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NO MAN IS AN ISLAND by JOHN DONNE

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Age of Illumination 3 Volumes by Folio Society

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Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4) by Marcel Proust

Un Vie by Guy de Maupassant

The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by E.J. Hobsbawm

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Favorite authorsGuy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Jacques Prévert, Ayn Rand, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

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I'm Irish born and bred, mixed tastes in books as my library will show. Currently reading DonQuixote by Cervantes.

About my libraryFavourite books are Folio Editions , all titles, just love the quality and illustrations of each book.

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NO MAN IS AN ISLAND by JOHN DONNE

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A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

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The Riddle of the Sands (Folio Society) by Erskine Childers

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VILE BODIES. by Evelyn. Waugh

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WALDEN by HENRY DAVID. THOREAU

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The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

hello n11284
delighted to hear of stephen stills' neverflagging magick. i saw rodney crowell at the belly up tavern in solana beach last night and he was at the top of his form. i'm new to the computer world so i can't tell you how exiting it is to wake up in the morning to a little note from the emerald isle. as your countryman james a joyce sd. abt. onan-ism--the amazing availability of it!!!

posted by Porius at 2:42 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2008

Have you ever heard of Claire Tomalin's biography on Thomas Hardy?

posted by Pepys at 10:01 am (EST) on Nov 5, 2008

Oh yes, thanks John, I knew about this book. I wish I would have time to read it. My problem is now how to cope with time for reading. My TBR pile is growing higher and higher, but The Plot should be a really good book. At least I read good reviews on it.

posted by Pepys at 9:58 am (EST) on Nov 5, 2008

Dear N11284,

Thank you for your reply. Joyce is a complete mystery to me. I have to solve it one day. I couldn't understand Ulysses in English, and when I turned to the new translation into French which was done last year or the year before, I found it as cryptic as the original version.

Do you read Maupassant in French? Delicious reading.

Yours

posted by Pepys at 8:24 am (EST) on Oct 22, 2008

Dear N11284, (is it the code of your credit card?)
Interesting to read that this is your 5th attempt to understand Ulysses, and your 1st success. How could you do it? With a companion volume giving all the keys? With a fully annotated copy? I and most of my connections acknowledge complete failure. Please give your secret.

posted by Pepys at 7:12 am (EST) on Oct 13, 2008

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