English books from Europe

Recommended English books (1860)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you speak English here are some English books from Europe for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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The Oedipus Cycle : An English Version by Sophocles EN

Rating: 3 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
Description:
English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.


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The Only Story

The Only Story by Julian Barnes EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of fiction's greatest mappers of the human heart.

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The Opposite of a Person by Lieke Marsman EN

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Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
Description:
If people were evil, and I wished to be good, then I had to�make sure that I was the opposite of a person.
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1465.

The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting : A Powerful Memoir of Overcoming an Eating Disorder by Evanna Lynch EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
'Gradually, I began to feel this dawning awareness that womanhood was coming for me, that it was looming inevitably, and it didn't feel safe... While those around me tried to expedite it, simulate it, exacerbate it, I tried to strangle it.' A raw and compelling new memoir from actress and activist Evanna Lynch about the battle between perfection and creativity. Evanna Lynch has long been viewed as a role model for recovering anorexics and the story of her casting as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films has reached almost mythic proportions. Yet even after recovery, there remains a conflict ... continue

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The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together' To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful g... continue

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The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska EN

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A collection of stories by an Australian writer. They range from Sight and Solitude, on the loneliness that comes with being blind, to The Adultery Factor, an illicit roman a trois.

1468.

The Orchard : A Novel by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. “Spectacular . . . intensely evocative and gorgeously written . . . will fill readers’ eyes with tears and wonder.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya’s dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orchard, listening to Queen songs, and ... continue

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The Oresteia : Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides by Aeschylus EN

Rating: 3.5 (5 votes)
Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
Description:
In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In Agamemnon, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father... continue
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The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus EN

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Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
Description:
Comprised of three tragedies - The theme is the chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argus, a chain finally broken only by the intervention of the goddess Athene_______________
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