Category: Literature

Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Posted on September 20, 2012 by

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 38 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in… Continue Reading “Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen”

Category: 1001 Books, Book Review, British Literature, Classics, Jane Austen, Literature

Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 37 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) Nick Carraway, our “honest” narrator, is a small-town, Midwestern boy who once spent some time in New York… Continue Reading “Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald”

Category: 1001 Books, American Mythology, Classics, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fiction, Jazz Age, Literature, Modernism, Mythology

Review: A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

Posted on September 9, 2012 by

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Book Review Template Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 36 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) “If her image flashed into his mind, it came with a brightness of dark eyes, her pale triangular cheeks with long earrings,… Continue Reading “Review: A Lost Lady by Willa Cather”

Category: American Lit, Book Review, Classics, Literature, Realism, Regionalism, Willa Cather

Review: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Posted on September 2, 2012 by

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Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 33 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is perhaps the perfect example of American Naturalism.  In it, a small-town Wisconsin girl, Carrie Meeber, moves… Continue Reading “Review: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser”

Category: 1001 Books, Book Review, Classics, Doctoral Work, Literature, Naturalism, Philosophy, Re-Reads, Realism, Theodore Dreiser

Review: Sanditon by Jane Austen (#AustenInAugustRBR)

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

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Sanditon by Jane Austen Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 31 Sanditon, though unfinished, is perhaps Austen’s most exciting, unusual, and promising piece of literature.  Unlike The Watsons, whose plot and ending can be relatively inferred, Sanditon is quite different from any of her other… Continue Reading “Review: Sanditon by Jane Austen (#AustenInAugustRBR)”

Category: Austen in August, Book Review, British Literature, Fiction, Jane Austen, Literature, Unfinished Works

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