Literary Books


Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics)Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics)
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Georges Duroy is working as a railway clerk, earning a miserable 1,500 francs a year and...
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)
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"The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" is, as its title would suggest, a satirical...
Arms and the Man (Shaw Library)Arms and the Man (Shaw Library)
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George Bernard Shaw takes the title for this play from the opening life of Virgil's epic...
Shepherds Abiding/Esther's Gift/Mitford Snowmen (The Mitford Years #8) (Mitford Christmas)Shepherds Abiding/Esther's Gift/Mitford Snowmen (The Mitford Years #8) (Mitford Christmas)
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EVERY CHRISTMAS EVE SINCE 2005 WHEN THIS BOOK WAS RELEASED, I HAVE LISTENED TO THE WONDERFUL...
Ethan Frome: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Ethan Frome: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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Edith Wharton filled her novels with a feeling of ruin, passion and restriction. People can fall...


Last Night at the LobsterLast Night at the Lobster
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The dedication of Stewart O'Nan's latest novel, "THE LAST NIGHT AT THE...
LotteryLottery
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I picked up the CD at the library. I listened to it twice and then checked it out for 2 weeks...
He Who Fears the Wolf (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)He Who Fears the Wolf (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)
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When an elderly woman is found murdered on the front steps of her house shortly after a...
The Mysterious Flame of Queen LoanaThe Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
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Eco's problem with this book is essentially that he gives himself too much leeway. This is...
Jerusalem Vigil The Zion Legacy: Book OneJerusalem Vigil The Zion Legacy: Book One
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A refugee ship carrying European Jews, Holocaust survivors who have already lived through hell...


Sense and Sensibility (Puffin Classics)Sense and Sensibility (Puffin Classics)
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This was a great novel telling of the secretive and not so secretive anguish of two sisters. ...
Martin ChuzzlewitMartin Chuzzlewit
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Besides "Bleak House", "Martin Chuzzlewit" is easily my...
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin English Library)A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin English Library)
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This is an extraordinary book!But,it isn't surprising,after all it's Dickens.This book...
Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
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This is a fantastic introduction to Hardy's work for those who have not yet plunged into his...
Jude the Obscure (English Library)Jude the Obscure (English Library)
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"Jude the Obscure" is a rare find! Jude Fawley is a kind, decent man who...

The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the ScrewThe Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw
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Well these are my two favorite works by Henry James. In both James displays his very neatly...
Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)
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"Daniel Deronda" was the last novel George Eliot wrote, and it's an appropriate...
Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
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Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, shows that to follow the social and religious pressures of...
The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)
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I have absolutely no doubts whatsoever that Charles Dickens, if he lived today, would still...
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Have you read Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? If not, then I highly recommend...

Scarlet FeatherScarlet Feather
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I loved this book because it was about real people with real problems. I just hated it when it...
Drop CityDrop City
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I picked up this book with a certain amount of trepidation, because the sixties has become a...
Fragrant HarborFragrant Harbor
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Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester is a novel that is hard to praise too highly. Set in Hong...
The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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I get so tired of this worn-out formula: 1) loser gets tangled up with a saintly married woman,...
Tess of the d'UrbervillesTess of the d'Urbervilles
My favorite book of classic literature, Tess had me crying and begging for more. Hardy unfolds...

Too Far AfieldToo Far Afield
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One of my favorite moments in Grass's difficult, often ponderous novel takes place early in...
Blindness (Movie Tie-In)Blindness (Movie Tie-In)
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Jose Saramago's "Blindness" made me dig out my "Handbook to Literature,"...
Emma (Oxford World's Classics)Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
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Emma is basically a darling snob. She has a kind, loving heart, and really wants to do good, but...
Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
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Right off the bat, I've never been a fan of Dickens. To me, there's always been...
The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)
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(I should note I read this novel without the benefit of the Penguin or World's Classics...

