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Little Women (Signet Classics)
Louisa May Alcott
Signet Classics, 2004
The Sticking Together Sisters
Little Women is a story about four sisters who live with their mother. I thought it was a great story because it is really easy to figure out what they are doing in a jiff. The best part of this book is that it shows the characters have feelings and emotions that are ...
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Signet Classics, 2003
Mistress Mary, quite contrary...
The Secret Garden - my mum gave me this book when I was about eight and in the front it says: "for Kate, who will stay up reading until the wee hours of the morning." and it is true. I've read this book many times since then and I discover something new each time. The ...
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Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)
Thomas Paine
Signet Classics, 2003
Freedom and Rights of man
I have read much on the history of our beautiful country and also of other countries as well.
This book by Thomas Paine "COMMON SENSE AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN" is an extraordinary out line of how man should form his government and live in harmony with his fellow man ...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet Classics)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Signet Classics, 2008
only one day in the gulag
No study of the Soviet Union could be complete without reading "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", By Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Unlike Solzhenitsyn's later novels "The First Circle" or "The Gulag Archipelago" that explore the life of a zeck (political prisoners) in ...
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The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, ...
Signet Classics, 2003
Why we are who we are.
You will not know American History without reading these papers. I am a history major and forget or never realized the importance of these papers. I know I never read them in college.
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Animal Farm (Signet Classics)
George Orwell
Signet Classics, 1996
Animal Farm is instructive for our presidential election.
2008 is the ideal time to apply the principles that we have learned from Animal Farm and apply them to November's 2008 Presidential election. Just as Napolean, the pig, instigated a rebellion against the owner of the farm (Jones) by talking about how great things will ...
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Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
Victor Hugo
Signet Classics, 1987
The Genius Without a Brain
Hugo is a man of contradictions: royalist and republican, chaste and amorous, defender and provocateur. It is sometimes difficult to pin down Hugo's politics, and the man paints with a broad brush, but one thing is certain: Victor Hugo is a creative genius of the ...
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Frankenstein (Signet Classics)
Mary Shelley
Signet Classics, 2000
You've seen Karloff, now read the original
Once you read Shelley's classic you're going to scratch your head and wonder: Is this really the book that gave us the Karloff movie? Not to mention Herman Munster and Frankenberry. For over a century and half people have been cannibalizing this book for ideas, movies, ...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics)
Lewis Carroll
Signet Classics, 2000
Excellent Book
This is a book I loved as a child and when I read it now, I find I still enjoy it as much. Great for children and for grown ups as well. Well worth buying.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics)
Mark Twain
Signet Classics, 2002
Nietzsche's choice
In a letter to his friend Franz Overbeck dated 14, November, 1879, Nietzsche says, "If you do not know the latest book by Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it would be a pleasure for me to make you a little present of it."
Both novels define the picturesque ...
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The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Signet Classics)
Signet Classics, 2003
The Origin of our Bill of Rights
"The Anti-Federalist Papers" along with the "Federalist Papers" is an excellent way to really learn about how our Constitution came about. Pseudonyms like The Centinel, The Pennsylvania Farmer, John DeWitt, Cato, et.al. set forth the cons against why various ...
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Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
W. Somerset Maugham
Signet Classics, 2007
Masterpiece of literature
I really enjoy Maugham's writing - it is a pleasure to read. Although written close to 90 years ago, the characters and settings are so alive and present that it comes across as a book that could have been released within the last decade. His characters grow and change ...
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The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
Charles Darwin
Signet Classics, 2003
There is no substitute for reading the master himself
The readers with some science background will not only be amazed, but also charmed by this work. Any lingering doubt about the extent of Darwin's field and bench research will dissolve after seeing the enormous amount of biological observation this man accomplished. ...
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Signet Classics, 2003
Great service and quality
Book arrived quickly and in great condition. No signs of wear, spine not even cracked. Would recommend this seller
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The Inferno (Signet Classics)
Dante Alighieri
Signet Classics, 2001
A powerful translation of a masterpiece
There have been several excellent translations of Dante in the past few years, all worth reading in their own right. But I retain a special affection for John Ciardi's version, as it's the first one I ever read, at the unprepared & overwhelmed age of 15. I knew of its ...
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