Book Events for HouseholdOpera

14th century

• Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1300s)

1600, the date of Peri's Euridice, the first surviving opera

• The new Kobbé's complete opera book by Gustav Kobbé

17th century

• Orlando; a biography, by Virginia Woolf (1600s)

4th of July

• The yellow wallpaper. Afterword by Elaine R. Hedges by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• Stuck rubber baby by Howard Cruse

Age of Sail

• The Far Side of the World (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Fortune of War (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
• H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Hundred Days (Aubrey/Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
• The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
• Post Captain (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
• Treason's Harbour (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey-Maturin (Paperback)) by Patrick O'Brian

AIDS epidemic

• Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit; or, There and back again, by J. R. R. Tolkien by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of Waterloo

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Black Death

• Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Christmas

• The haunted tea-cosy : a dispirited and distasteful diversion for Christmas by Edward Gorey

Election of George W. Bush

• The essential Dykes to watch out for by Alison Bechdel

Fin de siècle

• What Maisie knew by Henry James

Great Frost

• Orlando; a biography, by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Holy Week

• The divine comedy. Italian text with translation and comment, by John D. Sinclair by Dante Alighieri

Iraq War

• The essential Dykes to watch out for by Alison Bechdel

Irish Revolution

• Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

Jazz Age

• The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Late Victorian Era

• What Maisie knew by Henry James (1897)

Napoleonic Wars

• The Fortune of War (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
• H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Hundred Days (Aubrey/Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
• Post Captain (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey-Maturin (Paperback)) by Patrick O'Brian
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (1815)

Norman Conquest of England

• The Bayeux tapestry and the Norman invasion : with an introduction and a translation from the contemporary account of Wi by Pictaviensis Gulielmus (1066)

Peace of Amiens

• Post Captain (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian (1802-1803)

Peloponnesian War

• Men in the Off Hours (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anne Carson

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1814)

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit; or, There and back again, by J. R. R. Tolkien by J. R. R. Tolkien

Reign of Edward II, King of England

• Edward the Second; edited by W. Moelwyn Merchant by Christopher Marlowe (1327-01-25)

Reign of Hadrian

• Memoirs of Hadrian ; and, Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (138-07-10)

Renaissance

• Renaissance self-fashioning : from More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

Revolutionary War

• Book of ages : the life and opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

September 11 Attacks

• The essential Dykes to watch out for by Alison Bechdel

Siege of Troy

• Iliad of Homer/Books Xiii-Xxiv (Classical Series) by M. M. Willcock

Toulon Blockade

• The Ionian Mission (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian (1813)

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the goblet of fire by J. K. Rowling

Trojan War

• The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) by Allen Mandelbaum

Victorian Era

• Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass, by Lewis Carroll [pseud.] Illustrated by John Tenniel by Lewis Carroll
• Goblin market by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1862)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1850s)

Watergate Scandal

• Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

World War I

• Regeneration (Regeneration Trilogy) by Pat Barker
• The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• Labyrinths : selected stories & other writings by Jorge Luis Borges

World War III

• The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury