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...Elegantly and appealingly, he surveys the current state of knowledge about the solar system, nearby stars, distant galaxies and even the very edge of the universe. As he describes each heavenly body or cosmic phenomenon, the author imparts a healthy dose of science, making it palatable to the lay reader by using jargon-free English buoyed by emotion and humor...
...children's classic can be described as a book so inviting that a young reader wants to escape into the world it creates. By that definition, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, an account of four sisters living in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 1860s, is immortal. The author drew on her own impoverished childhood as a daughter of Bronson Alcott, a feckless member of the Concord enlightenment. Generations of girls have yearned to join the March household, and they remember the story's high points better than crises of their own lives...
...intelligent and exhaustingly researched biography of Lawrence, Brenda Maddox succeeds in raising her subject above the level of talented pornographer. The 600 page-plus D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, is a volume of Mailer-ish manly heft. Nevertheless, the author manages to sustain the reader's interest throughout, allowing Lawrence to stand on his own--contradictions...
McGuire would bring law, order and common decency back to this school. It's high time we brought back the stocks. It certainly would be fun to watch Adams House suffer the same fate as the most excellent cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. (And you, dear reader, think I'm being facetious...
...Coetzee sums things up. But there are some facts the typical reader may not know that he ought to: in real life Dostoyevsky did not travel to Petersburg in 1869; he remained in Dresden. His stepson Pavel was not murdered by nihilists or anyone else. A pest and a spendthrift, he tormented the author all his life, and a standard scene from biographies has Pavel being forcibly kept from Dostoyevsky's deathbed. Nechaev did exist, and Dostoyevsky did transform him into a character in Demons, but the student his gang murdered in a celebrated crime was one Ivan Ivanov. Coetzee...