Ghosts
 Ibsen's controversial attack on conventional morality: Although Henrik Ibsen is the first great modern dramatist, his play "Ghosts" ("Gengangere") bears a strong similarity to ancient Greek drama, where the "tragic flaw" of [... more]
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Is God Knowable By Reason?: David Hume made a reputation by writing on reason and its limits. The main thrust of the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is to question whether theological arguments for God that assign Him positive attributes ( [... more]
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Don Quixote; Don Quijote
CD is Spanish Only: I am very disappointed in this book/CD combo. The book is great, but I bought it because the description gives the indication that the CD is bilingual, like the book. It is not; it is Spanish only. If, like me, you were hoping for a [... more]
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Moon and Sixpence
I'd suggest cakes and ale: This is very far from Maugham's best (to me, his short stories and novellas). The character, Strickland, genius painter perhaps based on Gauguin, is just not believable. Real great artists (such as Gauguin) may be odd in their [... more]
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Two Gentleman of Verona
Book Description: John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a [... more]
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The Age of Fable
Mythology comes alive: I personally find mythology pretty fascinating. On some levels it is an attempt to explain the human psyche. On others, it is an attempt to answer "why." This text is inferior to no other in its stories of myth and legend. [... more]
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The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds: The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells is a story of Martians invading England during the last years of the nineteenth century. The story starts out with a cylinder falling out of the sky and landing in England. Then Martians emerge [... more]
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Manalive
Sanity has broken out, and is spreading: Sometimes we need a little madness just to know we're alive. That's the basic message of "Manalive," a delightfully strange mystery (of sorts), in which G.K. Chesterton demonstrates just why life is [... more]
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Bleak House
Amazon.com Review: Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy [... more]
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The Warlord of Mars
mostly satisfying, but...: Burroughs' creative peak was clearly in the timeframe when he wrote this. He had begun three of his four primary series and was rapidly gaining fame and fortune because of his breathtaking tales of adventure and romance. This [... more]
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Author: Carlo Collodi Binding: Kindle Edition Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 140 Publication Date: 2004-04-01 Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Release Date: 2004-04-01 [... more]
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Resurrection
Deep, heavy, and moralistic: Maybe the first modern novel. In `Resurrection' Tolstoy delves down deep into the disturbed psyche of his protagonist as he struggles with his decisions, his culture, and his beliefs. Like all of Tolstoy's works the book is [... more]
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