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Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics) 899 reviews Jane Austen
Vintage, 2007
Justifiably a Classic
+ Pride & Prejudice--all time favorite book and movie + A Nice Novel + Classic + Awesome of course
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Lolita 15 reviews Vladimir Nabokov
Random House Audio, 2005
Yes, 5 stars but I COULD NOT FINISH
+ A pleasure for the Ears + Deliciously Naughty + a total mindfu- ...mind altering. + absolutely amazing
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The Lost World Arthur Conan Conan Doyle
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008
Boys are mysterious creatures, with rich imaginations and inner lives at which most can only guess. Luckily, a few writers have the talent to capture their fantasies of extraordinary adventure and epic bravery. Inspired by the success of The Dangerous Book For Boys , the six titles of the Penguin Great Books For Boys collection celebrate the adventurer within every boy with tales of shipwreck, ...
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited 44 reviews Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
Mood controlling pills and uniformity
+ Satirical Take on Utopia + perfect + Thought-provoking!
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Animal Farm 6 reviews George Orwell
1st World Library - Literary Society, 2004
Required Reading
+ Good Price-Shipping Was Slow + Incredibly Powerful + Back to Basics + love the fact that the publisher, 1stWorld Library has made the text slightly larger
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A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) 619 reviews Anthony Burgess
Penguin Classics, 2000
Fantastic, yet complicated
+ Fantastic novel + A Clockwork Orange + Good but have to work to get into
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The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition 57 reviews Upton Sinclair
See Sharp Press, 2003
The reason I pay my union dues
+ Important, not-to-miss + Jungle + Timeless Classic
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Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Classics) 72 reviews Joseph Conrad
Penguin Classics, 2007
a master of the English language
+ One of my favorites books + beware - romanticism + The best book on the nature of courage I've ever read + Moodily romantic
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Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) 16 reviews William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2003
Mac-Good for Mac-Shakespeare
+ Playwright vs. Poet: the Playwright wins. + Folger is a good series
I'll admit, it's hard for me to get into Shakespeare (so go stone me in the streets, you drama geeks). Yet, this play is a killer.....literally. I mean, they need to make this into a movie nowadays-all the battle scenes, all the drama, all the Scottish accents. This play is the epitome of ...
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The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) 30 reviews Dante Alighieri
NAL Trade, 2003
Three and a Half Years Later...
+ COMPLETE EDITION of the BEST RHYMING TRANSLATION! + Best Collection/Translation + Solid translation for a schizophrenic work! + Great read
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Beowulf (Signet Classics) 51 reviews Anonymous
Signet Classics, 1999
Beowulf
+ Classic + Far better than the movie ....
Excellent poem. It transmits through words very pure feelings and attitudes of men and societies already forgotten.
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Slaughterhouse-Five 704 reviews Kurt Vonnegut
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999
Well-Deserving of it's "Classic" Status
+ Slaughterhouse-Five + So it goes. + a short book about slaughter
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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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As You Like It (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) 4 reviews William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2004
All the world is a romantic comedy.
+ As You Like It + Outstanding tale of gender issues + Shakespeares' best romantic comedy
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As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) 190 reviews William Faulkner
Modern Library, 2000
Homegoing
+ A Grim, Morbid, and Compelling Tale + Now I can get them teeth... + As I Lay Dying
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The Jungle Book 1 review Rudyard Kipling
Palazzo Editions, 2007
The Real Thing
My favorite books from childhood have always been Milne's "The World of Pooh" and Kipling's "The Jungle Book". Over the years I have purchased many copies of each as presents. Both can be difficult to find in versions unaltered from the original. I have found this to be particularly true in the ...
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Henry IV, Part I (Folger Shakespeare Library) 3 reviews William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2004
Shakespeare did cliff-hangers?
+ Awesome + Falstaff and Short Lived Political Gratitude
No one told me Shakespeare did cliff-hangers! Why do high-school teachers and undergraduate professors hide the good stuff from us and force us to read the most painful and incomprehensible stuff?
Prince Henry Percy and his buddy Falstaff are hooligans getting up to the most deplorable ...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Great Books edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) 359 reviews Ken Kesey
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
One Flew East, One Flew West
+ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest + Must Have + great quality! + McMurphy as the Metaphor for the Terrorist Suspect
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The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 139 reviews Homer
Penguin Classics, 1998
nice
+ Faithful Rendition + The Iliad + A new perspective, a classic for the general reader
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) 54 reviews Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2003
`It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'
+ Rewarding + A Tale for our time...if you have the patience. + Long. Boring.
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