I read Hemingway "The Sun also rises" more than 20 years ago ,and LOVED it! I was 14-15 at the time... can you imagine,from my sheltered teenager point of view...
A friend of mine and I were discussing the relative merits of Blake and Rimbaud the other day. Blake's images were sublime and grand, while Rimbaud's were...
However, Blake was more of a visionary adding his<br>revelation to the existing convention, whereas Rimbaud broke with convention to deliver his message....
Hello Everyone -<br><br>March 1 is the start of a new month and a new book here at Classics Reading Group. As most of you know, we will be reading "Trinity" by...
<I remember he was a miser and he found a orphan girl and came to care more about her than his gold. can you imagine that, I mean no wolves or sailing ships...
Litter, you were right on both questions #2 & #3--(#1--I wrote in the answer by mistake) I'll try not to give away any more answers! :>) Here are the ...
1. He lived for a time in a cottage in the Bronx?<br><br>2. Title of a series of Appalachain life styles?<br><br>3. "___________ ____________ Road Atlas,"...
Seamus' grandfather Kilty dies, "..but nobody ever gave serious consideration to the fact that he might die..." Guess we're all that way, and to a great extent...
I prob. will go with Atwood instead of reading scarlett letter again. I never rush after what is current. It is much better to wear hand-me -downs and read ...
or Keroac, the Dharma Bum.<br>I was just kidding, but E.H. is dull to me.<br>I think I understand him to well, I grew up with men like him around. Only writers...
I never read The Sun also rises, but I read old man and the see and the Nick Adams stories, To Have and to Have Not. and I think I saw all the books of him...
I reckon you're talking about Somerset Maugham??<br>I have only read "The Moon and Sixpence" by him, lots of years ago,(as so much else I have read.) I ...
He wrote an extremely humorous portrait of pet death in L.A. years before Stephen King's 'Pet Semetary' (which I've not read). I wish I could remember the name...
maritagnes, I read The Moon and Sixpence a long time ago, and to tell you the truth I remember very little about it except that I did not like it. I seem to ...
Well I goofed already in my Trinity post yesterday. It was Conor's grandfather Kilty who died, not Seamus'...<br><br>"Ma went to the large salt bowl in a niche...
I am so intrigued by all the superstitions and rituals surrounding the death . . . I read several John Synge plays last year and they all showed the Irish as a...
Ch.4,page 37 (in my Andre Deutsch edition)<br><br>"....even in our most dire straits we kept the old language alive and never ceased the writing of music and...
gndoor, I do sense the affinity for the Catholics, and yes I think Uris uses the term 'croppies' in an affectione way...We get to know Conor and Seamus first...
maritagnes, often the more a culture is suppresed and discriminated against, the more this culture will turn to its tradtions and lore as a desparate means of ...
