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Everyman's library volume 44
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
23) Tristram Shandy
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 7
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
25) Adam Bede
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English
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Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community. The life and expectations of the good carpenter Adam Bede are disrupted when the local lord takes liberties below his station and his conscience. The novel is a discussion of class and education and also of religion, with the female Methodist preacher Dinah Morris coming to the fore as the novel progresses.
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English
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An epic tale of the complex intrigues that arise when a new bishop with an interfering wife is appointed in the fictional town of Barchester, Trollope's brilliantly written novel explores the various relationships, power struggles, and love affairs with fascinating clarity. --from Amazon.
27) The Bostonians
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English
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"Henry James' celebrated novel about a passionate New England suffragette, her displaced southern gentleman cousin, and a charismatic young woman whose loyalty they both wished to possess goes so directly to the heart of sexual politics that it speaks to us with a voice as fresh and as vital as when the book was first published in 1882. Majestic in its movement, rich and sympathetic in its ironies, The Bostonians is the work of a master psychologist...
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period, and the crowning achievement of that caustic, brilliantly learned age was Voltaire's Candide, published in 1759, at the height of its author's enormous European fame. Following the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence, and human insanity - of its hero and his incomparably absurd tutor, Dr. Pangloss, Candide is the most entertaining of all philosophical...
29) The castle
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English
Description
A surveyor is lost in a labyrinth in this 1926 German novel, reflecting the author's concern with man's inability to assert himself in the face of bureaucracy. It is a new translation that restores the eccentricities in style of the original.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 99
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Poe's genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things is revealed through his short stories.
32) Doctor Faustus
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 80
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
In a story that symbolizes Germany's fall into Nazism, a talented German musician, Adrian, sells his soul to the devil in exchange for recognition as the greatest living composer.
34) Lolita
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Series
Everyman's library volume 133
Language
English
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The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the...
“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the...
35) Meditations
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English
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome-and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 81
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
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39) Pale fire
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
"An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, 'Pale Fire' offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit...
40) Persuasion
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English
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Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed novelist and editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language.
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