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By Harriet Beecher Stowe. 2010
First published in 1852, abolitionist Stowe's depiction of the moral injustice of slavery and the evils of materialism. Tom saves…
little Eva's life, and years later she tries to help him gain his freedom. Eventually, Tom's protection of runaway Eliza costs him his life at the hands of the brutal ex-Yankee Simon Legree. 2010.By James Joyce. 1922
Ulysses is the epic reconstruction of the minutiae of a single day in Dublin--June 16, 1904. It records in immense…
detail the events of the day as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1922.By Anne Brontë, Stevie Davies. 1996
By Anthony Trollope, James R Kincaid. 1989
Trollope depicts the pleasures and troubles of nineteenth century country life with digressions into London, Todger's boarding house, and high…
society. Mr. Crosbie, a snobbish and cowardly trifler; Lily Dale, the jilted maiden; Johnny Eames; and the aristocratic doll, Lady Dumello are among the characters. Sequel to "Framley parsonage". Followed by "The last chronicle of Barset". 1989.By Frances Hodgson Burnett. 1987
By Anthony Trollope, John McCormick, Jennifer S Uglow. 1983
Romantic and political intrigue in Victorian England. Focuses on the unhappy marriage of Emily Wharton to a Portuguese adventurer and…
the affairs of the Prime Minister and his wife. Sequel to "Phineas redux" (DC14826) Followed by "The Duke's children" (DC14836). Fifth in the series of Palliser novels. 1983.By Mark Twain. 1994
The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of…
Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character. A stranger, offended by the pious reputation of the town, devises a plan to bring its honoured residents to shame. Is there even one righteous man in Hadleyburg? Junior and Senior High. 1994.By Antoine de Saint Exupéry. 1971
After crashing in the desert, an airplane pilot meets the Little Prince. The prince describes his adventures on other planets…
as he attempts to learn about the universe. For all ages. First published in 1943. 1971. Uniform title: Petit prince.By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Morton D Paley. 1994
In the late twenty-first century, a plague ravages the world, gradually exterminating the entire human race but leaving one man,…
Lionel Verney, a young Englishman and onetime delinquent. First published in 1826. 1994.By Anthony Trollope. 1991
When Englishman Philip Jones buys two estates in the "wild and distant" country of Ireland, he thinks he has made…
a wise investment. But when his son, Fabian, makes a seemingly harmless conversion to Catholicism, he finds that there is a high price to pay on his purchase, not least of which is the unity and happiness of his family. 1991.By Rudyard Kipling. 1991
Presents more adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle.…
Also includes other short stories set in India. Grades 5-8. 1991. Uniform title: Jungle book.By Rudyard Kipling. 1981
By Upton Sinclair. 1985
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the…
nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day. 1985.By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Magarshack. 1970
Two young men meet on the Petersburg train; Rogozhin, dark, stocky, well-dressed and rich; Prince Myshkin, tall, fair, rather gaunt…
and shabby. His education has been interrupted by epilepsy and he calls himself an idiot, but he does have some unusual gifts, not the least being the ability to say - with disconcerting clarity - not only what he is thinking himself, but to put into words the thoughts of others; yet his innocence has a strange attraction for all who meet him. Junior and senior high. 1970.By Victor Hugo. 1991
Written in 1831 before Hugo was forced to flee from Louis Napoleon's France. In this novel, Hugo paints a vivid…
portrait of medieval Paris. Quasimodo, the one-eyed, hunchbacked refugee; Esmeralda, the dancing gypsy girl, threatened by the gallows; and a world where chaos is in charge - Hugo captures them all in this timeless, almost Gothic, piece of literature. 1991. Uniform title: Notre-Dame de Paris.By Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1993
The House of Seven Gables, a fixture in Hawthorne's Salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional Pyncheon family,…
whose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery. When country cousin Phoebe arrives at the house, she is like a cool breeze, refreshing a room that has been sealed for too long. 1993.By Edith Wharton. 1985
The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City. She seeks a husband who can satisfy…
her needs for admiration and wealth, but in her morally bankrupt world, she finds only scandal. 1985.By Stendhal. 1988
In these two stories, a German heiress escapes her fortune-hunting suitors by fleeing to Paris. She hopes to find a…
truly passionate love, but her dreams soon are shattered by harsh reality. 'The pink and the green' is an unfinished novel written in 1837 and 'Mina de Vanghel' was written in 1830. 1988. Uniform title: Rose et le vert.By Homer, Mary Pope Osborne, James Simmons. 2007
A children's collection of Osborne's re-tellings of some of the episodes in Homer's Odyssey. When Odysseus must leave his home…
to fight in the Trojan War, he never imagines that he will be away from his family for so many years. Now, at long last, he is leading his men home across the seas. Many dangers await them - including Polyphemus, the one-eyed giant, Circe, the beautiful witch, sirens, and the Land of the Dead. Grades 5-8. 2007. One-eyed giant -- Land of the dead -- Sirens and the sea monster -- Gray-eyed goddess -- Return to Ithaca -- Final battle.By Stendhal, C. K Scott-Moncrieff. 1989
French society at the end of the Napoleonic Wars sets the stage for this classic psychological study of an opportunist…
and the people he uses. Julien Sorel, a handsome and brilliant young tutor, systematically destroys the lives of the people around him as he seeks to fulfill his lust for power and wealth. 1989. Uniform title: Rouge et le noir.