battlepoet rated 1984 by George Orwell: 4 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 …
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battlepoet rated Nine Stories: 4 stars
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.
battlepoet rated The Plague: 4 stars
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a …
battlepoet rated Picture of Dorian Gray: 4 stars
battlepoet rated A Christmas Carol (Great Stories): 4 stars
A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as …
battlepoet rated The Iliad: 5 stars
battlepoet rated The Oresteia: 4 stars
Aeschylus: The Oresteia (1984, Penguin)
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they …
battlepoet rated A Study in Scarlet: 3 stars
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first …
battlepoet rated Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: 5 stars
battlepoet rated The Odyssey (Penguin Classics): 5 stars
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Όμηρος
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, …
battlepoet rated Gulliver's Travels: 2 stars
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Malvina G. Vogel, Pablo Marcos, and 1 other
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as …
battlepoet rated Anthem: 2 stars
Anthem by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
Anthem is a tale of a future dark age of the great “we” – a world that deprives individuals of …
battlepoet rated Pygmalion: 4 stars
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an …
battlepoet rated A Midsummer Night's Dream: 3 stars
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare c. 1595 or 1596. The play is set in …