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The Discovery of Slowness (original German title: Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit) is a novel by Sten Nadolny, written under a double conceit: first, as a novelization of the life of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, and second as a hymn of praise to "slowness," a quality which Nadolny's fictional Franklin possesses in abundance.
Slowness (French: La Lenteur) is a novel by Czech writer Milan Kundera published in 1995 in France, where the author had been living since the 1970s. It's his first fictional work written in French. [1] In the book, Kundera weaves together a number of plot lines, characters and themes in just over 150 pages.
Geir Berthelsen's The World Institute of Slowness [4] presented a vision in 1999 for a "slow planet". In Carl Honoré's 2004 book, In Praise of Slow, he describes the slow movement as: "a cultural revolution against the notion that faster is always better. The Slow philosophy is not about doing everything at a snail's pace.
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. He also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer.
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Crossword grids elsewhere, such as in Britain, South Africa, India and Australia, have a lattice-like structure, with a higher percentage of shaded squares (around 25%), leaving about half the letters in an answer unchecked. For example, if the top row has an answer running all the way across, there will often be no across answers in the second ...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon [4] Elizabeth Costello (2003) by J. M. Coetzee [104] 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño [4] Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell [105] The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) by Umberto Eco [29] Slow Man (2005) by J. M. Coetzee [106] JPod (2006) by Douglas Coupland [107]
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