O Jerusalem!, Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins In McCandless’ copy, he had copied the line “need for a purpose” from the book.ħ.
Taking place in Russia during the midst of revolution, it follows physician and poet Yuri Zhivago as he wrestles with the new order and is torn by his love for two women. The last book Christopher McCandless would ever read, Dr Zhivago is one of the world’s great love stories. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” - Thoreau, Walden 3. In the copy found with McCandless in 1992, he had written TRUTH in the margins by the line, Walden, Henry David Thoreauįirst published in 1854, Walden is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.” 2. I wanted excitement and gander and the chance to sacrifice myself for my life. “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. McCandless highlighted the following passage, which was found by his remains in Alaska in 1992: This 1859 novella is written from the perspective of 17 year-old Masha, and focuses on her troubled marriage to her much older husband Sergey Mikhaylych. When McCandless headed into the Alaskan bush “…he had a fake-fur parka, a rifle slung over one shoulder, a ten-pound bag of long-grained rice, two sandwiches and a bag of corn chips…the heaviest item…was his library. The Best American Essays 1991, edited by Robert Atwan and Joyce Carol OatesĪ yearly anthology of magazine articles published in the US, included in the 1991 collection is Margaret Atwood’s thesis on the female body, Woody Allen’s declaration of a crush on the biblical Lot’s wife, and Jane Tompkins theory of why “museums are a form of cannibalism made safe for polite society.” Set on the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Strayed wrote of this semi-autobiographical novel, “Each of Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” 11.
Published in the late 19th century, The Awakening explores a young woman’s search for her identity and sexuality way before Lena Dunham went there. Waiting for the Barbarians, JM CoetzeeĪ rumination on loneliness and the effects of living in complicity with oppressive regimes that ignore justice and decency, Waiting for the Barbarians helped South African-born Coetzee win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.
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