apetresc rated A Tale of Two Cities: 5 stars
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, James Gibson
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with …
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apetresc rated Debt: The First 5,000 Years: 4 stars
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …
apetresc rated The Perfect King: 5 stars
apetresc rated Portnoy's Complaint: 5 stars
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration …
apetresc rated Globe: life in Shakespeare's London: 4 stars
Globe: life in Shakespeare's London by Catharine Arnold
The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer …
apetresc rated A Perfectly Good Family: 3 stars
A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North …
apetresc rated Utilitarianism, Liberty & Representative Government: 3 stars
apetresc rated Pet Sematary: 5 stars
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
From the Flap:
Can Stephen King scare even himself?
Has the author of Carrie, The Shining, Cujo, and Christine ever …
apetresc rated Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.: 4 stars
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. by William Shakespeare (Annotated English classics)
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater …
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet , is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime …
apetresc rated The Fears of Henry IV: 5 stars
William Shakespeare: Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare the Annotated Classic Edition (2020, Independently Published)
Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare the Annotated Classic Edition by William Shakespeare
King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. …
apetresc rated The Tragedy Of Richard Iii: 5 stars
The Tragedy Of Richard Iii by William Shakespeare
"containing his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence, the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes, his tyrannicall usurpation, with the …
apetresc rated King Henry VI part 3: 5 stars
apetresc rated King Henry VI: 5 stars
King Henry VI by William Shakespeare
King Henry VI by William Shakespeare