Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
Box 53, Box 53A
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| JANE AUSTEN | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE has delighted generations of readers with its ingenious plot, brilliant dialogue, inventive assortment of unique characters, and wealth of humor. The central theme is the romantic clash of two opinionated young people. In one corner, there is Elizabeth Bennet, our highly vivacious heroine, in the other, the arrogant but captivating Mr. Darcy. Their destinies interweave in a timeless pattern of courtship, love, property, and marriage. | Y
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| JANE AUSTEN | SENSE AND SENSIBILITY - SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is the story of an English family of sisters who are turned out of their family home by the laws of primogeniture. They must seek their fortunes through advantageous matches. Elinor Dashwood represents "sense" among the sisters, embodying moderation and prudence. Her sister Marianne represents "sensibility," a susceptibility to feelings that causes her much pain but also opens her up to the richness of love. Jane Austen's acute observations of differences in class and wealth, as well as her sharp mocking wit, helps her to limn her memorable characters as they find their way towards mates who will be true, frank, and honest with them. The sisters' experiences, both good and bad, leave them the wiser and ourselves much the richer.
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| JAMES FENIMORE COOPER | THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS - Cooper wrote five "leather-stocking tales," of which this is the second and most famous. Here the white frontiersman Hawkeye (aka Peter Bumppo and Leather Stocking) is nobly matched with Uncas, the Indian of the title.
The feeling for nature and the excitement of the action are remarkable, no less so than Cooper's nostalgic view of the Indians and trappers who formed what he clearly thought of as a wilderness elite.
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| JAMES FENIMORE COOPER | THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (copy 2)- Cooper wrote five "leather-stocking tales," of which this is the second and most famous. Here the white frontiersman Hawkeye (aka Peter Bumppo and Leather Stocking) is nobly matched with Uncas, the Indian of the title.
The feeling for nature and the excitement of the action are remarkable, no less so than Cooper's nostalgic view of the Indians and trappers who formed what he clearly thought of as a wilderness elite.
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| CHARLES DICKENS | HARD TIMES - In HARD TIMES, written in 1854, Dickens indicts the insensitivity and greed rampant in Victorian industrial society. Industries imprison the workers; schools and church bend their wards.
Gradgrind's children, Tom and Louisa, are dutiful offspring. So when Louisa marries banker Josia Bounderby, the alliance seems predestined. But appearances deceive, and Louisa rebels against husband and father. Gradgrind realizes the error of his ways, and the book closes in an aura of forgiveness and with a sense of the possible.
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| FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY | CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (part 1) -
Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg, murders an old woman, a money-lender and her sister to prove his theory that violence purifies the strong. But no sooner is the deed done than Raskolnikov's remorse lays siege to his resolve. What follows is one of the greatest psychological studies in world literature.
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| FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY | CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (part 2) - No work of literary fiction exceeds CRIME AND PUNISHMENT for its evocation of the deepest essence of tragedy, pity and terror. | Y
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| FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY | NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND - By the time Dostoevsky was 40, he had spent four years in prison and a further four years in the army as punishment for his part in a political conspiracy. His health was broken. He was gaunt, fervid, anxiety-ridden and close to bankruptcy. It was in this state he wrote NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, a masterpiece of the psychology of the outsider. The book relates the experiences of a singular young man who spurns the rule of God and man. The problem he faces is that of all nihilists, which is to deny authority while simultaneously explaining order.
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| C.S. FORESTER | THE AFRICAN QUEEN - This novel (1935) is about an action in WW I between German forces and what might be called British irregulars. Rose Sayer, sister of an English missionary in German Central Africa, seems an unlikely heroine until her brother dies and she takes responsibility for her own life. With a gin drinking engineer, Allnutt, the indomitable Miss Sayer sets out on the African Queen, a leaky 30-foot river boat, to strike a blow for England and avenge her brother's death. | Y
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| E.M. FORSTER | A ROOM WITH A VIEW - A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of George Emerson, a fellow Britisher, when she sees a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted as she is to him, he seems entirely unsuitable. And his father may even be a Socialist!
