Alok Ranjan 📚 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Poll for fans of Victor Hugo. Which is your favourite translation of Les Misérables?

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a new book by Adam Kirsch on anti-humanism and trans-humanism A World Beyond Us: On Adam Kirsch’s “The Revolt Against Humanity” https://t.co/KgTYLN9hbT

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For all the single people here who have friends who are married. (from The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins) https://t.co/Js0QQyOuJl

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@nguyenhdi @hairygit just search the reviews of Emily Wilson's Homer translation. I mean she is a respected scholar so I didn't want to take her name, but just raised it as a point that translation is a potential area where this ideological or presentist prejudice can result in a different text.

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I am still on a tour of the middle ages. Finished reading "The Song of Roland" and now plan to start with "The History of the Kings of Britain" by Geoffrey of Monmouth. I am also reading Crusades: A very short introduction by Christopher Tyerman https://t.co/vznVfvV3Dz

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The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes review – what Putin sees in the past https://t.co/SK8rETg1Si

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@nguyenhdi It is also very interesting to read it as an attack on some of the late victorian feminist movements, on the surface it can be read as a misogynist screed but if you engage it is very rewarding and full of insights. I read Haggard's King Solomon's Mines also but I liked this more

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A new edition of a collection of Joseph Conrad's short fiction. It contains: The End of the Tether, Amy Foster, The Return, and The Duel. I have read The Duel and Amy Foster but not the other two. Love the Van Gogh painting on the cover. https://t.co/qGRk2qOcz8

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I am reading about protestant martyrs in sixteenth century England in John Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" https://t.co/1SEnbx2CxD

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Review of a new Fassbinder biography https://t.co/KeN1aZjT1H