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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics)The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $6.13
Combining a sensational story of a man's physical and moral decline through alcohol, a study of...
The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $8.57
I was trying to get this book in Spanish,the language it was written .I didn't .
The Kindness of Women: A NovelThe Kindness of Women: A Novel
Best Price: $7.50
Ballard was on my list of people I might want to read something by, and this book had the...
The Book of EvidenceThe Book of Evidence
Best Price: $7.64
I read this as a book group selection. It provided many psychological and social subjects to...
Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics)Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics)
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After reading "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, I knew I had to read her sister's only...


Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine UnfoldsAlexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Unfolds
Best Price: $7.42
After having read and reread all six of these very creative, interesting and unusual books, I...
The Morning StarThe Morning Star
Best Price: $5.96
Purchased the book as a gift to complete my husband's set. He was excited to get it and enjoyed...
CabalCabal
Best Price: $8.93
The short stories at the end aren't bad; the novella itself had less to recommend it.
The Floating Opera and The End of the RoadThe Floating Opera and The End of the Road
Best Price: $7.00
In THE FLOATING OPERA the main character's name is Todd Andrews. The focus is on a day, June...
Villette (Signet Classics)Villette (Signet Classics)
Best Price: $2.69
This is a very good story with compelling characters. However it is difficult to get the full...


South of No North: Stories of the Buried LifeSouth of No North: Stories of the Buried Life
Best Price: $8.01
Charles Bukowski -- controversial literary figure though he may be -- is surely one of...
Laughter in the DarkLaughter in the Dark
Best Price: $7.55
This extraordinary novel is truly one work of fiction which represents life itself. Perhaps it...
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)
Best Price: $13.45
Sometimes I go through long periods of time where I forget why I'm into books and writing and...
Nights of Rain and StarsNights of Rain and Stars
Best Price: $6.50
Maeve Binchy has so many wonderful novels, don't waste your time reading this one. It is really...
WeaveworldWeaveworld
Best Price: $3.47
When you're an average guy, suddenly trying to save a diminishing world from destruction...and...

Hot Water MusicHot Water Music
Best Price: $8.55
Let me say that I am a huge Bukowski fan. I absolutely adore Factotum, Women, Ham On Rye,...
Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and othersCollected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others
Best Price: $7.97
Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape,...
Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.99
Charlie Citrine was such an incredibly tedious character that about three quarters of the way...
The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993
Best Price: $11.55
For a guy who's published as many books of poetry as Bukowski has, a large book of selected...
Forty Stories (Penguin Classics)Forty Stories (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $8.46
While very challenging and insightful, I found many of the stories to be superficially...

Novels II of Samuel Beckett: Volume II of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions)Novels II of Samuel Beckett: Volume II of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions)
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Edited by Paul Auster, this four-volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner...
A Place on Earth: A NovelA Place on Earth: A Novel
Best Price: $8.46
This is a book that reads almost like poetry. I found myself slowing down and re-reading for the...
The Days Run Away Like Wild HorsesThe Days Run Away Like Wild Horses
Best Price: $8.08
Published the year I was born, this is the first book of Buk poetry I bought (first of many) and...
Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
Best Price: $15.95
It is hard to exaggerate the importance and the relevance of this book and the greatness of it's...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics)The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $2.92
How explain literary genius? How pinpoint the DNA which made three Yorkshire girls living in a...

Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions)Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $12.44
William Blake is one of those soaring pioneers of the human imagination whose visions and their...
War All the TimeWar All the Time
Best Price: $8.55
Get it, read it, dont try to understand it, and read it agian. Thats all in a nut shell. The...
Lost Illusions (Modern Library Classics)Lost Illusions (Modern Library Classics)
Best Price: $8.65
The Human Comedy is a saga of 92 novels that Balzac said was written by French society. Legend...
Standing by Words: EssaysStanding by Words: Essays
Best Price: $8.46
In these six essays, award-winning author Wendell Berry considers the degeneration of language...
QuentinsQuentins
Best Price: $3.94
This is easily Binchy's best book. The characters are brilliantly developed, and the prose is...

Standing by Words: EssaysStanding by Words: Essays
Best Price: $8.46
In these six essays, award-winning author Wendell Berry considers the degeneration of language...
QuentinsQuentins
Best Price: $3.94
This is easily Binchy's best book. The characters are brilliantly developed, and the prose is...
The UntouchableThe Untouchable
Best Price: $6.48
A witty, insightful view of a famous spy for the Soviets in Britain. Sometimes hard to follow...
The Maeve Binchy Writers' ClubThe Maeve Binchy Writers' Club
Best Price: $11.98
The Glass LakeThe Glass Lake
Best Price: $0.79
There was tragedy and sadness from unrequited loves. A loves B. B loves C. C loves others. ...

The Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV of The Grove Centenary EditionsThe Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV of The Grove Centenary Editions
Best Price: $13.00
An inspiration for my writing and my creativity, and I could never dare emulate him well enough....
Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $4.88
All passion, intensity and fire, Byron cuts a swathe through the Regency era's lights,...
The Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV of The Grove Centenary EditionsThe Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV of The Grove Centenary Editions
Best Price: $13.00
An inspiration for my writing and my creativity, and I could never dare emulate him well enough....
Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $4.88
All passion, intensity and fire, Byron cuts a swathe through the Regency era's lights,...
On Love: A NovelOn Love: A Novel
Best Price: $6.50
Well, I'm a big fan of Alain de Botton and I love the fact that he's trying to incorporte some...

Going to Meet the Man: StoriesGoing to Meet the Man: Stories
Best Price: $6.96
James Baldwin is a tortured soul. He pours his whole soul onto every page. This makes him one of...
The Sandman: Book of DreamsThe Sandman: Book of Dreams
Best Price: $3.20
I love the Sandman graphic novel series,so when any of them come out in paperback they're a...
Any Human HeartAny Human Heart
Best Price: $2.75
I applaud the point of this book, which is to look at a life from its early optimism and grand...
The MandarinsThe Mandarins
Best Price: $10.12
I will allow the reader an oppurtunity to read through some quotes within The Mandarins. Thus,...
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
Best Price: $2.84
The style of this epic story is a crossing of the dragons and chivalry of King Arthur, with the...

Mother Courage and Her Children (Penguin Classics)Mother Courage and Her Children (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $8.77
What were Penguin thinking? "Mother Courage and her Children" is a German-language...
VoxVox
Best Price: $2.49
This is a quick little read-just over 40,000 words-about a man and a woman having phone sex....
Scarlet FeatherScarlet Feather
Best Price: $0.93
At first I thought this book was hard to get into. It took me forever to get started, but once I...
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens : Peter and Wendy (Oxford World's Classics)Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens : Peter and Wendy (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $5.37
Hmm...., Peter and Wendy is obviously a five star book all the way, but what about Peter Pan in...
The Curse of the Blue Figurine (Johnny Dixon)The Curse of the Blue Figurine (Johnny Dixon)
Best Price: $2.49
This was my first John Bellairs book. I remember picking it up in a bookstore when I was a kid...

Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook)Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook)
Best Price: $5.00
I am almost finished reading this. I found the picture on the cover of "Paris Spleen"...
All Men Are MortalAll Men Are Mortal
Best Price: $8.50
There's never enough time in a day to accomplish all that you would like to do...unless,...
EvervilleEverville
Best Price: $1.70
Didn't really enjoy this at all, compared to the other Barker books. This is pretty much when I...
  
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