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2) Ethan Frome
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenies vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally written as a political satire and now read as an adventure story, the travels of Gulliver include adventures in a land where people were only inches tall, in a land of giants, on an island that floated in the air, and in a country ruled by horses.
5) Little women
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a Swiss minister, his wife, and four sons struggle to survive until they can be rescued.
Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a Swiss minister, his wife, and four sons struggle to survive until they can be rescued
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of the true classics of English literature, here are the adventures of Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and Toad. Grahame's idyllic world is as fresh now as when they first discovered his enchanting tales, of Ratty sculling his boat on the River, Badger grumpily entertaining his friends in his comfortable underground home, and the exasperating Toad being driven into one tangle after another by his obsession with motor cars.
10) Mansfield Park
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Mansfield Park is a study of three families-the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices-with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose...
11) Persuasion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this, Jane Austen's last novel, appears her most honorable heroine- Anne Elliot, a young women of perfect breeding, profound depth of emotion, and unswerving integrity. These virtues, however, exist in a world - the world of country gentry in Regency England- in which shallowness and hypocrisy thrive and ever threaten to win domination.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet/Penguin
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City. His enduring, no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler also served as an antidote to the insufferably romantic travel books of the period. “Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?” So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land. His adventures produced The Innocents...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Text includes a special introduction to the play, a general discussion of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater, sources from which Shakespeare derived King Lear, dramatic criticism from the past and present, a new stage history, text and commentaries, detailed footnotes and the bottom of each page.
Series
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George Washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves had written what are called slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of Dorian Gray, whose handsome appearance remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses, is accompanied by three short stories, "The Happy Prince," "The Birthday of the Infanta," and "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime."
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