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Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Washington Irving
Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as …
chris rated The Call of the Wild/White Fang: 3 stars
The Call of the Wild/White Fang by Jack London
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, …
chris rated The Man in the Iron Mask: 4 stars
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas, E. L. James (The d'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue.
In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, …
chris 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 …
chris rated The Taming of the Shrew (New Folger Library Shakespeare): 3 stars
The Taming of the Shrew (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and tames" the town shrew. …
chris rated The Scarlet Letter: 5 stars
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set …
chris rated Frankenstein: 4 stars
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks …
chris rated Lord of the Flies: 5 stars
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century; Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a …
chris rated The last of the Mohicans: 4 stars
The last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper
"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly …
chris rated Mary Poppins: 4 stars
Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her …
chris rated The Borrowers: 5 stars
The Borrowers by Mary Norton (The Borrowers, #1)
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from …
chris rated Black Beauty: 3 stars
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. …