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Black narcissus
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.Barnaby Rudge (Penguin English library)
By Charles Dickens, G. W Spence. 1973
Ballet shoes: the story of three children on the stage
By Noel Streatfeild. 1959
Barchester Towers (Barsetshire novels. #2.)
By Anthony Trollope, Michael Sadleir, Frederick Page. 1953
Antic hay
By Aldous Huxley. 1923
An eye for an eye (The World's classics)
By Anthony Trollope, Andrew Sutherland. 1992
Fred Neville, heir to an earldom, resolves to enjoy a year in Ireland with his regiment, and falls in love…
with a beautiful Irish girl with a mysterious background. His family oppose the match, and he seduces his wild Irish girl. The scene is thus set for a tragic outcome that far exceeds the adventures Fred had in mind. 1992.Agnes Grey (The World's classics)
By Anne Brontë, Robert Inglesfield, Hilda Marsden. 1991
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.A portrait of the artist as a young man
By James Joyce. 1991
Largely autobiographical novel portrays the Irish childhood, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus. Stephen's growing self-awareness as an artist…
forces him to reject the narrow world in which he has been brought up. 1991. Originally published 1916. 1991.Classic satire about a nineteenth-century New England factory worker who is knocked unconscious and transported back to the year 528.…
Hank Morgan awakens in King Arthur's court in Britain, where he attempts to improve living conditions by introducing modern inventions and democratic ideas. For senior high and older readers. 1988, c1889.1984: a novel
By George Orwell. 1949
The professor (Penguin Popular Classics Ser.)
By Charlotte Brontë, Heather Glen. 1989
This first novel by the famous author of "Jane Eyre," is based on Bronte's experience as a young woman studying…
in Belgium, where she fell hopelessly in love with a married teacher. Many scholars acknowledge it as a study for her later novel, "Villette." 1989.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.Whistle down the wind
By Mary Hayley Bell. 1997
A classic novel about a group of siblings who find a man in a barn who they believe is Jesus,…
and they keep the secret to themselves until the adults find out and suspect the man is a recently escaped convict. Grades 3-6. 1997, c1961.Washington Square (Recorded Books classics library)
By Henry James. 1997
Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, "Washington Square" is…
the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations. 1997.Vie et mort d'un cochon ((Le Livre de poche : Jeunesse ; 9).)
By Robert Newton Peck, Marie-Alyx Revellat. 1974
A douze ans, Robert fait presque le travail d'un homme. Quand il trouve la vache du voisin en train de…
s'étouffer et le veau qui n'arrive pas à naître, il sait la tirer d'affaire, même si c'est dur. En récompense,, il recevra un petit cochon, un animal doux et rose, rien que pour lui. Mais dans une ferme si pauvre, comment garder une bête seulement pour le plaisir ? Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. Titre uniforme: A day no pigs would die.Uncle Tom's cabin
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.Ulysses (Twentieth Century Classics Ser.)
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.The tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin classics)
By Anne Brontë, Stevie Davies. 1996