36 days ago by Edward Champion

(This is the seventeenth entry in the The Modern Library Reading Challenge, an ambitious project to read the entire Modern Library from #100 to #1. Previous entry: Lord Jim) “I won’t ruin it for you,” emailed my fellow Modern Library reader Steve, “but so far, that’s the 2nd worst book I’ve read for ...

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39 days ago by Webmaster

In 1910, the mystery novelist Gaston Leroux, working from scraps of history, theatrical lore, and his own fertile imagination, created a masterpiece in Le fantôme de l’opéra, the story of a disfigured composer who lives in the labyrinthine depths of the Paris Opera. After the breathtaking debut of C ...

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41 days ago by Ellen

For once, setting realistic resolutions really paid off in 2011: Read 2666. Yes! I started it in July and read it on and off till November, but I finally did it. Knock 3 books off the Modern Library list. How about four?! And two of them were books I would gladly recommend to others (CATCH-22, A BEN ...

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55 days ago by Eugene Parker

Average Reviews: ( More customer reviews)To quote the briefest chapter, the one that would surely catch your eye if you picked it off a shelf and skimmed through it: "My mother is a fish." As with his stunning _The_Sound_and_the_Fury_ and _Absalom_Absalom_, this book makes use of the author's master ...

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97 days ago by Rose City Reader

Robert Penn Warren won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for All the King's Men, his fictionalized account of Louisiana's legendary governor Huey Long. In the novel, Long is Willie Stark, an idealistic country lawyer who takes on the political machine in his state and achieves meteoric success, only to be ...

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104 days ago by Nigel Beale

Day three of the Carleton University Friends Circle Used Book Sale, and I happen upon these wonderfully jacketed Modern Library editions, designed by ‘the Picasso of dust jacket design", E[dward]. (“Ted”) McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954). As Stephen Gertz puts it: "At a time when marketers preferred sim ...

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125 days ago by Edward Champion

(This is the thirteenth entry in the The Modern Library Reading Challenge, an ambitious project to read the entire Modern Library from #100 to #1. Previous entry: The Call of the Wild) I am fairly certain that I found The Old Wives’ Tale compelling for reasons that Arnold Bennett did not intend. Aft ...

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134 days ago by Steve Donoghue

The RSC Shakespeare Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen, editors Modern Library paperbacks, 2011 A few years ago, the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company issued a “Complete Works” of the Bard, a mammoth tome fit for coffee table or scriptorium bench but hardly suitable for a crammed excursion on the IRT ...

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134 days ago by gilwilson

“Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs” by Hunter S. Thompson Published by Modern Library (1999) originally published by Random House (1966) 265 pages. I have been a fan of Hunter S. Thompson ever since I saw the movie “Where the Buffalo Roam” starring Bill Murr ...

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137 days ago by Steve Donoghue

The RSC Shakespeare Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen, editors Modern Library paperbacks, 2011 A few years ago, the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company issued a “Complete Works” of the Bard, a mammoth tome fit for coffee table or scriptorium bench but hardly suitable for a crammed excursion on the IRT ...

Open Letters Monthly - an ... - openlettersmonthly.com · Rank: 4,844 · 376 references