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Originally Posted by BenG
And you would think she was running the coffee plantation by herself. She barely mentions her husband.
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Well, for a large part of the time she did.
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Originally Posted by sebastienbillard
.... I regret some litteratures is not read in school (in France at least). What come to my mind are apophtegms of the fathers of the desert, buddhist scriptures, english poetry and litterature... There is a infinite world to read and always the same figures are mentionned...
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I hear your point about not always dragging out the old war horses - but your suggestions sound more like they belongs in religion class and English class respectively. We read Danish authors in Danish class (and a little bit Swedish and Norwegian) - the point being to make us acquainted with our own language through literature - that couldn't very well have been done reading English authors