The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)
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This is a lesser-known classic that deserves more recognition that it gets. It is a novel about...
Tess of the D'UrbervillesTess of the D'Urbervilles
My review is based on the Oxford Classics Edition. Thomas Hardy seems to have been interested...
Romola (Oxford World's Classics)Romola (Oxford World's Classics)
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Romola is constantly called Eliot's weakest novel, with even serious critics reluctant to...
Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
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It is twenty years after the first Musketeers saga and Athos, Aramis, Porthos and d'Artagnan...
The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)
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While The Black Tulip lacks the swashbuckling, derring-do adventures of the other Dumas novels I...

A Girl of the Limberlost (Library of Indiana Classics)A Girl of the Limberlost (Library of Indiana Classics)
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A Girl of The Limberlost is about a girl who at the beginning of the book is about 16 and at the...
Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)
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Because of my name, many have asked me over the years if I was familiar with Gene...
Small Wonder: EssaysSmall Wonder: Essays
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Barbara Kingsolver, a biology graduate and author, ends her first story in "Small...
Seraph on the SuwaneeSeraph on the Suwanee
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Hurston once told the author Carl Van Vechten (who, although white, wrote best-selling...
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and WeptBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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A love story in which the two main characters, Pilar, who is a student in the town of Zaragoza,...

The Zahir: A Novel of ObsessionThe Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
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Zahir, as the title says is in fact a novel of obsession. Obsession of a best selling author...
The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
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Upon reflection after reading The Sheltering Sky, I found the eccentricity of the characters,...
The Adventures of Maqroll: Four NovellasThe Adventures of Maqroll: Four Novellas
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I discovered the Adventures of Maqroll on the discount table outside my neighborhood bookstore. ...
Someone to Watch Over Me: StoriesSomeone to Watch Over Me: Stories
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Richard Bausch in these stories--of an older men with younger women, of a woman recovering from...
The Crying of Lot 49The Crying of Lot 49
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The Crying of Lot 49 is an amazingly rich and complex work, especially when you consider its...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A NovelThe Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
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... and the vertigo that might accompany it. The fear of falling. Tereza saw "book...
Island of the Sequined Love Nun CDIsland of the Sequined Love Nun CD
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Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise?a world of...
The Rules of Attraction (Contemporary American Fiction)The Rules of Attraction (Contemporary American Fiction)
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This is a book I`ve read again and again.I find the the way it depicts life on a modern...
In the Skin of a LionIn the Skin of a Lion
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Had to read this book for a Canadian literature class (English 3371) at Mount Royal College in...
Crossing to SafetyCrossing to Safety
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"We drank, largely and with a recklessness, born of inexperience. We ate, and well, but...

Clea (Alexandria Quartet)Clea (Alexandria Quartet)
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[NOTE: This review is intended for people who have read at least the first three volumes of THE...
The PearlThe Pearl
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The novella, midway in length between the novel and the short story, was a popular literary form...
The Road to WellvilleThe Road to Wellville
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I sketch this review of T. C. Boyle's comic masterpiece, THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, on Monday...
Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon RunyonGuys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyon
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Every working class neighborhood produces, if those that I have lived in are indicative, its...
Puck of Pook's Hill (Penguin Classics)Puck of Pook's Hill (Penguin Classics)
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This is Kipling "tripling" through British history and concocting a...

A Good Scent from a Strange MountainA Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
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At turns tragic and tender, comic and cosmic, this stirring collection of short stories passes...
Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
Best Price: $19.95
Right off the bat, I've never been a fan of Dickens. To me, there's always been...
The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $4.95
(I should note I read this novel without the benefit of the Penguin or World's Classics...
The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $7.20
This is a lesser-known classic that deserves more recognition that it gets. It is a novel about...
Tess of the D'UrbervillesTess of the D'Urbervilles
My review is based on the Oxford Classics Edition. Thomas Hardy seems to have been interested...

