What are some of the most beautiful prose novels you have ever read? I want to read some books where the WRITING, not just the plot, moved you to think of the story long after you read it. Something that really evoked a time and a place and a mood…..
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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (You can pick up any of his works and get to read beautiful prose), Just Kids by Patti Smith, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and pretty much anything by the Bronte Sisters (Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildefell Hall)
The Urantia Book. Here are just a few of my favorite passages, to give you a flavor:
“To enjoy privilege without abuse, to have liberty without license, to possess power and steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement—these are the marks of high civilization.”
“The inconsistency of the modern mechanist is: If this were merely a material universe and man only a machine, such a man would be wholly unable to recognize himself as such a machine, and likewise would such a machine-man be wholly unconscious of the fact of the existence of such a material universe. The materialistic dismay and despair of a mechanistic science has failed to recognize the fact of the spirit-indwelt mind of the scientist whose very supermaterial insight formulates these mistaken and self-contradictory concepts of a materialistic universe.”
“Human beings unfailingly become discouraged when they view only the transitory transactions of time. The present, when divorced from the past and the future, becomes exasperatingly trivial. Only a glimpse of the circle of eternity can inspire man to do his best and can challenge the best in him to do its utmost. And when man is thus at his best, he lives most unselfishly for the good of others, his fellow sojourners in time and eternity. “
A classic: Ironweed, by William Kennedy
More modern: Between the world and me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates