8 must-read fiction books like Remember, Body... by Constantinos P. Cavafy

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Remember, Body...

By: Constantinos P. Cavafy

3.66

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of …

"You’ve been wholly transformed into feeling, for me."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"You’ve been wholly transformed into feeling, for me."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

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1. Remember, Body...

By: Constantinos P. Cavafy

3.66

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of … read more

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  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics
  • love
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • literature
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  • greece
"You’ve been wholly transformed into feeling, for me."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"I have fashioned you in joy and in sorrow, / through so many happenings, out of so many things."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"Memory, keep those eyes just as they were. / And memory, whatever you can salvage of that passion of mine, / whatever you can, bring back to me tonight."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

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2. Three Tang Dynasty Poets

By: Wang Wei , Du Fu , Li Bai

3.35

Format: 64 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?' A generous selection from three of the greatest and mos… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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3. Wailing Ghosts

By: Pu Songling , John Minford

3.25

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wo… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Strange that a man could succeed in hanging himself from a millet stalk. Let this be a warning to libertines and pranksters."

-Pu Songling, Wailing Ghosts

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4. Woman Much Missed

By: Thomas Hardy

3.59

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a grief… read more

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  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
"Soon will be growing Green blades from her mound, And daisies be showing Like stars on the ground, Till she form part of them - Ay - the sweet heart of them, Loved beyond measure With a child's pleas…"

-Thomas Hardy, Woman Much Missed

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5. The Maldive Shark

By: Herman Melville

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by … read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
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6. The Reckoning

By: Edith Wharton

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. The Great Fire of London

By: Samuel Pepys

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .' A selection f… read more

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  • classics
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8. The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon

By: Aesop , Robert Temple

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories e… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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9. I Hate and I Love

By: Catullus

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.… read more

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  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics

10. The Atheist’s Mass

By: Honoré de Balzac

4.19

Format: 144 pages,

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Country Doctor; Quest of the Absolute and Other N… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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11. As Kingfishers Catch Fire

By: Gerard Manley Hopkins

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Ho… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction

12. The Beautifull Cassandra

By: Jane Austen

3.62

Format: 320 pages,

'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen'… read more

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13. Well, they are gone, and here must I remain

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...' A selectio… read more

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14. Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful max… read more

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15. Come Close

By: Sappho

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more

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16. Speaking of Siva

By: A.K. Ramanujan , None , None , None , None

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

'To the utterly at-one with Siva there's no dawn.' Meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siv… read more

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17. The Fall of Icarus

By: Ovid , Mary M. Innes

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .' Enduring m… read more

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18. Anthem for Doomed Youth

By: Wilfred Owen

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The tr… read more

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19. The Nightingales are Drunk

By: Hafez , Dick Davis

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez'… read more

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20. The Night is Darkening Round Me

By: Emily Brontë

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king' Some of Emily Bronte's most ex… read more

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21. Lips Too Chilled

By: Matsuo Bashō , Lucien Stryk

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Nothing more lonely -' A selection of Basho's most magical haiku Introducing Little Black Classics… read more

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