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The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) 11 reviews
Upton Sinclair
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003
Great Book
It was kind of a dark book in that it seems like nothing goes right for Jurgis, but it keeps you captivated because you keep wanting something to go right for him so that he can obtain the American dream. One of my favorites.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) 248 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003
A tale of pleasures without consequence
One of the great joys of fiction is the positive encouragement to discard the intentions of the author and draw out individual meaning from its pages. This positive fruition is exemplified quite extraordinarily by Oscar Wilde in `The Picture of Dorian Gray', as he weaves a tale of youth, corruption and disregarding hedonism.
The protagonist of the story is the youthful and worldly-naive ...
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A Room with a View (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)109 reviews
E. M. Forster
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
Modern school readers, STICK WITH IT!
We are spoiled by modern fiction. As great as the writing is, it is more straightforward and literal. Do you ever find yourself starting a classic and not finishing it??? You weren't getting into it immediately and lost interest. It can be the same with old movies. We watch through different eyes than the time when it was written or produced. My book club did this book this month. We all ...
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Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)50 reviews
Emily Bronte
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
It really helps!
This is one of the Best ways of learning SAT vocab, or simply vocab for your own personal gain. Read the classic work on the right, SAT words are bolded and defined on the left. The real kicker is that words are repeated throughout the book. After seeing words over and over you learn them extremly well. Great Concept, Great Study Aid, Great Book!
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) 129 reviews
Mark J. Twain
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
Always
I have always received the best service when I have placed an order from you. Outstanding!!!!!
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The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)44 reviews
W. E. B. Du Bois
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
Speaks The Truth To Power
In 1903, two years after Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up from Slavery", W.E.B. Du Bois published "The Souls of Black Folk", a series of essays which today most consider a seminal work in African-American Sociology literature. Du Bois view of race relations in American at the dawn of the 20th century was clear, critical and deeply profound.
Throughout the fourteen chapters Du Bois ...
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Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics)869 reviews
Jane Austen
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004
My favorite Jane Austen Book
If you have never read any of Jane Austen's books, I recommend you read this one. Definitely her masterpiece. Wonderful love story, great characters. You won't want to put it down.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)123 reviews
Jules Verne
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
Another Wonderful Adventure by Jules Verne
Note: Some immature Mormon has been slamming my reviews because I wrote some negative reviews of books attempting to defend the Book of Mormon.
So your "helpful" votes are greatly appreciated. A short review is not necessarily a bad review if it leads you to a great novel. I've just noted the general theme. Thanks
A group of adventures with an old map travel to Iceland and find a cave. ...
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The Poisonwood Bible (Barnes and Noble Reader's Companion) (Barnes & Noble Reader's Companion)1401 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver
Barnes & Noble, 2003
Amazing!
I started this book after I had surgery as a way to pass time and I regret not reading it earlier. Poisonwood Bible contains the rich story of a family of a reverend, his wife and four daughters. Each daughter brings her own perspective to the novel and I love the language and the plot itself. It rarely had a dull spot that didn't pertain to the plot or development of characters, which in a large ...
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics Series): An ... 12 reviews
Frederick Douglass
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
Worth Every Penny
I needed this book for an 11th grade summer assignment so I decided to purchase this version of the book. I loved how the price was good, and I loved the extra bits of information at the beginning of the book (like the timeline). I suggest anyone intrested in reading this book purchase this version...it definately was worth it!
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Mansfield Park (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)1 review
Jane Austen
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
Excellent
I think this is my favorite Jane Austen book so far, although I still have Persuasion and Northanger Abbey to read. Most Austen fans would not count Mansfield Park as a favorite, though, at least from what I've heard. It's not that it's a profoundly different book from the more popular Pride & Prejudice or Sense & Sensibility, but many people seem to dislike the main character, or at least are ...
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The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)11 reviews
Edith Wharton
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004
Wharton's Masterpiece
Edith Wharton escapes from a tendency to melodrama (a problem of her era) to create her masterpiece novel "Age of Innocence." Set in post-Civil War New York, she deliniates the mores and customs of the New York Social List with care and depth.
Newland Archer is the protagonist, a true Greek tragic hero with a flaw. While Newland is a most upright, conventional young man, he harbors an urge to ...
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The Red Tent (Barnes and Noble Reader's Companion) (Barnes & Noble Reader's Companion)1395 reviews
Anita Diamant
Barnes & Noble, 2003
The Red Tent
I first read this book about 5 years ago. Have been captivated by it ever since. So captivated by it that I sort of read it like I do my Bible. I'll pick it up and begin to read where it falls open. I'm always up to date with exactly where I start and like my children's favorite books, there are sections that I almost know by heart. I try to encourage all my 'reader' friends to expose ...
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Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics)5 reviews
Jane Austen
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
Absolutely delightful
I approached this book somewhat warily, knowing that Northanger Abbey was to some degree a satirical take on the immense popularity of Gothic romances such as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, a book I dearly love. Happily, Austen's means of poking fun at Gothic horror literature are far from mean-spirited and, as a matter of fact, can be delightfully humorous indeed. Her heroine, ...
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Sister Carrie (Barnes & Noble Classics)105 reviews
Theodore Dreiser
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
Fractured Fairy Tale and/or Horror Story on Capitalism
"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth." Mahatma Gandhi
"She (Carrie Meeber) wanted pleasure, she wanted position, and yet she was confused as to what these things might be." p. 145 "Sister Carrie"
Critics may scoff at the immorality of the main characters, the persistently subtle, yet always stinging slams at ...
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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking415 reviews
Allen Carr
Barnes Noble Books
Finally FREE
I read all of the reviews. Ordered this book (paid to have it delivered in one day). Started reading it on the day it arrived, and had my last cigarette upon finishing the book the following morning. I smoked for 20+ years, a pack a day, and never, ever thought I would be free from smoking. I am now only on day 4 of being a non-smoker -- but have absolutely no desire to ever have another ...
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All quiet on the western front (Barnes & Noble modern classics)449 reviews
Erich Maria Remarque
Barnes & Noble, 2002
Like A Kick To The Groin
In my own way, I'm an academic. I don't write "reviews," really -- I write essays. It's my training.
But I don't have much analysis for All Quiet on the Western Front. This novel is a swift kick to the genitalia -- it is hard, brutal and painful, and you'll feel it for a while.
It is about the every-man soldier fighting through the trenches of WWI. It is also about his internal life, and ...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume II129 reviews
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003
Sherlock Holmes can do no wrong
This is a classic. Sherlock Holmes is my favorite detective of all time and this book will have a permanent place in my library. I do not mind the small print. I love the convenience of having all his works in one volume.
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