#The Island of Madam Moreau

[babylon-crashing]

Betty Page's The Island of Madam Moreau (1952)

#The Island of Madam Moreau #Betty Page #Cat Women #Sayer of the Law #It is Bad #myart

[yumalianinja]

It just occurs to me that Madame Monstrosity from Spider-Boy is either a reference or homage to Dr. Moreau from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells.

#marvel #marvel comics #comic #comic books #spider boy #bailey briggs #madame monstrosity #dr moreau #the island of dr moreau #h.g. wells #science fiction #novel

[thesweetestsupervillain]

Headcanon: True Potential

// Okay so one of the more recent retcons in Marvels' comics about Spiderman's lore has given me Gina vibes. It's been introduced that a woman named Madame Monstrosity is behind all the bad things that happened with the various animal themed backgrounds of Spiderman's villains, because she's territorial over her humanimal creations, with her whole island of doctor moreau thing going on.

Except, instead of going out there and committing crimes, she spends all her time in a mansion doing her own thing. Which is very Gina.

But the point I'm trying to focus on is that like Madame Monstrosity, Madam Gourmand has extreme amounts of potential she's simply choosing not to use. It fits very much into the 'I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs' level of supervillainy.

Because make no mistake, Gina's science is the sort that no normal person could replicate. She's cracked the secret of genetics to the point where crossbreeding humans and plants is almost effortless, and she's managed to understand biological sciences to the point where flesh is almost a canvas for her to paint on. There's almost nothing she can't do if she's interested in doing in.

Consider this: Madam Gourmand spends most of her time turning people into fruits or candy or whatever else, because it's fun and also amusing to her. It's also, in her words, a challenge.

What she's not doing is turning people into monsters or super soldiers or creating mass plagues or whatever else. To her, that's something every supervillain wants to do. It's boring.

But that's also why she gets a wide berth when it comes to doing things on her turf.

Because she can and will insert herself and her genius if she feels she has good cause to. The best way to think of her is the sort of genius who could be a monster, but chooses not to be, because she feels it's beneath her.

#ooc #headcanon

[kd-holloman]

Twelve Common Archetypes

Hey, everyone! I'm currently in school to get my bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing. So far I've learned some grammar stuff that I'm going to share at another time and some of the common archetypes seen in writing. If you're interested there will be more under the cut!

1. The Lover - The romantic lead who is guided by the heart.

Strengths: Humanism, passion, conviction

Weaknesses: Naivete, irrationality

Archetype Examples: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Noah Calhoun (The Notebook), Scarlett O’Hara (Gone With the Wind), Belle (Beauty and the Beast).

2. The Hero - The protagonist who rises to meet a challenge and saves the day.

Strengths: Courage, perseverance, honor.

Weaknesses: Overconfidence, hubris.

Hero Archetype Examples: Achilles (The Iliad), Luke Skywalker (Star Wars), Wonder Woman (Wonder Woman), Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone).

3. The Magician - A powerful figure who has harnessed the ways of the universe to achieve key goals.

Strengths: Omniscience, omnipotence, discipline.

Weaknesses: Corruptibility, arrogance.

Magician Archetype Examples: Prospero (the Tempest), Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings), Morpheus (The Matrix), Darth Vader (Star Wars).

4. The Outlaw - The rebel who won’t abide by society’s demands

Strengths: Independent thinking, virtue, owes no favors.

Weaknesses: Self-involved, potentially criminal.

Examples: Han Solo (Star Wars), Dean Moriarty (On the Road), Humbert Humbert (Lolita), Batman (The Dark Night).

5. The Explorer - A character naturally driven to push the boundaries of the status quo and explore the unknown.

Strengths: Curious, driven, motivated by self-improvement

Weakness: Restless, unreliable, never satisfied

Examples: Odysseus (The Odyssey), Sal Paradise (On the Road), Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes).

6. The Sage - A wise figure with knowledge for those who inquire. The mother figure or mentor is often based on this archetype.

Strengths: Wisdom, experience, insight.

Weaknesses: Cautious, hesitant to actually join the action.

Famous sages: Athena (The Odyssey), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars), Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs), The Oracle (The Matrix).

7. The Innocent - A morally pure character, often a child, whose only intentions are good.

Strengths: Morality, kindness, sincerity.

Weakness: Vulnerable, naive, rarely skilled.

Examples: Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol), Lennie Small (Of Mice and Men), Cio-Cio-san (Madame Butterfly), Buddy the Elf (Elf).

8. The Creator - A motivated visionary who creates art or structures during the narrative

Strengths: creativity, willpower, conviction.

Weaknesses: Self-involvement, single-mindedness, lack of practical skills.

Examples: Zeus (The Iliad), Dr. Emmett Brown (Back to the Future), Dr. Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau), Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein).

9. The Ruler - A character with legal or emotional power over others.

Strengths: Omnipotence, status, resources.

Weaknesses: Aloofness, disliked by others, out of touch.

Examples: Creon (Oedipus Rex), King Lear (King Lear), Aunt Sally (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Tony Soprano (The Sopranos).

10. The Caregiver - A character who continually supports others and makes sacrifices on their behalf.

Strengths: Honorable, selfless, loyal.

Weaknesses: Lacks personal ambition or leadership.

Examples: Dolly Oblonsky (Anna Karenina), Calpurnia (To Kill a Mockingbird), Samwell Tarly (The Game of Thrones series), Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins).

11. The Everyman - A relatable character who feels recognizable from daily life.

Strengths: grounded, salt-of-the-earth, relatable.

Weaknesses: Lacking special powers, often unprepared for what’s to come

Examples: Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit), Leopold Bloom (Ulysses), Leslie Knope (Parks & Recreation), Winston Smith (1984).

12. The Jester - A funny character or trickster who provides comic relief, but may also speak important truths.

Strengths: Funny, disarming, insightful.

Weakness: Can be obnoxious and superficial.

Examples: Sir John Falstaff (Henry V), King Lear’s Fool (King Lear), Frank and Estelle Costanza (Seinfeld), R2D2 and C-3PO (Star Wars).

#writerblr #writing #writers of tumblr #writing advice #writing reference #character archetypes #character development #characters #writeblr

[perpetual-stories]

Character Archetypes: Part One

hello, hello! hopefully everyone had a wonderful week! I know a lot of people were / are excited for Shadow and Bone on Netflix.

I personally don’t care. I’m just happy I’m playing the Last of Us Part 2 after being so upset about the developers making play as ABBY. Ugh.

PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT OR MENTION TLOUP2 SPOILERS. I HAVE NOT FINISHED THE GAME.

I avoided spoilers for a whole year, I deserve to play the game at my own pace!

whew... sorry ya’ll idk what came over me.

anyways, without further ado let’s dive right in!

As mentioned in a post before:

archetype characters are archetypes or character types or emotions that are very familiar and recurrent across novels. these archetypes are known to create a sense of familiarity among the readers.

it allows the readers to relate to the characters or events without wondering why exactly they can relate.

Every character written in a story has a unique set of traits and characteristics that make them them. They have their own strengths, flaws, and desires which propels your story forward.

Yet despite the differences writers have for their characters, there are foundational and recurring strengths and flaws certain character types have.

