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Ancient literature, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century; French literature; enlightenment literature, romanticism, realism, naturalism, existentialism; books on suffering and solace.
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My kith and kin have oft repeated That I am bashful, timid, shy, That my courage 's quick-depleted, And that l avoid them on the sly
Consider this: they are not wrong For indeed I am frightened of the throng! Yet if I have to flee from their prating, from their looks, What better way than to flee in books
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Wonderknol rated Atheists Mass: 3 stars
Wonderknol rated The malaise of modernity: 4 stars
The malaise of modernity by Charles Taylor (Massey lectures series -- 1991)
Wonderknol rated Life Is a Dream: 4 stars
Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Life Is a Dream (Spanish: La vida es sueño [la ˈβiða es ˈsweɲo]) is a Spanish-language play by Pedro Calderón …
Wonderknol rated Lecture on Ethics: 4 stars
Wonderknol rated ABC of reading: 4 stars
Ezra Pound: ABC of reading (1960, New Directions)
ABC of reading by Ezra Pound (A New Directions paperbook)
Wonderknol rated Three Tales: 4 stars
Three Tales by Flaubert Gustave
Three Tales (Trois Contes) is a work by Gustave Flaubert that was originally published in French in 1877. It consists …
Wonderknol rated Introduction Aux Pensees de Marc Aurele: 4 stars
Wonderknol rated Esau and Jacob : a novel: 3 stars
Review of 'Quincas Borba (Library of Latin America)' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Wonderknol rated Dom Casmurro: 4 stars
Dom Casmurro by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Dom Casmurro is an 1899 novel written by Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Like The Posthumous Memoirs of …
Wonderknol rated Moth to a Flame: 5 stars
Wonderknol rated The posthumous memoirs of Bra s Cubas: 5 stars
The posthumous memoirs of Bra s Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Library of Latin America)
Wonderknol rated Pattern Seekers: 3 stars
Simon Baron-Cohen: Pattern Seekers (2020, Penguin Books, Limited)
Pattern Seekers by Simon Baron-Cohen
A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.
Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers …