Hi friends and happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m back with another classic read! Today I’m posting my reading update thoughts on The Prince by: Niccolò Machiavelli. Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging…… Continue reading The Classics: The Prince
Hi friends and happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m back with another classic read! Today I’m posting my reading update thoughts on I Capture the Castle by: Dodie Smith. Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her…… Continue reading The Classics: I Capture the Castle
Hi friends and happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m back with another classic read! Today I’m posting my reading update thoughts on Canterbury Tales by: Geoffrey Chaucer. The procession that crosses Chaucer’s pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar,…… Continue reading The Classics: Canterbury Tales
Hi friends and happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m back with another classic read! Today I’m posting my reading update thoughts on Brave New World by: Aldous Huxley. Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially…… Continue reading The Classics: Brave New World
Hi friends and happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well. It’s been a while, but I’m finally back with yet another classic read! Today I’m posting my reading update thoughts on The Divine Comedy Inferno, Purgatory & Paradise. The Divine Comedy – Inferno This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante’s simple, natural style, and captures the…… Continue reading The Classics: The Divine Comedy Inferno, Purgatory & Paradise
Hi friends and happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m back with another classic read! Today I’m posting my reading update thoughts on Wide Sargasso Sea by: Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and…… Continue reading The Classics: Wide Sargasso Sea
Hi friends and happy Wednesday! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m back with another classic read! Today I’m posting my reading update thoughts on In Cold Blood by: Truman Capote. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a…… Continue reading The Classics: In Cold Blood
Hi friends and happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well. It’s been a while, but I’m finally back with yet another classic read! Today I’m posting my reading update thoughts on The Arabian Nights. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories…… Continue reading The Classics: The Arabian Nights
Hi friends and happy Wednesday! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m back again today with yet another classic read! Today I’m posting my reading update thoughts on Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original…… Continue reading The Classics: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Hi friends and happy Wednesday! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m back again today with yet another classic read! Today I’m posting my reading update thoughts on Sophocles’ Three Theban Plays. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the…… Continue reading The Classics: The Three Theban Plays
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