That’s where archetypes come in:

1. The Hero / The Warrior:

the character who rises to the occasion and has a plan and of course saves the day.

they have a particular skill set and string will power.

they will conquer the enemy.

these characters often suffer a crisis of confidence at their lowest point.

strengths: Courage, strength (physical or mental), and ability, and honor.

weakness: overconfidence, hubris

examples: Achilles (The Iliad), Luke Skywalker (Star Wars), Wonder Woman (Wonder Woman), Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), Hercules, Odysseus, Aragorn from Lord of the Rings

2. The Child / Innocent:

morally pure character, often seen as a child. only has good intentions.

often times, not always, the writer can make the child see the world through rose coloured tints until they don’t — facing reality.

of course they child / innocent doesn’t have to grow up. it’s up to the writer and the story they chose to tell.

strengths: Optimism, enthusiasm, imagination, morality, kindness, sincerity

weakness: Naivete, physical powerlessness, rarely skilled

desires: To be happy (or happier)

examples: Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol), Lennie Small (Of Mice and Men), Cio-Cio-san (Madame Butterfly), Buddy the Elf (Elf)

3. The Orphan:

these characters are plucked from obscurity and elevated to prominence.

these characters not always are orphans, but are in search of a “found family.”

strengths: Survival instinct, empathy, perseverance.

weakness: Lack of confidence, willingness to please others.

desires: To thrive and connect with others.

examples: Harry Potter, Oliver Twist, Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

4. The Creator:

is a character that is a motivated visionary who creates art or structures during the narrative.

nothing is more important than the need to make something.

in many — not all — the creator is willing to sacrifice their own well beings and relationships in pursuit of a greater goal.

their single minded vision often leads them to pay the price.

strengths: Creativity, drive, the ability to execute their vision,

weakness: self-involvement, single-mindedness, lack of practical skills, personal sacrifice, perfectionism,

desires: To create something of value to cement their legacy.

examples: Remy from Ratatouille, Alexander Hamilton from Hamilton, Dr Jekyll from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Willy Wonka, Zeus (The Iliad), Dr. Emmett Brown (Back to the Future), Dr. Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau), Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

5. The Caregiver:

A character who continually supports others and makes sacrifices on their behalf.

They might be a mother, father, wife, husband, or best friend — whoever they are, they’ll do anything to protect their child, ward, lover, or best bud.

It’s quite rare for the caregiver to take center stage but such is the nature of one so selfless.

strengths: Generosity, selflessness, honorable, loyal.

weakness: lacking personal ambition or leadership, also selflessness: they are open to exploitation.

desires: To protect and help others.

examples: Eva in We Need to Talk About Kevin, Samwise from The Lord of the Rings, Mary Poppins.

voila! here you go everyone! sorry for not posting for the last few days, I needed a break! and yes how rude of me to split this post in two, as I usually do.

like, comment and reblog if you find this useful! also feel free to follow me for part two! if you like to reblog on Instagram feel free! tag me at perpetualstories

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#writing #writing advice #writing tips #original writing #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #writersconnection #writersofig #writersofinstagram #writings

[incorrectclassicbookquotes]

Last night I made a list of all the books that are on my reading list. Under the cut are them.

Emma by Jane Austen

Erwehon by Samuel Butler

For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Grimms’ Fairytales by The Brothers Grimm

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Madame Bovary by Gustavo Flaubert

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad

Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Iliad by Homer

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Odyssey by Homer

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perbault

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ulysses by James Joyce

Utopia by Thomas Moore

Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

Within a Budding Grove by Marcelo Proust

Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

If a book you want me to read is not included in this list feel free to recommend it. The only qualification is that it has to be a classic book. That means any classics not just books that are classics by American standards. This can include any classics from any countries as long as I can find a translated copy I will make it happen.

#book list #book recommendations

[crossoverworldtree]

Just Out of Curiosity, What Have Buffy and Angel Been Linked Too?

Within the show’s run and in other official canon material, Buffy and Angel have had crossover links to:

The Wild Bunch, Dracula, National Lampoon’s Vacation, The Lord of the Rings, Aliens, Buckaroo Banzai, The X-Files, Evil Dead, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, Doctor Who, and Godzilla. The “Expanded Universe” Material (Dark Horse Comics before Season 8, the IDW comics, Licensed Novels) add:

Frankenstein, James Bond, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the legendary figure of Springheel Jack, Sherlock Holmes, An American Werewolf in London, The Wolf Man, King Arthur, Zorro, The Cthulhu Mythos, Tarzan, Hellboy, Predator, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series), The Devil’s Footprints, Rosanne, Marvel Comic’s character Cytorrak (the thing that empowers The Juggernaut), Ghostbusters, the Dungeons & Dragons Multiverse, Peter David’s Fallen Angel, and Highlander: The Series. Buffy and Angel have been referenced by other series as well in the crossover sense. Those add:

Eureka, Simon R. Green’s Ghost of a Chance, Andy Barker P.I., Hack/Slash, Supernatural, Gen13, Blood and Bullets, House of the Dead 2 (movie), Marvel’s Legion of Monsters (featuring Elsa Bloodstone, Morbius the Living Vampire, N’kantu the Living Mummy, The Manphibian, Werewolf by Night, Tomb of Dracula, & Daimon Hellstrom), West Coast Avengers (featuring Kate Bishop, Clint Barton, Gwenpool, America Chavez, Quinten Quire, Fuse, Jeff the Land Shark, Madam Masque, Alloy (Ramone Watts), and Noh-Varr), and American Horror Story: Apocalypse. Those nods come in works that also reference: Carnacki: Ghostfinder, Drinking the Midnight Wing, The Monkeys’ Paw, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, Halfway to the Grave from the “Night Huntress” novel series, Sonja Blue, Blade (either comics or film series), Solomon Kane, and Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD. Buffy and Angel have been featured in what I like to refer to as “Megacrossover” tales as well, adding a plethora of other series to the mix. The additions include: White Zombie, The Black Coats, Arsene Lupin, Marvel’s Brother Voodoo, Child's Play, Tales of the Zombie, Revolt of the Zombies, James Bond, Angel Heart, Duke de Richleau, I Walked With a Zombie, John Thunstone, Kolchak the Night Stalker, Pirates of the Caribbean, Captian Blood, Lorna Doone, Gulliver's Travels, the works of Stephen King ("Jerusalem's Lot"), Leatherstocking Tales, Charmed, Treasure Island, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (the original short story), John Carter of Mars, The X-Files, Moby Dick, The Narrative of Arthur Gordan Pym of Nantucket, Mayfair Witches, Doc Savage, The Phantom, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Wild West (TV Series), Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, The Lone Ranger, Martin Hewitt, The Shadow, The Body Snatchers (the story on which Invasion of the Body Snatchers was based), L'Enigmatique Fen-Chu, Atlantida, The Exorcist, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Stepford Wives, Young Frankenstein, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Pretender, Beauty and the Beast (1980s Television Series), Bionic Woman (original series), Modesty Blaze, Knight Rider (original Series), The Equalizer, The Nyctalope, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Invaders (1950s Television Series), Blake and Mortimer (a Belgian comic), Sâr Dubnotal, Blithe Spirit (1941), Lensman, Simon Ark, Dark Shadows, Semi-Dual (The Occult Detector (1912)), Doctor Strange, John J. Malone, Kenneth J. Malone, Network (1976 film), I Dream of Jeannie, Northern Exposure, Jane Arden, The Continental Op, Nate Heller, Judex, Dr. Spektor, Some Like It Hot, Little Caesar, Scarface, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Dick Tracy, The Big Lebowski, Morris Klaw, Suicide Squad (Novel Series that began with Mr. Zero and the FBI Suicide Squad), Theodosia Throckmorton, John Thunstone, Fergus O'Breen, Rocket to the Morgue, Call Northside 777, "Bell, Book and Candle", Mr. Mulliner, Special Unit 2, The Quincunx of Time, Baal (of Renée Dunan's 1924 novel), Female Vampire (1975 Film), Doctor Omega (a Doctor Who pastiche), The Adventures of a Parisian Aeronaut in the Unknown Worlds, C. Auguste Dupin, Fantômas, The Merkabah Rider, Quantum Leap, Monk (TV Series), The Manitou (film), Simon of Gitta, Meaner than Hell, Kull, Conan the Barbarian, Steve Harrison, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Kung Fu, Indiana Jones, Batman, Something Wicked This Way Comes, House II: The Second Story, Winchester '73, The Quick and the Dead, Hombre, The Lone Ranger, The Pearl of Death, House of Horrors, The Brute Man, John Kirowan, Bran Mak Morn, Carmilla, World of Watches, Nosferatu, Underworld, Black Sunday, The Vampire Chronicles, Vampire City, The Black Coats, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Most Dangerous Game, The Vampyre (1819), The Count of Monte Cristo, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Lord Peter Wimsey, Waldemar Daninsky, Curse of the Crimson Altar, Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter, P. G. Wodehouse's Works, Viy, The Mummy (1932), Harry Dickenson, The Spider, Varney the Vampire, The Simpsons, Hellraiser/The Hellbound Heart, The Master Mind of Mars (part of Edgar Rice Burrough’s Mars series), The Wandering Jew’s Daughter, and She: A History of Adventure. Buffy and Angel also have two products that show up regularly in fiction.

One is Sugar Bombs or Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, which appear in Calvin and Hobbes, Marvel’s Runaways (featuring Nico Minoru, Karolina Dean, Chase Stein, Gert Yorkes, Molly Hayes, Old Lace, Xavin. Victor Mancha, and The Swarm), and The Incredibles 2. They also show up in the videogame series Fallout, but that is most likely an alternate universe. Morley Cigarettes are the other product that has a good travel life, enough to have its own Wikipedia Page. As such, I’ll only mention a few notable cases: Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead, Murder in the First, Platoon, Psycho (1960), The World’s End (2013), 24, American Horror Story “Birth”, The Americans, Beverly Hills 90210 (1990s series), Burn Notice, Californication, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, CSI: NY, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Dick Van Dyke Show, ER, Everybody Hates Chris, Friends, Heroes, Jake 2.0, Judging Amy, Justified, Lost, Malcolm in the Middle, Medium, Millennium, Mission: Impossible (TV Series), Nash Bridges, NCIS, New Amsterdam, Orange is the New Black, Pushing Daisies, Reaper, Seinfeld, Space: Above and Beyond, The Strain, That 70s Show, The Walking Dead, Twin Peaks, Warehouse 13, Weeds, System Shock 2, and The Twilight Zone “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”. Obviously, some of these would be alternate universes. Finally, there are two notable parody examples to bring up: Vampirella vs. Fluffy. Vampirella has had a LOT of crossovers, so she’s one step removed from Buffy at best, ergo, they probably met and given the tone of the comic, Vampi did not leave too happy with Buffy’s remarks about her outfit, or Willow. Big Wolf on Campus actually provides a rather respectful crossover, and all things considered, the title character likely met Faith before she came to Sunnydale if taken as a proper crossover. Totaling things up, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and Angel) have had 10 nods to the Cthulhu Mythos, 7 crossovers with Dracula, 5 with Frankenstein and Sherlock Holmes, 4 with Ghostbusters, and 3 with Doc Savage, Solomon Kane, Evil Dead/Army of Darkness, The X-Files, and Hellboy. And all that from just Buffy and Angel. Can you imagine what you find when you got a link further than that? Or two links? Six? 

To give a hint: The Mythos can add over 200 works, Dracula 160+, 79 from Frankenstein, 17 from Ghostbusters, 24 from Hellboy, 29 from Evil Dead, and 51 from The X-Files. There is a lot of overlap, of course, but it still sets a good idea of just how big this world is. Now, all Buffy needs is a crossover with Batman, and she’ll have hit the all the major crossover series. 

#Buffy the Vampire Slayer #Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG #Crossover Universe #Angel #List #World Building

[maxodinson]

Examples of Archetypes

After researching I found a website with examples archetypes:

1. The Lover

The romantic lead who’s guided by the heart.

Strengths: humanism, passion, conviction

Weaknesses: naivete, irrationality

Lover Archetype Examples: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Noah Calhoun (The Notebook), Scarlett O’Hara (Gone With the Wind), Belle (Beauty and the Beast)

2. The Hero

The protagonist who rises to meet a challenge and saves the day.

Strengths: courage, perseverance, honor

Weaknesses: overconfidence, hubris

Hero Archetype Examples: Achilles (The Iliad), Luke Skywalker (Star Wars), Wonder Woman (Wonder Woman), Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)

3. The Magician

A powerful figure who has harnessed the ways of the universe to achieve key goals.

Strengths: omniscience, omnipotence, discipline

Weaknesses: corruptibility, arrogance

Magician Archetype Examples: Prospero (The Tempest), Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings), Morpheus (The Matrix), Darth Vader (Star Wars)

4. The Outlaw

The rebel who won’t abide by society’s demands.

Strengths: independent thinking, virtue, owes no favors

Weaknesses: self-involved, potentially criminal

Outlaw Archetype Examples: Han Solo (Star Wars), Dean Moriarty (On the Road), Humbert Humbert (Lolita), Batman (The Dark Knight)

5. The Explorer

A character naturally driven to push the boundaries of the status quo and explore the unknown.

Strengths: curious, driven, motivated by self-improvement

Weaknesses: restless, unreliable, never satisfied

Explorer Archetype Examples: Odysseus (The Odyssey), Sal Paradise (On the Road), Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)

6. The Sage

A wise figure with knowledge for those who inquire. The mother figure or mentor is often based on this archetype.

Strengths: wisdom, experience, insight

Weaknesses: cautious, hesitant to actually join the action

Famous sages: Athena (The Odyssey), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars), Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs), The Oracle (The Matrix)

7. The Innocent

A morally pure character, often a child, whose only intentions are good.

Strengths: morality, kindness, sincerity

Weaknesses: vulnerable, naive, rarely skilled

Innocent Archetype Examples: Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol), Lennie Small (Of Mice and Men), Cio-Cio-san (Madame Butterfly), Buddy the Elf (Elf)

8. The Creator

A motivated visionary who creates art or structures during the narrative.

Strengths: creativity, willpower, conviction

Weaknesses: self-involvement, single-mindedness, lack of practical skills

Creator Archetype Examples: Zeus (The Iliad), Dr. Emmett Brown (Back to the Future), Dr. Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau), Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

9. The Ruler

A character with legal or emotional power over others.

Strengths: omnipotence, status, resources

Weaknesses: aloofness, disliked by others, out of touch

Ruler Archetype Examples: Creon (Oedipus Rex), King Lear (King Lear), Aunt Sally (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Tony Soprano (The Sopranos)

10. The Caregiver

A character who continually supports others and makes sacrifices on their behalf.

Strengths: honorable, selfless, loyal

Weaknesses: lacking personal ambition or leadership

Caregiver Archetype Examples: Dolly Oblonsky (Anna Karenina), Calpurnia (To Kill a Mockingbird), Samwell Tarly (The Game of Thrones series), Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins)

11. The Everyman

A relatable character who feels recognizable from daily life.

Strengths: grounded, salt-of-the-earth, relatable

Weaknesses: lacking special powers, often unprepared for what’s to come

Everyman Archetype Examples: Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit), Leopold Bloom (Ulysses), Leslie Knope (Parks & Recreation), Winston Smith (1984)

12. The Jester

A funny character or trickster who provides comic relief, but may also speak important truths.

Strengths: funny, disarming, insightful

Weaknesses: can be obnoxious and superficial

Jester Archetype Examples: Sir John Falstaff (Henry V), King Lear’s Fool (King Lear), Frank and Estelle Costanza (Seinfeld), R2D2 and C-3PO (Star Wars)

These 12 archetypes, each with highly identifiable traits, populate our books, poetry, films, and theatrical productions.

#MP1

[elcinelateleymickyandonie]

Jacques Marin.

Filmografía

Cine

Años 1940-1950

1946 : Le Beau voyage de Louis Cuny - Un mauvais garçon

1948 : L'assassin est à l'écoute de Raoul André - le barman

1950 : Dieu a besoin des hommes de Jean Delannoy

1950 : Le Mystérieux colonel Barclay, cortometraje de Jacques Vilfrid

1951 : Seul dans Paris : de Hervé Bromberger un homme du village

1952 : Jeux interdits de René Clément - Georges Dollé

1952 : Nous sommes tous des assassins de André Cayatte

1953 : Quitte ou double de Robert Vernay - Lucien

1953 : Un jour comme les autres, cortometraje de Georges Rouquier - Pierrot

1954 : Faites-moi confiance de Gilles Grangier - Bob

1954 : Avant le déluge de André Cayatte - L'ouvrier à bicyclette

1954 : J'y suis... j'y reste de Maurice Labro

1954 : Papa, maman, la bonne et moi de Jean-Paul Le Chanois - Le voisin

1955 : Si Paris nous était conté de Sacha Guitry - Un gardien de prison

1955 : Papa, maman, ma femme et moi de Jean-Paul Le Chanois - Le garagiste

1955 : Ça va barder de John Berry

1955 : Sur le banc de Robert Vernay - Le policier qui court après La Hurlette et Carmen

