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Possession: A Romance
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"Literary critics make natural detectives," says Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters, and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud discovers a love affair between the two Victorian writers the pair has dedicated their lives to studying: Randolph ... »
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The Annotated Brothers Grimm
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A beautifully bound volume of the Grimm collection. With its side notes and explanations of what is going on in each tale, what better way to teach children the origin of these stories and gain a greater appreciation of its creation.
This book is just that book to have on your library shelf. I am delighted to have it. (And I am well over 13 yea... »
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics)
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This is one of those books you "should" read. An "improving" book, as it were. The stories tend to be repetitive, and the human behavior is wholly illogical at times...but these are fairy tales, of course.
The names of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad have penetrated the popular culture, and, unsurprisingly, the stories involving these charac... »
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Angels & Insects: Two Novellas
Two novellas, both set in Byatt's favorite period, the Victorian era. The first novella carried, in my opinion, the weaker second, but both are good reads... »
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The Bostonians (Modern Library Classics)
In this outing, as with other of Henry James's novels, the reader will continually be bowled over by this author's knack for language, his absolute comfor... »
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Villette (Modern Library Classics)
I came to "Villette" after having read and fallen in love with "Jane Eyre". When I first began reading "Villete" I knew that I should expect a long expos... »
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