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Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson Written in the middle of his career, Idylls of the King is Tennyson's longest and most ambitious work. Reflecting his lifelong interest in Arthurian themes, his primary sources were Malory's Morte d'Arthur and the Welsh Mabinogion. For him, the Idylls embodied the universal and unending war between sense and soul, and Arthur the highest ideals of manhood and kingship; an attitude totally compatible with the moral outlook of his age. Poetically, Tennyson was heir to the Romantics, and Keats's influence in particular can be seen clearly in much of his work. Yet Tennyson's style is undoubtedly his own and he achieved a delicacy of phrase and subtlety of metrical effect that are unmatched. This edition, based on the text authorized by Tennyson himself, contains full critical apparatus. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/ #DailyMotivation #InspireChange #Dostoevsky #CarlJung #FriedrichNietzsche #MarcusAurelius #LeoTolstoy #OscarWilde #Philosophy #Plato #Socrates #Stoic #Stoicism #AncientWisdom #BetterPeople

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is an 1854 narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. He wrote the original version on 2 December 1854, and it was published on 9 December 1854 in The Examiner. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/ #DailyMotivation #InspireChange #Dostoevsky #CarlJung #FriedrichNietzsche #MarcusAurelius #LeoTolstoy #OscarWilde #Philosophy #Plato #Socrates #Stoic #Stoicism #AncientWisdom #BetterPeople

In Memoriam is Tennyson's tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam who died at the age of 22, written over a period of 17 years. The original title of the poem was "The Way of the Soul", and this might give an idea of how the poem is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period, including wrestling with the big philosophico-scientific questions of his day. It is perhaps because of this that the poem is still popular with and of interest to modern readers. Owing to its length and its arguable breadth of focus, the poem might not be thought an elegy or a dirge in the strictest formal sense. The poem is not arranged exactly in the order in which it was written. The prologue, for example, is thought to have been one of the last things written. Critics believe, however, that the poem as a whole is meant to be chronological in terms of the progression of Tennyson's grief. The passage of time is marked by the three descriptions of Christmas at different points in the poem, and the poem ends with a description of the marriage of Tennyson's sister. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/

'The Lady of Shalott' is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson. Inspired by the short prose text 'La Damigella di Scalot' from the 13th-century, it tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot. It is one of Tennyson's most famous and memorable works, with its lucid medieval romanticism, as well as enigmatic symbolism. Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892), invariably known as Alfred Lord Tennyson, was born in Somersby, UK. At the age of 18, he published his first book, 'Poems by Two Brothers' with his brother, later followed by 'Poems Chiefly Lyrical' (1830). In 1850, Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate and married his childhood friend, Emily Sellwood. In 1884, as a great favorite of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was given the title of Baron Tennyson of Aldworth, the first Englishman to be granted such a high rank solely for his literary faculty. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/

An inspiring work that offers direction and wise counsel for increasing awareness of self, one's motivations, and the importance of each person's unique contribution to society. First published in 1926 as The Science of Living, Alfred Adler's Understanding Life provides a straightforward and common-sense system for learning more about ourselves, the reasons for our behavior, and ways to change for the better. Adler provides guidelines for discovering how our beliefs--our "private logic"--hold us back, as well as useful tools for breaking free of this negative thinking. Stressing individual uniqueness and creative ability as well as the importance of common sense, Adler shows us how to work toward our goals without worrying about the outcome. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression—the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims—men, women, and children—we encounter secret police operations, labor camps and prisons; the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the welcome that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956—a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle—has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation , calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1917, is reconstructed from the alienating viewpoints of historical witnesses. The sole voice of reason among the advisers to Tsar Nikolai II, Stolypin died at the hands of the anarchist Mordko Bogrov, and with him perished Russia's last hope for reform. Translated by H.T. Willetts. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/

Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps. His story is interwoven with the stories of a dozen fellow prisoners - each an unforgettable human being - from the prison janitor to the tormented Marxist intellectual who designed the Dnieper dam; of the reigning elite and their conflicted subordinates; and of the women, wretched or privileged, bound to these men. A landmark of Soviet literature, 'The First Circle' is as powerful today as it was when it was first published, nearly thirty years ago. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the “cancerous” Soviet police state. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/ *

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"-Harrison Salisbury (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/