May. 26, 2012 at 3:54pm with 1 note
books I bought at a tag sale today!booksnerdlit nerdliteratureold books
Cestre-Guibillon Dictionnaire Francais-Anglais; Ch. Cestre ; Doubleday, Page & Co (NY); Librairie A. Hatier (Paris); 1927 Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, illustrated by Fred A. Mayer; Bard Books, Avon Book Division; 1937 Macbeth by William Shakespeare; Riverside Literature Series #106; ed. Richard Grant White; Houghton, Mifflin and Company; 1897 Poems by John Keats; The Athenaeum Press Series; ed: Arlo Bates; Ginn and Company; 1896 The English Poets, vol. 1: Chaucer to Donne; ed: T.H. Ward; The Macmillan Company; 1906 Summer by Edith Wharton; D. Appleton and Company; 1917 Faust: A Tragedy; Goethe; trans. J.S. Blackie; Macmillan and Co; 1880 Greek Poets in English Verse, edited by W.H. Appleton, Houghton, Mifflin, and Co; 1893

Cestre-Guibillon Dictionnaire Francais-Anglais; Ch. Cestre ; Doubleday, Page & Co (NY); Librairie A. Hatier (Paris); 1927

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, illustrated by Fred A. Mayer; Bard Books, Avon Book Division; 1937

Macbeth by William Shakespeare; Riverside Literature Series #106; ed. Richard Grant White; Houghton, Mifflin and Company; 1897

Poems by John Keats; The Athenaeum Press Series; ed: Arlo Bates; Ginn and Company; 1896

The English Poets, vol. 1: Chaucer to Donne; ed: T.H. Ward; The Macmillan Company; 1906

Summer by Edith Wharton; D. Appleton and Company; 1917

Faust: A Tragedy; Goethe; trans. J.S. Blackie; Macmillan and Co; 1880

Greek Poets in English Verse, edited by W.H. Appleton, Houghton, Mifflin, and Co; 1893


Apr. 30, 2012 at 12:56am with 1 note
personalreading listbooks

So. To further distract myself from my paper, here’s my reading list for this summer!

1. A Tangled Web by L. M. Montgomery

2. The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson

3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

4. finish the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy by D. M. Cornish

5. probably some Agatha Christie

6. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

NB: this list is certainly NOT exhaustive. it’s just the things that I’m definitely going to try to read and what I can think of off the top of my head :)

Dec. 27, 2011 at 1:54am with 71 notes
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