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100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century
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Things Fall Apart
by Achebe, Chinua
Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's downfall results from his own character as well as from external forces.
| Call Number: PR9387.9 A3 T5 1994 | Publication Date: 1958 |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Adams, Douglas
| Call Number: PR6051 .D3352 H5 2004 | Publication Date: 1979 |
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by Baldwin, James
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else."Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
| Call Number: PS3552 .A45 G6 | Publication Date: 1953 |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by Baum, L. Frank
The first striking thing about this book is its elegant dust jacket made to look like a copper plate. But the eye candy stretches past the front cover, nearly every page with either color illustrations or distinctive frames, fleurons, and figures around the text. Not surprising to those who've taken some literature classes, the annotations following a page of text are often far longer than whatever bit of text they illustrate. But if the reader should find academicism beside the point, annotations are easy to skip because Baum's story is written in larger type. This edition is for both kids and kiddie litters, the latter interested in such tidbits as the Dorothy-type farmgirl character called Dot, Dolly, and Doris in other works by Frank Baum, and the reigning theory that Dorothy lived in Kansas, yes, but more specifically, Topeka.
| Call Number: PS3503 .A923 W59 | Publication Date: 1900 |
A Clockwork Orange
by Burgess, Anthony
| Call Number: PR6052 .U638 C58 | Publication Date: 1962 |
Naked Lunch
by Burroughs, William S.
"Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson, on the relationship of art and obscenity, and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. Reedited by Burroughs scholar Barry Miles and Burroughs's longtime editor James Grauerholz, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs's notes on the text, several essays he wrote over the years about the book, and an appendix of 20 percent all-new material and alternate drafts from the original manuscript, which predates the first published version. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume is a valuable and fresh experience of this classic of our culture."
| Call Number: PS3552 .U75 N3 2001 | Publication Date: 1959 |
In Cold Blood
by Capote, Truman
Request ItemFind more by this authorFind more on these topicsNearby items on shelfItem Information A Look InsideCatalog Record Bibligraphic InformationTitleIn cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences AuthorCapote, Truman, 1924-1984. Publisher:Vintage Books,Pub date:[1994], c1993.Pages:343 p. ;ISBN:0679745580Item info: 1 copy available at Glendale CC North Library.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, t ... (to read more see "A Look Inside") HoldingsHoldings Glendale CC North Library Copies Material Location
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Enriched ContentIn cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
Summary
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy.In Cold Bloodis a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
| Call Number: HV6533 .K3 C3 1992 | Publication Date: 1966 |
Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Cather, Willa
In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows-gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly&40 years, they leave converts and enemies, crosses, and occasionally ecstasy in their wake. But it takes a death for them to make their mark on the landscape forever.
| Call Number: PS3505 .A87 D4 1955 | Publication Date: 1927 |
My Antonia
by Cather, Willa
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| Call Number: PS3505 .A87 M922 | Publication Date: 1918 |
O Pioneers
by Cather, Willa
Story of Alexandra Bergson, a pioneer Swedish immigrant whose life & soul are intertwined with the land on which she lives. She inherits her father's farm & pulls the land out of potential ruin. She raises her three brothers & provides an education for the youngest, allowing him to explore a world she herself will never see.
| Call Number: PS3505 .A87 O6 1991 | Publication Date: 1913 |
The Awakening
by Chopin, Kate
| Call Number: PS1294 .C63 A6435 | Publication Date: 1899 |
Heart of Darkness
by Conrad, Joseph
Considered by many to be his greatest work, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness has mesmerized readers and provided rich fodder for critics since its publication in 1899. This volume presents the text of the novel, along with a wealth of background information. These supplementary materials include dozens of essays dealing with such topics as imperialism and 19th-century attitudes toward race. These are followed by a representative selection of contemporary and recent criticism generated by the novel.
| Call Number: PR6005 .O4 H4 | Publication Date: 1902 |
Lord Jim
by Conrad, Joseph
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| Call Number: PR6005 .O4 L6 2005 | Publication Date: 1900 |
White Noise
by DeLillo, Don
Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New york expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an "airborne toxic event" unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladney family--radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmerings--pulsing with life, yet heralding the danger of death.
