Reading path
Final Works
The last works these authors completed, or the ones published after their deaths. There is often something different about a writer's final word: a freedom that comes from having nothing left to prove, or an urgency that comes from knowing time is running out. Some of these books feel like summations of an entire life's thinking. Others feel like a door left open, an unfinished conversation with the future. Either way, the weight of finality changes how you read every page.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
- 2. The Cherry OrchardAnton Chekhov, 1904
- 3. The TempestWilliam Shakespeare, 1611
- 4. Finnegans WakeJames Joyce, 1939
- 5. The CastleFranz Kafka, 1926
- 6. The TrialFranz Kafka, 1925
- 7. The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway, 1952
- 8. Four QuartetsT.S. Eliot, 1943
- 9. DaddySylvia Plath, 1965
- 10. Birthday LettersTed Hughes, 1998
- 11. RequiemAnna Akhmatova, 1963
- 12. In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust, 1927
- 13. 2666Roberto Bolaño, 2004
- 14. PersuasionJane Austen, 1817
- 15. The DeadJames Joyce, 1914
- 16. AubadePhilip Larkin, 1977
- 17. The Moon and the BonfiresCesare Pavese, 1950
- 18. Bouvard et PécuchetGustave Flaubert, 1881
- 19. Oedipus at ColonusSophocles, 401 BCE
- 20. Our Mutual FriendCharles Dickens, 1864
- 21. The Royal GameStefan Zweig, 1941
- 22. The Autobiography of Mark TwainMark Twain, 1959
- 23. The Mystery Of Edwin DroodCharles Dickens, 1870
- 24. The ProfessorCharlotte Brontë, 1857
- 25. Hadji MuratLeo Tolstoy, 1912
- 26. Billy BuddHerman Melville, 1924
- 27. The Marble FaunNathaniel Hawthorne, 1860
- 28. Crossing the BarAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1889
- 29. The Fall of HyperionJohn Keats, 1819
- 30. The Triumph of LifePercy Bysshe Shelley, 1824
- 31. Black Stone on a White StoneCésar Vallejo, 1938