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A Great Book on The Great Books | The Great Books: Literary holidays in France
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The Great Books: Literary holidays in France. Holiday courses on the Great Books of western literature, with Professor Anthony O'Hear. The Great Books and why we need to get to know them again. Looking forward to the Great Books →. A Great Book on The Great Books. March 18, 2009. For details of our summer course, click here.). Our summer course is based on Professor O’Hear’s latest book:. A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West’s Classic Literature, published by Icon. In the UK and ISI. Speaking of gre...
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Eclectic Indulgence... classic literature reviews: Review: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Review: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells. First book “review” of 2012 – it’s been a spell (reading old books makes me want to use old lingo) since I finished this one, so my memory is already getting hazy. I decided to take another trek down the old science fiction route, since it was short and very different from ‘The Tale of Genji’ which I was reading concurrently. 8226; The Time Machine (1895). 8226; The Wonderful Visit (1895). 8226; The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896).
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Eclectic Indulgence... classic literature reviews: Review: Henry V by William Shakespeare
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Sunday, January 20, 2013. Review: Henry V by William Shakespeare. I didn't read the Graphic Novel but. I thought this was an unusual,. Non-formulaic image of Henry V. There I was sitting in my hostel in Nottingham after just finishing Ben-Hur. And I came across a copy of Henry V by Shakespeare (eventually passed down to a friend in Luxembourg). Somehow or other, a few weeks later when I arrived in London. I went to go see a show at Shakespeare's Globe. Posted by Eclectic Indulgence. Boulle, Pierre: The B...
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Eclectic Indulgence... classic literature reviews: Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown
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Saturday, February 02, 2013. Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown. I would like to eventually read the translation by J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien was influenced by many of these ancient works including this one and Beowulf which were instrumental in the crafting of his fantastical world. The Song of Roland. Posted by Eclectic Indulgence. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This book is on my to be read list. I dont see any Daphne DuMaurier books on your blog? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Eclectic Indulgence... classic literature reviews: Read List
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READ LIST - sorted by the following:1. By Publication Year. 2 By Year Read. 3 By Author ( Main Page, Left Sidebar. 1 BY PUBLICATION YEAR. By Unknown ( 1800BC, Mesopotamia). By Homer ( 700-800BC, Greece). By Homer ( 700-800BC, Greece). The Analects of Confucius. By Confucius ( 500BC, China). By Aeschylus ( 458BC, Greece). By Sophocles ( 429BC, Greece). Medea, Hippolytus and The Bacchae. By Plato (380 BC, Greece). By Virgil (29-19 BC, Rome). The Tale of Genji. By Murasaki Shikibu (1000, Japan). By Charles ...
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Eclectic Indulgence... classic literature reviews: To Be Read
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List continually in flux. This list does not soley represent book club selections - many are personal selections. After books have been read, they move over to the Read List. Fables of Aesop - Aesop (560BC, Greece). The Wisdom of Confucius - Confucius (479BC, Greece). The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides (411BC, Greece). Comedies - Aristophanes (405BC, Greece). Politics - Aristotle (322BC, Greece). Poetics - Aristotle (322BC, Greece). Ethics - Aristotle (322BC, Greece). Satyricon - Petronius (60, Rome).
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Eclectic Indulgence... classic literature reviews: Review: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Saturday, January 19, 2013. Review: On the Road by Jack Kerouac. At the end, Kerouac and his buddy Neal Cassady make it down to Mexico to experience a culture completely different than their normal scene in the United States and they're completely excited. If I recall correctly, the work ends abruptly there. He played Verdi operas and pantomimed them in his pajamas with the great rip down the back. He didn’t give a damn about anything. Century musical manuscripts under his arm, shouting. 8220;It would ta...
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Eclectic Indulgence... classic literature reviews: Quotes
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Some quotes I have come across either from literature or elsewhere. I have tried to classify by subject, where possible. Enjoy! Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.". People don't change, Val. Not their fundamental character. Whatever you're going to be as an adult is already visible to someone who really knows you from your birth onward.". Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile, pg60. Kurt Vonnegut (and someone else? Of the world forever, ...
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Eclectic Indulgence... classic literature reviews: Greatest Lists
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100 Greatest of All-Time (Franking Library). The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams. The Divine Comedy ( I. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Five Comedies by Aristophanes. Confessions of St. Augustine. Selected Writings of Sir Francis Bacon. Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire. Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Favorite Ho...
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Eclectic Indulgence... classic literature reviews: Watership Down | Richard Adams
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Friday, August 31, 2007. Watership Down Richard Adams. Tonight, we just finished our first book club meeting for "Watership Down." Consensus was that the author was largely descriptive but not entirely poetic or memorable. I won't get into our discussions on themes and key areas, unless you're all really curious. As always, I will provide no spoilers. but I will share my two favourite quotes from the book. These quotes were the only ones that I found vaguely noteworthy. The author also used quotes in dif...