The Conspiracy
 Watergate in Rome: It's inevitable for people to compare John Hersey's The Conspiracy to Thornton Wilder's Ides of March or Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God. The comparisons are apt: all three authors used their extensive knowledge of [... more]
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A bell for Adano
Great Read: I read this back in High School in the sixties. I recently saw the movie and remarked how I did not remember much of anything about it, so I got the book and read it. It is an easy read and quite entertaining. The movie is excellent but the [... more]
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A Tale of Poor Lovers (Voices of Resistance)
Author: Vasco Pratolini Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 853.912 EAN: 9780853457237 ISBN: 0853457239 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: 1988-06-01 [... more]
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A Single Pebble
Not Among Hersey's Greatest Works: Many of Hersey's other books are moving, memorable stories. A Bell for Adano and Hiroshima are among Hersey's best, and these books should be read by any well-rounded individual. A Single Pebble, however, is more [... more]
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A Bell for Adano
Great Read: I read this back in High School in the sixties. I recently saw the movie and remarked how I did not remember much of anything about it, so I got the book and read it. It is an easy read and quite entertaining. The movie is excellent but the [... more]
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Amazon.com Review: Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to [... more]
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A Single Pebble
Not Among Hersey's Greatest Works: Many of Hersey's other books are moving, memorable stories. A Bell for Adano and Hiroshima are among Hersey's best, and these books should be read by any well-rounded individual. A Single Pebble, however, is more [... more]
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The Wall
Huge, Haunting, and Heroic: This is John Hersey's stunning novel about the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during WW II. It's a huge, sprawling book, and revolves around upwards of fifty different characters in their struggle to survive Nazi atrocities within [... more]
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Antonietta
TRULY DISAPPOINTING: John Hersey was a wonderful author and so I really expected more from Antonietta. What began as a whimsical flight into fantasy quickly goes downhill after the first section. Unfortunately, it continued its downhill slide, with each [... more]
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Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Library of America)
America the beautiful?: Both Mainstreet and Babbitt are critical and realistic apraisels of life in America. More specifically mid-western America. Carl Van Doren commented saying,"Not one of them ( the contemporaries of Lewis) has kept so close to [... more]
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Key West Tales: Stories
Can I give it 0 stars?: What the hell was this? I think this has got to be one of the most boring books on the planet. I was looking forward to some short stories so I could read quickly in my lunch break but after skimming through the first 3 pages and [... more]
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Hiroshima (Armas Y Letras) (Spanish Edition)
Amazon.com Review: When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, few could have anticipated its potential for devastation. Pulitzer prize-winning author John Hersey recorded the stories of Hiroshima residents shortly after the explosion and, in 1946, [... more]
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