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nakedmollrat

🇬🇧 Reading my way through the classics • lover of Greek mythology and history (especially ancient and medieval) 🏛️📚

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Gothic Literature
British & Irish Classic Literature
Classics Starter Pack Vol I
My Taste
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Atonement
Frankenstein
East of Eden
Jane Eyre
Reading...
From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome 133 BC to AD 68 (Routledge Classics)
10%
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
80%
The Aeneid
72%
Wuthering Heights
72%


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  • East of Eden

    East of Eden

    John Steinbeck

    Loving how this stays relevant even now:

    "I don't know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good. It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man. A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. When our food and clothing and housing are all born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger."

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