Back in England she entertains a more acceptable suitor, but finds it stifling. Will she choose convention, or listen to her heart?
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| THOMAS HARDY | FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD - Thomas Hardy brings us an England that once existed but is no more. It is rural, traditional, pastoral--a society of mannered conduct that flows like a deep river where powerful currents eddy and swirl.
"In this powerful novel of love and disillusion, Hardy's heroine is torn between the three men in her life. Passionate but capricious, her romantic involvements have fascinated generations of readers."
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| THOMAS HARDY | THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE - A masterpiece of dramatic tension, THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE is set in pastoral England. Clym Yeobright returns home to open a school in Egdon Heath where he falls in love with the passionately bewitching Eustacia Vye who longs to escape from her provincial status. In a meshing of chance, circumstances and human error, their turbulent marriage smolders and explodes in violent tragedy.
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE is the forerunner of the 20th-century psychological novel -- poetic, compassionate, vivid in its associations, universal in its meanings.
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| ERNEST HEMINGWAY | A FAREWELL TO ARMS - Published when Hemingway was just thirty, A FAREWELL TO ARMS confirmed his stature as the greatest single influence on the American short story and novel.
The best American novel to emerge out of World War I, A FAREWELL TO ARMS is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto - lines of tired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized - bears comparion to Stendhal's depiction of the retreat from Waterloo.
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| JACK LONDON | THE SEA WOLF AND SELECTED STORIES - In this saga of the sea, Jack London creates a gripping, heroic struggle between two contrasting types, Wolf Larson and Humphrey Van Weyden. The book begins when Van Weyden's ship sinks in San Francisco Harbor. Rescued by Larson, Van Weyden is forced to serve as cook's scullion. Larson heads for the Bering Sea, where Van Weyden finds human cruelty is matched only by nature.
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| LOUISA MAY ALCOTT | LITTLE WOMEN - Since its 1868 publication, this has been one of the most beloved works of American fiction. Alcott's novel follows the coming-of-age of four sisters, under their mother's care while their father serves as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War. This is, above all, a book of characters: the lovely and sensible eldest sister Meg, the tomboy aspiring writer Jo, the fragile Beth, and the almost-spoiled Amy. Inventive rather than wealthy, the girls delight us with their creative Christmas presents in a time of penury, their secret club with its riotous newspaper, and the friendships they forge with their neighbors, and we grieve with them when tragedy strikes them. Alcott has imagined a family whose caring and pluck makes us love them back.
"In Alcott's sketches it is her voice that leads us on - and what a tantalizing, wickedly funny voice it is!" (Salon Magazine)
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| STEPHEN CRANE | THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE AND OTHER STORIES - The setting is the Civil War ... the hero is Henry Flemming, who, swept up in the current of events, joins the Union Army. He plunges heedlessly into battle, at first loses his courage, then later regains it for the crucial confrontation. One of the most realistic war stories ever written, a striking depiction of how soldiers behave under fire.
Three other fine examples of realistic fiction are "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," "The Blue Hotel," and "The Open Boat." | Y
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| STEPHEN CRANE | THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE AND OTHER STORIES (Copy 2) - The setting is the Civil War ... the hero is Henry Flemming, who, swept up in the current of events, joins the Union Army. He plunges heedlessly into battle, at first loses his courage, then later regains it for the crucial confrontation. One of the most realistic war stories ever written, a striking depiction of how soldiers behave under fire.
Three other fine examples of realistic fiction are "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," "The Blue Hotel," and "The Open Boat." | Y
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| CHARLES DICKENS | A CHRISTMAS CAROL - This full-length classic is Charles Dickens' famous tale of the tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge, who is forced just in time to relearn the meaning of the "Christmas Spirit." A family favorite. | Y
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| CHARLES DICKENS | OLIVER TWIST - Dickens's unforgettable young hero escapes from his London orphanage to live with a gang of thieves, is rescued by a kindly old gentleman, and is kidnapped again by the villains. Can he ever get back to his benefactor? This tale exposes the brutality of Victorian England's class system at a time when the middle class's intolerance relegated the poor to conditions that outraged a growing group of critics. We visit the brutalizing orphanages and the filthy streets which were home to London's young unfortunates. Still, the novel's delights exceed the persuasive weight of its social message. The two villains - the conniving career criminal Fagin and the professional burglar and murderer Sykes - will keep one rooting for the beleaguered hero.
