Penrod (Penguin Classics)22 reviews Booth Tarkington Penguin Classics, 2007 Tom Sawyer Meets Monty Python + A Belly Full of Laughs, Anyone? + Humorous Portrait of Years Past - Tainted by Casual, Offhand Racial Remarks + Beautiful Tale of a Faulty but Admirable Boy + Penrod: Still a Classic             The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America33 reviews Cato Institute, 2000 DOI & Constitution, No More No Less + There's a reason this book has a complete rating of five stars... + Essential to Have Around + Great explanations of the Bill of Rights! + essential American founding documents!             Look Homeward, Angel62 reviews Thomas Wolfe Scribner, 2006 A tour de force of pure emotion + Oh Lost! Thomas Wolfe reminds me of the eager kid who was smarter than the rest, surging ahead for pure love of learning and life itself. This transcendental outlook pervades this meandering story which in lesser hands would become saccharine, but veers away from that precipice with carefully constructed ...             Georgia Boy4 reviews Erskine Caldwell, Roy, Jr. Blount University of Georgia Press, 1995 "Falling Out Over A Little Thing Like Kinship" + The New Old South + Typical Caldwell Equal parts burlesque, farce, and tall tale, Erskine Caldwell's interrelated short story collection Georgia Boy (1943) finds its author near the peak of his writing talent. The fourteen stories are narrated by young William Stroup, the observant only child of a poor Georgia family. While the ...             Alice Adams12 reviews Booth Tarkington Gregg Press, 2008 "Ambition has no rest." + Timeless novel + Boring But Interesting. Does That Make Sense? + The smell of boiling Brussels sprouts can dissolve any daydream.             Tortilla Flat104 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin (Non-Classics), 1977 Excellent and moving + Rookie Home Run + A Short Novella - And Buy It Bundled with Other Works + beautiful + Not Quite Camelot             My Name Is Aram4 reviews William Saroyan Laurel, 1991 Excellent book + My name is Aram + My Name Is Aram + I recommend this book for the people who like reading book             Winesburg, Ohio78 reviews Sherwood Anderson Signet Classics, 1993 An honest depiction of the emptiness of humanity + A fine piece of writing for the most part + Small Town America + My hometown in 1919             Tobacco Road47 reviews Erskine Caldwell University of Georgia Press, 1995 Debasing, but not necessarily limited to Southerners... + This South Should Never Rise Again + Tobacco Road, a Must-Read I find it rather humorous to note that not only do the majority of the people getting offended by this work of literary brilliance hail from south of the Mason-Dixon, but also that no one seems to have a clue of Caldwell's primary intention. His always-controversial characters, particularly the ...             The Magnificent Ambersons (Tor Classics)44 reviews Booth Tarkington Tor Classics, 2002 Better than Marquand + An American Classic Assuming you have read the synopsis and a few other reviews, I thought a comparative review might serve as a change of pace. I purchased this book some time ago after The Atlantic ran a few reviews for early 20th century `transformation' novels slowly reclaiming their place in American Literature. ...             Studs Lonigan (Penguin Classics)27 reviews James T. Farrell Penguin Classics, 2001 Character Development at its Finest + The American Dreamer + a great potrayal of Chicago's South Side If you are looking for a plot driven story, then this may not satisfy. However, if you do not approach the story with the same kind of expectations you might bring to a work of popular fiction, Farrell maintains a high level of interest. I believe Studs Lonigan is one of the most developed ...             God's Little Acre17 reviews Erskine Caldwell University of Georgia Press, 1995 God's Little Acre was ahead of its time...Mary from Georgia + 80 million copies in 40 languages... + The beauty of sex + Historical Value Plus Some Meaning Amongst the Sex             Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)223 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 A Small Social Gathering + An All American Gem + Cannery Row: The Great Wistful Little Fishing Town + John steinbeck + Another classic Steinbeck...             The Human Comedy68 reviews William Saroyan Dell, 1966 If it could only be true + Human Comedy + The Human Comedy--Pathos and Humor, Joy and Sorrow + A modern classic ... but not exactly comedy             Young Lonigan1 review James T. Farrell Signet Classics, 2004 TOUGH KID, BRILLIANT WRITING YOUNG LONIGAN, the short novel that introduces the STUDS LONIGAN trilogy, is the brilliant evocation of the tough youth of a tough kid in pre-WWI Chicago. The prose is tour-de-force stream-of-consciousness. It seeps into the mind of a smart, flawed, hilarious kid (imagine Max Fisher without the ...             You Can't Go Home Again36 reviews Thomas Wolfe Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998 Literary marvel; not for everyone + You Can't Go Home Again + It leaves you wanting more Before you read "You Can't Go Home Again," make sure you have read "Look Homeward Angel." Wolfe's novels are essentially romanticized autobiographies, and although Eugene Gant and George Weber are not exactly the same character, they both represent the author struggling with incredible but ...             The Human Comedy68 reviews William Saroyan Dell, 1966 If it could only be true + Human Comedy + The Human Comedy--Pathos and Humor, Joy and Sorrow + A modern classic ... but not exactly comedy             The Magnificent Ambersons (Tor Classics)44 reviews Booth Tarkington Tor Classics, 2002 Better than Marquand + An American Classic Assuming you have read the synopsis and a few other reviews, I thought a comparative review might serve as a change of pace. I purchased this book some time ago after The Atlantic ran a few reviews for early 20th century `transformation' novels slowly reclaiming their place in American Literature. ...             The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America33 reviews Cato Institute, 2000 DOI & Constitution, No More No Less + There's a reason this book has a complete rating of five stars... + Essential to Have Around + Great explanations of the Bill of Rights! + essential American founding documents!             Georgia Boy4 reviews Erskine Caldwell, Roy, Jr. Blount University of Georgia Press, 1995 "Falling Out Over A Little Thing Like Kinship" + The New Old South + Typical Caldwell Equal parts burlesque, farce, and tall tale, Erskine Caldwell's interrelated short story collection Georgia Boy (1943) finds its author near the peak of his writing talent. The fourteen stories are narrated by young William Stroup, the observant only child of a poor Georgia family. While the ...