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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
While floating down the Mississippi River in the nineteenth century, a boy and a runaway slave experience many adventures, involving a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom. |
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Alice's adventures in Wonderland |
A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters |
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The Catcher in the Rye |
The hero-narrator of "The catcher in the rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. |
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A Christmas carol |
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future |
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The glass menagerie |
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura |
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The grapes of wrath |
A family of thirteen must leave their farm in Oklahoma to find work. They become migrant workers in California |
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Jane Eyre: Audiobook (Kindle) |
Charlotte Bronte's heroine Jane Eyre, may not have been graced with beauty or money, but she had a spirit of fire and was filled with integrity and a sense of independence - character traits that never waned in spite of all the oppression she encountered in life. |
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Of mice and men |
While the powerlessness of the laboring class in a recurring theme in this classic work, Steinbeck narrows his focus, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness--a parable about commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss |
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Pride and prejudice |
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen tackles a common reality in England in the early 19th century – women who lack a fortune need to marry well. And by "well," we mean wealthy. |
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A separate peace |
A conflict of loyalties between Gene and his fearless friend, Phineas, leads to tragedy. |
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A tale of two cities |
First published in 1859. A suspenseful tale of London and Paris in the bloody days of the French Revolution |
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To kill a mockingbird |
Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl |
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A tree grows in Brooklyn |
"Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. |
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The winter of our discontent |
In a moment of moral crisis, Ethan Hawley, a clerk in a New England grocery store, departs from his high standards to provide for the material comforts he cannot afford for his restless wife and discontented children |
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