8 must-read nonfiction books like The poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece by Claude Calame

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The poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece

By: Claude Calame

4.27

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

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1. Exercises in Style

By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Barbara Wright

4.06

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The plot of Exercises in Style is quite simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger … read more

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  • poetry
"C'est en écrivant qu'on devient écriveron"

-Barbara Wright, Exercises in Style

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2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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  • poetry
"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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3. Averno

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more

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  • poetry
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."

-Louise Glück, Averno

"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

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4. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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5. Men in the Off Hours

By: Anne Carson

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"As tree shapes from mist / Her young death / Loose / In you."

-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

" détails All the same there are some small questions one would like to put to Sokrates. Or better still Sappho. Avec tes mains brûlées ."

-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

"What is a Lamb of God? People use this phrase. I don't know. I watch my sister, fingers straying absently about her mustache, no help there."

-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

"In myth, women's boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is …"

-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

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6. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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  • poetry
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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7. North and South

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more

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"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

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8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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  • poetry
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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9. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwaterare a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Ann… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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10. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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11. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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12. The Trojan Women

By: Euripides , Gilbert Murray

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

"This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's i… read more

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13. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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14. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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15. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

By: Anne Carson

4.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more

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  • poetry
"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

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16. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

By: Charles Baudelaire , None

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction

17. Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

By: Euripides , Anne Carson

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Writing with a pitch and heat that gets to the heart of the unforgiving classical world, Carson, a … read more

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18. The Satyricon

By: Piero Chiara , Petronius , P.G. Walsh , Federico Roncoroni

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose & poetry (prosimetrum). It… read more

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19. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

20. Il piacere

By: Gabriele d'Annunzio

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Le ambizioni e le contraddizioni di Andrea Sperelli sono al centro di questo che e il primo romanzo… read more

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21. Poesie d'amore

By: Nâzım Hikmet , Joyce Lussu

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Per Nazim Hikmet una poesia d'amore e un nucleo di emotivita e di pensiero in cui occorre riuscire … read more

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22. Devotion

By: Patti Smith

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Hardcover

From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more

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23. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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24. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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25. Antigonick

By: Sophocles , Anne Carson , Bianca Stone

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated new translation of Sophokles' Antigone. With text blocks hand-inked on the page by A… read more

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26. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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  • nonfiction
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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27. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more

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"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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28. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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29. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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  • poetry
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30. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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31. The poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece

By: Claude Calame

4.27

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

"The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece" offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of se… read more

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  • poetry
  • history
  • nonfiction

11 Best poetry books like The poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece by Claude Calame

Transform Your Habits

Exercises in Style

Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Barbara Wright

4.06

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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

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Louise Glück

4.18

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Anne Carson

4.08

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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