik Larson
63 – The Dirt. Confessioni della Band più Oltraggiosa del Rock, Tommy Lee – Vince Neil – Mick Mars – Nikki Sixx
64 – La Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri
65 – I Sublimi Segreti delle Ya-Ya Sisters, Rebecca Wells
66 – Don Chischiotte, Miguel de Cervantes
67 – A Spasso con Daisy, Alfred Uhvr
68 – Dr. Jeckill e Mr.Hide, Robert Louis Stevenson
69 – Tutti i Racconti e le Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe
70 – Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook
71 – Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
72 – Lettere, Mark Dunn
73 – Eloise, Kay Thompson
74 – Emily The Strange, Roger Reger
75 – Emma, Jane Austen
76 – Il Declino dell’Impero Whiting, Richard Russo
77 – Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective, Donald J.Sobol
78 – Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
79 – Etica, Spinoza
80 – Europe Through the back door, 2003, Rick Steves
81 – Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
82 – Ogni cosa è Illuminata, Jonathan Safran Foer
83 – Stravaganza, Gary Krist
84 – Farhenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
85 – Farhenheit 9/11, Michael Moore
86 – La Caduta dell’Impero di Atene, Donald Kagan
87 – Fat Land, il Paese dei Ciccioni, Greg Critser
88 – Paura e Delirio a Las Vegas, Hunter S.Thompson
89 – La Compagnia dell’Anello, J.R.R.Tolkien
90 – Il Violinista sul Tetto, Joseph Stein
91 – Le Cinque Persone che Incontri in Cielo, Mitch Albom
92 – Finnegan’s Wake, James Joyce
93 – Fletch, Gregory McDonald
94 – Fiori per Algernon, Daniel Keyes
95 – La Fortezza della Solitudine, Jonathan Lethem
96 – La Fonte Meravigliosa, Ayn Rand
97 – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
98 – Franny e Zooeey, J.D.Salinger
99 – Quel Pazzo Venerdì, Mary Rodgers
100 – Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut
101 – Questioni di Genere, Judith Butler
102 – George W.Bushism: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President, Jacob Weisberg
103 – Gidget, Fredrick Kohner
104 – Ragazze Interrotte, Susanna Kaysen
105 – The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
106 – Il Padrino, Parte I, Mario Puzo
107 – Il Dio delle Piccole Cose, Arundhati Roy
108 – La Storia dei Tre Orsi, Alvin Granowsky
109 – Via Col Vento, Margaret Mitchell
110 – Il Buon Soldato, Ford Maddox Ford
111 – Il Gospel secondo Judy Bloom
112 – Il Laureato, Charles Webb
113 – Furore, John Steinbeck
114 – Il Grande Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald
115 – Grandi Speranze, Charles Dickens
116 – Il Gruppo, Mary McCarthy
117 – Amleto, William Shakespeare
118 – Harry Potter e il Calice di Fuoco, J.K.Rowling
119 – Harry Potter e la Pietra Filosofale, J.K.Rowling
120 – L’Opera Struggente di un Formidabile Genio, Dave Eggers
121 – Cuore di Tenebra, Joseph Conrad
122 – Helter Skelter: La vera storia del Caso Charles Manson, Vincent Bugliosi e Curt Gentry
123 – Enrico IV, Parte Prima, William Shakespeare
124 – Enrico IV, Parte Seconda, William Shakespeare
125 – Enrico V, William Shakespeare
126 – Alta Fedeltà, Nick Hornby
127 – La Storia del Declino e della Caduta dell’Impero Romano, Edward Gibbon
128 – Holidays on Ice: Storie, David Sedaris
129 – The Holy Barbarians, Lawrence Lipton
130 – La Casa di Sabbia e Nebbia, Andre Dubus III
131 – La Casa degli Spiriti, Isabel Allende
132 – Come Respirare Sott’acqua, Julie Orringer
133 – Come il Grinch Rubò il Natale, Dr.Seuss
134 – How the Light Gets In, M.J.Hyland
135 – Urlo, Allen Ginsberg
136 – Il Gobbo di Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
137 – Iliade, Omero
138 – Sono con la Band, Pamela des Barres
139 – A Sangue Freddo, Truman Capote
140 – Inferno, Dante
141 – …e l’Uomo Creò Satana, Jerome Lawrence e Robert E.Lee
142 – Ironweed, William J.Kennedy
143 – It takes a Village, Hilary Clinton
144 – Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
145 – Il Circolo della Fortuna e della Felicità, Amy tan
146 – Giulio Cesare, William Shakespeare
147 – Il Celebre Ranocchio Saltatore della Contea di Calaveras, Mark Twain
148 – La Giungla, Upton Sinclair
149 – Just a Couple of Days, Tony Vigorito
150 – The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander
151 – Kitchen Confidential: Avventure Gastronomiche a New York, Anthony Bourdain
152 – Il Cacciatore di Aquiloni, Khaled Hosseini
153 – L’amante di Lady Chatterley, D.H.Lawrence
154 – L’Ultimo Impero: Saggi 1992-2000, Gore Vidal
155 – Foglie d’Erba, Walt Whitman
156 – La Leggenda di Bagger Vance, Steven Pressfield
157 – Meno di Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
158 – Lettere a un Giovane Poeta, Rainer Maria Rilke
159 – Balle! E tutti i Ballisti che Ce Le Stanno Raccontando, Al Franken
160 – Vita di Pi, Yann Martell
