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Bodily Harm – Margaret Atwood
Bodily Harm – Margaret Atwood – 1981 Reviewed by: Dave Date: 1 March 2003 I enjoyed this novel on many levels. It is a great story, skilfully woven, laced with trademark Atwood satiric wit and all of t...
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Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood – 1972 Reviewed by: Dave Date: 25 January 2002 Surfacing? Sinking? Or sunk? On the exterior many lives are impetuously lived, in constant motion, constant flux, demanding change&#...
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Whispering in Shadows – Jeannette Armstrong
Whispering in Shadows – Jeannette Armstrong – 2000 Reviewed by: Dr.N.S.Dharan Date: 19 January 2004 I read the book first for my doctoral thesis. That reading, needless to say was merely utilitarian. When I got...
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Next Episode – Hubert Aquin
Next Episode – Hubert Aquin – 1965 Reviewed by: Daniel Dufort Date: 9 March 2005 “Cuba coule en flammes au milieu du lac Léman pendant que je descends au fond des choses.” This is the first sentence...
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Chekhov: Four Plays (The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard) – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Chekhov: Four Plays (The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard) – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov – 1896-1904 Reviewed by: Matthew Cheney (CHEKHOV: FOUR PLAYS, translated by Carol Rocamora, Great Translati...
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Heart of a Dog – Mikhail Bulgakov
Heart of a Dog – Mikhail Bulgakov – 1968 Reviewed by: Bill Stratton Date: 1 September 2002 Bulgakov’s long suppressed novel Heart of a Dog deserves to be ranked among the greatest works of satire in th...
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Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift – 1726 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 26 September 2001 Giants, midgets, cobwebs and the moons of Mars. Allow me to quote: “There are unquestionably people who w...
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Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne – 1768 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 26 September 2001 Travel, Love, and Charity … When we had got to the door of the Remise, she withdrew her hand from across...
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne – 1759 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 30 January 2002 An uninformed reader may shy away from a slightly archaic diction and the blurb on the dust-...
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Eureka Street – Robert McLiam Wilson
Eureka Street – Robert McLiam Wilson – 1996 Reviewed by: Tim Date: 3 January 2003 While not always the easiest of reading, at its best this book is brilliant. Set in Nineties Belfast, as an ex-Belfaster I foun...
