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Scarlet Letter (volume 5) (The Works Of Nathaniel Hawthorne (12 Volumes) 409 reviews
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Reprint Services Corp, 1999
A wonderful piece of literature, however
I completely agree with most HS students that this book should be optional reading for them because HS teachers should very well know that there are many different minds that need very different kinds of reading material and exposure to variety is not always a good thing that's why you end up having reviews of books like this by some HS students who puke on it rather then have savored it like I ...
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Woman In White; A Novel (part I) 109 reviews
Wilkie Collins
Reprint Services Corp, 1999
Thank you Matthew Broderick
I don't mind admitting that I discovered this book because I had read that Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker named their child Wilkie after Wilkie Collins, an author I had never heard of. I am a huge a Dickens fan, and when I read of his and Collins' connection after doing a little research, I bought the book, and I'm so glad I did. The reading experience I got from this book was off ...
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The Awakening 349 reviews
Kate Chopin
Reprint Services Corp, 1988
Great book
This is a great book written by a great author. Sad at times but extremely good writing. I also recommend Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl61 reviews
Harriet Jacobs
Reprint Services Corp, 1991
Excellent Book, and very moving.
This book is one of those books that have quite an affect on you. By the time I was done I had a bit more of knowledege of how slavery really was. Clearly I had no idea until I read it. I really wanted to cry so many times during the book.
Everyone should read this book.
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Picture Of Dorian Gray, The (BCL1-PR English Literature)248 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Reprint Services Corp, 1918
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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Le Morte D'Arthur66 reviews
Thomas, Sir Malory
Reprint Services Corp, 1930
Geoffrey of Lousiana
First of all,let me start by saying that Malory is the most essential and best of all the Arthurian works.
Secondly,I'm seriously considering teaching an informal class for local folks who would like to learn more about the Arthur cycle. I don't know everything, but I've studied the 17 books I have on the subject intensely.
With respect, does anyone out there have any advice for me? Thanks!
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Notable American Authors Series - Part I)146 reviews
George Aiken
Reprint Services Corp, 1852
Incredible Classic Still Relevant Today
This novel delivers the truth of the horrifying effects of slavery on both the slave and the master; delivering the message that slavery is damaging to society as a whole. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is a historic classic but it is also very relevant for today. I believe this novel should be read by everyone so that slavery will always be understood as a terrible and frightening condition that affects ...
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Jude The Obscure (Works of Thomas Hardy)135 reviews
Thomas Hardy
Reprint Services Corp, 2007
Unforgettable story and characters
Jude's life is short and miserable. His aspiration of becoming a scholar is thwarted when he is trapped into marriage by Arabella. But even without Arabella's manipulations, he is trapped in time, born many years too soon for the reality, instead of only the dream, that someone of a working class background can attend an institution of higher learning.
He remains a stonemason and eventually ...
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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave (Notable American Authors)75 reviews
Frederick Douglass
Reprint Services Corp, 1845
Essential
"I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death." Frederic Douglass
Frederic Douglass tells us the REAL story about slavery in early America. From the first page to the last, I was totally transfixed. There are so many things to admire about this great American. On top of being ...
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Moby Dick: or, The White Whale (Notable American Authors)317 reviews
Herman Melville
Reprint Services Corp, 1851
Moby Dick is a Whale of a Tale on many levels of literary brilliance
Herman Melville dedicated "Moby Dick" his 1850 epic masterpiece to his good friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Like that Salem sage, Sailor Melville was a man of dark brooding genius. Both of these men were opposed to the sanguine philsophy of transcendentalism whose chief exponents were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. And as Joseph Conrad explored the dark side of the human heart in "The ...
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography64 reviews
Booker T. Washington
Reprint Services Corp, 1991
The Force That Wins
Up from Slavery, autobiography by Booker T. Washington, is a true classic in African-American literature. Washington opens Chapter 1: "A Slave Among Slaves" with his vivid recollections as a Negro child growing up in the South: a slave on a plantation in Virginia, a white father he never knew, illiterate and living in horrid conditions. After the emancipation of slaves, Washington's family ...
