Passionate_Reader rated Le petit prince: 4 stars
Le petit prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince, pronounced [lə p(ə)ti pʁɛ̃s]) is a novella by French aristocrat, writer, and aviator …
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Passionate_Reader rated Madame Bovary: 3 stars
Madame Bovary by Flaubert Gustave (Oxford World's Classics)
Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa …
Passionate_Reader rated The Testaments: 5 stars
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of …
Passionate_Reader rated The Handmaid's Tale: 4 stars
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Offred is a "Handmaid" in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she …
Passionate_Reader rated The Trouble with Being Born: 3 stars
Passionate_Reader rated L'Amant: 3 stars
L'Amant by Marguerite Duras
" Dans L'Amant, Marguerite Duras reprend sur le ton de la confidence les images et les thèmes qui hantent toute …
Passionate_Reader rated Candide: 4 stars
Passionate_Reader rated Twelve Angry Men: 4 stars
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in …
Passionate_Reader rated Animal Farm: 4 stars
Animal Farm by George Orwell
George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.
“All animals are …
Passionate_Reader rated Destined for War: 4 stars
Passionate_Reader rated The Cultural Revolution: 4 stars
The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikötter
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging …
Passionate_Reader rated The Story of China: 5 stars
The Story of China by Wood, Michael
Four millennia of Chinese history in 540 pages.
Passionate_Reader rated A house divided: 5 stars
A house divided by Pearl S. Buck (Oriental novels of Pearl S. Buck ;)
Passionate_Reader rated Childhood's end: 5 stars
Childhood's end by Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien …
Passionate_Reader rated Sons: 5 stars
Sons by Pearl S. Buck (Thorndike press large print famous authors)
"Wang Lung lay dying." Thus the action of SONS begins immediately after that of the last chapter of THE GOOD …