Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier, is a novel originally written in French but translated into English by Francoise Delisle, is an emotionally evocative story of adolescence, coming of age, and tragic love. One might think this to be a typical adult French love story but the writer, who himself was young at the time this […]
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Siddhartha
Siddhartha, written by Hermann Hesse and translated by Hilda Rosner, is a novel of a man’s life and his spiritual journey to attain enlightenment and understanding by going through all of the plagues and suffering that is common for any man. The story takes place about 2,500 years ago during the time of the Buddha […]