Ben_Byrd rated Zorba the Greek: 2 stars
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
An Englishman discovers that he has come into a small inheritance in Crete and sets out to claim it. When …
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Ben_Byrd rated Mad Anthony Wayne and the new nation: 3 stars
Ben_Byrd rated The Sun Also Rises: 4 stars
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British …
Ben_Byrd rated Letters from a Stoic: 5 stars
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca the Younger (The Penguin classics L210)
This selection of Seneca's letters shows him upholding the ethical ideals of Stoicism—the wisdom of the self-possessed person immune to …
Rubicon by Tom Holland
A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., …
Ben_Byrd rated Wuthering Heights: 1 star
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families …
Ben_Byrd rated Under the glacier: 3 stars
Nostromo (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Joseph Conrad
A gripping tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion, set amid the mist-shrouded mountains of a fictional South American republic, employs …
Ben_Byrd rated The Twenty-Seventh City: 1 star
Ben_Byrd rated Rabbit run ; Rabbit redux: 2 stars
John Updike: Rabbit run ; Rabbit redux (2003, Ballantine Books)
Rabbit run ; Rabbit redux by John Updike (The rabbit novels / John Updike -- v. 1)
Ben_Byrd rated The Winter of Our Discontent: 4 stars
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Ethan Hawley, a descendant of proud New England sea captains, works as a clerk in the grocery store owned by …
Ben_Byrd rated The Great Gatsby: 1 star
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the …
Ben_Byrd rated Act of Oblivion: 3 stars
Ben_Byrd rated Babbitt (Bantam Classics): 4 stars
Babbitt (Bantam Classics) by Sinclair Lewis
"Zenith is the finest example of American life and prosperity to be found anywhere." Zenith is the Midwestern city where …
