The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Signet Classics)
 FACTS, FACTS, WATSON, I CAN DISCOVER THEM, BUT NOT CHANGE THEM!: Well, actually, as any reader of Sherlock Holmes will know Holmes did not say it exactly like that when talking of discovery and facts. But what the reader will discover between these pages [... more]
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Villette (Signet Classics)
Unswallowable: (*POSSIBLE spoiler alert, although I'm trying not to give away anymore than is necessary to explain what I didn't like about the book.) I appreciate Victorian novels, among which Jane Eyre is one of my favorites. I am more than willing to [... more]
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Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
Worthy of its place in the canon: How odd that Amazon does not consolidate the comments on the various editions of this book from different publishers. I read this book out of a certain sense of obligation -- I'd been reading other 19th century English [... more]
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Coriolanus (Signet Classics)
Shakespeare's Last Tragedy: An Overlooked Gem!!!: +++++ This play, written circa 1608, is the last of William Shakespeare's (1564 to 1616) eleven (some say ten) known tragedies. Even though it is known as a "Roman" or "political" play, [... more]
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Spoon River Anthology (Signet Classics)
We Are The Dead Of Spoon River...: Upon its release Edgar Lee Masters' collection of free verse poems must have shaken the literary universe. In an era when the mores of polite Victorianism were still lingering in an America concerned with all things [... more]
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The Paradiso (Signet Classics)
(STANDING OVATION): Travel to the most light-forbidden spot on Earth. Wait for night to fall. . . Look up at the sky. . . and count the stars. That's how many stars I'd give John Ciardi's wonderful translation of Dante's Paradiso (indeed, the whole [... more]
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Six Characters in Search of an Author (Signet Classics)
Pirandello's classic play, the first existentialist drama: Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play "Six Characters in Search of an Author" ("Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore") has the deserved reputation of being the first existentialist drama [... more]
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Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories (Signet Classics)
More Bang for your Buck with the Signet Classics volume: This Signet edition of Voltaire's finest works is THE Candide to buy. It has 15 other classic Voltaire works FIFTEEN!! Now that's a great deal without all the bells and whistles! I remember first [... more]
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Babbitt (Signet Classics)
Stands the Test of Time: I first read "Babbitt" in my mid-thirties, after trying to slog through one of John Updike's "Rabbit" novels and giving up out of sheer boredom. I knew that "Rabbit" was vaguely patterned on " [... more]
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Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories (Signet Classics)
More Bang for your Buck with the Signet Classics volume: This Signet edition of Voltaire's finest works is THE Candide to buy. It has 15 other classic Voltaire works FIFTEEN!! Now that's a great deal without all the bells and whistles! I remember first [... more]
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Washington Square (Signet Classics)
"You Can't Please Your Father and Me Both; You Must Choose Between Us...": Although Henry James is best known for The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics), this slender volume of a young woman's lifetime is one that resonates for the oddest [... more]
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The Purgatorio (Signet Classics)
Medieval vision of the afterlife: This was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history. "The Divine Comedy" describes Dante's journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso), guided first by the [... more]
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