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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780451524935 | 1984 | George Orwell | view Our Feature On George Orwell’s 1984.written In 1948, 1984 Was George Orwell’s Chilling Prophecy About The Future. And While 1984 Has Come And Gone, Orwell’s Narrative Is Timelier Than Ever. 1984 Presents A Startling And Haunting Vision Of The World, So Powerful That It Is Completely Convincing From Start To Finish. No One Can Deny The Power Of This Novel, Its Hold On The Imaginations Of Multiple Generations Of Readers, Or The Resiliency Of Its Admonitions—a Legacy That Seems Only To Grow With The Passage Of Time. examines Different Aspects Of Orwell's Anti-utopian Classic, With A Biographical Sketch Of The Author And Critical Essays On This Work. | Signet Classic |
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| 9780140441468 | A Doll's House And Other Plays (Penguin Classics) | Ibsen, Henrik | The three plays in this volume demonstrate different sides of Henrik Ibsen's genius, but all deal with themes of alienation from society and the breaking down of convention. A Doll's House (1879) portrays a woman questioning her duty to her husband and seeking to escape the stifling confines of her marriage - a theme that shocked contemporary audiences and established Ibsen's name outside Scandinavia. In The League of Youth (1869), his first prose drama, Ibsen created a vivid comedy about a hypocritical politician, and in The Lady from the Sea (1888), he depicts a woman who longs to return to the life she enjoyed before she was married. Peter Watts's lively modern translation is accompanied by an introduction examining Ibsen's life and times, with individual discussions of each of the three plays. | Penguin Classics |
| 9781476738024 | A Man Called Ove: A Novel | Backman, Fredrik | First Published In Great Britain In 2014 By Hodder & Stoughton--title Page Verso. | Washington Square Press |
| 9780486280509 | A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels) | James Joyce | james Joyce's Semi-autobiographical First Novel Follows Stephen Dedalus, A Sensitive And Creative Youth Who Rebels Against His Family, His Education, And His Country By Committing Himself To The Artist's Life. | Dover Publications |
| 9780679755333 | A Raisin In The Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | When It Was First Produced In 1959, A Raisin In The Sun Was Awarded The New York Drama Critics Circle Award For That Season And Hailed As A Watershed In American Drama. A Pioneering Work By An African-american Playwright, The Play Was A Radically New Representation Of Black Life. A Play That Changed American Theater Forever. Lorraine Hansberry ; With An Introduction By Robert Nemiroff. Originally Published In 1958. | Vintage |
| 9780226500577 | A River Runs Through It, And Other Stories | Maclean, Norman | Collection Of Three Western Stories, Featuring The Title Piece About The Relationship Between A Father And His Two Sons, Bound Together By Love And Fly Fishing. A River Runs Through It.--logging And Pimping And Your Pal, Jim.--usfs 1919. Norman Maclean. | University of Chicago Press |
| 9780486284675 | A Room With A View (Dover Thrift Editions) (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels) | E. M. Forster | When Lucy Honeychurch, visiting Italy, mentions the lack of a view from her room, George Emerson and his father offer to swap. But Lucy's suspicions that the Emersons are the wrong sort of people seem confirmed when George impulsively kisses her during a picnic in the Tuscan countryside. Soon, however, thoughts of that kiss have Lucy questioning her engagement to boorish, if utterly acceptable, Cecil Vyse. All in all, the situation presents quite a muddle for a young woman who wishes to be absolutely truthful—even when she's lying to herself about the most important aspects of life and love. E.M. Forster's brilliant comedy of manners shines a gently ironic light on the attitudes and customs of the British middle class at the beginning of the 20th century. | Dover Publications |
| 9780060736262 | A Tree Grows In Brooklyn [75Th Anniversary Ed] (Perennial Classics) | Smith, Betty | The American Classic About A Young Girl's Coming Of Age At The Turn Of The Century. a Profoundly Moving Novel, And An Honest And True One. It Cuts Right To The Heart Of Life...if You Miss a Tree Grows In Brooklyn You Will Deny Yourself A Rich Experience...it Is A Poignant And Deeply Understanding Story Of Childhood And Family Relationships. The Nolans Lived In The Williamsburg Slums Of Brooklyn From 1902 Until 1919...their Daughter Francie And Their Son Neely Knew More Than Their Fair Share Of The Privations And Sufferings That Are The Lot Of A Great City's Poor. Primarily This Is Francie's Book. She Is A Superb Feat Of Characterization, An Imaginative, Alert, Resourceful Child. And Francie's Growing Up And Beginnings Of Wisdom Are The Substance Of a Tree Grows In Brooklyn.—new York Timesone Of The Most Dearly Beloved And One Of The Finest Books Of Our Day.—orville Prescottone Of The Books Of The Century.