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By Jane Austen. 2002
The entertaining novel has been popular since its original publication in 1813. The observation and characterization are more important than…
the plot, which deals with the five daughters of an English country family and their romantic affairs. 2002.By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
The monster created by Dr. Frankenstein was supposed to be man's benefactor but, scorned for his ugliness, he swears revenge…
on his creator and the human race. Adaptation of Mary Shelley's work, published in 1831. For junior and senior high readers. c1999.By Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
A kind and well-respected doctor can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.…
Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", first published in 1886. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.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 Victor Hugo. 1996
By L. M Montgomery. 1989
Anne is now 25 and about to be married to Gilbert Blythe, who is setting up in practice 60 miles…
away at Four Winds Harbour. He has found the house of her dreams, and the young couple are to meet and love a whole new set of characters. Grades 5-8. 1989. (Anne of Green Gables ; 5)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.By George Eliot. 1994
Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill on the River Floss, and her brother Tom are united by a strong…
bond. But when Maggie is pursued by the son of the lawyer who ruined their father, Tom forbids their friendship. Later, Maggie falls in love with the fiancé of her cousin Lucy Deane. Repenting, her life is made desperately unhappy. 1860.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.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.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.By L. M Montgomery. 1977
When Anne Shirley 'erupts' into their lives, the Cuthberts little guess how fond they will become of the skinny, red-haired…
orphan. Both entertained and exasperated by her constant chatter and imaginings, they soon find it hard to remember what Green Gables was like without its irrepressible adopted daughter. Followed by "Anne of Avonlea". Grades 5-8. 1977, c1908. (Anne of Green Gables ; 1)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 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.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.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.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.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.