| Call Number: PS3554 .E4425 W48 1985 | Publication Date: 1985 |
An American Tragedy
by Dreiser, Theodore
A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, An American Tragedyis the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Taking as his point of departure a notorious murder case of 1910, Dreiser immersed himself in the social background of the crime to produce a book that is both a remarkable work of reportage and a monumental study of character. Few novels have undertaken to track so relentlessly the process by which an ordinary young man becomes capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest. In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, Dreiser created an unforgettable portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence. Around Clyde, Dreiser builds an extraordinarily detailed fictional portrait of early twentieth-century America, its religious and sexual hypocrisies, its economic pressures, its political corruption. The sheer prophetic amplitude of his bitter truth-telling, in idiosyncratic prose of uncanny expressive power, continues to mark Dreiser as a crucially important American writer. An American Tragedy, the great achievement of his later years, is a work of mythic force, at once brutal and heartbreaking
| Call Number: PS3507 .R55 A7 2003 | Publication Date: 1925 |
Rebecca
by Du Maurier, Daphne
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| Call Number: PR6007 .U47 R4 1988 | Publication Date: 1938 |
Invisible Man
by Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Manis a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952.  A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century.  The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.  The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot'sThe Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.
| Call Number: PS3555 .L625 I5 | Publication Date: 1952 |
Absalom, Absalom!
by Faulkner, William
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| Call Number: PS3511 .A86 A671936 | Publication Date: 1936 |
As I Lay Dying
by Faulkner, William
At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.
| Call Number: PS3511 .A86 A85 | Publication Date: 1930 |
Light in August
by Faulkner, William
Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.
| Call Number: PS3511 .A86 L5 1990 | Publication Date: 1932 |
The Sound the the Fury
by Faulkner, William
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
| Call Number: PS3511 .A86 S7 | Publication Date: 1929 |
Tender is the Night
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy ofTender Is the Night,"If you likedThe Great Gatsby,for God's sake read this.Gatsbywas a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I,Tender Is the Nightis the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness.InTender Is the Night,Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture.Tender Is the Nightis also the most intensely, even painfully, autobiographical of Fitzgerald's novels; it smolders with a dark, bitter vitality because it is so utterly true. This account of a caring man who disintegrates under the twin strains of his wife's derangement and a lifestyle that gnaws away at his sense of moral values offers an authorial cri de coeur, while Dick Diver's downward spiral into alcoholic dissolution is an eerie portent of Fitzgerald's own fate.F. Scott Fitzgerald literally put his soul intoTender Is the Night,and the novel's lack of commercial success upon its initial publication in 1934 shattered him. He would die six years later without having published another novel, and without knowing thatTender Is the Nightwould come to be seen as perhaps its author's most poignant masterpiece. In Mabel Dodge Luhan's words, it raised him to the heights of "a modern Orpheus."
| Call Number: PS3511 .I9 T4 1996 | Publication Date: 1934 |
The Beautiful and the Damned
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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| Call Number: PS3511 .I9 B4 | Publication Date: 1922 |
The Great Gatsby
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgerald's sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald's "best work" thus far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when, The New York Times remarked, "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
| Call Number: PS3511. I9 G7 | Publication Date: 1925 |
This Side of Paradise
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is the opening statement of his literary career. Published originally in 1920, the novel captures the rhythm and feel of the gaudy decade that was to follow in America. This Side of Paradise made Fitzgerald simultaneously famous and infamous: famous for the stylish exuberance of his writing and infamous for the errors - in spelling, fact, grammar, and chronology - that peppered his text.
| Call Number: PS3511 .I9 T48 1995 | Publication Date: 1920 |
A Room With a View
by Forster, E. M.
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| Call Number: PR6011 .O58 R6 | Publication Date: 1908 |
Howard's End
by Forster, E. M.
First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. At its heart lie two families--the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked--some very funny, some very tragic--that results in a dispute over who will inherit Howards End, the Wilcoxes' charming country home. As much about the clash between individual wills as the clash between the sexes and the classes, Howards End is a novel whose central tenet, "Only connect," remains a powerful prescription for modern life. "
| Call Number: PR6011 .O58 H6 | Publication Date: 1910 |
Passage to India
by Forster, E. M.
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| Call Number: PR6011 .O58 P3 1952 | Publication Date: 1924 |
Where Angels Fear to Tread
by Forster, E. M.
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| Call Number: PR6011 .O58 W49 | Publication Date: 1905 |
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by Fowles, John
Perhaps the most beloved of Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. "Filled with enchanting mysteries and magically erotic possibilities" (New York Times), the novel inspired the hugely successful 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons and is today universally regarded as a modern classic. In A Maggot, originally published in 1985, Fowles reaches back to the eighteenth century to offer readers a glimpse into the future. Time magazine called the result "hypnotic....A remarkable achievement. Part detective story, part crackling courtroom drama....An immensely rich and readable novel".
| Call Number: PR6056 .O85 F74 | Publication Date: 1969 |
The Lord of the Flies
by Golding, William
The story that never grows old... Lord of the Fliesremains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Ryein its influence on modern thought and literature. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse,Lord of the Flieshas established itself as a true classic. And now readers can own it in a beautifully designed hardcover edition worthy of its stature. This Christmas' meaningful gift, the 50th Anniversary Edition of the Lord of the Fliesis the volume that every fan of this classic book will have to own.
