phespirit.notes: words

notes from a phespirit perspective

Phespirit's favourite books:

The Divine Comedy

Candide

Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor

One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

Phespirit's favourite collected volumes:

Milligan's War & Milligan's Peace

Phespirit's favourite books


	back to top THE DIVINE COMEDY Dante Alighieri written c.1308 to c.1320, published posthumously the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages - 'the fifth gospel' divine comedy schemas

	back to top CANDIDE Voltaire first published 1759 satirical novel challenging vain ignorance and misplaced optimism full translated text

	back to top BLUMFELD, AN ELDERLY BACHELOR Franz Kafka written c.1915, published posthumously a short account of the real and surreal intrusions in one man's life full translated text

	back to top ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Gabriel Garcia Marquez first published 1967 an epic story of magic and destiny in the South American jungle

	back to top FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS Hunter S Thompson first published 1971 journalistic tale of a drug-enhanced search for the American dream

Phespirit's favourite collected volumes

ADOLF HITLER: MY PART IN HIS DOWNFALL | 'ROMMEL?' 'GUNNER WHO?'
MONTY: HIS PART IN MY VICTORY | MUSSOLINI: HIS PART IN MY DOWNFALL
WHERE HAVE ALL THE BULLETS GONE? | GOODBYE SOLDIER | PEACE WORK
Spike Milligan

first published: 1973 | 1976 | 1978 | 1980 | 1986 | 1987 | 1992

war and post-war memoirs - with brilliantly captioned photographs - that remain relentlessly funny throughout all seven volumes