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By E. B White. 1970
Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan; his determination to learn to…
play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home. Grades 4-7. 1970.By Theodore Dreiser, James L. W West, Neda M Westlake. 1981
Now regarded as an American classic, the story of a naive young girl who seeks her fortune in Chicago. She…
stays with her sister and brother-in-law, but seeks an escape from the drabness of their existence. The author portrays her helplessness against the forces that shape her future. 1981.By Walter Scott. 1819
Scott's noble knight, Ivanhoe, returns home from the Crusades to claim Rowena, an Anglo-Saxon princess, to be his bride. Before…
long he is embroiled in the struggle between Prince John and his brother Richard the Lionheart. 1819.By Joseph Conrad. 1910
By Ernest Hemingway. 1970
By Berry Fleming. 1988
A satire about a retired officer who returns to his Georgia hometown to wage battles in a newspaper column, covering…
the war in Europe. However, he has lost touch with the people of Fredericksville, and his column fractures the community's serenity. First published in 1943. 1988.By Glendon Swarthout. 1970
Six boys, neglected and scarred as a result of absentee parents or broken homes, become outcasts at an expensive summer…
camp in the canyon country of Arizona. Together they set out to rescue a group of doomed buffalo, a mission that takes on dangerous proportions. For senior high and older readersBy William Faulkner. 1991
Classic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author about Lucas Beauchamp, an elderly African-American of immense dignity who is in a…
Mississippi jail charged with the murder of Vinson Gowrie, a white man. A mob assembles in anger, while evidence to prove Lucas's innocence is collected by two sixteen-year-old youths, one white and one African-American, and an elderly, aristocratic spinster. 1991.By William Faulkner. 1939
Faulkner takes us down two paths, apparently unconnected. The title story is about two lovers in an ultimately disastrous affair.…
In the other, "Old Man," a convict accidentally freed during a flood struggles to save himself and a pregnant woman whose fate has been thrust into his hands. The stories alternate and never touch, until the very end. c1939.By Jack Kerouac. 1958
In 1955 two young men search for Truth the Zen way in their dissolute wanderings on America's West Coast. A…
story that celebrates the freedom of those who have opted out of conventional society. 1986, c1958.This deluxe volume brings all Beatrix Potter's 23 Peter Rabbit tales and verses together in one book. The texts are…
complete and unabridged. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published. Each story stands alone but several are linked together by events and characters. Grades P-2. 1997.In 1928 Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the Compson brothers - Quentin, Jason, and the "idiot" son Benjy - narrate events that…
trace the gradual disintegration of the family, including the ostracism of their wanton sister, Caddy. 1992, c1929.By Ray Bradbury. 1962
Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, both thirteen, are fascinated by the carnival that comes to their small town. But after…
a series of frightening events, the boys realize there is something sinister about the show and its owner. 1962.By Upton Sinclair. 1985
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the…
nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day. 1985.By Mazo De la Roche. 1945
Adeline, an impulsive bride with an Irish temper, and her husband, Captain Whiteoak, select Lake Ontario as the site of…
their home. The building of the house, the swimming and skating parties, and the jealousies and humour of the family are described. Followed by "Morning at Jalna" (DC31471). 1945. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 1)By Mazo De la Roche. 1951
Renny's daughter travels to Ireland and becomes involved in a frustrating romance. Sequel to "Return to Jalna" (DC04270). Followed by…
"Variable winds at Jalna" (DC31472). 1951. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 14)By Joseph Conrad, Veronique Pauly. 2007
In the exotic South American republic of Costaguana, the San Tome silver mine provides opportunities for untold wealth and power.…
Yet amid the turbulence and brutality of Latin American politics, everyone associated with it - from the compromised English mine-owner Gould to the grasping businessman Holroyd, from the revolutionary Montero to the loyal and seemingly incorruptible worker Nostromo - becomes somehow irrevocably tainted. 2007, c1904.By George Orwell. 1949
By Jack London, Louis Postif, Francis Lacassin. 1974
L'Appel de la Forêt n'est pas seulement un classique de la littérature d'aventures, la vision que le chien Buck porte…
sur le monde et les hommes de la Ruée vers l'Or fournit à Jack London l'occasion d'une parabole. À travers l'épopée d'un chien humilié puis triomphant, l'auteur du Talon de Fer condamne l'individualisme, l'oppression du plus faible par le plus fort, l'inégalité, le vol, l'injustice. Il exalte l'énergie, la solidarité, l'effort physique, la fraternité. La douloureuse initiation de Buck illustre les idées de Darwin sur l'adaptation au milieu ; tandis que son retour à la vie sauvage démontre, à rebours, la vérité de l'évolutionnisme. En prologue à L'Appel de la forêt, quatorze Histoires du Pays de l'Or, inédites en français. 1974. Titre uniforme: The call of the wildBy 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.