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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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Book - les animaux ont-ils une âme?



Book - les animaux ont-ils une âme? 
(tile means ''do animals have a soul?'') 
(lire En français) 
Authors :  Marie-Amélie Picard & Gilles Vidal
Score : 9/10
Year : 2006
Atelier de Presse. ISBN: 235310004X

185 pages 
Language : French. Not translated (yet) 

Back in 2007, I read this book book by Marie-Amélie Picard & Gilles Vidal. The title translates as "do animals have a soul?".

The authors show how humans have changed from the "primitive" pasts where they used to believe in animals having a soul and even spiritual/ mystical/ mythological roles, to the "civilized" present & recent history where humans have turned their backs & now believe in their superiority upon animals, in spite of all the animal symbolism present in religions, astrology, myths... the authors also show that the animals aren't the mere robots they were thought as, but that they have feelings, psyches, and thus, a soul...

They also talk about many of the ridiculous human sayings and superstitions regarding animals. Throughout the book and its ending, they stipulate that they hope people will change their mind sets & stop with their ill-based beliefs of animals being mere robots & objects, for the benefit of a more positive thinking that animals are essential for our race's survival and that they too, have feelings & a soul, and who knows, maybe our ancestors were right in believing animals carried our souls, or part of, or that we do reincarnate into & from animals...

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  1. Eleonore16 July, 2017 17:34

    Seems to be a very interesting book! A book that everyone should read...
    It's now seen as 'stupid' by so many to worship animals or an animal in particular, funny how so much changes. Maybe it would be time to go back to respecting animals and considering them as caring, loving and intelligent beings!

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  2. LuluGardener16 July, 2017 17:42

    Oh yes it was a an interesting read indeed! If I recall (it's been a while), the authors didn't give a definitive opinion, but rather suggested possibilities and opened the door to other ideas

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