On a long auto trip brother in law and I started talking about Milton’s Paradise Lost . It’s been many years but I
read that great work in college . I re-enlisted in Literature forum.
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On a long auto trip brother in law and I started talking about Milton’s Paradise Lost . It’s been many years but I
read that great work in college . I re-enlisted in Literature forum.
The Possessed- Dostoevsky
Ulysses-Joyce
The Hamlet-Faulkner
Favorite five would be :
The Gates of Fire -Steven Pressfield
Ulysses-James Joyce
Rejoyce-Anthony Burgess
The Life of Samual Johnson-James Boswell
The Hamlet-William Faulkner
The Shadow of the Wind- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Excellent novel
I started James Joyce with Antony Burgess' Rejoyce and Jackson and Costellos very good biography of the author's father, John Stanislaus Joyce. I have read Dubliners,Ulysses and half -way thru A...
James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson. A rich and splendid book .
Harper lee, To Kill A Mocking Bird !! Ayn Rand , Atlas Shrugged .
Cosmos
I began Pickwick Papers a week ago and had trouble changing frequencies but being retired I lightened up . I have became really absorbed in his characters.And his use of language is...
The author is writing of his experience on the island of Cyprus in the mid fifties . Excellent writer . Perhaps best known for his novels Justine ,Balthazar,Mountolive and Clea.
Eula Varner in William Faulkner's The Hamlet .
I must confess that I have not read Homer's Odyssey but have a fair working knowledge of the epic return home .And as I undertstand Ulysses
it is a modern urban journey .And living in rural...
An excellent 1st book of the Snopes Trilogy recommended by an English teacher in college years ago.Just would like to see Faulkner and this book discussed here on this excellent forum.
Ab Snopes...
I prefer Samual B. Griffith's translation .
It seems the " Stream of Consciousness " is not only by his characters but the author himself.There does seem to be and there is a certain rambling.But compare it to ones own "stream".Clever of...
I am reading Ulysses for the 2nd time. It is difficult but it is worth the effort.
I would recommend Anthony Burgess' REJOYCE as a sort of primer to not only introduce Joyce but to allow the...