September 1, 2009
Lermontov’s “A Hero Of Our Time” was published when the author was just 25 in 1839 and was the only book the young man ever put into print. The book describes as the author writes in his preface, “a portrait built up of all our generation’s vices in full bloom”. The eponymous hero is one [...]
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April 22, 2009
Picked as a rank outsider dark-horse not least because it had nothing to do with our stated aims of either classics or science fiction, the next book you will be reading is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. According to our good friends at wikipedia, Markus Zusak is the son of an Austrian father (who [...]
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