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Heike Monogatari
Genji Monogatari
English
Whittaker on frontiers
Whatshername in Helicon or Arethusa on women in comedy and elegaic
Collingwood on historiography
Matthews on Ammianus
Original language
Abelardus: Historia Calamitatum Mearum
Heloise: the first three letters
Cicero. Epistulae ad Atticum
Pausanias. Description of Greece
Plato: Alcibiades
Sallust. Bellum Catilinae, Iugurthinum
Seneca. Epistulae Lucilio
Tacitus. Agricola, Historiae, Germania
Vulgate.
Laudatio Turiae
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English
Burge, James. 2004. Heloise and Abelard, a Twelfth-Century Love Story. - written by a documentarian rather than an academic, and it shows. It focuses on presenting a coherent narrative rather than analysing the events or debates in the scholarship.
Forrester, E. M. Room With a View
Forrester, E. M. Where Angels Fear to Tread
Forrester, E. M. Howard's End
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum
Lawrence, D. H. Lady Chatterley's Lover
Salinger, J. D. Franny and Zooey
Forrester, E. M. A Passage to India
World Time Clock - a really cool idea and really awesome.
Cross Townsend Quartz Blue Lacquer Fountain Pen - extra fine nib. So. Pretty.
Music: CDs (CDs playable in CD players, not CDs with mp3s on them): Bartok (Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion), Bach, Mozart (concerto No. 27 in Bb, K. 595; Clarinet Concerto K. 622), Stravinsky (Clarinet Suite), Dvorak (Slavonic Dances for four hands), Nek (Italian pop; not Lei, Gli Amici e Tutto Il Resto), opera. Pianists: Peter Frankl, Emmanuel Ax. Clarinetist: James Campbell.