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The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar

Author: Edgar POE   Review: Prolix

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Published: Friday, May 17, 2013 Visits: 4 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: 19 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: 38 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: 50 words : 600

Kidnapped

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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: 20 words : 600

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Summary of Katherine Mansfield’S “a Cup of Tea”

(65 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

Katherine Mansfield’s stories comprises of loneliness and insecurity, the idealization of love unattainable and the bitterness of reality.

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Published: Saturday, December 11, 2010 Visits: 9876 words : 900

A Review on a.R Williams’ “Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues”

(128 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

The writer described the inner coffin of King Tut as ‘iconic’ because they were made up of pure gold.

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Published: Friday, February 18, 2011 Visits: 9595 words : 600

The Address

(143 Ratings)

Author: Marga Minco   Review: ritwik

The story is a tragic account of a daughter who goes in search of her mother's belongings after the war, in Holland.

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Published: Thursday, July 08, 2010 Visits: 9318 words : 600

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

(133 Ratings)

Author: Mark Twain   Review: Tyan Wyss

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Published: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Visits: 9087 words : 900

The Book of Negroes

(22 Ratings)

Author: Lawrence Hill   Review: worldover

The fictional biography of a West African woman who, in 1745, is stolen from her village and taken across the Atlantic to slavery in South Carolina.

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Published: Saturday, November 15, 2008 Visits: 8622 words : 300

The Character of Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire"

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Author: Tennessee Williams   Review: Moreno132

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Published: Saturday, October 27, 2007 Visits: 8327 words : 900

Summary of t.s.eliot’S-'Journey of the Magi’

(55 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

In 1922 T.S.Eliot’s great poem ‘The Waste-Land’, expressed his discontent with the modern world; his later works are mostly on Christian themes.

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Published: Monday, June 28, 2010 Visits: 8299 words : 900

Summary of Saki (H.H. Munro)’S “the Open Window”

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Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

‘A cyclist coming along the road had to run into the hedge to avoid imminent collision.’.

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Published: Monday, March 21, 2011 Visits: 8285 words : 600

Summary of James Kirkup’S- ‘No Men Are Foreign’.

(144 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

James Kirkup feels that we may belong to a different country, or speak a different language but we are essentially the same.

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Published: Monday, June 14, 2010 Visits: 8132 words : 600

A Moveable Feast

(34 Ratings)

Author: Ernest Hemingway   Review: cort

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Published: Friday, June 03, 2005 Visits: 7972 words : 900

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Summary of Jacobs and Rock’S “the Ghost of Jerry Bundler”

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Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

Somers told the story of a house that was haunted by a ghost and tenants could not stay long.

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Published: Monday, December 27, 2010 Visits: 341 words : 900

An Abstract From “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte

(8 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

The scene of this terrible tale, “a monument of unmodified power”, is laid in the rugged moorland country in the north of England.

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Published: Thursday, January 13, 2011 Visits: 279 words : 900

The Art of War

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Author: Sun Tzu   Review: Tillen

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Published: Thursday, March 20, 2008 Visits: 240 words : 300

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