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Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated)
Virginia Woolf
Harvest Books, 2005
Nice Resource
This is a great edition for anyone who has never read Virginia Woolf before. There is enough biographical information included at the beginning of the book to give any reader a good idea of Woolf's background before they proceed to the actual novel. It was very helpful ...
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Harvest Books, 2003
Found at Sea
There is a good reason why "Life of Pi" is such a highly recommended and positively reviewed book - it lives up to what it promises. Yann Martel has crafted an incredulous yet believable tale of survival populated with the unlikeliest of characters. It is a story ...
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A Poetry Handbook
Mary Oliver
Harvest Books, 1994
A poet who can know it!
Whether a seasoned poet or yet to discover the poet within, Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook is a must for the library of any poet enthusiast. The short volume encompasses a broad overview of the craft--capturing the Pulitzer Prize winner's impressions of the history, ...
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The Places In Between
Rory Stewart
Harvest Books, 2006
Audio makes this even richer
There are already many fine reviews of this book here, so I'll restrict my comments to the Audiobook. Despite my preference for something I can hold and makes notes on, I decided to listen to an excerpt of this audio prior to purchase. I was immediately taken. The ...
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
Harvest Books, 2008
Simple story with an intricate plot
Hamid has written some of the most beautiful prose that I have read in a long time. His story is simple: Changez, a Pakistani man, tells an American stranger in Lahore about his years in the USA. The book is a long monologue since the American never speaks and the ...
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction)
Harvest Books, 1989
One of these days you must go to the Lighthouse
--"The subject of this brilliant novel is the daily life of an English family in the Hebrides." That's the copy description on the back cover of my edition of "To the Lighthouse." I found it hilarious. I laughed for five minutes.
--So it's an inadequate description ...
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A Room of One's Own (Annotated)
Virginia Woolf
Harvest Books, 2005
Gubar & Woolf: an excellent combination
Susan Gubar writes the excellent introduction to this lovely annotated version of Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Even those who have read this book before will enjoy reading a scholarly annotated edition--the notes and introduction provide valuable insight into Woolf's ...
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The Color Purple (Musical Tie-in)
Alice Walker
Harvest Books, 2006
THE COLOR PURPLE
Celie is the narrator of this novel, she tells her story through her private letters to God. Why God? Well, at fourteen years of age, her father continuously abuses her, has twice impregnated her, and has twice taken her baby away. He tells her that, "she'd better ...
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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
Harvest Books, 1990
The Friedmans following Hayek in support of free markets
Every once in a while a book crystallises a world view. Free To Choose has a good claim in this respect arriving as it did in 1980 . It's a clear exposition of the free market economics that influenced Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, leading to one of the greatest ...
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Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Harvest Books, 1978
Simply brilliant
I thought this book was fantastic. I ordered it only because it was required for my creative writing class, and I was skeptical about it first. Normally, I prefer a story that has a clearly defined plot with distinct characters, and a beginning, a middle, and an end. ...
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The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton
Harvest Books, 1999
a person out of place in this world (yet he truly loved it)
The writings of Merton have always been challenging. Most people think of monks as those who have withdrawn from the world and all of its problems. This is not the case, at least not for Merton. His monastic life granted him the ability to tackle issues of war, ...
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The Whistling Season
Ivan Doig
Harvest Books, 2007
wonderful, original story
One of the best "coming-of-age" stories I've ever read.
Truly touching....you feel for these characters and come to know
them, AND there is a bit of a mystery and secrets to be discovered within, which
Doig hints at and reveals perfectly! Very well-written!
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The Four Loves
C.S. Lewis
Harvest Books, 1971
A primer on love
I found this excellent little book misfiled in a used bookstore and felt immediately that I had to rescue it. I'm very glad I did! This short and utterly readable book is nothing less than an introduction to the subject of love as understood by one of the great ...
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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Harvest Books, 1989
Still Relevant and Important
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf's very intense A Room Of One's Own, is actually a long essay she wrote "with ardour and conviction" on the the topic of women and ...
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Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Sophocles
Harvest Books, 2002
Among the Great Cycles
Fitts and Fitzgerald produce dazzling, straight-to-the-heart renditions of Sophocles' masterpieces! The swiftness and momentum they create is astounding.
The only things to be aware of are a few very-minor-cuts and a sparseness in the rendering of the lines in ...
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