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i've heard of them and i think they're pretty much the definitive traslators of the russian classics (doestoevsky and tolstoy). i've read their translation of anna karenina, which i think is just...

either/or - soren kierkegaard
complete essays - michel de montagine
meditations - marcus aurelius
on the suffering of the world - arhtur schopenhauer
the myth of sysphus and other essays - albert...

hey, that's my favourite ee cummings poem. i just love the way he wrote about it. and it makes me smile..

i was gonna suggest paris spleen, but you already mentioned baudelaire so that's out..have you read illuminations by rimbaud?

here's the complete title:

illumination and other prose poems ...

there's a really good biography of tolstoy by henri troyat. i was browsing a second hand bookstore here in toronto and found one for $7.95. i bought it right away! and you know what? i just...

wild world - cat stevens

welcome!
i'm new here, too. just joined yesterday..so from one newbie to another newbie, "welcome!"

maybe i'll try not to care
like this all happened before
it's hard pretending though
when i know real well
and aware of all that
i'll be leaving

could i just
let things happen
and leave...

i'm currently in a tolstoy mood right now. yesterday i borrowed a lot of book about tolstoy -- i basically wanna read about his courtship, engagement and marriage with with sonya. not surprisingly,...

some critics even say that anna karenina is like two novels in one -- that of anna and vronsky, kitty and levin. myself, i prefer and like better the scenes and chapters with levin and kitty on it. ...

and it was really agonizing for his wife, sonya (who mostly copied out all of his works) who saw the story as a sort of insult to her and to their love.

about other russian works and authors, ivan turgenev is really good. read first love. it's a novella. if you like short stories, you can't go wrong with chekhov. i would suggest reading (these...