161 – La piccola Dorrit, Charles Dickens
162 – The little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway
163 – La piccola fiammiferaia, Hans Christian Andersen
164 – Piccole Donne, Louisa May Alcott
165 – Living History, Hilary Clinton
166 – Il signore delle Mosche, William Golding
167 – La Lotteria, ed altre storie, Shirley Jackson
168 – Amabili Resti, Alice Sebold
169 – Love Story, Eric Segal
170 – Macbeth, William Shakespeare
171 – Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
172 – The Manticore, Robertson Davies
173 – Marathon Man, William Goldman
174 – Il Maestro e Margherita, Michail Bulgakov
175 – Memorie di una figlia per bene, Simone de Beauvoir
176 – Memorie del Generale W.T. Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman
177 – L’uomo più divertente del mondo, David Sedaris
178 – The meaning of Consuelo, Judith Ortiz Cofer
179 – Mencken’s Chrestomathy, H.R. Mencken
180 – Le Allegre Comari di Windsor, William Shakespeare
181 – La Metamorfosi, Franz Kafka
182 – Middlesex, Jeoffrey Eugenides
183 – Anna dei Miracoli, William Gibson
184 – Moby Dick, Hermann Melville
185 – The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion, Jim Irvin
186 – Moliere: la biografia, Hobart Chatfield Taylor
187 – A monetary history of the United States, Milton Friedman
188 – Monsieur Proust, Celeste Albaret
189 – A Month of Sundays: searching for the spirit and my sister, Julie Mars
190 – Festa Mobile, Ernest Hemingway
191 – Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
192 – Gli ammutinati del Bounty, Charles Nordhoff e James Norman Hall
193 – My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath, Seymour M.Hersh
194 – My Life as Author and Editor, H.R.Mencken
195 – My life in orange: growing up with the guru, Tim Guest
196 – Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978, Myra Waldo
197 – La custode di mia sorella, Jodi Picoult
198 – Il Nudo e il Morto, Norman Mailer
199 – Il Nome della Rosa, Umberto Eco
200 – The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
201 – Il Diario di una Tata, Emma McLaughlin
202 – Nervous System: Or, Losing my Mind in Literature, Jan Lars Jensen
203 – Nuove Poesie, Emily Dickinson
204 – The New Way Things Work, David Macaulay
205 – Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
206 – Notte, Elie Wiesel
207 – Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
208 – The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, William E.Cain, Laurie A.Finke, Barbara E.Johnson, John P.McGowan
209 – Racconti 1930-1942, Dawn Powell
210 – Taccuino di un Vecchio Porco, Charles Bukowski
211 – Uomini e Topi, John Steinbeck
212 – Old School, Tobias Wolff
213 – Sulla Strada, Jack Kerouac
214 – Qualcuno Volò sul Nido del Cuculo, Ken Kesey
215 – Cent’Anni di Solitudine, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
216 – The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Amy Tan
217 – La Notte dell’Oracolo, Paul Auster
218 – L’Ultimo degli Uomini, Margaret Atwood
219 – Otello, William Shakespeare
220 – Il Nostro Comune Amico, Charles Dickens
221 – The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan
222 – La Mia Africa, Karen Blixen
223 – The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
224 – Passaggio in India, E.M.Forster
225 – The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, Donald Kagan
226 – Noi Siamo Infinito, Stephen Chbosky
227 – Peyton Place, Grace Metalious
228 – Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
229 – Pigs at the Trough, Arianna Huffington
230 – Le Avventure di Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi
231 – Please Kill Me: Il Punk nelle Parole dei Suoi Protagonisti, Legs McNeil e Gillian McCain
232 – Una Vita da Lettore, Nick Hornby
233 – The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
234 – The Portable Nietzche, Fredrich Nietzche
235 – The Price of Loyalty: George W.Bush, the White House, and the Education on Paul O’Neil, Ron Suskind
236 – Orgoglio e Pregiudizio, Jane Austen
237 – Property, Valerie Martin
238 – Pushkin, La Biografia, T.J.Binyon
239 – Pigmallione, G.B.Shaw
240 – Quattrocento, James Mckean
241 – A Quiet Storm, Rachel Howzell Hall
242 – Rapunzel, I Fratelli Grimm
243 – Il Corvo ed Altre Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe
244 – Il Filo del Rasoio, W.Somerset Maugham
245 – Leggere Lolita a Teheran, Azar Nafisi
246 – Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
247 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin
248 – The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
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Literary Canon (from kissgrammar)
