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Well, the book is everything you can read somewhere else, and still very enjoyable. The ending is a bit surprising and I wish Mishima would have told us a little bit more about it. He's probably just being mischievous.
The themes of the island, the sea, purity qnd innocence, the work of the divers and fishermen are very nwell woven into this nice little novel.
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le Guin's striking new version. Le …
Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys. His childhood and adolescence are shaped by bullying, …
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It …
'When you think that Dublin has been a capital for thousands of years,' James Joyce once wrote his brother, 'that …
'When you think that Dublin has been a capital for thousands of years,' James Joyce …
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
'When you think that Dublin has been a capital for thousands of years,' James Joyce …
The stories are great, ironic, and progressing towards their endings, which are famously good. This edition is great at providing the minimum amount of context needed to understand the context and the clues to the political and social setting in Ireland.
Much, probably too much, has been written about these stories, but they're great.
Il margine è la casa all’epoca della segregazione razziale, governata dalle donne nere come luogo di protezione dalla violenza razzista …
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent …
I made the error of starting with the forewords and introductions, which are very long and extremely tedious, and seem to have been mercifully cut short by the editor.
The short stories are very nicely crafted, short in all aspects, but have very vivid characters, often creating a sense of proximity with the reader. I most probably won't read them again, but I'm glad I read them.
