In no particular order and chosen randomly from a few dozen… here goes (you might leave the Rachmaninoff running for a bit):
“Mi Ultimo Adios," José Rizal (or any of his poetry in Spanish, Tagalog, or translated English): an entire nation standing behind their hero
Othello, Shakespeare: Desdemona as apotheosis of the female
perspective
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell: with God as my
witness
Don Quixote, Cervantes: thanks to an entire semester of him…
but who’s insane?
"Speech to the Troops at Tilbury," Elizabeth I: the heart and
stomach of a king, and of a king of England too
Sergei Rachmaninoff: anything and everything
“The Buried Life”, Matthew Arnold: are we sure he wrote that
150 years ago?
“Love, An Index,” Rebecca Lindenberg: coping with her poet
boyfriend’s disappearance into a Japanese volcano… for real
Ruth, The Bible—oh, and Jacob and Rachel, and Job, and
Isaiah especially: talk about good stories
“On His Blindness”, John Milton: changed my mission
La casa de los espiritus, Isabelle Allende: gave me mysticism
and another world
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett: I just love
everything about it
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