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One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them
- Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens,
don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
- Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
my recent holiday companions :)
From Lord of the Rings to Lord of the Flies. This stylish stainless steel bookmark is etched with the titles of 50 literary classics. This would make a great gift for members of your book club, and a lot of fun can be had in discussing the obvious omissions, like Valley of the Dolls and The Da Vinci Code. It comes in a full colour sleeve printed with some of the iconic dust jackets. Length: 18 cm or 7 inches. (Shopwiki)
Here is the list:
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- THe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
- The great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
- Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- Don Quixote by Miduel de Cervantes
- The Bible by Various
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The quiet American by Graham Greene
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulke
- Money by Martin Amis
- Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The way we live now by Antony Trollope
- The Outsider by Albert Camus
- The colour Purple by Alice Walker
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Frankenstein by Mary Selley
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- Man without Woman by Ernest Hemingway
- Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
- One flew over the Cockoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer’s head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different.
- Margaret Atwood (via austinkleon)
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