Saturday, January 31, 2026

Carr, A Month in the Country (1980; 2000; 2016)

J. L. Carr.
A Month in the Country.
Book Series: Penguin Modern Classics.
London: Penguin Books, 2000, 2016.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1993)

William Shakespeare.
All's Well That Ends Well.
Edited by Susan Snyder.
Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 2008.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books 1998 with preview; Google Books 2008 no preview; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some other recent editions of All's Well That Ends Well :
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Editor: Susan Snyder Literary Analysis by Susan Snyder :
  • Susan Snyder. Shakespeare: A Wayward Journey [collected essays]. Forward by Meredith Skura. Newark: University of Deleware Press (Associated University Presses), 2002.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    (Meredith Skura's Forward has reminiscences and further information about Susan Snyder.)
  • Susan Snyder. The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979, 2019.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Susan Snyder. Pastoral Process: Spenser, Marvell, Milton. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Susan Snyder. The Paradox of Despair: Studies of the Despair Theme in Medieval and Renaissance Literature [PhD thesis]. Columbia University, 1963.
    [Google Books.]
  • Susan Snyder, editor. Othello: Critical Essays. Garland, 1988; London: Routledge, 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Some Other Plays Edited by Susan Snyder :
  • William Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale. Edited by Susan Snyder and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]

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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Moore, The God of the Woods (2024)

Liz Moore.
The God of the Woods.
New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House), 2024.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Author Information : Liz Moore
  • Liz Moore (b. 1983), Wikipedia.
  • Liz Moore, Professor and Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Collins, The Moonstone (1868; 1998)

Wilkie Collins.
The Moonstone.
Edited by Sandra Kemp.
Book Series: Penguin Classics.
London: Penguin Books, 1998.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Editor : Sandra Kemp
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Sunday, January 11, 2026

Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1892; 2022)

Thomas Hardy.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Edited by Karen Swallow Prior.
Nashville, Tennessee: B&H Publishing, 2022.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Some Other Recent Editions of Tess of the d'Urbervilles :
  • Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Second Edition. Edited by Phillip Mallett and Jane Thomas. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    (A previous Norton Critical Edition edited by Scott Elledge, last published in its third edition in 1990, also exists [Amazon.com].)
  • Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Edited by Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell. Introduction by Penny Boumelha. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Edited by Tim Dolin. Introduction by Margaret Randolph Higonnet. Penguin Classics. London and New York: Penguin Books, 1998, updated 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor : Karen Swallow Prior
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Comments :
  • Karen Swallow Prior's edition is very thorough in identifying references to Classical, Biblical, and Contemporary (19th century) literature; the "Reflection Questions" after each major section ("Phases" in Hardy's terminology) are also helpful. Readers interested in more detailed literary analysis should also consider the Norton Critical Editions versions.

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Friday, January 02, 2026

Ogawa, The Diving Pool (1990; 2008, 2025)

Yōko Ogawa.
The Diving Pool.
Translated by Stephen Snyder.
New York: Picador (Macmillan), 2008, 2025.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Author Information : Yōko Ogawa
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Translator Information : Stephen Snyder
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