Sarah Avery rated Heart of Darkness: 4 stars
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River …
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Writer of epic and contemporary fantasy. Winner of 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Escaped academic.
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Sarah Avery rated A Tale of Two Cities: 5 stars
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, James Gibson
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with …
Sarah Avery rated Dracula: 5 stars
Dracula by Bram Stoker
This diary style book by Bram Stoker continues to put fear into the hearts of many who read it. Count …
Sarah Avery rated Their Eyes Were Watching God: 5 stars
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
I loved Jonah's Gourd Vine -- thought some of her short stories very fine -- and feel that this measures …
Sarah Avery rated Beloved: 5 stars
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the …
Sarah Avery rated Absalom, Absalom!: 5 stars
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (Vintage international)
Sarah Avery rated Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club: 5 stars
Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club by Philip Burnham (The big read)
Includes ten lesson plans, each with focus topic, discussion activities, writing exercises, and homework assignments Also includes capstone projects, suggested …
Sarah Avery rated Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: 5 stars
Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan …
Sarah Avery rated Northanger Abbey: 4 stars
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among …
Sarah Avery rated Metamorphosis: 5 stars
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like …
Sarah Avery rated Mama Day: 5 stars
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
Mama day is about many things. It's the story of Ophelia and George two black American's and how they fall …
Sarah Avery rated The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: 4 stars
Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) (Signet Classics) by Henry David Thoreau
Henry Thoreau's "Walden" is a book about escaping from civilization in order to embrace your spiritual life
