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Sketches 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 man in the iron mask
Par Alexandre Dumas. 1988
Written in the mid-nineteenth century, this sequel to The Three Musketeers (BR 7477) features those three men--older but still dashing.…
They become involved in a conspiracy to substitute a prisoner for his royal twin brother, Louis XIVIn dubious battle
Par John Steinbeck. 1936
Jim Nolan leads disgruntled migrant workers in a confrontation with California landowners during the depression. Bestseller after its original publication…
in 1936. Conveys several levels of meaning about social forces and poverty in addition to its portrayal of labor strife. Some strong language and some violenceFor whom the bell tolls
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1940
American Robert Jordan has joined the Republicans fighting against the Fascists during the Spanish civil war. He is on a…
mission to destroy a strategically located bridge with the help of a band of guerillas. At their camp he falls in love with Maria, a young torture victim. Some violenceThe pearl
Par John Steinbeck. 1992
A folktale of lower California is the basis for this narrative about Kino, a simple fisherman, who finds an enormous…
pearl that promises to provide for all his family's needs. When it brings nothing but misfortune, Kino throws it back to the sea and resumes his difficult way of life. 1945Old Yeller
Par Fred Gipson, F. Gipson, Steven Polson. 1956
1860s Texas. Fourteen-year-old Travis at first resents the big, yellow stray dog that hangs around his home, but he comes…
to love and depend on him. With his father away on a cattle drive, Travis is the man of the house and looks to Old Yeller for help and protection. For grades 5-8All quiet on the western front
Par Erich Remarque. 1975
Classic World War I novel depicting the horrors and futility of armed conflict. Nineteen-year-old German private Paul Baumer relates the…
daily routine of ordinary soldiers in the trenches and tells how warfare affected him and his three classmates. Portrays young men who may have escaped bullets but were destroyed by their combat experienceMadame Bovary: life in a country town
Par Gustave Flaubert. 1999
A young middle-class Frenchwoman, Emma Bovary, is bored with her husband (an inept doctor) and their country existence. Her romantic…
fantasies lead her astray, into adultery and self-destruction. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. Originally published in 1857The 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 farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Par Daniel Defoe. 1999
After the death of his wife, Crusoe and his man, Friday, set sail from London to return to his beloved…
island. This 1719 sequel to Robinson Crusoe (RC 27138, BR 9250) contains an introduction and editorial notes by Joe Wheeler for Tyndale House PublishersVanity Fair: a novel without a hero
Par William Thackeray. 1999
Great Britain, early nineteenth century. Two young women--wellborn, humble Amelia Sedley and social-climbing, amoral Becky Sharp--meet at boarding school. Both…
marry, but Amelia's husband wants to leave her for Becky until he is killed at the Battle of Waterloo. 1847The 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 FaceThe snows of Kilimanjaro, and other stories
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1995
Ten stories written between 1927 and 1936. The title piece portrays a thwarted writer facing death on an African plain…
and composing in his mind all the tales he will not live to tell. Includes several selections about Nick Adams, an autobiographical characterA hazard of new fortunes
Par William Howells. 1994
New York City, 1880s. Basil March and Mr. Fulkerson establish a new cultural magazine sponsored by self-made millionaire Mr. Dryfoos.…
Dryfoos's son reluctantly becomes the publisher, although his socialist beliefs conflict with the magazine's policy. Tragedy strikes during a violent clash between protesting streetcar workers and policeAnna Karenina (Oxford world's classics)
Par Leo Tolstoy. 1999
In the 1870s in Russia, Anna flaunts convention by having an adulterous affair with Count Vronsky. Preferring the allure of…
romance to her stifling marriage with Alexis Karenin, Anna's happiness disintegrates as she loses her peace of mind. Originally published in 1877. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. 1999Kidnapped
Par Robert Stevenson. 1994
Young David Balfour relates his adventures of 1751 when he was kidnapped and marooned after a shipwreck, his journey through…
the wild highlands of Scotland, his friendship with the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart, and his suffering at the hands of his uncle Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws. For senior high and older readersThe pilot: a tale of the sea (The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper)
Par James Cooper. 1986
Mr. Popper's penguins
Par Richard Atwater. 1938
When his pet penguin, "Captain Cook," becomes lonely, Mr. Popper gets another penguin to keep him company. Before long, there…
are ten more penguins in the Popper household and things are never quite the same again. For grades 3-6The yearling (Illustrated Classics Ser.)
Par Marjorie Rawlings, N. C. Wyeth. 1938
Classic story about the Baxter family, who make a precarious living on a backwoods farm in northern Florida. Their young…
son, Jody, tames an orphaned fawn. When the deer begins to eat the family corn, Jody is ordered to shoot him. Pulitzer Prize. For grades 5-8 and older readersOmoo: 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 Tahiti