Tag: classics
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September 19, 2006 11:59 AM EDT --
As of this morning, ( Sept. 20, 2006) Google offers free PDF downloads on Google Book Search of books in the public domain. You can download such titles as Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Essays," . . . more
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September 27, 2006 12:59 PM EDT --
Since 1985, Banned Books Week has been held the last week of September. That means that this week is time for you to celebrate your right to read any book you wish.
Last year's most challenged book, . . . more
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October 07, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Title: Northanger Abbey
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN: 1853260436
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics/165 pages
This was the first novel by Jane Austen but published much later. This is a satire of the reading . . . more
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October 09, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
Title: Kim
Author: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN-13: 9780140183528
Publisher: Penguin Group/338pages
Kim is a story about a British orphan who is thirteen years of age and has been raised on the streets of Lahore, . . . more
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October 10, 2007 01:44 PM EDT --
Title: The Coral Island
Author: R M Ballantyne
First Published: 1857
ISBN-13: 9780140367614
Pages: 296/ Penguin Young Readers Group
Rating: 4/5
I read it first when I was 13 years old. Now I re-read it . . . more
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November 27, 2007 04:27 AM EST --
Title: Pollyanna
Author: Eleanor H Porter
ISBN: 1853261459
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics/1913
Genre: Children’s Fiction
Pages: 188
Somehow, I had missed reading this, although . . . more
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February 06, 2007 08:41 PM EST --
Let’s go back to the end.
John Irving always begins his novels with the last sentence. It may be awhile before his next novel hits bookstores, but he's already begun the process by penning . . . more
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February 05, 2007 04:41 PM EST --
Fifty years ago, two young children sat staring out the window. Suddenly, they looked, and they saw him step in on the mat. They looked at they saw him, the cat in the hat. And he said to them, "Why . . . more
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April 06, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
"All my life since Aeneas' death might seem a weaving torn out of the loom unfinished, a shapeless tangle of threads making nothing, but it is not so; for my mind returns as the shuttle returns . . . more
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February 01, 2007 05:12 PM EST --
It was during the writing of perhaps his most popular novel, The World According to Garp, that novelist John Irving discovered he had to know where he was going before he could get there. Although he didn't . . . more
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February 11, 2007 01:49 PM EST --
I had the honor of seeing Paul Ruseaubagina speak at the CityLit Festival III last year. The event marked his first stop on a tour promoting his book, An Ordinary Man.The memoir, like the movie . . . more
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January 26, 2007 09:34 AM EST --
E.L. Doctorow is sometimes pegged a historical novelist. His Ragtime visits the intertwining lives of immigrants in the early twentieth century. The Waterworks is set in the dark corners of 1871 New York . . . more
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February 22, 2007 05:14 PM EST --
Have a passion for the written word? You're invited to fulfill your literary longings at Gather's newest group: Writeful.
Named after my popular literary blog (www.writeful.blogspot.com), . . . more
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February 07, 2007 03:11 PM EST --
I've recently finished polishing Tracks, a novel in stories.
As Alice McDermott will tell you, prose is never finished (see previous post of that title). But there comes a time . . . more
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February 01, 2007 09:52 AM EST --
Ian McEwan, one of Britian's most popular authors, has a story to tell. It may seem like a plot right out of one of his novels -- but it's actually an episode from his real life.
In 1942, before . . . more
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