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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
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Tells of the psychological impact of European culture upon a spirited young American girl named Isabel Archer when she becomes torn between three very different men and falls prey to the schemes of a sophisticated older woman.
2) The castle
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 127
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
The Castle is the last novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist known only as "K." arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle supposedly owned by Count Westwest. Kafka died before he could finish the work and the novel was posthumously published against his wishes. Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is often understood to be about alienation, unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming-of-age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in Dickens' dark tale of false illusions and thwarted desire. Raised by a humble blacksmith, Pip is recruited by...
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English
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The elements which make up The Moonstone--a purloined Indian jewel which carries with it a mysterious curse, a stolid British police sergeant, a drama of theft and murder in a spacious country home--have been repeated, in slightly varying guises, throughout much of the detective fiction to which Wilkie Collins' popular 1868 novel gave birth.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 88
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
In a tale of a South American revolution, an Italian named Nostromo is the most feared man at the headquarters of a great silver mine. He successfully removes the silver treasure but informs everyone involved that it has gone down on a sunken ship.
6) Pale fire
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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
"An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, 'Pale Fire' offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreward and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit...
7) Utopia
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 61
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
Presents the English statesman's classic denunciation of sixteenth-century tyranny and corruption, and vision of an ideal society.
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Everyman's library volume no. 151
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The eponymous hero has virtually come to define, since his creation in the aftermath of World War I, the spirit of comic endurance necessary to withstand the manglings of a modern-day bureaucratic war machine. Shrewd, affable, possessed of an unerring talent for finding himself in (and extricating himself from) the most fitfully chaotic and absurd situations, Svejk represents, in his instinct for survival, all those human values which stand opposed...
10) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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As the sole survivor of a shipwreck, an Englishman lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
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Everyman's library volume no. 107
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany captures the triumphs and tragedies, successes and failures, relationships, loves, and ordinary events of everyday middle-class life.
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English
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"'The Divine Comedy' begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece that genius whom...
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English
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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
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An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England, where he becomes heir to a title and a fortune.
15) My Antonia
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Everyman's library volume 228
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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This book is a straightforward narrative, written in descriptive prose, about the struggles endured by a family of immigrant pioneers and the small community that surrounds them on the unsettled Nebraska plains.
Author
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Everyman's library volume no. 257
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A complete collection of short fiction by the creator of Philip Marlowe includes stories such as "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," "The Pencil," and "English Summer."
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 281
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...
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Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A collection of the major works of the celebrated poet, artist, and mystic features an array of stories, parables, prose poems, and essays that include "The Prophet," "The Wanderer," "Jesus the Son of Man," "Spirits Rebellious," and "The Gardens of the Prophet."
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Everyman's library volume 333
Language
English
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The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust. Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's...
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