| 1. |  | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Signet Classics)
from Signet Classics
Price: $4.95
Customer Review:
this is a great book to help you put your mind around other dimensions. It was cleverly written and an enjoyable read. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Customer Review:
18th Century novel in 9 volumes was written by Sterne (an Anglican minister) as a satire on religion, critics, literature, and human nature. A literal "cock and bull" story that meanders through numerous digressions, and never really tells the story the title promises, Tristram Shandy is by turns... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Samuel Johnson: A Biography
from Belknap Press
Price: $23.10
Customer Review:
I first came across Samuel Johnson as a 15-year old sitting on the porch of an old farmhouse where I spent the lazy summer days reading an abridged but still lengthy version of Boswell's "Life of Johnson." The encounter with Samuel Johnson was for me a formative event in maturing from adolescence... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. | ![]() | Gulliver's Travels
from Schocken
Customer Review:
This is a highly intriguing story about a man who goes on many adventures to multiple different islands, each inhabited by a certian form of creature. The first island he arrives at has everything, except all of it is in miniture, including the people! on this island he is hailed as a powerful... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $11.16
Customer Review:
"I believe that memory is responsible for nearly all these three-volume novels"
-Oscar Wilde
One thing I will say for this book is that it made Oscar Wilde's plays even more entertaining for me. I now know what he was talking about when he trashes books of "unusually revolting... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Moll Flanders (World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Customer Review:
Moll Flanders is one of the few 'classic' books I have read in which a MALE author parallels the thought of a woman as the narrator. Moll Flanders is the ultimate tribute to a woman out to make a name for herself in a world of poverty, protitution, and love, who eventually learns more about her own... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Robinson Crusoe (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
from Everyman's Library
Customer Review:
The name "Robinson Crusoe" readily conjures up images of a sad castaway on a desert island, who after years of solitude comes up a man's footprint in the sand. But in reading Daniel Defoe's novel of 1719, I was surprised how different the work is from its common stereotype. Not until about 50 pages... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $12.89
Customer Review:
The text is nice enough but I guess you get what you pay for and there is no way the books ultra cheep constructions gets you through its 1120 pages... just like the other two Oxford World Press books I ordered with this one. Really, $0.08 more a book to put a sturdy cover on it please?!?!? | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. | ![]() | The History of Tom Jones a Foundling (Everyman's Library)
from Everymans Library
Customer Review:
To read or not to read; that is the question. Whenever I want to buy something I try to get some objective opinions about the product beforehand. Thus when I decided to write reviews of the books I read and post them on the Amazon website, I chose to write in such a fashion so that I would help... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $8.95
Customer Review:
I have to agree with the consensus of reviewers here: If you are looking for an excellent Gothic novel to read, this one is not it. If you are studying the history of Gothic literature and aesthetics, this novel is fundamental.
I want to recommend highly the introduction by E.J. Clery to the... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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