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Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
3) My Ántonia
Author
Language
English
Description
Emigrating from Bohemia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, with her family, Antonia discovers no white-framed farmhouse or snug barn. Instead, the cultured Shimerda family finds itself huddled in a primitive sod house buffeted by the ceaselessly blowing winds on the Midwest prairie. For her childhood friend Jim Burden, Antonia comes to embody the elemental spirit of this frontier. Working alongside men, she survives without compromising the rich, deep power...
Author
Language
English
Description
George Amberson Minafer is the spoiled, arrogant grandson of the founder of the family fortune. As the times change, he and his money are eclipsed by a new breed of developers, financiers and manufactureres and he begins his descent from the midwestern aristocracy to the working class.
Author
Pub. Date
1957
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This muckraking classic attacked corrupt election practices and shady dealings in businesses and city governments across the nation. Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other notorious political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.
Author
Pub. Date
1960
Physical Desc
xxv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
'It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.'
Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures - mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism - narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its antihero with a host of psychological dilemmas, and offers an important insight...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
xiv, 176 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Published in 1871, this was Eggleston's first and most successful novel. Eggleston's use of authentic regional dialect was highly influential on the subsequent course of American literature. Based on the experiences of Eggleston's brother George, the novel follows a young schoolmaster in his first year of teaching at a backwoods Indiana school.