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"More ominous still, Hawkins was the first known English adventurer to transport and trade enslaved Africans. Elizabeth was fully aware of this and in 1564 gave him a royal ship in exchange for a share of the profits." — 10 hours, 48 min ago
"More ominous still, Hawkins was the first known English adventurer to transport and trade enslaved Africans. Elizabeth was fully aware of this and in 1564 gave him a royal ship in exchange for a share of the profits." — 10 hours, 48 min ago
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― 1984
― 1984
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you. ”
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Shine & Shadow
— 770 members
— last activity 1 hour, 6 min ago
Welcome to Shine & Shadow. We are a group focused on monthly group reads and discussions. We have 3 group reads per month: 1 'Dark' read, 1 'Light' re ...more
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
— 15797 members
— last activity 32 minutes ago
The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as ...more
Aussie Readers
— 6498 members
— last activity 1 hour, 26 min ago
A group for all Australian Goodreads members (and those interested in Australia), no matter what they read!
Works of Thomas Hardy
— 284 members
— last activity 18 hours, 42 min ago
A group to discuss all the works of Thomas Hardy, from poems to novels and everything in between. Also, this is a place to discuss the life and times ...more
Aussie Lovers of Crime/Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
— 1763 members
— last activity 3 hours, 5 min ago
A group for Aussie GR members (and those interested in our wonderful land of OZ), who love nothing more than to curl up with a good crime, thriller, s ...more
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