Dubliners (Signet Classics)106 reviews James Joyce Signet Classics, 2007 Great Vignettes Of Dublin Life and A Great way to introduce yourself to James Joyce + INCLUDES "The Dead" + Irish Stew Admittedly Joyce's better known works can seem quite daunting to the uninitiated but here in these short character sketches a reader can begin to understand what all fuss is about and enjoy some wonderfully written short stories in the bargain. The stories are consistently good and from the very ...             Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)10 reviews James Baldwin Beacon Press, 1984 brilliant, vivid, and incisive insights that shd be read + Still Relevant After 40 Years + Baldwin is brilliant + Classic American essays + Greatest American book of essays written in the twentieth century             The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)39 reviews Homer Penguin Classics, 2006 Stick with Rieu's original... + A classic + = + Older and Wiser             Frankenstein (Signet Classics)319 reviews Mary Shelley Signet Classics, 2000 You've seen Karloff, now read the original + Promises kept + great story + I feel sorry... + Choose the 1818 version             Inferno (Modern Library Classics)106 reviews Dante Modern Library, 2003 A powerful translation of a masterpiece + Nice balance + One of the Best Translations + Mandelbaum for beauty, Hollander for notes, Esolen for arguments + Sets the bar high for future B&N Classics             Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)29 reviews William Shakespeare Washington Square Press, 2004 Can Love Conquer All? + Loved It + Shakespeare is forever + The supporting actors shine... + A Student's Review             A Raisin in the Sun139 reviews Lorraine Hansberry Vintage, 2004 What Happens To A Dream Deferred? + Great Book!! + Raw, Realistic Drama + Better than I was Expecting + Good book - better play             Aeschylus: Agamemnon (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)8 reviews Aeschylus Cambridge University Press, 2004 Superb, if a bit dogmatic. + Tragedy Personified + Quick and New + Deniston Page could not be better + Does Revenge Ever End?             The Crucible (Penguin Classics)48 reviews Arthur Miller Penguin Classics, 2003 The Devil is Precise + . + Courtesy of Mother Daughter Book Club.com + Prompt service + moving and thought-provoking             Night (Oprah's Book Club)629 reviews Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2006 Elie, a brave boy and a survivor + Scary reminder of what mankind is capable of + heart wrenching + The banal becomes terrifying, the terrifying becomes everyday "normal" + Human Words Cannot Convey the Story             Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead82 reviews Tom Stoppard Grove Press, 1994 Brilliant. + Rosencrantz & Gildenstern Are Dead + A grand aimlessness No mean to be offensive or anything, but I honestly feel that if people do not find R&G Are Dead hysterically funny and/or wonderfully ingenious, they have probably missed Stoppard's point in this play. This play was during the age known as Theatre of the Absurd, when ridiculous plots and ...             Lord of the Flies, Educational Edition3 reviews William Golding Faber and Faber, 2004 See it for what it is . . . + The Head of an Animal . . . + "All we have is the rules" Just a note that this particular book is a work of background and criticism ABOUT "Lord of the Flies" and not the novel itself, which has over 1,200 amateur reviews on Amazon.             The Great Gatsby1123 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner, 1999 As American as apple pie... + What Can I Add? + The Summer of '22 + The Great Gatsby + An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A"             The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Unabridged Classics)511 reviews Mark J. Twain Sterling, 2006 Great book! When addressing controversy think of context. + Finn & Sawyer Part 2 + Exceptional edition + Huckleberry Finn + Huck Finn             The Republic1 review Plato Yale University Press, 2006 Incredible This is the translation everyone should read. It's extremely easy to read and it turns the otherwise difficult dialogue in to a type of readable story line that keeps you interested in the mind blowing issues being discussed only a couple thousand years ago. This version definitely brings Plato's ...             Mother Courage and Her Children (Penguin Classics)1 review Bertolt Brecht Penguin Classics, 2007 An appalling translation What were Penguin thinking? "Mother Courage and her Children" is a German-language play set in the 1600s. There is therefore no excuse for having one character turn to another to say "Bob's your uncle" within the opening lines. When reading this play, we are supposed to be hearing the voices of ...             Dracula (Enriched Classics Series)17 reviews Bram Stoker Pocket, 2003 Excellent book + Dracula... Spooky Social Commentary + A True Classic + Amazing, Thrilling Tale             Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)34 reviews William Shakespeare Washington Square Press, 2003 If you want to read Shakespeare its has to be The new folger Library + Greatness + Review If you ever thought about reading Shakespeare but was turned off or intimidated by the old english, not so with the new folger editions. Your basically reading the play on all the right sided pages , with the left pages reserved for all the definitions and explanations of the sayings and words that ...             Beloved87 reviews Toni Morrison Vintage, 2004 Raw & Powerful + Oh My God! Are You Kidding Me? Toni's Morrison's Beloved is a hard, frustrating, and emotionally draining piece of literary art. Saying this, her prose is written like something I've never read. She throws you in the middle of the narrative and does not tell you why her characters are saying or acting like they are. It is a ...             Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Penguin Plays)18 reviews Athol Fugard Penguin (Non-Classics), 1984 The best play I've read + A rich, deeply moving play + Societal significance + great things come in small packages + a gripping look at racism's multiple victims