BookFeed Ελληνικά The books here disagree about what freedom is: a poet's death in a cause, a girl's claim to her own worth, a raft on a river, a devil's argument in an epic. What they share is a sense that freedom is contested and costly, and that it is worked out in ordinary decisions as much as in grand ones. If you want a way in, «Εἰς τὸν θάνατον τοῦ Λόρδου Μπάιρον» shows Solomos making a public grief out of a private loss, and Jane Eyre puts you inside a voice that insists on its own value from the first page.
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1825
Solomos turns Byron's death into a lament for Greece: the poet as freedom's herald, sung in the ragged, luxurious Greek that literature forgot.
Τὲς ἐμάζωξε εἰς τὸ μέροςτοῦ Τσαλόγγου τὸ ἀκρινὸτῆς ἐλευθεριᾶς ὁ ἔρωςκαὶ τὲς ἔμπνευσε χορό.102.Τέτοιο πήδημα δὲν τὸ εἶδανοὔτε γάμοι, οὔτε χαρές,καὶ ἄλλες μέσα τους ἐπήδανἀθωότερες ζωές.103.Τὰ φορέματα ἐσφυρίζανκαὶ τὰ ξέπλεκα μαλλιά,κάθε γύρο ποὺ ἐγυρίζανἀπὸ πάνου ἔλειπε μία. Charlotte Brontë, 1847
An orphan with no money, no beauty and a ferocious sense of her own worth takes a job at a strange house. A first-person voice that still feels startlingly direct.
William Golding, 1954
Twelve boys, one island, no adults: a school story that becomes an inquiry into how quickly people build rules, and how easily they drop them.
Mark Twain, 1884
A runaway boy and an enslaved man drift a raft down the Mississippi, and a child's plain talk quietly dismantles everything the adults around him believe.
John Milton, 1667
A blind poet turns the fall of Adam and Eve into an epic of free will, ambition, and married love, and gives the devil its most persuasive voice.
What matter where, if I be still the same,And what I should be, all but less than heWhom thunder hath made greater? Here at leastWe shall be free; the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. Ray Bradbury, 1953
A fireman who burns books begins to read one, in a future where screens are family and speed is peace.
Oscar Wilde, 1895
Two friends invent imaginary relatives to escape their obligations, and their inventions collide in one country house full of people who talk in epigrams.
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Who was your father? He was evidently a man of some wealth. Was he born in what the Radical papers call the purple of commerce, or did he rise from the ranks of the aristocracy? Suzanne Collins, 2008
In a dystopian America, survival means a dangerous dance between rebellion and the crushing power of a totalitarian Capitol.
Henry David Thoreau, 1854
A two-year experiment in living cheaply beside a pond, written as a running argument with your own busyness, your possessions, and the life you assumed you had to lead.
Edgar Allan Poe, 1850
Poe's detective Dupin, a whirlpool, a black cat, a revenge vow: tales that made detection and dread into modern literary pleasures.
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