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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Pan by Knut Hamsun

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A Nordic Eden corrupted Norwegian Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun’s novel Pan was first published in 1894. The story begins in 1855 in the ...
Monday, February 26, 2018

The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane

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Small-town tales of pioneering realism The Monster and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction by American author Stephen Crane, w...
Friday, February 23, 2018

How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci

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Irvine’s been there, done that Stoicism is an ancient school of philosophy that originated in Greece in the 3rd century BC. Its most fa...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

The Golden Horn by Poul Anderson

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Byzantine “Immigrant Song” Poul Anderson is best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy novels. In 1998 he was named a Grand...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac

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An old war horse returns from the dead Colonel Chabert, a novel by Honoré de Balzac, was first published in 1832 under the title La Tr...
Friday, February 16, 2018

The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell by George Santayana

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More about Santayana’s thought than Russell’s Having previously read a couple works by George Santayana and Bertrand Russell, I was int...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

International Short Stories: French, edited by Francis J. Reynolds

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Evidence of France’s literary superiority Guy de Maupassant International Short Stories: French, compiled by Francis J. Reynolds a...