Middlemarch? Moby-Dick? Something Else?
Posted on April 29th, 2010
Consider this from Andrew Delbanco’s introduction to the Penguin Classic paperback edition of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1992):
“Not many years ago, at an elite northeastern university, a prominent English literary critics [not named by Delbanco] was asked which was the greatest English novel.
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Review of SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Posted on March 28th, 2010
Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon
Penguin / Trade Paperback
ISBN 978-0-14-311711-7
Publication Date: March 30, 2010
Let me begin by asking you a couple of questions: Who are you?
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Review – Muses, Madmen and Prophets
Posted on February 4th, 2010
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucinations by Daniel B. Smith
The Penguin Press
ISBN 978-1-59420-110-3
Hardcover
Let’s begin with Socrates, Muhammad, William Blake, and Teresa of Ávila, just to name a few significant people from a potential list of millions.
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Review – Death and Judgment
Posted on January 16th, 2010
Death and Judgment
By Donna Leon
Penguin / Grove Press
$7.99
ISBN 0-14-303582-7
Paperback
Mystery Thriller
You never know who you can believe.
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Review – In the Name of the Father
Posted on December 3rd, 2009
In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation
by François Furstenberg
The Penguin Press, June 2006
ISBN 1-59420-092-0
Hardcover
In the formative years of the United States of America, the nation’s early, tenuous existence and its chances for a secure future remained vulnerable to multiple threats: geographical, political, and international.
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