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What do readers say about 1984?
haunting, intelligent, deeply disturbingphenomenal bookfrightening bookworld renowned classicOrwell's classic dystopian fiction warns us of our future, and deals with issues that speak to multiple dangers faced by many nations today.
Winston Smith is a member of 'the party' and subject to constant surveillance by the eyes of Big Brother, th... Read more about 1984
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors ...
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What do readers say about The Great Gatsby?
lyrical and flowedshort and deceptively simpleflowery and descriptiveslow and boringInvited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky b... Read more about The Great Gatsby
He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgmen...
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What do readers say about A Wizard of Earthsea?
pure beautymagical adventurerich language and world buildingpsychological novelOriginally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first of the six now beloved Earthsea titles. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and kn... Read more about A Wizard of Earthsea
The Island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. From the towns in its high valleys and the ports on its dark narrow...
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What do readers say about A Discovery of Witches?
detailed without dragging alonglove story and mysteryslow and boringdanielle steele-style romanceBook one of the New York Times-bestselling All Souls trilogy-"a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight" (People).
Look for the hit TV series "A Discovery of Witches," streaming on AMC Plus, Sundance ... Read more about A Discovery of Witches
The leather-bound volume was nothing remarkable. To an ordinary historian, it would have looked no different from hundreds of other manuscripts in Oxford’s Bodleian Library, ancient and worn. But I kn...
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What do readers say about All the Light We Cannot See?
an amazing novelbeautiful book, but oh so sadheart-wrenchingfantastic novel*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award finalist *
From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New ... Read more about All the Light We Cannot See
In a corner of the city, inside a tall, narrow house at Number 4 rue Vauborel, on the sixth and highest floor, a sightless sixteen-year-old named Marie-Laure LeBlanc kneels over a low table covered en...
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What do readers say about The Blind Assassin?
beautiful and variedmelodramatic science fictioninadequacy and incompetencestandalone reasonable storyTen days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winning novel. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent Industrialist but n... Read more about The Blind Assassin
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. The bridge was being repaired: she went right through the Danger sign. The car fell a hundred feet into the ravine, smashing thr...
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What do readers say about Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
a mole huntbrilliantly written, plotted and imagineda gripping readvery well writtenThe man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement-especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has pen... Read more about Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn’t dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood’s at all. He came in mid-term without an interview, late May it was though no one would hav...
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What do readers say about Invisible Man?
relevance and beautyracism and invisibilityoverwrought and distractingstone cold classicBoth a deeply compelling bestselling novel and an epic milestone of American literature.
Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for ... Read more about Invisible Man
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were o...
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What do readers say about Anathem?
big idea science fictionverbose and laboredplatonism and quantum mechanicsa stephenson novelA #1 New York Times Bestseller, Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe ... Read more about Anathem
Ita:(1) In late Praxic Orth, an acronym (therefore, in ancient texts sometimes written ITA) whose precise etymology is a casualty of the loss of shoddily preserved information that will forever enshro...
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What do readers say about The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?
moving and interestingcomic and carnivalesqueunrequited love for everyoneslow and boringThe complete and unabridged translation of Victor Hugo's classic novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris: a city of vividly intermingled beauty and ugliness, surging with violent life u... Read more about The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago today the Parisians were awakened by the sound of loud peals from all the bells within the triple precincts of the City, the Univ...
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