David Talbot reads a variety of texts. Some of these texts, specially religious ones, require more than effort on understanding: they require background in many subjects which many of us, non-scholars, lack.
It takes more than knowing Latin to understand how a Roman person thought and lived. Equally, it takes much more than knowing good Hebrew ( and Aramaic, actually!) to understand the Talmud.
Nevertheless, I am including links to those texts here.
Take a look, read, study, it does not hurt. Where possible, I include links to sites with quotes and explanations as alternatives to the complete works.
Pay attention to their copyright notices so their texts will keep being available to us for free.
Study Guide To Goethe's Faust - For use while reading the play.
Faust, by Goethe - In German.
English version also available.
If you do not know what I am talking about, read
"The Tale of the Body Thief".
Buy copies in English:
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Ok, not on the book, but I am sure David read that too!
Authors mentioned by Anne Rice on "Merrick/Tale of the Body Thief":
Algernon Blackwood
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
Sheridan Le Fanu
Best Ghost Stories of Sheridan Le Fanu
H. P. Lovecraft
Sabine Baring Gould
Texts mentioned by Anne Rice on "The Vampire Armand":
Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, and other Hindu Scriptures. From the Hindu Universe, which you can use to get some background in Hinduism.
Talmud, Torah, and other Jewish Holy Books. From the Torah.net site, a resource on Jewish learning on the Internet.
Read the book Cassiodorus, by James J. O'Donnell.
De Anima , by Cassiodorus. In Latin.
Institutiones I, by Cassiodorus. In Latin.
Institutiones II
, by Cassiodorus. In Latin.
All from James J. O'Donnell's
Cassiodorus
site.
Anne Rice Character Links:
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