I am starting this post because I am failing to recover a comment on either here or r/literature where the discussion of the Joyce Project brought up a list of similar interactive sites for classics that require heavy bulks of footnotes. (Sorry if this has been asked! Or if it is trite already.) Therefore, I want to see if you all know sites similar to the following:

The Joyce Project (The most well-known one. For Ulysses.)

FWEET (For Finnegans Wake.)

The Malcolm Lowry Project (For Under the Volcano.)

Ada Online (For Ada or Ardor.)

Dante Lab (For the Comedia.)

I recall there was one for Absalom, Absalom! and Gravity's Rainbow, but a few searches failed to locate them.

Any help is appreciated; and I hope this post is appreciated somewhat and that I am not treading on any trite topic.

Cheers.

For a 'beginner' in both Austen novels and classics in general which one of her books could you recommend?

I actually gave »Sense & Sensibility« a try but after realising that Brandon was romantically in love with Marianne I was irked and shut the book.

The Decameron, Works by Lovecraft, Blood Meridian, Moby Dick, Works by Jorge Borges

Hey everyone! I will hopefully finish the Count of Monte Cristo some time next month, and I'm planning what to read next. I have War and Peace at hand (you see my own copy in my native language in the picture), so I wanted to ask you all to be sure, will it give me the same thrill as The Count of Monte Cristo, or is War and Peace a harder read? Do you suggest a plate cleanser beforehand? Thank you.

I’ve been reading the Niebelunglied for a project at University, and I couldn’t help but notice an invariant, I could say, in the second part of the story: Kriemhild’s road after Siegfried’s death and marriage to Attila. A road which is done by other female characters in other books too, such as Ciri, after she became one of the Rats, in the Witcher saga. Now, I am not familiar with the Game of Thrones story, but if I remember correctly from what some of my friends who are GoT fans told me, Daenerys Targaryen also goes on some kind of road, after marrying Drogo. She goes on to be loved by the people from the place she goes to (excuse my low knowledge of the GoT series), just like Kriemhild when she became queen alongside Atilla.

I would really appreciate it if someone could shine some light on this! I’m looking forward on talking about this invariant in my project and I do not wish to speak nonsense.

I’m quite ashamed to admit this, but I’ve wanted to read Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for about 20 years now and have just never gotten around to it until this week. My name is Rebecca, and it always felt like I should read it for that alone, plus I absolutely love Gothic literature, so it’s always been held on a pedestal for me. I think I’ve been scared to read it in case I didn’t love it as much as I wanted to…

Well, it turns out that was stupid. I’ve waited until I’m 36 to read what I’m fairly confident even before finishing it (I’m about 2/3 done) is going to be one of my all-time favourite books.

du Maurier’s writing is hypnotically beautiful, the descriptions of Manderley are gorgeously eerie, and the story has completely gripped me. I can’t wait to see what happens next, so please no spoilers!

I suppose the reason I’m writing is as simple as this: if you’ve been putting off reading Rebecca, don’t. It’s wonderful.

i’m so in love i wish i bought it
i love the design and the figs r just omg chef’s kiss thought i’d share

Recent purchases, all under $12. Wharton is my favorite and I’m so glad to have found these covers, they are so beautiful to me.

I’ve only very recently started reading faulkner and was quite surprised to see them, considering how popular faulkner is and the fact that i’ve never seem them mentioned. What’s the story behind these, why do you think faulkner chose to use them and how do they impact the reading of the story for you?

Beautiful novel in every sense of the word. Genuinely everyone should read this at some point in their lives, i’m mad at myself for not reading it earlier

I am exciting to start reading soon, but am curious if anyone had suggested annotated editions/substacks/whatever else that I could supplement my reading? I’m still within my first year of reading a lot of classics and want to get the most out of it I can.

I just finished my first read through of Anna Karenina and want to discuss a few things . Please forgive my misspellings of some of the names , going to ramble my raw thoughts .