Romola (Oxford World's Classics)Romola (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $17.64
Romola is constantly called Eliot's weakest novel, with even serious critics reluctant to...
Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $6.63
It is twenty years after the first Musketeers saga and Athos, Aramis, Porthos and d'Artagnan...
The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $14.98
While The Black Tulip lacks the swashbuckling, derring-do adventures of the other Dumas novels I...
A Girl of the Limberlost (Library of Indiana Classics)A Girl of the Limberlost (Library of Indiana Classics)
Best Price: $18.71
A Girl of The Limberlost is about a girl who at the beginning of the book is about 16 and at the...
Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)
Best Price: $12.42
Because of my name, many have asked me over the years if I was familiar with Gene...

The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)
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When I was first assigned to read John Steinbeck's book The Grapes of Wrath in English...
The House of Mirth (Twentieth-Century Classics)The House of Mirth (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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this is my favorite book. absolute favorite. it's not unusual for me to get caught up in a...
Heart of Darkness (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)Heart of Darkness (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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'Heart of Darkness', the tale of a European seaman journeying up an African river, is a...
Ethan Frome (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)Ethan Frome (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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This brief but tragic novel casts a weirdly mesmeric spell, helped greatly by the fact that you...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, by James Joyce, is about growing up Irish Catholic in...

The Moon Is DownThe Moon Is Down
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The Moon Is Down The Moon Is Down, a novel by John Steinbeck, represents the principles of...
SpidertownSpidertown
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Ever wonder, as I have, what it is like to come of age in the South Bronx? To be a citizen of...
SeguSegu
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What an excellent way to incorporate history and anthropology into fiction! I believe that...
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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Summarily, "The Good Soldier" is about domestic turmoil and cheating spouses,...
Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
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This book was a major disapointment. I had never read a Jane Austen novel before I read this...

Sense and Sensibility - Audio BookSense and Sensibility - Audio Book
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I read (heard--on audiocassette) this book after seeing the film. I loved them both. Jane...
The Pilgrim's Progress (Penguin Audiobooks)The Pilgrim's Progress (Penguin Audiobooks)
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David Suchet did an excellent job reading for all the characters! Christian was wonderfully...
Dressing Up for the CarnivalDressing Up for the Carnival
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I recently finished reading Carol Shields' short story collection, Dressing Up for the...
DesperationDesperation
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How would I talk about this book, without using stall tactics to get to the point. This is a...
Out to Canaan (The Mitford Years, Book 4)Out to Canaan (The Mitford Years, Book 4)
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I stumbled upon book two, "A Light in the Window" while browsing at a book...

Queer: A NovelQueer: A Novel
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What makes this novel so affecting, when it is, is due to the workmanlike approach of the...
In the Country of Last ThingsIn the Country of Last Things
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Inherent in "In the Country of Last Things" is this: "Our lives are...
Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809
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The entire Sharp series is F*U*N*. The books are set during the Napoleonic Wars. Richard...
Lost: A NovelLost: A Novel
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I'll be the first to admit, I generally stay away from authors who are the hottest newest...
The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient WisdomThe Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
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I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho soon after completing my own 800 km pilgrimage from St...

The Bell JarThe Bell Jar
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[3.6/5.0] Esther is an extraordinarily gifted girl. Pretty, intelligent, and talented, she...
Four Freedoms: A NovelFour Freedoms: A Novel
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John Crowley wrote "Little, Big", in the words of Michael Dirda, book editor of the...
The Magician's Assistant CDThe Magician's Assistant CD
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Ann Patchett skillfully crafts a novel that evokes deep compassion for all characters, despite...
The Plague of Doves: A NovelThe Plague of Doves: A Novel
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there were wonderful tales, but it was difficult to follow the plot and keep track of the...
Fortune's FavoritesFortune's Favorites
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I started reading "Fortune's Favorites" a few days ago and already found the same...

Something Fresh: A Blandings StorySomething Fresh: A Blandings Story
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I first came across this book in a bookstore when I had about 3 hours to kill. I picked it up...
CorrectionCorrection
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I had read "Wittgenstein's Nephew" and "The Loser" and was prepared to...
Emma (Penguin Classics)Emma (Penguin Classics)
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No one reads a book like Fiona Shaw. No matter what she narrates, her voice weaves a golden...
  
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