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In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and...
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"NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winnning writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion comes "a masterpiece" (Newsweek) that illuminates the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora. Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation. Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda...
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Middle-aged American Lambert Strether, sent to Paris by his patron Mrs. Newsome to find her son Chad and bring him home, finds Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman, and soon follows suit, letting himself be swept away by the charms of the city and the mysterious Madame de Vionnet.
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IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 66
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Set in the years before and after Waterloo, the novel tells the parallel stories of two schoolfriends - the quiet, long-suffering Amelia and her brilliant, scheming friend, Becky Sharp. The novel portrays all the corruption and decadence of 19th-century England.
13) John Barleycorn
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Modern Library
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[2001]
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IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
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A candid memoir recounts London's bout with alcohol, from his first drink and first hangover at age five, and stresses the important role of the saloon in cultivating alcoholism in young men.
14) Kingsblood royal
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Modern Library
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[2001]
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IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 20
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Neil Kingsblood, an average middle-American banker, finds that he has African-American blood, a discovery which takes him to two Americas, one black and one white.
16) War and peace
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A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoys great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read. At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleons army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The...
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"Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant...
18) Nazism and war
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Modern Library chronicles volume 20
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Modern Library
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[2004]
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A Modern Library chronicles book volume 23
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Modern Library
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c2005
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English
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