12 must-read classics books like Ik verlang en sta in brand: Van Sapfo tot Sulpicia by Sappho

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Ik verlang en sta in brand: Van Sapfo tot Sulpicia

By: Sappho

4.08

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

Sapfo van Lesbos staat als een lichtend baken aan het begin van de literatuurgeschiedenis. Ze leerd…

If you liked the classics plot in Ik verlang en sta in brand: Van Sapfo tot Sulpicia by Sappho , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Everyman

By: Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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2. De brief voor de koning (De brief voor de koning, #1)

By: Tonke Dragt

4.17

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

De jonge Tiuri verbreekt de regels, die bepalen dat hij met niemand mag praten in de nacht voordat … read more

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  • classics
"As long as you remember that fighting evil doesn't necessarily make you good! Good and evil are each other's enemies, but they are often found close together."

-Tonke Dragt, De brief voor de koning (De brief voor de koning, #1)

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3. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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4. Book of Longing

By: Leonard Cohen

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"I am this thing that needs to sing."

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

"need to see I never saw your need for me your longing raw"

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

"How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings"

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

"My animal howls My angel's upset But I'm not allowed A trace of regret"

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

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5. The Conquest of Gaul

By: S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Be… read more

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  • classics

6. The Art of Happiness

By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach

4.19

Format: 294 pages, ebook

New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more

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7. Een schitterend gebrek

By: Arthur Japin

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In zijn memoires vermeldt Casanova terloops dat Lucia een van de weinige vrouwen is die hij ooit on… read more

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8. 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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9. Theogony

By: Hesiod , None , None

5.00

Format: None pages, paper

This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous n… read more

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10. Trimalchio's Feast

By: Petronius

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Paperback

'I blush to say what happened next.' A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, ho… read more

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11. 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

(1939 translation) read more

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12. The Georgics

By: Virgil , Betty Radice , None

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rus… read more

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13. Monterosso mon amour

By: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

3.64

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Wordt ontevredenheid tevredenheid als je je erbij neerlegt?’ Carmen, een kinderloze vrouw van iets … read more

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"Ze voelde zich oud want ze hield van lezen"

-Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Monterosso mon amour

"Je moet het verhaal zorgvuldig opbouwen van inleiding naar climax en met tergende precisie chronologisch vooruit kruipen van aankomst naar conversatie, woord voor woord naverteld met aandachtig voor …"

-Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Monterosso mon amour

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14. The Discomfort of Evening

By: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

3.45

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

I thought about being too small for so much, but that no one told you when you were big enough ... … read more

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"In de nacht is iedereen leeftijdsloos."

-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

"We can't simply swap God - he's the strongest Pokémon card we have."

-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

"Onze dagen zullen verlengd worden, net zoals we boeken uit de bibliotheek verlengen om er langer in te kunnen verdwalen zonder kans te maken op een geldboete."

-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

"En nu, doordat ik door mijn wimpers keek had ik ook het idee dat moeder en de veearts niet doorhadden dat ik meeluisterde, dat ik in gedachten de trekken rondom moeders mond en ogen uit kon gummen om…"

-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

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15. Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi

By: Seneca

4.11

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor the body.” - Seneca. Peace of Mind (De Tranquillitate … read more

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  • classics
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16. De eerlijke vinder

By: Lize Spit

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9789059657328 'Hoe langer hij ermee wachtte, hoe minder moed h… read more

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17. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

By: Ross King

3.98

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzli… read more

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18. Atalanta

By: Jennifer Saint

3.78

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne , a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta… read more

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"I made a bargain with him: if he let me have the mountains and my girls, then I'd keep out of Hera's way. But the main thing I wanted was to live untouched by men. I wasn't going to find myself in my…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

"I missed the spread of the sky above me. Sometimes as I lay awake, I yearned so powerfully for freedom; for the dark silhouette of the Argo, blotting out the stars behind it; the promise of another j…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

"Standing in the shadows, gathering my resolve. I'd been among too many people, living according to their rules for too long. It was clouding my vision, gnawing away at my confidence and certainty, ma…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

"I despised my father, of course I did. The thought of presenting myself to him, of him thinking that my deeds could reflect on him was repulsive, that he thought what I would do would be a substitute…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

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19. Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit

