Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics)508 reviews Mark J. Twain Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004 Eli Sashihara writes: + Huckleberry Finn + Huck Finn + Required Reading + Perfect for Teachers             A Mummer's Tale1 review Anatole France BiblioBazaar, 2007 Brilliantly-written and a superb old novel Jealousy, theater, joy, church, affairs, revenge, tragedy, stalking, suicide, and much more can be found herein! A young man is quite amourous toward a gregarious, young stage actress but she leads him on. He's also burdened with a solid competitor for her affections. The young man's emotional ...             The Adventures of Captain Horn (Notable American Authors)1 review Frank Richard Stockton Reprint Services Corp, 1999 High adventure and treasure! I have no idea why this novel never surpassed "Treasure Island" as a literary success because it's really so much better than that well-known, fine tale! This is a very old book, originally published in 1895 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Here, Captain Horn, his small crew (the ones which survive), ...             Fathers and Sons76 reviews Ivan Turgenev Signet Classics, 2005 The previous generation is always stupid! + One of the most meaningful novels ever written + Family Values + A good one             RUSSIA AND JAPAN and a Complete History of the War in the Far East.1 review Frederic William Unger with Charles Morris. Published in 1904. 480p, plates., 1904 A period account of this little-known war The little-known (in the U.S.) Russo-Japanese War was predominantly a naval conflict in terms of the resulting victor nation, which was Japan. However, there were numerous brutal land incursions on the Asian continent such as The Battle of the Yalu River and the Battle of Mukden. The fighting on ...             Dead Souls: A Novel33 reviews Nikolai Gogol Vintage, 1997 Dead Souls: Translation is Everything + An Incredibly Funny Social Satire + definitely worth a read! + A Charming Russian Masterpiece + Russian satire at its best.             The Pool in the Desert (Broadview Literary Texts)1 review Sara Jeannette Duncan Broadview Press, 2001 A delightful read for today's women! I'm a man, but I much enjoyed it too! Here, we have 4 novellas (or, short stories) in a compendium, all written by a gal who was much ahead of her time (late 1800s-early 1900s) in terms of lifestyle and personal vision. Author Sara Jeannette Duncan was a very independent Canadian newpaper ...             The Deerslayer (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)2 reviews James Fenimore Cooper Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005 "We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness." In THE DEERSLAYER, Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo, mythic hero of the LEATHERSTOCKING TALES, only 18 or 20 years old, steps self-confidently into world literature. He will reappear in one sequel and three prequels by James Fenimore Cooper. Mr Bumppo begins the novel styled "Deerslayer," appropriate to a ...             Secret City1 review Hugh Walpole IndyPublish.com, 2006 The Secret Plot..... I eagerly purchased this book after reading the description on the back. It purported to be Walpole's 'masterpiece' according to the Daily Telegraph, and apparently was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1919. Set at the time of the Russian revolution (for clarity, the ...             The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)10 reviews Joseph Conrad Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 A Secret Agency + It will not dissapoint you. + A Prophetic Tale Conrad still suffers today from the same pigeon-hole that his writing was pounded into during his own lifetime. He is still seen as harbinger of distant seas, of the exotic, the foreign. He is best known for Heart of Darkness, a book immortalized in pop culture by Francis Ford Coppola's ...             The Island of Doctor Moreau75 reviews H. G. (Herbert George) Wells Hard Press, 2006 A freaky tale of man playing God. + perfect + Hard to believe this was published in 1896 + Classic Science Fiction + A classic good enough for the video game generation             Oblomov21 reviews Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov Bunim & Bannigan Ltd, 2006 Oblomov is Goncharov's Masterpiece of a lethargic Russian couch potato! + Good, but not as good as they say + A memorable player in the Human Comedy + The Best Translation + Eats shoots and translates             Inspired ByThe Bible Experience: Companion Bible6 reviews Zondervan, 2007 Holy Bible: Today's New International Version, Black/Lime, Italian Duo-tone, The Bible Experience Companion Bible + Powerful + Wonderful + Companion Bible + Bible Experience Companion Bible             Memoirs Of A Revolutionist3 reviews Peter Kropotkin Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007 History will prove this man more foresighted than we know! + Brilliant! + A little more background This intelligent and kind man all too often falls through the cracks of history. People forget that there was a completely different school of socialist thought that existed concurrently with the ideas of Marx. Kropotkin, like many others who believed in the ability of people to make their own ...             Gilgamesh10 reviews Vintage, 1985 Unfiltered translation and insightful commentary + Best Translation Possible + A wonderful story, among the oldest known + Beginning and End of literature + Great translation of a beautiful epic             Tortilla Flat104 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin (Non-Classics), 1977 Excellent and moving + Rookie Home Run + A Short Novella - And Buy It Bundled with Other Works + beautiful + Not Quite Camelot             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             The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes9 reviews Arthur Conan Doyle Castle Books, 1980 Simply magnificent! + More than elementary + Extensive Collection + Doyle and Paget are Unbeatable + Nice edition to Read and to Keep             Grimm's Fairy Tales3 reviews State Street Press Edwards Brothers, Inc., 2001 Read to your kids! + Expand Your Imagination This is a great book to read to your kids at bedtime, (but I will warn you that some of the stories are a little scary -- you can save those ones for other reading times). It's a large compendium of short fairy tales, mostly about three pages each in length. It has a nice typeface for reading ...             Kim (Penguin Classics)74 reviews Rudyard Kipling Penguin Classics, 1987 A wonderful but somewhat esoteric story of India + Kim: East and West in combination Kim is the most popular of Rudyard Kipling's novels and has received both critical acclaim and negative reviews over the years. Both assessments are valid to some degree. On the positive side, Kipling has written what is acknowledged to be the best description of colonial India ever created by a ...