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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
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This is Frederick Douglass’s first autobiography – an important fact I learned when I discovered I’d accidentally posted my review under the wrong title*. As I’m currently listening to Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative it’s easy to focus on t...more |
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“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” ~Thoreau NATURE: After listening to Professor Arnold Weinstein’s 3 lectures on Emerson from Classics of American Literature (The Great Courses) I listened to this essay on LibriVox, a free resource which...more |
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| Colleen Colleen Carrol Campbell, speechwriter for President George W. Bush, author of the critically acclaimed, The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, and host of her own international television and radio show, “Faith...more | |
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Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
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“When I reveal most, I hide most.” ~Thomas Merton I thoroughly enjoyed this biography savoring it as I spent time getting to know an author—who I consider more of a friend—better. I do not, however, recommend Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton for someo...more |
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The Tales of Guy de Maupassant (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)
by Guy de Maupassant
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| According to the Introduction to this collection, the author, Guy de Maupassant and his Russian contemporary, Anton Chekhov were the consummate practitioners in the art of short story writing, setting a standard beyond which there seems little room f...more | |
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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer
― Maurice Switzer
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke
― Edmund Burke
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday, Large-Print Edition
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday, Large-Print Edition
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