Moritz's bookshelf: read en-US Sat, 05 Jul 2025 18:45:49 -0700 60 Moritz's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg ĥʥ [tsunagu] 17209471 434 Mizuki Tsujimura 4101388814 Moritz 0 currently-reading 4.16 2010 ĥʥ [tsunagu]
author: Mizuki Tsujimura
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.16
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[mϥҤΑnd (Haruhi Suzumiya, #1)]]> 3410728 307 Nagaru Tanigawa 4044292019 Moritz 0 currently-reading 3.89 2003 mϥҤΑnd (Haruhi Suzumiya, #1)
author: Nagaru Tanigawa
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> ߤι³ǡ 57313375 276 Mizuki Tsujimura Moritz 4 4.08 2021 ߤι³ǡ
author: Mizuki Tsujimura
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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author: Mizuki Tsujimura
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich]]> 26521332 368 Norman Ohler 3462047337 Moritz 0 to-read 4.17 2015 Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich
author: Norman Ohler
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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author: Sugaru Miaki
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[ͤߤγ 1 [Nezumi no Hatsukoi 1]]]> 216979035 192 Riku ?seto 4065344239 Moritz 3 2025, japan, japanese, 3.20 ͤߤγ 1 [Nezumi no Hatsukoi 1]
author: Riku ?seto
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.20
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[ċĠ򤿤٤ [Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai]]]> 40100791
i坤äȤ禥ȥ˻椹롣ǰΤʤWȡճΤʤŮʤ坴٥ȥ`ഺСh]]> 324 Yoru Sumino 4575519944 Moritz 4 japan, japanese, romance 4.23 2015 ċĠ򤿤٤ [Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai]
author: Yoru Sumino
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/05/04
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]]> <![CDATA[Everything you should know about Japan]]> 35995860
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ΘɡȻȳɤGeography and Basic InformationsʷHistory?Politics and Government˾?ΰLaw and Orderᱣ?ҽSocial Security and HealthcareUg?PEconomy and Labor Force⽻Diplomacyĺ餷Everyday Life?ڽEducation and ReligionĻCulture쥸`?ݩ`Leisure and SportsQ?٥Tourism and Special Events礫ΥȡU˥åݥ˫ˤĤơ

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author: Abe Naobumi
name: Moritz
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]]> JINDʨD 1 49048808 304 Motoka Murakami 4086191547 Moritz 0 currently-reading 0.0 2010 JINDʨD 1
author: Motoka Murakami
name: Moritz
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2010
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]]> Υ륦ɭ Vol. 1 1630197
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1989ꡢեå?Щ`ХηUˤӢU桺Norwegian Wood椵줿ͬϤӢUϤ~ȤʤꡢFڤϥ?`ӥ󤬷UΣ2000꿯УͨƤ롣ꥫꥹʥ`ȥꥢʤɤӢZΤۤե󥹡ɥġꥢй̨塢nʤɤǤⷭUƤ롣Υ륦`ZˤⷭU줿]]> 302 Haruki Murakami 4062748681 Moritz 0 currently-reading 4.01 1987 Υ륦ɭ Vol. 1
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[ͤΥե` 3 [Ss no Frieren 3]]]> 56384091

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author: Kanehito Yamada
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[å?``ǥ 1 [Vaioretto evgden 1] (Violet Evergarden, #1)]]> 30300399 348 Kana Akatsuki 4907064438 Moritz 0 currently-reading 4.34 2015 å?``ǥ 1 [Vaioretto evgden 1] (Violet Evergarden, #1)
author: Kana Akatsuki
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> Ƥӡ 2 [Oshi no Ko 2] 56041008 ॢᘌ颤κA禥åȫ¤Фڤǡܿܯ颤褯n2!!

"Lies are a weapon in this entertainment world" twins Aqua and Ruby who are reincarnated as the "child" of the recommended idol Ai Hoshino and enjoy the "baby life"
while having memories of their previous lives! However, in a short time, Ai is murdered by a stalker ... Time passes, and at the same time the twins become high school students, Aqua challenges the "entertainment world" with their own agendas in their hearts to "get revenge" and Ruby to "shine" like her mother...!
A shocking work in which the luxurious tag team of "Akasaka Aka Yokoyari Mengo" draws the "entertainment world" from a completely new angle ... Volume 2!!
Read less]]> 194 Aka Akasaka 4088917170 Moritz 0 currently-reading 4.24 2020 Ƥӡ 2 [Oshi no Ko 2]
author: Aka Akasaka
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2020
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]]> Ƥӡ 1 [Oshi no Ko 1] 55222222 طФ坮bD˿ҽȤƃP`ܿܯȤϟoFաһ坱ˤΡƤ颤Υɥ?Ұ坥禩`ϤʼƤʶˤ颤γᤤ\Ӥ!?
ॢᘌ颤κA禥åȫ¤Фڤǡܿܯ颤褯n_Ļ!!]]> 220 Aka Akasaka 4088916506 Moritz 0 2025, japan, japanese, 4.26 2020 Ƥӡ 1 [Oshi no Ko 1]
author: Aka Akasaka
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/11
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]]> <![CDATA[礫èʤ [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]]]> 17232365 ȤQ᤿

