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Vanessa rated The Decameron: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Canterbury tales: 4 stars
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales (2005, Signet Classic)
The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales …
Vanessa rated The Two Towers: 5 stars
Vanessa rated The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3): 5 stars
Vanessa rated Mere Christianity: 3 stars
Vanessa rated On the road: 3 stars
On the road by Jack Kerouac (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
Described as everything from a "last gasp" of romantic fiction to a founding text of the Beat Generation movement, this …
Vanessa rated The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics): 3 stars
The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics) by Henry James
A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at …
Vanessa rated Bless me, Ultima: 3 stars
Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya, Rudolfo Anaya
Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is …
Vanessa rated The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana: 4 stars
Umberto Eco: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2006)
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (original Italian title: La Misteriosa Fiamma della Regina Loana) is a novel by Italian …
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll
A very real little girl named Alice follows a remarkable rabbit down a rabbit hole and steps through a looking-glass …
Vanessa rated Sense and Sensibility: 4 stars
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which …
Vanessa rated Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire: 4 stars
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #4)
You have in your hands the pivotal fourth novel in the seven-part tale of Harry Potter's training as a wizard …
Vanessa rated The complete English poems: 5 stars
The complete English poems by John Donne (Penguin classics)
"This new Norton Critical Edition presents a comprehensive collection of Donne's poetry. The texts are divided into sections: "Satires," "Elegies," …
Vanessa rated Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition): 3 stars
Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition) by J. M. Barrie
The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.