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Mrs Bridge – Evan S. Connell
Whilst I find that if I see reviews over and over of the same ‘current hype’ title I find myself, if I have a copy, distancing myself from it more and more I do find that the opposite happens with cla… more →
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A Romantic Look Inside the Roman Empire: I, Claudius - Robert Graves
wrote 2 days ago: Even now, some 1,500 years after it ended, the classical age of Rome is still something our society … more →
Prepare for the Weirdness.
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wrote 3 days ago: I was always a fairly well-behaved kid growing up. It wasn’t so much the fear of any awe-inspi … more →
Poems By Heart from Penguin Classics: App Review
wrote 3 days ago: Poems By Heart from Penguin Classics is a gorgeous little app for iOS phones and tablets that helps … more →
Mille Tendresses.
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wrote 6 days ago: All my life I have been telling people that I would be a ‘writer’ when I grew up. This g … more →
Life, A Users Manual by Georges Perec (1977)
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Life A User’s Manual is currently available on the Penguin Classics range and for good reason. As th … more →
Beaucoup bad shit, too beaucoup.
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wrote 2 weeks ago: He just wanted a decent book to read.. Not too much to ask, was it? It was in 1935 when Allen Lane s … more →
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
wrote 3 weeks ago: We all have those novels that we are drawn back to again and again because we love them so much, and … more →
A Spy In The House of Love by Anaïs Nin
wrote 3 weeks ago: The only thing that I got out of reading Kate Holden’s 2005 debut “In My Skin” was … more →
Parallaxed Journal highlight! Event Review: ONE BOOK, ONE SAN DIEGO EVENT
wrote 1 month ago: March 27, 2013 · by parallaxedjournal · in All Posts, Volume 1. · Edit Event review by Anna Lee Flem … more →
Book Review: On Being Different: What it Means to be a Homosexual by Merle Miller
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wrote 1 month ago: Title: On Being Different: What it Means to be a Homosexual Author: Merle Miller Publisher: Penguin … more →
In Defence of Poetry
wrote 1 month ago: As an undergraduate I was very impressed when a lecturer recited one of Shakespeare’s soliloqu … more →
Marketing at Penguin Classics: a postscript
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wrote 1 month ago: I just opened up the Penguin Classics website, and the first thing I saw was this: Discover Dante Al … more →
Where It All Begins: The Odyssey
wrote 1 month ago: Last week, I wrote about the problems of translating, especially when it comes to translating ancien … more →
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wrote 1 month ago: My Love Life, in Summary. Photography by Laetitia Laubscher. (Inspired by Nina Katchadouria) DAY 8 … more →
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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wrote 1 month ago: William Golding’s compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a cor … more →
In celebration of Penguin Classics
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wrote 1 month ago: In my previous post, I was less than entirely complimentary to Penguin Classics. I feel a bit bad ab … more →
The end of the world is nigh
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wrote 1 month ago: I have long regarded Penguin Classics as one of the great civilising forces of the modern world. It … more →
Humor's universal, but is it timeless? On Juvenal's Sixteen Satires
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wrote 1 month ago: There’s always an unspoken problem with anything translated: what about the details that aren … more →
You'd Have to be Crazy to do it: Columbus' Four Voyages
wrote 1 month ago: The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives by Chris … more →
