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  Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
  

  by Daniel Defoe

  ISBN 086611968X (0-86611-968-X)
  Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co

  
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  The classic tale of shipwrecked adventure, Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" is the fictional autobiography of its title character. When cast ashore upon a tropical island, Robinson Crusoe must use his survival skills to find food and shelter and evade the native cannibals. A captivating tale of action and adventure, based in part on the real life adventures of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived more than four years on an island in the Pacific, "Robinson Crusoe" is regarded by some as the first novel of the English language. [via]

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  The Age of Innocence
  

  by Edith Wharton

  ISBN 0891905081 (0-89190-508-1)
  Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

  
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  Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]

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  • The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0812567102 (0-8125-6710-2)
    Softcover, Tor Books
  • The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0816159165 (0-8161-5916-5)
    Softcover, Thorndike Pr
  • The Age of Innocence: ISBN 086068069X (0-86068-069-X)
    Softcover, Trafalgar Square
  • The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0816159157 (0-8161-5915-7)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
  • The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0891905081 (0-89190-508-1)
    Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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  All Quiet on the Western Front
  

  by Erich Maria Remarque, Helmuth Kiesel

  ISBN 0826416535 (0-8264-1653-5)
  Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group

  
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  The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more! [via]

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  • All Quiet on the Western Front: ISBN 0835918696 (0-8359-1869-6)
    Softcover, Globe Fearon Co
  • All Quiet On The Western Front: ISBN 0826416527 (0-8264-1652-7)
    Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
  • All Quiet on the Western Front: ISBN 0821223127 (0-8212-2312-7)
    Hardcover, Bulfinch Pr
  • All Quiet On The Western Front: ISBN 0826416535 (0-8264-1653-5)
    Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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  The Bean Trees
  

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  ISBN 0833525182 (0-8335-2518-2)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound

  
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  Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places.

  Available for the first time in mass-market, this edition of Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling novel, The Bean Trees, will be in stores everywhere in September. With two different but equally handsome covers, this book is a fine addition to your Kingsolver library.

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  • The Bean Trees: ISBN 0816146721 (0-8161-4672-1)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
  • The Bean Trees: ISBN 0833525182 (0-8335-2518-2)
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  A Bend in the River
  

  by V.S. Naipaul

  ISBN 0844666319 (0-8446-6631-9)
  Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc

  
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  Brilliant and terrifying'-Observer I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the river because he had foreseen the rich future. 'Salim, the narrator, is a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast of Centeral Africa. Salim has left the coast to make his way in the interior, there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sudries, sold to the natives. The place is "a bend in the river"; it is Africa. The time is post-colonial, the time of Independence. The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw and the scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty and a lack of prepartion for the modern world they have entered, or partially assumed as a sort of decoration. It is a story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance.'-Elizabeth Hardwick 'Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit'-John Updike [via]

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  • A Bend in the River: ISBN 0844666319 (0-8446-6631-9)
    Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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  Best Loved Classics
  

  ISBN 0895772884 (0-89577-288-4)
  Softcover, Reader's Digest Association

  
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  Box set contains 10 paperback books as follows: [1] The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain -- [2] Oliver Twist / by Charles Dickens -- [3] Little women / by Louisa May Alcott -- [4] Treasure Island / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- [5] The red badge of courage / by Stephen Crane -- [6] The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain -- [7] The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- [8] David Copperfield / by Charles Dickens -- [9] The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe / by Daniel Defoe -- [10] Jane Eyre / by Charlotte Bronte?. [via]

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  The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition
  

  by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  ISBN 0809598604 (0-8095-9860-4)
  Hardcover, Wildside Pr

  
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  The Brothers Karamazov was Fyodor Dostoevsky's last and greatest work, telling the tales the three brothers and their father, Fyodor it is, among many other things, a tale of patricide -- a love-hate struggle with profound psychological and spiritual implications. It is a search for faith, for God -- driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, the Karamozov brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. Exploring the secret depths of humanity's struggles and sins, Dostoevsky unfolds a grand epic which attempts to venture into mankind's darkest heart, and grasp the true meaning of existence. [via]

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  The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts with Epilogue
  

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

  ISBN 0865474222 (0-86547-422-2)
  Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

  
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  A masterpiece of world literature, in a bold new translation that makes no attempt to smooth out the rough diction, hesitations, or double-takes in the Russian--linguistic traits essential to the integrity and life of this text that is truer to the original than any other ever produced. [via]

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    Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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  The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel
  

  by Robin Feuer Miller

  ISBN 0805781188 (0-8057-8118-8)
  Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning

  
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  Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel— The Brothers Karamazov—in 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today “remains harrowingly alive in the face of our present day worries, paradoxes, and joys, observes Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller. In this engaging and original book, she guides us through the complexities of Dostoevskys masterpiece, offering keen insights and a celebration of the authors unparalleled powers of imagination.

