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By Rebecca West. 1985
By Gabrielle Roy. 1983
Publié en 1945. Un grand classique de la littérature québécoise. Rappelons que "Bonheur d'occasion" raconte l'histoire d'un quartier pauvre de…
Montréal, Saint-Henri, et que les principaux personnages en sont une jeune serveuse de restaurant, un ouvrier de fonderie et un conscrit. c1945, 1983.By Mazo De la Roche. 1958
Traces the activities of the Whiteoak family in the mid-fifties, a period climaxed by the 100th anniversary celebration of the…
oldest of the family residences. Sequel to "Variable winds at Jalna". 1973, c1958. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 16)By Rumer Godden. 1994
Beginning work in the orchards and opening a school and a dispensary for the Himalayan mountain people, the Sisters of…
Mary are dependent for help on the English agent, Mr Dean. But his charm and insolent candour are disconcerting. 1994, c1939.By Aldous Huxley. 1923
In "Rabbit, run", Harry Angstorm, nicknamed Rabbit, is 26 years old and demonstrating kitchen gadgets. Real life turns out to…
be intolerable and Rabbit runs. The Rabbit, of "Rabbit redux" rarely thinks of his bid for freedom and now it is his wife, Janice, who bolts. In "Rabbit is rich", our hero is tasting the delights of the 1980s' abundant materialism. 1990.By Rudy Henry Wiebe, Robert Kroetsch. 1973
In 1876, Big Bear, a Plains Cree, refused to let the government push his people off their land and onto…
a reserve. While courageous, his stand brought starvation to his followers and tore apart the Cree community and eventually his own family. A fictional account of Big Bear's struggle and the culture and history of the Cree Indians. Winner of the 1973 Governor General's Award.By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1922
A story of the reckless life of the twenties in which Anthony Patch, grandson and heir apparent to millions, falls…
in love with and marries a glamour girl from Kansas City. Because of their extravagant style of living, their marriage fails, and Grandfather Patch decides against the intended inheritance. 1922.By Walter Scott, Elizabeth V DiSomma, Mary Louise McTiernan. 1987
England during the time of Richard I is the background for this novel of chivalry. Among the characters are Robin…
Hood, King Richard, and Rebecca and Rowena, two beautiful women who love Ivanhoe. First published in 1819. (Simple English classics series)By Hugh MacLennan. 1945
The division between French and English Canadians is dramatically shown in this novel about two families -- one, French landowners…
in a small Quebec village; the other, English businessmen from Montreal. Winner of the 1945 Governor General's Award for Fiction.By D. H Lawrence. 1973
An earthy love story, once banned in the United States, of the affair between Lady Chatterley and her gamekeeper, Mellors.…
Married to an impotent, disabled husband, she is attracted to Mellors’s strength and independence from industrial society. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1973.By Ernest Hemingway. 1952
An old Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin after eighty-five days without a catch. He then fights a losing battle…
with sharks that deprive him of his triumph. Recorded in textbook format. Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1952.By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1953
The glitter and recklessness of the Jazz Age is the backdrop for this novel about Jay Gatsby's desperate attempt to…
recapture the past and, along with it, the love of Daisy Buchanan. Grade I braille.By D. H Lawrence. 1921
Set in Midlands mining country against a background of class consciousness, the development of the love affairs of two sisters…
is examined through their relationship with each other and through the feelings between the men with whom they are in love. 1921.By Marcel Proust. 1918
Recollections of a youth in French society at the turn of the century. As the young narrator succumbs to the…
charms of the enchanting Gilberte, we are presented with an unparalleled account of the pangs of adolescent life. Following an illness, Marcel is sent to recuperate at the seaside resort of Balbec, together with his grandmother. Sequel to "Swann's way" (DC31597) followed by "Guermantes way" (DC31599). Some strong language. 1918. (In search of lost time ; 2)By Mazo De la Roche. 1942
It is the year 1939. Renny and his daughter Adeline are visiting Ireland and London, where they meet up with…
Finch and Wakefield. War breaks out and once again the Whiteoaks are united by all the drama and suspense which such an event brings. Sequel to "Whiteoak harvest" (DC31474). Followed by "Return to Jalna" (DC04270). 1942. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 12)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 Joseph Conrad, Paul Kirschner. 1990
In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bids a gradual farewell to his adventurous life at…
sea and begins to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. Originally published in 1903, 1990.By Thomas Hardy, Sally Shuttleworth. 1999
Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St…
Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory where together the lovers 'sweep the heavens'. Science and romance are destined to collide, however, as work, ambition and the pressures of the outside world intrude upon the pair. 1999.By Ernest Hemingway. 1994
"I don't know who made the laws, but I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."…
Harry Morgan was hard, the classic Hemingway hero. He had to be hard, rum-running, gun-running and man-running from Cuba to the Florida Keys in the Depression. He risked stray coastguard bullets and sudden doublecrosses, but it was the only way he could keep his boat, keep his independence and keep his belly full. Descriptions of violence. 1994.