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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 33
Language
English
Description
A young woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.
7) My Ishmael
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Julie responds to an advertisement for a pupil with a desire to save the world, and is surprised to find her teacher will be Ishmael, a telepathic gorilla.
8) Turtle moon
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A transplanted New York woman is determined to start a new life with her twelve-year-old son, Keith in Verity, Florida.
9) Middlemarch
Author
Language
English
Description
A portrait of 19th century English provincial life focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family.
Author
Language
English
Description
"First published serially in 1840 -- 41 in Dickens' own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock , and in book form in 1841, The Old Curiosity Shop was an immediate popular success. The heart-wrenching story of Little Nell and her doting grandfather offered a rich amalgam of misery and malice, goodness and generosity, love and loyalty -- all with a pervading veneer of sentimentality that greatly appealed to Victorian readers. As the story opens up, Nell...
15) Evening class
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Teacher Aidan Dunne, passed over for the principal's job, is instead offered a post as head of a new evening school where he somewhat assuages his dream of visiting Italy by offering classes in Italian and draws an assortment of students whose lives are all transformed by the vivacious instructor, Nora O'Donoghue.
16) Jude the obscure
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jude the Obscure, the semi-autobiographical final novel from Thomas Hardy explores notions of surprising candor; within the eponymous protagonist lies the tragic truth of failed ambitions and relationships. In a fierce exploration of the darkness of love and the intellect, this is one of the great tragic novels of English literature.
Jude Fawley, an earnest boy from a rural English village, dreams of a life of academia despite his working-class background....
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