#clasics

[dataspin40]

Classic cars

#cars #Design #Clasics

[silence-book-and-tea]

“¡Qué triste es estar solo, completamente solo, y no poder llorar sobre el pasado, porque todo lo perdido era el vacío, la nada, un cero estúpido, un sueño...!”

Noches blancas - Fiódor Dostoievski

#books #libros #quotes #frases #literature #literatura #literary quotes #frases literarias #clasics #clasicos #noches blancas #white nights #fiodor dostoievski #dreams #sueños

[everythinginbooks]

Beginning your classics journey

So you want to begin reading classics, (or older books) but whenever you open the book, you're met by a bunch of words that don't make sense, paragraph-long sentences and weird spellings or expressions. I know the feeling, and some authors are definitely more guilty of this than others are (looking at you Victor Hugo), so here are a few classics that got me started on my own classics journey fairly early on!

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)

I think the beginning of the goodreads summary captures what this book means to be; "the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty." Don't let that fool you, the only devil that appears in this story could be argued to be Dorian Gray himself.

One of my all time favourites, The Picture of Dorian Gray is on the shorter side, though no less impactful. Oscar Wilde's descriptive language is truly beautiful, and the strange narrative keeps you wondering how the novel will end. An overlooked part of this book is the preface, which is, in my opinion, a quite interesting and wise view on art and its use in the world. Though the very beginning of this book is quite wordy, the beauty comes if you bear with it through the first few pages.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

Another shorter novel, this one follows a london legist as he invistigates a series of mysterious occurances surrounding his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and the criminal Mr. Edward Hyde. Believed to be one of the defining pieces of literature in the horror genre, I greatly suggest this classic, as it is incredibly intruiging and is still referenced today in media, such as in Marvel's The Hulk. Perhaps that association can elude to the connection between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...? Well, you may figure that one out for yourself.

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1605)

Shakespeare is a man who is famous for his plays and poems, and in my english class for how annoying his iambic pentameter is to write properly. However, this isn't about his poetry, but his comedy that features faeries and ancient greek lovers, which is honestly my all time favourite Shakespeare play. You may know it for its appearance in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, being the play in which Neil plays Puck.

The play, to quote my dear old friend wikipedia, "consists of five interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta", though is most famously known for the lovers' quarrel between Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena, which can most accurately be explained as the most heinous love square to exist. Hermia loves Lysander though her father insists she marry Demetrius, and Helena loves Demetrius, who is supposed to marry Hermia. It's quite a mess, though a fun one to read, and greatly recommend you do the same.

A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)

No classics list is complete without a mandatroy mention of Sherlock Holmes (yes, I consider dear old Sherlock a classic). Any of the Sherlock Holmes stories would be an honourable mention for this short list, but A Study In Scarlet is canonically the first Sherlock Holmes novel, the inspiration for the first episode of BBC's Sherlock, AND also the first piece of classical literature I've ever read, courtesy of my 5th grade English teacher. Thank you Henrik.

Sherlock Holmes is always quite fun, and in this one you are dragged by the heels by Dr. Watson as you follow Holmes around trying to solve the murder of Enoch Drebber. Now, I won't say too much, as this one is pretty well known, but the Doyle novels can be what thrusts you deeper down the well of classical literature.

There you have it, a small list of some novels that can possibly make you need to read some old(er) books, and finally feel intellectualy superior, included in certain conversations or whatever it is you wish to gain by beginning this journey.

Happy reading!

-Cami

#bookblr #bookish #reading #clasics #dorian gray #shakespeare #bookworm #books and reading #short reads #classical literature

[lipid]

no matter how much time passes i cant stop thinking about this video

#my first exposure to anime aside from dbz and other classica #clasics #🎀 #Youtube

[littleghosth]

My favourite passages from each of Ovid's metamorphoses day 7:

Phaethon

"Look into my eyes!

Would you could look into my heart and see

And understand your father's agony!

See, last, how rich the world around you lies,

The bounty of the lands, the seas, the skies;

Choose what you will of these- it shall be yours.

But this alone, not this! Bane truly named

Not glory, Phaethon- bane this gift not boon!"

Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by A. D. Melville

#poetry #dark academia #clasics #classic academia #writing #writblr #poem #classics #literature #prose #classic #roman poetry #roman history #roman mythology #greek myth #greek mythology #greek gods

[maniaeofmadness]

You know how Clueless is a modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma?

I wanna do that with the Iliad

#it would 100% be inspired by song of Achilles #but like #modern day #soa #song of achilles #clueless #Jane Austen #clasics #the iliad #homer #yuh

[esotericawakenings]

So I found this in a thrift store. This book was great! I just ordered the other two!

