Tag: Literature
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“It’s much safer to be feared than loved” (p.66). – Niccolo Machiavelli Synopsis and Recommendation Written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published in 1432, The Prince is a political treatise that is considered one of the most famous, if not the most famous, book on politics ever written. Even if one has not heard of the…
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“But in the last resort, every shadow is also the child of light, and only those who have known the light and the dark, have seen war and peace, rise and fall, have truly lived their lives” – Stefan Zweig Synopsis and Recommendation Written by Stefan Zweig, “The World of Yesterday” is a memoir, not…
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“Does it not strike you as odd that she should play so wonderfully, play Beethoven with such passion, and live so quietly?” Synopsis and Recommendation A room with a view, a novel written by E.M Forester and adapted into a film directed by James Ivory, follows the romance of Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson as…
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“Manuscripts don’t burn.” (P.323) “The man who called himself the master worked feverishly at his novel and the book cast its spell over the unknown woman” (p.157) ‘Think of what it’s like being in my position. Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man down-stairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that,…