Showing posts with label Classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classics. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Titus Andronicus

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Possible illustration of Titus Andronicus Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published :1588-1593? It's about : Titus Andronicus, a Ro...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

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  via  Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published : 1979 It's about : Cornelius Suttree, known to friends and his estranged family a...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

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Memorial to victims of 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, via  Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published : English translation, 19...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

If on a winter's night a traveler bY Italo Calvino

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via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published :1979 in Italian, 1981 in English It's about : If on a winter's night a traveler...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Last Man by Mary Shelley

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  Mary Shelley, via Reviewed by Susanna Published : 1826 It's about : The year is 2096. In the past few decades, England has ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Review: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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Tolstoy, via Reviewed by Christina  (Pssst! Ingrid reviewed this waaaaaay back in the early days of tBB!   Check it out! ) Published ...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Review: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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Reviewed by Christina Published :  In French, 1862.  In an English translation by C.E. Wilbur later that same year.  I read a 2003 edi...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Post: Abridge too Far (har har har)

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poster advertising an illustrated edition, via Post by Christina Sooooo.  If you've been reading all the way to the bottom of my l...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

Review: Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffman, illustrated by Maurice Sendak

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Reviewed by Christina [I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.] Published : 1984 It's abo...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Review: The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll

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Alice Liddell (right) with her sisters in a photo by Lewis Carroll Reviewed by Christina Complete Title and Author info: The Annotate...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Review: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

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Anne Taintor  Reviewed by Christina I read this as part of A Year of Feminist Classics .  Head on over there for some discussion abou...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Review: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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Daphne du Maurier, via Reviewed by Christina Published :1938 It's about :  An unnamed first-person narrator is plucked from her...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Post: Reading Ulysses on Bloomsday

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Our Man  Post by Ingrid That's right, I'm going to read Ulysses today! (Well, part of it.) o from delaissé is hosting a lit...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Review: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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via Reviewed by Connie Published : 1927 It's about : To the Lighthouse centers around the Ramsay family as they visit their beac...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Review: My Antonia by Willa Cather

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Nebraska prairie ( via ) Reviewed by Ingrid Published : 1918 It's about : Jim Burden goes to live with his grandparents in Bl...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Review: The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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via Reviewed by Ingrid Published :1982 It's about : This book is made up of letters written by a young black girl named Cel...