The iron hand of Mars - Lindsey Davis
The iron hand of Mars - Lindsey Davis
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
The iron ring by Lloyd Alexander
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death"-anon
The Lord of the Rings- J.R.R.Tolkien
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
Lord of the Flies
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Lords of Misrule - Nigel Tranter
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
Lord Jim ~ was it Kipling - not sure (?)
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lord Jim was Conrad
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
Lucky- Alice Sebold
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Mayor of Casterbridge, The ~ Thomas Hardy
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Did the Mayor of Casterbridge stray in from the alphabetical book name game?
Never mind
The Luck of the Bodkins - P.G. Wodehouse
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
The Night of the Generals- Hans Hellmut Kirst
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
The General of the Dead Army-Ismail Kadare
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce
It is a fatal miscarriage, so ill to order affairs, as to pass for a fool in one company, when in another you might be treated as a philosopher. Jonathan Swift