/lit/ - Literature

>>23125416
I'd probably just get the one volume edition. Harbacks are pretty cheap for what they are and high quality too. You can get the Single-volume illustrated edition and it's probably the best one.

>>23041602
Variously.
Plutarch's lives (Alexander, Timoleon, Alcibiades, Demetrius, Pyrrhus and Themistocles are the best Greek ones)
Yale English Kings (Henry III is the best one)
Failure of Empire is pretty good and it covers Valens.

>>21652498

>>20539888
>scripts

>>20324913
>thousands of folding chairs

>>18635958
yes youve done nothing but sperg out precisely like that. i explained exactly why you are wrong and this is the best caliber of response you can muster, a few impotent insults.

>>17484820
Im sorry butters but this is genuinely the most embarrassing thing you've posted to date even from a purely secular perspective

>here we have a piece of literature rich with metaphor relating to the human experience. this passage seems to relate to how human development crossed a threshold and separated us from the perfection of the natural world, and now we must pay the price in the form of animal instincts that conflict with living in an intellectual civilization which can lead to self destructive behavior like greedy capitalists destroying nature or fatties eating themselves to death etc.

>actually no, there's an authority figure mentioned so im just going to ignore every single detail but that one and pretend theres nothing else here

Either you are intellectually stunted to an extreme degree and incapable of even basic surface level analysis of literature, or your post is an intentionally incorrect interpretation meant solely as a teenage act of rebellion because the mean adults dont let you eat icecream for every meal. Im curious, which is it?

>>15834586
i guess i walked into that one

>>14942776
golden jej

why is exceedingly awful prose just as hard -- if not harder -- to write than good prose?