What is "Literary fiction?"
"Literary Fiction renders the life experiences and personal perspectives of characters in the midst of complex situations and conflict over values and relationships." (Description from Novelist Plus.)
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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. |
2010-11 |
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, 19th-century town on the Mississippi River |
2010-09 |
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The awakening and selected short stories |
A reprint of the 1899 novel about Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother who is awakened to the full force of her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation. |
2010-08 |
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Candide |
Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759) is a French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. |
2010-09 |
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The curious incident of the dog in the night-time |
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. |
2010-02 |
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Cutting for stone |
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. |
2010-08 |
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Flowers for Algernon |
After Charlie, a mentally handicapped man, agrees to have an experimental surgery that could reduce his handicap and increase his intelligence, Charlie discovers that happiness and abilities aren't necessarily connected |
2012-07 |
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Flowers for Algernon |
After Charlie, a mentally handicapped man, agrees to have an experimental surgery that could reduce his handicap and increase his intelligence, Charlie discovers that happiness and abilities aren't necessarily connected |
2012-07 |
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Gods without men |
Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed—but not unchanged—the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them. |
2012-03 |
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Great expectations |
In what may be Dickens’s best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman—and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of “great expectations.” |
2011-02 |
