The Rings of Saturn -- W. G. Sebald, Paperback Religion - Church Life or a cake pan

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Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel

I must continually work to transform my own view of children's behaviors

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The Rings of Saturn -- W. G. Sebald, Paperback Religion - Church Life or a cake panThe Rings of Saturn with its curious archive of photographs records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne's skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings