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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 252
Language
English
Description
Tony and Brenda Last and their son, John Andrew, live an idyllic life in the huge Victorian house that is the symbol of Tony's family pride. The chance arrival of a penniless scrounger irrevocably shatters the gentle balance of their lives.
62) The prince
Author
Lexile measure
1510L
Description
The classic handbook of statecraft written by an Italian nobleman recommends guile and craftiness to attain and maintain political power.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 66
Language
English
Description
In an updated version of the Faust story, the devil and his minions pay 1920's Moscow a visit and wreak havoc on the artistic community. Bulgakov's satire was banned in Russia by Stalin, and only published in England 27 years after the author's death.
64) Dispatches
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 318
Language
English
Description
A documentation of the day-to-day realities of the war in Vietnam experienced by men on patrol, under siege at Khe Sanh, strapped into helicopters, and faced with continuing nightmares after their return to the United States.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 281
Lexile measure
1280L
Language
English
Description
The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to...
Author
Pub. Date
1974
Lexile measure
1420L
Physical Desc
xiii, 295 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world's most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times.
. From mounting death tolls, to horrific bodily ailments, contracting the Black Plague was considered a fate worse than death. Combining his own experiences within each of the...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 159
Lexile measure
1250L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Published in 1839, Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens' third novel. In it, Nicholas Nickleby must earn a living to support his mother and sister after his father dies unexpectedly. Turning to a wealthy uncle in London for help, Nicholas is hired on as assistant to Wackford Squeers, a sadistic and small-minded schoolmaster. Meanwhile, his sister must take a job in a milliner's studio and is occasionally pressed into service by their uncle who exploits...
68) The castle
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 127
Lexile measure
1280L
Language
English
Description
Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the mysterious Castle authorities or by the people of the village, never will and never can be resolved.Like much of Kafka's work, The Castle is enigmatic...
69) Utopia
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1390L
Language
English
Description
Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More. Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new civilization discovered in the New World by traveler Raphael Hythlodaeus. While there have been varying interpretations of Utopia over the centuries, it is most consistently regarded as a work of political philosophy in the tradition of Plato's Republic that...
71) The stranger
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 139
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. The apparently amoral Meursault--who puts little stock in ideas like love and God--seems to be on trial less for his murderous actions, and more for what the authorities believe is his deficient character.
72) Lord Jim: a tale
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Jim, first mate on board the Patna, is a simple and sensitive young man who dreams of becoming a hero. But when the Patna threatens to sink, Jim takes the cowardly way out and jumps clear. His unbearable guilt and shame at having violated the unwritten moral code of the sea leads him to become an exile in a remote Malay state. There he fashions a new identity for himself as the benevolent ruler of an exotic land--until his idyll is interrupted."...
74) Romola
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1907
Lexile measure
1280L
Physical Desc
x, 567 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The celebrated Victorian author of Middlemarch explores the turbulent world of Florence during the Italian Renaissance in this sweeping historical novel.
Florence, 1492. Lorenzo de Medici has just died, leaving governance of the Florentine Republic to his son Piero, an unskilled ruler. Meanwhile, Tito Melema, a shipwrecked stranger, finds love with a young woman named Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar. Though her brother has a vision...
76) The art of war
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Series
Lexile measure
1550L
Language
English
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Description
"Written around the 6th century BC, The Art of War is one of the oldest books about military strategy, and probably the best. It teaches you how, when battle commences, to think on your feet and catch your enemy off guard. Since its translation, its readers have included Napoleon, General Douglas MacArthur, Mao Zedong, and General Van Riper who helped plan Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The lessons of The Art of War still apply, and this...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 44
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 559 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
79) Pamela
Author
Series
Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 683-684
Pub. Date
1914
Physical Desc
2 volumes 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hailed as the world's first novel, "Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded" by Samuel Richardson is a gripping tale about a beautiful young maidservant in mid-1700's England. After her employer dies, the employer's son begins making advances toward her. The virtuous girl tries to stave off his advances, but Mr. B's desperation eventually causes him to kidnap her in a misguided attempt to try and make her understand how much he loves her. When he realizes that...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 172
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 315 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.