Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
 Wonderful Read: I've read most everything from Dickens but happend to pick this up in a book store, craving some good British literature. Though this book was some what predictable, it was a page turner and suspensful. This is one of my favorite Dickens [... more]
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The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)
Review for Sorrows of a Young Werther: For any one who does not know the extremes of emotion and death this book is excellent. I personally found it very helpful and at times depressing to read especially at the end. But its message is equally as [... more]
$10.95
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics)
essential reference: I have now plowed through the second and final volume of this series, and though my energy began to flag, I still think this is one of the great classics of all time. Though not exactly chronological, the stories in this volume tend [... more]
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Essential Stories (Modern Library Classics)
Astonishing brilliance.: Here's why you *need* to read this book. 1. Although Victor Sawdon Pritchett writes about ordinary people, the results are anything but ordinary. There isn't a story in this book that isn't exceptional. 2. Complexity of the right [... more]
$13.95
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Mr. Beluncle: A Novel (Modern Library Classics)
A comic answer to the question, Who shall inherit England?: V.S. Pritchett's Mr. Beluncle is a pater familias running emotional roughshod on his employees and his household alike in their London suburb. His three stifled sons invariably cry after [... more]
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Othello (Modern Library Classics)
Book Description: For this updated edition of Shakespeare's Othello, Scott McMillin has added a new section on the key events in both scholarship and theatre since the 1980s, inlcuding political, feminist and postcolonial treatments in various parts of [... more]
$5.95
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The Winter's Tale (Modern Library Classics)
Author: William Shakespeare Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 822 EAN: 9780812969191 ISBN: 0812969197 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2009-04-14 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: 2009-04-14 [... more]
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The Toilers of the Sea (Modern Library Classics)
The Toilers of the Sea: An excellent novel - typical of Hugo - immersing readers into the time and culture of Guernsey and the surrounding Channel Islands. If you don't like description very much, or if you prefer a fast-moving plot with little [... more]
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Modern Library Classics)
Amazon.com Review: Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, [... more]
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The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics)
Monumental Importance: The Wealth of Nations is one of the most important books ever written. In some respects the Wealth of Nations was a tract for the times. Smith penned a crippling critique of the mercantilist `Policy of Europe'. Smith, along with [... more]
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Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
Invaluable source and historical document.: After having read McCullogh's splendid series on Rome, I turned to this fat, dense book with great expectations. I was not disappointed: the stories are endlessly fascinating, from their basic details on [... more]
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Selected Stories of H. G. Wells (Modern Library Classics)
Recently read, and very enjoyable: I recently read all the stories in this book over a period of a week. They are arranged in a nice, thematic way, so that similar stories are grouped together. I was amazed at the breadth of the subject matter of the [... more]
$14.95
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