All Men Are Mortal-Simone de Beauvoir
All Men Are Mortal-Simone de Beauvoir
"Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie
Originally Posted by Erichtho
I have read some of Pirandello's short stories; they're excellent.
I recently purchased the following:
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee.
I bought them at a second-hand book shop in Avignon, on the Rue Trois Faucons. I paid 8 euros for the 3 volumes.
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Kim by Rudyard Kipling i'v never heard of it but i found sth pushed me to by it may be the short title...... ..........
Stardust by Gaiman
Candide By Voltaire
"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
2nd hand copy of A Clockwork Orange for about $1
I'm taking advantage of the holyweek to read all the books I have purchased from booksale last month! Yay now I have the time to read them.
The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce
Selected Stories - Butch Dalisay
101 Things You Didn't Know About Shakespeare
The Elements of Style - E.B White
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!
the whole boatload of sensitive!
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl II.
Conversations with Ingmar Bergman
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form - Helen Vendler
I was given Special Topics in Calamity Physics. I think the last book I actually purchased was a book on running techniques. The last novel I actually purchased was Fahrenheit 451.
"Memory believes before knowing remembers."
--Faulkner
The last books i bought would be
Ten Things I Hate About Me - Randa Abdel-Fattah
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
m or f? - Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Will - Maria Boyd
well i didnt buy but was given as a present a book of short stories by F.Scott Fitzgerald "The diamon as big as the Ritz"
'The rules of attraction' - Bret Easton Ellis
'American Psycho' - Bret Easton Ellis
'Neither here nor there' - Bill Bryson
and some german book by Charlotte Link
“I never looked good in red. It’s not my color.”
Deception Point by Dan Brown
The source of any bad writing is the desire to be something more than a person of sense--the straining to be thought a genius. If people would say what they have to say in plain terms, how much eloquent they would be.
-S.T COLERIDGE
all the King's men by Robert Penn Worren
He's an interesting one; I just read Less Than Zero last summer. Creepy...
Today, in the mail, I received:
The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman - F.O. Matthiessen
Roderick Hudson - Henry James
The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand
Doctor Faustus-Thomas Mann
The Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning
"Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie
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