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author: Genki Kawamura
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/08
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: japan, japanese, 2025
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author: Mayo Hoshino
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2020
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]]> Anna Karenina 153
Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.]]> 838 Leo Tolstoy 0140449175 Moritz 0 currently-reading 4.21 1878 Anna Karenina
author: Leo Tolstoy
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1878
rating: 0
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]]> ޤͬҊƤ 40853934 304 Yoru Sumino 4575521256 Moritz 4 2024, japan, japanese 3.70 2016 ޤͬҊƤ
author: Yoru Sumino
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/18
date added: 2024/12/18
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]]> <![CDATA[Remembering the Kanji: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters]]> 53499726 490 James W. Heisig Moritz 5 2024, japan, nonfiction 4.23 Remembering the Kanji: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters
author: James W. Heisig
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.23
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rating: 5
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date added: 2024/12/13
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]]> ϥ`?ݥå`tߤʯ 1-I 23700594 һԤ坤դ줿ճ˲ٛ벨Ҥؤȉ䤨ۥ`ħħgѧУ¤ʼ᤿ϥ`ΡuοֲDD
׳Τ坂ԵĤʵLj郎ʤЄL¡šݤmZ坤ʼޤ롣]]> 261 J.K. Rowling 4863892306 Moritz 0 currently-reading 4.12 ϥ`?ݥå`tߤʯ 1-I
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[ͤΥե` 2 [Ss no Frieren 2]]]> 55923434

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author: Kanehito Yamada
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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author: Makoto Shinkai
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2019
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]]> DEATH NOTE 1: 2885 195 Tsugumi Ohba 4088736214 Moritz 0 currently-reading 4.29 2004 DEATH NOTE 1:
author: Tsugumi Ohba
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Dragon Ball 01 Oդg [Dragon Ball 1: Son Gok to Nakama-tachi]]]> 2493691 192 Akira Toriyama 4088518314 Moritz 5 2024, japan, japanese, 4.28 1985 Dragon Ball 01 Oդg [Dragon Ball 1: Son Gok to Nakama-tachi]
author: Akira Toriyama
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1985
rating: 5
read at: 2024/10/13
date added: 2024/10/19
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]]> <![CDATA[ͤΥե` 1 [Ss no Frieren 1]]]> 55033309

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ӢۤΡ颤ZT(禩`)ե禥`!]]> 192 Kanehito Yamada 4098501805 Moritz 5 japan, japanese, 4.23 2020 ͤΥե` 1 [Ss no Frieren 1]
author: Kanehito Yamada
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2024/10/19
date added: 2024/10/19
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]]> The Tattooer 25041492
The story foreshadows many of the archetypes which reappear in many of Tanizaki's later works.]]> 116 Jun'ichir Tanizaki Moritz 0 to-read 3.91 1910 The Tattooer
author: Jun'ichir Tanizaki
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1910
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]]> Almost Transparent Blue 14287 Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come vividly to life. Trapped in passivity, they gain neither passion nor pleasure from their adventures.
Yet out of the alienation, boredom and underlying rage and grief emerges a strangely quiet and almost equally shocking beauty.

Ryu Murakami's first novel, Almost Transparent Blue won the coveted Akutagawa Literary Prize in 1976 and became an instant bestseller. Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japanese literature, it polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention as an alternative view of modern Japan.]]> 126 Ry Murakami 4770029047 Moritz 0 to-read 3.36 1976 Almost Transparent Blue
author: Ry Murakami
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.36
book published: 1976
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]]> In the Miso Soup 17810
From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psycho-thriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this shocking, hair-raising roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyos sex industry.]]> 217 Ry Murakami 014303569X Moritz 0 to-read 3.62 1997 In the Miso Soup
author: Ry Murakami
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1997
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]]> <![CDATA[Dragon Ball 02 ɥ饴ܩ`ΣCһ [Dragon Ball 2: Dragon Ball Kiki Ippatsu]]]> 18340352 192 Akira Toriyama 4088518322 Moritz 0 currently-reading 4.30 1986 Dragon Ball 02 ɥ饴ܩ`ΣCһ [Dragon Ball 2: Dragon Ball Kiki Ippatsu]
author: Akira Toriyama
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Series King of Football manga: Edited manga book 2-in-1 "Ao.Ashi" Volume 1]]> 61790625 Nicole Grenier Moritz 0 to-read 4.17 Series King of Football manga: Edited manga book 2-in-1 "Ao.Ashi" Volume 1
author: Nicole Grenier
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.17
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]]> The Last Children of Tokyo 37800111
As hopes for Japan's youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?]]> 138 Yko Tawada 1846276705 Moritz 0 to-read 3.29 2014 The Last Children of Tokyo
author: Yko Tawada
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.29
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> Sanshir 169439 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.]]> 248 Natsume Sseki 1929280106 Moritz 0 to-read 3.84 1908 Sanshir
author: Natsume Sseki
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1908
rating: 0
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]]> Kafka on the Shore 52427699 An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here

Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophecy. The ageing Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his simple life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle.

