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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 50 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
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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
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The Waves 33 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 ...
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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
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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?
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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?
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Ulysses 395 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 ...
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The Trial 40 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
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Vile Bodies 25 reviews Evelyn Waugh
Back Bay Books, 1999
Scintillating sarcasm
+ "Faster, faster!" + Funny And Sad + To Be "Vile" Is To Go Through Life Without Passion
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Essential Kierkegaard 5 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
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition 41 reviews Plato
Basic Books, 1991
Great Political Theory and Philosophy
+ Indispensable + Correcting two reviewers + Nice Translation! + Best Literal Translation
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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
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Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) 86 reviews Vladimir Nabokov
Everyman's Library, 1992
brilliant
+ everyman's decisions + Enjoyable at Multiple Levels + Mind bending!
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