The Cultural Tutor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Works: The Man Who Laughs
Victor Hugo
Paris had been for centuries, ever since the Dark Ages, one of Europe's foremost cities. But, by the 19th century and as described most famously in the works of Victor Hugo, Paris had become overcrowded and ravaged by disease - the urban poor were suffering. https://t.co/nkKdHEVZIP
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Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text
Dante
His style changed in the 1490s, growing darker and more austere as Florence itself went through turbulent times. He started painting less, too, and spent his time making drawings of Dante's Inferno, apparently disillusioned and reclusive; he died in 1510. https://t.co/8u5tpvMsUg
Paperback, 2021
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Les Misérables: in large print - Volume I
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo is best-known as the author of the beloved novel Les Misérables. But he was also a visionary artist who created drawings like the Octopus, from 1866. Let's enter the nightmarish world of Victor Hugo's surreal imagination: https://t.co/p1Ih0V8oPj
Hardcover, 2022
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Voyage Au Bout de La Nuit
L. Celine
@kursadabi A friend gave me a copy of Voyage au Bout de la Nuit. I'm intriguied by Céline. Can't wait to read it.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo is most famous for writing beloved novels like Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. But he was also one of the greatest painters of the 19th century. And Hugo's art, kept secret until after his death, is unlike anything you've seen before... https://t.co/kDLWzzKBgC
Paperback, Mass Market, 1981
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Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation
Ovide
20. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) Many inspirations: Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion (1594), Aristophanes’ comedy The Birds (414 BC), Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale (1400), Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 AD), and the German poem Der Busant (11th-13th century). https://t.co/plaYnd4X4E
Hardcover, 2016
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The Civil Wars
Julius Caesar
The year is 44 BC. Julius Caesar has just been declared "Dictator for Life" and is the most powerful man in the Roman Republic. In 48 BC he had defeated Pompey the Great, another Roman general, and by 45 BC he had put down all other resistance - the civil wars were over. https://t.co/h8xtzi55sf
Hardcover, 2016
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English Constitution
Walter Bagehot
22. The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot (1867) For anybody who wishes to understand the British political system, this book is unavoidable. I dare say there a few British politicians who could do with giving it a go... https://t.co/RzGNnLXtB3
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Cowards Die Many Times Before Their Deaths; The Valiant Never Taste of Death But Once
Gary D. Chattman
14. From Julius Caesar: "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."
Paperback, 2019
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Count Lucanor
Don Juan Manuel
27. The Taming of the Shrew (1593) Many sources. One Thousand and One Nights again. Also Pontus de Huyter’s De Rebus Burgundicis (1584), Don Juan Manuel’s Tales of Count Lucanor (1335), Plautus’ Mostellaria, and more. There is also a strong folkloric influence. https://t.co/PwlorjMzmY
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