"Dovunque era lei, là era l'Eden" Forse è un po' banale iniziare una recensione con la frase più significativa del racconto, ma è anche quella che ne permette una (ri)lettura con occhi nuovi. E poi, come mi disse tempo fa un'amica, "in essa è contenuto il significato della parola amore". Eva ed A...
Eve's diary is comical, and beautiful. I did laugh while reading it- without actually knowing it was about Adam and Eve. : )I like the intensity of such a read. The history and the wit. I could have related- very much so. It is such a pity that he should feel so, for brightness is nothing; it is ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, a re-read! This is one of those books I won't tire of reading. This is my favourite passage in the book, simply because I am a girl and we girls can go on and on about the men that we love. ;-)After The Fall"The Garden is lost, but I have found HIM, and am content. He loves ...
I read the version of this with the original, the french translation, and then the english translated from the french translation. It's a fun story. I hadn't read much of Twain's short stories, and the narrative and style was fun to follow. His notes about the translation issues are almost funn...
When I first heard about this book, I couldn't stop smiling. I have read everything that Mark Twain wrote, and having this new taste from his grave is a mighty treat indeed. If you are a fan of Samuel Clemens, you MUST pick up this quick read of essays and lectures he decided to publish from th...
And why is this awful difference made between white and black? - Tom Driscoll Sewaktu ditugaskan untuk membaca Huckleberry Finn, saya tidak sanggup untuk menyelesaikannya. Bukan karena masalah dialek, tapi lebih karena penuturannya yang menurut saya agak sedikit bertele-tele. Meskipun begitu, sa...
Whether it's the gods smiling on me, blind coincidence, narcissism, or a combination of the three, world events sometimes have a way of coinciding with whatever I'm reading. For instance, the week after I finished reading All the President's Men, Mark Felt revealed himself to be Deep Throat, brin...
When newspapers serials sell by "continues ..", authors yank up guffaws, groans, titters, tears, tack on more, and more. Start silly #54 "My father was a St Bernard, my mother was a colllie, but I am a Presbyterian" p 489. End sad "the humble little friend is gone where go the beasts that perish ...
Even after a hundred years, you can’t beat Mark Twain for originality. After fiddling around with the idea of an autobiography or memoir for a couple of decades, rejecting most of his efforts as too literary, he finally around 1902 hit on the idea of 1) eschewing chronology; and 2) dictating rath...
This little book from the Gutenberg Project has several fairly short, essays within an essay about how to properly tell a humorous story.Mark Twain (AKA Samuel Clemens) became a popular writer with good reason. He writes well, handles dialects in a manner that is accurate and maintains the dignit...
این داستان دربارهٔ پادشاه ششم انگلستان که در ربع دوم قرن شانزدهم میلادی میزیست نوشته شده است. در یکی از روزهای پاییزی، در خانواده‌ای فقیر، پسری به دنیا آمد که خانواده‌اش نمی‌خواستند به دنیا بیاید. ولی در همان روز در خانوادهٔ پادشاه انگلستان - هنری هشتم – پسری به دنیا آمد که نه تنها خانواده‌اش ب...
Conocido también como el testamento antirreligioso de Mark Twain (1835-1910), fue publicada mas de 50 años despues de su muerte, en 1962, luego de haber leído su contenido, podría entender las razones. Me parece que leí una edición distinta a la presente en la cual escribo mi crítica. Como sea me...
