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Light in August: the corrected text
Par William Faulkner. 1932
Joe Christmas, an orphan of mixed blood, travels to the South, seeking a place and people with whom he can…
belong. But he is soon hardened by white and black bigotryThree tales (Penguin classics)
Par Gustave Flaubert. 1961
Three finely contrasted stories first published in 1877. "Simple Heart" is about a faithful domestic servant who outlives her loved…
ones; "The Legend of St. Julian Hospitator" is a medieval tale about a man seeking atonement for a crime; and "Herodias" retells the story of the execution of John the BaptistBleak house
Par Charles Dickens. 1991
The job: an American novel
Par Sinclair Lewis. 1945
An early 1900s story of an ordinary young woman who comes to New York seeking a career. She studies business,…
works a series of jobs, becomes disillusioned, and marries. When her marriage fails, she returns to the job market with renewed determination to succeed, and does. Introduction by Maureen HoneyThe sound and the fury (The Modern library of the world's best books)
Par William Faulkner. 1992
A Southern family is portrayed in various stages of decay through the voices and thoughts of four of its members,…
including Benjy, the "idiot" son. An early work by the Nobel Prize winnerSketches from a hunter's album (The Penguin classics ; L186)
Par Ivan Turgenev. 1967
Short stories by the Russian novelist who was born in 1818 and died in 1883. His work is noted for…
the poetic atmosphere of country settings, the contrast between hero and heroine, and the objective portrayal of heroes who represent the development of the Russian intelligentsia. A hatred of injustice marks all of his writingsThe history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Penguin English library)
Par Samuel Johnson. 1976
Allegory written in 1759 upon the death of the author's mother. Tells how the prince escapes from his happy valley…
in quest of a satisfactory object in life but returns to his paradise accepting human limitationsThe great stone face
Par Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1991
A young boy is told that one day a great man will appear whose face resembles the features of a…
towering rock formation near his home. He grows to old age awaiting the man's arrival, unaware that it is he himself who resembles the Stone FaceOmoo: adventures in the South Seas (Pacific Basin books)
Par Herman Melville. 1985
This realistic novel recapitulates the ending of Typee (RC 9738), as a British whaler rescues Melville, an American sailor. He…
and the ship's doctor become fast friends and share many adventures in the South Pacific: mutiny, imprisonment, and a beachcombing existence in TahitiGone with the wind
Par Margaret Mitchell. 1936
A romantic Civil War epic in which Scarlett O'Hara, a forceful and ruthless heroine, and Rhett Butler, a war profiteer,…
play out their tempestuous love affair against the background of the war-torn South. Pulitzer PrizeThe Europeans: a sketch
Par Henry James. 1985
A fortune-hunting European countess and her charming brother come to visit their straight-laced cousins near Boston. Their rich and imaginative,…
but immoral, way of living is contrasted with the dull, but upright, American way. First published in 1878My Ántonia
Par Willa Cather. 1994
A lawyer recalls his Nebraska boyhood and the girl who was a strong influence on his life in this novel…
about pioneering conditions and the assimilation of immigrants. Contains a historical essay by James Woodress that describes the origin, writing, and reception of the bookTypee: a peep at Polynesian life (Penguin classics)
Par Herman Melville. 1996
Records the adventures of a whaling voyage in the Pacific. First published in 1846 and based on the author's actual…
experience, this novel portrays a civilized man held captive by the Polynesians, who were then practicing cannibalismSweet Thursday
Par John Steinbeck. 1982
To depict the common bonds of love that unite humankind, the author turns to the outcasts of a California skid…
row. Portrayed are an alcoholic, a prostitute, and a down-at-the heels philosopher. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexShadows on the rock (Vintage classics)
Par Willa Cather. 1995
Erewhon
Par Samuel Butler. 1970
An English traveler discovers the remote land of Erewhon inhabited by irrational people with exasperating ideas. A satirical novel aimed…
at lampooning nineteenth-century English society, customs, and manners. First published in 1872The gambler
Par Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 1964
Set in a fashionable nineteenth-century German spa, this story tells of a young Russian tutor who becomes so addicted to…
the passion of gambling that everything else loses meaning for him. Originally written in 1866The wayward bus
Par John Steinbeck. 1947
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg
Par Mark Twain. 1986
A mysterious stranger leaves a sack of gold to an unknown citizen of Hadleyburg on the condition that the townsman…
can prove he is the kind person who once befriended a man in need. The temptation has a remarkable effect upon the townspeople, who take great pride in their virtue. For junior and senior high and older readersThis side of paradise
Par F. Fitzgerald. 1920