At once a classic tale of quest, Kafka on the Shore is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above all it is a bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist.]]> 615 Haruki Murakami 0099494094 Moritz 0 currently-reading 4.07 2002 Kafka on the Shore
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.07
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]]> <![CDATA[The Decay of the Angel (The Sea of Fertility, #4)]]> 194628 236 Yukio Mishima Moritz 4 2024, classics, japan 4.09 1970 The Decay of the Angel (The Sea of Fertility, #4)
author: Yukio Mishima
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1970
rating: 4
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]]> A Day in the Life of Japan 497374 240 Rick Smolan 0002175800 Moritz 4 4.43 1985 A Day in the Life of Japan
author: Rick Smolan
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Abroad in Japan: Ten Years in the Land of the Rising Sun]]> 64645770
Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most complex cultures.

Spanning ten years and all forty-seven prefectures, Chris takes us from the lush rice fields of the countryside to the frenetic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a mortifying experience at a love hotel and a week spent with Japan's biggest movie star, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun.]]> 320 Chris Broad 1787637077 Moritz 4 2024 4.10 2023 Abroad in Japan: Ten Years in the Land of the Rising Sun
author: Chris Broad
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Grimm Fairy Tales Collection (Iwanami Bunko boy) (2007) ISBN: 4001141485 [Japanese Import]]]> 77714659 0 Unknown Author 4001141485 Moritz 0 currently-reading 0.0 Grimm Fairy Tales Collection (Iwanami Bunko boy) (2007) ISBN: 4001141485 [Japanese Import]
author: Unknown Author
name: Moritz
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]]> ꤹ (ӤɤȤձФʤ) 77673807 0 Toshio Ozawa 4774310964 Moritz 0 2024, japan, japanese 4.00 ꤹ (ӤɤȤձФʤ)
author: Toshio Ozawa
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[Japan 151: Ein Land zwischen Comic und Kaiserreich in 151 Momentaufnahmen]]> 48926603 288 Fritz Schumann 3958892523 Moritz 4 3.88 2013 Japan 151: Ein Land zwischen Comic und Kaiserreich in 151 Momentaufnahmen
author: Fritz Schumann
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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]]> The Woman in the Dunes 9998 The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.

After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd young woman, and together their fates become intertwined as they work side by side through this Sisyphean of tasks.]]> 241 Kb Abe 0679733787 Moritz 4 2024, japan 3.89 1962 The Woman in the Dunes
author: Kb Abe
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1962
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/15
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]]> ߤʤߤʤߩ`Ĥ 36589416 20 ľ ԣһ 4033400109 Moritz 0 japanese, 2024, japan 0.0 ߤʤߤʤߩ`Ĥ
author: ľ ԣһ
name: Moritz
average rating: 0.0
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date added: 2024/08/19
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]]> No Longer Human 194746 No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title).

Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: "His world suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.

Cover painting by Noe Nojechowiz, from the collection of John and Barbara Duncan; design by Gertrude Huston]]> 176 Osamu Dazai Moritz 4 2024, classics, japan 3.99 1948 No Longer Human
author: Osamu Dazai
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1948
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/01
date added: 2024/08/01
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]]> Kairos 58877223 379 Jenny Erpenbeck 332860085X Moritz 0 currently-reading 3.34 2021 Kairos
author: Jenny Erpenbeck
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility, #3)]]> 787424 The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend.
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Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princessan encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one mans obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.]]> 352 Yukio Mishima 0679722424 Moritz 4 japan 3.71 1970 The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility, #3)
author: Yukio Mishima
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1970
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/29
date added: 2024/07/16
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Loved the first part as a spiritual journey to Thailand and India, but the second part seemed unfocused and tedious at times. Still great overall and am looking forward to the conclusion.
]]> <![CDATA[Endlose Kreise: Reisen in Japan]]> 60813443 Unser Band enth?lt die zehn Erz?hlungen:
?Der Geburtstag des Kaisers, das Pathos der Dinge und andere japanische Erfahrungen, 1977
?Zuihitsu, 1986/87
?Kalter Berg, 1987
?Endlose Kreise, 1992
?Japanische Kl?ster (Reise in die Stille), 2000
?Das Atelier des Nordens, Hokusai in Paris, 1980
?Der Schemen Nyogos, 1981
?Das R?tsel im Spiegel C Die Obsessionen von Ian Buruma, 1984
?Rote Pflaumenblte, Gelb von Lauchsch??lingen C Die japanische Besetzung Belgiens, 1989
?Die Geschichte von Genji, 2013]]> 2055 Cees Nooteboom 3829609167 Moritz 4 4.00 2019 Endlose Kreise: Reisen in Japan
author: Cees Nooteboom
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> Japanese Ghost Stories 41728466 272 Lafcadio Hearn 0241381274 Moritz 0 to-read 3.70 2019 Japanese Ghost Stories
author: Lafcadio Hearn
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2019
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]]> The Box Man 9999 Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.

