Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
 From Amazon.com: The subtitle of Anne Fadiman's slim collection of essays is Confessions of a Common Reader, but if there is one thing Fadiman is not, it's common. In her previous work of nonfiction, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, she brought [... more]
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Errata: An Examined Life
a profound, passionate and humane thinker: First off, I should mention that I'm new to the work of George Steiner and this review will perhaps be most helpful to other newcomers. Having spent the better part of the past 20 years immersing myself in music [... more]
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Freedom And Necessity
From Amazon.com: The early 19th century was a heady time of repeated challenges to the assumption that the social order as it stood was supernaturally (divinely) ordained. A particularly sticky web of politics and romance traps Susan Voight and James [... more]
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Prisoner's Dilemma
poorly organized: Granted the subject matter is absolutely fascinating, 5 stars out of 5. Having said that, the subject deserves a much better treatment. This book was poorly organized and felt rushed. Yes, it was readable. But it felt like Poundstone [... more]
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The Search for Michael Rockefeller
Absorbing travelogue, problematic journalism: This book, written in the early seventies, details Argosy Magazine journalist Milt Machlin's investigation into the disappearance of the young Rockefeller family scion who vanished on an expedition to tribal [... more]
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The Sin Eater
Fine writing but what a world view !: As in her "The Inn at the Edge of the World" Ms. Ellis gives us a group of unlikeable people who dislike each other. They are a household of aristocrats living on an estate in a Welsh seaside village. [... more]
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The Common Reader Vol 1
Author: Virginia Woolf Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780099443667 ISBN: 009944366X Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2003-02-19 Release Date: 2003-02-19 [... more]
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Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader
Author: Perez Zagorin Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 938.05072 EAN: 9780691123516 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0691123519 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2005-10-17 [... more]
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The Common Reader Vol 2
Author: Virginia Woolf Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780099443674 ISBN: 0099443678 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2003-02-19 Release Date: 2003-02-19 [... more]
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The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass ...
Author: Richard Daniel Altick Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 028.90941 EAN: 9780814207949 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0814207944 Number Of Pages: 440 Publication Date: 1998-07 [... more]
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The Common Reader
Uncommonly Good Read: You start out wanting to like this author. She has a witty, humorous way with words, a reverence for the written word and a telling grasp of what distinguishes writers of various eras. Of Elizabethan dramatists, she writes, " [... more]
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The Second Common Reader: Annotated Edition
Woolf's essays present the author's stream of consciousness.: The Second Common Reader is merely an extension of Woolf's own literary genius as she enters into the minds of authors such as Donne, Hardy, DeFoe and Swift, among others. She uses her " [... more]
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