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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) 146 reviews
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
A towering, very important American classic
+ Skeleton in the Closet
+ My perspective on Uncle Tom's Cabin
+ Incredible Classic Still Relevant Today
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Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999
Like Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.
+ A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-"
+ One of the best
+ Slaughterhouse-Five
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Brave New World 729 reviews
Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Open the book and open your eyes
+ This book is more enjoyable with some soma!
+ Frighteningly Prophetic
+ Dystopia, i long for thee
+ Good Book
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The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)22 reviews
T. S. Eliot
W. W. Norton, 2000
Edition Brings More to Wasteland
+ A review of the edition, not the poem
+ EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WASTELAND
+ Expand your understanding....
+ A Modernist Masterpiece
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
Hesperides Press, 2006
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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A Room with a View (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)118 reviews
E. M. Forster
Penguin Classics, 2000
"We were promised a room with a view..."
+ A beautiful story!
+ Adventure in Italy
After I saw the 1985 Merchant Ivory film, I was curious about the book. Its not often that the film is as good as the book, but in this it was, so faithfully adapted. When I got the book after seeing the film, I felt I was seeing the film again while reading, the film was sooo faithful to all the ...
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel169 reviews
David Mitchell
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004
Highly unique and worthwhile
+ When Humanity Consumes Itself
+ A Daring and Beautiful Novel
+ Rare Masterpiece
+ Interruptions and emancipations
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Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) 4 reviews
Virginia Woolf
Harvest Books, 2005
A League of Her Own
+ Terrible book- great edition
+ Nice Resource
+ Notice
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)17 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Penguin Classics, 2001
THE BEST EDITION OF THE PLAYS...
+ Partying and Good times and thoughtless happy endings... satirically?
+ The Importance of the whole Text
+ It Is Impotant To Be Earnest
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The Hours: A Novel533 reviews
Michael Cunningham
Picador, 2002
All in a Day
+ Beautifully Written and a Joy to Read
+ More than it's given credit for
+ an intriguing, multi-layered saga that Mrs Woolf would enjoy
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)239 reviews
James Joyce
Penguin Classics, 2003
Best Kindle edition of Joyce's "Portrait"
+ challenging but worth it
+ good intro to joyce
There are many editions of James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" available, but this is easily the best Kindle edition. The text is based on Chester Anderson's 1964 text. There are also a good number of annotations by Seamus Deane--fewer than in Anderson's Viking Critical ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)17 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Penguin Classics, 2001
THE BEST EDITION OF THE PLAYS...
+ Partying and Good times and thoughtless happy endings... satirically?
+ The Importance of the whole Text
+ It Is Impotant To Be Earnest
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Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated)4 reviews
Virginia Woolf
Harvest Books, 2005
A League of Her Own
+ Terrible book- great edition
+ Nice Resource
+ Notice
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The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)22 reviews
T. S. Eliot
W. W. Norton, 2000
Edition Brings More to Wasteland
+ A review of the edition, not the poem
+ EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WASTELAND
+ Expand your understanding....
+ A Modernist Masterpiece
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel169 reviews
David Mitchell
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004
Highly unique and worthwhile
+ When Humanity Consumes Itself
+ A Daring and Beautiful Novel
+ Rare Masterpiece
+ Interruptions and emancipations
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Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999
Like Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.
+ A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-"
+ One of the best
+ Slaughterhouse-Five
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics)146 reviews
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
A towering, very important American classic
+ Skeleton in the Closet
+ My perspective on Uncle Tom's Cabin
+ Incredible Classic Still Relevant Today
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A Room with a View (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)118 reviews
E. M. Forster
Penguin Classics, 2000
"We were promised a room with a view..."
+ A beautiful story!
+ Adventure in Italy
After I saw the 1985 Merchant Ivory film, I was curious about the book. Its not often that the film is as good as the book, but in this it was, so faithfully adapted. When I got the book after seeing the film, I felt I was seeing the film again while reading, the film was sooo faithful to all the ...
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
Hesperides Press, 2006
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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The Hours: A Novel533 reviews
Michael Cunningham
Picador, 2002
All in a Day
+ Beautifully Written and a Joy to Read
+ More than it's given credit for
+ an intriguing, multi-layered saga that Mrs Woolf would enjoy
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