Quotation Book Reviews
Browsing Category: Recommended Reading
Showing items 1 to 10 of 52 total books.
Jane Austen : The Complete Novels by Jane Austen This book includes the following novels: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan. Every quote by Jane Austen in my collection is from one of these novels.
Great Short Works of Mark Twain by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain An affordable introduction to the prose of Mark Twain. Good reading and good pickings from one of our favorite quotable authors.
Cosmos by Carl Sagan This book is based on the television series that so touched my life as a child. Let science and logic invade your life as it has so many others under the wonderful tutelage of the late Carl Sagan.
Contact by Carl Sagan As with many good books, I found the ending disturbing and comforting at the same time. If you've seen the movie, you definitely need to see the book because the movie left a lot out.
Never Met a Man I Didn't Like : The Life and Writings of Will Rogers by Joseph H. Carter If you're looking for more information about the oft-quoted actor and writer Will Rogers, here's a book for you. About half biography and half Will Rogers' own writings.
Walden: The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, J. Lyndon Shanley (Editor), Joyce Carol Oates A good affordable version of Henry David Thoreau's classic work. Read this if the tiny excerpts in our collections have whet your whistle.
Dave Barry in Cyberspace by Dave Barry Dave Barry's recent collection of witty commentary about computers, the Internet, and all sorts of other stuff.
Thomas Paine : Collected Writings by Thomas Paine, Eric Foner (Editor) This book includes: Common Sense, The Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters. This is recommended reading for all of the people looking for historical and political quotations.
The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Treat yourself to the work of this great man. My favorites are The Cask of Amontillado (perfect revenge story), The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Can hypnotism prevent you from dying? Find out here), and Berenice (not only premature burial, but also a tooth obsession). Read on and enjoy!
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." This and other quotations from our collections are found in this classic book of destructive obsession and redemption.
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