The Chain of Time

The Chain of Time

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And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don

I first read Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, soon after it was published in English in 1958, and since then it has topped my list of great novels. In the 1970s I discovered Alexander Solzhenitsyn and placed his August 1914 near the top of my list, where...
The Story of San Michele

The Story of San Michele

When I first read “The Story of San Michele”, by Axel Munthe, many years ago as an impressionable young man, I considered it a great find. The San Michele of the title was the name of the author’s villa on the island of Capri, but the book is in fact a...