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4/24/2006

reading list for paris

Paris - May 7th through the 14th, 2006. A reading list.

A Traveller’s History of Paris by Robert Cole

Red and Black: A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism by Stendhal

Paris : The Biography of a City by Colin Jones

Candide, and Related Writings by Voltaire

The French Revolution : A History (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Carlyle

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3/19/2006

argentina reading list

Life in the Argentine Republic in the days of the tyrants, or, Civilization and barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

The Gaucho Martin Fierro by Jose Hernandez

Don Quixote of LA Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo GuÌiraldes

Fodor’s Argentina, 3rd Edition by Inc. Fodor’s Travel Publications

Time Out Buenos Aires (Time Out Guides) by Cathy Runciman

Lonely Planet Best of Buenos Aires by Danny Palmerlee

Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson

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10/11/2005

what i’m reading lately

Edwin Abbott Abbott : The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, 160p (2001)
Kevin Mattson : When America Was Great: The Fighting Faith of Postwar Liberalism, 231p (2004)
Rich Bowen : Hot dog Chicago: A native’s dining guide, 180p (1983)
China Mieville : Perdido Street Station, 640p (2003)
Richard Hofstadter : Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Vintage), 464p (1966)
H.L. Mencken : Mencken Chrestomathy (Vintage), 656p (1982)
Daniel J. Boorstin : The Mysterious Science of the Law : An Essay on Blackstone’s Commentaries, 264p (1996)
Robert Tallant : Mardi-Gras… As It Was, 263p (1989)
Edmund Wilson : To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (New York Review Books Classics), 592p (2003)

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