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Vanessa rated Tokyo Cancelled: 4 stars
Vanessa rated A guide for the advanced soul: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: 4 stars
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (An Evergreen original -- E455)
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told …
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 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 …
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 …
Vanessa rated Everything Is Illuminated: 4 stars
Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated (2002, Penguin Books, Limited)
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman …
Vanessa rated Complete works, selected letters: 3 stars
King Lear by William Shakespeare (A Shakespeare children's story)
King Lear is one of the greatest tragedies by Shakespeare. The play is focused around Lear, the aging King of …
Vanessa rated Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: 5 stars
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (The Raven King, #1)
"Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me..."
The year …
Vanessa rated Poetry for Young People: 4 stars
Poetry for Young People by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A brief profile of the nineteenth century English poet, Alfred Tennyson, accompanies selections from some of his best known works.
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 Norton Shakespeare: 5 stars
Vanessa rated Twenty love poems and a song of despair: 4 stars
Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda’s most popular work. Daringly …