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Pragmatism (The Works of William James)
William James
Harvard University Press, 1975
Essential to Understanding Contemporary Philosophies
+ James's Pragmatism
+ From the Publisher
+ An American philosophy
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France and England in North America. A series of historical narratives
Francis Parkman
Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1867
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library\'s preservation reformatting program.
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The octopus;: A story of California (Complete works of Frank Norris)
Frank Norris
Kennikat Press, 1967
Untitled
+ The indifference of the people is the opportunity of the despot
+ A great story in need of editing.
I bought this book for my 13 year old granddaughter's 8th grade history class. It is on the required reading list for this year. I did not read it and am in no position to rate it.
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Little Women (Signet Classics)
Louisa May Alcott
Signet Classics, 2004
The Sticking Together Sisters
+ One of those obvious classics
+ Little Women
+ Frustratingly realistic.
+ Smooth Transaction
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Book Essentials, 1994
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No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (Twain, Mark//Mark Twain Library)
Mark Twain
University of California Press, 2004
subversive & thrilling
+ Utterly unexpected!
+ dreary and depressing, but Powerful and Essential.
+ This Version Closest to Twain
+ Mysterious Stranger
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Digireads.com, 2005
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
+ We read this in high school english: we became obsessed
+ A Must Own Book
+ Loved it!
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Poems
Henry W. Longfellow
Gramercy, 1992
The best introduction to one of America's best loved poets.
+ Where have you gone, Mr. Longfellow?
+ Poetry written for the human soul!
+ you want it you got it
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells
NuVision Publications, 2008
Should be called "The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham"
+ Good Overall Experience
+ One of his best
+ A perfectly symmetrical novel -- literally.
+ Mogul with a conscience
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The Awkward Age
Henry James
NuVision Publications, 2008
A Psychological Policier
+ An Uncharacteristic Gem by a Literary Giant
+ Great Plot, Could Have Used a Different Author
If you are not prepared to read several scenes in this novel slowly and often, there is a very good chance that, like many academic reviewers, you will leave it thinking less well of the characters in it than you do of yourself for having, with only moderate encouragement from James, "seen through ...
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The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics)
Henry James
Oxford University Press, 2008
The failure to enjoy
+ The Audiobook is Easier
+ The Ambassadors
A wealthy US family sends its `ambassadors' to Paris in order to convince an heir to abandon the `life of a pagan' and return home to run the family business.
The theme of Henry James's impeccably written and extremely polished prose is what Nietzsche called the `right or the wrong conjugation': ...
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The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life
Jr. Francis Parkman
Cosimo Classics, 2007
The firsthand account of a personal journey through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas in the 1840s, this classic work of American adventure is not only an excellent resource for eyewitness observations of Native American culture in the mid 19th century but also an essential document of the cultural attitudes and prejudices of Eastern European-descended Americans of the era. Criticized by ...
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The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
Henry James
Oxford University Press, USA, 1999
The Golden Bowl: The Meaning of "Value"
+ The deepest pleasures of a masterwork--but only for the mature, meditatively reflective few.
+ The Golden Bowl
Reading THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James can be either an exercise in frustration or of exhiliration. If after reading a few pages one deduces the former, then one has allowed an excessively convoluted and ornate prose style to interpose itself between a writer with a straightforward theme that is ...
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A Modern Instance: A Novel (1882)
William Dean Howells
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008
Eminently readable
+ Howells examines divorce, 19th century style
+ Hick Duo Go Splitsville in Beantown
+ A truely "modern" novel
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Eureka
Edgar Allan Poe, Susan F. Levine
University of Illinois Press, 2004
Very Interesting----Poe wrote this???!
+ Poe's Pinnacle Work on the Creation of the Universe
Ok, I was shocked to see a science book written by Edgar Allan Poe. He himself calls it a poem...ok, Poe, poem.
I'm into astronomy so I thought, why not? Well, here's the thing. It strikes me as a serious work---a sort of explanation of how the Universe was seen in 1848. I found the reading ...
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