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2) The bell jar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aldous Huxley's tour de force, "Brave New World" is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future--where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Harper Perrenial Modern Classics ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 603 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains two Betsy-Tacy stories, including "Betsy Was a Junior," in which Betsy, Tacy, and Tib have fun their junior year dating and participating in sorority activities; and "Betsy and Joe," in which Betsy's senior year in high school is complicated by Tony and Joe, who become rivals for her affection.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
50th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 185 pages, 18 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man...