Book Review: Les Miserables
Book Name: Les Miserables Author: Victor Hugo First Published: 1862 Victor Hugo was a genius who would have excelled at any medium he undertook. He was a poet first and then a novelist and dramatist....
View ArticleBook Review: Foundation
Book Name:Foundation Author: Issac Asimov First Published: 1951 Isaac Asimov was an American author, a professor of biochemistry, and is best known for his science fiction and popular science books. He...
View ArticleBook Review: Pride and Prejudice
Book Name: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen First Published: 1813 Jane Austen was an English novelist who is one of the most widely read authors in English literature. The realism and witty...
View ArticleBook Review: The Call of the Wild
Book Name: The Call of the Wild Author: Jack London First Published: 1903 Jack London (John Griffith) was born in 1876. An illegitimate child, Jack lived his early years in the slums of Oakland,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Great Gatsby
Book Name: The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald First Published: 1925 F. “Scott” Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota to an upper middle class, Irish Catholic family. He was named after...
View ArticleBook Review: Jane Eyre
Book Name: Jane Eyre Author: Charlotte Bronte First Published: 1847 Charlotte Bronte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816. She was the third of six siblings to her mother Maria and her father...
View ArticleBook Review: A Wizard of Earthsea
Book Name: A Wizard of Earthsea Author: Ursula K. Le Guin First Published: 1968 Born in 1929 in Berkeley, California of an anthropologist father and writer mother, Ursula K. Le Guin was exposed at an...
View ArticleBook Review: The Red Badge of Courage
Book Name: The Red Badge of Courage Author: Stephen Crane First Published: 1895 Stephen Crane was born in 1871 and only lived a scant 28 years. His work was noted as being in the realist tradition and...
View ArticleBook Review: The Good Earth
Book Name: The Good Earth Author: Pearl S. Buck First Published: 1931 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932 Born in 1892, Pearl Sydenstricker was the fourth of seven children to Southern Presbyterian...
View ArticleBook Review: Lord of the Rings
Book Name: The Lord of the Rings Author: J.R.R. Tolkien First Published: 1954-1955 International Fantasy Award – 1957 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award 2009 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Sword in the Stone
Book Name: The Sword in the Stone Author: T.H. White First Published: 1938 T.H. White was born in Bombay, British India, to Garrick Hanbury White and Constance White. His parents separated when he was...
View ArticleBook Review: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Book Name: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Author: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) First Published: 1889 Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri, two weeks after Halley’s Comet appeared...
View ArticleBook Review: Don Quixote
Book Name: Don Quixote Author: Miguel de Cervantes First Published:1605 (part one) 1615 (part two) Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. His father’s profession was that of...
View ArticleBook Review: To Kill A Mocking Bird
Book Name: To Kill A Mockingbird Author: Harper Lee First Published: 1960 Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She studied at Monroe County High School, where she became...
View ArticleBook Launch: The Curate’s Brother
BUY IT TODAY ON AMAZON The Curate’s Brother is a Jane Austen Variation of “Persuasion” by Wendy Van Camp. This short story can work as a prequel to Austen’s famous novel or as a prequel to my upcoming...
View ArticleBook Review: Dracula
Book Name: Dracula Author: Bram Stoker First Published: 1897 Bram Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a sickly boy but he fully recovered when he was seven. He had no other...
View ArticleBook Review: King Soloman’s Mines
Book Name: King Solomon’s Mines Author: Sir H. Rider Haggard First Published: 1885 Sir Henry Rider Haggard, better known as H. Rider Haggard, was born in Bradenham, Norfolk on June 22, 1856. He was the...
View ArticleWriting a Persuasion Prequel: Interview with A.R. Silverberry
A.R. Silverberry was kind enough to offer to interview me about my new ebook, The Curate’s Brother: A Jane Austen Variation of Persuasion. I had a lot of fun doing the interview and I hope you will all...
View Article50 Days of Indie: Wendy Van Camp
My book “The Curate’s Brother: A Jane Austen Variation of Persuasion” is featured as number 48 of Cheryllynn Dyess’s 50 Days of Indie Authors promotion. Cheryllyn has been interviewed here on No Wasted...
View ArticleBook Review: The Little Prince
Book Name: The Little Prince Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry First Published: 1943 Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry, more popularly known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was born...
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