| 1. |  | Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library)
from Everyman's Library
Price: $13.60
Customer Review:
After seeing a number of adaptations, I finally decided to read all of
Austen's novels. Northanger Abbey was not bad, and Sense and Sensibility
is excellent. However, this is the best so far. While there is a lot of
insightful comment on the custom of English society of the time,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. | ![]() | Huckleberry Finn (Unwin Critical Library)
from HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Customer Review:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, originally published in 1884. It is the sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Ernest Hemingway (and many others) called it the greatest American novel ever. Huck Finn picks up right where Tom Sawyer left off - Huck's abusive father appears... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. | ![]() | Frankenstein
from Peter Bedrick Books
Customer Review:
Like Poe, strong roots in its Gothic horror era make this story too wordy to be read as a contemporary classic (contradiction in terms, I suppose), but the basic storyline does stand up over time.
A basic story, by the way, which no movie version has yet successfully captured, not even Mary... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Emma (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
from Everyman's Library
Price: $13.60
Customer Review:
This is the first time that I am writing an Amazon review, and I am doing it because this novel is possibly the worst book that I have ever read. The book has no plot. It is simply a love story with some irony mixed into the plot. Jane Austen is a terrible writer who takes three pages to describe a... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Flatland
from Penguin Classics
Price: $2.00
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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| 6. | ![]() | A Christmas Carol
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
Price: $21.90
Customer Review:
My family and I have loved this beloved Christmas story for years. When we first heard Patrick Stewart perform this one man show we were hooked. He does a fabulous job with each character, making the story come to life for us. We love it so much that we have been giving it out as Christmas gifts to... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | The Longman Anthology of British Literature (The Romantics and Their Contemporaries)
from Longman Publishing Group
Customer Review:
The Longman Anthology of British Literature - 2B / 0-321-10669-5
Anthologies are usually either purchased because they are required reading for school or because the purchaser would like to round out a private library with worthwhile literary selections. This review is written predominantly to... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Heart of Darkness (Critical Studies, Penguin)
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Customer Review:
Joseph Conrad is an amazing writer; he uses the English language of the late 19th and early 20th centuries beautifully, he describes the colonial world at its apogee, he tells engrossing stories but even his seemingly potboiler plots (such as The Secret Sharer) raise disturbingly serious moral... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library)
from Modern Library
Price: $12.24
Customer Review:
I knew relatively little going into this book...and what little I did know was from less than 100% accurate retellings such as in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or references from cheesy shows or horror flicks (I think perhaps there was a reference in Scooby Doo somewhere?). I had the basic... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Hard Times (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
from Everyman's Library
Price: $13.60
Customer Review:
Charles Dickens was a great writer. A simple statement, easily and often made, but its correctness is confirmed and enlarged with each story that I read.
He was so good at what he did, and was so well-loved in his time, and so often imitated, that he is easily dismissed or parodied. No matter,... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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