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Persuasion
By Jane Austen. 1818
Anne Elliot has been persuaded to break off her engagement, but meets Wentworth again after some time, and the story…
is concerned with the gradual revival of his passion for her. 1818.Pat of Silver Bush
By L. M Montgomery. 1988
Patricia Gardiner loves her home, Silver Bush, on Prince Edward Island. All her experiences -- a bout with scarlet fever,…
her first romance, her aunt's wedding and her mother's illness -- are shared with her friends, Bets Wilcox, Jingle Gordon, and the mysterious old Judy Plum. Grades 5-8. c1988, originally published 1933.Le procès
By Franz Kafka. 1933
Un matin, Joseph K. est arrêté. Qui l'accuse? De quoi? Quand aura lieu son procès? À ces questions, une réponse…
implacable: "C'est la Loi." L'erreur est donc impossible. Ainsi, lentement, au rythme de l'administration, la vie de K. tourne au cauchemar. Avocats désabusés, juges peu scrupuleux, tribunal déserté... la justice n'est plus qu'absurdité, simulacre d'une liberté déjà perdue. 1976, c1933.Heart of darkness
By Joseph Conrad. 1993
Marlow relates his journey into the centre of the Congo to find Kurtz. He finds that the farther he penetrates,…
the more compelling becomes his confrontation with the potential for inhumanity. 1993.Bonheur d'occasion (Québec 10/10. 6)
By Gabrielle Roy. 1983
Publié en 1945. Un grand classique de la littérature québécoise. Rappelons que "Bonheur d'occasion" raconte l'histoire d'un quartier pauvre de…
Montréal, Saint-Henri, et que les principaux personnages en sont une jeune serveuse de restaurant, un ouvrier de fonderie et un conscrit. c1945, 1983.1984: 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.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.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
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables. #1.)
By L. M Montgomery. 1908
A spirited orphan girl wins the hearts of Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert although they had expected a young boy. Followed…
by "Anne of Avonlea" Grades 5-8. Originally published in 1908. (Anne of Green Gables ; 1)David Copperfield (Everyman's library)
By Charles Dickens. 1981
Junie B. Jones and the yucky blucky fruitcake (Junie B. Jones #5)
By Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus. 1995
Junie B., "in the grade of afternoon kindergarten," wants to win lots of prizes at the school carnival. But on…
Carnival Night Junie B. keeps losing at every game, until she goes to the Cake Walk. For grades K-3. 1995Junie B. Jones and the stupid smelly bus (Junie B. Jones #1)
By Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus. 1992
Junie B. is almost six years old and is starting kindergarten. She worries for a week about riding the yellow…
school bus and doesn't like her first trip on it at all. So she decides not to ride it home after school. For grades K-3. 1992Junie B. Jones and that meanie Jim's birthday (Junie B. Jones #6)
By Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus. 1996
Junie B. has a fight with Jim and then is upset when he invites everyone in their class, except her,…
to his birthday party. She doesn't want to be the only one left out. But her family helps her to see the problem a different way. For grades K-3. 1996