Jeszcze jedna książka odkrywana i przeżywana po latach na nowo. Tym razem nie fabuła była najważniejsza – ale autor. I jego więź ze swoim bohaterem. Filozof, profesor, poeta, znawca literatury i badacz mitologi tworzy swoją książkę łącząc pisemne ślady po prawdziwym człowieku. Nie wymyśla, ale int...
I received a review copy of this book for my stop on the blog tour at Donnie Darko Girl. If you want a glimpse into what life might be like if a government had the ability to control population with a chip, then Cheating Time will give you that glimpse, and it's a scary one. For all of the good the ...
It is as a document of World War One that this book really shines. Robert Graves includes a wealth of little details that bring the day-to-day life of him, and his regiment, to life: the gallows humour, the values of the soldiers, the disillusionment with the war and the staff and yet the loyalty to...
Robert Graves, best known for I, Claudius, uses Samuel Butler’s theory that The Odyssey was actually written by a Sicilian woman as the inspiration for the novel Homer’s Daughter. Nausicaa, daughter of an Elyman king, faces a host of unwelcome suitors while the king is away and has to devise a means...
When I first read The Iliad, I was way too young to fully appreciate it. I understood, of course, the backstory - a spiteful goddess is left off a wedding invitation list, she retaliates by giving the Trojan prince Paris a golden apple to reward to the best-looking goddess (because that can’t go wro...
Czytając tę historię ponownie, po dwudziestu paru latach, pomyślałem o niej teraz jak o literackim żarcie. Inteligentnym dowcipie na bardzo wysokim poziomie. Historyk napisał książkę o koledze... tylko, że żyjącym prawie 2000 lat wcześniej. Swoją wiedzę i fakty okrasił odrobiną prawdopodobieństwa. ...
This isn't just one of my favorite works of historical fiction, but a favorite novel, and it amazes me this was published in 1934 given the frank depictions of themes such as homosexuality, incest, etc. Themes not grafted on for lurid effect but true to the times depicted. After all, this novelized ...
I have to echo the LibraryThing reviewer who said that if this sequel to I, Claudius is less impressive than the first book, it's because it's narrower in scope. I, Claudius isn't just this faux autobiography, it gave a run through of the members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty prior to Claudius--Livi...
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