apetresc rated Murder on the Links: 4 stars
Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help. Upon …
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apetresc rated The Mysterious Affair at Styles: 4 stars
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to …
apetresc rated The Master and Margarita: 5 stars
The Master and Margarita by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.
An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and …
Shogun by James Clavell
SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES • A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn …
apetresc rated The Making of Prince of Persia: 3 stars
The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, it was an Apple II …
apetresc rated History of English Speaking People: 5 stars
apetresc rated Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit: 5 stars
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit by Corey Olsen
"The Hobbit is one of the most widely read and best-loved books of the twentieth century. In December 2012, millions …
apetresc rated A history of the English-speaking peoples.: 5 stars
A history of the English-speaking peoples. by Winston S. Churchill
Sketches of sixteen of Churchill's favorite historical characters selected from his four-volume A history of the English-speaking Peoples, followed by …
Fathers and Sons (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Fathers and Sons (Russian: «Отцы и дети»; Otcy i deti, IPA: [ɐˈtsɨ i ˈdʲetʲi]; archaic spelling Отцы и дѣти), also …
apetresc rated Victory (Penguin Popular Classics): 4 stars
Victory (Penguin Popular Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then …
apetresc rated Don Quixote: 1 star
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don …
apetresc rated Once And Future King: 4 stars
T. H. White: Once And Future King (1977, Berkley)
Once And Future King by T. H. White
T. H. White's modern classic about King Arthur. This particular edition may have been published in Russia, but it is …