Added by: msaddam | Karma: 741.12 | Fiction literature | 6 September 2008
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A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Dedicated to All Female Users of ET
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd and edited in London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843.
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd and edited in London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843.
A Random Walk in Science provides insight into the wit and intellect of
the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious
contributions written by and about scientists. The book records
changing attitudes within science and mirrors the interactions of
science with society.
Some of the contributors include Lewis Carroll,
Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift, and James Clark Maxwell.
This
entertaining anthology covers Murphy's Law, the trial of Galileo, life
on Earth, Gulliver's computer, and much more.
Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.60 | Fiction literature | 29 April 2008
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FINNEGAN'S WAKE by James Joyce http://finwake.com/ - site with annotations More material concerning this book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
Finnegans Wake, named after a popular Irish street ballad, published
in 1939, is James Joyce's final novel. Following the publication of
Ulysses in 1922, Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake and by 1924
installments of the work began to appear in serialized form, first
under the title "A New Unnamed Work" and subsequently as "Work in
Progress." (The final title of the work remained a secret between Joyce
and his wife, Nora Barnacle, until shortly before the book was finally
published.)
The seventeen years spent working on Finnegans Wake were often
difficult for Joyce. He underwent frequent eye surgeries, lost
long-time supporters, and dealt with personal problems in the lives of
his children. These problems and the perennial financial difficulties
of the Joyce family are described in Richard Ellmann's biography James
Joyce. The actual publication of the novel was somewhat overshadowed by
Europe's descent into World War II. Joyce died just two years after the
novel was published, leaving a work whose interpretation is still very
much "in progress." BALLAD:
youtube video with the Dubliners singing it in a traditional way
lyrics
ORIGINAL text for audio added (by ivanpares)
