How It Is7 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1994 Whither the well-wrought novel? + Essential! + Modern Epic Poetry + An eerie, original novel + "warmth of primeval mud impenetrable dark"             Collected Stories8 reviews Frank O'Connor Vintage, 1982 a great storyteller + Provincial Perfection, Beautiful Wisdom, Superlative Writing + The book I've given to all my friends + Some gems of Irish short fiction + A Great Collection of Short Stories             Studies in Classic American Literature (Twentieth Century Classics)9 reviews D. H. Lawrence Penguin Classics, 1990 Trust the teller along with the tale + hidden treasure + Sweatin' To The Oldies with D.H. Lawrence + Always interesting but often wrong + American Genius Loci             Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable31 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1994 A carcass in God's image and a contemporary skull + a brief and subjective review + The Third's the Finest + I can't go on, you must go on, I'll go on. + The Human Condition Exposed             Watt18 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1994 Roller-coaster existentialism, and fun, too! + Brilliant and Insane + It's so hard to get good help in a Beckett novel... + Funny AND Avant-garde + After a lifetime of reading, one of my five favorites             Mrs. Dalloway154 reviews Virginia Woolf Harvest Books, 1990 Perfect in every way + Clarissa's Day + Woolf' Best + Better the second time around             Murphy15 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1994 Comic-tragic masterpiece + the very best + Murphy Murphy is a novel unlike any other. Quite deliberately, Beckett's characters are not portrayed with realistic fullness, and the plot is fragmented and incomplete. Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable read if conventional expectations are suspended. Beckett's early work is often compared to Joyce, but ...             Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces1 review Grove Press, 1960 Krapp's Last Tape Krapp's Last Tape Published: 1958 Premiere: 1958 By: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989) There is a single character named Krapp. He is on stage with a tape recorder and old recordings of himself. The only lighting on stage illuminates Krapp (Crap?) and his table where the tape recorder ...             The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (New York Review Books Classics)31 reviews G.B. Edwards NYRB Classics, 2007 One of my favorite books + Every reader will be enriched. + A Small Miracle of a Book + Wonderful gem + Endurance required             A Passage to India100 reviews E.M. Forster Harvest Books, 1965 East and West Can Never Meet + There is beauty here. Almost a century after the book's publication the most crucial problems it discussed are as current as they were during Forster's life. The impossibility of communicating across the divide of culture, religion, and race, seems to be even more alive then when he saw it. The value of the novel lies ...             A Handful of Dust63 reviews Evelyn Waugh Back Bay Books, 1999 Another Great + Hearts of Darkness + The Descension of Decadence + Scipio Rising + Brilliant comedy, but almost too dark to be really entertaining             Between the Acts10 reviews Virginia Woolf Harvest Books, 1970 The summing up + Interesting, But The Least Engaging Of Woolf's Work + Save The Best For Last + A work of mature genius by a great writer             To the Lighthouse167 reviews Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction) Harvest Books, 1989 An insightful, sensitive reading. + Brilliant Experimental Novel + To The LighthouseA beautif + Exquisitely delicious prose invokes tragic beauty             The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)24 reviews Christopher Isherwood New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1963 "Even now I can't altogether believe that any of this has really happened." + Style--and plenty of it + Early 1930's Revelation of Nazi Growth [T] + Excellent Book, Unacceptably Shoddy Printing             The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics)32 reviews J.G. Farrell NYRB Classics, 2004 Masterful Recreation of the British Under Siege in the Great Mutiny + Genuinely Classic + The beginning of the end of themselves + Bringing The Indians A Superior Civilization + Trapped in the Flag             The Rainbow: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics)31 reviews D. H. Lawrence Penguin Classics, 2007 A classic on the struggles of the human spirit. + Utterly Gorgeous Writing!!! + The Rainbow is one of D.H. Lawrence's finest achievements + emotion + Man Alive Blood Alive is the key             Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)5 reviews D. H. Lawrence Penguin Classics, 1994 To this reader, poems and essays of DHL are his best works. + The vital sap + Great Collection! + D.H. + A must for all Special Forces.             In Parenthesis (New York Review Books) David Jones NYRB Classics, 2003 "This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern literature. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter talk and high music, wartime terror and ancient ...             Sons and Lovers (Penguin Modern Classics) D.H. Lawrence Penguin Books Ltd, 2000             Ulysses393 reviews James Joyce Vintage, 1990 Mount Everest for Readers + Great performance. + Uses the reader as an active part of the story I can offer little in the way of literary criticism that has not been expounded by scholars about Joyce's masterpiece. What I can offer is the viewpoint of an 'average' reader. My edition was the 1922 text, and it was prefaced by the original publisher with a simple disclaimer: "The publisher ...