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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1940
Physical Desc
507 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p1999, c1929
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 8 1/2 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + bonus CD (29 min.)
Language
English
Description
By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front. The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1996], c1980
Physical Desc
93 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
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Language
English
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Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman ̉clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor...
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Language
English
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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1929
Physical Desc
xiv, 522 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter
Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town
America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler of
American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family
tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his
home behind if he is to forge his own path in the world.
This is the dazzlingly rich first novel from one of the
most...
9) The Reef
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 201
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Written in 1912 and set in and around London, "The Reef" is a story of complex morality and its intricately woven place in society. This narrative primarily follows George Darrow and Anna Leath, a young gentleman and a widowed lady who plan to marry. Both of them experience doubts about their union, with surprising outcomes. Darrow has a brief liaison with the delicate, generous Sophy Viner, a kind woman of the working class. She later meets Anna's...
10) Ethan Frome
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondrialcal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, and only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered and man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
12) A moveable feast
Author
Series
Publisher
Collier Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1964
Edition
1st Scribner classic/Collier ed.
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sketches of the author's early life in Paris in the twenties provide nostalgic reminiscences of his first marriage and the discipline of developing his own literary craft.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ransom, a noted philologist, is kidnapped and flown by spaceship to Malacandra (Mars) where he flees his human captors and establishes communication with the planet's extraordinary inhabitants. What he learns galvanizes his attempt to return to Earth with a message of great urgency.
Author
Publisher
Scribner Classics
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
143 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Contains a collection of ten short fiction stories by American author Ernest Hemingway including the title work about a hardened adventurer on safari in Africa who must face his innermost fears when an accident threatens to cut short his life.
16) The Forsyte saga
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of upper class British family life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Age of Innocence is the haunting story of the struggle between love and duty in Gilded Age New York told through the eyes of Newland Archer and his betrothed, May Welland. A young lawyer on the rise, Newland Archer needs only a society wife to solidify his position, but finds himself torn after he meets and falls deeply in love with May's disgraced cousin, the Countess Olenska. Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, following classics like The House of...
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Language
English
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Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—soon to be a film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent from the award-winning team that produced An Education —is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” ( Entertainment Weekly ) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. “One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland...
19) Summer: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
One of Wharton's first novels to deal frankly with a young woman's sexual awakening, "Summer" created a sensation when it was published in 1917. Praised for its realism and candor by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James, it is now considered a classic of American and women's literature.
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