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Mel Anderson rated The house of the seven gables: 4 stars
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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
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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
![Dorothy Simpson: Six feet under (1982, Scribner)](/images/covers/5a3cc779-08c1-48a0-8396-5840fb333eb1.jpeg)
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
![John Burrow: A History of Histories (Hardcover, 2008, Knopf)](/images/covers/ef958e32-b5a6-4561-aea0-d1b7e84dd901.jpeg)
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
![John Updike: Rabbit, Run (Hardcover, 1999, Tandem Library)](/images/covers/b1604bfe-2bbc-48f5-bae5-35b1211830d8.jpeg)
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
![Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (Hardcover, 1982, Grand Central)](/images/covers/a3c866da-c55b-439e-9be8-1d833a856427.jpeg)
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
![Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran (2004, Random House)](/images/covers/125a2300-aa96-4c5b-8bd6-fdddf4d9f486.jpeg)
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
![Sally M. Foster: Picts, Gaels, and Scots (1996, B.T. Batsford/Historic Scotland)](/images/covers/1a29b6c9-5c37-4669-8b7d-be3aa9506ed4.jpeg)
Picts, Gaels, and Scots by Sally M. Foster (Historic Scotland)
Mel Anderson rated The Ivy Tree: 3 stars
![Mary Stewart, Mary Stewart: The Ivy Tree (Paperback, 2007, Chicago Review Press)](/images/covers/9a2c1339-798b-468d-a40b-5aa319c689c0.jpeg)
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
![Kevin Birmingham: The most dangerous book (2014)](/images/covers/c64d8475-00ff-4fc7-a95f-60413048a52a.jpeg)
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 …