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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 307 reviews
Maya Angelou
Bantam Books, 1980
The time of book that moves you
+ Quick Read
+ Well Written Account
+ South Mill Young Readers Book Club Review (Jr. High Readers)
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The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) 13 reviews
Upton Sinclair
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003
Great Book
+ Few books have had such an impact on a country
+ Better than last time
+ Awesome book
+ Rite of passage
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Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)13 reviews
Leo Tolstoy
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003
Sense of Self
+ Good buy
+ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
+ "I will punish him and escape from everyone and from myself.."
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Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)121 reviews
Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2002
Great
+ Must Read Victorian Novel
+ A Novel of tears as well as laughter. An enjoyable classic.
+ Expectations Greatly Exceeded
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Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)903 reviews
Jane Austen
Vintage, 2007
Boy oh boy was I ever wrong about Lady Jane!!!
+ Worth paying for on the Kindle
+ What a Year for the Bennets
+ as always, better than the movie
+ Pride and Prejudice
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Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) 1 review
Dostoevsky
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000
Crime and Punishment = Great!
I love this book. It is hard to get through the first half, but after that it is just amazing. Everything you thought was meaningless isn't. This is a must read.
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My Antonia (Barnes & Noble Classics)10 reviews
Willa Cather
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
"She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races."
+ A Reliable Review on My Antonia by Willa Cather
+ A Great Book
+ immigrants
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The Stranger1 review
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1954
Rebels Against the Gods
Albert Camus finished his first novel, "The Stranger", when he could not leave Paris during its first year of occupation by the German army in 1940-41. This was France's darkest hour, especially when right-wing collaborators betrayed many other French citizens to the evil Gestapo.
Hitler and ...
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A Farewell to Arms2 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957
Best ending I have ever read
"I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied" - Ernest Hemingway
I have read this book twice now, across the period of about 15 months. The first time I read it and finished the last page, I closed the book slowly and just sat there in ...
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Spark Notes All Quiet on the Western Front456 reviews
Erich Maria Remarque, SparkNotes Editors
SparkNotes, 2002
A Great Work
+ "A line, a short line, trudges off into the morning."
+ Murder on the Western Front
+ A must for any student or non-specialist general reader
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Great Gatsby, the (Modern Classics) 1 review
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Penguin Books, 1999
Not what I expected.
A famous book, I was surprised that is was a love story. Our narrator. Nick moves to West Egg to be close to work in New York as a broker. He tells us the events of one summer that he witnessed whilst living next door to Jay Gatsby.
Gatsby is a tragic figure who can't move on from his past love ...
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The Plague153 reviews
Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
Vintage, 1991
"A town thrown back upon itself"
+ Few novels are worthy of comparison
+ Find meaning in a meaningless existence
+ Tragically relevant
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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)39 reviews
Homer
Penguin Classics, 2006
Stick with Rieu's original...
+ A classic
+ =
+ Older and Wiser
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The Iliad of Homer67 reviews
Homer
University Of Chicago Press, 1961
Richmond Lattimore...Genius!!!!!
+ greek myth
+ Apt reading for America today
+ Western literature starts here
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To Kill A Mockingbird5 reviews
Harper Lee
Warner Books, 1982
A Must Read Book
+ FAST SERVICE
+ Everyone's Favorite . . .
+ Tightly written with a message for everyone
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The Brothers Karamazov3 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004
A deep, psychological, verbose masterpiece!
+ Dostoevsky's last novel, worth every minute.....
+ The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov is said to be the greatest and last novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In reading the novel, one discovers why so. The novel is set in nineteenth century Russia, and deals with the story of three brothers, Dmitri, Ivan and Alyosha, and the events surrounding the murder of ...
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Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)79 reviews
Charlotte Brontė
Dover Publications, 2003
Beautifully Written
+ STILL HOLDS UP BEAUTIFULLY...
+ Wonderful!
+ Amazing
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The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)30 reviews
Geoffrey Chaucer
Penguin Classics, 2003
Yess
+ very nice
+ Classic
+ The Hobo Philosopher
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The Red Badge of Courage3 reviews
Stephen Crane
Pocket, 2005
One of the great novels written about war
+ Very good story with interesting descriptions
I read this book in school as a kid and I recently picked it up and read it again. It is a short work and only takes a few hours to read through. The style is definitely of the 19th century and you need to read it slowly and carefully to understand the nuances of the description and inner dialogs. ...
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Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics)502 reviews
Emily Bronte
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
Will Always Be A Classic
+ To be appreciated, not loved
+ Gothic romance
I honestly didn't think that I would enjoy this book as much as I did. :] It is a love and hate story. I wasn't fond of Catherine or Heathcliff, but i enjoyed the book. It took me a little while to really get into but after that i couldn't put it down! :] But if your looking for a happy story with ...
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