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Post by Dominique on Nov 19, 2007 18:01:44 GMT -5
Thanks a utopian novel class? That sounds really interesting! I loved a Handmaid's Tale.
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Post by Carma on Nov 20, 2007 11:49:48 GMT -5
so.. I tried to write a description for the diary of anne frank.. but it's very difficult.. (because I've never really read it ) so maybe someone else could make it better..? The Diary Of Anne Frank by Anne FrankThis very famous book was written by Anne Frank during world war 2. Anne Frank was Jewish, so she and her family hid in ‘Het Achterhuis’ in Amsterdam. Behind a bookcase was a hidden room where they lived. In her diary she wrote letters to her fictional friend Kitty. She was able to write about anything in her diary. She also wrote quotes and parts from other books in her diary. After they were betrayed Miep Gies kept the two diaries and gave them to Anne’s dad when he returned.
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Post by Bina on Nov 29, 2007 13:29:40 GMT -5
Thanks a utopian novel class? That sounds really interesting! I loved a Handmaid's Tale. I really like the class. We´re also reading Utopia, Erewhon and 1984. Okay, I wrote a description for In Cold Blood by Truman Capote: Recounting a multiple murder in rural Kansas, Truman Capote’s work not only describes the following police investigation but -merging journalism and fiction- he lets the Clutter family come to life. The reader is drawn into the family’s household, learns of their status und habits while simultaneously becoming aware of their murderers planning. It´s pretty short because uni is stealing all of my time but everyone´s welcome to try and fix it!
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Post by Brunella on Dec 15, 2007 15:43:03 GMT -5
Ok, my vacations start today, so I'll probably be able to make some descriptions soon... I don't know which book to pick first, but when I do, I'll check if it needs a description, and I'll make one
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Post by Brunella on Dec 15, 2007 16:41:30 GMT -5
I just realized The Stepford Wives was on the list, so I made a description, I hope it's ok I read it a looooooong while ago...
The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
Joanna Eberhart, a talented and achieving photographer, sees herself cloistered in a town of suburban perfection, Stepford. Despite the goals of starting a new life in a quiet town, Joanna soon becomes disenchanted by the docility of the women of the town. These women, characterized by their submission and willingness to please their husbands, began to perturb Joanna’s life, symbolizing the power the men of Stepford have of alienating their wives. Thus Joanna is forced to confront the threat of alienation that is imposed upon her, which menaces to extinguish her personality and power of will.
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Post by Isa on Dec 15, 2007 19:02:36 GMT -5
Sounds great, bru!
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Post by Lu on Jan 3, 2008 6:48:04 GMT -5
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway It is a novel about war, love and death, inspired by author’s own experience and full of disillusionment. The story is told by Lieutenant Frederic Henry, who is wounded in Italy while serving as an ambulance driver during World War I. There he meets and falls in love with the nurse Catherine Barkley. After being healed he’s in danger of being catched but he manages to escape, then he deserts to reunite and flee with Catherine.
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Post by Lu on Jan 4, 2008 5:02:45 GMT -5
MRS DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf Published in 1925, this novel is built around an apparently weak and banal plot: Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party she’s going host that night. Through a nonlinear narration and frequent associations of ideas in character’s mind, which allows the reader to travel forward and back in time, the author manages to give a vivid portrait of Mrs. Dalloway, a middled-aged society woman, and her life.
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Post by rorybooks on Jan 10, 2008 8:19:07 GMT -5
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen The Bell Jar Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Galileo by Bertolt Brecht Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut the life of pi One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Memoir's of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Harry Potter (the whole series) Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Time Traveler's Wife: Audrey Niffenegger The Samurai's Garden: Gail Tsukiyama Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen Frankenstein: Mary Shelley Dracula: Bram Stoker Peter Pan: James M Barrie The Diary of Anne Frank: Anne Frank Sherlock Holmes anything: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Great Gatsby The Sun Also Rises The Tenant at Wildfell Hall A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis High Fidelity by Nick Hornby The History of Love by Nicole Krauss A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Hamlet by William Shakespeare On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan SwiftThe Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom Fear and Trembling, Amélie Nothomb The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, Elizabeth Robinson So Many Books, So Little Time, Sara Nelson
I just took the books that I read and that were good.
