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By T Smollett. 1748
By Daniel Defoe, Clifton Fadiman. 1962
Crusoe runs away to sea, is shipwrecked, and leads a solitary life on an uninhabited island for 24 years. He…
meets the difficulties of primitive life, and at length finds a companion in a native whom he saves from cannibals. Loosely based on a true account of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk. 1962, c1719.By Charles Dickens, Paul Lorain. 1857
By Alphonse De Lamartine. 1852
By Charles Dickens. 1861
By Charles Dickens. 1861
By Charles Dickens. 1954
By Charles Dickens. 1954
By Honoré De Balzac. 1966
By Philippe Aubert de Gaspé. 1968
Inspiré par sa lecture du Petit Albert, un livre d'alchimie populaire, Charles Amand, brave cultivateur canadien, se met en quête…
de la pierre philosophale qui transforme les métaux en or. À cette intrigue principale viennent se greffer toutes sortes de récits et de diableries. L'inspiration du gothique et du rocambolesque se conjuguent pour livrer un roman échevelé où se mêlent péripéties, tableaux de genre, allusions piquantes et clins d'oeil littéraires. 1837.By Walter Scott, Claire Lamont. 1986
This historical novel, the first in English and the first fiction by this author, tells of Edward Waverley, a romantic…
captain in the royal army, who resigns his commission and proposes marriage to an ardent supporter of the Stuart cause. Rejected, he enters the service of Prince Charles Edward and becomes a rebel. 1986, c1814.By Mark Twain. 1996
A comprehensive edition of Twain's 1885 tale about a boy who runs away from home and floats down the Mississippi…
on a raft with an escaping slave. Includes four episodes originally deleted from the first edition, an introduction by Twain biographer Justin Kaplan, and an addendum of explanatory and interpretive notes. Includes strong language. c1996.By Anna Sewell. 1994
Black Beauty, a fine stallion, tells of his suffering as he is sold from one cruel master to another. This…
book was written to dramatize the cruel ties inflicted on horses in 19th century England. Grades 4-7. 1994.By Walter Scott. 1825
The story of Sir Kenneth, Prince Royal of Scotland, who accompanies Richard the Lion-Hearted to the Holy Land. King Richard…
and his noble enemy, Saladin, are the main characters of this novel set both in the Holy Land and England at the time of the Third Crusade. c1825.By Rudyard Kipling. 1901
Kim is an orphan sahib and bazaar-boy who lives by his wits. His chameleon's talent for disguise draws him into…
the Great Game - British Intelligence in India - and on a mission to thwart foreign agents on the North-West Frontier. His travels coincide with the quest of his friend the Tibetan Lama, who is seeking redemption from the Wheel of Life. For senior high and older readers. 1901.By Victor Hugo, Charles E Wilbour. 1862
Valjean returns after serving nineteen years' hard labour, and after a bad start robbing the man who is trying to…
help him, he becomes an honest, hard-working and respected man, always shadowed by the mistrusting Javert, who is himself ultimately denounced as a spy. 1862. Uniform title: Misérables. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.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.By Anthony Trollope, J A Sutherland. 1941
When Trollope returned to England from the colonies in 1872 he was horrified by the immorality and dishonesty he found…
in English society. In this book nothing escapes his satirical pen as he describes a world of bribes and vendettas, swindling and suicide in which heiresses are won like gambling stakes. 1941, c1875.By Lew Wallace. 1965
Accused of attempting to assassinate the new governor of Jerusalem, Judah Ben-Hur is sentenced to life at the galleys. The…
novel tells of his escape, revenge, and conversion to Christianity. c1965.By Gaston Leroux. 1911