JB Emmons rated Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse: 4 stars
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse by Herman Hesse
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy …
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JB Emmons rated Franz Kafka's The trial: 3 stars
Franz Kafka's The trial by Harold Bloom (Modern critical interpretations)
A selection of critical essays on Franz Kafka's novel "The Trial."
JB Emmons rated Cat's Cradle: 5 stars
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it …
JB Emmons rated The constitutional underclass: 4 stars
JB Emmons rated Animal Farm: 4 stars
Animal Farm by George Orwell
George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.
“All animals are …
JB Emmons rated Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl: 3 stars
Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl by Anne Frank
Het Achterhuis is de titel van het dagboek van Anne Frank (1929-1945) voor het eerst uitgegeven op 25 juni 1947. …
JB Emmons rated Anna Karenina: 4 stars
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (Russian: «Анна Каренина», IPA: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in …
JB Emmons rated The power and the glory: 4 stars
The power and the glory by Graham Greene (Penguin classics)
One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during …
JB Emmons rated How Nonviolence Protects the State: 4 stars
How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos
Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is …
JB Emmons rated Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: 4 stars
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
A journalist and his lawyer head to las Vegas in the hopes of finding The American Dream. Instead they trip …
JB Emmons rated The Odyssey: 4 stars
The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey (; Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia, Attic Greek: [o.dýs.seː.a]) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems …
JB Emmons rated 1984 by George Orwell: 5 stars
1984 by George Orwell by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist …
JB Emmons rated The Great Gatsby: 3 stars
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Everyman's Library Classics)
Scott Fitzgerald was called the laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby (1926) is a cynical celebration of the …
JB Emmons rated All Over but the Shoutin': 3 stars
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who …
