darkest-of-academia - Tumblr blog

[darkest-of-academia]

i really love songs that make you feel like you’re in an abandoned ballroom (danse macabre, serenade for strings in e major, sonata no. 14, etc.)

[darkest-of-academia]

Dark academia reading list ✨📚

-The Secret History by Donna Tartt

-The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

-If We were Villains by M. L. Rio

-Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

-The Magicians by Lev Grossman

-Metamorphoses by Ovid

-Dead Poets Society by N. H. Kleinbaum

-A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

-The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

-Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

-The Bacchae by Euripides

-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

-Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

-Possession by A. S. Byatt

-Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

[darkest-of-academia]

i want to read the picture of dorian gray so badly, someone please link me a free ebook or something

I HONESTLY DONT KNOW HOW OSCAR WILDE CAN JUST WRITE STUFF LIKE , ‘... from the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I worshipped you. I grew jealous of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself. I was only happy when I was with you. When you were away from me you were still present in my art...’ IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY AS IF IT’S A COMPLETELY NORMAL THING??? DOES HE NOT CARE FOR MY HEART?? MY BRAIN???

[darkest-of-academia]

guys. GUYS. i just figured it out. the song “la petite mort” from coeur  de pirate is THE VERY ESSENCE of jane eyre. i can’t explain it any better than this, this song and that book are one and the same. change my mind, i dare you