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The pearl
By John Steinbeck. 1992
A folktale of lower California is the basis for this narrative about Kino, a simple fisherman, who finds an enormous…
pearl that promises to provide for all his family's needs. When it brings nothing but misfortune, Kino throws it back to the sea and resumes his difficult way of life. 1945The complete works of Isaac Babel
By I Babelʹ, Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine. 2002
The entire surviving output of Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel (1894-1940), chronicler of the revolution and the early Soviet regime.…
Contains all his short stories (including the Red Cavalry and Odessa stories), reports and essays from his travels, plays, screenplays, and a private diary from 1920. English translation by Peter Constantine. Bestseller. 2002Four comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold (Oxford world's classics)
By Titus Maccius Plautus, Plautus, Erich Segal. 1998
A collection of four plays, translated by Erich Segal, from the best-known playwright of ancient Rome, Titus Maccius Plautus (254-184…
B.C.). The plays feature boisterous comedy, abundant word play, commonplace settings, and brisk song-and-dance routines. 1996To have and have not (Scribner classics)
By Ernest Hemingway. 1996
Harry Morgan tries to be an honest man, but in an effort to support his family and to stay in…
the upper fringes of the "have-nots," he earns money chartering his fast motorboat for fishing trips and running contraband between Key West and Cuba. His exploits bring him into dangerous waters. 1937Three novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Beckett, Samuel Ser.)
By Samuel Beckett. 1965
Interior monologs whose theme is expressed in the stream of consciousness of The Unnamable: "I can't go on; I'll go…
on." Molloy sets off to visit his mother and ends up in a ditch; Moran goes to find him. Malone, looking to pass the time on his deathbed, decides to tell himself stories, compile a list of his possessions, and describe his own death as it happensA life in letters: A New Collection
By F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman. 1994
Collection of Fitzgerald's correspondence portraying his life and work. The chronological arrangement of letters reflects his literary development through the…
years, his friendships with Hemingway and other writers, and his tragic marriage and personal lifeNightwood
By Djuna Barnes. 1961
The story of a femme fatale, Robin Vote, whose elusive and enigmatic spirit ruins the lives of her husband, "Baron"…
Volkbein, their child, and the two women, Nora and Jenny, who are obsessed with her. With an introduction by T.S. Eliot. Some strong languageDaughters of the fifth sun: a collection of Latina fiction and poetry (Big Bks.)
By Judy Mullican, Ken Carroll. 1995
Short stories and poems by the "godmothers" of Latina writing and later-generation authors divulge the Latina experience. They relate being…
women in a machismo- oriented culture, living in a minority group in the United States, learning the power of language, and dealing with everyday lifeThe fields of home
By Ralph Moody. 1993
In 1912, after the death of his father, the author and his family move from Colorado to Massachusetts. Not used…
to life in town, fourteen-year-old Ralph somehow finds himself catching trouble at every turn and is sent to live on his grandfather's farm in Maine. The old man is stubborn and crotchety, and Ralph cannot wait to leave. But his satisfaction in meeting the needs of the farm and his grandfather helps Ralph find a wonderful lifeAmerican dragons: twenty-five Asian American voices
By Laurence Yep. 1993
An anthology of twenty-five stories, poems, and essays by Asian Americans that enlighten, probe, and examine the experiences and emotions…
of young people with roots in Japan, China, India, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Selections are set in the past, present, and future, and most raise questions about identity and about preserving or rejecting the values of ancestors. For junior and senior high readersThe house of mirth: Introduction by Pamela Knights (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
By Edith Wharton. 1991
First published in 1905. Lily Bart, the orphaned daughter of a New York merchant, is endowed with beauty and charm…
and hopelessly addicted to the pleasures of luxury and wealth. Though she relentlessly pursues her goal to marry someone with money, she is attracted to Lawrence Selden, a lawyer of modest meansWartime writings, 1939-1944
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry. 1986
Posthumously collected and chronologically arranged miscellaneous writings of the French author best known for The Little Prince. Saint-Exupery, a professional…
aviator when World War II was declared, describes how he wrestled with his moral objections to war and his sense of duty to his Nazi-occupied homeland. He decided to become a military pilot and ultimately disappeared on a missionToward the radical center: a Karel C̈apek reader (Garrigue Book Ser.)
By Peter Kussi, Karel Capek, Karel C̈apek. 1990
English translations of three plays and several short stories, essays, and assorted sketches on gardening and travel provide a sampling…
of the work of this prolific Czechoslovakian writer. The word "robot" from his 1922 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), included here, has entered everday languageFirst published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetryThe portable Emerson: New Edition (The Viking portable library)
By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl Bode. 1981
Selections from the works of essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Includes his first published work, "Nature," which contains…
the essence of his transcendentalist philosophy; his address to the Phi Beta Kappa society at Harvard, "The American Scholar;" and his controversial address to the graduating class of the Cambridge Divinity School in 1839. Also includes other essays and twenty-two poemsNot under forty
By Willa Cather. 1988
The trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: a northern story
By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Celia Richmond Weller, Clark A. Colahan. 1989
Cervantes himself declared this his masterpiece. A tale of a quest ending in marriage and in personal and religious enlightenment.…
On their journey, Persiles and Sigismunda find romance, shipwreck, scoundrels, witches and werewolves, widows and wenches, and Olympic Games. Their return finds them filled with a deeper understanding of themselves and each other and fit to rule the Northern kingdom. 1989The story of the Grail and the passing of Arthur
By Howard Pyle. 1985
In volume four of Pyle's four-volume work of the legends of King Arthur we follow the medieval adventures of Sir…
Geraint, Sir Galahad's pursuit of the Holy Grail, King Arthur's last battle with Sir Mordred, and the passing of King Arthur. Originally published in 1910. Sequel to The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions (DB 30329). For junior and senior high and older readers. 1985Living by the word: selected writings, 1973-1987
By Alice Walker. 1988
A collection of miscellaneous essays, speeches, and journal entries. The author writes of her childhood and her family, of people's…
reactions to her novel The Color Purple, of her identity as a black American woman, and of groups with whom she allies herself in the struggle for human rightsSeven nights
By Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger. 1984
Seven lectures in which the famous Argentine writer shares his personal observations on poetry and on great poetic works such…
as "The Divine Comedy" and "The Thousand and One Nights." In the final essay he reminisces on his blindness and how blindness has served him and other blind poets