By: Bianca Toeps

4.05

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Autisme: da's toch dat je weet dat 7 augustus 1984 op een dinsdag viel? Nou... nee. Bianca Toeps le… read more

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20. Fractured Soul

By: Akira Mizubayashi

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring… read more

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"« C’est un livre magnifique. En pleine période de folie fasciste et d’engouement militariste et ultranationaliste, Yoshino a eu l’audace d’écrire, à l’intention des jeunes Japonais, un livre qui prôn…"

-Akira Mizubayashi, Fractured Soul

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21. In mijn mand

By: Lieke Marsman

4.16

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In mijn mand, de derde bundel van Lieke Marsman, behandelt de grootste thema’s die het menselijke b… read more

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  • poetry
"nog even en op Airbnb verschijnen de eerste schuilkelders terwijl het ene na het andere theater omvalt dat we hier later een serie van gaan bingen maar geen toneelstuk over zullen zien is inmiddels w…"

-Lieke Marsman, In mijn mand

"en ik ben ook wel eens pathetisch genoemd door mannen met verstand van de canon. Kijk om je heen, door de hele geschiedenis heen dat verdomde verdoemen en minachten van emoties... Geen wonder dat we …"

-Lieke Marsman, In mijn mand

"Want wanneer ik mij buk om de druiven die gevallen zijn op te rapen en pijn duwt mijn gezicht weer eens ineen als een harmonica maar ik kijk op en zie de zon weerkaatst in de nieuwe koelkast die van …"

-Lieke Marsman, In mijn mand

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22. Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

By: Nina MacLaughlin

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the… read more

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  • poetry
"We are all swallowed up each moment into the whole history of new."

-Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

"There's more than two to a story -- the doers, the done-tos, and the ones who interpret who's who."

-Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

"His eyes they held the most dangerous thing, they held the top of the sins. Indifference. Indifference. A vacancy where human care should be."

-Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

"You grow up to believe that if you say, Please pass the salt, a person will reach toward the shaker, grab it in his hand, and move it in your direction. But then one day some of us might learn that i…"

-Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

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23. Ecstasy

By: Louis Couperus

3.32

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

This is one of Couperus's most powerful novels. A brilliant observer of fin-de-siècle Dutch society… read more

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  • classics
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24. Ik verlang en sta in brand: Van Sapfo tot Sulpicia

By: Sappho

4.08

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

Sapfo van Lesbos staat als een lichtend baken aan het begin van de literatuurgeschiedenis. Ze leerd… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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25. Lesbia. Verzen van liefde en spot

By: Catullus

3.82

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Catullus studeerde in Rome en werd daar verliefd op een tien jaar oudere, getrouwde vrouw. In verze… read more

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  • classics
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26. Levenskunst - Filosofische essays over leven en dood

By: Seneca

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Wijsheid. Inzicht. Inspiratie. Wie daarnaar op zoek is in de Romeinse literatuur komt snel uit bij … read more

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27. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

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28. Alles altijd anders

By: Marietje d'Hane-Scheltema

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

nan read more

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29. The Poems of Meleager

By: Meleager

3.36

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Love's night and a lamp Judged our vows: That she would love me ever And I should never leave her. Love's night and you, lamp, Witnessed the pact. Today the vow runs: "Oaths such as these, waterwords…"

-Meleager, The Poems of Meleager

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30. Tragedies

By: Aischylos

4.27

Format: 478 pages, Hardcover

De mens lijdt onder het lot, dat al dan niet het gevolg is van het eigen gedrag. Hybris, de menseli… read more

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31. Mijn moeder de Romein

By: Kristien Hemmerechts

3.35

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Homeruslezing 2021 In Mijn moeder de Romein verklaart Kristien Hemmerechts níét haar liefde voor… read more

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9 Top poetry books like Ik verlang en sta in brand: Van Sapfo tot Sulpicia by Sappho

Transform Your Habits

Everyman

Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

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Howl and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Book of Longing

Leonard Cohen

4.00

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In mijn mand

Lieke Marsman

4.16

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Escape from Baghdad!

Saad Z. Hossain

3.89

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Trois lucioles (Capitale du Sud, #2)

Guillaume Chamanadjian

4.47

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Herc

Phoenicia Rogerson

3.53

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Stone Blind

Natalie Haynes

3.82

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