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Oliver Twist 2 reviews
Charles Dickens
Toby Press, 2003
A Compelling Story
+ A Classic!!!
"Oliver Twist" is an excellent, fascinating and compelling novel which I had the pleasure of reading. This book is exceptionally well narrated which distinguishes Dickens as one of the greatest English story writers. The issues he raised are timeless particularly societal issues pertaining to ...
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) 244 reviews
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
beowulf
+ Excellent Translation
+ Beowulf Review
+ "fate hovered near, unknowable but certain" (line 2421)
+ Sweet!
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Notes from a Small Island277 reviews
Bill Bryson
Harper Perennial, 1997
Bless Bill Bryson
+ Notes from a Gonna Be Big Author
If there is anyone out there who has never read Bill Bryson I urge you to start. His books will warm your heart and make you laugh out loud....you can't stay blue or depressed when you're engrossed in one of his works. In spite of his penchant for being an Anglophile (no doubt because he's married ...
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Brideshead Revisited111 reviews
Evelyn Waugh
Back Bay Books, 1999
Passion Thwarted
+ The original version
+ Irresistable Tides of Change....
+ Brideshead Revisited
+ Breath of Fresh Air
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London (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)20 reviews
DK Publishing
DK Travel, 2006
Loved this book
+ Great guide book
+ Traveling to London for the first time
I loved this book and it did give some good ideas where to visit.
Lovely colour maps showing walking tours.
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Readers Guide To Writers' Britain/Ne4 reviews
Sally Varlow, Varlow
Taschen, 2000
Enchanting
+ Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Rejoice!
+ A beautiful book for literature lovers
I bought Sally Varlow's book in 1997 in a bookshop in Groningen, Holland. It gives me, everytime I read it, very much pleasure. The beautiful pictures and illustrations makes it even nicer to read it. Very recommendable!
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The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Revised and Updated29 reviews
University of California Press, 2000
Beautiful coffee table book
+ Permanent part of my reference library
+ English regal history
+ The Lives of the Kings and Queends of England
+ Entertaining and Informative
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The Cultured Handmaiden: A Novel 2 reviews
Catherine Cookson
Simon & Schuster, 2005
fine English relationship drama
Her fiancé Ray Collard dumps twenty-one years old Jinny Brownlow insisting her roommate registered nurse Emily Houselea is much warmer. At work Jinny is part of the typing pool at Henderson & Garbrook Engineering when the senior partner Bob Henderson needs office assistant help with his long time ...
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)903 reviews
Jane Austen
Penguin Books, 2002
Boy oh boy was I ever wrong about Lady Jane!!!
+ Worth paying for on the Kindle
+ What a Year for the Bennets
+ as always, better than the movie
+ Pride and Prejudice
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Deluxe Edition65 reviews
William Shakespeare
Gramercy, 1990
Good ol' William
+ Terrific bargain
+ FABULOUS
It's taken me years to read plenty of Shakespeare, and there will probably always be something to read. He is the master of the drama and comedy.
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Sherlock Holmes : The Complete Novels and Stories (Bantam Classic) Volume I15 reviews
Arthur Conan Doyle
Bantam Classics, 1986
One of my favorite writers!
+ Care and competence equals quality construction and cozy familiarity
+ Rediscovering a great classic
+ The greatest Sherlock Holmes collection!
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Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories (Hilarious Stories)8 reviews
P. G. Wodehouse
Dover Publications, 1997
Wodehouse has hit his stride
+ Not the best, still hilarious
+ Wonderful Book
+ Brilliant early Wodehouse
+ Fun Reading
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A Reader's Guide to Writers' London
Ian Cunningham
Andre Deutsch, 2005
London has stimulated and fascinated writers from Chaucer, Dickens and De Quincey, to Orton, Orwell and more recently, Peter Ackroyd. Both a bedside companion and an imaginative travel guide, it leads you through the literary history of each district. Discover Boswell's Fleet Street, the Dickensian London of The Pickwick Papers and Little Dorrit and look at London Bridge through the eyes of T.S. ...
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems & Essays16 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1989
"I Hate It When Everyone Agrees With Me, For Then I Must Consider That I Might Be Wrong"
+ Magnificent!
+ no dates
The title says it all. This is THEE complete works of Ireland's gift to Victorian London. Wilde's plays, essays, poems, his sole novel, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and his last bitter work, De Profundus, (From The Depths) a letter to his lover and betrayer, Lord Alfred Douglas, is re-printed as ...
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Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City (National Geographic Directions) 10 reviews
Anna Quindlen
National Geographic, 2006
A delightful read
London looms large, in literature, in "real" life, and in the literary and cultural imagination. In this delightfully absorbing book, Quindlen, a former New York Times columnist, describes her first introduction to London-through books-and her second-on a book tour trip. She admits that she was ...
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)32 reviews
Charlotte Brontë, Michael Mason
Penguin Classics, 2003
I love this book
+ This is one of the great books for love, passion and characters.
+ Even better than I remembered
I read "Jane Eyre" because I'd had for a long time some vague sense that I'd like Jane Eyre as a character. And I was entirely right. I don't think I've ever quite connected so well with a character before - and I've never before understood so clearly why people still read great literature - ...
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Sherlock Holmes : The Complete Novels and Stories (Bantam Classic) Volume I15 reviews
Arthur Conan Doyle
Bantam Classics, 1986
One of my favorite writers!
+ Care and competence equals quality construction and cozy familiarity
+ Rediscovering a great classic
+ The greatest Sherlock Holmes collection!
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London (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)20 reviews
DK Publishing
DK Travel, 2006
Loved this book
+ Great guide book
+ Traveling to London for the first time
I loved this book and it did give some good ideas where to visit.
Lovely colour maps showing walking tours.
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems & Essays16 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1989
"I Hate It When Everyone Agrees With Me, For Then I Must Consider That I Might Be Wrong"
+ Magnificent!
+ no dates
The title says it all. This is THEE complete works of Ireland's gift to Victorian London. Wilde's plays, essays, poems, his sole novel, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and his last bitter work, De Profundus, (From The Depths) a letter to his lover and betrayer, Lord Alfred Douglas, is re-printed as ...
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Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories (Hilarious Stories)8 reviews
P. G. Wodehouse
Dover Publications, 1997
Wodehouse has hit his stride
+ Not the best, still hilarious
+ Wonderful Book
+ Brilliant early Wodehouse
+ Fun Reading
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