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| | 2. |  | The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
from W. W. Norton
Price: $10.64
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It's important to know before reading this book that Kate Chopin belonged to a no longer used genre called "Creole Writer". The Awakening is very much set in New Orleans and there is frequent use of French or it's Creole equivalents. Fortunately, this Norton Critical Edition provided translations... more info
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| | 6. |  | Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $8.00
Customer Review:
Ivanhoe is one of those books I thought I should have read as a child, but hadn't. Finally, at age 62, I've read it -- and loved it. I had no idea it would be so funny. I wonder how it got its title, though, since Ivanhoe himself seems to have a pretty minor role.
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| | 8. |  | Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $11.53
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The Three Musketeers is one of my favorite books and Twenty Years After is practically just as good. The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because the editor, David Coward, gives away the ending of The Man in the Iron Mask. He tells you what happens in the last chapter of the last book... more info
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| | 9. |  | The Belly of Paris (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $10.17
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Not Zola's best work by a long shot, but mostly a good read. The many pages of description, though typical of the era and of Zola's late style, end up feeling overindulgent. I read this book in small portions, and found myself frequently bored and even agrieved by the endless word-pictures of... more info
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