1955 : Le Dossier noir de André Cayatte - Un policier

1955 : Les Évadés de Jean-Paul Le Chanois - Un prisonnier

1955 : French Cancan de Jean Renoir - Un homme dans la file d'attente

1955 : La Rue des bouches peintes de Robert Vernay - Le commissaire

1955 : Les Hommes en blanc de Ralph Habib

1955 : Gas-oil de Gilles Grangier - Le gendarme

1955 : L'Amant de lady Chatterley de Marc Allégret - Un homme du pub

1956 : Des gens sans importance de Henri Verneuil - Le routier qui fesse Clotilde

1956 : Marie-Antoinette de Jean Delannoy - Un crieur de journaux

1956 : Mon curé chez les pauvres d’Henri Diamant-Berger

1956 : Ces sacrées vacances de Robert Vernay - L'automobiliste

1956 : Le Sang à la tête de Gilles Grangier - L'agent de police

1956 : Paris, Palace Hôtel de Henri Verneuil - Le livreur de fleurs

1956 : La Traversée de Paris de Claude Autant-Lara Le patron du restaurant

1956 : Cette sacrée gamine de Michel Boisrond - Un gendarme

1956 : Reproduction interdite de Gilles Grangier

1957 : Le rouge est mis de Gilles Grangier - Un flic de garde

1957 : A Paris tous les deux - (Paris holiday) de Gerd Oswald.

1957 : Les femmes sont marrantes de André Hunebelle - Le taxi

1957 : Les Vendanges (The Vintage) de Jeffrey Hayden

1957 : Le Coin tranquille de Robert Vernay

1957 : Porte des Lilas de René Clair - L'inspecteur qui enquête sur le vol chez l'épicier

1957 : Une Parisienne de Michel Boisrond - Le motard

1957 : Montparnasse 19 de Jacques Becker - Le patron du café

1958 : Les Misérables de Jean-Paul Le Chanois : Le messager (dans la première époque)

1958 : La Tour, prends garde ! de Georges Lampin

1958 : Le Désordre et la Nuit de Gilles Grangier - Le garçon de café bavard

1958 : En cas de malheur de Claude Autant-Lara - Le réceptionniste du Trianon-Hôtel

1958 : Les Racines du ciel (Roots of Heaven) de John Huston - Cerisot

1958 : Le Miroir à deux faces de André Cayatte - Un professeur

1958 : Le Temps des œufs durs de Norbert Carbonnaux - Le pêcheur

1958 : Trois jours à vivre de Gilles Grangier : le gendarme

1958 : Les Tricheurs de Marcel Carné - Monsieur Félix

1958 : Madame et son auto de Robert Vernay - Monsieur Rouille

1958 : Le Joueur de Claude Autant-Lara

1959 : Archimède le clochard de Gilles Grangier - Mimile, un habitué du café

1959 : Rue des prairies de Denys de La Patellière - Monsieur Mauduis

1959 : Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre de Jean Delannoy - Albert, le chauffeur de la comtesse

1959 : Guinguette de Jean Delannoy - Albert

1959 : Drôles de phénomènes de Robert Vernay - L'inspecteur

1959 : Croquemitoufle ou Les Femmes des autres de Claude Barma - Le contrôleur

1959 : La Bête à l'affût de Pierre Chenal - Le contrôleur routier

1959 : Match contre la mort de Claude Bernard-Aubert.

Año 1960

1960 : Les Vieux de la vieille de Gilles Grangier - Le brigadier de gendarmerie dont la chaîne de vélo a sauté

1960 : La Française et l'Amour, sketch Le Mariage de René Clair - Le contrôleur

1960 : Drame dans un miroir (Crack in the Mirror) de Richard Fleischer - Le gardien

1960 : Pantalaska de Paul Paviot - Monsieur Tropman

1960 : Monsieur Suzuki de Robert Vernay

1960 : Vers l'extase de René Wheeler - Le boucher

1960 : Au cœur de la ville de Pierre Gautherin

1961 : Le Président de Henri Verneuil - Gaston, le chauffeur de car.

1961 : Le cave se rebiffe de Gilles Grangier - L'inspecteur Larpin, de la police mondaine

1961 : Le Général ennemi (The Ennemy General) de George Sherman - Marceau

1961 : Le Grand Risque (The Big Gamble) de Richard Fleischer - L'employé de l'hôtel

1961 : Arrêtez les tambours de Georges Lautner - L'épicier

1961 : Le Monocle noir de Georges Lautner - Trochu

1961 : La Pendule à Salomon de Vicky Ivernel

1962 : Le Gentleman d'Epsom de Gilles Grangier - Raoul, le boucher turfiste

1962 : Gigot, le clochard de Belleville (Gigot) de Gene Kelly - Jean

1962 : Le Couteau dans la plaie de Anatole Litvak - Le commissaire

1962 : La Belle des îles (Tiara Tahiti) de Ted Kotcheff - Desmoulins

1962 : Portrait-robot de Paul Paviot

1963 : Charade de Stanley Donen - L'inspecteur Édouard Grandpierre

1963 : Le Glaive et la Balance de André Cayatte - Un gendarme

1963 : Méfiez-vous, mesdames de André Hunebelle

1963 : Le Poulet, cortometraje de Claude Berri

1964 : Le Train de John Frankenheimer y Bernard Farrel - Jacques, le chef de gare de Rive-Reine

1964 : La Vie conjugale (version Françoise) d’André Cayatte

1964 : Vacances pour Yvette (Vacaciones para Yvette) de José-Maria Forque

1965 : Fantômas se déchaîne de André Hunebelle - L'agent de police ferroviaire

1965 : Humour noir, sketch La Bestiole de Claude Autant-Lara

1965 : Les Bons Vivants, sketch La Fermeture de Gilles Grangier - L'acquéreur du mobilier de la maison close

1966 : Comment voler un million de dollars (How to steal a million) de William Wyler - Le gardien-chef du musée

1966 : Paris au mois d'août de Pierre Granier-Deferre - Bouvreuil

1966 : Les Centurions (Lost Command) de Mark Robson - Le maire coléreux à qui on prend son hélicoptère

1966 : Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde, sketch Aujourd'hui de Claude Autant-Lara - L'agent de police

1966 : La Vingt-cinquième Heure de Henri Verneuil - Le soldat chez Dubrosco

1968 : La Motocyclette (The Girl on a Motorcycle) de Jack Cardiff - Le pompiste

1968 : L'Homme à la Buick de Gilles Grangier - Un déménageur

1969 : La Nuit du lendemain (The Night of the Following Day) de Hubert Cornfield y Richard Boone - Le patron du café

1969 : La Fiancée du pirate de Nel.

Año 1970

1970 : Hello, Goodbye (Hello Goodbye) de Jean Negulesco

1970 : Darling Lili (Darling Lili) de Blake Edwards - Le major Duval

1971 : Mourir d'aimer de André Cayatte - Le correspondant

1971 : Le drapeau noir flotte sur la marmite de Michel Audiard - Antoine Simonet, chef de train S.N.C.F

1971 : Jo de Jean Girault - Andrieux, un policier chercheur

1971 : Le Cinéma de papa de Claude Berri - L'acteur jouant le chef de gare

1971 : Le Petit Matin de Jean-Gabriel Albicocco - La Bouhère

1973 : Shaft contre les trafiquants d'hommes (Shaft in Africa) de John Guillermin - L'inspecteur Cusset

1973 : Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie ? de Robert Lamoureux - L'épicier français collaborateur

1974 : L'Île sur le toit du monde (Island at the Top of the World) de Robert Stevenson - Le capitaine Brieux

1974 : Les murs ont des oreilles de Jean Girault - Lucas

1974 : Vos gueules, les mouettes ! de Robert Dhéry - Le porte-bannière

1974 : Les "S" pions (S.P.Y.S) d’Irvin Kershner - Lafayette

1974 : Impossible... pas français de Robert Lamoureux - Dussautoy

1975 : Bons baisers de Hong Kong d’Yvan Chiffre - Le gradé de la police

1975 : Opération Lady Marlène de Robert Lamoureux - Le bistrot

1975 : Flic Story de Jacques Deray - Le patron de l'auberge de Saint-Rémy

1975 : Catherine et compagnie de Michel Boisrond - Le patron de l'agence de location de voitures

1976 : Marathon Man (Marathon Man) de John Schlesinger - Leclerc

1976 : L'Année sainte de Jean Girault - Moreau, le gardien de prison

1976 : Le Jour de gloire de Jacques Besnard - Le patron du bistrot

1977 : Le mille-pattes fait des claquettes de Jean Girault - L'inspecteur de police

1977 : La Coccinelle à Monte-Carlo (Herbie Goes to Monte-Carlo) de Vincent McEveety - L'inspecteur Bouchet

1978 : L'Horoscope de Jean Girault - J.L. Beauché

1978 : La Grande cuisine (Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?) de Ted Kotcheff - Masseret

1978 : Général... nous voilà ! de Jacques Besnard - Mac Goland

1979 : Grandison d’Achim Kurz.

