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Lives – Plutarch
Lives – Plutarch – 80 A.D~ Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 25 October 2001 After the Turks had conquered Constantinople refuges brought manuscripts of Plutarch to Italy. It was the right time. Secular s...
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Loin de Rueil – Raymond Queneau
Loin de Rueil – Raymond Queneau – 1944 Reviewed by: Christopher Moore Date: 5 November 2004 Who is Jacques l’Aumône? This short novel begins and ends in the atelier of the unknown poet Louis-Phi...
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To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf – 1927 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 17 September 2001 I have very little to add to Lale’s review. Someone suggested to me we should give certain books of modern lit...
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The King James Bible – King James I
The King James Bible – King James I – 1611 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 17 September 2001 I was nine, when for the first time I had read the Bible from cover to cover, but I never read it in any...
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne – 1864 Reviewed by: Gretchen Date: 5 January 2005 Unless you have a world atlas and a book on geology, you may find this book a bit bland. There isn’t a...
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Poems and Prose – Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poems and Prose – Gerard Manley Hopkins – c. 1863 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 9 October 2001 Highly instructive As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy w...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne – 1870 Reviewed by: Gretchen Date: 5 January 2005 One of Jules Verne’s best. There seems to be a bit more attention paid to the human condition with ...
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All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque – 1929 Reviewed by: Linda Date: 5 May 2002 “This book should be neither accusation nor confession.” This is how this classic by Remarque sta...
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The History of Rome – Theodore Mommsen
The History of Rome – Theodore Mommsen – 1854 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 13 December 2001 First a word about Theodor Mommsen. He came to Roman history with a background at the bar and as an MP...
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Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann – 1912 Reviewed by: Lale The title “Death In Venice” might lead some of us to imagine this book to be a murder-mystery with hide and chase in the narrow, dark back alleys and canals of...
