MY BOOK REVIEWS –CLASSIC LITERATURE

 

These reviews and abstracts cover just about every book I have read recently. Scroll through the whole alphabetical list of abstracts and reviews below, or look through the following genre and sub-category list

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AESOP FABLES   

ARISTOPHANES - LYSISTRATA

HONORE DE BALZAC – THE ATHEIST’S MASS  

BECKETT, SAMUEL – WAITING FOR GODOT

THE BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS

THE BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - THE GOSPELS

AMBROSE BIERCE - AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA

AMBROSE BIERCE - CIVIL WAR STORIES

AMBROSE BIERCE - THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

AMBROSE BIERCE - THE MAN AND THE SNAKE

AMBROSE BIERCE - THE MOONLIT ROAD

AMBROSE BIERCE - MOXON'S MASTER

BEN BRIERLEY – SPRING BLOSSOMS AND AUTUMN LEAVES  

CARROLL, LEWIS - ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND / THROUGH THE  LOOKING GLASS 

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY - THE CANTERBURY TALES (INDEX OF LINKS TO THE FULL SET)

CHEKHOV, ANTON – MISERY

CONAN DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR – THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES   

 

DANIEL DEFOE - MOLL FLANDERS

 

ALEXANDER DUMAS - THE THREE MUSKETEERS  

ELIOT, T. S. – THE WASTE LAND  

DE SAINT EXUPERY, ANTOINE  - THE LITTLE PRINCE 

 

FOXE, JOHN – FOXE’S BOOK OF MARTYRS

KALHIL GIBRAN – THE PROPHET

 

GREER, GERMAINE - THE FEMALE EUNUCH 

         

HEMMINGWAY, ERNEST - FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

THE HINDU ART OF LOVE

 

HODGSON, WILLIAM HOPE - THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND  

HUNT, JAMES LEIGH - ABOU BEN ADHEM –     

JACOBS, W W - THE MONKEY'S PAW

FRANZ KAFKA – DESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE

FRANZ KAFKA – METAMORPHOSIS

FRANZ KAFKA – THE SHORTER STORIES 1st Review.

FRANZ KAFKA – THE SHORTER STORIES 2cd Review

FRANZ KAFKA – THE SHORTER STORIES 3rd Review

FRANZ KAFKA – THE TRIAL

THE KAMA SUTRA (VATSAYANA)

KIPLING, RUDYARD - IF 

RUDYARD KIPLING - THE JUST SO STORIES -

 

 D H LAWRENCE,  - THE ESCAPED COCK

 D H LAWRENCE, - LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER

D H LAWRENCE - THE MINERS' STRIKE TRILOGY (THE MINER AT HOME / HER TURN / STRIKE-PAY) 

D H LAWRENCE – ODOUR OF CHRYSATHEMUMS
D H LAWRENCE – THE SNAKE

D H LAWRENCE – THINGS

D. H. LAWRENCE - TWO BLUE BIRDS

D H LAWRENCE – THE VIRGIN & THE GYPSY

LE FANU,  JOSEPH - NARRATIVE OF THE GHOST OF A HAND

LEVI, PRIMO - THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED

 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE - DOCTOR FAUSTUS -

HERMANN MELVILLE – BARTLEBY

JOHN MILTON – PARADISE LOST

VLADIMIR NABOKOV – LOLITA

                                                                                                            

ORWELL, GEORGE - ANIMAL FARM 

ORWELL, GEORGE - 1984 

PINTER, HAROLD - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

PINTER, HAROLD - THE CARETAKER

PLATO - THE SYMPOSIUM 

LORD WILMOT - THE EARL OF ROCHESTER - A RAMBLE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,  - HAMLET

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,  - KING LEAR 

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE  -  THE TAMING OF THE SHREW -

MARY SHELLEY – FRANKENTEIN 

STOKER, BRAM – DRACULA  

 

VATSAYANA - THE KAMA SUTRA

JULES VERNE - A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH

H. G. WELLS – ANSWER TO PRAYER

H. G. WELLS – FIRST AND LAST THINGS  

H G WELLS - THE MAN WITH A NOSE AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED STORIES.

H. G. WELLS – A PERFECT GENTLEMAN ON WHEELS

YOGANANFA PARAMHANSA - AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI 

ZOLA, EMILE - GERMINAL

                                               

Arthur Chappell

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