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Les Reveries of the Solitary Walker (French: Les rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire) is an unfinished book by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques …
Les Reveries of the Solitary Walker (French: Les rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire) is an unfinished book by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques …
A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and …
The writing felt oddly mechanical. The book has a ... gimmick ... that the "real" story was a beautiful epic poem and the narrator is just recounting it. The narrator keeps making excuses for how much worse their own prose is, compared to the "real thing". The excuses wear kind of thin, since this is actually the real text. I was very excited to read this, but ended up disappointed.
A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and occasionally ruled.
A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and occasionally ruled.
Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of …
Publius Vergilius Maro: The Aeneid / Virgil ; translated by Robert Fitzgerald. (1990, Vintage Books)
Based in Homer's Illiad and Odyssey, the epic poem describes the adventures of Aeneas from his homeland of Troy to …
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Major Works (Paperback, 2008, Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
A collection of influential writings by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. LW considers the relationships of formal logic, philosophy, and natural …
The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's …
The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's …
The Mezzanine (1988) is the first novel by American writer Nicholson Baker. It narrates what goes through a man's mind …
