Confessions
398 · 346 pages
Augustine addresses God directly, confessing the stolen pears, the years of lust, and a prayer for chastity but not yet. Sixteen centuries on, his self-examination still cuts deeper than modern memoir.
★ 9.3
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The Recognition of Sakuntala
400 · 147 pages
King Dushyanta secretly marries a girl raised in a forest hermitage, then a curse erases her from his memory. Kalidasa writes the forest so beautifully that Goethe borrowed the play's prologue for Faust.
★ 7.3