Tuesday, April 06, 2010

37. Jean-Jacques Rosseau - Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloise (1760)

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Review I keep forgetting to update this... I am already reading Anton Reiser some 14 books after this, but I have to come back. I really sho...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

36. Samuel Johnsson - The Full History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759)

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Review You might think I've abandoned this but really, I haven't. Even if it's been about a year since my last update... it only...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

35. Voltaire - Candide ou l'Optimisme (Candide) (1759)

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Review Voltaire presents one of the funniest and darkest works on the list up until now. Candide works as a rabid attack on the idea of opti...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

34. Charlotte Lennox - The Female Quixote (1752)

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Review As the name states the Female Quixote is a bit like Don Quixote but with a female main character... well it is a bit like it in the s...
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Saturday, January 10, 2009

33. Tobias Smollett - The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751)

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Review This coming on the list so soon after Fielding's Tom Jones really does it a great disservice, it reads like a poor and somewhat m...
Thursday, January 08, 2009

32. John Cleland - Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) (1748)

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Review Fanny Hill is a breath of fresh air. It is not particularly fascinating as a novel, Moll Flanders is a much better book for example, ...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

31. Henry Fielding - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)

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Review This has been one of the books I've most enjoyed reading while going through this list, with the possible exception of Dom Quixot...