Baroque


La vida es sueño
Paradise Lost
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
Don Quixote
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)
The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3)
Le Cid
Tartuffe
Jerusalem Delivered
Hamlet
Bernini (Penguin Art and Architecture)
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Andromaque
Phèdre
Don Juan
Forever Amber by Kathleen WinsorLibertine's Kiss by Judith JamesFrenchman's Creek by Daphne du MaurierLaird of the Mist by Paula QuinnThe Black Madonna by Stella Riley
17th Century Romance (1601 - 1700)
221 books — 72 voters
God's Playground by Norman DaviesTeutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior by Mark GaleottiThe Other Prussia by Karin FriedrichDimitri and the false Tsars by Hans BaumannPagans in the Early Modern Baltic by Francis Young
Early Modern Eastern Europe
24 books — 6 voters

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann RadcliffeWaverley by Walter  ScottEvelina by Frances BurneyWorks of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Gra... by Samuel JohnsonThe History of Sir Charles Grandison Bart by Samuel Richardson
What Jane Austen Read
20 books — 3 voters

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo GinzburgCivilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1 by Fernand BraudelLongitude by Dava SobelThe World Turned Upside Down by Christopher      HillThe Petrine Instauration by Robert Collis
Early Modern History, c.1400-1800
188 books — 7 voters
Cry to Heaven by Anne RiceThe Bells by Richard HarvellInterrupted Aria by Beverle Graves MyersPainted Veil by Beverle Graves MyersThe Iron Tongue of Midnight by Beverle Graves Myers
Books about Castrati
74 books — 15 voters

Twilight was reaching its climax, no doubt: the last fires of the sun, like a violent dermatitis, ruched and ravined the horizon, giving it blisters, edema, and creases — the yellows, oranges, turquoise, ocher, reddish purples, crimsons, and browns became more vivid as the star descended, becoming bruises, scales, scabs, clots, and even bleeding eviscerations, as though the sky were reproducing the painful sequence of it's birth, what psychoanalysts call repetition compulsion. ...more
Eric Laurrent from "Do Not Touch"

Luis de Góngora y Argote
In love it does not matter what you say, but what you feel. In poetry it does not matter what you feel, but what you say.
Luis de Góngora

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Charles I - II - 17th-18th century! A group for books set within the reign of Charles I, English Civil Wars, Interregnum, Charles II…more
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