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Water for Drowning - Ray Cluley, John Bayley

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Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy, John Bayley, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear

Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch - John Bayley

Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics) - Alexander Pushkin, Charles Johnston, John Bayley

Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring - Penelope Fitzgerald, John Bayley

Anna Karenina (Everyman's Library Classics, #58) - Leo Tolstoy, John Bayley, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude

Collected Stories - Raymond Chandler, John Bayley

Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire - John Bayley

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Bettie's Books rated it

10 years ago

text Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley

bookshelves: film-only, published-1998, nonfiction, summer-2015, re-visit-2015, mental-health, memento-mori, biography Recommended for: Laura Read from January 01, 2004 to August 23, 2015 Description: In this frank memoir, John Bayley describes the life he has shared with his wife, Iris Murdoch...

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mybookjournal rated it

11 years ago

text Very interesting read..

Anna Karenina was a much awaited read for me. Ever since I started reading classics, I wanted to get my hands on this one, but the only thing I was afraid of was the no. of pages and those small prints. But when I finally started reading there was no looking back, I enjoyed every moment spent with t...

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Bettie's Books rated it

11 years ago

text Eugene Onegin

bookshelves: classic, slavic Read from September 05, 2010 to May 08, 2013, read count: 3 Canto the FirstI"My uncle's goodness is extreme,If seriously he hath disease;He hath acquired the world's esteemAnd nothing more important sees;A paragon of virtue he!But what a nuisance it will be,Chained t...

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Joanne rated it

12 years ago

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My goal was to read this book in two weeks, and I managed it, to the day exactly. Well, I ambitiously set out to read this book, knowing nothing about the story, really, and found it fairly interesting. There were some chapters that I started to skim a bit, the ones dealing with politics and religio...

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