Archive for the ‘Classics’ Category
The Hobbit – Reviewing Classics
George Allen & Unwin, 1937
Fantasy
ISBN: 0618968636
320 pages
Synopsis
Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, is a peaceful sort of cozy hole in the Shire, a place where adventures are uncommon and rather unwanted. So when the wizard Gandalf whisks him away on a treasure hunting expedition with a troop of rowdy dwarves, he’s not entirely thrilled. Encountering ruthless trolls, beastly orcs, gigantic spiders, and hungry wolves, Bilbo discovers within himself astonishing strength and courage. And at the ultimate confrontation with the fearsome dragon Smaug, the hobbit will brave the dangers of dark and dragon fire alone and unaided. …
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The Farthest Shore – Reviewing Classics
Atheneum Books, 1972
Fantasy
ISBN: 141650964X
272 Pages
Synopsis
Magic is disappearing from the outer edges of the world of Earth Sea, and it’s soon apparent that a great darkness is overtaking the land. People are hurtled into hopeless and despair, and many are losing their lives in consecutive drug trips where they seek to find the master who can grant eternal life, only to soon die from brain damage and starvation. …
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I Am The Darker Brother – Reviewing Classics
Simon Pulse, (reprint edition) 1997
Genre
ISBN: 0689808690
192 pages
Synopsis
A collection of African American poetry from the 20th century originally compiled in the late 60s, I Am The Darker Brother is one of the few anthologies of African American poetry amassed specifically for younger readers. From cover to cover, each poet leaves a legacy about life in America as ‘the other’. This edition adds more current writers that carved out a career post 1968, like Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, and Ishmael Reed. …
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Dragonquest – Reviewing Classics
Ballantine, 1971
Fantasy
ISBN: 0345335082
352 pages
Synopsis
Pern is now safe from Threads, at least for the time being. However, there is other trouble brewing throughout the land. The Oldtimers are threatening the general peace, and making requests of the people that are difficult to meet. There is still general unrest between the Holds, the Trades, and the Riders, which F’lar is desperately trying to assuage. …
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Dragonflight – Reviewing Classics
Ballantine Books, 1968
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0345484266
320 pages
Synopsis
The planet of Pern has been colonized by humans for many centuries. However, for just as long they’ve had a great enemy, the silver “threads” that fall from one of their sister planets. This great enemy falls from the sky and consumes everything that is life in its path. However, throughout many years, scientists developed ways to thwart the threads, the main of which was by creating the dragons. The riders and dragons have a special connection that allows them to speak to each other in their minds. …
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The Giver – Reviewing Classics
Laurel Leaf, 2002
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0440237688
192 pages
Newbery Medal Winner
Synopsis
Set in what seems to be a normal town, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community’s Receiver of Memories. Soon the story reveals a utopian town where not everything is so utopian. Jonas uncovers secrets as the Receiver of Memories that unveils that this town with no crime, sickness, or poverty has been created at a great cost to their own humanity. …
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The Tombs of Atuan – Reviewing Classics
Atheneum Books, 1971
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 1416509623
192 pages
Newbery Honor Book
Synopsis
Tenar, the priestess to the ancient and long held worship of the Nameless Ones, is taken as a child and raised as the one who will guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan for her entire life. Thought to be the reincarnation of the one priestess who lives and is reincarnated in every generation, Tenar is raised as someone who is both feared and revered by her peers and authority figures, even at a young age. …
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