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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

Author: Edgar POE   Review: Prolix

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Published: Friday, May 17, 2013 Visits: 3 words : 300

The Picture of Dorian Gray

(4 Ratings)

Author: Oscar Wilde   Review: PreciousSanders

Summary of Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Published: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Visits: 17 words : 900

The Old Man and the Sea

(5 Ratings)

Author: Ernest Hemingway   Review: PreciousSanders

Summary of Ernest Hemingway's short novel, The Old Man and the Sea.

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Published: Sunday, May 12, 2013 Visits: 36 words : 900

The Great Gatsby

(7 Ratings)

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald   Review: PreciousSanders

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Published: Saturday, May 11, 2013 Visits: 63 words : 900

Travels of Marco Polo

Author: Marco Polo   Review: SURY

The book, Travels of Marco Polo is a very interesting record of perhaps the greatest traveller of ancient times.

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Published: Saturday, May 11, 2013 Visits: 4 words : 600

Crime AND PUNISHMENT

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Author: Fiódor Dostoiévsk   Review: LudeMoraes

Critical view of the literary work of Dostoevsky''''s Crime and Punishment, which addresses the complexity, confusion and frailty of the human soul, but.

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Published: Friday, April 05, 2013 Visits: 48 words : 600

Kidnapped

(1 Ratings)

Author: stevenson   Review: pjthayil

review of the classic novel by r.l. stevenson- KIDNAPPED.

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Published: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 Visits: 37 words : 600

A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens   Review: VickieB

A Tale of Two Cities takes place in London and Paris in the time spanning the beginning and ending of the French Revolution.

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Published: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Visits: 52 words : 600

Lord of the Flies

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Author: William Golding   Review: VickieB

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is filled with symbolism. Nearly every object and character represents a deeper ideal.

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Published: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Visits: 58 words : 600

Captains Coureagous

Author: Rudyard Kipling   Review: ddaluz

Harvey, a youngster, only son of a wealthy New York family, traveled to Europe to complete what his parents considered a refined education.

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Published: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Visits: 19 words : 600

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Summary of William Shakespeare's-'the Seven Ages of Man'

(721 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

William Shakespeare is almost universally acknowledged as the greatest poet-dramatist of all time.

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Published: Thursday, June 24, 2010 Visits: 41431 words : 600

Summary of Mathew Arnold's-"Dover Beach"

(167 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

This is a short summary of Dover Beach by Mathew Arnold.

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Published: Thursday, February 11, 2010 Visits: 27368 words : 600

Summary of Alfred Lord Tennyson's-'the Brook'

(289 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

Alfred Lord Tennyson was a great Victorian poet known for his remarkable craftsmanship. He had a marvellous ears for music.

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Published: Monday, June 14, 2010 Visits: 16405 words : 600

Summary on Walt Whitman's-'O Captain!My Captain

(135 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

Walt Whitman (1819-82), the great American poet of democracy, freedom and human brotherhood, is chiefly known for ‘Leaves of Grass’ published in 1855.

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Published: Monday, June 14, 2010 Visits: 16118 words : 600

Little Dorrit

(58 Ratings)

Author: Charles Dickens   Review: ambika

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Published: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Visits: 13342 words : 600

Summary of Anton Chekhov’S “the Bet”

(72 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

Chekhov had a unique kind of sympathy towards his characters which exhibits all his characteristics as a writer and his indulgence in his characters.

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Published: Thursday, December 16, 2010 Visits: 11781 words : 600

A Review on “We Are Not Afraid to Die” by Gordon Cook and Alan East

(199 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

The family spent months fitting out and they tested the ship in the roughest weather they could find.

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Published: Friday, February 18, 2011 Visits: 11157 words : 900

The Divine Comedy

(42 Ratings)

Author: Dante Alighieri   Review: DRatliff

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Published: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Visits: 11117 words : 600

Black Beauty

(210 Ratings)

Author: Anna Sewell   Review: adc1057

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Published: Sunday, April 08, 2007 Visits: 11066 words : 300

Ranga's Marriage

(190 Ratings)

Author: Masti Venkatesha Iyengar   Review: ritwik

Ranga, the accountant's son, is a rare breed among the village folk who has returned from Bangalore where he has been to pursue studies.

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Published: Sunday, August 08, 2010 Visits: 10367 words : 900

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The Story of Brutus and Diana's Prophecy - The History of the Kin

(24 Ratings)

Author: Geoffrey of Monmoth   Review: mv

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Published: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Visits: 763 words : 600

Moby Dick

(11 Ratings)

Author: Herman Meville   Review: adc1057

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Published: Sunday, March 23, 2008 Visits: 1902 words : 300

Epopeja Helskiej Balangi - GRUPA

(11 Ratings)

Author: Krzysztof Pasierbiewicz   Review: dzieciorob

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Published: Thursday, January 03, 2008 Visits: 196 words : 600

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