Major Works Reviews

A Master List of My Book Reviews:

(Poetry reviews link //  Essay reviews link //  Short story reviews link)

~ A ~
Aeschylus --- The Persians
Aeschylus --- The Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus --- The Suppliant Maidens
Aeschylus --- The Oresteia ~ Agamemnon
Aeschylus --- The Oresteia ~ The Libation Bearers
Aeschylus --- The Oresteia ~ The Eumenides
Alcott, Louisa May --- Eight Cousins
Alighieri, Dante ---  Vita Nuova
Anonymous -- Beowulf (trans. by Seamus Heaney)
Anonymous -- The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous -- The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Aristophanes -- Lysistrata
Augustine, St. --- Confessions
Austen, Jane --- Emma
Austen, Jane --- Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane --- Persuasion
Austen, Jane --- Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane --- Sense and Sensibility


~ B ~
Baum, L. Frank --- The Wizard of Oz
Benedict of Nursia --- The Rule of Saint Benedict
Bradbury, Ray --- Something Wicked This Way Comes
Brontë, Charlotte --- Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte --- Villette
Brontë, Emily --- Wuthering Heights
Bunyan, John --- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Butler, Samuel --- Erewhon


~ C ~
Camus, Albert --- The Plague
Chandler, Raymond --- The Big Sleep
Chaucer, Geoffrey --- The Canterbury Tales (scroll for individual stories)
Chekhov, Anton --- The Princess
Chernyshevsky, Nikolai --- What Is To Be Done?
Chesterton, G.K. --- The Club of Queer Trades
Chesterton, G.K. --- The Man Who Was Thursday
Cicero, Marcus Tullius --- Defence Speeches
Collins, Wilkie --- The Moonstone
Colson, Charles W. --- Born Again
Collodi, Carlo --- The Adventures of Pinocchio


~ D ~
Descartes, René --- Meditations
Dickens, Charles --- David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles --- Doctor Marigold
Dickens, Charles --- The Pickwick Papers
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor --- The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor --- Notes From the Underground
Douglass, Frederick --- Narrative of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass


~ E ~
Eliot, George --- Daniel Deronda
Emerson, Ralph Waldo --- Friendship (Essay)


~ F ~
Fitzgerald, F. Scott --- The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott --- Tender is the Night
Flaubert, Gustave --- Madame Bovary
Franklin, Benjamin --- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin


~ G ~
Gandhi, Mohatmas --- The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Gibbons, Stella --- Nightingale Wood
Gissing, George --- New Grub Street
Gordimer, Nadine --- July's People


~ H ~
Hardy, Thomas --- Far From the Madding Crowd
Hemingway, Ernest --- The Old Man and the Sea
Herodotus --- The Histories
Hitler, Adolf --- Mein Kampf
Homer --- The Odyssey


~ J ~
Jacobs, Harriet Ann - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
James, M.R. --- Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories
Jansson, Tove --- Finn Family Moomintroll
Jerome, Jerome K. --- Idle Thoughts of An Idle Fellow


~ K ~
Kaye, M.M. --- Shadow of the Moon
Kempe, Margery --- The Book of Margery Kempe
Ker-Conway, Jill --- The Road from Coorain
Kerouac, Jack --- On The Road


~ L ~
Lewis, C.S. --- A Preface to Paradise Lost
Lewis, C.S. --- The Last Battle
Lewis, C.S. --- The Magician's Nephew
Lewis, C.S. --- The Horse and His Boy
Lewis, C.S. --- The Silver Chair
Lewis, C.S. --- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lewis, C.S. --- Prince Caspian
Lewis, C.S. --- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Lewis, C.S. --- The Pilgrim's Regress
Lewis, C.S. --- The Great Divorce
Lewis, C.S. --- Surprised by Joy
Lewis, C.S. --- A Grief Observed
Lewis, C.S. --- Out of the Silent Planet
Lewis, C.S. --- Dante's Similes
Lewis, C.S. --- Spenser's Images of Life


~ M ~
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malory, Thomas --- Le Morte d'Arthur (read-along updates)
Maupassant, Guy --- The Necklace
Merton, Thomas --- The Seven Storey Mountain
Milton, John --- Paradise Lost
de Montaigne, Michel --- Essays - Introduction, Part One, Part Two, Part Three
Montgomery, L.M. --- Rilla of Ingleside
More, Thomas --- Utopia
Morris, William --- The Well at the World's End
Mundo, Frank --- The Brubury Tales


~ N ~
Nagel, Sherman A. --- Cyrus the Persian
Nietzsche, Friedrich --- Ecco Homo


~ O ~
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) --- Metamorphoses


~ P ~
Plato  ---  The Apology of Socrates
Pushkin, Alexander --- Eugene Onegin & review #2


~ R ~
Rodriguez, Richard --- Hunger of Memory
Rowlandson, Mary --- The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques --- Confessions


~ S ~
Sarton, May --- Journal of a Solitude
Shakespeare, William --- The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare, William --- Hamlet
Shakespeare, William --- Henry V
Shakespeare, William --- Othello
Shakespeare, William --- Richard II
Shakespeare, William --- Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William --- The Winter's Tale
Shelley, Mary ---- Frankenstein
Sophocles --- Oedipus Rex
Sophocles --- Oedipus at Colonus
Stein, Gertrude --- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Steinbeck, John --- East of Eden
Stevenson, Robert Louis  ---  The Black Arrow
Stretten, Hesba --- The Christmas Child
Sturgis, William --- The Journal of William Sturgis
Swift, Jonathan --- Gulliver's Travels


~ T ~
Taylor, Patrick  ---  An Irish Country Doctor
Teresa of Avila ---  The Life of St. Teresa of Avila by Herself
Thoreau, Henry David --- Walden, or My Life in the Woods
Thucydides --- History of the Peloponnesian War
Tolstoy, Leo --- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tolstoy, Leo --- War and Peace
Trollope, Anthony --- The Warden
Trollope, Anthony --- Barchester Towers
Trollope, Anthony --- Doctor Thorne
Trollope, Anthony ---- Framely Parsonage
Trollope, Anthony ---- A Small House at Allington
Turgenev, Ivan --- Fathers and Sons


~ V ~
Voltaire --- Candide


~ W ~
Washington, Booker T. --- Up From Slavery
Wells, H.G. --- The Time Machine
Wharton, Edith --- Ethan Frome
White, T.H.  ---  Once and Future King
Wiesel, Elie --- All Rivers Run to the Sea
Woolf, Virginia --- Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia --- Orlando: A Biography
Woolf, Virginia --- The Voyage Out


~ Z ~
Zola, Emile --- The Fortune of the Rougon
Zola, Émile --- Son Excellence, Eugène Rougon
Zola, Émile --- La Curée
Zola, Émile --- L'Argent (Money)