—new York Public Libraryauthor Biography: betty Smith Was Born Elisabeth Wehner On December 15, 1896, The Same Date As, Although Five Years Earlier Than, Her Fictional Heroine Francie Nolan. The Daughter Of German Immigrants, She Grew Up Poor In The Williamsburg Section Of Brooklyn, The Very World She Re-creates With Such Meticulous Detail In a Tree Grows In Brooklyn.after Marrying Fellow Brooklynite George H.e. Smith, She Moved With Him To Ann Arbor, Michigan, Where He Was A Law Student At The University Of Michigan. The Young Bride Soon Had Two Daughters, Nancy And Mary, And Was Forced To Wait Until The Girls Had Entered Grade School Before Endeavoring To Complete Her Own Formal Education.although She Had Not Finished High School, The Largely Autodidactic Smith Was Permitted To Take Classes At The University, And She Concentrated Her Studies There In Journalism, Drama, Writing And Literature. She Capped Her Education By Winning The Avery Hopkins Award For Work In Drama, And Did A Three-year Course In Playwriting At The Yale Drama School.after Stints Writing Features For A Detroit Newspaper, Reading Plays For The Federal Theatre Project, And Acting In Summer Stock, Smith Landed In Chapel Hill, North Carolina Under The Auspices Of The W.p.a. She And Her First Husband Divorced In 1938. In 1943, She Married Joejones, A Writer, Journalist, And Associate Editor Of The chapel Hill Weekly, While He Was Serving As A Private In The Wartime Army. That Same Year, a Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Her First Novel, Was Published.the Prestige Of Writing A Best-selling, Critically Lauded Book Brought Assignments From The new York Times Magazine, For Which She Wrote Both Light-hearted And Serious Commentary. In A December 1943 Piece Called Why Brooklyn Is That Way, Smith Donned The Mantle Of Her Childhood Borough's Unofficial Champion. Her Perceptions At Once Encapsulate One Of The Core Themes Of Her Novel And Answer Some Of Her More Urbane Critics. Brooklyn Is The Small Town — But On A Gigantic Scale — That The New Yorker Ran Away From, She Wrote. In Jeering At Brooklyn's Mores And Ideology, Your New Yorker May Be Trying To Exorcise His Own Small-town Background.although Most Remembered For The Phenomenal Success Of That First Book, Smith Wrote Other Novels, Including tomorrow Will Be Better (1947), maggie-now (1958), And joy In The Morning (1963). She Also Had A Long Career As A Dramatist, Writing One-act And Full-length Plays For Which She Received Both The Rockefeller Fellowship And The Dramatists Guild Fellowship. She Died In 1972. | Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
| 9781451626650 | Catch-22: 50Th Anniversary Edition | Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.) His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly. The others range from Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder, a dedicated entrepreneur (he bombs his own airfield when the Germans make him a reasonable offer: cost plus 6%), to the dead man in Yossarian's tent; from Major Major Major, whose tragedy is that he resembles Henry Fonda, to Nately's whore's kid sister; from Lieutenant Scheisskopf (he loves a parade) to Major -- de Coverley, whose face is so forbidding no one has ever dared ask him his first name; from Clevinger, who is lost in the clouds, to the soldier in white, who lies encased in bandages from head to toe and may not even be there at all; from Dori Duz, who does, to the wounded gunner Snowden, who lies dying in the tail of Yossarian's plane and at last reveals his terrifying secret. Catch-22 is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to someone dangerously sane. It is a novel that lives and moves and grows with astonishing power and vitality. It is, we believe, one of the strongest creations of the mid-century. As revealing today as when it was first published, this brilliant novel by the author of Picture This expresses the concerns of an entire generation in its black comedy. World War II flier John Yossarian decides that his only mission each time he goes up is to return—alive! | Simon & Schuster |
| Ceremony By Leslie Marmon Silko | ||||
| 9780743262170 | Cry, The Beloved Country | Paton, Alan | Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."The most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, "We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony."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.Publishers WeeklyIn search of missing family members, Zulu priest Stephen Kumalo leaves his South African village to traverse the deep and perplexing city of Johannesburg in the 1940s. With his sister turned prostitute, his brother turned labor protestor and his son, Absalom, arrested for the murder of a white man, Kumalo must grapple with how to bring his family back from the brink of destruction as the racial tension throughout Johannesburg hampers his attempts to protect his family. With a deep yet gentle voice rounded out by his English accent, Michael York captures the tone and energy of this novel. His rhythmic narration proves hypnotizing. From the fierce love of Kumalo to the persuasive rhetoric of Kumalo's brother and the solemn regret of Absalom, York injects soul into characters tempered by their socioeconomic status as black South Africans. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. | Scribner |
