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week 4-52 Weeks of the Classics

Considered the most important poem of the twentieth century, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is an oblique and fascinating view of the hopelessness and confusion of purpose in modern western civilization. Published in 1922-same year as James Joyce’s equally monumental Ulysses-The Waste Land is a series of fragmentary dramatic monologues and cultural quotations that crossfade into one another. Eliot believed that this style best represented the fragmentation of society, and his poem portrays a sterile world of panicky fears and barren lusts, of human beings waiting for sign of promise of redemption.

Week 3-52 Weaks of the Classics

Set in early twentieth-century London and inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent is a complex exploration of motivation and morality. The title character, Adolf Verloc, is obviously no James Bond. In fact, he and his misfit saboteurs are not spies but terrorists, driven less by political ideas than by their unruly emotions and irrational hatreds.

Week 2-52 Weeks of the Classics

On December 27, 1863, Charles Darwin left Plymouth Harbor aboard the H. M. S. Beagle. For the next five years, the naturalist conducted research on plants and animals around the globe, amassing a body of evidence that would culminate in one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind - the theory of evolution.
The Origin of Species not only launched the science of modern biology, but has influenced all literary, philosophical, and religious thinkers since.

Today I am starting my third project, and hopefully my second successful one.
Week 1-52 Weeks of the Classics

On 1 September 1939, Germany and Slovakia attacked Poland. On 3 September 1939 France and Britain, followed by the countries of the Commonwealth, declared war on Germany. our trooper looks like he will protect Poland till his last breath...