John Knowles

Citations

• “Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.”

• “Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.”

• “It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.”

• “All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.”

Les livres de John Knowles dans l'ordre

Les livres de John Knowles dans l'ordre de parution, de A Seperate Peace (1959) à A Separate Peace With Connections (1999).

1. 1A Seperate PeaceA Seperate Peace1959
2. 2Morning in AntibesMorning in Antibes1962
3. 3Double VisionDouble Vision1964
4. 4Indian SummerIndian Summer1966
5. 5John Knowles Reading A Separate PeaceJohn Knowles Reading A Separate Peace1967
6. 6PhineasPhineas1968
7. 7The ParagonThe Paragon1971
8. 8Spreading FiresSpreading Fires1974
9. 9A Vein of RichesA Vein of Riches1978
10. 10Peace Breaks OutPeace Breaks Out1981
11. 11A Stolen PastA Stolen Past1983
12. 12The Private Life of Axie ReedThe Private Life of Axie Reed1986
13. 13A Separate Peace With ConnectionsA Separate Peace With Connections1999