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The Art of Love (Modern Library Classics)

4 reviews
Ovid

Modern Library, 2002

Brilliant and witty
I read the Duane Humphries translation. His preface is superbly written, so one would hope that his translation possesses similar flair. Since I don't read Latin, I cannot attest to his accuracy. He observes in his preface the commonalities between Ovid's scene and that of our contemporary world. You will get a strong sense of a society that was very similar to that of our own.

THE GREAT WORLD (PICADOR BOOKS)

6 reviews
DAVID MALOUF

PICADOR, 1991

Takes His Time
Mr. Malouf is a gifted communicator, creator, and conjuror. I am even tempted to use literary alchemist for he does not just take words and arrange them, he selects words, assembles them with care and thought, and truly creates writing that is altogether new. This holds true whether he is dealing in pure fiction, or fiction that is historically based. The books that result from his efforts are ...

Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers)

595 reviews
Charlotte Bronte

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

Best Book in the World!
Jane Eyre is my favorite book. I love it. I read it first when I was 10, but it did not appeal to me at all, so I stopped reading it. I tried a year later. It immediately became my favorite book. I have read many other good books too, like Rebecca, but Jane Eyre is #1! I have recommended it to all my friends who love reading. This book is very great for someone my age (12) who is not ...

Dream Stuff: Stories

9 reviews
David Malouf

Vintage, 2001

Poetry becomes prose
David Malouf is a brilliant writer, as those readers who have digested "Remebering Babylon", "Conversations at Curlew Creek", etc. can attest. Too often Malouf is classified as an Australian writer, a limiting category for a man who spends half his year in Australia ad the other half in Tuscany! But as far as the content of his works is concerned he references the immense, isolated Australia, ...

Riders in the Chariot (New York Review Books Classics)

9 reviews
Patrick White

NYRB Classics, 2002

The Visionaries
What makes a great novel? Many things, but among them I would certainly list Scale, Characters, and Moral Vision. All three of these qualities are to be found in this towering novel by Patrick White. It is the first book by the Nobel laureate that I have encountered; it will certainly not be the last. This is a long book (640 pages), but a very easy one to read. In any case, when speaking of ...

Remembering Babylon

17 reviews
David Malouf

Pantheon, 1993

Exile
Lachlan Beattie, a boy of Queensland, encounters Gemmy Fairley, a ragged castaway. Gemmy had learned the speech of the Aborigines and he had lived among them. He was not quite a Kaspar Hauser, but nearly one. He was taken in by Jock and Ellen McIvor, Lachlan's aunt and uncle. Gemmy had jerking stammering fits. People wondered if he was a spy. He was white but had acquired a native look. ...

The Family Mashber (New York Review Books Classics)
Der Nister

NYRB Classics, 2008

First time in Paperback The Family Mashber is a protean work: a tale of a divided family and divided souls, a panoramic picture of an Eastern European town, a social satire, a kabbalistic allegory, an innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling, a tale of weird humor and mounting tragic power, embellished with a host of uncanny and fantastical ﬁgures drawn from daily life and the depths of the unconscious. Above ...

Fly Away Peter

9 reviews
David Malouf

Vintage, 1998

One of the few books that made me cry
Malouf deals with big themes here: the continuities of nature; the horror of human conflict; our desire to hold onto the past, and the necessity of relinquishing it. But he handles them in such a personal, beautiful and profoundly moving way that he manages to say it all in under 150 pages. Some readers might prefer more languorous pacing, but Malouf has no reason to stall. Unlike many ...

The Complete Stories (Vintage International)

1 review
David Malouf

Vintage, 2008

So moving only read one at a time
Malouf's stories are so quietly intense you can be breathless at any ending. Savor each with a long pause in between. I used the library but need my own copy!

An Imaginary Life

15 reviews
David Malouf

Vintage, 1996

What Might Have Been
"An Imaginary Life" is one of the most mesmerizing books I've ever read and it's certainly the most poetic and beautiful. There isn't much of a plot in this book nor is it a character study. To me, it's more akin to a long prose poem (and Malouf is also a poet as well as a novelist), though it really isn't a prose poem, either. "An Imaginary Life" is a poetic flight of fancy, an impossibly ...

Every Move You Make
David Malouf

Vintage, 2008

On Experience (Little Books on Big Themes)
David Malouf

Melbourne University Publishing, 2008

Australia's much loved author David Malouf presents a dazzling and illuminating personal essay on the power of imagination—and its effects on the life of a writer—in this first installment of a collectible new series. Beautifully packaged as a pocket-sized keepsake, this treasurable approach salvages a popular writer's inner philosophy from the disposability of journals and magazine columns for the sake of his fans and lovers of ...

Dream Stuff
David Malouf

Chatto & Windus, London, 2000

The Conversations At Curlow Creek

6 reviews
David Malouf

Vintage, 1997

A night of memories
Michael Adair is far from his native Ireland. In the scrub of New South Wales, he's been assigned the supervising of the execution of a bushranger. With no priest present, Adair undertakes the task of providing company, if not consolation, for the doomed raider. Carney, an Irishman like Adair, was a member of a gang led by a renowned leader, Dolan. Dolan, famous for his physical stature and ...

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