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Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics) (Paperback)

by Nikos Kazantzakis (Author)
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  • Paperback: 335 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (3 April 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571203132
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571203130
  • Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 11.1 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 106,008 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An Englishman discovers that he has come into a small inheritance in Crete and sets out to claim it. When he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek with a zest for life. As their relationship develops, the Englishman is persuaded to change his outlook on life

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This Book challenges you to open your Eyes, 3 Nov 2006
I haven't read a good fiction book in a long time... but this book demanded attention. It brought me back to my senses, after being swept away by philosophical meanderings for so long. This book is a teacher, it teaches you that life is to be lived, really, truly and completely and not just to be thought about and thrown away.

If you read one book in the next year, make this it!
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Read it once - read it again!, 20 Nov 2001
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Probably one of the first novels I have read a long time ago, which gave me a deep insight into life and the we way we live it, namely wrongly!

Just as Kazantzakis intended that character, Zorba steps out of the book, knocks you about a bit, questions your answers and teaches you a bit about life. About sadness and happines, cruelty and kindness, about a life not always lived the right way, but surely a life lived intensly!

You will dread the moment of the last page, you will not want Zorba to leave, but at the end you will walk out there in the old world seeing it with new eyes and try to be: Zorba - the Greek!
J.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An underrated classic!, 23 April 2007
By David Lundberg "author of OLYMPIC WANDERING: ... (Greensboro, NC, USA) - See all my reviews
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"Zorba the Greek" is simply a great novel. Kazantzakis is brilliant in his dialogue, story-telling, and word pictures. I have read Zorba over and over again, particularly when I want to feel the vibrant life of Greek culture. Many find themselves in opposition to Kazantzakis' philosophies, but this book should be savored for its pure celebration of life, brilliantly embodied in Zorba and his intellectual friend, a young British Greek.

Sexist, yes. Anti-religious, yes. A great read, nonetheless!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable, ebullient Zorba!
The novel has ist origins in the author's own experiences of mining and harvesting in the Peleponnesus in the 1920s. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Zorba The Greek
I last read this book in 1985 and its message still reacheses out now. Yeats wrote "Choose Life or the Work" Zorba chooses life but this is no determined choice. Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2002 by Richard

5.0 out of 5 stars There should not be anyone who have not read this book!
"Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they CREATE it" Zorbas is a Greek man who sees life with another view different than... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Few words on the grave of Nikos.
A fighter, who desperately waving against the flow to the stiff fall, finally broke out the paddle and throw it away. and sung.

"Ah, let this song to be my life! Read more

Published on 26 Feb 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Zorba tells us what the life is !
I have just finshed reading Zorba the Greek yesterday. I was just like the boss who always just thinking and asking what the life is. So I could do nothing. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Life - !!
You have to read this book..it will really change your life. It will make you see things on a different way , on the way of zorba . Read more
Published on 13 Dec 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best pieces of fiction I've ever read!
This book is about life and its extremes. It describes the battle between free-spiritedness and conservatism. It makes any reader analyze the way he/she lives. Read more
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