+ A book about Love, Ideals, Passion, Determination + "Then am I a happy fly, + THE Most Moving Book I Ever Read + Love/Politics/Fight all that and well written!
+ Murder In The Horse & Buggy Era. Well-Drawn/Written/Documented Book + Detailed introduction to a baffling case + good.. but not enough dialogue + The Tragedy in a Nutshell
+ Amazing trilogy + Great book, great illustrations, great buy!
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I am about half-way through the first book of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and I am loving it. I am amazed at how Tolkien is so descriptive in his writing and puts so much thought to it. The first one-hundred pages are a little rough, but after that it is impossible to put the ...
+ Fiction based on history -- superb! + Historical, partly-fictional, story of Haymarket Riot.
I really liked the way this book was written. Full of descriptions, it tells a story of love, a great friendship and a life that immigrants had and in some ways still have to live in a new country. The book is written in such a way that it makes a reader think that the author, not the protagonist, ...
My first exposure to Lewis Carroll's classic children's story was through the 1951 Disney film adaptation "Alice in Wonderland," which I watched repeatedly as a child. The creative quality of the story never failed to fascinate me, and I kept going back despite my deep-rooted terror of the ...
I have no idea why this novel never surpassed "Treasure Island" as a literary success because it's really so much better than that well-known, fine tale! This is a very old book, originally published in 1895 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Here, Captain Horn, his small crew (the ones which survive), ...
"Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal" was written in 1939 and is the inspirational story of Doctor Hudson who knew a life secret, actually an epiphany, based upon a single line from "The Holy Bible," and found specifically in the Book of Matthew. He kept his life secrets in code, a document which was ...
+ A Glamorous Classic of Feminist Proportions + An absolute classic!
On the back of the book, there is a quote by a reviewer who spouts that most tired of cliches "I literally couldn't put it down" or something liked that. For once, I'd have to agree wholeheartedly - 450 pages and never a dull moment. The prose is lively, sensitive and articulate. The story itself ...
I haven't had/made time to read other translations of this Great work, but IMHO, Anna Karenina 'Must Be' in the top five list of all-time Greatest Romances...
(trying NOT to be selfish): Reading Anna Karenina has enriched my life; It has INCREASED my love, devotion, & respect for-to my wife, my ...
I'm a man, but I much enjoyed it too!
Here, we have 4 novellas (or, short stories) in a compendium, all written by a gal who was much ahead of her time (late 1800s-early 1900s) in terms of lifestyle and personal vision. Author Sara Jeannette Duncan was a very independent Canadian newpaper ...
It was always a little embarrassing to admit that I hadn't read Franny and Zooey. In the literary world, I guess it's kind of the equivalent of a beauty queen admitting she wears dentures. Somewhere in between that admission and the other one (that I found `Catcher in the Rye' tolerably okay but ...
The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's Dream . Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him and with their mother till they could say it by heart. They began when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the bushes with a donkey's head on his shoulders, and finds ...
Jealousy, theater, joy, church, affairs, revenge, tragedy, stalking, suicide, and much more can be found herein!
A young man is quite amourous toward a gregarious, young stage actress but she leads him on. He's also burdened with a solid competitor for her affections. The young man's emotional ...
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