In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets of Tokyo and scribbling madly on the interior walls of his box, he describes the world outside as he sees or perhaps imagines it, a tenuous reality that seems to include a mysterious rifleman determined to shoot him, a seductive young nurse, and a doctor who wants to become a box man himself. The Box Man is a marvel of sheer originality and a bizarrely fascinating fable about the very nature of identity.

Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders.]]> 178 Kb Abe 0375726519 Moritz 0 to-read 3.60 1973 The Box Man
author: Kb Abe
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1973
rating: 0
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]]> The Pillow Book 18185
Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, "The Tale of Genji," fictionalized the elite world Lady Shonagon so eloquently relates. Featuring reflections on royal and religious ceremonies, nature, conversation, poetry, and many other subjects, "The Pillow Book" is an intimate look at the experiences and outlook of the Heian upper class, further enriched by Ivan Morris's extensive notes and critical contextualization.]]> 419 Sei Shnagon 0231073372 Moritz 0 to-read 4.08 1002 The Pillow Book
author: Sei Shnagon
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1002
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Talented Mr Ripley (Ripley, #1)]]> 7853133
Ripley wants money, success and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his new-found happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.]]> 249 Patricia Highsmith Moritz 4 3.90 1955 The Talented Mr Ripley (Ripley, #1)
author: Patricia Highsmith
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1955
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/10
date added: 2024/07/11
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]]> A Little Life 29408433 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A stunning portrait of the enduring grace of friendship (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ? MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ? WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE ?

A Little Life follows four college classmatesbroke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambitionas they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagiharas stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.]]> 723 Hanya Yanagihara 1447294831 Moritz 2 2022 4.36 2015 A Little Life
author: Hanya Yanagihara
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at: 2022/02/19
date added: 2024/07/01
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Okay for the most part, especially liked the writing, but the book did not need to be this long and some parts of the story were so over the top that it really took me out of it.
]]> <![CDATA[Minwa: Alte Volksm?rchen aus Japan]]> 38230446 78 Aya Puster Moritz 0 currently-reading 4.00 Minwa: Alte Volksm?rchen aus Japan
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]]> Midnights Children 14836 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of Indias independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with Indias 1,000 other midnights children, all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.

This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its peopleCa brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.]]> 647 Salman Rushdie 0099578514 Moritz 0 to-read 3.98 1981 Midnights Children
author: Salman Rushdie
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection]]> 157981748 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916.

Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giving offence. They know how to make others feel at ease and share what they think. They're brilliant facilitators and decision-guiders. How do they do it?

In this groundbreaking book, Charles Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art - and the science - of successful communication. He unpicks the different types of everyday conversation and pinpoints why some go smoothly while others swiftly fall apart. He reveals the conversational questions and gambits that bring people together. And he shows how even the most tricky of encounters can be turned around. In the process, he shows why a CIA operative was able to win over a reluctant spy, how a member of a jury got his fellow jurors to view an open-and-shut case differently, and what a doctor found they needed to do to engage with a vaccine sceptic.

Above all, he reveals the techniques we can all master to successfully connect with others, however tricky the circumstances. Packed with fascinating case studies and drawing on cutting-edge research, this book will change the way you think about what you say, and how you say it.]]> 320 Charles Duhigg Moritz 0 currently-reading 3.99 2024 Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
author: Charles Duhigg
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.99
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]]> Foe 42201437 Foe is a tale of implacably mounting peril that feels all the more terrifying for being told in such a quiet, elegantly stripped-down voice. Iain Reid knows how to do ominous as well as anyone Ive ever read. Scott Smith, author of The Ruins and A Simple Plan

A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of Im Thinking of Ending Things.

We dont get visitors. Not out here. We never have.

In Iain Reids second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Henrietta wont have a chance to miss him, because she won't be left alonenot even for a moment. Henrietta will have company. Familiar company.

Told in Reids sharp and evocative style, Foe examines the nature of domestic relationships, self-determination, and what it means to be (or not to be) a person. An eerily entrancing page-turner, it churns with unease and suspense from the first words to its shocking finale.]]> 288 Iain Reid 1501127446 Moritz 2 3.83 2018 Foe
author: Iain Reid
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2018
rating: 2
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could habe been a decent short story
]]> <![CDATA[G?tzen-D?mmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert]]> 1843262 123 Friedrich Nietzsche Moritz 0 currently-reading 3.75 1889 G?tzen-D?mmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert
author: Friedrich Nietzsche
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1889
rating: 0
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]]> A Passage to India 460008 336 E.M. Forster 014006527X Moritz 0 currently-reading 3.55 1924 A Passage to India
author: E.M. Forster
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1924
rating: 0
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]]> The Old Capital 14034 The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige.

Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic story revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers the true facets of her past. With the harmony and time-honored customs of a Japanese backdrop, the story becomes poignant as Chiekos longing and confusion develops.]]> 160 Yasunari Kawabata 1593760329 Moritz 0 to-read 3.86 1962 The Old Capital
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1962
rating: 0
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]]> Snow Country 14028 Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.