The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version [At a minimum, the books of Genesis, Exodus, Job, Psalms, from the Old Testament; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Apocalypse from the New.] Whether or not you are Christian is irrelevant. The civilization in which we live is based on and permeated by the ideas and values expressed in this book. Understanding our civilization, the world in which we live, is probably impossible without having read -- and thought about -- at least the most famous books in the Bible. Historically, the King James Version is considered the most artistic, and thus has probably had the most literary influence.
Homer, The Iliad
Homer, The Odyssey
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex)
Sophocles, Antigone
Plato, The Republic, especially "The Myth of the Cave"
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Saint Augustine, The Confessions
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Giambattista Vico, Principles of a New Science
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Romeo and Juliet
King Lear
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
John Donne, "Holy Sonnet XIV"
John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Michel de Montaigne, Essays, especially "Of Experience"
Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Moliere, The Misanthrope
Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Voltaire, Candide
Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Parts One & Two
Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot (also translated as Pere Goriot)
Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Emile Zola, Germinal
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Lord Byron, Don Juan
John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
A Tale Of Two Cities
Hard Times
A Christmas Carol
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven"
Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
George Eliot- Silas Marner
Middlemarch
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
The Will To Power
The Birth of Tragedy
On the Genealogy of Morals
Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
The Bronze Horseman
Nikolai Gogol -The Overcoat
Dead Souls
Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Fyodor Dostoevsky -Notes From the Underground
Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy -The Death of Ivan Ilych
War and Peace
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
Emily Dickinson - "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
"The Tint I Cannot Take"
"There's a Certain Slant of Light"
Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
"The Sleepers"
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
"As I Ebbed With The Ocean of Life"
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd"
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown
The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven"
The Cask of Amontillado
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Kate Chopin -The Story of An Hour
The Awakening
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Henry James
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Luigi Pirandello
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Within this broader condemnation of [Alice Perrers'] behaviour, a number of specific themes can be identified. These include sexual immorality, political influence, and [...] numerous and repeated references to greed and avarice. This is particularly striking in two literary representations which may have been inspired by Alice: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and, most compelling, William Langland’s Lady Meed in his allegorical poem Piers Plowman, a character whose name has become a byword for venality. Meed, like Alice, established her presence at the royal court and acted as a counsellor to the king, but was eventually banished on accusations of being a whore and undermining the workings of law and justice. In particular, in introducing Meed to his audience, Langland describes her hands as covered with rings of the “purest perreize,” a word meaning precious stones or jewels, which would seem to be a play on Alice’s surname, Perrers, and thus directly identifying her with Meed. Chaucer also notably named the wife in the Wife of Bath Alisoun, raising the possibility that she was in part based on his direct contemporary Alice Perrers. The Wife had a husband named Jankyn, similar to the name of Alice’s first husband, Janyn, and was a businesswoman with a mercantile and urban background, echoing Alice’s own early life in London. The Wife was notoriously prolific in her lustful desires, but invariably they had a financial motivation, fusing, in the words of Paul Strohm, “the categories of economic and sexual assertiveness into a single epitome of contemporary male dread.”
