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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 784-787
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
c1896
Physical Desc
4 v. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 105-108
Publisher
E.P. Dutton & Co
Pub. Date
[1906]
Physical Desc
4 vol. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Personal journal accounts from October 1735 to October 1790 of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Movement along with his brother Charles Wesley, that embraced Arminian doctrines dominant in 18th century Church of England.
4) My Antonia
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
My Ántonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the last novel in the Prairie trilogy, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia. The book's narrator,
...Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 770-771
Language
English
Description
Two volumes from Everyman's Library that discuss the lives and works of fifty-two English poets from the 17th and 18th centuries.
6) Don Quixote
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the classic early 17th century Spanish novel of chivalry and abiding optimism, depicting the exploits of a knight who attempts to bring justice and truth to the world.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 58
Language
English
Description
The nineteenth-century Russian writer's masterful novel of a woman's bitter struggle to live outside moral law after she has forsaken her husband for a lover.
10) Mrs. Dalloway
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway, occupied with the last-minute details of party preparation, finds her thoughts on a very different route through the past.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this Orwellian dramatization, religion becomes a tool of repression and social control to force women into the roles of stay-at-home wives, domestic staff, prostitutes, or surrogate mothers. They have no rights to their bodies or property and are completely dependent upon men. Those women who have had at least one child find themselves forced into the role of breeding machine, producing children for childless couples. References to 20th-century...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 63
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
xxxi, 239 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
13) Les miserables
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adapted for stage and screen, loved by millions, Victor Hugo's classic novel of love & tragedy during the French Revolution is reborn in this fantastic new manga edition! The illustrations brings to life the tragic stories of Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, and the beautiful Fantine, in this epic adaptation of Les Miserables!
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 333
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Reprints the Definitive Edition authorized by the Frank estate, in a volume that features a new introduction by National Book Award finalist Francine Prose and a chronology of Anne Frank's life and times.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
798 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dante Alighieri's epic poem travels through the endless agony of Hell, up the treacherous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the wondrous kingdom of Paradise-- the realm of universal unity and eternal salvation.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 235
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 223
Publisher
David Campbell
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
xxi, 416 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 312
Publisher
Everyman
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xlvii, 366 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"These three novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters." "Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. Summer, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to Ethan Frome -...
Author
Publisher
Everymans Library
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 1102 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lyra Belacqua tries to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments, decides to help Will Parry search for his father, and finds that she and Will are caught in a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by her uncle, Lord Asriel.