Whenever I would mention I was reading this book, the response was pretty much the same: amazing book! Such a great book! oohh, I read it when I was kid and I loved it! The story is very interesting from historical, sociological, and even scientific point of view. Amazing the work behind from t...
خيلي كتاب خوبي بود . بازي زندگي هميشه يكي بوده .از اغاز تا پايان.در خيلي قسمت ها حرف هاي سينوهه را با افكار خودم در يك راستا مي ديدم . بعد از خواندن كتاب احساس كردم كه دلم براي سينوهه خيلي تنگ ميشه.خيلي زياد. طرز فكر سينوهه خيلي با طرز فكر اطرافيانش متفاوت بوده . دقيقا همون چيزي كه در مورد من صا...
Excellent historical novel -- the fictional memoir of a Roman patrician, written for his son. It spans many decades: from Emperor Claudius's reign until Domitian.The hero fights with the II Legion in Brittania. His loves, his stint as beastmaster for the arena, government positions and postings t...
My comments on this book must be prefaced by two caveats. First, I am reading a translation from the 1950s (by Evelyn Ramsden), which I suspect would benefit from being updated. Second, it seems that this translation has drastically slashed the length of the original novel, resulting in a story t...
Como el heroe troyano Eneas, el protagonista de esta novela, Lario Turmo, esta predestinado a superar las mil y una pruebas que Afrodita pondra en su largo peregrinar por Asia Menor y Grecia. Las guerras contra el poder de Roma, asi como las intrigas y los celos, afligen su existencia, pero al mi...
En el ocaso de su vida, el protagonista de este relato confiesa: "porque yo, Sinuhé, soy un hombre y, como tal, he vivido en todos los que han existido antes que yo y viviré en todos los que existan después de mí. Viviré en las risas y en las lágrimas de los hombres, en sus pesares y temores, en ...
First published in the United States in 1949 and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other novel published that year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world’s h...
So also does human life trickle away, though it is measured not by water but by events. This is a profound truth, to be grasped only in old age when a man’s time runs away to nothing, in monotony. A single day in an eventful period leaves its mark upon him and can seem longer than a year or so of...
At first I thought the noise came from my own aching head, and I wondered where I was. I seemed to see two angels, a white one on my right hand and a blade one on my left, both engaged in recording my good and evil deeds in their books. But the white angel had seemingly little to write, while the...