“The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.”
― Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
― Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“You are in every line I have ever read.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
Lost In Translation: Help Foreign Books Gain Readers!
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