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Series
Publications ; no. 1
Publisher
Essex Book and Print Club
Pub. Date
1908.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a 10 year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time.
"Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is one of her greatest literary achievements and among the most influential novels of the twentieth century. The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement...
Author
Language
English
Description
Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a French provincial doctor, scans her solitude with desperate eyes, like a shipwrecked sailor searching for a white sail on the distant horizon. And when Emma's ship finally comes in, it carries with it vast and tragic consequences upon which her own life and the lives of those around her are wrecked.
This new translation by Francis Steegmuller was published as a part of the centenary celebration of the original publishing...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1950]
Language
English
Description
Considered by some to be Budd Schulberg's masterpiece, The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920s, a golden figure in a golden age, who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment, living in Hollywood and writing for the film industry. Halliday is hired to work on a screenplay with a young writer in his twenties named Shep, who is desperate for success and idolizes Halliday....
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Series
Language
English
Description
A novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, featuring some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horesemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancentry.
11) The good earth
Author
Language
English
Description
Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of a China that was now in a contemporary classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In the Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the...
14) Gull number 737
Author
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
Luke struggles with his lonely life on an island each summer helping his father research gull behavior until he sees some practical value for the knowledge they have gained and he begins to develop ideas for his own research at college.
15) Avalon
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
Description
In 10th-century England a wandering poetic French prince falls in love with a Cornish girl of Viking descent.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious animal epidemic sweeps Square Toe County, and Miss Pickerell's beloved cow and a newly acquired kitten named Pumpkins are gravely ill. When known antibiotics fail to halt the disease, Miss Pickerell carries out a daring plan--one that takes her to the moon." --
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