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| DANIEL DEFOE | ROBINSON CRUSOE - A classic adventure story enjoyed as much today as in the 17th Century; Seeking adventure Crusoe finds it when he is shipwrecked on a desert island ... | Y
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| ALEXANDRE DUMAS | THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK - Louis XIII had to be a Solomon; his queen produced twin male heirs -- two sons of equal age with equal pretensions. Louis feared for France. One prince is peace and safety for the state, two are civil war and anarchy.
One son had to go. Louis could not kill him -- but he could hide him -- in an iron mask. Such is the quality of paternal mercy.
This book was originally written as part of a sequel to THE THREE MUSKETEERS. But in time it developed a life of its own and in recent years has always been published as a separate novel that stands on its own merits. This book is slightly abridged.
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| GUSTAVE FLAUBERT | MADAME BOVARY - Flaubert's genius lay in his infinite capacity for taking pains, and MADAME BOVARY, so true in its characterization, so vivid in its setting, is testimony to the realism of his work.
Perhaps no book in the history of the novel has received more attention than this tale of a provincial woman who cannot bear the discrepancy between her romantic dreams and the dull routine of her daily life. She seeks adventure but finds only tragedy.
"One precious quality distinguishes Flaubert from the more or less exact observers who pride themselves on conscientiously reproducing reality, and nothing but reality: he has style." --Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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| NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE | THE SCARLET LETTER - Set in the Puritan days of Massachusetts, Hawthorne's greatest novel is a philosophical exploration that delves into guilt and touches upon notions of redemption. It traces the life-long atonement of a fallen Calvinist minister and the scandalous ordeal of Hester Prynne, the woman who will not betray his confidence despite threatened penalties. This incredible study of sin and its effect on the human heart broods with insight, and remains a classic without equal in American literature | Y
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| ERNEST HEMINGWAY | DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON - DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON is Ernest Hemingway's classic work on the art of bullfighting. It tells of the bullfighters and the bulls, the bravery and cowardice, the pageantry and the history -- enlivened by Hemingway's pungent comments on life and literature.
Hemingway developed his own original style of extraordinary clarity, subtlety and power. His work all deals with timeless themes of human courage and endurance.
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| ERNEST HEMINGWAY | THE SUN ALSO RISES - THE SUN ALSO RISES is the story of expatriate Americans and Brits in Paris between the wars. Talented and cynical, left without illusions by a war that killed many of their contemporaries, they suffered a failure of purpose that Gertrude Stein identified and named "The Lost Generation."
Jake Barnes is a tragic hero, damaged beyond repair in the war. He has the bad luck to meet and fall in love with Brett Ashley, a beautiful young Englishwoman. Worse, she finds in Jake everything she ever wanted but now cannot have. It is a hopeless and compelling relationship, told without affectation or sentiment by a young author just reaching the height of his powers.
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| ERNEST HEMINGWAY | TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT - This is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan and his efforts to support his family by running contraband between Key West and Cuba. Set in the 1930s, the book carries all the flavor of an era that was poor, tough and resourceful. Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in Hemingway's "oeuvre", it goes beyond high adventure. It was adapted for film and became a memorable classic, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
"hemighway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous." | Y
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| HENRY JAMES | THE EUROPEANS - Henry James was born in 1843 and lived until 1916. He was a dominant figure in American letters, and rose above the wealth and affluence of his inherited circumstances to build for himself a meaningful life as one of our greatest prose stylists.
