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The Gambler – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Gambler – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – 1866 Posted by Steven on 23/7/2006, 9:16:31 There is an online version at Project Gutenberg that is a translation by C. J. Hogarth. Before I started reading The Gambler, I compared...
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The Master of Petersburg – J. M. Coetzee
The Master of Petersburg – J. M. Coetzee – 1994 Posted by Steven on 20/7/2006, 22:50:35 I read J. M. Coetzee’s short novel The Master of Petersburg to compare it with Summer in Baden Baden. The story takes pl...
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Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin – 1981 / 2001 (written between 1977 and 1981, first published in 1981, published in English in 2001) Posted by Guillermo Maynez on 17/7/2006, 19:51:35 I am ready to start discu...
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True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey – 2000 Posted by Ülkü Ören on 19/8/2006, 10:22:01 Am I the first to finish reading True History of the Kelly Gang? First, I would like to introduce myself to the group. M...
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Fifty Shades of Grey – E. L. James
Fifty Shades of Grey – E. L. James – 2011 ReadLiterature cannot help but share Dave Barry’s book review published on March 4th, 2014 on MiamiHerald.com: MARCH 4, 2014 12:10 AM Dave Barry: The fine liter...
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Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel – 2009 Posted by guillermo maynez on 11/6/2012, 13:39:29 When I was a kid (13-14) I had to spend a couple of weeks at the house of some elderly and spinster aunts in the town of Irapuato, i...
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The Witches of Eastwick-John Updike
The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike – 1984 Posted by Joffre on 29/12/2014, 11:44:35 I finished up TWoE. It was one of the more enjoyable things I’ve read lately. Their games of tennis were amusing. There wer...
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Utopia-Sir Thomas More
Utopia – Sir Thomas More – 1516 Posted by Steven on 1/11/2013, 12:11:19 Here is my review of Utopia, followed by some random thoughts on More’s Utopia compared to Plato’s Republic. In a separate post I&#...
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Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes – Joseph Conrad – 1911 Posted by Guillermo Maynez on 16/3/2013, 11:12:57 All of the works by Conrad that I’ve read are emotionally charged, not in a melodramatic way, but in a tense way. Ten...
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The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James – 1898 Posted by Joffre on 16/6/2013, 16:24:41 After reading The Beckoning Fair One, which I found okay, I read a book called How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton. I found tha...