Años 1980 - 1990

1981 : Ach du lieber Harry de Jean Girault - Un haut dignitaire

1982 : Te marre pas .. c'est pour rire ! de Jacques Besnard - Albert, le chauff.

[theclanscript]

ruby

⋈ pairing: minhyuk x reader ⋈ word count: 5,279 ⋈ genre: pirate au ⋈ notes: welcome to the 1600s where minhyuk is still minhyuk except by candlelight ♥

Land Ho!

The cry of the ship's watch positioned in the crow's nest high up on the main mast set in motion a seemingly chaotic array of actions. Men started running across the deck and were joined by more crew emerging from the belly of the aquatic beast. Some started climbing up the smaller masts at the front and rear of the merchant ship and furling the sails, others began to loosen the ropes of the cargo that was stored on deck to prepare it for quick unloading. After weeks of being at the mercy of the rough ocean and even rougher weather, the once dark and sturdy wood had been bleached out in places by the brutal sun and nearly been whipped to the point of breaking by strong, salty waves. The sturdy hemp ropes that had kept them in place were frayed and stiff, but they had made it; destiny had been kind throughout the voyage and they had once again bested the sea.

You turned your head toward the wind and smiled.

You were standing at the taffrail watching the shore getting closer as the ship approached. The breeze was gentling ruffling your dress and behind you the booming voices of the crew mixed with the screams of seagulls as they crept closer and closer to the shore. It was just before noon and the sun was sitting high in the sky as you watched the preparations for the ship to end its duty. You were one day ahead of schedule, but that concerned nobody, least of all you. It just gave you one more day to spend in the infamous port town before embarking on the next leg of your journey.

You had boarded the Havant in Charleston before it had set sail to Jamaica, one of about a dozen passengers making their way from the colonies to the Caribbean. You usually didn’t mind lengthy journeys and spending time on the ocean if it wasn’t for a wealthy businessman from Virginia slightly past his prime who seemed about ready to propose to you after a couple of weeks at sea. Thankfully, you had brought Kihyun with you, who had not only acted as your servant, but also as your protector from unwanted advances of so-called gentlemen.

The journey could have been so pleasant.

It had been swift and without any disruptions worth mentioning once the Havant had made its way through the Windward Passage between the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola; the downward wind had allowed you to make good headway. The ship had used the momentum to round Jamaica from the east and was now headed straight for the town that was built on a stretch of land extending into the bay from the mainland, like the earth had tried to reach across the sea and split the coastal waters in two. The cargo the ship was carrying was mostly for the rich families living further inland, mostly on the prosperous sugar plantations. Since Jamaica had fallen under English reign, noblemen and traders had relocated from both the motherland and the new colonies in the north to the sunny island, which in turn naturally also demanded the presence of the Royal Navy – although it was barely felt.

You saw two officers conversing with the first mate as you and Kihyun disembarked, presumably collecting fees and a list of the passengers on board. Other than that, there was hardly any military present and overall the harbor felt like a peaceful civilian port on this sunny Friday. Kihyun was carrying your luggage, walking one step behind you as you strolled down the dock. You were swept along by the stream of people leaving the Havant, the crew having started to unload and the passengers making their way to the carriages waiting to take them to their domiciles. As you got closer to the cluster of vehicles, the door of a sleek, black coach opened and a familiar face appeared in the opening. The woman smiled gently when she saw you, waiting for you to get closer before reaching out her gloved hand. You took it and let her squeeze yours affectionately.

“It is so good to see you,” she said warmly. “It has been too long.”

“I hope you are adjusting well here,” you replied as Kihyun helped you into the carriage and closed the door behind you when you had sat down opposite of the woman. He stowed away the luggage before climbing onto the box next to the coachman. With a jerk, the carriage started moving. You pretended to watch the scenery outside for a while before turning back to the lady across from you.

“So, the move went smoothly?”

“Very,” she said. “The formalities were easier than I had anticipated.”

“I’m glad.” You both smiled, your shared secret filling the air between you. You had met the woman about a year ago, somewhere in the colonies, while traveling up north. When you had heard that she had settled down on a hill just beyond the large port town, you had contacted her with a small request – and she had willingly offered to accommodate you during your stay here. The estate she had recently purchased was new and spacious, and she had insisted that she would be honored to welcome you in her house.

“Madam Moreau,” you resumed the conversation, “I’m afraid I have another favor to ask.”

“Of course, my dear” she replied, her smile never faltering. “Anything you need.”

Kihyun was standing in front of the open window, the humid night air flowing past him and into the room. He had exchanged the white ruffled shirt and black breeches for comfortable pants and a tan linen shirt, apparently having given up on the buttons halfway up his torso. You were still trapped in your pompous dress that covered a petticoat and a suffocating corset. You knew you could not risk being seen in any state of undress with him in your room. Despite the pleasant relationship with your hostess, you intended to uphold a certain image, especially since Madam Moreau was not the only person living in the house. They were probably wondering why you were traveling with only a male servant already, and you did not want to fuel the rumor mill this shortly after your arrival.

“Tomorrow then?” Kihyun ran a hand through his damp hair to free his face of the bothersome strands. His prominent eyebrows knitted together, giving his face a somber expression.

“Yes.”

“Those parties are such a circus,” he mumbled disapprovingly. “Nothing but a meat market for people to find spouses or sinners.”

You smirked. “Precisely.”

“Which will it be for you then?”

“Whichever will find me.” You got up from your chair and walked to the window closest to you, facing away from Kihyun. You could hear him huff.

“That is not funny.”

“Then stop asking silly questions and start praying I find the right man.” You stared down at the town below you; the dim lights, the dark streets, the moonlight reflected on the still surface of the bay. Beyond the cliffs and rocks to the east the world was completely swallowed by blackness and there was no telling what lurked in the deep waters. Despite the heat, a chill rippled through your body.

You turned to look at Kihyun, but he was already gone.

The governor’s estate lay a little closer to the town than Madam Moreau’s home. The enormous iron gates opened cumbersomely to let your carriage pass. Madam Moreau’s cream-colored dress created a stark contrast to your own dark, deep red attire as you walked up the stairs and into the mansion. A maid led you into the dining room that was already filled with the local aristocracy and their guests. You had asked Madam Moreau to let you accompany her to the governor’s monthly banquet, although, or precisely because your intended stay here was going to be fairly brief. Your friend’s position was your advantage, and this event was very important for your business in the Caribbean.

The interior of the governor’s mansion was impressive. Accents of gold and marble decorated the walls, the furniture was foreign and expensive. Heavy tapestry complemented the delicate features in the hallways and the dining room. The china and wine glasses on the large oak dining table cost a fortune and outshone the many ornate solid gold candlesticks standing proudly along the middle. Despite the warm, humid evenings, the room was pleasantly temperate and people seemed to be in good spirits as you and Madam Moreau entered. A tall man in fancy clothes greeted you and introduced himself as the governor. You responded politely, telling him your name and mentioning that you had just arrived from the colonies.

“Is that right!” the governor laughed. He was a pleasant man and seemed to be enjoying himself immensely even though the party had barely started. “Are you traveling with your husband, young lady?”

“Oh no,” Madam Moreau answered in your stead. “She is yet to be wed.”

