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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Essay By Dan Geddes 13 March 2001 Summary Introductory Poems Chapter I—Down the Rabbit-hole Chapter II—The Pool of Tears Analysis Chapter III—A Caucus-Race and a Long Table Chapter IV—The Rabbit Sends in... More »
LIFE AFTER GOD. By Douglas Coupland. Review By Dan Geddes From Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X, comes Life After God, a slick and very readable collection of stories, whose only common thread is the same generational angst of the earlier novel. About ... More »
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Review By Dan Geddes 1 January 2001 Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale unabashedly places itself in the negative utopian tradition, and may actually herald the beginning of a new genre: the feminist n... More »
Hapworth 16, 1924 J.D. Salinger Review By Dan Geddes 10 October 2000 Note: This review was originally written as a review for the book version of “Hapworth 16, 1924,” which was announced for publication in 1997, but withdrawn at the last moment by Salinger... More »
See also: A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Widow for One Year The Fourth Hand and an imaginary review of Irving’s The Third Leg A Son of the Circus John Irving Review By Dan Geddes John Irving’s command of his material is masterful. He will make y... More »
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe Review By Dan Geddes 10 January 2000 Thomas Wolfe shows his readers the magic in everyday life. Look Homeward, Angel is the story of an early twentieth century North Carolina family as told through the eyes of the youngest ... More »
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Review By Dan Geddes The Celestine Prophecy claims to be a novel, and it is: a novel disguising a New Age primer. The hero, (who I believe is never given a name) is told about a mysterious, ancient Manuscript now in the... More »
Swann’s Way Remembrance of Things Past (volume 1) Marcel Proust Review By Dan Geddes 10 December 1999 Proust’s fundamental triumph in Swann’s Way is in reconstructing his own past in such detail. He recreates the rhythm and events of his childhood so viv... More »
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Review By Dan Geddes Perhaps I expect too much of literature. Coming to read a novel for the first time, one nearly always has preconceptions of it, whether from its reputation, reviews, word of mouth, a movie version, or ... More »