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Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte (New York Review Books Classics) by Lorenzo Da Ponte

A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov

To the End of the World by Blaise Cendrars

Journals of Andre Gide Volume 2: 1914-1927 by Andre Gide

Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000 by Robert Hass

Panic Spring: a Romance (E L S Monograph Series) by Lawrence Durrell

European Political Systems by Taylor Cole Ed.

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About my libraryA working library focusing on European literature. It fits my aspirations to read in various languages. And it's well organized only on these webpages!

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Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser

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Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes

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Selected Poems 1923-1967 (Twentieth Century Classics) (Spanish Edition) by Jorge Luis Borges

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The Bridge on the Drina (Phoenix Fiction) by Ivo Andric

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Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems by Sharon Olds

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The Fall by D. Nurkse

I am now towards the end of the book, reading it in the English Lowe-Porter translation. I see "tsinandali" here would recommend the more recent translation. I would like to hear more from him/her or anyone else concerning this topic of relative merits of the two translations. Let me note that I am a native speaker of Hebrew and loved this old-fashioned, biblical-like English.

posted by bms at 11:54 am (EST) on Nov 5, 2009

It's helping me make decisions. I go through my books, and decide either to enter them in here and shelve them, or enter them on Amazon to sell them. (Also, I got rid of a bunch before moving, and I didn't go and unlist them from LibraryThing, so making sense out of things would have been difficult anyway.)

It's part of my necessary evolution from a crazed book-hoarder, to somebody who has a collection of books of value to work and thought.

posted by createevolve at 5:00 am (EST) on Jun 7, 2009

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