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What do readers say about The Picture of Dorian Gray?
brilliant and witty eloquent words and descriptions vivid and beautiful prose dense and confoundingDorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret:... More details on The Picture of Dorian Gray
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more del...
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What do readers say about The Importance of Being Earnest?
to be sincere witty high-brow humor his final play wit and humorA farce, one of the best ever written, cleverly constructed and delightfully amusing. There is only the slightest attempt at the sketching of character, while most of the personages are at best but caricatures; the Wilde's skill is brought to bear ch... More details on The Importance of Being Earnest
ALGERNON. I'm sorry for that, for your sake. I don't play accurately – any one can play accurately – but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I ke...
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What do readers say about Unseen Academicals?
british football fans very heavy going it is incredibly uneven a discworld bookThe wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things-wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime-but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. So when Lord Vetinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchanc... More details on Unseen Academicals
{*Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari,...
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What do readers say about Moab Is My Washpot?
brutally honest and self-relativising incredibly honest and evocative his childhood and adolescence theft, and homosexualityA number one bestseller in Britain, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented ... More details on Moab Is My Washpot
FOR SOME REASON I recall it as just me and Bunce. No one else in the compartment at all. Just me, eight years and a month old, and this inexpressibly small dab of misery who told me in one hot, husky ...
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What do readers say about The Tao of Pooh?
light-hearted and simple fun and thought-provoking tertiary level text poetic, beautiful, and insightfulFor Taoists everywhere, the New York Times bestseller from the author of The Te of Piglet.
Happy 90th birthday (10/14/16), to one of the world's most beloved icons of literature, Winnie-the-Pooh!
The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! I... More details on The Tao of Pooh
Let's imagine that we have walked down a narrow sheet in a large Chinese city and have found a small shop that sells scrolls painted in the classic manner. We go inside and ask to be shown something a...
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What do readers say about Major Barbara?
very witty satire runs a soup-kitchen a millionaire named undershaft brilliant and wittyMajor Barbara is thought to be one of Shaw's most controversial works. While trying to give a realistic presentation of how he saw Christianity, many accused him of blasphemy. Major Barbara Undershaft thought it hypocrisy that her church accepted cha... More details on Major Barbara
BEFORE dealing with the deeper aspects of Major Barbara, let me, for the credit of English literature, make a protest against an unpatriotic habit into which many of my critics have fallen. Whenever m...
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What do readers say about The Universe in a Nutshell?
hard to follow history of physics interesting and reasonably rewarding lots of color illustrationsStephen Hawking's phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to readers all over the world.
Now, in a major publishing event, Hawking returns with a lavishly illust... More details on The Universe in a Nutshell
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What do readers say about The Fashion in Shrouds?
brilliant and witty rather plodding nature standard 30s style a series of murdersA VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?
First, there is a skeleton in a dinner jacket. Then a corpse in a golden aeroplane. After an... More details on The Fashion in Shrouds
Probably the most exasperating thing about the Fashion is its elusiveness. Even the word has a dozen definitions, and when it is pinned down and qualified, as “the Fashion in woman’s dress,” it become...
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What do readers say about A Handful of Dust?
tongue-in-cheek way with words crisp straightforward prose an enjoyable short novel nice and light'A whole Gothic world had come to grief . . .'
Beautiful Lady Brenda Last lives at Hetton Abbey, a crumbling Gothic monstrosity that is her husband Tony's pride and joy. Bored and restless after seven years of marriage, she drifts into an affair with... More details on A Handful of Dust
“No one I am thankful to say,” said Mrs. Beaver, “except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court. They were in no danger. The fire never properly reach...
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What do readers say about How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It?
first person narratives inventive comings and goings it became very tedious finely tailored plot"Full of invention and ingenuity . . . Great fun." - SFX on Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
This is the history of how the City was saved, by Notker the professional liar, written down because eventually the truth always seeps through.
Th... More details on How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It
“Of course. And they point out that the man bears an uncanny resemblance to the king. Yes, the man says, he’s my umpteenth cousin umpteen times removed, that’s why I grew the beard, because it’s embar...
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