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EXILES, A PLAY BY JAMES JOYCE (BOOK REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION)

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Today I'll share my review of Exiles , a play by James Joyce with you. I read and reviewed this play about a decade or so ago. I read it when I was a student of English literature. We had an Irish professor at the University, so obviously Joyce was often on the reading menu. Not that I minded, for I have grown quite fond of this writer.  I've decided to share this review with you because I think it is still relevant. Exiles might not be James' best known work, but in my opinion this play merits a recommendation. It is a play that I have been meaning to reread and I'm pretty sure I have a copy somewhere in my home, I just need to find it.  Exiles might not be the best or the more original Joyce's work but it is worth a read.  MY REVIEW FOR THE EXILES, A PLAY BY JAMES JOYCE   Exiles is a wonderful play, it really is. The Ibsen influences are obvious and for the most part welcome. Refreshingly liberal and open in its ideas, Exiles is a play that is well worth the readi...

REREADING AND REVIEWING- WE, A NOVEL BY YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

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Hello dear readers! In this post, I shall review We . I've decided to reread We by Yevgeny Zamyatin not just because it is such an important novel (often referred to as the grandfather of the dystopian genre) but also because I really wanted to.  It is an anti-utopia that fascinated me the first time around and I wanted to see what my impression of it would be twelve years later. Today I finished rereading it, so why share a review or two? My review won't be long as I managed to find my original review dating back to 2011, so I will just add to that. Meaning you'll get two reviews and hopefully with no repetition.  However, before I get round to reviewing, I'd like to share a bit of information about the author and the book. No work of literature exists on its own, it is forever tied to its writer and the era it was written it. However, for some books the historical context is especially important.   We is one of the first dystopian novels ever written. In addition, ...