   

  Millers critical companion to The Brothers Karamazov explores the novels structure, themes, characters, and artistic strategies while illuminating its myriad philosophical and narrative riddles. She discusses the historical significance of the book and its initial reception, and in a new preface discusses the latest scholarship on Dostoevsky and the novel that crowned his career.

   

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  Cliffsnotes Oliver Twist
  

  by Harry Kaste

  ISBN 0822009587 (0-8220-0958-7)
  Softcover, Cliff Notes

  
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  The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

  In CliffsNotes on Oliver Twist, youll meet a dear, grateful, gentle orphan who, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much. The CliffsNotes commentaries, summaries, and character analysis will show you why this sweet, sad, and moving story is considered to be one of Dickens' greatest works (and one of his more politically-charged ones). Youll also find

  •  Life and background of the author, Charles Dickens
  • A short introduction to the novel
  • A list of characters
  • Essays about symbolism, style, setting, and more
  • A review section that tests your knowledge

  Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure  you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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  Cold Mountain
  

  by Charles Frazier

  ISBN 0871136791 (0-87113-679-1)
  Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr

  
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  Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature.
  
  Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to revive her father's farm, with the help of an intrepid young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered.
  
  Charles Frazier reveals marked insight into man's relationship to the land and the dangers of solitude. He also shares with the great nineteenth century novelists a keen observation of a society undergoing change. Cold Mountain re-creates a world gone by that speaks eloquently to our time. [via]

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  The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
  

  by Michael Ondaatje

  ISBN 0887846084 (0-88784-608-4)
  Softcover, House of Anansi Pr

  
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  • The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: ISBN 0887845096 (0-88784-509-6)
    Softcover, House of Anansi Pr
  • The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: ISBN 0887840183 (0-88784-018-3)
    Hardcover, Anansi
  • The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: ISBN 0887846084 (0-88784-608-4)
    Softcover, House of Anansi Pr
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  The Color Purple
  

  by Alice Walker

  ISBN 0816141428 (0-8161-4142-8)
  Softcover, Thorndike Pr

  
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  • The Color Purple: ISBN 0816141428 (0-8161-4142-8)
    Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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  Complete Stories and Parables
  

  by Franz Kafka

  ISBN 0848808215 (0-8488-0821-5)
  Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

  
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  A Confederacy of Dunces
  

  by John Kennedy Toole

  ISBN 0807126063 (0-8071-2606-3)
  Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr

  
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  "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."

  Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.

  Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]

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  • A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807126071 (0-8071-2607-1)
    Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
  • A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807130087 (0-8071-3008-7)
    Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
  • A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807106577 (0-8071-0657-7)
    Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
  • A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807126063 (0-8071-2606-3)
    Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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  Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
  

  by Daniel Defoe

  ISBN 0877549486 (0-87754-948-6)
  Hardcover, Facts on File

  
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  The Dress Lodger
  

  by Sheri Holman

  ISBN 0871137534 (0-87113-753-4)
  Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr

  
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  East of Eden: An Easy Guide to Car Maintenance And Repair
  

  by John Steinbeck

  ISBN 0808514121 (0-8085-1412-1)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound

  
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  FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California. [via]

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  Fountainhead
  

  by Ayn Rand

  ISBN 0808519387 (0-8085-1938-7)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound

  
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  The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence. [via]

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  George Eliot's Silas Marner
  

  by George Eliot, Holly Hughes

  ISBN 0812035380 (0-8120-3538-0)
  Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

  
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  Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]

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  Great Books of the Western World
  

  by Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard Hutchins

  ISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
  Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica

  
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  The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]

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  Gulliver's Travels
  

  by Jonathan Swift, Harry Shefter

  ISBN 0820112747 (0-8201-1274-7)
  Hardcover, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

  
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  When Lemuel Gulliver sets off from London on a sea voyage, little does he know the many incredible and unbelievable misadventures awaiting. Shipwrecked at sea and nearly drowned, he washes ashore upon an exotic island called Liliput--where the people are only six inches tall! Next he visits a land of incredible giants called the Brobdingnagians. They are more than sixty feet tall! he travels to Lapauta, a city that floats in the city, and to Glubbdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers. his final voyage brings him into contact with the Yahoos--a brutish race of subhumans--and an intelligent and virtuous race of horse, the Houyhnhnms. [via]