#sci #scifinovel #scifination #scifi #science fiction #novel #cs lewis #out of the silent planet #vintage book #bookworm #bookshelf #vintage books #clasical #clasics #fantasy #thrifstorefinds #thrifting #bibliophile #bibliotherapy

[haggamenon]

Some times i feel sad and depressed buuuuut…

Humme Miura Sabina Miyazaki Niche Eastwood Tolkin Jackson Guevara Bowie McCartney Casablancas Greenwoods Wallace Beethoven Selway Yorke Puzo Nazaret DaFoe Kondō Lubezki Groening Blanc Hill McKellen Collins Miller Bourdain O'Brien Kjellberg Muller Osborne Huidobro Welles Kubrick Lammar Cerati Huxley Grhol Oliveri Castillo Ruesch Moretti Fraiture Valensi Lenon Kojima Sebastian PaulJones Flowers Dicaprio Pattinson Mcgregor Hartnett Mead Malinowski Pop Schopenhauer Lubezki Harrison  Hammond Moretti Mercury Vivaldi Cuarón Pitt  Humem-Christo Bangalter Feldman-Vazan Simon Hesse Cobain  Orwel Newton Hetfield Tarantino Rand Fertita Sandlin Gastrow Bach Ward Dimartino Konietzko Remi Tucker Rousseau

it's a little hard to stay mad 

#movie #bored #music #anime #video games #books #sad #this is depressing #cuture #manga #antropologia #actors #distopia #clasics

[fflouverites]

Ne istediğimi kendim de bilmiyordum; hayattan korkuyordum, hayattan kaçıp uzaklaşmak istiyordum, ama gene de hayattan bir şeyler bekliyordum.

Tolstoy - itiraflarım

#pinterest #nature #aestheitcs #kitap alıntıları #clasics #sokak nöbetçileri #aşkın de hali #kibrit çöpü mezarlığı #emare #itiraflarım

[sario29]

Sei Shōnagon, al servicio de la emperatriz

#culture #literature #writing #japan tour #clasics #art

[silence-book-and-tea]

“Y te escribí. Te escribí cualquier cosa, y no me contestaste. Traté de ir acostumbrándome al silencio. Sentía vergüenza y ningún orgullo por haber conquistado esta independencia inútil a fuerza de tanto negar lo que me dabas. Yo lo había hecho mierda. Yo había tenido éxito. Yo, especialista en demoliciones. Yo, mi enemigo.”

La canción de nosotros - Eduardo Galeano

#books #libros #quotes #frases #literary quotes #frases literarias #literature #literatura #clasics #clasicos #la cancion de nosotros #eduardo galeano

[the-watcher-in-the-sky]

#viy 1967 #viy #clasic horror #horror movie #horror #scary #creepy #macabre #eerie #spooky #terrifying #horror blog #movie #film #horror movies #vampire aesthetic #vampires #werewolf #werewolves #vampire #russian #soviet #vintage horror #vintage #witch #witches #soviet horror #russian horror #folk horror #60s movies

[hereticalsloth]

sisyphus but he is cleaning the kitchen and every time he finishes his dad comes into his room and tells him he missed something

#clasics #as in the field of study #not something that is in its self classic #you left the ketchup on the counter #I’m just trying to nap

[litriu]

worship

+ bonus without shading

#zolu #one piece #roronoa zoro #monkey d luffy #Litriu Art #ZOLUS COME GET Y'ALL JUICE. #i will add an image description later i'm so sorry #feeling extremely normal about zolu after the mi capitan animatic #i've been brainwormsing about sun god luffy and devoted not-worshipper zoro since yesterday #this isn't exactly that au #but i wanted to draw some dramatic-ass clasical sculpture-esque art #they are t4t for the record zoro is just not in a good pose to show his scars.

[kobolding]

Mew time mew time

Ive seen a lot of fanart of the twos in these stories so i wanted to give the mews some love. I really love reading these stories

Mew(ther) belongs to @xxtc-96xx

King belongs to @pokemon-ash-aus

Randall (& midas & monique) belong to @loupy-mongoose

Aaaand Mew belongs to @mewtwoandme

Might update this later with transparents and or shading

#pokemon #mew #art #artists on tumblr #randall was my favorite to draw bc hes so long but each of them was fun #og mews a clasic #and mewtwo n mes last unicorn insp was super fun #king was my spouses fave and i cant blame em #shadow mew is such a cool conceot

[wolfram-but-art]

Human Arch + Classic mercs <:( (while Medic was working with em)

i don't know much about the clasic mercs but i think Medic would just not tell them he made Archie. one day Archie just shows up and they have to accept him as part of the team (heavy's not very happy that Medic spent their money on making a human-bird hybrid but he gets over it eventually)

um also

#i didn't mean to take so long with your ask i just... didnt know how to approach it #i was a little scared of it because i dont know anything about the clasic mercs and i didnt wanna look silly #and then art block happened and i kept getting distracted with other art projects and um... yeah..... #i got you a cake tho.... #wolfart asks #tf2 #tf2 fanart #tf2 oc #human!archimedes #medic tf2 #cheavy #clasic heavy #the drawing was gonna be more elaborate but i hated it so you get the simplified version. sorry again