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How about Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy?

Sorry!! Just replying to all things Russian, Sergo! p.s. didn't do Tanya's quiz. am too thick.

Wow! Sergo and Kenny - quite a conversation you have going!.. I feel quite guilty now about butting in,.. have just read the whole post which is something i perhaps should have done first off! Thanks for a great entertaining couple of hours :) SO interesting Sergo what you were saying about...

Hello! (Belatedly) here's mine Tolstoy War and Peace Hardy Tess of the D'Urbevilles Orwell complete works - had to cheat such a hard question! beth

Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' Hardy's 'Return of the Native' (Eustacia Vye drowns herself at the end) and 'Morvern Callar' by Alan Warner begins with the central character's boyfriend's suicide. Hope this is of some use!

Hi Sasha, Maybe if you haven't read them you could try Ghostwritten by David Mitchell or Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. :)

Laurence Rees's 'Auschwitz' is really well researched and very moving.

hope I'm not commiting some horrible literary faux pas here, but.. in terms of overrated classics, does anyone agree with me about Ulysses? (I thought maybe Wuthering Heights was more about such an intense, passionate love between two fundamentally (but for opposite reasons) selfish people...

Hello There Sergo, Well... Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Turgenev, Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, Chekhov.. and I'm always eager to discover any more if you have any recommendations!? I really can't explain my long-standing interest in Russia (and it's not JUST your literature), it just seems such...

Hi! I thought this was a brilliant book - came across it by accident in the library the cover just attracted me, agree Martin this was one of only 2 books which have ever genuinely creeped me out so's I had to take a deep breath before reading on!(the other was Stephen King's The Langoliers)...

Hello Tanya! I'm new today, too I'll have a look at your quiz! Beth

Hi to everyone in Russia! One of the main reasons I joined this site is because I fell in love with Russian literature at an early age... I have just come back from Russia after saving up for five years and it was the most wonderful holiday I have ever had! Beth (East Yorkshire, England)

hi everyone! thought i'd do mine (v difficult) Withnail & I Dog Day Afternoon On The Waterfront Salvador Raging Bull Scarface Betty Blue Apocalypse Now Vagabonde Godfather Trilogy Oliver Stone's Vietnam Trilogy (cheating a bit I know) Taxi Driver Manhattan Annie Hall...