BOOK THREAD: What book to read next?

[Schadenfreude]

What should I read next? I"m currently reading The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, which is fantastic by the way, but I was wondering, what shall my next book be? I will let the hands of fate, i.e. ATOT, decide for me!

Here are the coices:

Alexander Pushkin: The Collected Stories

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature?s most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde?s most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. Note to the Dover Edition.

Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2)

Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. Faust is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that communicates both its poetic variety and its many levels of tone. The language is present-day English, and Goethe's formal and rhythmic variety is reproduced in all its richness.

The Double

Most significant of the Russian novelist?s early stories (1846) offers a straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is a powerless target of persecution by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect. Familiar Dostoyevskan themes of helplessness, victimization, scandal?beautifully handled in small masterpiece.

Dead Souls

A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The landowner receives a payment and a relief of his tax burden, and the stranger receives--what? Gogol's comic masterpiece offers a vast and satirical painting of the Russian panorama as it traces the path and encounters of its mysterious protagonist in pursuit of his dubious scheme. Dead Souls, regarded as both a realistic portrait of nineteenth-century Russia and a work of great symbolism, continues to inspire twenty-first century authors and readers.

Principia Ethica

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[Encryptic]

Can't say I've read any of those, but they all sound interesting.

 

[T3C]

Originally posted by: Encryptic
Can't say I've read any of those, but they all sound interesting.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Wow, it's as if the internet is full of illterate iditos . . .. /ironic sarcasm