Book Reviews

We’ve assembled a number of book reviews written by D. W. Buffa as part of the campaign for the American Reader and other projects. We hope you enjoy them!

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann

Emile by Jean-Jacque Rousseau

The Europeans by Henry James

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Justine by Lawrence Durrell

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson

The Works of Paul Valery and Robert Musil

Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford

Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson

The Reading List of John F Kennedy

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The Stories of Alexander Pushkin

The Unforgettable Jorge Borges

The Works of Thomas Babington Macaulay