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Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo – 1923 Posted by Rizwan on 5/8/2003, 17:46:27 Thank heavens for James Joyce. As if his gifts of Stephen Deadalus, Leopold Bloom and Molly Bloom were not enough, Joyce also helpe...
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Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar – 1951 Posted by Guillermo Maynez on 3/9/2003, 2:28:47 OK, here I go. I finished the book a couple of weeks ago, ages before I thought I’d do, and so I hope I’m ...
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The Inspector General – Nikolai Gogol
The Inspector General – Nikolai Gogol – 1836 Posted by Andrew on 9/10/2003, 20:02:59 First of all let me apologize for being so late in putting together an intro for the discussion on The Inspector General. Punctual...
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Café 90’lar, Istanbul
There are several cafes along the Fetva Hill, just five minutes walk from the magnificent Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul. One of these, Cafe 90’lar (means Cafe 90s) is one of my favourite cafes in Istanbul. Its breath taking v...
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The Dream of Scipio – Iain Pears
Manlius Hippomanes: a community leader desperately witnessing the destruction of the greatest empire the world had ever known, Rome. What should Manlius do? Fight a lost battle just for the sake of honor? Negotiate with the bar...
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Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Carol Milford, an enlightened, beautiful, and young woman gets married. She thinks she is marrying Dr. Kennicott, she doesn't know that she is also marrying his town, Gopher Prairie. She tries to love the town and tries hard. ...
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The Young Hemingway – Michael Reynolds
There are over 70 Hemingway biographies out there. You want to read one, a good one. How do you choose? You flip through the pages of a few at your local bookstore, and then, relying on your intuition and luck, you pick one. Ho...
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The World of Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse
His greatest achievement was writing the same book 97 times and making them eminently readable despite this.
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Carter Beats the Devil – Glen David Gold
I have never read a work of fiction packed with so much interesting information on magic tricks and illusions, inventions and historical facts combined with colourful characters, both real and fictional, (ok the Secret Service ...
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Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
All descriptions are dream-like on purpose. We do not know if those places really exist in our physical reality, although they exist as "alternate realities" in a multi-dimensional matrix. Like our existence, reality is fluid. ...