At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages, a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.]]> 175 Yasunari Kawabata 0679761047 Moritz 4 2024, classics, japan 3.63 1948 Snow Country
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1948
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/10
date added: 2024/05/10
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]]> Roadside Picnic 331256
First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years.]]> 145 Arkady Strugatsky 0575070536 Moritz 0 to-read 4.16 1972 Roadside Picnic
author: Arkady Strugatsky
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1972
rating: 0
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]]> The Tempest 12985
Each edition includes:
? Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

? Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

? Scene-by-scene plot summaries

? A key to famous lines and phrases

? An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language

? An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

? Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books]]> 218 William Shakespeare Moritz 3 3.78 1611 The Tempest
author: William Shakespeare
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1611
rating: 3
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]]> The Merchant of Venice 24128 249 William Shakespeare 0743477561 Moritz 5 2024, classics, play, britain 3.77 1596 The Merchant of Venice
author: William Shakespeare
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1596
rating: 5
read at: 2024/04/24
date added: 2024/04/24
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review:
funniest Shakespeare I've read
]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encountersshooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919C2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Moritz 5 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
author: J.D. Salinger
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1951
rating: 5
read at: 2024/04/20
date added: 2024/04/22
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]]> <![CDATA[Frau Komachi empfiehlt ein Buch]]> 131942425
?Wonach suchen Sie?? Diese Frage stellt Sayuri Komachi allen Besuchern in ihrer kleinen Gemeindebibliothek in Tokio. Und sie meint die Frage durchaus im bertragenen Sinne. Denn die weise Bibliothekarin sprt genau, wonach die Menschen im Leben von der rastlosen Verk?uferin, die mit ihrem Job hadert, dem schchternen Buchhalter, der davon tr?umt, ein Antiquit?tengesch?ft zu er?ffnen, oder der frischgebackenen Mutter, die sich zwischen Beruf und Familie aufreibt Sie alle befinden sich in einer Sackgasse. Und alle fhrt es frher oder sp?ter zu Frau Komachi in die Bibliothek. Ihre berraschenden Buchempfehlungen haben ungeahnte Folgen. Die Lektre entpuppt sich als Katalysator fr eine andere Denkweise und er?ffnet neue Wege. Und letztlich hilft sie den Besuchern, ihre aktuelle Lebenskrise zu meistern. Denn Frau Komachi wei?: Bcher haben magische Kr?fte und sind eine verl?ssliche Quelle der Inspiration. Fnf Geschichten, fnf Schicksale C von pers?nlichen Umwegen, mutigen Entscheidungen und der heilenden Kraft der Bcher.?]]> 278 Michiko Aoyama 3644014736 Moritz 4 2024, japan very nice 3.93 2020 Frau Komachi empfiehlt ein Buch
author: Michiko Aoyama
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/20
date added: 2024/04/22
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very nice
]]> Death in Midsummer 123258757 Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan's greatest writers show the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death: a mother lost in mourning, a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish, a night of infidelity, a young lieutenant who ends his life.]]> 272 Yukio Mishima 0241630851 Moritz 3 japan, 2023, short-stories
Did not care much for the first half of the collection, but enjoyed everything after that quite a lot. The writing in Patriotism was especially impressive and the short film based on it is also quite good. Two other favorites are the mini-play Djoji and The Pearl, both of which are much more humorous than the rest of the collection. Also found the setting of Onnagata, taking place within a Noh-theatre troupe, very interesting.]]> 3.81 1953 Death in Midsummer
author: Yukio Mishima
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1953
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/21
date added: 2024/04/18
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Collection of ten short stories mostly iterating on themes commonly found in Mishimas other works such as Japans cultural decline, beauty and death, suicide and gender performance.

Did not care much for the first half of the collection, but enjoyed everything after that quite a lot. The writing in Patriotism was especially impressive and the short film based on it is also quite good. Two other favorites are the mini-play Djoji and The Pearl, both of which are much more humorous than the rest of the collection. Also found the setting of Onnagata, taking place within a Noh-theatre troupe, very interesting.
]]> <![CDATA[The Hobbit, or There and Back Again]]> 5907 Written for J.R.R. Tolkiens own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).]]> 366 J.R.R. Tolkien Moritz 5 4.29 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1937
rating: 5
read at: 2024/04/17
date added: 2024/04/18
shelves: 2024, britain, classics, fantasy, uni
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]]> When I Sing, Mountains Dance 143437274 PR?MIO DA UNI?O EUROPEIA PARA A LITERATURA
Um dos romances mais surpreendentes e de maior sucesso da literatura catal? e europeia.

