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Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Reviewed by: Pete C. Date: 1 July 2003 What a strange book! Strange in a good way, though. Dostoyevsky extensively describes the thoughts of a tormented young man, Raskolnikov, who decides to commit a murder. Why? He ...
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The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – 1880 Reviewed by: Pete C. Date: 26 September 2004 A powerful book; A year or so ago I read Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and was really impr...
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Letters – Symmachus
Letters – Symmachus – 360 A.D~ Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 1 September 2002 Symmachus (c. 340-c. 405) When faced with indictments against Christians in his province, Pliny the Younger (61-113), durin...
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The Golden Ass – The Metamorphoses of Apuleius-Lucius Apuleius
The Golden Ass (The Metamorphoses) – Lucius Apuleius – late second century BCE Reviewed by: Dave Date: 15 January 2002 A Fantastic Four-Footed Fable I thought only cats were supposed to have nine lives, but this ...
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The Annals and Histories – Tacitus
The Annals and Histories – Tacitus – 116 A.D Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 15 September 2001 Gossip elevated to an artform. Tacitus the historian was neither sloppy nor a researcher. He was a senator....
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The Satyricon – Petronius
The Satyricon – Petronius – Late 1st century A.D. Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 15 September 2001 The Satyricon has reached us in a particularly bad shape. What we still have is the concoctions of mod...
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The Elegies – Sextus Propertius
The Elegies – Sextus Propertius – 23 B.C. Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 15 September 2001 A modern poet in ancient times. After years of civil war, Roman patrons had found again leisure and means to...
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The Complete Odes – Horace
The Complete Odes – Horace – 23 B.C. Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 26 December 2001 He missed Stockholm by two millennia. “Poetry is but the metaphor of a mood” said a poet, who was one of t...
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Eclogues – Virgil
Eclogues – Virgil – 37 B.C. Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 15 September 2001 Dryden’s labor of love, part III. This translation by Dryden is hard to come by. But it is worth it! Nabokov called Virgil’s ...
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The Georgics – Virgil
The Georgics – Virgil – 29 B.C. Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 15 September 2001 Dryden’s labor of love, part II. Virgil had set out to create the perfect poem and he succeeded! Unfortunately we no lo...
