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Penguin Island – Anatole France
Penguin Island – Anatole France – 1908 Posted by guillermo maynez on 26/3/2015, 12:24:40 I had never read Anatole France, but finally in a spell between my reading on WWI and its cultural entourage, I took this from...
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Paradise of the Blind
Paradise of the Blind – Dương Thu Hương – 1988 Posted by guillermo maynez on 26/8/2014, 11:34:43 I just finished reading this excellent novel by Vietnamese author (woman) Duong Thu Huong. It is set in the 1970’...
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Pamela (Virtue Rewarded) – Samuel Richardson
Pamela (Virtue Rewarded) – Samuel Richardson – 1740 Note: This discussion includes comments on Pamela (Richardson), Clarissa (Richardson), Shamela (Fielding), Under the Volcano (Lowry) and 1001 Nights among other li...
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Our Man in Havana- Graham Greene
Our Man in Havana- Graham Greene – 1958 Posted by Lale on 19/5/2015, 10:16:44 In December when we were in Havana, I bought from a book seller Graham Greene’s “Our Man in Ha...
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Omon Ra – Victor Pelevin
Omon Ra – Victor Pelevin – 1992 Posted by guillermo maynezon 22/5/2013, 10:40:53 Did anybody else read “Omon Ra”? I enjoyed it a lot. I think it goes well beyond a satire of the Soviet Union, to create a...
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Novels starting with the claim that the story has been “found”
Novels starting with the claim that the story has been “found” Novels that start with a preface by the narrator or the author claiming that they have found the story that follows in a lost notebook or in a book at a...
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Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami – 1987 Posted by Sterling on 14/4/2011, 21:51:06, in reply to “Re: Norwegian Wood” Virtually all the referents in the book Posted by Steven on 15/4/2011, 18:30:24, in rep...
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Njáls saga – Icelandic saga
Njáls saga – Icelandic saga – 13th cc Posted by Sterling on 22/1/2013, 1:01:20 The free Kindle translation called “Burnt Njal” by George Dasent is to be avoided. It was published in 1861 and is doubtles...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie – 1926 Posted by guillermo maynez on 1/7/2014, 12:05:35 After a half-year reading mainly about WWI, and then “Du Cote de chez Swann”, I took a break and read...
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Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell – 1848 Posted by guillermo maynez on 26/3/2013, 14:29:41 Well, I did finish “Mary Barton” and I enjoyed it, though that may respond to my liking for Victorian fiction, a k...