Prmio Anagrama de Romance
Finalista do National Book Critics Circle

As altas montanhas dos Pirenus catal?es s?o uma terra de fronteira, assombrada pela memria dos sculos e das gera??es passadas. A sua sabedoria escapa compreens?o humana e eterna, ao contrrio do amor, da guerra ou da dor. Uns dizem que essas montanhas s?o fonte de vida. Outros, que a cada dez anos morre algum fulminado por um raio no meio dos penhascos. ? essa a tragdia que se abate sobre Domnec de Matavaques, o campons poeta. Pouco depois desse acontecimento, rodeiam o seu corpo inerte os fantasmas de quatro bruxas. Em casa, no sop da montanha, Si, agora jovem viva, v-se obrigada a cuidar sozinha de duas crian?as e de um velho sogro

Em Eu Canto e a Montanha Dan?a, um dos romances mais surpreendentes e de maior sucesso da literatura catal? contempor?nea, Irene Sol faz nascer, para l do tempo e da histria, um mundo potico e mtico, de uma beleza t?o selvagem quanto visceral; um mundo cantado a vrias vozes, por vrios protagonistas mulheres e homens, animais, espritos ou nuvens que, alm do drama humano, anunciam e celebram o imutvel ciclo da vida.]]> 196 Irene Sol 1783788259 Moritz 4 4.06 2019 When I Sing, Mountains Dance
author: Irene Sol
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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Beautifully told multigenerational story of a village in the Pyrenees that mixes family drama with more fantastical and mythological elements.
]]> Beyond Good and Evil 12321 Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.

This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner's introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and Evil.

Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable.

If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics.

"One of the greatest books of a very great thinker." Michael Tanner]]> 240 Friedrich Nietzsche 014044923X Moritz 4 4.05 1886 Beyond Good and Evil
author: Friedrich Nietzsche
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1886
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/03
date added: 2024/04/03
shelves: 2024, classics, germany, philosophy, nonfiction
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]]> Mrs Dalloway 3205484 213 Virginia Woolf 0140623280 Moritz 3 3.65 1925 Mrs Dalloway
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1925
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/30
date added: 2024/03/30
shelves: 2024, britain, classics, top-100-books
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]]> Wuthering Heights 2785278 Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherines father. After Mr Earnshaws death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherines brother Hindley, and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights. Returning years later as a wealthy and polished man, he proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.

The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
]]> 344 Emily Bront? 0143105434 Moritz 4 3.98 1847 Wuthering Heights
author: Emily Bront?
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1847
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/18
date added: 2024/03/18
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]]> Poor Things 197648275 A life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realised when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a Frankenstein-esque feat. But his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for his creation . . .

But what does Bella think?

This story of true love and scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.]]> 318 Alasdair Gray 1526657880 Moritz 5 2024, britain, historical 3.92 1992 Poor Things
author: Alasdair Gray
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1992
rating: 5
read at: 2024/03/15
date added: 2024/03/15
shelves: 2024, britain, historical
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]]> <![CDATA[The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)]]> 727800 The second part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS

The Company of the Ring is sundered. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.

Thus continues the classic tale begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its awesome climax in The Return of the King.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780261102361]]> 464 J.R.R. Tolkien Moritz 5 classics, fantasy, britain 4.40 1954 The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1954
rating: 5
read at: 2020/03/01
date added: 2024/03/13
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]]> Robinson Crusoe 2933 'A raging wave, mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us...we were all swallowed up in a moment.

The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, first encounters another human being and fights off cannibals and mutineers. With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote what is regarded as the first English novel, and created one of the most popular and enduring myths in literature. Written in an age of exploration and enterprise, it has been variously interpreted as an embodiment of British imperialist values, as a portrayal of 'natural man' or as a moral fable. But above all it is a brilliant narrative, depicting Crusoe's transformation from terrified survivor to self-sufficient master of his island.

This edition contains a full chronology of Defoe's life and times, explanatory notes, glossary and a critical introduction discussing Robinson Crusoe as a pioneering work of modern psychological realism.]]> 286 Daniel Defoe 0141439823 Moritz 3 3.13 1719 Robinson Crusoe
author: Daniel Defoe
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.13
book published: 1719
rating: 3
read at: 2020/11/30
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]]> A Christmas Carol 15994514 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens created a modern fairy tale and shaped our ideas of Christmas. The tale of the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of the season by a series of ghostly visitors and given a second chance, was conjured up by Dickens during one of his London night walks, who "wept and laughed" as he composed it. Taken to readers' hearts for its humour, compassion and message of redemption, it remains its best-loved book.]]> 94 Charles Dickens 0141389478 Moritz 5 2021, classics, 2023, britain 4.07 1843 A Christmas Carol
author: Charles Dickens
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1843
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/24
date added: 2024/03/13
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)]]> 727798 The first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS

In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord's evil dominion.

Thus begins J.R.R. Tolkien's classic tale, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780261102354]]> 566 J.R.R. Tolkien Moritz 5 classics, fantasy, britain 4.39 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1954
rating: 5
read at: 2019/10/01
date added: 2024/03/13
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]]> Brave New World 6932844 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling orderCall at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of historys keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." Chicago Tribune]]> 256 Aldous Huxley 3883890103 Moritz 3 3.78 1932 Brave New World
author: Aldous Huxley
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1932
rating: 3
read at: 2020/09/01
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: classics, top-100-books, science-fiction, britain
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]]> Norse Mythology 33290550 Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds; delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants; and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly reincarnating Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odins son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki, the son of giants, a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator. From Gaimans deft and witty prose emerges the gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to dupe others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.]]> 281 Neil Gaiman 1408886804 Moritz 4 fantasy, britain 4.02 2017 Norse Mythology
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2020/10/01
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]]> 1984 3744438 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101 . . .

Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.]]> 334 George Orwell 0141036141 Moritz 5 4.20 1949 1984
author: George Orwell
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1949
rating: 5
read at: 2018/05/01
date added: 2024/03/13
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]]> Animal Farm 3149348 95 George Orwell 0141036133 Moritz 4 classics, britain 4.16 1945 Animal Farm
author: George Orwell
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1945
rating: 4
read at: 2018/04/01
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: classics, britain
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]]> Dracula 14800993 445 Bram Stoker 0141199334 Moritz 4 3.79 1897 Dracula
author: Bram Stoker
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1897
rating: 4
read at: 2021/04/13
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2021, classics, top-100-books, horror, fantasy, britain
review:
Starts off great but becomes a bit tedious later on.
]]> I'm Thinking of Ending Things 40605223 Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you wont know why

Im thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. Its always there. Always.

Jake once said, Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you cant fake a thought.

And heres what Im thinking: I dont want to be here.

In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, Im Thinking of Ending Things pulls you in from the very first pageand never lets you go.]]> 241 Iain Reid Moritz 5 2021, canada 3.53 2016 I'm Thinking of Ending Things
author: Iain Reid
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2021/01/29
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2021, canada
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]]> The Collector 1357538 283 John Fowles 0330295683 Moritz 3 3.92 1963 The Collector
author: John Fowles
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1963
rating: 3
read at: 2022/07/18
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2022, classics, crime, britain
review:
Overall not bad but parts of this book (especially the second chapter) were an absolute chore to get through.
]]> Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 35031085 This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847.

Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster.

This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.]]> 260 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 0143131842 Moritz 5 4.02 1818 Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1818
rating: 5
read at: 2021/10/15
date added: 2024/03/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World]]> 45306313
A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the worlds most powerful dictatorships.?CWashington Post

In this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes capitalisms monsterglobal kleptocracyand reveals how it is corrupting the world around us.

They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave behind. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh Desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London.

They have amassed more money than most countries. But what they are really stealing is power.

In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together four stories that reveal a terrifying global web of the troublemaker from Basingstoke who stumbles on the secrets of a Swiss bank, the ex-Soviet billionaire constructing a private empire, the righteous Canadian lawyer with a mysterious client, and the Brooklyn crook protected by the CIA.

Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years. In Kleptopia, Burgis connects the dots. He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail shows something even more the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great.]]> 464 Tom Burgis 0062883674 Moritz 4 3.77 2020 Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
author: Tom Burgis
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2021/08/26
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2021, nonfiction, history, britain
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]]> <![CDATA[A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)]]> 102868
But it's not long before Sherlock Holmes, with Watson in tow, is working with Scotland Yard investigating the murder of two Americans whose deaths have some mysterious connection to sinister groups gathering power in both Britain and America.

Here's where it all began. 'A Study in Scarlet.' Meet Sherlock Holmes, one of the world's leading consulting detectives - fictional of course!]]> 123 Arthur Conan Doyle 1420925539 Moritz 4 4.16 1887 A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1887
rating: 4
read at: 2021/05/31
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2021, classics, crime, historical, britain
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)]]> 853510
One of the passengers is none other than detective Hercule Poirot. On vacation.

Isolated and with a killer on board, Poirot must identify the murdererin case he or she decides to strike again.]]> 274 Agatha Christie 0007119313 Moritz 5 2021, crime, britain 4.22 1934 Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1934
rating: 5
read at: 2021/06/28
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2021, crime, britain
review:
My first Agatha Christie book and it was a lot of fun to read. Looking forward to reading more of her work.
]]> <![CDATA[The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)]]> 727810 The third part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS

The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring.

The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic tale, begun in The Fellowship of the Rings and The Two Towers, which includes the Appendices and a revised Index in full.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780261102378]]> 595 J.R.R. Tolkien Moritz 5 4.50 1955 The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1955
rating: 5
read at: 2021/07/27
date added: 2024/03/13
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)]]> 608474 This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780140439076

A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation.

For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor, bringing with her two companions.

But unbeknownst to them all, others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets: a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind - and his companion, who places no value on human life...]]> 129 Arthur Conan Doyle Moritz 4 3.91 1890 The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1890
rating: 4
read at: 2021/06/02
date added: 2024/03/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World C and Why Things Are Better Than You Think]]> 34890015 Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

When asked simple questions about global trendswhat percentage of the worlds population live in poverty; why the worlds population is increasing; how many girls finish schoolwe systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspectivefrom our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).

