in progress…
Ways of Escape
A JOURNEY OF SORTS
Therapy, therapy of the baser kind.
Like, say, Jackal & Hyde or Bonnie & Clyde.
Carpe Noctem.
Front matter
Title page
Dedication 🔒
Epigraph
Prologue 🔒
¶ 01. — Life
1.1 Bound by Books
1.2 Escape from Suburbia
1.3 Failure in the City
1.4 Gangotri to Wanganui
¶ 02. — Lust
2.1 London Town
2.2 Doha Times
¶ 03. — Longing
¶ 04. — Love
4.1 The First Kiss
4.2 Halcyon Times
4.3 The Dark Heart
4.4 The Awakening
¶ 05. — Loss and lament
5.1 Desperate Pledges
5.2 Regret & Remorse
¶ 06. — Listlessness
6.1 Is This a Dream?
6.2 On Being & Nothingness
Back matter
Afterword
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Errata
Colophon
Postface
“You used to write it all down, shed tears and then burn it.”
Oh Four Oh Four
ENGLISH LIT.
English style guide
The English language
Booker / “Nobel” / Pulitzer
Elizabethan era / “Love letters”
“Definitive List of Literary Works”
French in English / Latin in English
Anthology / Chronology / Terminology
Phrases & idioms with their etymologies
Literary criticism: analysing poetry & prose
Glossary of works, writers and literary devices:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
📙 Books 📕 Poets 📗 Thinkers 📘 Writers
READING LISTS ETC.
WRITERS- Atwood, Margaret
- Austen, Jane
- Brontë sisters
- Burton, Sir Richard
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Conrad, Joseph
- Curtis, Adam
- de Cervantes, Miguel
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Faulkner, William
- Forster, E. M.
- García Márquez
- Greene, Graham
- Hardy, Thomas
- Hemingway, Earnest
- Huxley, Aldous
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kureishi, Hanif
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Melville, Herman
- Miller, Henry
- Morrison, Toni
- Nin, Anaïs
- Orwell, George
- Proust, Marcel
- Roy, Anuradha
- Rushdie, Salman
- Şafak, Elif
- Seneca
- Smith, Zadie
- Steinbeck, John
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Updike, John
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Wilde, Oscar
- Woolf, Virginia
- Zola, Émile
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POETS- Aesop
- Alighieri, Dante
- Angelou, Maya
- Blake, William
- Byron, Lord
- Catullus, Gaius
- Coleridge, Samuel T.
- Cummings, E. E.
- Dickinson, Emily
- Donne, John
- Dryden, John
- Eliot, T. S.
- Frost, Robert
- Gibran, Kahlil
- Heaney, Seamus
- Homer
- Horace
- Kaur, Rupi
- Keats, John
- Larkin, Philip
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Milton, John
- Ovid
- Plath, Sylvia
- Poe, Edgar Allen
- Pound, Ezra
- Raleigh, Walter
- Rumi
- Sappho
- Sexton, Anne
- Shakespeare, William
- Shelley, Percy
- Silverstein, Shel
- Spenser, Edmund
- Tennyson, Alfred
- Virgil
- Walcott, Derek
- Whitman, Walt
- Wyatt, Thomas
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PHILOSOPHERS- Antisthenes
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aristotle
- Bacon, Francis
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Cicero
- Confucius
- de Beauvoir, Simone
- Democritus
- Derrida, Jacques
- Descartes, René
- Empedocles
- Epicurus
- Foucault, Michel
- Hegel, Georg
- Heraclitus
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Hume, David
- John Stuart Mill
- Kant, Immanuel
- Kierkegaard, Søren
- Lao-Tzu
- Locke, John
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Marcus Aurelius
- Marx, Karl
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Paine, Tom
- Parmenides
- Plato
- Plotinus
- Pope Gregory I
- Popper, Karl
- Pythagoras
- Rousseau, Jean
- Russell, Bertrand
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Socrates
- Spinoza, Baruch
- St Augustine
- Thales
- Voltaire
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Zeno of Citium
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PSYCHOLOGISTS- Bandura, Albert
- Ekman, Paul
- Erikson, Erik
- Festinger, Leon
- Freud, Sigmund
- Horney, Karen
- James, William
- Johnson, Virginia
- Jung, Carl
- Kahneman, Daniel
- Kinsey, Alfred
- Klein, Melanie
- Pavlov, Ivan
- Piaget, Jean
- Pinker, Steven
- Rogers, Carl
- Skinner, B. F.
- Vygotsky, Lev
POLITICAL FIGURES
- ⅰ Queen Boudica
- ⅱ King Alfred the Great
- ⅲ King Edward I
- ⅳ King Henry V
- ⅴ King Henry VIII
- ⅵ Queen Elizabeth I
- ⅶ King Charles II
- ⅷ Queen Victoria
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Chomsky, Noam
- Columbus, Christopher
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- da Vinci, Leonardo
- Darwin, Charles
- Dawkins, Richard
- Einstein, Albert
- Fukuyama, Francis
- Galilei, Galileo
- Gutenberg, Johannes
- Harari, Yuval
- Hobsbawm, Eric
- Lovelace, Ada
- Michelangelo
- Newton, Isaac
- Saïd, Edward
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