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The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999
Superb, Heartfelt Classic
+ A Thoroughly Enjoyed Classic
+ Illusion and Escape
+ Glass Menagerie
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The Maltese Falcon (Everyman's Library Classics)
Dashiell Hammett
Everyman's Library, 2000
You'll Read It, Like It, and Ask for Another!
+ "Falcon" lays an egg...
+ Do You Really Need a Review of This Book?
+ Best Mystery Novel ever
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The Hound of the Baskervilles - Literary Touchstone Edltion
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Prestwick House, Inc., 2006
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Doyle’s complicated vocabulary and allusions. World-famous Sherlock Holmes is once again called upon to put his uncanny detective techniques to work in The Hound of the Baskervilles. This mystery/horror story has become the archetype around which an entire genre has ...
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Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (Tor Classics)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Aerie, 1990
The Monster Within
+ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
This macabre tale--inspired by a dream--starts slowly but with an ever increasing sense of mystery, culminates in a vortex of horror worthy of Poe. What evil could be more impossible to resist or to conquer than Man's inherent flaw of dualtiy? RLS describes it as the innate struggle bewteen ...
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Classic Starts: Around the World in 80 Days (Classic Starts Series)
Jules Verne
Sterling, 2007
Fogg and Passpartoit's Excellent Adventure
+ Good adventure read
Fogg and Passpartout's Excellent Adventure
Around the world in 80 Days by Jules Verne is an adventure book that starts out slowly, but the pace gets faster as you read on. The characters have to get past the bandits. The bandits are Indian people who are like a gang and who have the character, ...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Unabridged Classics)
Jules Verne
Sterling, 2007
Journey to the Center of the Earth
+ A great book for all ages!
I was so pleased to add a quality, yet reasonable priced volume to update our classic section in our library.
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The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel
Gaston Leroux
Harper Perennial, 1988
Better than I'd have thought!
+ EXCELLANT READ!!!!!!
+ The one that started it all.
+ Phantom of the Opera original novel
+ No one ever sees the Angel
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Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pocket, 2005
Classic that should be mandatory reading
+ Treasure Island
+ Writen in XIX Century and good
+ An adventure in learning!
+ Treasure Island
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics)
Mark Twain
Signet Classics, 2002
Nietzsche's choice
+ A Trip back
+ Alvin Bruce
+ Tom and Huck
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The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
William Morrow, 1997
A great indroduction to Bradbury's work.
+ Youthful Perspective
+ Classic Bradbury
+ Masterpiece
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Quiet Vision Pub, 2002
There's more Under the Sea than you think
The book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was an amazing book. Jules Verne explores the wildness of the sea, telling the adventure of explorer Captain Nemo and Professor Aronnax aboard the Nautilus. The book starts with Aronnax sailing on a ship to find and destroy a certain "animal" that men have ...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection)
Agatha Christie
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2006
a personal favorite
+ Not her best, but still very good
+ A Great Mystery
+ Her Most Famous Murder Mystery
+ Good writing, but not really my type of book
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Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
Mary Shelley
Pocket, 2004
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
+ The Pusuit of Greatness
I bought this for my son for a school reading assignment. He did not like the book at all. Me, on the other hand, I liked it. I read it years & years ago but I enjoyed it the 2nd time around.
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Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
Thornton Wilder
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003
The Face of Eternity and the Mind of God
+ Our Town Script
+ Very Wonderful Play
+ Our Town, a short yet entertaining read that captures the several stages of life.
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Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)
Jane Austen
Vintage, 2007
Pride and Prejudice
+ The best book ever written
+ ITS SOO ROMANITIC!!!
+ An amazing classic
+ Perfection
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