The title is a misnomer. Not that there aren't some wonderful stories here, but they were never really chosen because they're the best American short stories of the 20th century. Rather, these are Updike's 56 picks out of the 2,000 stories originally chosen in the 84 volumes of a yearly anthology pu...
Just finished 'Jude' last night. I am so glad that I read all of Hardy's other novels before this one. If this was the first novel I read of Hardy I probably wouldn't be such a HUGE fan of his works. The first novel I read of his was 'Far from the Madding Crowd' which I LOVED. Then 'Desperate Measur...
Some of these essays I loved, some less so, and some I think I just didn't get, but overall a really fascinating and valuable collection.
Watching the film on telly tonight, I remembered how much I love the book. I think it's by far my favourite Hardy novel (not that there are too many). It's depressing and dramatic, but then so are all his novels. And Jude is so painfully human, it hurts.
This Scream Press edition was the first compilation of Clive Barker's Books of Blood tales under one binding (the first and original three volumes). This was the way Barker meant them to be presented and for good reason. These 16 horror tales were revolutionary in their lack of sentimentality and th...
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