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Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) 29 reviews
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2004
Can Love Conquer All?
+ Loved It
+ Shakespeare is forever
+ The supporting actors shine...
+ A Student's Review
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Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics) 464 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett
Bantam Classics, 1984
A towering work of criminal psychology
+ Good, but overrated
+ A masterpiece from cover to cover
+ Crime and Punishment
+ Crime and Punishment ~ Kindle eBook
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Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)34 reviews
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2003
If you want to read Shakespeare its has to be The new folger Library
+ Greatness
+ Review
If you ever thought about reading Shakespeare but was turned off or intimidated by the old english, not so with the new folger editions. Your basically reading the play on all the right sided pages , with the left pages reserved for all the definitions and explanations of the sayings and words that ...
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Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)15 reviews
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2004
The Power Of Language
+ the only way to go
+ A Masterpiece
+ Roman Revolution
+ Another enjoyable history lesson.
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The Stranger529 reviews
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1989
American translation brings out stylistic subtleties
+ interesting
+ Shocking in its Simplicity
+ One of the best books ever written.
+ Oh, the absurdity!
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)167 reviews
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Signet Classics, 1998
only one day in the gulag
+ Five Star Book of Five Star Books
+ Icy, Enduring, Classic ...
+ An important book
+ Frightening Insight Into the Dark Side of Mankind
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The Scarlett Letter (Wordsworth Classics) 1 review, 1992
America's first work on its favorite sin
Adultery is one of the few sins specifically banned in the Bible. But most of western society has gotten past this on the public, if not the individual scale. In catholic France for example, it is quite common for men to have mistresses. Likewise, the muchisimo culture of Latin America has made ...
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)54 reviews
Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2003
`It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'
+ Rewarding
+ A Tale for our time...if you have the patience.
+ Long. Boring.
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The Lottery and Other Stories80 reviews
Shirley Jackson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982
Brilliant stories from a literary fifth columnist
+ "The Lottery" is Shocking Even By Today's Standards
+ The Best Literature You Will EVER Read
+ My All-Time Favorite Book
+ Pointless ritualism
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Como agua para chocolate48 reviews
Laura Esquivel
Anchor, 2001
Excelente...No puede ser mejor de ahi!
+ The best story I've ever read!
+ Como agua para chocolate
+ a feast of the 5 senses, come to life
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King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) 9 reviews
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2004
The tragedy of Lear.
+ tragic,ironic,extreme...
+ FOLGER Shakespeare Library Edition of the Tragedy of King Lear BETTER THAN EXPECTED!
+ A tragic action without possible return!
+ All's cheerless, dark and deadly
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Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)46 reviews
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2004
Villainy as art
+ Excellent copy of Othello
+ Great Read
+ Shakespeare's tragic play between Othello and Desdemona
+ Awesome plot with a rise and fall.
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century ...7 reviews
Heinrich Böll
Penguin Classics, 1994
Mandatory reading!
+ The story of cutthroat media bloodhounds and the casting aside of truth.
+ Fantastic novel that suggests Germany is like Orwell's 1984
I have to admit, I saw the film before reading the book, and I recommend them both. In today's climate in America, - when the police profession is considered one of the noblest by liberals and conservatives alike, and the so-called "liberal" press, which crossed the line into tabloid journalism ...
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Cat's Cradle375 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Dell Publishing, 1998
Surreal yet all too close to the truth...
+ Great Storytelling
+ Still relevant to this day
+ WONDERFUL BOOK
+ The master of Cat's Cradle
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The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)486 reviews
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
The most famous book you've never read
+ how did I miss this one??
+ Believe the Hype
+ "To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
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Ariel - Poems by Sylvia Plath1 review
Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965
My Dark Princess
Simply put, Sylvia Plath was a genius. Pre-feminist, post-feminist-forget about that crap. Through her art,the woman showed us the dual nature of being HUMAN. These poems are stunning monuments. There are powerful thoughts on these pages. I first read this collection as a preteen and it changed my ...
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The Great Gatsby1122 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
As American as apple pie...
+ The Summer of '22
+ The Great Gatsby
+ An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A"
+ Gatsby Believed in the Green Light
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Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)2 reviews
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2004
Shakespeare on the danger of messing with prophecy
+ Yale's may be the best edition of Macbeth
William Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" was performed at the Globe Theater in 1605-06. The "Scottish" play was a calculated to be pleasing to James I, who took the throne of England after the death of Elizabeth Tudor in 1603. It was not simply that the play was set in the homeland of the Stuarts, ...
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1984 (Signet Classics)1380 reviews
George Orwell
New American Library, 1961
A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth
+ Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic
+ Perfectly Horrific
+ Still Relevant
+ Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government
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A Farewell To Arms376 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1995
__Underscore.
+ An interesting look into war, love, and life.
+ Classic World War I Novel
+ Profound. Sad. Moving.
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