/lit/ - Literature

Any recs? I am trying to understand how they worked. Unbiased accounts are preferred.

I am a 115 IQ midwit- what is some good secondary literature on the greeks?

Any good books on legal philosophy?

i often see in translations of russian books a phrase like:
>"suppose we are on A street and want to get to B street."
i understand that this is a russian convention when posing a hypothetical and that these streets to not actually exist but i find it annoying that the translators never seem to convert it to the very common and analogous english convention that would read:
>"suppose we are on street A and want to get to street B."
are there any translators that write it this way?

>trying to deconstruct characters that fit the trope of my MC in books that came before so as to replicate the magic that makes them endearing
>copy passages that are emblematic of their personality for later reference
>hit upon one that fits better than anything i've read yet
>almost don't want to pick it up now because i have to stop every few pages to copy something over
sucks cus i really like the book. i guess if this is a job it has to suck sometimes. i'll read it again someday after i'm published.