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What do readers say about The Fellowship of the Ring?
adventure and fairy talea holy grailtoo much folklorea wonderful classicThe opening novel of The Lord of the Rings-the greatest fantasy epic of all time-which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
The dark, fearsome Ringwr... Read more about The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the wonder of the Shire for sixty years, ever since his remarkable disappearance and unexpected return. The riches he had brought back from his trav...
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What do readers say about One Hundred Years of Solitude?
exotic, epical stylefantastic and abusurdist elementsoriginality and creativitylatin american magic realism"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is pr... Read more about One Hundred Years of Solitude
MANY YEARS LATER, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty ...
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What do readers say about Stardust?
a fairytalefantasy prosea lovely faerie talethe story is wonderful and charmingNow a major motion picture-this charming fairy tale by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, weaves a magical story set long ago in the tiny English village of Wall, a place where things are not quite what they seem.
Go and catch a falling star ... Read more about Stardust
Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel OliverTwist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face on cold paper; Mr. Morse had recently announced a way of t...
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What do readers say about Water for Elephants?
wooden and sometimes cheesylively and tighta depression-era circus trainlove and betrayalOver 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide
#1 New York Times Bestseller
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
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When you’re five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I’m twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange sta...
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What do readers say about The Wizard of Oz?
a little antiquatedvibrant and descriptivean early reader versionsparseness of detailBaum's story of Dorothy, carried by a cyclone from a Kansas farm to the land of the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion, was published in May 1900.
By the following January, 100,000 copies had been sold, and the book has ever since been an undi... Read more about The Wizard of Oz
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What do readers say about Don Quixote?
repetition and reiterationfunny and entertainingreal adventure storieslooney tunes humor"Don Quixote, a lanky scarecrow of a man with his withered face and lantern jaw, dons his rusty armour and mounts his ramshackle steed, Rozinante. With lance couched he still rides through our lives, followed by his potbellied squire Sancho Panza."... Read more about Don Quixote
In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a...
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What do readers say about Little Women?
sentimental, didactic, dopeya child's bookeasy and understandable stylesimple tone and wordingLouisa May Alcott shares the innocence of girlhood in this classic coming of age story about four sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy are responsi... Read more about Little Women
The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly, “We haven’t got Father, and shall not have him for a long time.” She didn’t say...
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What do readers say about Love in the Time of Cholera?
lush and beautifullovely and descriptivedense, poetic, and romanticthird person flashbacksA poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics.
Florentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic w... Read more about Love in the Time of Cholera
IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed it as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he had hurried on ...
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What do readers say about Winnie the Pooh?
funny and entertainingclever without being preciousa classic bookfriendship and kindnessHappy 90th birthday, to one of the world's most beloved icons of children's literature, Winnie-the-Pooh!... Read more about Winnie the Pooh
Well, it just happened that you had been to a party the day before at the house of your friend Piglet, and you had balloons at the party. You had had a big green balloon; and one of Rabbit’s relations...
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What do readers say about If You Give a Mouse a Cookie?
very entertaining and organizedmouse cookies booka classic bookhow simple it wasWhen a generous boy shares a cookie with a hungry mouse, it is the beginning of a chain of events that keeps the boy busy all day long, and might keep him busy for days to come. If you give a mouse a cookie, after all, he's bound to ask for a glass o... Read more about If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
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