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.

Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner
“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
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
“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
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
“...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
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
“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
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
“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
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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni Morrison
“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
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
“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
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Antigone
Sophocles
“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
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
“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
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
“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