Alex rated The Phantom Tollbooth: 5 stars
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got …
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Sono Americano e il mio Italiano é molto fuori di pratica. Studiavo per un anno al'Universitá di Bologna più di venti cinque anni fa. Italo Calvino é il mio autore Italiano favorito. Oh, wait, seems like a fairly international crowd here.
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Alex rated A Widow for One Year: 4 stars
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Twenty years after The World According to Gary, John Irving gives us a new novel about a family marked by …
Alex rated Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot: 4 stars
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot by Lawrence Graver (Landmarks of world literature)
Alex rated Discipline and Punish: 4 stars
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 …
Alex rated Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club: 3 stars
Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club by Philip Burnham (The big read)
Includes ten lesson plans, each with focus topic, discussion activities, writing exercises, and homework assignments Also includes capstone projects, suggested …
Alex rated Strange pilgrims: 4 stars
Strange pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez
Analyse : Contes
A l'image des histoires qui les animent, ces vagabonds sont d'étranges pèlerins, tous latino-américains, projetés aux quatre …
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is an American novel published in 1995, written …
Alex rated Travels in Hyperreality: 5 stars
Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco
Il costume di casa (Faith in Fakes) was originally an essay written by the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco, about "America's …
Alex rated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: 4 stars
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a fantasy novel written by British author J.K. Rowling and the sixth and …
Alex rated The Odyssey: 4 stars
The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey (; Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia, Attic Greek: [o.dýs.seː.a]) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems …
Alex rated Dead Souls: 4 stars
Dead Souls by Nicolas Gogol
Dead Souls (Russian: «Мёртвые души», Mjórtvyje dúshi) is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded …
Alex rated The Count of Monte Cristo: 3 stars
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas …
Alex rated An inconvenient truth: 4 stars
Al Gore: An inconvenient truth (2006, Rodale Press)
An inconvenient truth by Al Gore
With this book, the author, former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore brings together leading-edge research from top …
Emma by Jane Austen, ICON Reference
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first …