Vanessa rated The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: 3 stars
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up …
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Vanessa rated Jude the Obscure: 4 stars
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of …
Vanessa rated Midnight's Children: 4 stars
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence …
Vanessa rated Lord of the Flies: 4 stars
William Golding: Lord of the Flies (2018, Independently Published)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a …
Vanessa rated Madame Bovary: 4 stars
Madame Bovary by Flaubert Gustave
Geoffrey Wall was noted as a contributor. Not sure what he did though.
Vanessa rated Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1): 5 stars
Vanessa rated Three case histories: 3 stars
Vanessa rated "Remains of the Day", Kazuo Ishiguro: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: 4 stars
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even the worst …
Vanessa rated The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: 5 stars
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru) is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The American …
Vanessa rated If on a winter's night a traveller: 5 stars
If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the …
Vanessa rated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: 4 stars
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #6)
The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The …
Vanessa rated The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: 4 stars
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a …
Vanessa rated The tragedy of Macbeth: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Moor's last sigh: 3 stars
The Moor's last sigh by Salman Rushdie
"The Moor evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes and the lost world of possibilities embodied by India …