“I see.” The governor’s eyes sparkled as if she had just proposed a fun game. “I believe there are some eligible bachelors here tonight. I shall introduce you later, my dear.”

“No, please,” you said with the appropriate sense of abashedness. “I would not want to inconvenience you and your guests.”

“Nonsense!” He laughed again. “A lovely young woman like you has no business being unmarried. You need a fine man to take care of you.”

You smiled and thanked him. When he had left, Madam Moreau scoffed.

“I am curious to see how many of those eligible bachelors are British officers looking to cheat on their poor wives at home.”

You chuckled and followed her to the table to find a seat.

“We shall see. I have heard the governor entertains very colorful circle of friends and acquaintances. There may just be one man who will pique my interest.”

“You are an optimist, my dear.”

“So I’ve been told.”

You took a seat and looked down at your hands; they were clad in the same shade of crimson as your dress, a drop of color among the otherwise muted garments like a speck of blood staining the phonily modest fabric of the town’s upper class. Some were glancing at you as you continued to talk to Madam Moreau, some whispered, some didn’t pay you any mind at all.

It took a minute for you to notice the one who was staring.

He had chosen the seat across from you, arms folded on the table, his eyes greedily taking in every word, every movement, every inch of you until you finally registered his deep gaze. His hair was as black as his eyes, his skin kissed by the Caribbean sun. He had delicate features but there was nothing delicate about his presence – his aura crept into the space around you, drowning out the rest of the room; the smile he offered you was knowing, beguiling, captivating.

He was a dangerous man and he knew it.

“Pardon my straightforwardness,” he said when he had your attention, his voice like the thick velvet of the night sky. “But I don’t believe we have met.”

“No, we have not.”

“Allow me to introduce myself.” He got up halfway to reach across the table and take your hand, the smile on his face growing impossibly wider. “I am Lee Minhyuk.”

Your heart skipped a beat at the mention of his name. It resonated inside you like a familiar song, a long-forgotten voice; like you had been on a journey and this moment was your destination.

Lee Minhyuk.

You smiled despite yourself but your voice was strained when you spoke. “Mister Lee. Your reputation precedes you.”

“Please, call me Minhyuk,” he insisted. “And I wish I could say the same about you. Won’t you tell me your name?”

“Miss Vermell is a dear friend of mine,” Madam Moreau interjected and put a hand on your arm as if she was trying to break the spell he had created. “She is only in town for a few days.”

“Well then,” Minhyuk grinned and raised his wine glass in a toast. “We shall make the most of them.”

After dinner, Minhyuk had been quick to round the table and offer you his arm. You let him lead you around the room to join a few conversations here and there; he was an excellent conversationalist and you had quickly learned more about every person in the room than you ever needed to know. He had a way of getting people to talk, open up, casually revealing deep secrets as they were being fooled into an illusion of small talk. Minhyuk’s smile was warm but his eyes remained cold. Rather than watching the other guests unravel in front of you, you had been watching him; tall and beautiful, astute and statuesque, a man of the finest manners hiding the roughest edges. You had heard all about him; the stories, the rumors, the accusations.

But right now, you simply did not find it inside you to care.

You followed him onto one of the balconies overlooking the estate’s gorgeous garden, most of which had already been veiled in darkness by the advancing nightfall. The air was thick, promising rain in the early morning hours, and you found yourself taking a few deep breaths against the restraint of your corset.

“Are you feeling alright?” Minhyuk asked and allowed you to withdraw your hand to brace yourself on the banister.

“Quite,” you lied and stood up straight only to find him leaning next to you, looking at you with slight concern.

“I do not understand why women wear those,” gesturing vaguely in the direction of the laced-up front of your dress. You scoffed.

“Yes, I’m sure you prefer your women without them.”

Minhyuk gave a bright laugh. “So that’s the reputation you spoke of.”

“Was there any question about it?”

“Indeed, there was,” he said and leaned down slightly, closer to you. “I have quite an assemblage of reputations, Miss Vermell.”

“I have no doubt.”

“Tell me about yourself,” he suddenly asked. “We have spent all evening listening to other people talk. I have barely learned anything about you.”

“I am but a simple girl on the passage to England,” you evaded. “There is not much to learn.”

“Oh,” Minhyuk got even closer to you, an ominous smile on his lips. “I’m sure there is.”

You stood your ground, looking back at him with cold distance. “Perhaps. But it is not for you to learn.”

Minhyuk stared at you for a few seconds, his eyes scanning your face, the vein in his neck pulsating lightly as he considered his next step. Your own heart was beating hard in your chest as you waited for the result of your gamble – would he shut down, keep his soul hidden like you expected him to?

Or would he surprise you?

In the distance, the rain clouds were rolling in an covering up the moon and stars above the sea. A light breeze sent a shiver down your spine and raised goosebumps on the exposed skin of your neck and when Minhyuk noticed, he wordlessly took off his jacket to wrap it around your shoulders.

“You are an odd one, Miss Vermell.”

“And you don’t play with open cards, Mister Lee.”

“Maybe I don’t like the hand that I was given.” His voice was low now but you could hear him perfectly fine; he was still facing you, his head inches from yours.

“Then what do you hope to accomplish by not playing the game? The fate of your cards will never change if you hold on to them so desperately.”

Minhyuk frowned and it seemed as though he was not in control of his expression for the first time since you had laid eyes on him. Another few slow seconds passed while he regarded you, took you in as if the memory of the night so far had been lost to him. When he spoke again, his dark eyes had softened, the smile tugging on his lips was playful but reserved. The light of the lanterns next to the balcony door flickered over his face; shadows dancing across his elegant features as his eyes searched yours.

“Interesting.” He dragged out the word as if he was still thinking. “You wish to play with open cards?”

You nodded tentatively. “If you really care to find out who I am.”

“I do,” he replied, surprising himself as much as he did you. “It is not often a treasure like you emerges from that godforsaken ocean, especially on this island.”

You stood perplexed. “The rumors did not say that you detest the sea, Lee Minhyuk.”

“Well, I do.” His smile stretched with a hint of affection. “But I will gladly tell you more over dinner tomorrow.”

“I shall look forward to it.”

“Good. In the meantime.” Minhyuk grasped the edges of the jacket that still rested on your shoulders, carefully pulling it close in front of you. Then, he leaned down and gingerly brushed his lips against yours. The contact sent heat radiating from your chest through your entire body and instead of protesting, you simply allowed him to kiss you. He tasted like the sweetest red wine and when he pulled back slightly you realized you had been holding your breath.

“Lee Minhyuk,” you whispered, looking him straight in the eyes. “You are a scoundrel.”

He chuckled, his words tickling your face gently.

“So I’ve been told.”

Lee Minhyuk was by no means part of the aristocracy of the town, but he seemed to be very well off. His house was on the edge of town, not among the wealthy mansions and plantations, but far enough from the grime of the port, the shops, and public institutions like the overcrowded jail to separate him from the poor and the working class. He employed a handful of maids and servants, and an evidently fantastic cook because the food you had been served at dinner had been spectacular, especially with three weeks of ship meals still fresh on your mind. Instead of the dining room, you had dined on the shady patio outside of his sitting room where you were still seated now, having moved to a comfortable bench on the edge of the small but vibrant garden. Everything was a deep green specked with intense pinks, yellows, blues, and a rosery in the middle of it all; a vision in blood red.

“How long have you lived here?” you asked into the comfortable silence that had spread between you when a maid had served you a new bottle of red wine.

“On the island? About five years.” He swirled the liquid around in his glass before taking another sip. “It’s a quiet life.”

“How did you get here?”

Minhyuk glanced at you and smirked. “You just know how to ask all the right questions, don’t you?” You threw him a confused look so he continued. “It’s a long story, but I somehow ended up on a naval ship and it dropped me off here.”

“So you just – stayed?”

“Yes.”

“And-“

“No.” Minhyuk put an arm on the backrest behind you and turned to look at you. “I have talked enough about me for now. It’s your turn. You wanted to play with open cards, so tell me something about you. Anything.”

“Like what?”

He scooted a little closer and you could smell his perfume, feel the heat emitting from his body. “What is your first name?”

