Classics

Image of The Nine Cloud Dream
Author(s):
Kim Man-Jung
Genre(s):
Classics, Literary Fiction

The Nine Cloud Dream

February 25, 2019
Reviewed by: 
Tony Bailie

“The Nine Cloud Dream is inhabited by Buddhist philosophy—the world of dust is illusion and all the earthly scheming, deceptions, plots, and sensual pleasures are transient and ult

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Image of Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed Set (The Library of America)
Editor(s):
J. Michael Lennon
Genre(s):
Anthologies, Classics, Literary Criticism

Norman Mailer: The Sixties: An American Dream / Why Are We In Vietnam? / The Armies of the Night / Miami and the Siege of Chicago / Collected Essays (Library of America)

January 11, 2019
Reviewed by: 
Robert Schaefer

“It is surprising what Mailer can accomplish when he stops posing and simply writes.”

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Image of Elmore Leonard: Westerns (LOA #308): Last Stand at Saber River / Hombre / Valdez is Coming / Forty Lashes Less One / stories (Library of America Elmore Leonard Edition)
Author(s):
Elmore Leonard
Genre(s):
Classics, Series

Elmore Leonard: Westerns: Last Stand at Saber River / Hombre / Valdez is Coming / Forty Lashes Less One / Stories (The Library of America)

September 20, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Lance Weller

My great-grandfather, Chester Neuman, was a cowboy.  Family stories have him out on the range, in the rain, tending fences; they have him homesteading in Montana; they have him breaking horses for

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Image of Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction (The Connoisseur's Collections)
Author(s):
Michael Sims
Genre(s):
Anthologies, Classics

Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction (The Connoisseur's Collections)

September 5, 2017
Reviewed by: 
Toni V. Sweeney

“. . . a fascinating cross-section of those tales that become the forebears of the many science fiction/fantasy stories of our 20th and 21st centuries.”

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