-Laura Tompkins, '"Edward III's Gold-Digging Mistress": Alice Perrers, Gender, and Financial Power at the English Royal Court, 1360-1377", "Women and Economic Power in Premodern Courts" (edited by Cathleen Sarti)
#historicwomendaily#alice perrers#english history#edward iii#my post#geoffrey chaucer#to be clear 'being inspired by' doesn't mean 'being a direct analogue of'#so we obviously shouldn't (and Tompkins doesn't) look at it through that angle#also just to clarify - Langland's 'Lady Meed' is a little more complicated.#as per our current understanding of the chronology of his writing:#his 'A text' of Piers Plowman was most likely written in the late 1460s - almost a decade before the parliamentary proceedings against Alic#and thus cannot have been based purely on her but on a wider 'discourse of defamation focused on “problem” women' as Ormrod puts it#HOWEVER we know that Langland redrafted and massively edited the B and C texts from the book much later#and as Matthew Giancarlo and Gwilym Dodd have pointed out there are clear indications he was specifically influenced by Alice's#encounters with Parliament in the 1470s when it came to these texts#also forever loling at Chaucer naming The Wife 'Alisoun' and giving her a husband named Jankyn lmfao#that's hilariously on the nose#but also if they truly were inspired by Alice that's such an epic slay on her part#icon
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Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Council of Nicea (Not the whole thing, but a lot at church and all of Genesis for my Bible as Literature class)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen (currently reading!)
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
White Fang - Jack London
The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum
Don Quixote — Miguel De Cervantes
Where the Wild Things Are — Maurice Sendak
The Cat in the Hat — Dr Seuss
The Giver — Lois Lowry
Inkheart — Cornelia Funke
Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
Macbeth — William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare
The Child Called ‘It’ — Dave Pelzer
The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins
The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank
Night — Elie Wiesel
Les Misérables — Victor Hugo
The Odyssey — Homer
The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Brothers Karamasov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Eragon — Christopher Paolini
#books#stuff i've read#i had to copy/paste this out of one of those ancient posts you used to be able to edit entirely--even the parts you didn't write
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right back at you: 8 and 11 for the fanfic asks ♥
8. Is there a story idea in your mental vault that you’ve never been brave enough to try writing? Is this the year? Can you tell us about it?
I've had ideas for two stories that I guess would be called family sagas or multi-generational mysteries (similar to Kate Morton's novels, but ones I'd actually love), which would transpose the late Plantagenets onto a more modern setting (probably not dating back further than the Victorian era), like Susan Howatch's novels. One would centre on Alice Perrers, Eleanor Cobham and probably Elizabeth Woodville, drawing on the parallels between their lives and setting them up to investigate the mystery of each other's lives and falls. The other idea (which I've had multiple iterations of) would focus on a queer line of descent from Edward II to Richard II to Henry V.
There are various reasons why I'm not writing them but the main one is the sheer scope. The amount of research I'd do - firstly to nail the characters and events, then to nail the new setting. The amount of plotting and character development and family trees I'd need to produce to keep everything straight. And just the imagined sheer bloody length of the finished book. It's just... really intimidating to even thinking of the time and effort involved. But I love to think about them.
