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The Rougon-Macqua...

J. J. said: " October, 2024. We begin.
This is about the Rougon Macquart cycle, all of it, twenty novels-- but the Oxford World Classics paperback editions, not kindle or ebook. From what I could see, no hardback edition [Everyman, Modern, etc] published the entire
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Franz Kafka
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka

Anton Chekhov
“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Anton Chekhov

Kingsley Amis
“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
Kingsley Amis

George W. Bush
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
George W. Bush

Gustave Flaubert
“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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