books to read - summer ‘25
“so many books, so little me”
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romance （╹◡╹）♡
La Librairie de Téhéran
Marjan Kamali, Florence Moreau · 2022
classics(_ _).｡o○
The Once and Future King
T. H. White · 2011
T. H. White’s masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted readers for generations. Once upon a time, a young boy called “Wart” was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation for a future he couldn’t possibly imagine. A future in which he would ally himself with the greatest knights, love a legendary queen and unite a country dedicated to chivalrous values. A future that would see him crowned and known for all time as Arthur, King of the Britons. During Arthur’s reign, the kingdom of Camelot was founded to cast enlightenment on the Dark Ages, while the knights of the Round Table embarked on many a noble quest. But Merlyn foresaw the treachery that awaited his liege: the forbidden love between Queen Guenever and Lancelot, the wicked plots of Arthur’s half-sister Morgause and the hatred she fostered in Mordred that would bring an end to the king’s dreams for Britain—and to the king himself. “[The Once and Future King] mingles wisdom, wonderful, laugh-out-loud humor and deep sorrow—while telling one of the great tales of the Western world.”—Guy Gavriel Kay
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1999
The text of Middlemarch is that of the 1874 edition, the last corrected by the author. For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading.<br/><br/>"Backgrounds" helps readers understand Eliot’s ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works.<br/><br/>"Contemporary Reviews" records the impressions of Sidney Colvin, Henry James, Joseph Jacobs, and Leslie Stephen.<br/><br/>"Recent Criticism" collects eleven essays-seven of them new to this edition-which center on the novel's major themes. Contributors include Mark Schorer, Jerome Beaty, Cherry Wilhelm, Robert Heilman, Lee R. Edwards, Alan Mintz, T. R. Wright, Matthew Rich, Alan Shelston, and Claudia Moscovici.<br/><br/>A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
historical fiction (>_<)
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, Book 1)
Ken Follett · 2011
Homegoing: A novel
Yaa Gyasi · 2016
fantasy^_−☆
The Crystal Cave (The Arthurian Saga, Book 1)
Mary Stewart · 2003
