Plot: This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of…… Read more “Book Review: This Side Of Paradise”
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Book Review: The Old Curiosity Shop
Plot: The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop is edited with notes and an introduction…… Read more “Book Review: The Old Curiosity Shop”
BookClub Reads: A Room Of One’s Own
Plot: A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series…… Read more “BookClub Reads: A Room Of One’s Own”
Book Review: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Plot: The beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale…… Read more “Book Review: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn”
Book Review: Winnie-the-Pooh: The Complete Collection of Stories and Poems
Plot: A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh is nothing less than a true children’s classic. Winnie-the-Pooh may be a bear of very little brain, but thanks to his friends…… Read more “Book Review: Winnie-the-Pooh: The Complete Collection of Stories and Poems”
BookClub Reads: The Professor
Plot: The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published…… Read more “BookClub Reads: The Professor”
Book Review: Other Voices, Other Rooms
Plot: Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth century. In this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel…… Read more “Book Review: Other Voices, Other Rooms”
Book Review: Little Women
Plot: Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little…… Read more “Book Review: Little Women”
Book Review: The Bell Jar
Plot: Sylvia Plath’s shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity. Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful,…… Read more “Book Review: The Bell Jar”
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