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Fountainhead Centennial Edition»rank: 8918par: Ayn Rand
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation ... |
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Sense and Sensibility»rank: 9450par: Jane Austen
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger ... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird: The Timeless Classic of Growing Up and the Human Dignity»rank: 280par: Harper Lee
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. l maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us ... |
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Out Stealing Horses»rank: 10657par: Per Petterson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. l maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us ... |
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Persuasion»rank: 9271par: Jane Austen
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. ln this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then ... |
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel»rank: 16233par: Jonathan Safran Foer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. ln this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then ... |
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Frankenstein»rank: 11169par: Mary Shelley
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. lf you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, 'The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are ... |
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Hedge Knight II: Sworn Sword Premiere HC»rank: 7048par: George R. R. Martin, Ben Avery
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Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction - NEW EDITION!»rank: 5616par: Mike Mignola, John Byrne
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Satanic Verses»rank: 8344par: Salman Rushdie
Chroniques et points de vue:From :No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two lndians, Gibreel Farishta ('for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the lndian movies') ... |