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The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas Père
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas Père – 1844 Reviewed by: Liliana Rodriguez Maynez Date: 15 April 2003 Great plot and great descriptions of the characters’ personalities. The novel is based ...
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The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas Père
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas Père – 1844 Reviewed by: Guillermo Maynez Date: 12 November 2002 When I was a kid, I used to read this book every two years or so, along with its sequel, “Twenty y...
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Letters from My Windmill – Alphonse Daudet
Letters from My Windmill – Alphonse Daudet – 1869 Reviewed by: Duresa Date: 8 November 2002 It is my favorite book. I used to read it when I was a child and I go back to it time after time. Every time I disco...
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The Fall – Albert Camus
The Fall – Albert Camus – 1956 Reviewed by: Bill Stratton Date: 31 December 2001 Aside from being Camus’ crowning literary achievement, this work should also be viewed as one of the most important wor...
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The Stranger / The Outsider – Albert Camus
The Stranger – Albert Camus – 1942 Reviewed by: Lale Date: 23 November 2002 I read this book once when I was young and then again two years ago. Two different translations: the first one I read was called...
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The Plague – Albert Camus
The Plague – Albert Camus – 1947 Reviewed by: François Paltrinieri Date: 13 June 2006 One of Albert Camus’s better novels, this grim story of a doctor trapped in a plague-infested city does well to expose...
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The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir
The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir – 1954 Reviewed by: Lale A lot of shoulder shrugging. Dubreuilh shrugged his shoulders. Nadine shrugged her shoulders. There are exactly 140 shoulder shruggings in The Mandarins. ...
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She Came to Stay – Simone de Beauvoir
She Came to Stay – Simone de Beauvoir – 1943 Reviewed by: Lale I read a translation by Yvonne Moyse and Roger Senhouse. One of the worst translations I have ever read. There are such basic mistakes that even I (a t...
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Old Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Old Goriot – Honoré de Balzac – 1835 Reviewed by: Chris Green Balzac’s Old Goriot contains some of the more interesting literary characters I’ve ever encountered. Rastignac, the naive provincial who yea...
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The Whirlpool – Jane Urquhart
The Whirlpool – Jane Urquhart – 1990 Reviewed by: Dave Date: 5 December 2002 Everyone in this novel is obsessive-compulsive, and they are SO obsessive that they compulsed me to stay behind in the trees so...
