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Vanessa rated Zazie in the metro: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Ground Beneath Her Feet: 3 stars
Vanessa rated The Oxford Study Bible: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: 4 stars
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended …
Vanessa rated Season of migration to the North: 3 stars
Season of migration to the North by al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ, Tayeb Salih, al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ (African writers series -- 66.)
Vanessa rated Paradise lost: 3 stars
Paradise lost by John Milton (A Norton critical edition)
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of …
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, …
Vanessa rated The Norton Shakespeare: 5 stars
Vanessa rated The Catcher in the Rye: 2 stars
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled …
Vanessa rated The portable Emerson.: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Oedipus Rex: 4 stars
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Oedipus Rex chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man that becomes the king of Thebes and was always destined from …
Vanessa rated The Satanic Verses: 5 stars
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, …
Vanessa rated Midnight in Sicily: 3 stars
Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb (Vintage departures)
Chronicles the relationship of Italy's high-ranking politicians with the Sicily Mafia from the end of World War II to the …