Leo rated Euthyphron: 5 stars
Euthyphron by Plato
In the Meno, Anytus had parted from Socrates with the significant words: 'That in any city, and particularly in the …
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Leo rated Bajo El Volcan (Biblioteca Era): 3 stars
Bajo El Volcan (Biblioteca Era) by Malcolm Lowry (Libro amigo -- 975)
It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg …
Leo rated On the Road: 5 stars
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his …
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …
Leo rated Leo Tolstoy: 4 stars
Leo rated The Symposium of Plato: 5 stars
The Symposium of Plato by Plato
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From …
Leo rated Kdo chytá v z̆itĕ: 5 stars
J. D. Salinger: Kdo chytá v z̆itĕ (Czech language, 1979, Práce)
Kdo chytá v z̆itĕ by J. D. Salinger
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled …
Leo rated Aleph and Other Stories: 5 stars
Leo rated The Master and Margarita: 5 stars
The Master and Margarita by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.
An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and …
Leo rated Letters to Emma Bowlcut: 5 stars
Leo rated The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: 3 stars
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru) is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The American …
Leo rated The Best of Subterranean: 5 stars
Leo rated Brave New World: 4 stars
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good …
Leo rated The waning of the Middle Ages: 3 stars
The waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga
From the Preface of the English translation...
The present work deals with the history of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries …