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For a long time I have been considering adding two new shelves - big-and-beautiful, governed by War and Peace and big-and-boredomful, governed by Middlemarch. Sadly, and to my great surprise, the Budenbrooks will have to reside on the latter shelf.I saw many reviewers being astonished that such a no...
Hello everyone, I am currently re-reading it in German and want to recommend it to an English friend of mine. Could you please let me know who translated your book and if the language was very precise and fitting to the period? I'd like to give it to him as a present but want to make sure the transl...
This is a novel I may never have read had my friend Kalliope not invited me to join in a group read. While I'm an enthusiatic reader of 19th century English and (to a lesser extent) French literature, my exposure to German literature of this period has been sadly lacking. So I'm glad to have had the...
Operatic, saga like, and so German. Mann’s novel follows the lives of a member of German family which struggles to escape the grasp of fate once they have places their sensitive members in her hands. In many ways, the novel echoes on a more modern level the legends such as Segued, with the same s...
MEAN REVERSION IS A BITCH...!!!There is a concept in statistics, Regression or Reversion to the Mean, which is widely used in a variety of fields of knowledge. It was first realized by Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, when he worked on the correlation of heights between adult children ...
Książkę przeczytałem, ale nie powiem, żeby bardzo mnie wciągnęła : To typowa historia(a może nawet i saga) opowiadająca o dziejach rodziny kupieckiej w pierwszej połowie XIX w. Przez kilka kilkadziesiąt stron nie wiedziałem na kim się skupić, bo Mann opisywał po trochu każdego członka dosyć licznej ...
Čitala sam je u dvanaestoj godini, i uplašila me. Sad me je rastužila. Za osam godina moram da je pročitam ponovo, da vidim šta će tad da mi uradi.
re-read via epub ebox--------------------"An enormous brick-red, boiled ham appeared, strewn with crumbs and served with a sour brown onion sauce, and so many vegetables that the company could have satisfied their appetites from that one dish. Lebrecht Kroger undertook the carving, and skillfully cu...
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