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Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Critical Editions) 132 reviews
Jean Rhys
W. W. Norton & Company, 1998
An answer to Empire, and perhaps a sliver of light on Haiti
+ Prisoner of the mind and history
+ Wow
This is a deceptive book--at first glance it appears much shorter and more accessible that its putative motivator and predecessor, Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." But the novel is fragmented, impressionistic, a pastiche of dreams and shifting viewpoints from inscrutable narrators. It's not at all ...
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House Of Incest 11 reviews
Anais Nin
Swallow Press, 1958
Background research may be necessary
+ A Wonderful Dream
+ Nin's powerful language
+ PERFECT!
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Emma (Penguin Classics)232 reviews
Jane Austen
Penguin Classics, 2003
Exquisite
+ Emma--another entertaining Austen soap opera
+ Book Review
+ Austen at the height of her brilliance
+ Jane Austen book Lover
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Agnes Grey (Oxford World's Classics)36 reviews
Anne Brontė
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Bronte Book
+ Carries Strong Messages
+ A Wonderful Story
Not a well-known Bronte novel but a good one. If you liked Jane Eyre, you'll like Agnes Grey.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics) 24 reviews
Mary Wollstonecraft
Penguin Classics, 2004
The first feminist
+ The Irony is that MW Did Not See Herself as a Feminist
+ Where Feminism All Began
+ A Woman Prescient
+ Mary W. & Her Vindication
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Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics)679 reviews
Emily Brontė
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
Movies don't do this masterpiece justice
+ Great Read
+ I Will Change my Life
+ Wuthering Heights
+ Beautiful!
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Plath: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)1 review
Sylvia Plath
Everyman's Library, 1998
This little book cannot be commended too highly
A really excellent selection by Diane Wood Middlebrook, includes almost all the important last poems ('Letter in November' is missing), and a good selection of the 1950s stuff. There is even some juvenilia and some of Ted Hughes' notes.
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Nightwood (New Edition)27 reviews
Djuna Barnes
New Directions, 2006
Read it twice (please) and then discuss it in book group
At the March 2008 meeting of the NYC LGBT Center Book Discussion group, we discussed "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes.
We had a very small group that was surprised at the difficultly and rewards and incomprehensibility and pleasure of the novel. One reader brought his notes about Barnes' biography, ...
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Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics)
Aphra Behn
Penguin Classics, 1999
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn's visit to Surinam, Oroonoko (1688) reflects the author's ...
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Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-20028 reviews
Sharon Olds
Knopf, 2004
The most accessible -- and thrilling -- poet now writing
+ Marvelous Collection
+ Powerful Writing
+ Support from a chronic fan
+ Support of Sharol Olds
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To the Lighthouse179 reviews
Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction)
Mariner Books, 1989
Illumination
+ "So much depends, she thought, upon distance; whether people are near to us or far from us"
+ Superb
+ Haunting
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)179 reviews
Carson McCullers
Modern Library, 1993
Excellent Work
+ great
+ Highly Recommended
+ Classic treatment of the alienated
+ A New Meaning for Loneliness
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Mrs. Dalloway172 reviews
Virginia Woolf
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002
It is very, very dangerous to live even one day
+ Good looking edition, useful notes
+ Everything I asked for.
+ Beautiful classic
+ beautiful, brilliant
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The Years (Annotated) 7 reviews
Virginia Woolf
Mariner Books, 2008
A True Masterpiece for all Time.
+ Excellent!
+ Anticipation
If an immortal were to ask me what is is like to be mortal, and live with a family and with time and with age, I would hand him this book, and feel confident that he would get a grasp of our experience. Mrs. Woolf has gathered the dimension of time in this novel through simple passages of ...
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Collected Poems2 reviews
Stevie Smith
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1983
A must-have collection by a unique voice.
+ A great, underappreciated poet
Stevie Smith lived with her maiden aunt in suburban London for most of her life. She dwelled on themes of death and alienation, attempted suicide, socialized with literary intelligentsia, made records and television appearances to read her poems, then died quietly after receiving the Queen's Medal ...
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Persuasion (Penguin Classics)208 reviews
Jane Austen
Penguin Classics, 2003
A second chance at love
+ A Wonderful Classic Novel
+ A second chance at love
+ A second chance at love
+ A second chance at love
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Between the Acts (Annotated)8 reviews
Virginia Woolf
Mariner Books, 2008
The summing up
+ Interesting, But The Least Engaging Of Woolf's Work
+ A work of mature genius by a great writer
"Between the Acts" was the last novel Virginia Woolf wrote, and it appropriately feels like a swansong; a sorrowful farewell to a country on the eve of a war that very well might have spelled its devastation. While it uses the modernist experimentation that characterized "To the Lighthouse," it is ...
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Complete Stories13 reviews
Dorothy Parker
Penguin Classics, 2002
Dorothy Parker's Humor
+ Before there was Sex and the City. . .
+ fascinating stories
+ Sharp Wit Impales Lives- No Survivors
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The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)8 reviews
Christina Rossetti, R. W. Crump, ...
Penguin Classics, 2001
Fields of poetic flowers
+ Christina Rossetti Poetry
+ Christina Rossetti, The Complete Poems
+ Poetry is alive!!!!!
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Adam Bede (Oxford World's Classics)
George Eliot
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
George Eliot's first full-length novel, Adam Bede paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, and redemption. First published in 1859, this innovative novel carried its readers back sixty years to a time of impending change for England and the wider world. Eliot's penetrating portrayal of the interaction of ordinary people brought a new social realism to the novel, in which ...
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