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Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 – A Personal Choice (1984)
u/Jakob_Fabian — 9 days ago
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Evelyn Waugh’s The Sword of Honor Trilogy has been one of those works whose time could do nothing but determine itself. I feel fortunate that that time has come. One chapter in and this lapsed Catholic is awed.
u/Jakob_Fabian — 16 days ago
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The opening chapters read like the enlightened world of Herman Hesse, but soon switch to the hellish phantasmagoria of Hieronymus Bosch.
u/Jakob_Fabian — 18 days ago
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Few authors touch me as deeply as Franz Werfel who is better known for the massive epic The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933) which recounts a community’s resistance to the Armenian Genocide of the First World War and served as a warning to Europe during Hitler’s rise to power.
In The Song of Bernadette (1941) Werfel recounts the life of Bernadette Soubirous whose visions inspired not only a community and now the world, but Werfel himself when passing through Lourdes in his own escape from the Nazis. Promising to write her story should his flight be successful he not only provides a beautiful narrative but teaches a lesson in faith regardless of your religious beliefs, or even in having none at all.
u/Jakob_Fabian — 24 days ago
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Found a few other titles along the way. All for $12.
u/Jakob_Fabian — 26 days ago