The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson50 reviews
Emily Dickinson

Back Bay Books, 1976

Great collection of poetry!

+ True Dickinson fans....
+ One of the best poetry collections around
+ Your thoughts don't have words every day...
+ Emily's Full Collection
  
  











  



  
Emma (Penguin Classics)208 reviews
Jane Austen

Penguin Classics, 2003

Emma Woodhouse

+ Romantic Mystery
+ A Good Start To My Austen Book Craze
+ Comedy of Errors on a Georgian Stage
  
  











  



  
The Waves33 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 1950

Pam "Book Club Sin Nombre"

+ Woolf's response to Plato
+ A glorious book

Our book club in Cancun read it for April. We can be a critical group, but this one received nothing but praise from those of us who actually FINISHED it. Through the night the message was "It's well worth it! Stick with it!" It is confusing at the beginning for those of us who've been reading ...
  
  











  



  
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)900 reviews
Jane Austen

Penguin Books, 2002

Boy oh boy was I ever wrong about Lady Jane!!!

+ Pride & Prejudice--all time favorite book and movie
+ A Nice Novel
+ Classic
+ Justifiably a Classic
  
  











  



  
Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)8 reviews
Stella Gibbons

Penguin Classics, 2006

Rural Gothic

+ Cold Comfort Farm warms you in all the right places
+ Wonderful.
+ cold comfort farm
+ Remember those books you hated reading in Eng. Lit?
  
  











  



  
In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)18 reviews
Marcel Proust

Modern Library, 2003

The most important literary work of the 20th century

+ you will never view life the same again
+ Mimesis of Man's Minutes, Memory and More
+ Review Proust? You are kidding right?
  
  











  



  
Ulysses395 reviews
James Joyce

Vintage, 1990

Ten Reasons to Re-read Ulysses

+ Amazon Recommends I: James Joyce's Ulysses
+ Mount Everest for Readers

1. When you tried it in college, it was a task, a challenge, an intellectual mountain to climb, a test of your literary mettle. Perhaps if you read it apart from any course, as I did, you felt you failed. 2. In the intervening time you've read perhaps hundreds of Modernist and post-modernist ...
  
  











  



  
The Trial40 reviews
Franz Kafka

Schocken, 1999

Was it really an unfinished business????

+ One of the most important writers of the 20th century
+ What a wonderful nightmare!
+ great thinker, creative writer
  
  











  



  
Vile Bodies25 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Back Bay Books, 1999

Scintillating sarcasm

+ "Faster, faster!"
+ Funny And Sad
+ To Be "Vile" Is To Go Through Life Without Passion
  
  











  



  
The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)406 reviews
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Penguin Classics, 2002

A wonderful piece of literature, however

+ One of the best novels ever
+ Sin, Redemption
+ Hawthorne's Masterpiece
+ Useful for AP Lit
  
  











  



  
The New Testament: The King James Version (Everyman's Library)3 reviews
Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library, 1999

a great Christian work

+ Majestic!

Some would say that the AV1611 is the Only True Word of God. I don't agree with that position, but I do think the KJV Bible is an amazing accomplishment, gathering some of the great minds of 16th century Britain and creating a literary masterpiece that gives great glory to God. If you read other ...
  
  











  



  
A Passage to India (Everyman's Library (Cloth))99 reviews
E. M. Forster

Everyman's Library, 1992

East and West Can Never Meet

+ There is beauty here.

Almost a century after the book's publication the most crucial problems it discussed are as current as they were during Forster's life. The impossibility of communicating across the divide of culture, religion, and race, seems to be even more alive then when he saw it. The value of the novel lies ...
  
  











  



  
The Essential Kierkegaard5 reviews
Soren Kierkegaard

Princeton University Press, 2000

The Master of Irony

+ May the laughter by on your side
+ haven't read this particular edition of Kierkegard
+ Excellent Anthology
  
  











  



  
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)121 reviews
Charles Dickens

Penguin Classics, 2002

Great

+ Must Read Victorian Novel
+ A Novel of tears as well as laughter. An enjoyable classic.
+ Expectations Greatly Exceeded
  
  











  



  
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)51 reviews
Emily Brontė, Pauline Nestor

Penguin Classics, 2002

This Heathcliff Is No Pussy!

+ Interesting Relationships
+ A great read.

(Like the curmudgeonly CAT in the COMIC...get it?) Great old-style classic novel. One of Henry Miller's favorites; that's what attracted me to it. I liked the style of the narrative, largely told through the reminiscences of the housekeeper Nelly. This is one dysfunctional family! Like ...
  
  











  



  
Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)11 reviews
Leo Tolstoy

Penguin Books, 2003

Sense of Self

+ Anna Karenina
+ The Greatest Novel of all Time
+ Fate and love, ultimately lead to Anna's undoing
+ A pleasure to read
  
  











  



  
Persuasion (Penguin Classics)26 reviews
Jane Austen

Penguin Classics, 2003

Follow your heart (while you're still pretty)

+ I am a Jane Austen addict
+ Delightful character analysis
+ Another Enjoyable Austen
+ For Austen Lovers
  
  











  



  
The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition41 reviews
Plato

Basic Books, 1991

Great Political Theory and Philosophy

+ Indispensable
+ Correcting two reviewers
+ Nice Translation!
+ Best Literal Translation
  
  











  



  
Between the Acts (Annotated)10 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 2008

Save The Best For Last

+ Interesting, But The Least Engaging Of Woolf's Work
+ The summing up
+ A work of mature genius by a great writer
  
  











  



  
Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))86 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov

Everyman's Library, 1992

brilliant

+ everyman's decisions
+ Enjoyable at Multiple Levels
+ Mind bending!