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Mel Anderson rated The house of the seven gables: 4 stars
The house of the seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Enriched classic)
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a …
Mel Anderson rated King Solomon's Carpet: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated Puppet for a corpse: 4 stars
Puppet for a corpse by Dorothy Simpson
Prominent GP Arnold Pettifer is found dead of an overdose, alone in his house and with a note by his …
Mel Anderson rated Close Her Eyes: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated Six feet under: 4 stars
Six feet under by Dorothy Simpson
Curiousity killed the cat. Did it also kill Carrie? Inspector Thanet is called in to investigate the murder of a …
Mel Anderson rated A History of Histories: 5 stars
A History of Histories by John Burrow
Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential …
Mel Anderson rated Rabbit, Run: 4 stars
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. …
Mel Anderson rated To Kill a Mockingbird: 5 stars
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To …
Mel Anderson rated Reading Lolita in Tehran: 4 stars
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to …
Mel Anderson rated Picts, Gaels, and Scots: 3 stars
Picts, Gaels, and Scots by Sally M. Foster (Historic Scotland)
Mel Anderson rated The Ivy Tree: 3 stars
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart, Mary Stewart
A TRICK OF COLORING... HER WALK... THE WAY SHE SMILED...
An English June in the Roman Wall countryside; the ruin …
Mel Anderson rated Proustian Uncertainties: 3 stars
Mel Anderson rated Ernest Hemingway: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated The most dangerous book: 5 stars
The most dangerous book by Kevin Birmingham
For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the English language …