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  • Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0861129857 (0-86112-985-7)
    Hardcover, Brimax Books, Limited
  • Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0890093040 (0-89009-304-0)
    Hardcover, Book Sales
  • Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0812567064 (0-8125-6706-4)
    Softcover, Tor Books
  • Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0816718660 (0-8167-1866-0)
    Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
  • Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0877207275 (0-87720-727-5)
    Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
  • Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0883011425 (0-88301-142-5)
    Softcover, Ags Pub
  • Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0894715399 (0-89471-539-9)
    Softcover, Running Press
  • Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0820112747 (0-8201-1274-7)
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  Gulliver's Travels
  

  by Angela Wilkes

  ISBN 0860206122 (0-86020-612-2)
  Softcover, Edc Pub

  
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  Gulliver's Travels
  

  by Malvina G. Vogel, Johnathon Smith, Johathan Swift

  ISBN 0866119922 (0-86611-992-2)
  Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co

  
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  a wonderful children's book filled with great illustrations [via]

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  Gulliver's Travels
  

  by S.D. Schindler, Jonathan Swift, Raymond James

  ISBN 0816718652 (0-8167-1865-2)
  Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc

  
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  Kim
  

  by Rudyard Kipling, Pankaj Mishra, Douglas Kerr

  ISBN 0812971345 (0-8129-7134-5)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:

  Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.

  From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"

  In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]

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  • Kim: ISBN 0812565754 (0-8125-6575-4)
    Softcover, Tor Books
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    Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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  Lanark
  

  by Alasdair Gray

  ISBN 0807611085 (0-8076-1108-5)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark (first published in 1981) immediately established him as one of the most important Scottish voices of his generation and this astounding work as one of the key British novels of the last century. Magnificent in its reach and unequalled in the adulation of its critical response, Lanark is a massive book.

  Perversely we start our reading with Book 3--the hero of this and the last book in the quartet, the eponymous Lanark, lives in a bizarre and fantastical future in a grey, dreary city called Unthank. He doesn't remember how he got there nor who he really is. He hangs around a local cafe with some other young people whose values and mores he can't quite figure. All around people are disappearing. Then he contracts dragonhide... and disappears too. He wakes in an institute and is told the sad but instructional tale of Duncan Thaw (the boy he used to be, the boy, in a sense, Alasdair Gray used to be).

  Duncan, unknowingly speaking of the epic of which he is the centre, who we meet as a child and watch grow into an artist , says "I want to write a modern Divine Comedy with illustrations in the style of William Blake." And it is Duncan's story that is the heart of Lanark--and what a poignant, heart-breaking tale it is. From a boy who can never accept or offer or understand love, who cannot connect, to an artist who cannot accept that he cannot have the final word--both in his own life and in his art--Duncan's tale is a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story.

  Lanark is a work of huge imagination and wonderful range; it is about all of our selves, how we make them and make them up; it is about place and what that means for identity and it is about love--how we can learn to love our selves, or fail to, how we need to love, both ourselves and others, to create communities in which we can create art that will promote a continuing project of place in which we can love each other better. Lanark is peerless. --Mark Thwaite [via]

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  Lanark: A Life in Four Books
  

  by Alasdair Gray

  ISBN 080761162X (0-8076-1162-X)
  Softcover, Braziller Incorporated, George

  
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  Little Women
  

  by Louisa May Alcott

  ISBN 0812523334 (0-8125-2333-4)
  Softcover, Tor Books

  
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Publication Date: 6/1/2003
  • Pages: 217
  • Reading Level: Age 9 and Up

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  The March
  

  by E.L. Doctorow

  ISBN 0812976150 (0-8129-7615-0)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  As the Civil War was moving toward its inevitable conclusion, General William Tecumseh Sherman marched 60,000 Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, leaving a 60-mile-wide trail of death, destruction, looting, thievery and chaos. In The March, E.L. Doctorow has put his unique stamp on these events by staying close to historical fact, naming real people and places and then imagining the rest, as he did in Ragtime.

