Moby Dick, or The Whale: Volume Six: 150th Anniversary Edition (Melville) Herman Melville Northwestern University Press, 2001 This edition of "Moby-Dick", released in honour of the book's 150th anniversary, is the authoritative text of one of the world's great adventure stories. A crew of whalers set out in pursuit of a fierce white whale. Their names ring through the canon of American literature: Ishmael, the narrator; Queenqueg, a South Seas harpooner; Starbuck, the sober and serious chief mate; and above all Captain ...             The Brothers Karamazov111 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Perhaps the best novel ever written in the history of mankind + The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky + A Literary Masterpiece + Bothers Karamazov + Dark and Beautiful             Crime and Punishment36 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky Vintage, 1993 Crime and Punishment + A true masterpiece + Awesome Insight into the mind and heart of a criminal + Masterful work, worthy of every accolade it's received, and worthy of accolades it has yet to receive.... + One of my favorites             Demons31 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky Vintage, 1995 Demons is a devil of a read on Russian angst/nihilism by the master Dostoevsky + Evil defined + great + Dostoyevsky's toughest nut to crack + Not for casual reading...             Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)10 reviews Emily Bronte W. W. Norton, 2002 "Why did you betray your heart, Cathy?" + Book Review + A classic + Beautiful gothic romance             War and Peace63 reviews Leo Tolstoy Knopf, 2007 Nothing more to be said + Essential -- a staggering achievement + the very best + The drums of war, then as now, beat out the same sad tune. + The Tao of Love and War             Faust: A Tragedy (Norton Critical Editions)6 reviews Johann Wolfgang von Goethe W. W. Norton, 2000 Five bright stars. + Incredible...absolutely incredible + Amazing + Greatest Piece of Western Literature             Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection (Oxford World's Classics)2 reviews Hans Christian Andersen Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Fairy Tales for All Ages + 12 short stories This is an extremely readable selection of 26, out of about 156, of Hans Andersen tales. As the brief but very fine and helpful introduction by Naomi Lewis points out, these tales are perhaps more for adults than children, as Andersen himself wanted them to be. Most of them have a darker side. I ...             Red and Black: A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism1 review Stendhal W. W. Norton & Company, 1969 A colourful tale... Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) is a classic novel that was very important to me in early formation of directions in life. I found I could identify quite strongly with Julien Sorel, who wanted a better life, a life of meaning and importance, and was torn about which direction ...             Great Expectations3 reviews Charles Dickens W. W. Norton, 1999 One of the Greatest Novels Ever Written + Norton Critical strikes again + Great Expectations Why do I come here to "review" this? It isn't anyone's book club selection, no. But tonight I want to talk about this incomparably rich and wonderful book, and how as a fourteen year old kid I simply sank into it, taking it slowly week by week, glorying in its mysteries, its great grotesque ...             Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)95 reviews Jonathan Swift W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 Fellow Yahoos, read this book! + Review of Gullivers Travels + Excellent book, not so good edition. + NOT Bringing Home the Bacon! + Parody of man             The Idiot24 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky Vintage, 2003 is it ironic, or pragmatic? + Good + Was prince Myshkin really a positively beautiful individual????? + Personal Favorite Dostoevsky             Leaves of Grass, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)69 reviews Walt Whitman W. W. Norton, 2002 What book will you get when you order this? + The original lean, bursting on the scene, Whitman + Excellent edition of Whitman's Masterwork There seems to be some confusion, both in the editorial reviews and the customer reviews, about what edition is being referred to in this listing. the first editorial review correctly discusses the first edition as shorter and "less bloated" than the deathbed edition. however, the rest of the ...             The Canti With a Selection of His Prose: With a Selection of His Prose (Centenary Edition)3 reviews Giacomo Leopardi Carcanet Press,, 1998 This Leopardi is much preferable to Lockert Library version. + Cosi` tra questa immensita` s'annega il pensier mio... + Finally, a readable and reliable version of complete poetry! This English version is of the COMPLETE poems, not just a selection, like that published by Princeton as part of its Lockert Library series. Moreover, this translation by Nichols is far more accurate, formal, and literal than the loose and slangy "translations" by Eamon Grennan. Leopardi is a ...             Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)197 reviews Gustave Flaubert Bantam Classics, 1982 Wow, what a prescient novel + You Play, You Pay + Humanity Captured in Prose + Over the years... still a great book             Pride and Prejudice (Norton Critical Editions)903 reviews Jane Austen, Donald J. Gray W. W. Norton & Company, 2000 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             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.             A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics)26 reviews Gustave Flaubert Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Flaubert's Sentimental Education: one reason why life's worth living. + Comment dites voux "Love Stinks"? + A novel about unfulfilled promise "I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation-- or, more accurately, the history of their feelings. It's a book about love, about passion; but passion such as can exist nowadays--that is to say, inactive." --Flaubert on Sentimental Education. Best known for his novel, Madame ...             Pere Goriot (Norton Critical Editions)3 reviews Honoré de Balzac W. W. Norton, 1997 Caffeine Inspired Realism + Peerless + The quality of Balzac You know right away that de Balzac is an author of realism when, at the start of the book, he takes you on a five page tour of the first floor of Madame Vauquer's Parisian boarding house. One immediately realizes that sanitation standards for such accommodations were seriously lacking. The dining ...             Ibsen's Selected Plays (Norton Critical Editions)1 review Henrik Ibsen W. W. Norton, 2003 Another great Norton Critical Edition You have here the essential Ibsen plays and some of the best criticism in one place; an invaluable resource, but more than that, a really enjoyable read.