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november 2007 by rybesh

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Stuart Atkins, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust I & II

what basalt! what flare! faust is and always be one of those megalo-gigantic characters that continue to inspire drama and thought for centuries...

books 1994 urn:asin:069103656X wishlist classics drama plays poetry
june 2005 by rybesh

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Nikolai Gogol, Susanne Fusso, Bernard Guerney: Dead Souls

Translators of Gogol are often said to do more harm than justice to his works - Russia's greatest humorist often end up more pompous than funny, and despite the many number of translations of his masterpiece Dead Souls, very few non-native readers can...

books 1996 urn:asin:0300060998 wishlist classics fiction literature russian
june 2005 by rybesh

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Stan Brakhage: By Brakhage - Anthology - Criterion Collection

I like some avant garde filmmaking, in particular animation, ex...

cinema 2003 urn:asin:B000087EYF wishlist classics
june 2005 by rybesh

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Marcus Sanders, Sandow Birk: Dante's Inferno

Sandow Birk's illustrations are great Californian pastiches of Gustav Dore's original masterpieces...

books 2004 urn:asin:0811842134 wishlist 1265 classics dantealighieri fiction inferno poetry
june 2005 by rybesh

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Hans Gabler, James Joyce: Ulysses

harlequin! poseidon! here is a work that not only achieved more leaps in linguistic innovation at its time but also, the sun beaming in profuse shower, a wild reinvention of plot and a rugged onslaught against tradition...

books 1986 urn:asin:0394743121 wishlist alienation classics dublin european fiction literature malefriendship urban
june 2005 by rybesh

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William H. Gass: Omensetter's Luck

My appraisal of this novel coincides with those of A...

books 1997 urn:asin:0141180102 wishlist classics clergy crime english fiction gass goodandevil literary literature modernfiction ohio usa william urban
june 2005 by rybesh

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William H. Gass, William Gaddis: The Recognitions

I have to give this book five stars, because it is such an awesome work, and not just in the teenage sense in which everything is awesome...

books 1993 urn:asin:0140187081 wishlist classics fiction literature modernfiction
june 2005 by rybesh

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Saul Bellow: Herzog

The book is highly literate in an abstract way; Bellow makes some fragmented, interesting--if dated and vaguely, naively ethnocentric--observations about some aspects of the world...

books 2003 urn:asin:0142437298 wishlist bellow classics collegeteachers failure fiction jewishmen literary literature middle saul
june 2005 by rybesh

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Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire

I studied on my own for the LSAT and GMAT with very little success...

books 1989 urn:asin:0679723420 wishlist classics fiction literary literature
june 2005 by rybesh

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Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay

In the early 1920s, Theodore Gumbril Jr, disenchanted with his teaching job in a boys' school, leaves for London determined to pursue his idea for "pneumatic trousers"...

books 1997 urn:asin:1564781496 wishlist 1894 aldous classics england fiction huxley intellectuals literature novelists urban
june 2005 by rybesh

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Harold Bloom, Edith Grossman, Miguel De Cervantes: Don Quixote

Is it just me or does Don Quixote set up his peerless Dulcinea of El Toboso to be an object of ridicule by making her out to the most beautiful woman he's ever seen? It's clear he's had hallucinations before...

books 2003 urn:asin:0060188707 wishlist classics fiction literary literature
june 2005 by rybesh

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Andrew Brown, Francois Rabelais: Gargantua

In nine short words: This is the worst book I have ever read...

books 2003 urn:asin:1843910578 wishlist classics european fantasy fiction giants literature
june 2005 by rybesh

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Isaac Kramnick, Alexis De Tocqueville, Gerald E. Bevan: Democracy in America

There was a movie that came out in the nineties, whose title eludes me, in which a businessman's airhead wife is taught the art of intelligent discourse by having her read, however reluctantly at first, Democracy in America...