  Recently, the Civil War has been the subject of novels by Howard Bahr, Michael Shaara, Charles Frazier, and Robert Hicks, to name a few. Its perennial appeal is due not only to the fact that it was fought on our own soil, but also that it captures perfectly our long-time and ongoing ambivalence about race. Doctorow examines this question extensively, chronicling the dislocation of both southern whites and Negroes as Sherman burned and destroyed all that they had ever known. Sherman is a well-drawn character, pictured as a crazy tactical genius pitted against his West Point counterparts. Doctorow creates a context for the march: "The brutal romance of war was still possible in the taking of spoils. Each town the army overran was a prize... There was something undeniably classical about it, for how else did the armies of Greece and Rome supply themselves?"

  The characters depicted on the march are those people high and low, white and black, whose lives are forever changed by war: Pearl, the newly free daughter of a white plantation owner and one of his slaves, Colonel Sartorius, a competent, remote, almost robotic surgeon; several officers, both Union and Confederate; two soldiers, Arly and Will, who provide comic relief in the manner of Shakespeare's fools until, suddenly, their roles are not funny anymore.

  Doctorow has captured the madness of war in his description of the condition of a dispossessed Southern white woman: "What was clear at this moment was that Mattie Jameson's mental state befitted the situation in which she found herself. The world at war had risen to her affliction and made it indistinguishable." And later, " This was not war as adventure, nor war for a solemn cause, it was war at its purest, a mindless mass rage severed from any cause, ideal, or moral principle."

  As we have come to expect, Doctorow puts the reader in the picture; never more so than in recalling "The March" and letting us see it as a cautionary tale for our times. --Valerie Ryan [via]

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  My Antonia
  

  by Willa Cather

  ISBN 084792968X (0-8479-2968-X)
  Hardcover, Perma Bound Books

  
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  It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.

  Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.

  As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]

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  Notes from Underground
  

  by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  ISBN 081912415X (0-8191-2415-X)
  Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer

  
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  Number 9 Dream
  

  by David Mitchell

  ISBN 0812966929 (0-8129-6692-9)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Oliver Twist
  

  by Charles Dickens

  ISBN 0812580036 (0-8125-8003-6)
  Softcover, Tor Books

  
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  Thanks to its colorful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens' Oliver Twist has captured readers' hearts for more than 150 years. Today's children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets led by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can destroy his purity...and through his goodness, he finds salvation. Beautifully illustrated by Eric Kincaid. [via]

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  Oliver Twist / Arabic
  

  by Charles Dickens

  ISBN 0866851380 (0-86685-138-0)
  Softcover, Intl Book Centre

  
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  Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
  

  by Jeanette Winterson

  ISBN 0863580424 (0-86358-042-4)
  Softcover, Harpercollins

  
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  Jeanette, the protagonist of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and the author's namesake, has issues--"unnatural" ones: her adopted mam thinks she's the Chosen one from God; she's beginning to fancy girls; and an orange demon keeps popping into her psyche. Already Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical first novel is not your typical coming-of-age tale.

  Brought up in a working-class Pentecostal family, up North, Jeanette follows the path her Mam has set for her. This involves Bible quizzes, a stint as a tambourine-playing Sally Army officer and a future as a missionary in Africa, or some other "heathen state". When Jeanette starts going to school ("The Breeding Ground") and confides in her mother about her feelings for another girl ("Unnatural Passions"), she's swept up in a feverish frenzy for her tainted soul. Confused, angry and alone, Jeanette strikes out on her own path, that involves a funeral parlour and an ice-cream van. Mixed in with the so-called reality of Jeanette's existence growing up are unconventional fairy tales that transcend the everyday world, subverting the traditional preconceptions of the damsel in distress.

  In Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Winterson knits a complicated picture of teenage angst through a series of layered narratives, incorporating and subverting fairytales and myths, to present a coherent whole, within which her stories can stand independently. Imaginative and mischievous, she is a born storyteller, teasing and taunting the reader to reconsider their worldview. --Nicola Perry [via]

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  The Passion
  

  by Jeanette Winterson

  ISBN 0871131838 (0-87113-183-8)
  Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr

  
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  In 1985 Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread Award for best first fiction for the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, an often wry exploration of lesbian possibility bumping up against evangelical fanaticism. She was 25. Two years later, The Passion, her third novel, appeared, the fantastical tale of Henri--Napoleon's cook--and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier's daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses, and literally loses her heart to a beautiful woman. Written in a lyrical and jolting combination of fairy tale diction and rhythm and the staccato, the book would be a risky proposition in lesser hands. Winterson has said that she wanted to look at people's need to worship and examine what happens to young men in militaristic societies. The question was, how to do so without being polemical and didactic? Only she could have come up with such an exquisite answer. In the end, Henri, incarcerated on an island of madmen, becomes aware that his passion, "even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else." [via]

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray
  

  by Oscar Wilde

  ISBN 0809599945 (0-8095-9994-5)
  Softcover, Wildside Pr

  
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  A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

  As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]

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  Robinson Crusoe
  

  by Daniel Defoe

  ISBN 0809594617 (0-8095-9461-7)
  Softcover, Wildside Pr

  
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  Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
  
  This edition of Robinson Crusoe includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R. L. Fisher.
  
