Blogs about: Classic Literature

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Literature Concerns1 comment

juliekay wrote 1 day ago: Over the past year, I have been reading a variety of young adult books, hoping to find more options … more »

Tags: Books, Education, YA Literature

Daniel Deronda

audiobookreview wrote 4 days ago: Daniel Deronda, a George Eliot novel, is a downloadable audiobook as well as a DVD. It is a comp … more »

Book Club Classics -Classics Meme!11 comments

thekoolaidmom wrote 2 weeks ago: In order to promote her new site, LitGuides.com (a site dedicated to helping teachers/students navig … more »

Tags: Reading, 1984, Animal Farm, Banned Books, Bible, Books, Candide, Christian, Classics

Read the Classics this Summer1 comment

Cindy Hudson wrote 3 weeks ago: If your mother-daughter book club doesn’t meet in the summer, this may be a good time for you … more »

Tags: Book Lists

Ernest Hemingway's Son Celebrates 80th Birthday

R.W. Ridley wrote 3 weeks ago: Patrick Hemingway turned 80 today.  What’s it like being the son of one of America’s greatest w … more »

Tags: News I find Interesting, Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult books, Books for teens, Books for Boys, Ernest Hemingway, patrick hemingway

Summer Reading

jazzmuzzle wrote 1 month ago: As most people do, I take advantage of the extended daylight of the summer months (and the coinciden … more »

Tags: Books, 20th century authors, Barnes & Noble, barnes and noble, Literature, Reading, summer

A Midsummer Night's Dream

chainletters wrote 1 month ago: 36. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. 309 p. Published by Arden Shakespeare in … more »

Tags: Fiction, A Midsummer Night's Challenge, Books, A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare

Two Web sites I can no longer live without

rhibowman wrote 1 month ago: Pandora.com allows you to create your own radio stations. I have yet to stump the site with an arti … more »

Tags: W is for Wandering, Pandora Radio, dailylit, The Count of Monte Cristo

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (read by Jim Dale)

goshendirector wrote 1 month ago: The unabridged addition of “Around the World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne and read by Jim … more »

Tags: Books on CD, YA Fiction, Jim Dale, 80 days, Jules Verne, Travel

The Pearl4 comments

sadiejean wrote 1 month ago: —3.5— John Steinbeck’s The Pearl is the story of Kino, a poor Mexican pearl harve … more »

Tags: Book Reviews, The Pearl, john steinbeck

84, Charing Cross Road2 comments

sadiejean wrote 1 month ago: —5— I saw a review of this book on the blog A Girl Walks Into a Bookstore, and it sound … more »

Tags: Book Reviews, 84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff

Who Wrote the Works of William Shakespeare? 1 comment

audiobooksnow wrote 1 month ago: Wise scholars have been debating the authorship of William Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets for … more »

Tags: Biographical, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, works of william shakespeare

New book uses "The Office" to probe timeless philosophical questions

edsweb wrote 1 month ago: Most of us would agree that we are who we are. But could it also be said that we are who we think we … more »

Tags: nonfiction, essays, Articles, Television, Entertainment, News, Comedy, andy brent, Aristotle

The Crucible

sadiejean wrote 1 month ago: —4.5— One of the books I picked up for the library’s Summer Reading Program was A … more »

Tags: Book Reviews, Arthur Miller, the crucible

School Reading3 comments

bookchronicle wrote 1 month ago: On my recent Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights post, there were some great comments about rereadin … more »

Tags: Assigned Reading, High School, Remembering, summe reading

The Plague

sadiejean wrote 1 month ago: —4— The Plague by Albert Camus is an insightful work of fiction that explores a communi … more »

Tags: Book Reviews, Albert Camus, The Plague

Walden by Henry David Thoreau (read by Peter Bradbury)

goshendirector wrote 1 month ago: This is by far the most difficult review to write, because I had previously never read it.  It had … more »

Tags: Books on CD, Nature, spiritual learning, thoreau

Summer Reading List: Anthologies to Know and Love

ed biblioklept wrote 1 month ago: No summer reading is complete without imbibing the variegated prose of an anthology. The following a … more »

Tags: Literature, Books, Comics, Short Stories, McSweeney's, best, Anthologies, COLLECTIONS, O. Henry Prize

Hamlets melancholy

audiobooksnow wrote 1 month ago: The Elizabethans inherited from the middle ages a view of man’s body as being composed of a mi … more »

Tags: Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, hamlet


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