THE EUROPEANS concerns an expatriate American, Eugenia, and her artist brother, Felix Young. Eugenia is the morganatic wife of a German prince, but she is to be repudiated in favor of a state marriage; thus she leaves for Boston to make an appropriate match of her own.
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| JAMES JOYCE | PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN - Is it an autobiography? Well, no. Does it convey elements of Joyce's own life? Well, yes...and while it is fiction, we are with H.G. Wells who said "By far the most living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing."
Not only is this book and epic of its time, it rang up the curtain on a new literary era, bountifully appreciated by Herbert Gorman. He wrote, "So profound and beautiful and convincing a book is part of the lasting literature of our age...in it is the promise of that new literature, new both in form and content, that will be the classics of tomorrow."
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| GASTON LEROUX | PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - A madman inhabits the catacombs under the Paris Opera House and wreaks havoc on the world above. A classic tale of romance and horror.
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| JACK LONDON | Call of the Wild and Other Stories - Jack London is among the greatest adventure writers in American literature, and CALL OF THE WILD is his masterpiece, a work that takes us where few tales have dared: into the mind of an animal. Buck is taken from the warmth of the Santa Clara Valley to work as a sled-dog in the frozen Yukon during the Gold Rush. There he is forced to lose his domesticated ways and rediscover his natural instincts. Brutalized and beaten with the other dogs, Buck is finally saved from this cruelty by John Thornton. In this kind man's care Buck learns how to be loved, an essential element in the art of survival. Now he'll be prepared when he returns to the wild. He will be feared, respected, loved, and truly fit for leadership.
Other stories include "Moon-Face", "Brown Wolf", "That Spot" and "To Build a Fire". | Y
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| NICOLO MACHIAVELLI | THE PRINCE - Machiavelli cut his political teeth during the Renaissance, a time of intense hatred between Italian city states. His book, thought cynical and pessimistic by later generations, struck his contemporaries as eminently sane.
Machiavelli was a man of action, a patriot, devout. He wrote THE PRINCE to describe how a leader could unite Italy and put a stop to the senseless conflict.
"He wrote of people only as he found them. He started from the principle that human nature does not change, and argued for a political system based on man as he is, not as he should be."
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| ALAN PATON | CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY - An old Zulu parson from the hills above Ixopo sets out for Johannesburg, the "city of evil," looking for his son. He finds his boy in prison, charged with the murder of a white man who had devoted his life to justice for the black race.
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| ROBERT M. PIRSIG | LILA: AN INQUIRY NTO MORALS - When your first book is ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE your next one had better be good. Fortunately, LILA more than meets the challenge.
Sailing down the Hudson River, the protagonist, Phaedrus, has been trying to work out a book called a "Metaphysics of Quality," a system of philosophy intended to end some of the moral confusion of this century. In a riverside bar he meets Lila, but a friend who knows her warns him Lila is "from the sewer." Phaedrus takes her aboard. His friend asks angrily, "Does she have Quality?" Throughout the journey southward Phaedrus learns more about Lila and thinks of many answers, but none are final.
"A marvelous improvisation on a most improbable quartet: sailing, philosophy, sex and madness." (The New York Times)
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| MARIO PUZO | THE GODFATHER - Pulls us inside the violent society of the Mafia and its gang wars. Vito Corleone, the Godfather, is a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power, just one of the unforgettable characters who explode to life in this violent and impassioned chronicle | Y
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| ANNA QUINDLEN | BLACK AND BLUE - A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author turns her talents to fiction in this fine novel about a passionate marriage that becomes a living nightmare. Fran Benedetto leaves a dangerous marriage to make a fresh start with her son. Living under a new name in constant fear of discovery, she begins to build a more stable life for the two of them. As she gains confidence and hope, Fran unravels the complex threads of family, identity, and desire that shape a woman's life. Anna Quindlen brings her characteristic humor and warmth to Fran's story -- a perceptive look at the lives of men and women, the varieties of love, the bond between mother and child, and the solace of family and friendship.
"If literature were judged solely by its ability to elicit strong emotions, Quindlen would win another Pulitzer." (Kirkus Reviews)
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