Book Reviews
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The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head...
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The Ambassadors – Henry James
In this complex tale of self-discovery, Henry James traces the path of an old idealist, Lambert Strether, who arrives in Paris intending to persuade his young charge to abandon an obsession with a French woman and return home. ...
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The Cider House Rules – John Irving
The story revolves around Wilbur Larch, a physician in charge of St. Cloud's orphanage, and Homer Wells, one of the orphans. Homer has had several tries of being adopted, but they all fail, and he grows up in the orphanage.
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The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
A simple and beautiful fable style tale of a cuban fisherman and his relentless battle with a giant marlin at sea. Hemingway weaves a powerful story with timeless themes of courage and endurance in the face of defeat and triumph.
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A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms Summary is a beautiful story of a love affair between an expatriate American Lieutenant Frederic Henry and a young woman nurse with the backdrop of the First World War, bloodshed, fighting and displacement of...
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Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944 and mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is b...
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The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and ...
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This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame.In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures...
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The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A classic of American literature on the basis of two factors: One, it is structurally brilliant, with scarcely a line that is unnecessary; and, two, it unfolds before the reader a very moving and human message: The wonder (and ...
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The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
If you were brought up in the shade of the magnolias with Dixie playing in the background, but you find all the baggage that goes with it increasingly out of place, then you may discover that reading The Sound and the Fury is a...
