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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.86 — 270,687 ratings — published 2008
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,048,491 ratings — published 1992
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,167,574 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,440,661 ratings — published 2017
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,895,526 ratings — published 2018
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.28 — 945,678 ratings — published 2015
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.14 — 364,910 ratings — published 1989
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 614,686 ratings — published 2014
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,241,440 ratings — published 1963
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,227,822 ratings — published 2012
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.10 — 431,951 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.67 — 381,167 ratings — published 2016
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.32 — 675,876 ratings — published 2016
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,874,179 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,666,522 ratings — published 2018
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.60 — 575,209 ratings — published 2018
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.56 — 131,271 ratings — published 2015
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,918,692 ratings — published 1951
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.46 — 818,163 ratings — published 2022
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,049,270 ratings — published 2013
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,966,388 ratings — published 1925
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,918,911 ratings — published 1818
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.80 — 358,077 ratings — published 2024
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,372,388 ratings — published 2018
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,381,228 ratings — published 2022
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,322,164 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.12 — 862,857 ratings — published 2020
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.65 — 397,618 ratings — published 2007
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.77 — 360,431 ratings — published 1925
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,604,878 ratings — published 2003
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.91 — 300,457 ratings — published 1962
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.87 — 953,196 ratings — published 1955
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,426,489 ratings — published 1942
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,184 ratings — published 2003
Annie Bot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 69,836 ratings — published 2024
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.17 — 235,645 ratings — published 1864
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,504,562 ratings — published 2020
Writers & Lovers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.99 — 189,466 ratings — published 2020
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,471,291 ratings — published 2012
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.05 — 477,146 ratings — published 2011
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.87 — 601,436 ratings — published 2012
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 460,526 ratings — published 2021
The Librarianist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.41 — 24,309 ratings — published 2023
The Guest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.27 — 116,062 ratings — published 2023
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.09 — 735,277 ratings — published 1966
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.93 — 161,276 ratings — published 2009
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.36 — 258,188 ratings — published 1965
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.18 — 138,666 ratings — published 1983
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.31 — 415,788 ratings — published 2013
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,905,872 ratings — published 1890
“The Peacock & The Eagle: Cleopatra's Entry Into Tarsus by Stewart Stafford
Cleopatra arrives, regal and mighty,
From ocean spray as Aphrodite,
Wealthy and waif, yearning for her,
Dared all to defy her possessive aura.
Mark Antony, struck by her sultry gaze,
Lepidus, prisoner in a bureaucrat's maze,
Sees power slipping from a friend’s hand,
Ensnared by a siren from a scorched land.
Lepidus was Caesar's trusted right hand;
A granule falling through hourglass sand,
Antony, headstrong military provocateur;
Funeral orator from bloody crown auteur.
Bargain's scorpion pincers; no longer twain:
Cleopatra was Ceres, promising Rome grain,
Antony was Mars' armed emissary,
Business and pleasure's flood tributary.
Antony: "Barge of emerald, Elysium's onyx!
Beyond counsel words of sage sardonic,
Gliding the Cydnus's silken seam,
This Nile Helen shall be my queen."
Lepidus: "Pleasure vessel of a floating whore,
Yours for a sesterce on the Tiber's shore,
Honour your oath, noble Roman creed,
Lest passion’s shipwreck sets out to sea.”
"This Venus virago on her mirage barge;
Serpent prow, silver oars, rhythmic charge!
What hubris to think she can equal,
The bloody talons of our Roman eagle!"
Antony: "Feast your eyes past peacock's bower,
She speaks Rome's tongue of naked power.
Mark it, that obsidian Sphinx stings -
Human head, lion's body, eagle wings!
"That is the form she takes to the public:
I smell a perfumed alliance for the Republic!
With Plebeians as her tickled cats, they hum,
I crave her beauty and company. Come!"
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Cleopatra arrives, regal and mighty,
From ocean spray as Aphrodite,
Wealthy and waif, yearning for her,
Dared all to defy her possessive aura.
Mark Antony, struck by her sultry gaze,
Lepidus, prisoner in a bureaucrat's maze,
Sees power slipping from a friend’s hand,
Ensnared by a siren from a scorched land.
Lepidus was Caesar's trusted right hand;
A granule falling through hourglass sand,
Antony, headstrong military provocateur;
Funeral orator from bloody crown auteur.
Bargain's scorpion pincers; no longer twain:
Cleopatra was Ceres, promising Rome grain,
Antony was Mars' armed emissary,
Business and pleasure's flood tributary.
Antony: "Barge of emerald, Elysium's onyx!
Beyond counsel words of sage sardonic,
Gliding the Cydnus's silken seam,
This Nile Helen shall be my queen."
Lepidus: "Pleasure vessel of a floating whore,
Yours for a sesterce on the Tiber's shore,
Honour your oath, noble Roman creed,
Lest passion’s shipwreck sets out to sea.”
"This Venus virago on her mirage barge;
Serpent prow, silver oars, rhythmic charge!
What hubris to think she can equal,
The bloody talons of our Roman eagle!"
Antony: "Feast your eyes past peacock's bower,
She speaks Rome's tongue of naked power.
Mark it, that obsidian Sphinx stings -
Human head, lion's body, eagle wings!
"That is the form she takes to the public:
I smell a perfumed alliance for the Republic!
With Plebeians as her tickled cats, they hum,
I crave her beauty and company. Come!"
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“One more death would make no difference. He was already damned.
It was for his queen.
It was for his queen.”
― The Paragon
It was for his queen.
It was for his queen.”
― The Paragon
