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Walden
Henry David Thoreau 1854 (A philosopher and naturalist returns from the woods to deliver a message: Wake Up! Think! Live Meaningfully!) The account of Thoreau’s temporary retreat from civilization and the philosophy he developed and tested during that time, is perhaps the greatest single work in American literature. I say this not so much because […]
July’s People
May 25, 2014 / Leave a comment
Nadine Gordimer 1981 (A white South African family in danger of racial violence flees to a village under the protection of their black servant.) You like to have some cup of tea?— She runs. This is the novel. Rather, between these two lines lies the novel, and these two (the first and last lines) are […]
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