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Don Quixote 85 reviews
Miguel De Cervantes
Harper Perennial, 2005
Without discretion there can be no humor
+ One of the best books ever written
+ The grandeur of madness
+ GREAT!
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To Kill a Mockingbird1762 reviews
Harper Lee
Grand Central Publishing, 1988
Excelent Book!
+ There is a reason this book will be read for centuries and centuries...
+ Tequila Mockingbird
+ Great!!Love this book
+ LOVE THIS BOOK!
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics) 6 reviews
Mark Twain
Signet Classics, 2002
Nietzsche's choice
+ Building a classic library for a granddaughter
+ Duo of Mark Twain classics
+ A Trip back
+ Alvin Bruce
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The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales (Dover Juvenile Classics)4 reviews
Oscar Wilde, Harriet Golden
Dover Publications, 2001
Nine lovely, tragic tales
+ Beautiful piece of literature!
+ Interesting book with pretty fairy tales in it
+ The best!
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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)592 reviews
John Steinbeck
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Get ready to relive these times soon!
+ Take in the magic of Steinbeck's writing
+ A handsome edition
+ A master storyteller
+ [Good] required reading
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Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)95 reviews
Jonathan Swift
Signet Classics, 1999
Fellow Yahoos, read this book!
+ Review of Gullivers Travels
+ Excellent book, not so good edition.
+ NOT Bringing Home the Bacon!
+ Parody of man
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The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions) 315 reviews
Ray Bradbury
Spectra, 1984
Timeless!
+ Youthful Perspective
+ Classic Bradbury
I first heard about "The Martian Chronicles" when I read Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" a number of years ago. Back then, I was under the impression that the "Chronicles" was actually a series of books, or at least a very long book. This is not so. The "Chronicles" is a fairly brief collection of ...
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House)136 reviews
Laura Ingalls Wilder
HarperTrophy, 2007
Big News on Woods
+ Little House
+ Fascinating History
+ A beautiful, timeless book
+ Little House In the Big Woods
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The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation93 reviews
Homer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
Better Than I Remembered
+ Almost too readable?
+ Incredible
+ Fitzgerald's Homer
+ The Odyssey. Homer/ Robert Fitzgerald, translator.
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Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics)69 reviews
Sir Thomas Malory
Signet Classics, 2001
Signet translation much better than others
+ Great edition, very well made book, very pretty!
+ Great book, timeless story.
+ Let's be honest. . .
+ Geoffrey of Lousiana
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1984 (Signet Classics)1373 reviews
George Orwell
New American Library, 1961
A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth
+ Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic
+ Perfectly Horrific
+ Still Relevant
+ Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government
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Gone with the Wind27 reviews
Margaret Mitchell
Scribner, 2007
This is More Than Five (5) Stars [24][26][36]
+ a whole different book.
+ gone ....
+ Best American Epic Ever Written
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Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)24 reviews
John Milton
Penguin Classics, 2003
A Humbling Triumph of Emotion, Spirituality and Despair.
+ Rise and Fall
+ The Epic Poem of the English Language
+ Possibly the Best Edition Out There
+ Did finish it yet
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl632 reviews
Anne Frank
Bantam, 1993
Amazing, This is the best book I have ever read...
+ The Face of the Faceless
+ New book condition
+ Anne Frank Diary
+ Anne Frank
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Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will
William Shakespeare
Kessinger Publishing, 2004
Mar. Get ye all three into the box tree: Maluolio's comming downe this walke, he has beene yonder i'the Sunne practising behauiour to his own shadow this halfe houre: obserue him for the loue of Mockerie: for I know this Letter wil make a contemplatiue Ideot of him.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)84 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperCollins, 2005
It can be a wonderful thing to shut oneself inside this Wardrobe.
+ Fantasy classic
+ Great book, but the author is an annoying b***h
+ All creatures big and small
+ Wonderfully Written Book
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The Color Purple446 reviews
Alice Walker
Pocket, 1990
Color Purple
+ surprise
+ best book ever!
I love this book and I would recommend anyone to read it and watch the movie.
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Grendel163 reviews
John Gardner
Vintage, 1989
Distrubed....
I'm disturbed by the amount of people bashing _Grendel_. It's simply an amazing novel. Perhaps those offering sour reviews simply misunderstand the novel--Gardner, from my reading, isn't really attempting a retelling of the _Beowulf_ story. Instead, he's attempting to cast a philosophical ...
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales23 reviews
Brothers Grimm, Josef Scharl
Pantheon, 1972
Looking for the real deal? This is for you
+ There are monsters in the dark woods
+ The brothers Grimm
+ Grimm's Fairy Tales
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My Friend Flicka29 reviews
Mary O'hara
Harper Paperbacks, 2006
Surprise! A clinical description
+ The story comes alive
+ A horse, a boy, and a family
+ My Friend Flicka
+ A COMMANDING NARRATION OF A CLASSIC
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