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Ulysses (The Modern library of the world's best books)
Par James Joyce. 1992
Epic novel that deals with a single day--June 16, 1904--in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dublin advertising salesman. The…
stream-of-consciousness style and the use of interior monologues expose the personalities of the characters. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexThe stranger
Par Albert Camus. 1988
An existential novel, set in Algiers, about a man who resists any commitment, rendering his life meaningless. He does not…
react to his mother's death nor to a killing he commits, and he becomes a placid prisoner convicted of murder. His own impending death, however, leads him to some realizationsHilda Lessways
Par Arnold Bennett. 1911
This companion to Clayhanger (DB 34689, BR 9121) begins in 1878 in Turnhill, England, where twenty-one-year-old Hilda Lessways finds life…
with her widowed mother unfulfilling. Afraid that her inheritance will be squandered by her mother, Hilda gathers her courage and seeks the advice of attorney George Cannon. Cannon offers Hilda a vocation, and her life begins to change. Then a second man enters her life: Edwin ClayhangerThese twain
Par Arnold Bennett. 1915
In the third volume of the Clayhanger trilogy--Clayhanger (DB 34689, BR 9121) and Hilda Lessways (DB 39479, BR 9851)--Edwin and…
Hilda have married after Hilda's "tragic adventure with a rascal and a bigamist," and her son by George Cannon is now ten years old. The book begins with an "at home" gathering at the Clayhangers' in 1892 and follows the ups and downs of their marriage through the next five yearsAround the world in eighty days
Par Jules Verne. 1990
Phileas Fogg is certain that he can travel around the world in eighty days--an incredibly short period of time in…
1873. He's so sure that it can be done that he's wagered half of his fortune and set off on the grand adventure with his servant Passepartout. For high school and older readers20,000 leagues under the sea
Par Jules Verne. 1992
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, the Nautilus, its eccentric captain, Captain Nemo, and the undersea world.…
The novel anticipates many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. For junior and senior high and older readersThe war of the worlds
Par H. G Wells. 1988
The Prince and the pauper
Par Mark Twain. 1991
The future Edward VI of England and a young pauper agree to trade places for a few days. The pauper…
becomes king, and he finds it quite insufferable. Meanwhile, the prince is roaming the street in tatters. People and circumstances almost make the role reversal permanent. For junior and senior high and older readersRobinson Crusoe
Par Daniel Defoe. 1991
First published in the early eighteenth century. Crusoe runs away to sea, is shipwrecked, and leads a solitary existence on…
an uninhabited island near the Orinoco River for twenty-four years. He meets the difficulties of primitive life with ingenuity and at length finds a companion in a native whom he saves from cannibalsThe scarlet letter
Par Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1962
First published in 1850, this symbolic novel set in Puritan New England traces the effects of one particular sin on…
the lives of four people. Hester Prynne is forced to wear her sin openly in the form of a scarlet letter "A" for adultery. The other characters are Hester's child; her husband, who seeks vengeance; and the minister, who conceals his guiltThe good earth
Par Pearl Buck. 1931
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Describes the rise of Wang Lung, a poor…
Chinese peasant. The story begins with his wedding day, as he ponders his good fortune that now he will have a woman to take over the chore of lighting a fire to heat the water for his bath. With the help and patience of his new wife, O-lan, Wang Lung becomes a rich landowner. For high school and older readersThree classics
Par Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin. 1990
These novels were first published around the turn of the century. The Awakening is the story of a woman's growing…
awareness of her love for a man who is not her husband. Ethan Frome is a tale of retribution about a couple whose lives change when the wife's cousin joins their household. O Pioneers portrays the struggles of immigrantsTristram Shandy
Par Laurence Sterne. 1991
This classic tale, written in 1760, created a scandal when it was first published. Masquerading as an autobiography, Tristram's novel…
is a chaotic and droll account of his life from the time of his conception. In mock disdain for all rules of writing a novel, he creates highly original characters, digresses to offer his opinions at the slightest whim, and yields to suggestive humorNorthanger Abbey ; Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; and Sanditon
Par Jane Austen. 1990
A collection of four works from the early nineteenth century. In "Northanger Abbey", the daughter of a well-to-do clergyman is…
taken to Bath for the season by friends and there falls in love with a man, but causes difficulties by conjuring up a gruesome mystery about his eccentric father. "Lady Susan" is written in the form of letters. "The Watsons" was left incomplete by choice and "Sandition" by the author's deathGerminal
Par Emile Zola. 1991
Novel, originally published in 1885, about life in the mines of France and the grim struggle of the poor. Etienne…
Lanier, a socialist who is forced to work in the mines, becomes a strike leader. He counsels moderation, but low wages, fines, and hunger drive the miners to desperation, and several men are killed when violence erupts. Lanier is deported, and the miners are forced to return to the old slaveryTyphoon and other stories
Par Joseph Conrad. 1991
Three short stories that provide psychological portraits of men who face tests of physical or moral courage. In "Typhoon," a…
ship's captain faced with mutiny and a typhoon deals shrewly and bravely with his men and his ship. "The Nigger of the "Narcissus" is about a man dying of tuberculosis, and "The Shadow-Line" deals with the the effect of a mental or a moral shock on a young manRiceyman steps
Par Arnold Bennett. 1923
First published in 1923, this James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner depicts a miserly London bookseller's life with his new…
wife and their kindhearted maid. The husband's frugality causes him and his wife to fall ill with malnutrition and reduces the servant to stealing household food and delaying living her own life with her troubled ex-soldier loverThe awakening, and selected stories (Penguin American library)
Par Kate Chopin. 1984
First published in 1899, The Awakening is a novel about a liberated young woman who rebels against the constraints of…
marriage and engages in extramarital love. The results are disastrous, in the book and on the career of the author. In an introduction to the novel and the twelve short stories in this collection, the editor reflects on Chopin's continuing impact on feminist literatureLetters from my windmill (Penguin classics)
Par Alphonse Daudet. 1978
A collection of short, humorous stories by the French author Daudet, first published in 1869. Daudet lived alternately in Paris…
and Provence, and his fiction explores the difference between the northern and the southern characters and temperaments. One of the most successful novelists in France, Daudet's work was admired by Flaubert, Dickens, and Henry JamesCousin Bette
Par Honoré Balzac. 1991
First published in France in 1846, this classic novel paints colorful scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Parisian life. Lisbeth Fischer, or Cousin…
Bette, an eccentric, poor relative who works in gold and silver lace, is jealous of her beautiful cousin Adeline, wife of Baron Hector Hulot. Cousin Bette's deceptive behavior develops into a revengeful plot against her patronizing relatives