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Two classic works by English Puritan John Bunyan (1628-1688). In the allegorical tale Pilgrim's Progress, the protagonist, burdened by sin,…
leaves the City of Destruction to find Zion, the city of God. His journey embodies Christian teachings. In Grace Abounding, Bunyan recounts his conversion and spiritual growth. 2004Men against the sea
Par Charles Nordhoff. 2003
1789. Following the Mutiny on the Bounty (BR 8669), Captain Bligh and eighteen loyal men are set adrift in the…
South Pacific on a twenty-three-foot open launch. Alone on uncharted waters, the crew struggles to survive the 3,600-mile voyage to the Dutch colony of Timor in the East Indies. 1933Pitcairn's Island
Par Charles Nordhoff. 1934
South Pacific, 1790s-1800s. Fletcher Christian, his fellow H.M.S. Bounty mutineers, and their Polynesian wives flee Tahiti for Pitcairn's Island. Living…
undiscovered for eighteen years, they establish a primitive but thriving settlement until a bitter struggle for vengeance shatters the peace. Sequel to Men against the Sea (BR 15979). 1934Of human bondage (Modern Library)
Par W. Somerset Maugham. 1999
Semiautobiographical novel of obsessive love. Philip Carey, a sensitive, talented orphan with a club foot, comes to live with his…
vicar uncle. Philip studies art in Paris, returns to London to take up medicine, and begins a life-altering affair with Mildred, a waitress. 1999 introduction by Gore Vidal. 1915The Kreutzer sonata and other stories (Penguin classics)
Par Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff. 1985
Four short stories by the nineteenth-century Russian author. In the title piece, a husband confesses to being so consumed by…
sexual jealousy that he feels compelled to murder his wife. The public outcry against the story published in 1890 caused Tolstoy to write the postface included here. 1985How green was my valley
Par Richard Llewellyn. 1997
Before leaving his childhood home, Huw Morgan reminisces about his youth in South Wales. He remembers when the coal mines…
still flourished and family members and friends fought, loved, laughed, and cried as they struggled to survive labor troubles and hard times in the valley. National Book Award. 1939Roughing it (Signet classic)
Par Mark Twain. 1980
A humorous account loosely based on the celebrated author's life during the years 1861-1867. Mark Twain tries his hand at…
prospecting, speculating, laboring, and, more successfully, reporting. His exaggerated adventures take him across the frontier plains to California and then to Hawaii. 1962 foreword by Leonard Kriegel. 1872About love and other stories (Oxford world's classics)
Par Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 2004
Seventeen short stories by the nineteenth-century Russian writer. In the title piece a lonely bachelor tells a sad tale of…
undeclared love and the toll it exacts. The collection includes "The Lady with the Little Dog" (1899), "Gusev" (1890), and "Rothschild's Violin" (1894). Translation by Rosamund Bartlett. 2004Essential stories (Modern Library Classics Ser.)
Par V. S Pritchett. 1997
Jeremy Treglown, a biographer of Pritchett (1900-1997), assembles sixteen of Pritchett's short stories that exhibit his legendary skills. "A Serious…
Question" explores a failing, childless marriage. "The Lion's Den" is autobiographical and "Our Oldest Friend" is an examination of what it means to be rejected. 2005Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth
Par Sinclair Lewis. 2002
Three early-twentieth-century American classics by Nobel Prize-winning author. In Arrowsmith, an idealistic young doctor is disillusioned by greedy and self-serving…
colleagues. Elmer Gantry takes aim against the hypocrisy of a tent-show evangelist. In Dodsworth, a retired auto maker's dull marriage comes unglued during a European tour. 2002Sometimes a great notion: a novel
Par Ken Kesey. 1988
Oregon timber country. A bitter labor strike against old Henry Stamper's lumber empire intensifies his two sons' rivalry. Hank, rough-hewn…
like his father, is eventually provoked to fight his sensitive half-brother Lee, who has returned home intent on revenge. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1963Tar baby (Vintage International)
Par Toni Morrison. 2004
Son, a black fugitive, invades the West Indian home of a retired millionaire, upsetting the racially diverse household. He captivates…
pampered Jadine, a black fashion model. Their ideologically complicated love affair plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan. 2004 foreword by the author. Strong language. 1981Ben-Hur: a tale of the Christ
Par Lew Wallace. 2003
Accused of attempting to assassinate the new governor of Jerusalem, Judah Ben-Hur is sentenced to life as a galley slave.…
Intermingled with the account of his escape and revenge against the friend who betrayed him is the story of Jesus, who changes Ben-Hur's world forever. Includes an introduction by Tim LaHaye. 1880Good-bye, Mr. Chips
Par James Hilton. 1962
Chronicles sixty years in the life of Mr. Chipping, an English schoolmaster who arrives at exclusive Brookfield in 1870 with…
much enthusiasm but little experience. At first unpopular, Mr. Chips eventually develops a more personal relationship with his students and becomes a legend by the time they must say goodbye. For senior high and older readers. 1933Don Quixote
Par Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. 2003
Spanish classic depicting the adventures of Don Quixote, an aging gentleman addled by chivalrous visions, who appoints himself a knight-errant…
and sets out with his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, on a quest to right the world's wrongs. Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. New translation by Edith Grossman. Bestseller. 2003Invisible man
Par Ralph Ellison. 2002
Classic novel of a young black man's search for identity. Follows the unnamed protagonist from his youth in a Southern…
town through the depression years in Harlem, where he examines and rejects the values thrust on him by both whites and blacks. Some strong language. National Book Award 1953. 1947Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
Par J. R. R. Tolkien. 1980
Le grand Meaulnes
Par Alain-Fournier. 1959
A tale of friendship, adventure, and romanticism recounted by François Seurel, whose father runs a French village school where seventeen-year-old…
Augustin Meaulnes comes to board. Variously translated as The Lost Domain and The Wanderer. 1912Moby-Dick
Par Herman Melville. 1991
The sailor Ishmael tells the story of Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the white whale in this novel which includes…
chapters on the natural history of the whale, the whole making an allegory of human potential and limitations. 1851Light 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 bigotry