“What do you think it is?” Your voice was barely a whisper, its tone mischievous and challenging. Minhyuk’s body reacted by leaning in closer, his hand reaching out to drag his thumb across your bottom lip agonizingly slowly.

“Ruby.” His eyes were fixed on yours as his palm found the side of your face. “I see it in you. Passion, love, a zest for life. That energy, those emotions. A beautiful ruby.”

Your heart was drumming against your ribcage as you simply stared at him, searched his face for his true feelings. But all you saw was warmth, affection, vulnerability; all those things he had not even seemed to possess just a day earlier. You felt yourself break a little at the way he offered himself to you, at the way his fingertips ghosted over your skin, the way his lips found yours as if they had been on a journey and you were their destination.

“Ruby it is,” you breathed when you parted, his hand still firmly cupping your cheek. Minhyuk chuckled and used his other arm to pull you into his side, into his warmth. You closed your eyes when your head sank onto his shoulder, your body melting into his so readily.

“That’s the problem with treasure chests,” he mused and kissed the top of your head. “Some of them are too hard to open, and all you can do is wonder what is inside.”

“What would you like to be inside?” you asked solemnly, trying to suppress the urge to give him everything he was about to tell you. Minhyuk inhaled deeply and pulled you even closer.

“What is out there for you, Ruby?”

“What do you mean?”

“What is out there on the ocean, in England, wherever you’re headed that you cannot stay here on this island. Live a quiet, peaceful life. Grow old under the warm sun, surrounded by roses and love.”

You shifted. “Why would I do that?”

“For me,” he said and your heart ached at his yearning voice. You reached for the hand that had traveled down to your neck and intertwined your gloved fingers with his as a deep sadness overcame you. Your hand felt small in his and for the first time in your life, you wished you could just allow someone to protect you, wished you could live a quiet and comfortable life, and be happy.

Lee Minhyuk really was a dangerous man.

“What about you, then?” you retorted, avoiding his question. “Why are you not considering a life anywhere but here?”

“I have,” Minhyuk replied. “I have thought about it many times. But there has never been a good enough reason to leave. I am content here. I have everything I need. I am safe. And I could provide the same for you, Ruby. I could make you happy like I know you could make me happy.”

Silence fell again as you thoughtfully played with his fingers and ran the pad of your thumb across the soft back of his hand. You could sense the tension in Minhyuk, sense the impatience, the anticipation. But he remained quiet, giving you the time you needed to find your answer.

“I’m sorry,” you finally mumbled, squeezing his hand. “I can’t stay.”

“I see,” he simply replied. You half expected him to let go of you, maybe even get up and leave. But he held you tightly to his body, rhythmically stroking your arm. You raised your head and lightly pressed your lips to his neck.

“Minhyuk?” you said and he gave a low chuckle at you using his first name for the first time. “Why do you hate the ocean? What are you so afraid of?”

“I’m not sure,” he replied. “I just get these dreams, and they are all the same.”

“Dreams?”

“Yes. You see,” he turned his head to kiss your temple. “In all my dreams, I drown.”

The town lay in restful silence as you made your way to the docks the next night. You had spent the day with Madam Moreau in her kitchen as the rain had fallen outside. She had told you about the time after her husband had been discovered dead in the shallow waters off the coast of South Carolina – pirates, they had said. After his death, she had inherited everything and relocated to the Caribbean; away from curious neighbors, prying family, away from the past. Nobody knew how he had become their target; he had been a wealthy man but his ship had carried neither cargo nor other riches.

Nobody, that was, except for Madam Moreau and you.

You had met her on a sweltering summer evening in Charleston, her beaten and bruised body covered by expensive fabrics and thinly-veiled lies. It had not been long until she had told you about the true nature of her respected and prominent husband – and you had made her an offer she had been more than happy to accept. You had told her that you had the connections, the means to make him the victim of a seemingly random attack.

Everything had gone precisely according to plan.

“I cannot thank you enough,” she had said in the kitchen that afternoon, almost exactly a year later, her voice serious but at peace. “You have freed me.”

“You can thank me by living a content, peaceful, and safe life. You deserve it,” you had replied, holding her hand. “If you ever need anything else, just send for me.”

“The same goes for you, my dear.”

You had smiled at each other, the secret between you forming an invisible, unshakeable bond.

Long after nightfall, long after Kihyun had picked up your luggage, you had taken the carriage to the edge of the town and decided to walk the rest. You enjoyed the darkness, the dim lights, the soft moonlight guiding the way. You stopped when you saw a person by the water, cloaked in blackness. But you knew who it was. You knew why he was here, knew why he had come.

You just wished he hadn’t.

“Minhyuk.”

“Ruby.” He turned and smiled at you, his hand instinctively reaching out for you when you approached. He did not seem surprised by your unusual attire; black pants and a wine red shirt with sleeves rolled up to your elbow. He just looked at you, like he had been waiting forever, like he had been waiting for this moment. The humid night air had caused the ends of his black hair to curl a little bit and his smile was so careless, so innocent that, for just a second, you forgot who he was.

Lee Minhyuk.

He was a dangerous man.

And yet your heart broke at what you were about to do to him.

“I have to leave,” you said, letting him pull you into his chest.

“I know.”

“I’m sorry I cannot be who you want me to be,” you whispered but Minhyuk just laughed dryly. He examined you; the real you, and he lifted your right wrist to his mouth and pressed his lips to the scar on the inside of your arm. “I wish you hadn’t come.”

“I wouldn’t want you to be anybody else than who you are,” he said and smiled. “That’s why I’m here.”

You stared at him, confused, anxious to ask him why; why are you saying this, why are you smiling, why are you here.

But deep inside, you already knew.

The dull thud barely disturbed the night and you groaned as Minhyuk collapsed into your arms. You managed to lay him carefully on the ground and looked up to glare at Kihyun who was casually twirling the club in his hand.

“Well, whaddayaknow,” he grinned. “You found the right man, Captain.”

The shackles clinked against the walls as Minhyuk started to stir, started to come to. He had been out for a while; you had long since left the hidden spot beyond the cliffs and rocks to the east and were headed for the open sea. The voices of your crew on deck seeped through the wooden planks and into the belly of the ship where Minhyuk was being kept for now. In the pitch black night, the shade of the sails seemed no different from the that of the starless sky. But by day, your ship sailed with proud, dark red colors and lived up to its name.

The Ruby.

It was the ship you had inherited from your father at the tender age of seventeen, along with most of his crew. Your first mate, Kihyun, had been your best friend ever since you could remember, and would willingly take on any role you asked him to play when you were on land. Nobody ever suspected one of the most infamous pirate ships between Europe and the Americas was commandeered by the polite, soft-spoken girl passing through various harbors of the old and new world, not even Madam Moreau.

And you intended to live your life without telling her that you had personally delivered the fatal stab to her rotten husband’s heart.

Minhyuk slowly lifted his head as he regained consciousness. You crouched down in front of him and held his head between your hands, inspecting him with worry evident on your face. He managed a weak smile when he registered you.

“I still don’t know your name,” he panted, leaning back against the cold, moist wall behind him. You swallowed hard.

“You knew, didn’t you.”

“Of course,” he grinned. “Vermell – Catalan for red, isn’t it? Who came up with that name?”

You chuckled and made a mental note to smack Kihyun. “Ruby?”

“I lied.” Minhyuk coughed and held his head where Kihyun had hit him. “Your reputation does precede you, Captain. Of course, the good townspeople wouldn’t know.” He reached out with his other hand and wrapped his fingers around your right wrist, his eyes trained on the scar; a branded P.

“Why did you come if you knew? Why did you ever even talk to me?”

“They got bolder with these,” he murmured, still staring at the pirate mark. “I struggled so much, they put it on my knee. Slipped a couple of times. Hideous scar.”

“Minhyuk,” you tried again and finally he met your gaze.

“You know how I ended up there, don’t you?”

“Shipwrecked.” You nodded. “Your ship sank in a battle with a merchant ship. The Royal Navy fished you out of the water and dropped you off on that island believing you were a survivor of the merchants. The Crown put a price on your head for being a pirate, the pirate council wants you dead for being a traitor and a coward. Whoever we decide to hand you over to, the money would be good.”

