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THE LITTLE PRINCE – Novel, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

After France's defeat in 1940 (and its armistice with Germany), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his wife fled occupied France, and…

8 years ago

ALL GROWN-UPS WERE ONCE CHILDREN – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his simple secret

THE LITTLE PRINCE 1/3 – After France's defeat in 1940 (and its armistice with Germany), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his…

8 years ago

THE DINNER – Novel, by Herman Koch

This Herman Koch’s novel takes place in a well-known Amsterdam restaurant. It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two brothers…

8 years ago

THE TEA LORDS – Novel, by Hella Haasse

The Tea Lords, the story of ambitious Rudolf Kerkhoven, who becomes a tea planter in the Dutch East Indies. Bitten…

8 years ago

BOOKS SET IN VENICE – Invisible Cities / Acrosx the River and into the Trees

Invisible Cities / by Italo Calvino > “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread…

8 years ago

THE SCARLET LETTER – Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, where you can know…

8 years ago

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH – Romantic novel, by Edith Wharton

She was caught between her entitled taste for luxury and her yearning for true love. "She was so evidently the…

8 years ago

OUR YOUNG MAN – Novel, by Edmund White

Our Young Man, interrogates the crucible of vanity prevalent in modern gay life. “He thought he was like an expensive…

8 years ago

THE WILD IRISH GIRL – Romance, by Sidney Owenson

You can read this novel, is an partly epistolary novel written by Irish novelist Sydney Owenson. Is a romance set…

8 years ago

DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER – Classic Chinese novel, by Cao Xueqin

For more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the…

8 years ago