Penguin Classics Penguin Book Of Victorian Verse
 Victorian Verse Flops Again: Penguin has brought out this new volume to replace George MacBeth's eccentric and useless volume in the Penguin Classics series. But Karlin's production is equally dismal. These books, though theoretically aimed at a non- [... more]
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Penguin Classics Histories
The 'Father' of History.: ( This is what we are used to call him. Of course Herodotus is not the Father because History existed already long before he was born. The Father of Written History would be more accurate). Herodotus was born in Halicarnassus [... more]
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Penguin Classics Divine Comedy 03 Paradise
Quella che m'paradisa la mia mente: The elevated sound of poetry are here heard. Not fisical reality, but the ideal; In the Paradiso, ideas and feelings are visible. Dante sees God's unexpressible force: love. Part III is on par with the previous II!: I [... more]
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Penguin Classics History Of The Franks
Not For Everyone: The chronicles of Bishop Gregory of Tours are a rich piece of source material from a time and place whence such material is scarce. He seems to know all that was going on and he doesn't hesitate to tell it all. The political and social [... more]
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Penguin Classics Against Nature
Against Nature: Against Nature is a book that deserves its own category. The book touches upon issues and conflicts that all intelectuals (both young and mature) face. The book is well written and is a great complement to someone that is experimenting [... more]
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Penguin Classics Inheritance
The annoyance of perfection: The Inheritance, by Lousia May Alcott, tells the life of an orphan who's never known her family. The beautiful and pure Edith Adelon is an Italian orphan living with the rich aristocrats the Hamilton's. This beautiful orphan [... more]
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Penguin Classics Life Of Charlotte Bronte
SAD BUT BRILLIANT: Such sad lives were led by the the Bronte's, loneliness, loss, despair, all were experienced and fed into the imaginations on charlotte, emily and anne. This book is a brilliant book by E C Gaskell (who i normally dont really like), it [... more]
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Penguin Classics Rome And Italy
A dated translation, but still great reading.: This volume contains books VI through X of Livy's monumental 120+ volume history of Rome. It covers the time between the sack of the city by the Gauls (c. 396 BCE) and Rome's emergence as the single most [... more]
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Penguin Classics Aeneid
Better in Dryden's English than in Virgil's Latin.: No one would disagree with me more than John Dryden himself, but I believe the poet who died in 1700 gave us a version of The Aeneid which is more enjoyable, at least easier to love, than Virgil's [... more]
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Penguin Classics Rise And Fall Of Athens
Good translation, good read.: I'm reading this translation for a class on 5th century BC Greece. I find Plutarch a fun writer with his emphasis on the moral behavior of his subjects, even when some of them (such as Themistocles) are not moral at all. [... more]
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Penguin Classics War Of The Worlds
Outstanding Penguin Edition for a Science Fiction Classic: H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" is a straightforward, tightly-written, and innovative little novel (barely 200 pages of actual author text in most editions) that helped define [... more]
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Penguin Classics Tao Te Ching
What, Another One?: How many translations of Lauzi are there on the market? Twenty? A hundred? How many do we need? This one has been around for a long time, but it has stood the test of time better than most. Believe me when I say that there is no such [... more]
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