Alexander Solzhenitsyn
 divOne of the most important literary biographies of recent times, this is not only the story of one of the century's greatest writers, but the history of Russia itself.brbrA rare combination of exhaustive research and novelistic style,iAlexander [... more]
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The Japanese Tattoo
Terrible writing and poor picture quality: On the good side, Amazon service was just as great as ever in delivering this book. On the bad side (and there are several) this book had a cheap feel about it just from opening the packaging. Reading the [... more]
$27.50
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New Worlds: An Anthology
DIVFrom its beginnings as a fanzine before World War II,iNew Worlds/istruck out on a different path. In the postwar years, under the editorial direction of Michael Moorcock, the magazine published more award-winning stories than any other science fiction [... more]
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Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
A wonderful book of lyric poetry: Anna Akhmatova was one of the century's greatest lyric poets. D. M. Thomas has selected a fine overview of her poetic accomplishment, and translated the poems stunningly: both lyric cadences and the quality of spoken [... more]
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Amazon.com Review: Russian writer/moralist Alexander Solzhenitsyn is not pleased about this biography that draws on interviews with his first wife. Nonetheless, British novelist D. M. Thomas views Solzhenitsyn throughout with sympathy, depicting a [... more]
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For the Love of Books
Amazon.com Review: William Faulkner. Great Expectations. Marcel Proust. Moby Dick. Mark Twain. War and Peace. Virginia Woolf. Ulysses. Ernest Hemingway. They all show up repeatedly in For the Love of Books, for which each of 115 writers was asked to [... more]
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The White Hotel
an excellent novel, an ugly, uninspired cover: i read this years ago and was looking to pick up a new copy. an excellent, disturbing novel. moving, thought provoking. but i have to say, if the publisher bothers to read these reviews, i think the cover is [... more]
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Pictures at an Exhibition
Read it again, this time more carefully....: After reading this book, I was curious as to how other people received it. I remember the problems many people had with the White Hotel and I wondered if similar issues or concerns would be repeated again. The [... more]
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For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the ...
Amazon.com Review: William Faulkner. Great Expectations. Marcel Proust. Moby Dick. Mark Twain. War and Peace. Virginia Woolf. Ulysses. Ernest Hemingway. They all show up repeatedly in For the Love of Books, for which each of 115 writers was asked to [... more]
$13.00
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life
Amazon.com Review: Russian writer/moralist Alexander Solzhenitsyn is not pleased about this biography that draws on interviews with his first wife. Nonetheless, British novelist D. M. Thomas views Solzhenitsyn throughout with sympathy, depicting a [... more]
$29.95
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Kaputt (New York Review Books Classics)
Amazon.com Review: Curzio Malaparte spent most of World War II as an Italian consul to other fascist states: Germany, Romania, Finland. His novelistic account of the war, surreptitiously written, presents the conflict from the point of view of those [... more]
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Anna Akhmatova: Selected Poems
A wonderful book of lyric poetry: Anna Akhmatova was one of the century's greatest lyric poets. D. M. Thomas has selected a fine overview of her poetic accomplishment, and translated the poems stunningly: both lyric cadences and the quality of spoken [... more]
$17.95
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