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Vanessa rated Monsoon Diary: 2 stars
Vanessa rated Long day's journey into night: 3 stars
Long day's journey into night by Eugene O'Neill
Depicts a day in the life of a family deteriorating from alcoholism, drug addiction, and imminent death. Ageing actor, James …
Vanessa rated The Hobbit: 4 stars
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit (1988, Houghton Mifflin)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A …
Vanessa rated Walden and other writings: 3 stars
Walden and other writings by Henry David Thoreau
Walden (; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer …
Vanessa rated Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell: 5 stars
Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell by Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of …
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Signet Classics) by Howard Pyle
The thrilling and timeless legend, masterfully illustrated. The story of the incomparable Arthur, the lovely Guinevere, the wicked Morgana le …
Vanessa rated Gargantua and Pantagruel: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: 3 stars
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
AMONG the great masters of the short story, Edgar Allan Poe retains his preeminence after more than a century. Ligeia, …
Vanessa rated Cloud Atlas: 2 stars
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young …
Vanessa rated Slaughterhouse-Five: 4 stars
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (A Dell book)
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is …
Vanessa rated The tragedy of Macbeth: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Return of the King: 3 stars
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Return of the King (Paperback, Ballantine Books)
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings (3))
THE RETURN OF THE KING, which brings to a close the great epic of war and adventure begun in The …
Vanessa rated The Shipping News: 3 stars
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her …