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Post by Lu on Jan 12, 2008 9:47:48 GMT -5
GALAPAGOS by Kurt Vonnegut A small number of people leave for a cruise and get shipwrecked on Santa Rosalia, an imaginary island in Galapagos. After a global financial crisis and a disease which causes all other humans to become infertile, they remain the only specimens of humankind on Earth and they will eventually evolve into a completely new species. The story is told by the spirit of the son of Vonnegut’s recurring character Kilgore Trout, Leon, who has been watching over humanity for the million years following his death.
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Post by Dominique on Jan 17, 2008 7:20:25 GMT -5
Hedda Gabbler by Henrik Ibsen (1890) The play Hedda Gabler centers around a character of the same name. The action begins as Hedda returns from her honeymoon with Tessman, an academic who combined the trip with research. Ibsen makes it quite clear she doesn't love him and only married him for economic security, it is also suggested that she is pregnant. When Tessman's rival Lovborg and Hedda's old schoolmate Mrs Elvstead (who has left her husband for Lovborg) appear on the scene a number of calamitous events ensue. Hedda toys with a gun throughout the play which is highly symbolic - it shows how she does not fit into her ideological place in society as it is an unacceptable thing for someone to toy with. It also highlights her masculine characteristics.
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1895) This comedy of manners is about two friends, Algernon and Jack. Algernon thinks Jack is named Earnest, but discovers that Jack is his real name and the one he goes under in the country, while he goes under Earnest when in the city. This creates a problem for Jack because the woman he loves seems to only love him because she thinks his name is Earnest, when in fact this is not the case. Algernon follows Jack to the country to meet his ward Cecily where he pretends to be the mysterious Earnest, who Jack has told her is in fact his brother, in order to meet her. She has imagined herself falling in love with this fictitious Earnest for quite awhile. From then onwards Algernon and Jack find themselves in many complicated, sticky situations.
I'm going to repost the list here to make it easier:
Classics that still need descriptions include:
Hedda Gabler by Ibsen The Dolls House by Ibsen
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Daisy Miller by Henry James
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Hamlet, Othello and Romeo and Juliet Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Dracula by Bram Stoker
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Ethan Frome by Edith Warton
The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Modern classics not done yet:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
A Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 1916 Ulysses James Joyce (1922) Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diary Of Anne Frank by Anne Frank Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 1932
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 1922 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse Of Mules and Men by Zora Neal Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 1961 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Light in August by William Faulkner Time and Again by Jack Finney The Trial by Franz Kafka
On the Road by Jack Kerouac Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov, 1938 The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill, 1921 Animal Farm by George Orwell The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Grapes of Wrath by Jonathan Steinbeck Of Mice and Men by Jonathan Steinbeck A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 1943 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Night by Elie Wiesel A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 1948
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Post by Carma on Jan 17, 2008 13:11:49 GMT -5
I think on the road was done, wasn't it? because it hasn't got a stripe through it
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Post by Dominique on Jan 17, 2008 19:03:51 GMT -5
thanks
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Post by Lu on Jan 19, 2008 12:06:00 GMT -5
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Warton It was published in 1920 and won a Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist is Newland Archer, a bright and composed young lawyer, who is about to announce his engagement with May, when he meets a cousin of her, Ellen Olenska. She’s a frank, free spirited woman, who has returned to New York after separating herself from a bad marriage to a Polish Count. Newland finds himself intrigued and falls in love with her.The story takes place among New York City’s upper class in the 1870s.
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Post by Brunella on Jan 19, 2008 22:22:37 GMT -5
I'll make The Second Sex and Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter any time now
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