Out of Africa, the first non-fiction book I've encountered on 1001 Booksis a first-person description of life on a coffee farm in East Africa, near Nairobi, in the years during and after. Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) bought the farm with her husband, managed it after she and he separated, and was finally forced to sell it because of the collapse of ( Read more... )

( A Surfeit of Raskolnikovs: Devils, by Fyodor Dostoevsky )

( God Bless Us Every One: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens )

Publication date: 1974
Edition: Penguin Classics with introduction 2006 (Plume Books 1996)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
270 pages
Source: Toppings Books, ElySummary/Back of the book: "Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with feats of escape, J.P. ( Read more... )

( So THAT's where George R.R. Martin gets it: La Reine Margot, by Alexandre Dumas )

( David Coperfield, by Edmund Wells )

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An intergenerational soap opera on the surface, it's really about the stages of grief, memory as an unreliable narrator, and coping.


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(  False Advertising: Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreisser )