The dust jacket of this book offers this summary: "Siggi Jepsen . . . is required to write an essay for his German lesson on 'The Joys of Duty.' Once he starts writing, Siggi cannot stop until he has set down the story of his life since 1943, ten years earlier, when he was a young boy in wartime Germany. His father, Jens Jepsen (a policeman), ( Read more... )

Born in Iran to English parents, Doris Lessing grew up in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where her father, lured by stories of fortunes made in farming, moved to establish a farm, which, however, did not prosper. Life on a poor farm in Rhodesia provides the setting for The Grass is Singing, Lessing's first novel, published in 1950. It tells the ( Read more... )

In a famous letter written shortly after completing Sons and Lovers, Lawrence describes the novel this way: "a woman of character and refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life." Her life comes to revolve around her sons, William, the eldest, and especially Paul, the second son. Lawrence continues: "But when they ( Read more... )

Babbitt, a satirical depiction of life and business in a middle American city, was published in 1922. It was hugely successful, and the name of its central character, George F. Babbitt, has even entered the language, meaning (according to the dictionary installed on my computer) "a materialistic, complacent, and conformist businessman." I have ( Read more... )

270 pages (Project Gutenberg ( Read more... )

Author: Clarice Lispector (1920-1977)
Title: The Passion According To G.H. (A Paixao Segundo G.H.)
Original Publication date: 1964
Original Language: Portuguese
Edition: 2012, translated by Idra Novey
Publisher: New Directions
# of pages: 193
Source: amazon.de


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This book was my assignement for the books1001 com. And I’m not late, deadline are highly motivational.

I wouldn’t have read this autobiography  on my own, for the simple reason that I had never heard of the author before. It seems that Laurie Lee is well-known in English speaking countries, but he’s not in mine. I’ve read the French translation by ( Read more... )

Edition: Translated into English by Paul Knight, 1978
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: ~219
Source: You can find the original version in French online (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12005). If you are looking for a translated version though, I ordered mine ( Read more... )

Title: Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid
Author: Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957)
Published: 1969
Edition: Penguin Modern Classics, 1979
Pages: 247


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