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Type: fiction

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Status: to read

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Author: Helene Cixous

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Tags: women french feminist

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Description: a 1969 novel by the noted french feminst author, translated by carol barko.

2006-08-01

 

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Type: fiction

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Status: liked

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Author: Kate Chopin

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Tags: women american 19thcentury

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Description: "at fault" was chopin's first published novel. it's not as racy as "the"at fault" was chopin's first published novel. it's not as racy as "the awakening" but it has its moments. i think i'd recommend it to readers who enjoyed anne bronte's "tenant of wildfell hall." the heroine is a bit prudish when compared to edna pontellier....

2006-08-01

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Kate Chopin

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Tags: women american 19thcentury

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Description: lush, sensual, and stirring. every woman should read this book. and there are bonbons.

2006-08-01

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Willa Cather

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Tags: american 20thcentury

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Description: "Combining profound introspection with a delightful grasp of the social and domestic rituals"Combining profound introspection with a delightful grasp of the social and domestic rituals of a Midwestern university town, The Professor's House is a brilliant study in emotional dislocation and renewal." -book jacket...

2006-07-02

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Type: fiction

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Author: Willa Cather

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Tags: women american 20thcentury

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Description: "At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers!"At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were." -book jacket...

2006-07-02

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Type: fiction

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Author: Willa Cather

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Tags: american 20thcentury indian mexican

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Description: death comes for the archbishop takes readers to the vast landscape of the new mexican desert.death comes for the archbishop takes readers to the vast landscape of the new mexican desert. the story follows the life of father jean marie latour as he teaches his faith to the men and women of the area....

2006-07-02

 

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Author: Willa Cather

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Tags: women american 20thcentury

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Description: "In prose as shimmering and piercingly true as the light in a desert canyon, Cather takes"In prose as shimmering and piercingly true as the light in a desert canyon, Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self." -book jacket...

2006-07-02

 

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Type: fiction

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Author: Willa Cather

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Tags: women american southern

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Description: most people don't realize that cather is a southern writer. yes, she's famous for writingmost people don't realize that cather is a southern writer. yes, she's famous for writing about pioneers and the great american west, but she was born in virginia and spent most of her childhhood growing up immersed in southern culture. sapphira and the slave girl is a testiment of her experiences in the south....

2006-07-02

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Type: fiction

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Author: Willa Cather

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Tags: women american 19thcentury

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Description: this novel made a very negative impression on me. after reading many of cather's otherthis novel made a very negative impression on me. after reading many of cather's other magnificent novels, i was completely at a loss for what happened in my mortal enemy. it's a short novel and that's the best thing i can write about it....

2006-07-02

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Lewis Carroll

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Tags: fantasy english victorian

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Description: victorian classic novel of imagination, adventure, and danger. there's always more to carroll'svictorian classic novel of imagination, adventure, and danger. there's always more to carroll's works than people give him credit for. the penguin volume includes both of alice's tales in wonderland and manyof the original illustrations....

2006-07-02