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Great American Stories: Ten Unabridged Classics
Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, ...
BBC Audiobooks America, 2003
Successful Gift
+ Good for the price
+ Stories on CD
+ Wonderful!
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Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.)
Louise Erdrich
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
One of the best writers in American History
+ Erdrich
+ A Classic
+ Love Medicine Heals the Heart
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
Plume, 1998
Voice for the Voiceless - Noble (and Nobel) attempt
+ A Work of Art
Beloved HAD to be written. The African-American tragedy is told here in a way that the slaves could not have articulated themselves - but here their souls cry out. True, Toni Morrison does not quite make this a total work of Art. The devices are too obvious as she fulfills this almost impossible ...
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Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
Mary Shelley
Pocket, 2004
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
+ The Pusuit of Greatness
I bought this for my son for a school reading assignment. He did not like the book at all. Me, on the other hand, I liked it. I read it years & years ago but I enjoyed it the 2nd time around.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Garcia Marquez is great!
+ Excellent, but not typical of Marquez.
+ Well-written but very graphic
+ I saw a man with four hands on the street
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Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
Mike Tidwell
Vintage, 2004
A Must Read
+ One Summer's Day:
+ Great Service
This book is a must read for all politicians, Louisianians, environmentalists, engineers and concerned citizens. The author does an exceptional job in portraying the life of families inhabiting Louisiana's coastline and the devastating impact the leveeing of the Mississippi river has had not only ...
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Vintage, 1994
Anarachy -vs- Authority : an American story
+ The first true crime book is still the best
+ In Cold Blood in a new edition
+ A Commentary on our 21st Century Culture
+ Heart-wrenching
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Touchstone, 1998
Wonderful
+ Great stories about people with brain diseases!
+ MWMHWFH
+ Wonderful book!
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The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
The Devil's In The Details
+ Completely Unique
+ Flannery O'Connor, one twisted sister
+ American Sophocles
+ Dark, very dark
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1989
American translation brings out stylistic subtleties
+ One of the best books ever written.
+ Oh, the absurdity!
+ Perfect
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In Our Time
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1996
Hemingway at his best, the understated short story
+ The Book that Horrified Hemingway's Old Man
+ The essence of Hemingway is here
+ Hemingway's Sketchbook
+ In Our Time
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Vintage, 1999
Sheer Genius (and a good translation)
+ Can read repeatedly without becoming bored.
+ Nikolai Gogol, the Jonathan Swift of Russian Satire and the Charles Dickens of Russian Literature
This is the kind of writing that makes me questions why movies even exist. The style, the sentences, the humor, the feel is all something unique, unpredictable, and unmistakable. These plots are bizarre, intriguing and it is nearly impossible to guess the endings. All this coming from a translated ...
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The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
Charles W. Chestnutt
BiblioBazaar, 2006
Mr. Ryder might aptly be called the dean of the Blue Veins. The original Blue Veins were a little society of colored persons organized in a certain Northern city shortly after the war. Its purpose was to establish and maintain correct social standards among a people whose social condition presented almost unlimited room for improvement.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
Raymond Carver
Vintage, 1989
Wonderful Carver
+ Beautiful and Melancholic
+ A Walk on the Dark Side We Should All Take
+ good book
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Back Bay Books, 2001
Right on time
+ The place where the youth novel was born
+ Will stick with you
What was reported of the book by the seller was true and was delivered on time.
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