| 9780140481341 | Death Of A Salesman, Certain Private Conversations In Two Acts And A Requiem | Arthur Miller | The Powerful Drama Of Willy Loman & His Tragic End. Ever Since It Was First Performed In 1949, Death Of A Salesman Has Been Recognized As A Milestone Of The American Theater. In The Person Of Willy Loman, The Aging, Failing Salesman Who Makes His Living Riding On A Smile And A Shoeshine, Arthur Miller Redefined The Tragic Hero As A Man Whose Dreams Are At Once Insupportably Vast And Dangerously Insubstantial. He Has Given Us A Figure Whose Name Has Become A Symbol For A Kind Of Majestic Grandiosity-and A Play That Compresses Epic Extremes Of Humor And Anguish, Promise And Loss, Between The Four Walls Of An American Living Room. By Arthur Miller. | Penguin Books |
| 9780143129486 | East Of Eden: (Penguin Orange Collection) | Steinbeck, John | Penguin Classics | |
| 9780735220690 | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel | Honeyman, Gail | Smart, Warm, Uplifting, The Story Of An Out-of-the-ordinary Heroine Whose Deadpan Weirdness And Unconscious Wit Make For An Irresistible Journey As She Realizes The Only Way To Survive Is To Open Her Heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She Struggles With Appropriate Social Skills And Tends To Say Exactly What She's Thinking. That, Combined With Her Unusual Appearance (scarred Cheek, Tendency To Wear The Same Clothes Year In, Year Out), Means That Eleanor Has Become A Creature Of Habit (to Say The Least) And A Bit Of A Loner. Nothing Is Missing In Her Carefully Timetabled Life Of Avoiding Social Interactions, Where Weekends Are Punctuated By Frozen Pizza, Vodka, And Phone Chats With Mummy. But Everything Changes When Eleanor Meets Raymond, The Bumbling And Deeply Unhygienic It Guy From Her Office. When She And Raymond Together Save Sammy, An Elderly Gentleman Who Has Fallen On The Sidewalk, The Three Become The Kind Of Friends Who Rescue Each Other From The Lives Of Isolation They Have Each Been Living. And It Is Raymond's Big Heart That Will Ultimately Help Eleanor Find The Way To Repair Her Own Profoundly Damaged One-- | Penguin Books |
| 9780618711659 | Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel | Foer, Jonathan Safran | A New Novel By The Author Of Everything Is Illuminated Introduces Oskar Schell, The Nine-year-old Son Of A Man Killed In The World Trade Center Bombing Who Searches The City For A Lock That Fits A Black Key His Father Left Behind. Jonathan Safran Foer Emerged As One Of The Most Original Writers Of His Generation With His Best-selling Debut Novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, With Humor, Tenderness, And Awe, He Confronts The Traumas Of Our Recent History. What He Discovers Is Solace In That Most Human Quality, Imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, An Inventor, Francophile, Tambourine Player, Shakespearean Actor, Jeweler, Pacifist, Correspondent With Stephen Hawking And Ringo Starr. He Is Nine Years Old. And He Is On An Urgent, Secret Search Through The Five Boroughs Of New York. His Mission Is To Find The Lock That Fits A Mysterious Key Belonging To His Father, Who Died In The World Trade Center On 9/11. An Inspired Innocent, Oskar Is Alternately Endearing, Exasperating, And Hilarious As He Careens From Central Park To Coney Island To Harlem On His Search. Along The Way He Is Always Dreaming Up Inventions To Keep Those He Loves Safe From Harm. What About A Birdseed Shirt To Let You Fly Away? What If You Could Actually Hear Everyone's Heartbeat? His Goal Is Hopeful, But The Past Speaks A Loud Warning In Stories Of Those Who've Lost Loved Ones Before. As Oskar Roams New York, He Encounters A Motley Assortment Of Humanity Who Are All Survivors In Their Own Way. He Befriends A 103-year-old War Reporter, A Tour Guide Who Never Leaves The Empire State Building, And Lovers Enraptured Or Scorned. Ultimately, Oskar Ends His Journey Where It Began, At His Father's Grave. But Now He Is Accompanied By The Silent Stranger Who Has Been Renting The Spare Room Of His Grandmother's Apartment. They Are There To Dig Up His Father's Empty Coffin. Jonathan Safran Foer. A Mariner Book. | Mariner Books Classics |
| 9781555977412 | Grief Is The Thing With Feathers: A Novel | Porter, Max | In A London Flat, Two Young Boys Face The Unbearable Sadness Of Their Mother's Sudden Death. Their Father, A Ted Hughes Scholar And Scruffy Romantic, Imagines A Future Of Well-meaning Visitors And Emptiness. In This Moment Of Despair They Are Visited By Crow - Antagonist, Trickster, Healer, Babysitter. This Sentimental Bird Is Drawn To The Grieving Family And Threatens To Stay Until They No Longer Need Him. As Weeks Turn To Months And The Pain Of Loss Gives Way To Memories, The Little Unit Of Three Starts To Heal. In This Extraordinary Debut - Part Novella, Part Polyphonic Fable, Part Essay On Grief - Max Porter's Compassion And Bravura Style Combine To Dazzling Effect. Full Of Unexpected Humour And Profound Emotional Truth, Grief Is The Thing With Feathers Marks The Arrival Of A Thrilling New Talent.-- | Graywolf Press |
| 9781250095299 | If We Were Villains: A Novel | Rio, M. L. | Flatiron Books |