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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain Library)
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This book works brilliantly on two levels. The first being a simple story of boyhood adventures the second as a subversive multi-layered literary masterpiece. You can see this dichotomy clearly from the other reviews on this book.
Mark Twain is able to write a seemingly straightforward adventure book that consistently questions and pok... »
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The Bible According to Mark Twain
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Its facinating how religious fanatics blindly believe every fairytale putforth in a fiction book written by early man with one hell of an imagination. Even when Mark Twain has ripped their world apart with deductive reasoning they will still hold on to their primitive beliefs with a vengence. Enuf of the soap box, I luv how this author gets deep into s... »
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Family Happiness and Other Stories (Thrift Edition)
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I'd never read Tolstoy because I was always intimidated by the size of his major works; thus, a collection of his short stories was an appealing first step.
"Family Happiness" is the primary work in this book. In it, Tolstoy opines on what makes a successful marriage. I was amazed by how prescient to today was his 19th century relationsh... »
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Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
Reading "Vanity Fair," as long as it runs (800 pp. in this edition), is like floating down a slow river on a beautiful summer day, where you take in the s... »
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Heathcliff is a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man inside and out. His character makes this an interesting story. But it was a little tedious to read. Sexua... »
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