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(0)Anthony Burgess
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1310L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. 'A Clockwork Orange' is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes...
2) Re Joyce
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
i-x unnumbered pages, xi-xiii, 14-16, 17-349, 350-352 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed. ; 50th anniversary ed.
Lexile measure
1310L
Physical Desc
xxiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the near-future, a violent teen leads a gang through nightly terror sprees before he is caught and agrees to experimental behavior-modification therapy.
10) The wanting seed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious. "
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about Sherlock Holmes almost as much as writers have loved writing about him. In this deluxe hardcover edition, Otto Penzler collects eighty-three wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, published over a span of more than a hundred years." -- From dust jacket.
Author
Language
English
Description
In Edmond Rostand's beloved 1897 stage play "Cyrano De Bergerac", the titular soldier-poet is hopelessly in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in all of Paris. Believing he has no chance with her because of his extremely large nose, he agrees to write love letters on behalf of the slow-witted Christian, who also pines for Roxane. Rostand's work is a fictionalization of the real life novelist Cyrano De Bergerac, who in addition to being a novelist...