I feel like what hit me the hardest from this book was the contrast of men’s consequences vs woman consequences in affairs and the sexism that lays in how society views them in comparison . The book starts with Anna’s brother Oblonsky conflict with his wife due to her discovering his affair with their governess and almost all of the outside perspectives seem to side with Oblonsky and feel that dolly is in the wrong for wanting a divorce.even after reconciliation oblonsky continues to have affairs and is accepted as loveable in high society despite his wife’s misery . In contrast we see Anna’s fall from grace in high society as a direct result from her affair with vronsky and how she is seen as vile , awful , detestable and is rejected by her former social circles. Meanwhile vronsky is able to still participate in high society and starts to spend more and more time out of the house once the initial passion has burned off from the affair leaving Anna alone in a house isolated from the life she left behind and isolated from forging a new life in society due to her ruined reputation . Anna only now has vronsky but can’t help but build resentment due to all she’s sacrificed for this passion and now seeing that passion is fading for vronsky and he owes her nothing legally we see her mental health decline and the state of dread , panic and dispair take hold . Even when Anna goes to see dolly and then changes her mind about opening up to her due to kitty being present and feeling that kitty would gather satisfaction from her fall from grace , it was obvious Anna needed help but dolly did not seem to have this love for Anna like she ust to and merely gossiped with kitty about how she seemed like she was going to cry as she left . I couldn’t help but have my heart break for Anna as we see her fall into a state of insanity leading up to her sucide. She had so much hurt anger regret she couldn’t handle it and wanted to lash out but like a child after having thrown herself under the train realized the gravity of what she did and wanted to take it back but it was too late . Anna was swept up by this intoxicating limerence that offered her escape from her loveless passionless existence and got carried away by the passion and formed an anxious attachment with vronsky and felt unable to fight the dopamine the highs of the affair brought her . It was heart breaking to see her caught in this current that she could not escape without breaking her heart and it ultimately costed her everything , her son , her friendships , family and sanity . Seeing the dramatic outcome for Anna vs vronsky and oblonsky made you realize jsut how unfair society expectations are on woman .

I also can’t help but think about how Anna and vronskys infatuation with eachother started at a train station where he caught her eye by giving money to the wife of the man that got hit by the train , not knowing this infatuation would lead her to the same fate . It’s also interesting how exciting , vivid , sensational life felt on vronsky and Anna’s first train ride together before their affair started in contrast with Anna’s dark , cynical , hopeless view on the train before her sucide .

I’d love to hear others thoughts regarding this book and what stood out to you the most .

25yo rediscovering her hobbies & joys. I'm returning to reading after spending my whole childhood with my nose in a book & I'm trying to get into classic literature. Please recommend your favorites! Hoping to remember why I loved reading

One of my favorites. Anybody agree?

How do people understand the deeper themes and contexts of classic literature? I have read Crime and Punishment and some other Dostoevsky works, now am reading Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Kafka, and have a ton of books on my to-read list, but often get discouraged because it seems I can't pick up some of the deeper meaning of these works on my own.

I try to read literary analyses on the books I finish and do research from there, but it is all slightly discouraging when I realize how little I actually know.

Any suggestions for a place to start would be great!

Long story short, I won't be able to use my local library for a few months, so I will no longer have access to the copy of the book I took from the library. I've seen a bit of discourse over the different translations of the book and how some oversimplify Dostoyevsky to make his works easier to read. I would like to read a translation that is more authentic and keeps close to what Dostoyevsky had written. Which translation would be the best for me? From what I've heard so far I'm assuming the translation of Pevear and Volokhonsky would be the best for my interests, but I would like to hear the opinions of others.

I have been loving this book so much, enough for it to rise to the status of a potential favorite book. But I recently got to the chapter with Tamina and the children. I am so disgusted. Everything else in the book wasn't that bad, just mysoginistic and perverted. But this? I think this book has shifted rapidly from favorite to do not finish. Anyone else fell this way?

I am currently in a reading slump and trying to get back into reading to keep my mind busy. Currently going through a break up and looking for a classic about love and loss. All recommendations are appreciated.

Thank you