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1varielle
Dec 23, 2017, 11:41 am

Wau-Bun by Mrs. John Kenzie
À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
Summa Theologiae by by Thomas Aquinas
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Los días más felices by Rodrigo Hasbun

3rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 23, 2017, 2:51 pm

Le Divorce* by Diane Johnson

Sei Personaggi in Cerca D'Autore
by Luigi Pirandello

Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Aeneis# by Vergil

Les Trois Mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas

*The novel is in English, despite the French title.

#Aeneis: the epic is in Latin, with a title borrowed from Greek; the English title Aeneid
comes from the oblique cases of "Aeneis":
Aeneidos, etc.

5rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 23, 2017, 10:00 pm

Aku-Aku by Thor Heyerdahl

Bellum Gallicum by Julius Caesar

Bellum Civile* by Lucan

Os sertoes by Euclides da Cunha

Viaggio in Etiopia. . . by Curzio Malaparte

*an unfinished epic poem; a prose work by
one of the belligerents, Julius Caesar, has
the same title.

6tropics
Dec 24, 2017, 11:11 am

Russka - Edward Rutherfurd
Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jean De Florette - Marcel Pagnol
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoisie Sagan
Les Belles Images - Simone de Beauvoir

8inge87
Dec 24, 2017, 11:44 pm

El Despertar de la señorita Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
Hymnen an die Kirche by Gertrud von Le Fort
De Vita Agricolae by Tacitus
História do cerco de Lisboa by José Saramago
潮騒 (Shiosai) by Yukio Mishima

9rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 25, 2017, 2:04 am

11rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 27, 2017, 2:24 pm

Voina i Mir by Leo Tolstoy

Persiles y Segismundo**
by Miguel de Cervantes

Frithiofs Saga by Esaias Tegner

Argonautica by* Apollonius of Rhodes

Hercules Oetaeus by Seneca

*Another short epic with the same title on the Jason and Medea legend, a very different version, Latin, was later written by Valerius Flaccus

**Cervantes is said to have called this short novel his best work!

13rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 30, 2017, 11:51 pm

Poema de Mio Cid Anonymous (English trs.
by W. S. Merwin et al.

Chanson de Roland Anonymous

Filostrato by Giovanni Bocacciio

Mostellaria* by Plautus

Heauton Timorumenos**
by Terence

*@rolandperkins played the
role of Misargyrides, money-lender's assistant, in a 1951
Latin language production
of this.

** Despite the Greek title, this is in Latin.

15rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 26, 2018, 8:45 pm

Vilvanden by Henrik Ibsen

Pseudolus by Plautus

Tempo di Uccidere by Ennio Flaiano

Il Cielo eʻ rosso by Giuseppe Berto

Theophrastou tou Ephesiou peri to Lithon Biblion
by Theophrastus