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Père Goriot (Recorded Books classics library)
By Honoré De Balzac, A. J Krailsheimer. 2006
At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of…
the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was - at first - afforded special treatment from the Madame. But now something is clearly amiss in his financial affairs, and his increasingly tawdry appearance makes him a subject of ridicule in the household. Some think he lost in the markets, others see him as a lecherous patron of prostitutes, but one thing is clear: his selflessness and complete devotion to his two daughters. 2006, c1835. Uniform title: Père Goriot.Pat of Silver Bush
By L. M Montgomery. 1988
Patricia Gardiner loves her home, Silver Bush, on Prince Edward Island. All her experiences -- a bout with scarlet fever,…
her first romance, her aunt's wedding and her mother's illness -- are shared with her friends, Bets Wilcox, Jingle Gordon, and the mysterious old Judy Plum. Grades 5-8. c1988, originally published 1933.Our village
By Mary Russell Mitford. 1986
Appearing first in "The Lady's Magazine" during the 1820s and 1830s, these gentle and shrewd portraits of the people and…
the way of life in an English country village of the time were written to support the author's aging parents. 1986.On the road (Penguin classics)
By Jack Kerouac. 2000
On the road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal…
Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. 2000, c1957.On the eve: a novel (Penguin classics)
By Gilbert Gardiner, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. 1972
Of mice and men
By John Steinbeck. 1992
This is the story of itinerant farm workers George and Lennie, one of nimble wits and the other of huge…
physique, whose simple arrangement keeps them in work. However, even his best friend and mentor cannot save Lennie from his own worst enemy - his own strength. 1992.Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard (Penguin classics)
By Joseph Conrad, Veronique Pauly. 2007
In the exotic South American republic of Costaguana, the San Tome silver mine provides opportunities for untold wealth and power.…
Yet amid the turbulence and brutality of Latin American politics, everyone associated with it - from the compromised English mine-owner Gould to the grasping businessman Holroyd, from the revolutionary Montero to the loyal and seemingly incorruptible worker Nostromo - becomes somehow irrevocably tainted. 2007, c1904.Nana
By George Holden, Émile Zola. 1972
My brilliant career (Virago modern classics)
By Miles Franklin. 1980
It is the 1890s. Sybylla, trapped in drudgery on her father's farm, loves the wild Australian outback and its way…
of life, but hates the bitter constraints which will always be her lot as a woman. She longs for beauty - to read, to think, to sing - but most of all to do great things, to have a "brilliant career" as a writer. 1980.Murphy
By Samuel Beckett. 1973
Moby Dick
By Herman Melville. 1987
Sailor Ishmael narrates this allegory of human potential and limitations. Seeking adventure, Ishmael signs on as a harpooner with Captain…
Ahab’s whaling ship. Once at sea, the crew discovers that, despite dire warnings from other ships and a prophet, Captain Ahab is obsessed with killing Moby Dick, the white whale responsible for his missing leg. 1987.Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel: story and pictures (Sandpiper books)
By Virginia Burton. 1967
Mephisto (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
By Klaus Mann. 1995
This novel, based on the life of Gustav Grundgens, tells the story of Hendrik Hofgen, an unknown actor who is…
obsessed with becoming famous. After finally reaching the pinnacle of his career, he must face the moral consequences of his rise to fame. 1995. Uniform title: Mephisto.Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins Ser. #No. 1)
By P. L Travers. 1981
Marius the Epicurean: his sensations and ideas (Elibron Classics Ser.)
By Walter Pater. 2006
Set in the second century A.D. against the backdrop of a Roman Empire on the verge of decline, Marius the…
Epicurean is the story of the philosophical and spiritual development of Marius, a young Italian serving as amanuensis to the great emperor Marcus Aurelius. Marius explores the various systems of philosophy in search of an elusive vision of love, moving from Epicureanism to Cyrenaicism and finally Stoicism before finally finding what he had sought in the terrible beauty of Christian martyrdom. 2006.Little town on the prairie (Little house books. #7.)
By Laura Ingalls Wilder. 2005
Love and friendship, and other early works: And Other Early Works
By Jane Austen. 2000
Look homeward, angel: a story of the buried life
By Thomas Wolfe. 1995
In this largely autobiographical novel, Wolfe describes Eugene Gant, who longs to escape his drab existence with his alcoholic father…
and neurotic mother in a provincial North Carolina town. Finally, through his fascination with literature and ideas, Eugene escapes to the university and later to Harvard. Some strong language. 1995.Lady Chatterley's lover (Recorded Books classics library)
By D. H Lawrence. 1988
Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon (Penguin English library)
By Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble. 1974
"Lady Susan", with its wicked, beautiful and energetic heroine, is a sparkling melodrama. "The Watsons" is a story whose vitality…
and optimism centre on the marital prospects of the Watson sisters in a small provincial town. "Sanditon" is set in a seaside town and its themes concern the new speculative consumer society and foreshadow the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. Written in the early 19th century. 1974. Uniform title: Novels.