The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem
Frank Kermode and Muriel Spark
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The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a...
Lucknow Ransom
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Beautiful widow Joan D'Silva is at Howrah Station, fleeing Calcutta with her 11-year-old son Errol....
Northanger Abbey
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The Penguin English Library Edition of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 'To look almost pretty, is an...
Growing Older with Jane Austen
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That Jane Austen is enduringly popular with both a general readership and academics can admit of no...
AHistory: An Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who Universe
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The Third Edition of AHistory amends and vastly expands the work of the sold-out Second Edition,...
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated The Fishermen in Books
Oct 10, 2017 (Updated Oct 10, 2017)
Like most classic African novels in the Achebe-Ngugi tradition, The Fishermen mixes the traditional English novel form with the oral storytelling tradition, dramatising the conflict between the traditional and the modern. It is rather depressing but poignant.
B (62 KP) rated These Viscious Masks in Books
Sep 30, 2018
I was initially intrigued because the description listed it as Jane Austen meets X-Men and I'd have to say that's pretty accurate. I randomly find myself thinking about it because I feel like I don't often read too many historical fantasy novels in the YA genre. Themes are similar to those found in many other YA texts but not in a tired, over done way. Looking forward to reading the next one.
