The History of the Peloponnesian War (Barnes & Noble ... A Review of the Barnes & Noble Edition: I'm very much in agreement with the other reviewers in term of Thucydides' great writing and the timeless lessons about human nature. I will instead review this Barnes & Noble edition. B & N Classics is [... more]
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The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Not the Arabian Nights: While looking through the list of books on mythology, I couldn't help but notice a number of books containing "Arabian Nights" in the title. I hate to burst the bubble of anyone who plans to read this book, but I can [... more]
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She: A History of Adventure Life and Death and the Eternal Feminine.: _She: A History of Adventure_ by Victorian novelist H. Rider Haggard is a tale of adventure and suspense set in the dark continent of Africa which reveals the archetypal nature of the female. H. Rider Haggard was [... more]
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The Woman in White (Barnes & Noble Classics) My "read of the year": Let me say this -- I LOVED this book. I devoured it over a couple of days and have reread pages and passages since. I don't often choose to read victorian gothic, but the characters and the plot devices really hooked me. [... more]
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Atlas Maior of 1665 A nice book: I bought the Barnes and Noble edition and save 80%. That being said the B & N version is smaller and harder to read. It is also 100 pages shorter, which is why I gave it only 4 stars. Nevertheless I found the book fascinating. But the [... more]
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Frankenstein (Barnes & Noble Classics) Free SF Reader: It is pretty surprising that something come up with almost on a whim to provide a diversion has come to be such an important text for two genres, both horror and science fiction. Victor Frankenstein's obsession with the creation of life [... more]
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The Arabian Nights, Their Best-Known Tales (Illustrated ... Not the Arabian Nights: While looking through the list of books on mythology, I couldn't help but notice a number of books containing "Arabian Nights" in the title. I hate to burst the bubble of anyone who plans to read this book, but I can [... more]
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