Minhyuk gave a crooked grin. “So I’ve been told.”

You were struggling to hold back tears. “If you knew – why did you come. You knew we were going to take you. Why give it all up?”

“For you,” he said with a light shrug. “You said you couldn’t stay. So I knew it was time to leave.”

You dropped to your knees and Minhyuk reach out for you, his shackled hands gently squeezing your upper arms and then resting warmly on your back when your head fell against his chest. Your heart broke into a thousand pieces at his kindness, his bravery, his love.

He was a dangerous man.

But you were an even more dangerous woman.

“I’m sorry,” you whispered. “I truly am.”

“Don’t be, love. I would follow you anywhere.” He nudged your chin with his hand to get you to look up, look at him. “Even if it’s to my death.”

A tear fell from the corner of your eye as you leaned in to kiss him, capture his ruby red lips with yours and make a decision. It was too late to turn back now. You had been on a journey.

And Lee Minhyuk was the destination.

Finally, you pulled back and rested your forehead against his as you spoke.

“So be it.”

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[the-lone-dreamer]

A reading list inspired by the literary references and shout-outs from Mtv’s Daria 

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 

Moby Dick by Herman Melville 

The Iliad by Homer

Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 

The World of Goya  Richard Schickel

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

Orpheus in the Underworld by Ovid

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories by Edgar Allen Poe

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 

King Lear by William Shakespeare 

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 

On Moral Fiction by John Gardner

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut  

1984 by George Orwell 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin

The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen 

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg 

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 

The Gulag Archipelago by  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Medium is the Message by Marshall Mcluhan 

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth  

The Call of the Wild by Jack London 

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 

The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance 

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton

Silas Marner by George Eliot  

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 

Animal Farm by George Orwell 

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor

The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Man In the Iron Mask By Alexandre Dumas

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

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[steve-rogers-new-york]

Books Released Pre-WWII

This is a list of classic books released before Steve Rogers went into the ice (1945). They are books that Steve would have read before waking up in the 21st century. Books released after 1942 would likely not have been read by Steve or Bucky, as from 1943 they were in the USO or in active service. The purpose of the list is to highlight books and their cultural references that Steve (and Bucky) would already be familiar with in the 21st century.

Also see the Post-WWII book list.

While not exhausted by any stretch, the list includes many best sellers, as well as books which contain popular cultural references or those with notable social commentary. Excluded from this list are books that clearly pre-date WWII, such as the works of Shakespeare. Feel free to suggest other titles you think Steve or Bucky might have read — please include an explanation for the choice.

1600s - 1942

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes | 1605

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe | 1719

Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift | 1726

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen | 1811

Children’s and Household Tales - The Brothers Grimm | 1812

The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss | 1812

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen | 1813

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen | 1814

Emma - Jane Austen | 1815

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley | 1818

Ivan Hoe - Sir Walter Scott | 1819

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens | 1838

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens | 1843

The Ugly Duckling - Hans Christian Anderson | 1843

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas | 1844

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas | 1845

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë  | 1847

Withering Heights - Emily Brontë  | 1847

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray | 1848

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens | 1850

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys - Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1851

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale - Herman Melville | 1851

The Scarlet Letter - Herman Melville | 1851

Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert | 1857

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens | 1859

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens | 1861

Les Misérables - Victor Hugo  1862

Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne | 1864

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll | 1865

From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne | 1865

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1866

Little Women - Louise May Alcott | 1868

Middlemarch - George Eliot | 1870

Twenty Thousand leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne | 1870

Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne | 1873

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain | 1876

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy | 1877

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell | 1877

Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace | 1880

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1880

The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain | 1882

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle | 1883 Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi | 1883

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain | 1884

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson | 1886

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy | 1889

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde | 1891

Tess of the d’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy | 1891

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle | 1892

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling | 1894

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde | 1895

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells | 1895

The Island of Doctor Moreau - H.G. Wells | 1896

Dracula - Bram Stoker | 1897

The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells | 1897

The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells | 1898

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad | 1899

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad | 1900

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum | 1900

The Call of the Wild - Jack London | 1903

Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1908

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame | 1908

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Hanns Heinz Ewers | 1910

The Phantom of the Opera - Guston Leroux | 1911

Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1912

Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham | 1915

My Antonia - Willa Cather | 1918

Ulysses - James Joyce | 1922

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf | 1925

The Trial - Franz Kafka | 1925

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway | 1926

Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne | 1926

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf | 1927

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque | 1929

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner | 1929

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner | 1930

The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett | 1930

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck | 1931

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley | 1932

Supernatural Horror in Literature - H.P. Lovecraft | 1934

Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1935

Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell | 1936

The Hobbit, or There and back Again - J.R.R. Tolkien | 1937

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck | 1937

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston | 1937

The Sword in the Stone - T.H. White | 1938

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck | 1939

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway | 1940

Native Son - Richard Wright | 1940

The Stranger - Albert Camus | 1942

Also in this set: Book Released Post-WWII and Science Fiction Book Released Pre-WWII

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References

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[allbestnet]

Top 100 Books 1850-1900

Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo

War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll

Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde

Middlemarch (1874) by George Eliot

The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker

The War of the Worlds (1898) by H.G. Wells

Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott

Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert

Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens

Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell

Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville

Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy

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

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells

The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) by Jules Verne

David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain

North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell

Three Men in a Boat (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne

Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling

Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy

Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Little Dorrit (1857) by Charles Dickens

Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) by Thomas Hardy

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) by Mark Twain

Sister Carrie (1900) by Theodore Dreiser

Lorna Doone (1869) by R.D. Blackmore

Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James

Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) by Jules Verne

Sentimental Education (1869) by Gustave Flaubert

Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum

Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Germinal (1885) by Emile Zola

Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad

Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James

The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) by H.G. Wells

Villette (1853) by Charlotte Bronte

Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot

A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) by Leo Tolstoy

Our Mutual Friend (1865) by Charles Dickens

Notes from the Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Possessed (1872) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mysterious Island (1874) by Jules Verne

Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau

Prince and the Pauper (1881) by Mark Twain

Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll

Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens

King Solomon's Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard

Beyond Good and Evil (1886) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Adam Bede (1859) by George Eliot

The Sign of Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) by Charles Dickens

Invisible Man (1897) by H.G. Wells

Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi

Bel-Ami (1885) by Guy de Maupassant

She: A History of Adventure (1887) by H. Rider Haggard

Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ben-Hur (1880) by Lew Wallace

Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope

Flatland (1884) by Edwin A. Abbott

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) by Mark Twain

Interpretation of Dreams (1899) by Sigmund Freud

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler

The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Way We Live Now (1875) by Anthony Trollope

Daniel Deronda (1876) by George Eliot

Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) by Thomas Hughes

Quo Vadis (1895) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) by Herman Melville

Golden Bough (1890) by Sir James George Frazer

Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy

News from Nowhere (1890) by William Morris

Gray's Anatomy (1858) by Henry Gray

Cranford (1853) by Elizabeth Gaskell

Washington Square (1880) by Henry James

El filibusterismo (1891) by Jose Rizal

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) by Edward Bellamy

On Liberty (1859) by John Stuart Mill

Capital (1894) by Karl Marx

House of the Seven Gables (1851) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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[cgarettsaftersex-blog]

daria’s recommendation

The Divine Comedy / Dante’s Inferno - Dante Alighieri*

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

City of Glass - Paul Auster

Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

The Red Badge of Courage - by Stephen Crane

Fifth Business - Robertson Davies

A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

On Moral Fiction - John Gardner

The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya - Pierre Gassier*

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg*

The Chess Garden - Brooks Hansen

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

The Iliad - Homer*

Daisy Miller - Henry James

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey*

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West - Cormac McCarthy

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

1984 - George Orwell*

Animal Farm - George Orwell*

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath*

The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe*

Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

Hamlet - William Shakespeare*

Macbeth - William Shakespeare*

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare*

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli*

The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Our American Cousin - Tom Taylor

Walden - Henry David Thoreau*

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Henry & Glenn Forever - Igloo Tornado

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain*

The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G.Wells

Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton