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Just So Stories (Selected) (BBC Audio)by: Rudyard Kipling February 04, 2008 Best Selling > Books > The Classics |
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I'd always enjoyed being read and later reading myself the Just So Stories. With children of my own I started them on these stories and having a cd of them means we can enjoy them on the move. The joy of hearing Jonnie Morris' super animal voice characterisations just adds to the enjoyment - takes me back to watching Animal Magic - deep joy!
Four year old daughter enjoys listening to the stories but my nine year old son has become a great fan - this now regularly is on his cd player in his room. Buy this and you'll all be able to listen together and enjoy. >>More Details |
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Little Dorrit (Wordsworth Classics)by: Charles Dickens October 01, 1996 Best Selling > Books > The Classics |
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The book is delightful and I enjoyed it immensely, the only downside of this paperback edition being that pages fall out as you turn them over and read them (only a problem if you drop them, which I did!). But what can you expect for £1.99?
It gives a very interesting insight into Victorian life of both poor and rich, and links what goes on in the outside world with the inner thoughts and the actions of individuals. Wonderful descriptions of people and places. Better than the television production, though rather long and needing a lot of concentration. Well worth buying, well worth reading, and I would have given it 5-star for content, but I marked it down to 4-star because of the many loose pages. >>More Details |
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Little Dorritby: Charles Dickens October 30, 2008 Best Selling > Books > The Classics |
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The book is delightful and I enjoyed it immensely, the only downside of this paperback edition being that pages fall out as you turn them over and read them (only a problem if you drop them, which I did!). But what can you expect for £1.99?
It gives a very interesting insight into Victorian life of both poor and rich, and links what goes on in the outside world with the inner thoughts and the actions of individuals. Wonderful descriptions of people and places. Better than the television production, though rather long and needing a lot of concentration. Well worth buying, well worth reading, and I would have given it 5-star for content, but I marked it down to 4-star because of the many loose pages. >>More Details |
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics)by: Winifred Watson April 24, 2008 Best Selling > Books > The Classics |
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Such a delicious fairytale. One of those books that leaves you with a big sense of loss when you've finished it and drives you to a bookshop in search of titles by the same author (unfortunately there aren't any others). Vivid, funny and utterly unputdownable. Immerse yourself - it's like having a long bubble bath with a chilled bottle of champagne by your side.
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)by: F Scott Fitzgerald January 25, 2007 Best Selling > Books > The Classics |
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During the course of a year I am intending to return to classic novels. It would be unrealistic to try and rate these alongside new novels so I'm not even going to try - just simple reviews.
The power in Fitzgerald's writing is its starkness and sparsity. The Great Gatsby is a short novel by any standards but its power lies in the way the story creeps up on you. It's almost as if nothing seems to be happening but then you realise that in a very subtle way the action has carried you away. Set in the Jazz area on Long Island it's a story of greed, love and lust, violence where things are rarely what they seem. Fitzgerald weaves intrigue into the plot. We are never really sure about who Gatsby is and what brings him to Long Island. ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Heart of Darknessby: Joseph Conrad January 25, 2007 Best Selling > Books > The Classics |
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I first read this a couple of years ago as part of an English Lit course, in which we studied in depth the language used.
The first thing to bear in mind is that this book is a product of its time. Of course there's inherent racism (Conrad's dehumanising presentation of the Africans as 'black shadows') but despite this, Heart of Darkness was an absolutely groundbreaking piece of colonial literature. As to the style, which people have claimed is dry and unreadable (sorry that Conrad didn't have the courtesy to divide the novella into easy bitesize chapters!) it IS dense. But the language is so rich - pick out any one paragraph and you could talk about the literary techniques and the beautiful language used for hours! The ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics)by: Jane Austen January 25, 2007 Best Selling > Books > The Classics |
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I really enjoyed this far more then I thought it would. Its lovely to step back into the world of Austen and see what love can be like at its most innocent. Beautifully written with comedy throughout, a must for all romance fans! I only wish I had read this sooner
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Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics)by: Charles Dickens September 25, 2003 Best Selling > Books > The Classics |
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Warning: this review contains spoilers.
The major strengths of the novel are its characters and atmosphere. Every character is sharply drawn, we can visualise them in our mind's eye; Dickens has the ability to invest each of them with their own distinctive speech patterns. He can also create atmosphere whether it be describing the Marshalsea or the interior of Mrs Clennam's house. He is wonderful at creating a scene, of placing his characters in that scene and exploring the interaction of each. The weakness of the novel is its plot. It never really gains momentum and there is always a sense of stasis, of things about to develop, but never doing so. We are presented with a series of tableaux and then, suddenly, something happens with no relation ... Read More: >>More Details |
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A Christmas Carol (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Wordsworth Children's Classics)by: Charles Dickens October 01, 1993 Best Selling > Books > The Classics |
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It seems that lots of Christmas traditions were born in the UK between 15th and 19th century. Charles Dickens cleverly used the background of the Victorian houses and societies and produced a splendid Christmas story.
The highlight of this classic is that Mr Scrooge gradually becomes aware of his selfishness and indifference whilst being hooked on earning a lot of money for himself, while his former colleague, Marley takes him to the world where an awful number of people are suffering from the poverty. Marley who died seven years ago feels extremely guilty for ever not helping the poor when he was alive. Having become a ghost, he begs Mr Scrooge to provide goodwill to the miserable people. Moreover, he is taken to various places, in line with Christmas in his past, ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics)by: Robert Louis Stevenson January 25, 2007 Best Selling > Books > The Classics |
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You could waste a lot of words recommending this fireside tale, unlike Robert Louis Stevenson when writing it. It is as crisp as the winter evening so right for its reading, so settle down with sufficient refreshment, because once you start you will have to finish, and simply enjoy it.
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