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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
2) Main Street
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Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, Midwestern town.
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"Kidnapped from his California home and sold to prospectors embarked for the Yukon Gold Rush, Buck, a pampered house dog who has known comfort all of his life, finds himself thrust into a brutal world of cruel human masters, savage fellow sled-dogs, and an unforgiving wilderness full of hardship and misery. In the wilds, Buck earns the love of a man as rugged as he is, and he reacquaints himself with his true animal nature, a noble heritage passed...
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"Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie [Stark] Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career...
6) Jane Eyre
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"Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield that she finds happiness. Meek, measured, but determined, Jane soon falls in love with her brooding and stormy master, Mr Rochester, but it is not long before strange and unnerving events occur...
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"Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions." In her magnificent new translation, Schwartz embraces Tolstoy's unusual style - she is the first English language translator ever to do so. Previous translations...
8) Lady Susan
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Lady Susan is a short, epistolary novel by Jane Austen. Lady Susan Vernon is a selfish, attractive, and unscrupulous woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. As a widow, she seeks a match for herself, as well as husband-hunting for her daughter. Lady Susan is not only beautiful but intelligent and witty; she's highly attractive to men and her suitors are always significantly younger. Inspired...
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Naxos Audiobooks
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2002
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2 sound discs (2 hrs., 35 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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William Butler Yeats remains one of the most popular poets of the 20th century. The Lake Isle of Inisfree, He wishes for the cloths of heaven, Down by the Salley Gardens, The secret rose - these are just a few of the poems that made William Butler Yeats an international figure. Born in Dublin in 1865, Yeats drew strength from the Irish tradition, as can be seen in this special audiobook, which presents the most important poems in the context of his...
10) King Lear
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Gull Multimedia
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2006
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1 videodisc (ca. 190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Brian Blessed directs this dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters.
12) Tacitus' annals
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Oxford University Press
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2011
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xiv, 255 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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English
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An International Episode Henry James - Short story about a love affair, by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; this book is James' least 'veiled' attempt at analyzing the divide between Britain and the US.
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University of California Press
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2014.
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"What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear-a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most...
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Reading is an important part of a child's education, so are studying the Scriptures. This series of books combines both of those things. Each book in this series is developed to go with a classic work. This one is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Read one chapter of Jules Verne's classic and the corresponding chapter in this devotional book.
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Reading is an important part of a child's education, so are studying the Scriptures. This series of books combines both of those things. Each book in this series is developed to go with a classic work. This one is A Wrinkle in Time. Read one chapter of Madeleine L'Engle's classic and the corresponding chapter in this devotional book.
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The Wind in the Willows has been a favorite book for generations. What started as some simple bedtime stories became the book we know and love today. If you're an adult, go back in time to your childhood a little bit and read The Wind in the Willows to your kids. Follow up each chapter of the classic with the corresponding chapters in this devotional companion.
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