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Series
Publisher
Vintage International Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The members of a genteel southern family are portrayed as petty failures, drunkards, suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.
The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the idiot Benjy and his brothers, Quentin and Jason.
2) I, Claudius: from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born 10 B.C., murdered and deified A.D. 54
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
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Description
The emperor Claudius tells of his life during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula and the events that led to his rise to power in a classic novel reconstructing ancient Rome.
3) The shawl
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Contains a short story and a novella about the Holocaust, connected by the character of Rosa Lublin, who, in "The Shawl," watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter, and who appears thirty years later in a Miami hotel in "Rosa."
4) Suttree
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he rises above the physical and human squalor...
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