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Common Sense (Notable American Authors)48 reviews
Thomas Paine
Reprint Services Corp, 1776
Best Edited COMMON SENSE on the market ... perhaps ever.
Larkin's treatment of Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE is one of the finest I've ever read -- and I have virtually everything ever written about Paine on my shelves. Superlatives don't really measure up to the full usefulness of this text, ESPECIALLY for educators.
Examples of the extraordinary contents include:
A cogent and accurate introduction to Paine and COMMON SENSE.
The text of ...
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Last Of The Mohicans (Notable American Authors Series - Part I)104 reviews
James Fenimore Cooper
Reprint Services Corp, 1826
The Noble Savage
"The Last of the Mohicans" is a novel for the ages and its hero Hawkeye is a man who teaches life lessons with each page you turn. Many people believe that this novel has outlived its worthiness but once turn of the pages will reveal to the reader a world that is both savage and young, characters that are both civilized and savage, and a story that harkens back to the beginnings of the new world. ...
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Turn Of The Screw (volume 12) (Notable American Authors)106 reviews
Henry, Jr. James
Reprint Services Corp, 1908
simply amazing i was spellbound
Two words, Holy Moly, this is definitely one of Henry James's masterpiece, concentrating on the Victorian era, the ambiguity of the vague responses given by his characters will keep us guessing until the very end on whether the protagonist is mentally unstable or not.
Taking place around the late 1900s in England, James centers his story on the diary of an unnamed governess. This piece is ...
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Little Women and Good Wives (Everyman's Library)269 reviews
Louisa May Alcott
Reprint Services Corp, 1989
Little Women
This is a classic we wanted our grand daughter to read. The illustrations are professional and wonderful
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Kim70 reviews
Rudyard Kipling
Reprint Services Corp, 1983
My Favorite Novel
After fifty plus years of reading, I think I can say that Kim is my favorite novel. I'm not sure it is the best novel I ever read, whatever "best" might mean, and it certainly isn't the most profound, but there is simply no other book I have enjoyed as much or have reread as often. Many other Amazon reviewers have said that they liked the book very much, often for different reasons: some like ...
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House Of The Seven Gables (volume 3) (The Works Of Nathaniel Hawthorne (12 Volumes)68 reviews
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Reprint Services Corp, 1999
More fun than I thought it would be
Purchased in anticipation of a trip to Salem, MA to visit the actual House of the Seven Gables, I have to admit that I enjoyed this book far more than I thought I was going to. Written in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is at once both a period romance and history of the Pyncheon family, focusing on a several week period of the lives of the current owner, Hepzibah Pyncheon, her brother ...
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The Age of Reason (Notable American Authors)110 reviews
Thomas Paine
Reprint Services Corp, 1794
Paine defended God's reputation
Given the vitriol with which Christians have denounced Thomas Paine for more than 200 years, one may be under the impression, as I was, that he was an atheist. He was generally denounced as such, and Theodore Roosevelt's reference to him as a "filthy little atheist" was not atypical. But upon actually reading this famous tome of his, I discovered he was in fact a devout man of God. It was only ...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court129 reviews
Mark Twain
Reprint Services Corp, 1988
Always
I have always received the best service when I have placed an order from you. Outstanding!!!!!
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The Varieties Of Religious Experience (Notable American Authors)46 reviews
William James
Reprint Services Corp, 1902
This Edition is Fine, Contrary to One Reviewer's Misplaced Assessment
This edition (Modern Library, 1999, 640 pp.) of James' classic is fine, contrary to the review from "a reader" (Washington, D.C.). That reviewer is apparently criticizing a different edition, "William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Centenary Celebration" (Hardcover) (edited by J. Carrette, published by Routledge in 2005). At 272 pages, the Routledge edition is seriously ...
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