Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics)49 reviews Charles Dickens Modern Library, 2002 Filth and the Filthy Rich + Down by the river, up from the river + Great Book Club Read! + Dickens at his best             Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque1 review Edgar Allan Poe Kessinger Publishing, 2004 It has his good ones, and some surprising unknowns This book includes a few of Poe's best, but if you're looking for a collection of his most popular/best, this is not it. It has a few, but not all. It does have some really good, unknown short stories of his though. He sure is creepy.             The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)99 reviews Graham Greene Penguin Classics, 2003 A David Attenborough of the literary world. + A man on the way + Glorious human frailty + "One mustn't have human affections--or rather one must love every soul as if it were one's own child."             The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings (Signet Classics)10 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Signet Classics, 2005 Simply put : Timeless + Haunting exploration of the human heart and psyche. + disturbed book for the undisturbed Currently I'm taking a class in German, as is being taught by a professor from Germany. When pressed on what sorts of things might be a good read from the German catalogue, she pointed me towards the likes of Thomas Mann. Fortunately for me I'm bad with names. I went to the bookstore in search ...             The Book of The Thousand Nights And One Nights1 review Richard Francis Burton Assouline, 2006 Nice book, but not written by Richard Francis Burton I ordered this book primarily because of the illustrations by Leon Carre. I just purchased a tarot deck by Lo Scarabeo which featured his work from The Thousand and One Nights so I thought it would be interesting to see the originals. There are only a few illustrations in this book, and, note that ...             A Sicilian Romance3 reviews Ann Radcliffe Book Jungle, 2008 Mrs. Radcliffe and Monk Lewis + A good start for an author who will just get better... I've read all of Mrs. Radcliffe's novels, except for her last one. I must admit that this novel is not as good as The Mysteries of Udolpho. But I think when reading this novel it's important to keep in mind why Ann Radcliffe wrote it in the first place. It's impossible to appreciate Ann ...             The Stories of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Kessinger Publishing, 2005 Contents: A Day in the Country; Old Age; Kashtanka; Enemies; On the Way; Vanka; La Cigale; Grief; An Inadvertence; The Black Monk; The Kiss; In Exile; A Work of Art; Dreams; A Woman's Kingdom; The Doctor; A Trifling Occurrence; The Hollow; After the Theater; The Runaway; Vierochka; The Steppe; Rothschild's Fiddle.             Bliss & Other Stories (Wordsworth Collection) (Wordsworth Collection) Katherine Mansfield NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company, 1999             Heart of Darkness16 reviews Joseph Conrad Prestwick House Inc., 2004 a literary statement on colonial engagement + The Horror! The Over-Analyzed Horror! + Disturbing This is not an easy read. But I would read it just for the pleasure of language use. literary beauty it has. before the theoretical thinking on colonialism, turning native or fieldwork, this is a very early but sophisticated engagement in a novel form....             Clarissa, Or The History of a Young Lady: (Abridged Edition) (Signet Classics)45 reviews Samuel Richardson Signet Classics, 2005 Stick with it & it'll stick with you. + What a read! + If Clarissa is too hard for you,,,,try Sir Charles Grandison What a group of despicable characters! By page 500, I was hoping every character would be put to the rack. By page 1000, I was hoping for a mass hanging. By page 1500, I was willing to grant clemency to a few. Dozens of times I nearly relegated this book to the pile of books to be sent to an ...             The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics)20 reviews Oliver Goldsmith Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 "I . . . chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well." + A good story of 18th Century England + a spoof on sentimentalist fiction + The Vicar is a Swell Guy!             The Moonstone, A Romance (Clear Print) Wilkie Collins Echo Library, 2006 This clear print title is set in Tiresias 13pt font for easy reading             Howards End (Barnes & Noble Classics)6 reviews E.M. Forster Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003 Homecomings. + One of my favorites + A+ Novel + Who Will Inherit England? + "Only connect....."             Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)58 reviews Daniel Defoe Modern Library, 2001 A Classic + I guess I'm one of those obnoxious lovers of adventure + Captivating + Rich at many levels             Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman of Pleasure (Wordsworth Classics) (Wadsworth Classics) John Cleland Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2001 Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a best selling novel. Fanny's story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the form ...             Old Goriot (Penguin Classics) Honore de Balzac; Introduction-Marion Ayton Crawford Penguin Classics, 1972             Vathek,: An Arabian tale,8 reviews William Beckford Limited Editions Club, 1945 Beckford's Soulscape? + Time very well spent + An exotic dark fantasy + FANTASY / GOTHIC / ARABIAN NIGHTS             The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library (Cloth))109 reviews Edith Wharton Everyman's Library, 2008 Men, Women & Money in the 1900's + Transient Beauty + Old New York's pomp viewed with a sharp discerning eye + Good book for the genre + Struggle. Failure. Struggle...             The Christmas books of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens State Street Press, 2001             The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)260 reviews Oscar Wilde Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003 The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame + "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter"-Oscar Wilde + Further reading Wilde sees the world more clearly than any writer of fiction in the last century. It is for that reason that his work is so filled with countless paradoxes and contradictions that challenge the mind and titillate the senses. Wilde lived in an infinitely ironic age, when society had grown so ...