11. Would you like to try any new fanfic genres or tropes this year?
I'd like to get unabashedly weirder and hornier in my writing (the WIP I'm currently working on suggests I might be off to a good start). Which isn't really a genre or a trope and I have written weird and horny things before. There are things I've been playing with writing for a time that I've not posted before - a mystery-story-with-trauma-plot for Richard Courtenay, a mummy issues fic centred on Philippa of England, a story about canon period Hal figuring out his sexuality. But I've got some things already written for these stories so they're not new to me.
One thing that would be new to me is if I write a fic about Joan of Navarre and Philippa going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral against the backdrop of the Percy rebellion in 1403. My first roadtrip fic, my first pilgrimage fic (it's totally a genre, just ask Chaucer) and my first stepmother-stepdaughter bonding fic!
fanfic asks for the new year | ask box
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dämen der frauen
daydreams
der himmel über berlin
doughboys
for family reasons
free and easy
gentlemen of fortune
give me liberty
go west
good night nurse!
hard luck
high sign
his wedding night
ivan vasilievich changes occupation
jane eyre 1943
le roi des champs-élysées
look for a woman
love and doves
maugli
midshipmen onwards!
mirror
moonshine
morozko
my wife's relations
musketeers twenty years after
neigbors
oh doctor!
one week
only lovers left alive
operation y and shurik's other adventures
our hospitality
out west
parlor bedroom and bath
pokrov gates
prince of foxes
prisoner of the caucasus or shurik's new adventures
scarlet sails
seven chances
sherlock jr
sidewalks of new york
spartacus: blood and sand
spartacus: gods of the arena
speak easily
spite marriage
steamboat bill jr
sweet november
terminator 2: judgement day
the adventures of sherlock holmes and doctor watson
the balloonatic
the beginning
the bell boy
the blacksmith
the boat
the bodyguard
the butcher boy
the cameraman
the cook
the electric house
the fellowhip of the ring
the frozen north
the garage
the general
the girls
the goat
the haunted house
the hayseed
the holiday
the hound of the baskervilles
the incredible hulk
the irony of fate or enjoy your bath!
the kuban cossacks
the lord of the rings
the love nest
the navigator
the painted veil
the paleface
the passionate plumber
the rough house
the saphead
the scarecrow
the walking dead
the wild swans
the words
this is your life
three ages
van helsing
watch out for the automobile
what - no beer?
wings of desire
young russia
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23 books I want to read in 2023
Thank you for the tag, bestie @light-macadamia
1. "Pale Fire" by V.Nabokov (that's me cheating a little bit, since I've started it last year)
2. Reread TGCF (and that is not cheating, because I'm waiting for the official rus translations to come out)
3. "Thousand Autumns" by Meng Xi Shi (3-6 because I'm going through my danmei phase rn)
4. "Erha" by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
5. "The Guardian" by Priest
6. MDZS by MXTX
7. "The Poppy War" by R. F. Kuang
8. "Dutch House" by Ann Patchett
9. "One Last Stop" by Casey McQuiston (I need more wlw romance in my life)
10. "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" by Fannie Flagg (same reason)
11. Becky Chambers (anything, really, hopepunk sounds right up my alley)
12. "Loveless" by Alice Oseman (I loved radio silence, need more classics)
13. Aitmatov (he's THE BEST, I hope to read all of his books one day)
14. А.Сальников ("Окульттреггер" или "Опосредованно")
15. "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon (I've been looking at this pretty cover way too long)
16. "The Locked Tomb Series", by Tamsyn Muir (I'm afraid my friend is going to bully me if I don't read it, and I want to, don't get me wrong)
17. "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari (well, I don't want to be stupid, so I added one non fiction, hehe)
18. "Babel" by R. F. Kuang
19. "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende
20. "The Starless Sea" by Erin Morgenstern
21. "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield
22. Edgar Allan Poe Shakespeare Geoffrey Chaucer (I bought a bunch of classics and now feel too lazy to strain my braincells hope it'll motivate me at least)
23. Mandarin A1 (if I finish this breakthrough level story I'll be sooo proud of myself, but because I only know like 150-200 characters the story so far is to put it mildly stupid)
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Episode 1: “We Like Mike” (Show Notes)
Content warnings:
Skinhead discussion: 38:13—41:38 (racism, xenophobia, nazism, anti-semitism, brief discussion of 2012 mass shooting 40:00—40:18)
Discussion of Edward wanting to murder his class: 54:10—end
[00:03:56] Damn Shannon I don’t recall burning YOUR crops poisoning your well razing your house to the ground and salting the earth
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[00:06:20] Read Lexie’s fic here!
