What I'm Reading Now:
Don Quixote by Cervantes; Edith Grossman, Translator
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Max Havelaar by Multatuli [Eduard Douwes Dekker]
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Java: Pearl of the East by S. J. Higginson
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The Way of Life According to Laotzu: An American Version by Witter Bynner, Translator
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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Favorite Books:
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, On Revolution, Men in Dark Times, Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought, , Crises of the Republic, The Life of the Mind: Thinking / Willing; Perry Miller, Jonathan Edwards, The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Errand into the Wilderness, Nature's Nation, The Responsibility of Mind in a Civilization of Machines; Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, The Encantadas, Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street; Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station, The Wound and the Bow; W. T. Stace, Man Against Darkness and Other Essays; George Orwell, 1984; William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India; Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano; Joseph Church, Language and the Discovery of Reality; Alice Miller, Prisoners of Childhood, For Your Own Good, Banished Knowledge, The Untouched Key; Paul Ricoeur, The Rule of Metaphor;
Favorite Authors:
Hannah Arendt, Perry Miller, Franz Kafka, W. T. Stace, Stanley Elkin, Howard Nemerov, William H. Gass, John Gardner, Eudora Welty, Dorothy Parker, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Owen Barfield, Ursula K. LeGuin, Dylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Bertrand Russell