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Madeline
By Ludwig Bemelmans. 1939
Madeline and eleven other girls live in an orphanage in Paris, looked after by Miss Clavel. One night, Madeline becomes…
ill and must go to the hospital. 1940 Caldecott Honor book. Grades K-3. 1939.Lourdes
By Émile Zola, Ernest A Vizetelly. 1894
In this depiction of a pilgrimage to Lourdes, Zola created a novel of vivid characters and subtle commentary on suffering…
and the belief in miracles as the last desperate refuge from pain. Based on his own trip to the fabled grotto, the novel follows a simple five-part structure corresponding to the five-day train trip from Paris to Lourdes and back. Zola’s observational powers are at their best as he moves from character to character describing in great detail the physical effects of their illnesses, their hopes, beliefs, fears, and above all endurance. 1894.Germinal (Penguin classics ; #L45)
By Émile Zola. 1954
Written to draw attention to the misery prevailing among the poor in France during the Second Empire, this novel depicts…
the grim struggle between capital and labour in a coalfield in northern France. Yet, through the blackness of this picture, humanity is constantly apparent. Senior High. 1954.Candide
By Voltaire. 1759
This tale begins with the hero, Candide, being expelled from the Westphalian castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh for making love to…
the Baron's daughter, Cunegonde. So begins a series of disastrous misadventures on a fantastic odyssey for Candide, Cunegonde and Dr Pangloss. 1759.Cousin Bette
By Honoré De Balzac. 1846
Set in Paris in the early 19th century, this is a story of family life and of the evil caused…
by the malicious Lisbeth, who masks frustration and bitterness behind a facade of goodwill. 1846.Memoirs of a fox-hunting man
By Siegfried Sassoon. 1928
Around the world in eighty days (Books of wonder)
By Jules Verne. 1873
The extraordinary and wonderful adventures which befall Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout when they set out to win a…
bet by going round the world in eighty days. Originally published in 1873.Doctor Zhivago
By Boris Pasternak, Max Hayward, Manya Narari. 1958
Classic love story set in Russia at the time of the revolution. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the…
new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him, and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women. 1958.Jude the obscure
By Thomas Hardy. 1895
Dramatizes the conflict between the carnal and the spiritual life of Jude Frawley, a stone mason's apprentice, who yearns to…
be a priest. A tale of doomed love and unfulfilled promise that revolves around Jude, his cousin Sue Bridehead and his academic mentor Phillotson. First published in 1895.Chance: a tale in two parts
By Joseph Conrad. 1914
Left with no money when her father is imprisoned, Flora de Barral is exploited by Mrs. Fyne, a "feminist" who…
attempts to mold Flora to her own purposes. A novel written when the suffragette movement was first bringing women's rights to public attention. 1914.Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas. 1909
Falsely condemned to life imprisonment, Dantes escapes to Monte Cristo and sets out to avenge himself on all who have…
wronged him. 1909. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Coming up for air
By George Orwell. 1939
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling.…
Having won some money on a horse, George decides to leave his wife and her narrow world and to return to the scenes of his childhood. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment. 1939.Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain. 1884
When Huckleberry Finn flees from his brutal father, he meets up with an old friend, the slave Jim, who is…
also running away. Together they travel by raft down the Mississippi, experiencing amazing adventures, and learning of the strange ways of people in the deep south. For Junior High readers. 1884.Old Goriot
By Ellen Marriage, Honoré De Balzac. 1834
Far from the madding crowd
By Thomas Hardy. 1874
Fathers and sons
By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, C. J Hogarth. 1862
Conflict between two generations in Tsarist Russia, with the nihilist Bazarov representing the revolt of the young free-thinking intellectuals, embodying…
the spirit of revolution. Paul Petrovitch speaks for the older generation which accepts the need for gradual reform, up to a point. 1862.Madame Bovary (Oxford world's classics ; #4)
By Gustave Flaubert, Anita Brookner, Gerard Hopkins. 1857
A French novel renowned for its realistic picture of smalltown bourgeois life of an ambitious, ruthless wife who drives her…
doctor-husband to despair and destruction with her deceits and schemes. 1857. Uniform title: Madame Bovary.Daniel Deronda
By George Eliot. 1986
Gwendolen Harleth marries for power and soon regrets it. She turns her attention to Daniel Deronda. At one time he…
found her attractive, but now he is busily engaged in a search for the family of a young woman he saved from drowning. Deronda's mission leads him into London's East End, where he meets with success. The dual plots of this novel explore the importance of character and touch on anti-Semitism in Victorian society. 1986, c1876.Little Dorrit
By Charles Dickens. 1967
Michael O'Halloran
By Gene Stratton-Porter. 1955