Our problem is that we dont know what we dont know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesnt mean there arent real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. ]]> 342 Hans Rosling 1473637465 Moritz 4 4.34 2018 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World C and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
author: Hans Rosling
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2021/07/30
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2021, nonfiction, psychology, sweden
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]]> <![CDATA[The Importance of Being Earnest]]> 92303
Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.]]> 89 Oscar Wilde 158049580X Moritz 5 2021, uni, play, britain 4.17 1895 The Importance of Being Earnest
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1895
rating: 5
read at: 2021/12/12
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]]> A Florentine Tragedy 8354042 84 Oscar Wilde 1147691436 Moritz 2 2021, play, britain 3.07 1906 A Florentine Tragedy
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.07
book published: 1906
rating: 2
read at: 2021/12/10
date added: 2024/03/13
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]]> Salom 67762 Salom was translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas, inspired some of Aubrey Beardsley's finest illustrations (long available in a Dover edition), and served as the text (in abridged form) for Strauss' renowned opera of the same name. The play's haunting poetic imagery, biblical cadences, and febrile atmosphere have earned it a reputation as a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement of fin de sicle England. The present volume reprints the complete text of the first English edition (1894), including ?A Note on Salom by Robert Ross. It will be welcomed by students and lovers of literature and drama, and any admirer of the incomparable Oscar Wilde.

Languages: French, English]]> 64 Oscar Wilde 0486421279 Moritz 4 2021, play, britain 3.70 1891 Salom
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1891
rating: 4
read at: 2021/11/21
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]]> An Ideal Husband 5296 Sooner or later, Wilde notes, we shall all have to pay for what we do. But he adds that, No one should be entirely judged by their past.Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. After Earnest, it is his most popularly produced play"]]> 78 Oscar Wilde 048641423X Moritz 4 2021, play, britain 4.01 1893 An Ideal Husband
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1893
rating: 4
read at: 2021/12/10
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]]> Lady Windermere's Fan 122649 70 Oscar Wilde 014062399X Moritz 3 2021, play, britain 3.91 1892 Lady Windermere's Fan
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1892
rating: 3
read at: 2021/11/19
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2021, play, britain
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]]> A Woman of No Importance 122648 96 Oscar Wilde 0140622454 Moritz 4 2021, play, britain 3.86 1893 A Woman of No Importance
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1893
rating: 4
read at: 2021/12/06
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2021, play, britain
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]]> <![CDATA[The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays]]> 92308
'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness'

The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Manners and morality are also victims of Wilde's sharp wit in Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, in which snobbery and hypocrisy are laid bare. In Salom and A Florentine Tragedy, Wilde makes powerful use of historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. The range of these plays displays Wilde's delight in artifice, masks and disguises, and reveals the pretentions of the social world in which he himself played such a dazzling and precarious part.

Richard Allen Cave's introduction and notes discuss the themes of the plays and Wilde's innovative methods of staging. This edition includes the excised 'Gribsby' scene from The Importance of Being Earnest.]]> 431 Oscar Wilde 0140436065 Moritz 4 2021, classics, britain The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband.]]> 4.24 1898 The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1898
rating: 4
read at: 2021/12/12
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2021, classics, britain
review:
Overall this is a great selection of plays which all had something interesting to offer, the best ones being The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband.
]]> The Tempest 26192823 240 William Shakespeare 014139630X Moritz 0 3.64 1611 The Tempest
author: William Shakespeare
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1611
rating: 0
read at: 2021/10/06
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]]> The War of the Worlds 536353 'For countless centuries Mars has been the star of war'

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common near London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilization is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays, and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear.

The first modern tale of alien invasion, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of all science-fiction works. Part of a brand-new Penguin series of H.G. Wells's works, this edition includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a further reading list and detailed notes. The introduction, by Brian Aldiss, considers the novel's view of religion and society.]]> 199 H.G. Wells 0141441038 Moritz 3 3.73 1898 The War of the Worlds
author: H.G. Wells
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1898
rating: 3
read at: 2021/11/15
date added: 2024/03/13
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]]> Northanger Abbey 50398 Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist.

The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.

Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.]]> 260 Jane Austen 1593082649 Moritz 4 2021, classics, uni, britain 3.86 1817 Northanger Abbey
author: Jane Austen
name: Moritz
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1817
rating: 4
read at: 2021/10/12
date added: 2024/03/13
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]]> David Copperfield 15736839 David Copperfield is the story of a young mans adventures on his journey from an unhappy & impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; & the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literatures great comic creations.
In David Copperfieldthe novel he described as his favorite childDickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant & enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy & comedy in equal measure.
Originally published as a monthly serial, from 4/1849 to 11/1850.]]> 957 Charles Dickens Moritz 4 4.13 1850 David Copperfield
author: Charles Dickens
name: Moritz
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1850
rating: 4
read at: 2022/05/06
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: 2022, classics, uni, historical, britain
review:
Besides frequent long-winded digressions, Dickens paints an impressive and often times humorous picture of Victorian London, including a wide cast of memorable Characters such as Uriah Heep, Steerforth and Betsy Trotwood. Took me a while to get through but Im glad I stuck with it.
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