[00:07:28] Lexie’s social media handles: AO3, fanfiction.net, tumblr
[00:08:06] Ashley Greene’s NFT. (Ashley Greene is the actor who played Alice in the Twilight movies, for anyone not in the know. Also note that we recorded this episode in April, shortly before the great NFT crash)
[00:11:16] Transcript of Shannon’s Life and Death summary:
Beaufort Swan “Beau” moves from Phoenix, Arizona to a small town called Forks, Washington to live with his father, Charlie, after his mother, Renee, gets remarried. He is decidedly not fucking happy about it and is loathe to be in Forks despite taking it upon himself to lie to absolutely anybody who asks him about it (ever the martyr.) While there, he struggles with the inadequate experience of what we know is called “being a goddamn teenager.” He crosses paths with a mysterious and not-cognito family, and when he quote-unquote “meets” his new Biology partner, he suddenly has more questions about Edythe and her strange but sudden hatred of him.
[00:13:30] The top Kristen Stewart’s Bella is wearing in the very first scene of Twilight:
[00:15:09] Wikipedia’s basic breakdown of economic info on the real-world Forks, WA
[00:18:59] Bella on her reading list in Twilight:
It was fairly basic: Bronte, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Faulkner.
[00:20:36] The “canonical” heights for Jasper and Emmett, respectively: 6’3”/190.5 cm and 6’5”/195.6 cm
[00:30:10] Scroll to the bottom of this old blog post to see Stephenie Meyer’s original fancasts for Twilight characters (She had Jackson Rathbone as an Edward possibility?? oh my god)
[00:30:41] Some old, pre-movie era edits of Emily Browning as Bella:
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[00:31:02] Shannon is metaphorically on crack here. Gerard Way was actually who the fans wanted to play Edward, though Stephenie Meyer is an MCR fan and says their music inspired her when writing Jacob’s character (source.)
[00:31:21] Henry Cavill in gold contacts, looking about as unlike Edward Cullen as a white dude can look:
[00:34:18] Anyone else notice that Shannon says “Rosalie” super weird? She also says “pillow” weird. Ask her to say it sometime.
[00:39:36] The SPLC’s timeline on skinheads (cw: racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, injury, murder)
[00:42:27] A blog post on the Tiffany Problem
[00:48:44] Advice for Edward:
[00:52:13] Fanlore’s definition of “fanon”
[00:54:24] Fanlore’s article on AUs
[00:54:34] The filmmakers even shot this as a deleted scene! And you are not prepared for the sheer brilliance of this 2009 Youtube DVD rip set to an A+ song choice (sound ON and pay particular attention to the background actors)
[00:56:19] In this most iconic scene from the first Twilight movie, Bella walks into the forest with Edward (without being asked) to confront him about his vampirism
[00:56:28] Renesmee, for anyone not in the know.
[00:58:27] Alice walking into the Bio classroom after Edward’s finished snacking
[00:58:47] G references the Trolley Problem from philosophy/ethics
...and that’s all we’ve got for Episode 1 show notes! We hope you enjoyed this Happy Birthday Edward edition of 3B1P!
#show notes#episode 1#twilight#twilight renaissance#midnight sun#life and death#the twilight saga#twilight revival#podcast#twilight podcast
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