Category: Non-Fiction

Review: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

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The Autobiography of Mark Twain Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 20  Charles Neider considered Twain’s Autobiography to be “a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.”  While I haven’t read the Adams autobiography,… Continue Reading “Review: The Autobiography of Mark Twain”

Category: Autobiography, Mark Twain, Non-Fiction, Victorian, Victorian Celebration

Review: Who is Mark Twain? by Mark Twain

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

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Who is Mark Twain? By Mark Twain Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 14 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impacful Who is Mark Twain? is a collection of short stories, essays and letters, published posthumously by Twain’s editors.  It encompasses a… Continue Reading “Review: Who is Mark Twain? by Mark Twain”

Category: Essay, Fiction, Humor, Mark Twain, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Politics, Religion, Satire, Short Story, Sociology

Review: Existentialism and Human Emotion by Jean-Paul Sartre

Posted on July 2, 2010 by

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I can’t write a long review on this one, because I just don’t feel up to it. I’m not a philosopher but, that being said, Sartre (and the translator) certainly made existentialism, to an extent, accessible to me as someone rather unfamiliar with the… Continue Reading “Review: Existentialism and Human Emotion by Jean-Paul Sartre”

Category: Book Review, Essay, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Review: Five Dialogues by Plato

Posted on June 29, 2010 by

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Summary: Plato’s Five Dialogues includes essays which recount the days leading up to Socrates’ trial for “corrupting the youths of Athens”, as well as Socrates’ defense (apologia) to the jury, and his final conversation with his closest friends before his induced suicide by hemlock.… Continue Reading “Review: Five Dialogues by Plato”

Category: Book Review, Essay, History, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Plato

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