No Longer At Ease (1960)
by Chinua Achebe
Picador Edition, The African Trilogy, from which page numbering comes.
This book is not available in the Penguin Classics range.
Chinua Achebe’s second novel, No Longer at Ease, published in 1960, is a then contemporary story of modern Nigeria. It is a Nigeria of contrasting religions, where modernity is in competition [...]
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Achebe, Chinua. “No Longer at Ease” (1960)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arrow of god, chinua achebe, journey of the magi, no longer at ease, t s eliot, the african trilogy, things fall apart on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Achebe, Chinua. “Things Fall Apart” (1958)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged african literature, cairo trilogy, chinua achebe, naguib mahfouz, nigeria, no longer at ease, ogbanje, things fall apart, v s pritchard on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Things Fall Apart (1958)
by Chinua Achebe with an Introduction by Chinua Achebe
Picador Edition, The African Trilogy, 1988, 558pp.
Also available in the Penguin Modern Classics range.
It has been fifty years since Chinua Achebe’s landmark novel, Things Fall Apart, was published and in that time its reputation and power has not been diminished. The sheer brutal [...]
Abbey, Edward. “The Monkey Wrench Gang” (1975)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Byron, eco-terrorism, Edward Abbey, Eric Schlosser, Glen Canyon, Hayduke Lives!, Lonely Are The Brave, Ned Ludd, Richard Shelton, Robert Redford, The Brave Cowboy, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Thoreau, Walt Whitman on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
by Edward Abbey with a Preface by Robert Redford and an Introduction by Eric Schlosser
Penguin Modern Classics, 421pp
When Edward Abbey died in March 1989 his final wish was that his body be buried in the desert wilderness he so loved, unmarked and lost, “I want my body to help fertilize [...]
Maroufi, Abbas. “Symphony of the Dead” (1987)
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Symphony of the Dead (1987)
Abbas Maroufi
trans. Lotfali Khonji
This novel is not from the Penguin Classics series, but a novel from a small publisher called aflamebooks, dedicated to bringing the best of world literature to a wider audience.
Iranian author Abbas Maroufi moved to Germany in 1996 following a trial that saw him sentenced [...]
Abelard, Peter. “The Letters of Abelard and Heloise” (c.1132 – 1138)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betty Radice, Charlotte Charrier, Constant J. Mews, Heloise, Historia Calamitatum, J. T. Muckle, M. T. Clanchy, Paraclete, Peter Abelard, Peter the Venerable on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (c.1132 – 1138)
by Peter Abelard and Heloise with an Introduction by Betty Radice and M. T. Clanchy
trans. Betty Radice and Revised by M. T. Clanchy
Penguin Classics, 296pp.
From the middle of the High Middle Ages comes one of the great correspondences of all time, that of Peter Abelard, a [...]
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. “The Brothers Karamazov” (1880)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David McDuff, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, The Brothers Karamazov, The Grand Inquisitor on June 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky with an Introduction by David McDuff
trans. David McDuff
Penguin Classics, 920pp.
Near to the end of Dostoyevsky’s 1880 masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, one of the brothers, Ivan Fyodorovich, suffering from an alcohol-related hallucinatory disorder delirium tremens, is visited by the Devil. It is first physical manifestation of the Devil in [...]
