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Girls: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

32 reviews
Frederick Busch

Ballantine Books, 1998

Exploring Human Suffering
What a troubled world we live in! Mr. Busch takes us into a world where girls are abducted and murdered, a story told from the perspective of a man troubled by his own secrets and his own loss, who is called upon to assist the family of a girl who disappeared. The story of what might be an abduction unfolds, evoking in Jack, the main protagonist, memories of his own unresolved tragedy. We ...

The Night Inspector (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

33 reviews
Frederick Busch

Ballantine Books, 2000

Affection & Intimacy Transcend Life's Harsh Realities
Busch's manuscript in this book is perhaps his finest piece of work. The story is all about murder, slave trade, insensitivity, selfishness and greed. The manner in which these things are told, conveyed, if you will, with a tenderness and affection that is unexpected and charmingly loving, is truly entrancing to the reader. Busch's protagonist has suffered more than most Civil War veterans. ...

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories

158 reviews
Charles Dickens

Signet Classics, 2008

Nice Story
Cute book to add to my table of Christmas Stories. Will make a cute addition this Christmas.

Oliver Twist (Signet Classics)

139 reviews
Charles Dickens

Signet Classics, 2005

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted ...
What is it about Oliver Twist that keeps people coming back to it so often and for so long? Oliver Twist is actually one of my favourite all-time reads. I try to read it once every few years, and every time I decide to re-read it, I go in search of a copy that I don't already own because it's fascinating the different publishers, typefaces, bindings etc, that this book has gone through. Maybe I'm ...

The Georgia Review Volume LI, Number 1: Spring 1997
Alvin Greenberg, Ihab Hassan, ...

University of Georgia, 1997

Featured in this issue: Alvin Greenbergs The Music of Silence Ihab Hassans. The Expense of Spirit in Postmodern Times Veronica Pattersons Comfort Me with Apples Scott Russell Sanders The Power of Stories Ralph Thurstons A Habit of Distrust FICTION by Steven Almond, Frederick Busch, Phil Condon, & Kent Meyers POETRY by Wayne Dodd, Patricia Sullivan Gaston, William Heyen, Andrew Hinton, Jane Hirshfield, Peter Mcinke, Elizabeth ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics)

126 reviews
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Signet Classics, 1986

A Curse on the Aristocracy
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson discuss what can be deduced from a walking stick left behind by a visitor. When the visitor returns he tells of the old legend about the hound of the Baskerville family, and how Sir Charles Baskerville died recently. Dr. James Mortimer found the footprints of a gigantic hound twenty yards from the body! There have been sightings of a huge hound on the moors at ...

A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics)

381 reviews
Charles Dickens

Signet Classics, 1997

Epic tale of the Human Spirit
Was Charles Dickens a poet? Conversely, perhaps his structure and style are no longer suited to today's rushed lifestyle, as some reviewers lament. I believe Dickens is one of the most magnificent story tellers ever to put pen to paper, portraying vivid landscapes that are often as vital as his characters in affecting events. Dickens, like Shakespeare, could never be told in TV length ...

Hard Times (Signet Classics)

67 reviews
Charles Dickens

Signet Classics, 2008

Hard Times is Dickens shortest novel as it takes the lid off respectability in ficitional Coketown
Hard Times was written in 1854 by England's greatest novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870. It is the shortest of his novels. The novel was originally published as a weekly series in "Household Words" periodical edited by Dickens. The novel reads quickly telling a story that is still relevant in our own post-industrial 21st century Western Society. The novel is set in fictional Coketown set in ...

A Tale of Two Cities: 150th Anniversary (Signet Classics)
Charles Dickens

Signet Classics, 2007

150TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION With dramatic eloquence, this story of the French Revolution brings to life a time of terror and treason, and a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime.

Don't Tell Anyone: Fiction

3 reviews
Frederick Busch

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Another First Rate Book by Busch!
This collection of sixteen short stories and a novella is yet another first-rate effort by Frederick Busch. His characters have the kind of humanity that make them seem deeply real, with lives so flawlessly imagined that you can be swept away by them. Even if the short stories weren't so good (and believe me, they are excellent), it would be worth reading this book just for the novella "A ...

A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life

5 reviews
Frederick Busch

Broadway, 1999

very informative
You should read this book if you are a beginning writer who wants assurance that others too have written and been rejected over and over again. IF you think you would like to be a novelist to have glamour, fame, and fortune, than read on so that you can persuade yourself to go into another line of work. Frederick Busch knows about the dangers of writing, he is a best selling author of ...

Quarterly Review of Literature (XIV)
Peter Weiss, Max Aub, ...

Bard College, 1967

Very nice for its age. Very minor water damage, yellowing due to age.

The Mutual Friend
Frederick Busch

Harper & Row, 1978

Using several different narrative voices, He reconstructs Charles Dickens's last years, his final American reading tour, the resolution of his affair with Ellen Ternan, the strain of maintaining his larger-than-life persona.

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