Roof Beam Reader
Adam Burgess
Category: 2012 Classics Challenge
Review: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Final Verdict: 3.25 out of 4.0 YTD: 21 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. Cranford tells the tale of an oft-overlooked portion of Victorian population, the middle class. Many novels of the Victorian era focus exclusively on the… Continue Reading “Review: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell”
Review: Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 17 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) Count Frollo, Quasimodo, and Esmeralda are quite possibly the most twisted, most bizarre, and most unexpected love-triangle in literary… Continue Reading “Review: Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo”
Review: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 8 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful. Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White is widely accepted to be one of the first –and best- mystery and sensation novels. The… Continue Reading “Review: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins”
Review: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 1 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) “The greatest love story ever told.” “The epic novel of our time.” These are just two of the… Continue Reading “Review: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell”
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