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... the other day and bought three books:
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
So the number of books I own and haven't read grows as I finish the books that must be returned to the library and request more...but I'll never ... ... of mystery novels set in the Roman Empire by Lindsey Davis, set during the reign of Vespasian.
The aforementioned Ben Hur.
Another classic is Quo Vadis by the Polish Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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The 2nd Century is a bit more tricky:
The Memoirs of Hadrian by Ma ... For the 1st century, you could try an old chestnut, Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace. I read it way back when and don't remember much about it, except for a description of a roof garden/patio in Antioch that made me want to go there.
Gillian Bradshaw will help you with the 2nd and 6th centuries. Islan ... ... when I was little that we visited the big city for my brother's birthday (and to buy school clothes). He wanted to see Ben Hur at the Kachina Theater which had the big, triple wide screen. I just couldn't remember enough about it to ask here!
So, of course, once seeing the question about ... I had thought it was Ben Hur but upon checking, I discover that it is a 1901 copy of The Making of a Marchioness.
edited for purposes of giving accurate information. ... and Stranger in a Strange Land are mentioned in "We Didn't Start the Fire." For that matter, so are Peter Pan, Ben Hur, and Psycho, though I imagine in all of those cases the intention was to reference movie versions contemporary to the rest of the stuff in the same verses.
Hemi ... ... Beach - Neville Shute
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Topaz - Leon Uris
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
Ben Hur - Lew Wallace
Von Ryan's Express - David Westheimer
A Night to Remember - Walter Lord ... Hardy
7. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
8. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
9. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
10. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
11. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. The Tenant of Wildfell hall by Anne ... ... Oil Wars by Parke Godwin
The Heavenly Village by Cynthia Rylant
Sympathy for the Devil by Holly Lisle
Ben-hur by Lew Wallace ... or more times over:
To Kill A Mockingbird
House of The Seven Gables
The Sword of Shannara
Wuthering Heights
Ben Hur
Jane Eyre
All E M Forster and John Fowles P G wodehouse books I own.
... I'm not looking forward to that one either.
Shindler's List and the Color Purple were very depressing movies...
Ben Hur was such a long movie...
I'm seeing a trend. Maybe I should stop watching so many movies. They are ruining books for me.
Catch-22 I started and gave up ... ... Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
W M Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Lew Wallace - Ben Hur
H. G. Wells - The Time Machine
And I have many, many more on my wish-list... I've discovered a hitherto hidden love of the classics! ... 0)
Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782)
W M Thackeray - Vanity Fair (1848)
Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (1880)
H. G. Wells - The Time Machine (1895)
Although I've got (and already read) several books from the early 20th century, I've decided that my own "Clas ... ... have much preferred that instead of releasing somewhat dubious (IMHO) titles such as "Beau Geste", "Doctor Zhivago", "Ben-Hur" or "The Robe" that RD had released more Dickens, Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, or H. G. Wells instead. OTOH, I quite like the Clarence Day and Ja ... How about Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur? For older books and a different look ?
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