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Tag Archives: classics
Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars is a work of nonfiction by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and translated by Lewis Galantiere, © Reynal & Hitchcock 1939
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Tagged airplanes, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, book review, classics, flight, French, French literature, philosophy, travel
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Bewilderment
Bewilderment is a collection of poems and translations by David Ferry, © University of Chicago Press 2012
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Tagged book review, classics, confusion, contemporary poetry, death, form, grammar, knowledge, loneliness, loss, love, mythology, national book award, pain, poetry, potential, reading process, supernatural, translations
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Open City
Open City is a novel by Teju Cole, © Random House 2011 You hadn’t heard about Cormac’s Olivetti? Check it out.
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Tagged book review, classics, contemporary, contemporary fiction, debut, emotional weight, fiction, lens, lonely, narrator, new york city, novel, perspective, postmodernism, reading, trust, urban space
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The Tragedy of Arthur
The Tragedy of Arthur is a novel by Arthur Phillips, © Random House 2011 If I piqued your interest on Bloom’s ideas, here’s a link to the Google Books result for Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.
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Tagged book review, classic literature, classics, contemporary fiction, deception, fiction, forgery, historical fiction, inventor, knowledge, play, readers, reading, reading process, shakespeare, theater, tragedy, writing
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Reading Ulysses
Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce. First published in Paris in 1922, it’s now in the public domain but I read the Wordsworth Classics edition published in 2010. I should note that this video is something a little different … Continue reading
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Tagged book, book review, classic literature, classics, fiction, knowledge, language, Latin, novel, perspective, reading, stream of consciousness
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