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Cecilia Qui Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Philologist. I greatly appreciate arts in general, languages in particular. Truth, landscape, travel, my favourite words. I hate #quotes. In search of balance.

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Book Cover for: Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner
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“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.” Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes. 🎨Fritz Berthold-Neuhaus https://t.co/OujQqfTZbY

Hardcover, 2024

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare
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“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice. ✍️Alan Parry https://t.co/v2tOZSupIf

Paperback, 2010

$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley
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“...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. 📷Planet Earth https://t.co/i89XuFEHKK

Paperback, 2006

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Walden, Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Henry David Thoreau
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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Ashford Castle, County Mayo, Ireland 🇮🇪 📷Kuba Cieloch https://t.co/VF05Jh2kHq

Hardcover, 2016

$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
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“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. 📷David Lazar/National Geographic https://t.co/KDPiGApIYT

Paperback, 2003

$9.00Member price:$4.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Toni Morrison

Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Toni Morrison
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“You are your best thing.” Beloved by Toni Morrison. 📷Christian Schloe https://t.co/yalp1NRb5u

Paperback, 2004

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. ✍️Kirsi Neuvonen https://t.co/m1dlkyNXc9

Paperback, 2003

$9.00Member price:$4.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Antigone, Sophocles

Antigone

Sophocles
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“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” Sophocles, Antigone. ✍Debbie Criswell https://t.co/b9WIHxS104

Paperback, 1990

$13.99Member price:$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky
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“But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.” Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. 📷Philippe Charles Jacquet https://t.co/HBuMxzdexD

Paperback, 1999

$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare
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“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. 🎨Olga Wisinger-Florian https://t.co/Qd30jhDHbg

Paperback, 2010

$11.99Member price:$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book