  Caught in the howling turmoil of hurricane and tidal wave, a young gentleman merchant named Robinson Crusoe was flung onto the shore of a deserted tropical island. His ship--destroyed. His crew--dead. His location--unknown. The only human across the ocean--were savage cannibal tribes.
  
  Crusoe was without food, without shelter, without supplies--and had never trained to live apart from the luxuries of civilization. But somehow, using only wreckage and his wit, Robison Crusoe would have to learn to survive. Without help. Without hope of rescue.
  
  Alone.
  

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  Sexing the Cherry
  

  by Jeanette Winterson

  ISBN 0871133504 (0-87113-350-4)
  Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr

  
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  Set in 17th century London, Sexing the Cherry is about the journeys taken by the boisterous Dog-Woman and her son Jordan: journeys across seas to find bananas and pineapples; journeys through time that weave snatches of the present with tales of Charles 1 and Oliver Cromwell; journeys in search of the self. As mothers go, the Dog-Woman takes some beating. She's a giant, wrapped in a skirt that could "serve as a sail for some wartorn ship" and strong enough to fling an elephant into the air. She's hideous too, with smallpox scars on her face where fleas live, a flat nose and black, broken teeth. To top it all, she's a "fantasist, a liar and a murderer". But her son, Jordan, is proud of her--who else has a mother who can hold a dozen oranges in her mouth at once?

  Like the best of Winterson's writing, such as Oranges are not the Only Fruit and The Passion, the novel is engaging, ambitious and contrary. Alongside a hearty historical realism, young girls swoon in locked towers that don't exist, islands slip sideways in time and mysterious diseases wipe out towns and cities. Even though Sexing the Cherry is short, it is impossible to read it in a straight line--fairy tales and dreams run in and out of the text and it's hard to resist chasing them. There is an exceptional playfulness at work too--an unravelling of the most solid of historical facts and fantastically unconventional fairy tales in which princesses smash the skulls of their princes with silver candlesticks or become worn and grey "like old sweaters". --Jane Honey [via]

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  Siddhartha
  

  by Hermann Hesse

  ISBN 081120068X (0-8112-0068-X)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gautama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahman, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. --Brian Bruya [via]

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  Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
  

  by George Eliot

  ISBN 087720814X (0-87720-814-X)
  Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

  
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  FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The lonely and miserable life of a miserly recluse is transformed when he takes in an orphaned child and raises her as his own daughter. [via]

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  Snow Flower And the Secret Fan
  

  by Lisa See

  ISBN 0812968069 (0-8129-6806-9)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, "old same," in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she's painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. Together, they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their deep friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart. [via]

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  War and Peace
  

  by Leo Tolstoy

  ISBN 0815203977 (0-8152-0397-7)
  Softcover, Harpercollins

  
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  War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. [via]

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  What's Bred in the Bone
  

  by Robertson Davies

  ISBN 0816141347 (0-8161-4134-7)
  Softcover, G.K. Hall

  
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  The Woman in White
  

  by Wilkie Collins

  ISBN 0809599244 (0-8095-9924-4)
  Hardcover, Wildside Pr

  
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  There, in the middle of the broad bright high-road -- there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven -- stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments, her face bent in grave inquiry on mine, her hand pointing to the dark cloud over London, as I faced her. I was far too seriously startled by the suddenness with which this extraordinary apparition stood before me, in the dead of night and in that lonely place, to ask what she wanted. The strange woman spoke first. "Is that the road to London?" she said. I looked attentively at her, as she put that singular question to me. It was then nearly one o'clock. All I could discern distinctly by the moonlight was a colorless, youthful face, meager and sharp to look at about the cheeks and chin; large, grave, wistfully attentive eyes; nervous, uncertain lips; and light hair of a pale, brownish-yellow hue. There was nothing wild, nothing immodest in her manner: it was quiet and self-controlled, a little melancholy and a little touched by suspicion; not exactly the manner of a lady, and, at the same time, not the manner of a woman in the humblest rank of life. [via]

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