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andrew posted a review at 2008-09-15 11:28:49 for Great Gatsby, the; (Us Import Ed.).
(Language: English)
 
Glamour, glitter, cocktails and corruption, along with all the gleaming ephemera of 1920s New York City, are the dust flung into the eyes of Nick Carraway, whose only inheritance is to be one of the few honest men he has ever known. When Nick enters the carefree – and careless -- lives of his fellow transplanted westerners, Tom and Daisy Buchanan and the mysterious Jay Gatsby, the chemistry of their passions reveals just how compromised an honest man can be. Fitzgerald’s masterwork, written at age 27, is a poetic and analysis of how love fares in the American crucible of privilege and power.
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andrew posted a review at 2008-09-15 11:14:04 for The Tragedy of Macbeth.
(Language: English)
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are driven by ambitions that will stop at nothing, not even murder. But in their eagerness they underestimate the power of those supernatural entities that mark the destiny of the evilly inclined. Macbeth, would-be thain and thorough treachor, first follows and then is led by the mocking voices of murder to his own frightening end.
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andrew posted a review at 2008-09-15 11:04:23 for Catcher in the Rye.
(Language: English)
As Christmas approaches, along with his expulsion from yet another prep school, Holden Caulfield comes face-to-face with his distrust and fear of the unyielding lies of adult life. Holden’s experiences over the next 24 hours, as he roams the New York City of the 1940s searching for the fragile innocence of his little sister Phoebe’s world, are a poignant plea for clemency that will ring true for every reader who has ever refused to submit to the status quo.
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andrew posted a review at 2008-09-15 10:41:01 for Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare).
(Language: English)
Since it’s debut before an English audience, which chose to watch it rather than visit the bear pits next door, Hamlet has become known as an unsolvable enigma of father-son conflict, guilt, rage and vengeance. “The happy hunting ground of many an unbalanced mind” a character in Joyce’s Ulysses calls it, and that book’s hero Stephen Dedalus develops arcane theories that seem to prove the point while foreshadowing the psychological discoveries of Freud. No work more strikingly traces the woven strands of mind and soul than Hamlet.
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andrew posted a review at 2008-09-15 10:27:06 for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(Language: English)
This is Samuel Clemens’s finest mature work, full of memorable descriptions of nature, people and morality in the Mississippi delta region of the American Southwest in the 1830s. Huck Finn’s status as an outcast has made him especially sensitive to outcasts of every kind, including the noble and courageous slave Jim. Huck’s decision to defy the code of his time and place, as well as the god of his people, and “go to hell” for helping Jim escape from slavery is widely considered the moral genesis of American literature.
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