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The Picture of Dorian Grey

Author: Oscar Wilde   Review: LUCILU

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Published: Thursday, June 20, 2013 Visits: 2 words : 300

Peasantry

Author: Wladyslaw Reymont   Review: blade506

Summary Peasants Reymont.

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Published: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Visits: 1 words : 900

Lolita

Author: Vladimir Nabokov   Review: abbiefrances

Difficult To Describe.

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Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Visits: 3 words : 600

Death of a Salesman

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Author: Arthur Miller   Review: MykoWilliams

An in-depth review on death, emotions, external and internal conflicts based on Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" play.

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Published: Monday, June 17, 2013 Visits: 15 words : 600

The Normal Christian Life

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Author: Watchman Nee   Review: KyleThorp

A review of The Normal Christian Life, by Watchman Nee.

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Published: Saturday, June 15, 2013 Visits: 4 words : 300

Hamlet

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Author: William Shakespeare   Review: blade506

Summary of Hamlet.

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Published: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 Visits: 35 words : 600

Gloria Victis

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Author: Eliza Orzeszkowa   Review: blade506

Streszczenie Gloria Victis.

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Published: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 Visits: 29 words : 600

Ferdydurke - Criticism of interwar culture and customs

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Author: Witold Gombrowicz   Review: blade506

Criticism of interwar culture and customs in Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.

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Published: Monday, June 03, 2013 Visits: 26 words : 600

Faust

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Author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe   Review: blade506

Summary of "Faust," Goethe.

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Published: Monday, June 03, 2013 Visits: 29 words : 600

Sorrows of Young Werther

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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Review: blade506

Summary of Sorrows of Young Werther.

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Published: Monday, June 03, 2013 Visits: 23 words : 600

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The White Devil

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Author: John Webster   Review: Moth

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Published: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Visits: 5560 words : 600

Summary of D.H. Lawrence’S “the Rocking Horse Winner”

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Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

‘The Rocking Horse Winner is told with sympathy and irony.

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Published: Saturday, December 11, 2010 Visits: 5501 words : 900

Summary of William Douglas’S “Deep Waters”

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Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

The story shows that fear is mostly without much reason.

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Published: Thursday, April 28, 2011 Visits: 5383 words : 900

Summary of George Orwell’S “Shooting an Elephant”

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Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

George Orwell wrote about how he was psychologically compelled to shoot an elephant needlessly.

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Published: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 Visits: 5266 words : 900

Summary on John Keats'-'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'

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Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

John Keats (1795-1821), the youngest of the English Romantics, is famous for his ‘Odes’, and the two ambitious poems ‘Hyperion’ and ‘The Fall of Hype.

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Published: Monday, June 14, 2010 Visits: 5239 words : 900

Summary of William Shakespeare’S- ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’

(74 Ratings)

Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ is a short poem, sung as a song in two of Shakespeare’s comedies.

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Published: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Visits: 4835 words : 300

Summary of Selma Lagerlof’S “the Rat-Trap”

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Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

How love and genuine compassion can make the world a better place to live in and how they make men better beings too.

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Published: Friday, April 29, 2011 Visits: 4821 words : 900

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

(32 Ratings)

Author: Richard Bach   Review: cort

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Published: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 Visits: 4555 words : 600

Bartleby, the Scrivener

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Author: Herman Melville   Review: JustinLennonHoffman

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Published: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Visits: 4535 words : 300

Summary of w.b.yeats-'the Lake Isle of Innisfree'

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Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175

This is a summary of the poem, 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree'by W.B.Yeats.

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Published: Monday, January 25, 2010 Visits: 4502 words : 600

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Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome

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Author: Anne Hart   Review: GreatGrandma

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Published: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Visits: 156 words : 600

La Grande Inversion

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Author: Erik S. Larsen   Review: Christophe250

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Published: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Visits: 84 words : 300

The Old Man and the Sea

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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: 56 words : 900

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