Reading mostly classics in English
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲoz ðe soleˈðað]) is a 1967 novel …
Virginia Woolf: The waves (1992, Penguin Books)
The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's …
Contains: The AwakeningBeyond the Bayou Ma'ame Pelagie Desiree's Baby A Respectable Woman The Kiss A Pair of Silk Stockings …
Contains: The AwakeningBeyond the Bayou Ma'ame Pelagie Desiree's Baby A Respectable Woman The Kiss A Pair of Silk Stockings …
Heart of darkness tells of a powerful European, Kurtz, who reverts to awful savagery on …
I will return to this someday!
Heart of darkness tells of a powerful European, Kurtz, who reverts to awful savagery on …
There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world—what I want to forget.
— Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad (Signet classic -- CP523) (Page 94)
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity …
Recommended by my older sibling :)
The movie is as much as a masterpiece as the book!
Content warning Very light spoilers for the middle
I read this book concurrently with A Room with a View, which in comparison differs quite a bit in mood. While ARwaV is fun, light-hearted and comical, Maurice is tougher. I found the parts of Maurice's depression the toughest to get through. Forster writes beautifully, and you can tell that he's trying his best. I wish he could have brought some of the joy in ARwaV into it. I found the best part to be the note at the end of the text where Forster explains some of his thinking. Sweet guy!
Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website: The Left Hand of Darkness …
