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Author
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
This edition of The Three Musketeers includes a Biographical Note by Stephen Brust.
Giant Porthos; elegant Aramis; mysterious, haunted Athos: they are fearless, loyal and unstoppable. They're also rogues,...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
1994, c1943
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Description
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.
This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed...
This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed...
Author
Series
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda; yet Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature "flowing from love of God and man." Today, however, Harriet Beecher Stowe's stirring indictment of slavery is often confused with garish dramatizations that flourished for decades after the Civil War: productions that relied heavily on melodramatic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
n.c
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Language
English
Description
'War and Peace' has been described as the Illiad and the Odyssey of the Russian people, with just cause. This is a work that speaks to the meaning and hope of life. Tolstoy's realism forced him to strip away much of the glorification of war and show the realities. Yet Tolstoy presents the events of 1812 as a moral crusade, and that the Russians won against the Napoleonic onslaught because of their adherence to simple, good and true virtues (as much...
6) East of Eden
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1992, c1952
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900s in Northern California.
7) Ivanhoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd
Pub. Date
c1941
Language
English
Description
One of Sir Walter Scott's most popular and influential works, "Ivanhoe" is the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. At the beginning of the novel we find its titular character, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has been disinherited by his father for his allegiance to the Norman king, Richard the Lionheart, and for falling in love with the Lady Rowena, returning from the Third Crusade. Wilfred's father, Cedric, had planned to marry Lady...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset
Pub. Date
c1931
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of a China that was now in a contemporary classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In the Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the...
Author
Publisher
Grosset
Pub. Date
c1927
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714,the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
[1990, c1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country...
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country...
13) Atlas shrugged
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why...
Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why...
14) Of human bondage
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1936
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Description
The story of a deformed youth whose handicap causes loneliness.
15) The sea-wolf
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.
16) A lost lady
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
[1990, c1923]
Language
English
Description
In the eyes of the middle-aged men who visited the house of Captain Daniel Forrester at Sweet Water, Nebraska, whatever Mrs. Forrester chose to do was "lady-like."
17) Animal farm
Author
Series
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A satire in fable form expressed through the animals of Manor Farm.
19) Madame Bovary
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
c1957
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The complete and unabridged story of Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a provincial doctor, whose desires and illusions are shattered when reality catches up with her.
20) Maniac Magee
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs.
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run—and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his...
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run—and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his...