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Becky’s Arthurian Challenge 2008-2009
I have not participated in any reading challenges for a while. Actually, I have not read much at all recently, and posted even less here on Masterpieces. I did not need to think long when I discovered Becky's Arthurian Challenge 2008-2009. It should ...
La plage
Author Alain Robbe-Grillet Title La plage Year 1962 Alain Robbe Grillet (1922-2008) was a French author, one of the leading figures in the nouveau roman literary movement, and since 2004 member of the Académie française. His bes...
Crime and punishment
Author Fyodor Dostoevsky Title Crime and punishment Year 1866 Original title Преступление и наказание Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1861) was a Russian novelist. His novels depict life in 19th century urban Rus...
For whom the bell tolls
Author Ernest Hemingway Title For whom the bell tolls Year 1940 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American journalist, short story author and novelist. In the 1920s he became part of the American expatriate literary community in Paris (som...
As I lay dying
Author William Faulkner Title As I lay dying Year 1930 William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American novelist and poet. He is probably the second-most influential Southern author (after Twain). His experimental use of literary devices - in pa...
Southern reading challenge
August was for me the month of the Southern reading challenge: With a bottle of Southern Comfort, a large box of Southern pecans and three books I enjoyed a month of Southern literature. The masterpieces I read: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn,...


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