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Great expectations (Penguin Popular Classics Ser.)
By Charles Dickens. 1994
A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip, a young boy adopted by a blacksmith and his wife, with the chance to…
escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by the expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. 1861.Old mortality (Forsyte chronicles)
By Walter Scott. 1975
Set in 1679 during the Scottish populist rebellion known as the Covenanter uprising, Henry Morton of Milnewood is compelled to…
take up arms against the royalists, who are led by Claverhouse, a true villain in Scottish history. A moderate Covenanter, Morton is one of the "people's heroes" who challenge King Charles II and change the course of Scottish history. 1816.Rip Van Winkle and other stories (Puffin classics)
By Washington Irving. 1994
Five tales by Washington Irving (1783-1859). In the title story, the good-natured but lazy Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for…
twenty years in the Catskills. In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," schoolmaster Ichabod Crane encounters the Headless Horseman. Includes "The Spectre Bridegroom," "The Pride of the Village," and "Mountjoy." Origianlly published 1819. 1994. Rip Van Winkle -- Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Spectre bridegroom -- Pride of the village -- Mountjoy.Lady Chatterley's lover
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.The old man and the sea
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.Uncle Tom's cabin: or, Life among the lowly (A Harper classic)
By Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1965
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. 1965.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.Anne of Windy Willows (Anne of Green Gables. #4.)
By L. M Montgomery. 1936
Anne becomes a school teacher in Summerside, P.E.I. while waiting for Gilbert, now Dr. Blythe, and an island dream house.…
Sequel to "Anne of the Island" (BR71098). Followed by "Anne's house of dreams" (BR60788). Grades 4-7. 1936. (Anne of Green Gables ; 4)Mayor of Casterbridge
By Thomas Hardy. 1886
One of the Wessex tales, this tells the story of the brooding, and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard and the women…
with whom he searches for happiness in the harsh world of 19th-century rural England. 1886.Les misérables
By Victor Hugo. 1862
Out of extreme poverty Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread and then spends many years trying to escape his…
reputation as a criminal. In later years he rises socially and is a respectable member of society; but policeman Javert will not allow him to forget his past and is determined to expose him. 1862.Les misérables
By Victor Hugo, Norman Denny. 1982
Jean Valjean, a poor French peasant, is imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread. After escaping, he devotes his life…
to noble causes until once again he becomes the victim of cruel circumstances. Originally published in 1862. 1982. Uniform title: Misérables.Le tour d'écrou
By Henry James, Mathieu Meyrignac. 2008
Nana ((Folio ;$v3707.)
By Émile Zola. 2002
La guerre et la paix: roman
By Bernard Kreise, Léon Tolstoï. 2002
La mort d'Ivan Ilitch: suivi de Maître et serviteur : nouvelles ((Bibliothèque cosmopolite))
By Léon Tolstoï, Boris De Schloezer. 2004
" Ivan Ilitch, fils de fonctionnaires, gravit avec succès les échelons de la hiérarchie administrative. Parvenu au sommet de la…
réussite sociale, il est frappé par la maladie. Il réévalue alors son existence à l'aune de critères moraux et la trouve vaine et futile. Dans Maître et serviteur, Andréitch Brékhounov, riche propriétaire, est pris dans une tempête de neige et fait le même amer constat. " Titre uniforme: Smertʹ Ivana Ilʹicha.Hard times
By Charles Dickens. 1854
Hard Times was one of Dickens' later novels and portrays the author's somewhat cynical view of life as a dreary…
sort of underworld with artificially contrived happy endings that are not to be believed. Hard Times is sympathetic to the lot of the oppressed worker. Originally published in 1854.East of Eden
By John Steinbeck. 1995
A saga of two California families from the turn of the century through World War I. The Trasks, a mixture…
of gentleness and brutality, contrast with the Hamiltons, the author's own forebears, a well-adjusted, more tranquil family. 1995, c1952.Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Brontë. 1965
A plain and intelligent woman becomes the Governess at an estate and falls in love with the master. They plan…
to marry, but a long-kept secret is revealed that shatters all plans. A classic first published in 1847. 1965.White Fang
By Jack London. 1906
A dog of mixed parentage - three parts wolf and one part dog - is taken from the wild and…
educated to the service of man. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1906.Emma (Modern Library Classics Ser.)
By Jane Austen. 2001