The Melian Dialogue, which was written by the Greek historian Thucydides, tells about the Peloponnesian War which was fought by the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta or Lacedaemos in 431 to 404 B. C. The war divided ancient Greece. The Lacedaemonians founded...
Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951, partly on the strength of this funny, wicked, and remarkable masterpiece, originally published in 1944. The Dwarf catapulted Lagerkvist to international fame, but the book is now largely...
I find books to read at my local dollar store to build my personal library. I found Jonathan Kozal’s book, “The Theft of Memory”. I have been wanting to learn what to expect in the future. My own father passed several years ago and I lived in another...
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