So driving in the foggy mist this morning, I thought you might find these comments and quotations on The Cloud of Unknowing useful as a segue from our discussion of Brideshead to The Buried Giant.

Comments on the Cloud from Peter Arcese on Vimeo.

1. Rig Veda, trans. Doniger (Penguin)
2. Agamemnon, Aeschylus, trans. Arcese (Athanata Arts)*
3. Mabinogion, trans. Gantz (Penguin)
4. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Vol. 1, trans. Lyons (Penguin)
5. Hamlet, William Shakespeare, ed. Mowat (Folger)
6. The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Coffin (Modern Library)
7. Villette, Charlotte Bronte, intro. Schaeffer (Bantam)
8. Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1, Marcel Proust, trans. Davis (Penguin)
9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, ed. Deane (Penguin)
10. Lila, Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

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You can also download a PDF compilation of Wikipedia articles for these books here: Brilliant Minds Wiki Spring 2016. And you can order a printed book of the same articles through PediaPress.

*I'm happy to let you know that my version of Agamemnon is now also available on Kindle.