| Call Number: PR 013 .O35 L6 | Publication Date: 1954 |
The Wind in the Willows
by Grahame, Kenneth
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| Call Number: PZ10.3 .G76 Wi32 | Publication Date: 1907 |
The Maltese Falcon
by Hammett, Dashiell
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| Call Number: PS3515 .A4347 A6 1999a | Publication Date: 1930 |
Catch-22
by Heller, Joseph
Arguably the best novel to come out of World War II, in which Heller strips away the veneer of martial glory to expose its insanity, and gives our language a new paradoxical phrase to describe mankind at the mercy of its own institutions.
| Call Number: PS3558 .E476 C38 | Publication Date: 1961 |
A Farewell to Arms
by Hemingway, Ernest
The best American novel to emerge from World War I,A Farewell to Armsis the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion 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 -- of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized -- is one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion,A Farewell to Arms,written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.
| Call Number: PS3515 .E37 F3 | Publication Date: 1929 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Hemingway, Ernest
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight,"For Whom the Bell Tolls.The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement inThe Sun Also RisesandA Farewell to Armsto create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.
| Call Number: PS3515 .E37 F6 | Publication Date: 1940 |
In Our Time
by Hemingway, Ernest
WhenIn Our Timewas published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period.In Our Timecontains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler," and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose -- enlivened by an car for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart.Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature,In Our Timeprovides a key to Hemingway's later works.
| Call Number: PS3515 .E37 I5 2003 | Publication Date: 1925 |
The Old Man and the Sea
by Hemingway, Ernest
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic.
| Call Number: PS3515 .E37 O52 | Publication Date: 1952 |
The Sun Also Rises
by Hemingway, Ernest
Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim,The Sun Also Risesstands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman à clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their currency, the novel captured for the generation that would come to be called "Lost" the spirit of its age, and marked Ernest Hemingway as the preeminent writer of his time.
| Call Number: PS3515 .E37 S8 | Publication Date: 1926 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Hurston, Zora Neale
Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.
| Call Number: PS3515 .U789 T54 | Publication Date: 1937 |
Brave New World
by Huxley, Aldous
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. In Huxley's darkly satiric yet chillingly prescient imagining of a "utopian"future, humans are genetically designed and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded and as a thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment.This deluxe edition also includes the nonfiction work "Brave New World Revisited," "a thought-jabbing, terrifying book" (Chicago Tribune), first published in 1958. It is a fascinating essay in which Huxley compares the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World. He scrutinizes threats to humanity such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them.
| Call Number: PR6019 .U9 B7 | Publication Date: 1932 |
The World According to Garp
by Irving, John
The World According to Garp is a comical and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis. ----"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it," said critic Terrence Des Pres. "Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Friendship, marriage and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and folly--something close to joyful malice--perpetually intrude and disrupt, often fatally. Life, in Irving's fiction, is always under siege." Time magazine commented: "Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world is really the world according to nearly everyone."
| Call Number: PS3559 .R8 W67 | Publication Date: 1978 |
Portrait of a Lady
by James, Henry
When Isabel Archer, a young American with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as "a place of brightness," full of possibility. Rejecting suitors who offer her wealth and devotion, she follows her own path and finds it leads to a dark and constricted future. The Portrait of a Lady is the masterpiece of James's middle period, and Isabel is his most engaging central character.
| Call Number: PS2116 .P6 | Publication Date: 1881 |
The Bostonians
by James, Henry
From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of 'the sisterhood of women.' She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil. The exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy. The Bostonians (1886) was not welcomed by James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit; but a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction, and perhaps his comic masterpiece.
| Call Number: PS2116 .B6 1991 | Publication Date: 1886 |
The Wings of the Dove
by James, Henry
Confronting a Bronzino portrait in an English country house, a young American heiress comes face to face with her own predicament. For Milly Theale, who seems to have the world before her and at her feet, is fatally ill. Eager for life, eager for love, she embarks on her European adventure, warming to the admiration of her new friends Kate Croy and Merton Densher. But Merton and Kate are secretly engaged, and come to see in this angel with a thumping bank account as a solution to their own problems. For the remarkable Kate, scheming, passionate, poetic, also wants to live.
| Call Number: PS2116 .W5 | Publication Date: 1902 |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by Joyce, James
Witty, linguistically playful, and groundbreaking, Joyce's classic novel follows Stephen Dedalu as he comes of age in early 20th-century Ireland. In frank and funny prose, it captures his sexual awakening, his intellectual development, and his rebellion against Roman Catholicism. From the author of Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake. The world's greatest works of literature are now available in these beautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth, and featuring gilt edges and ribbon markers, these beautifully produced books are a wonderful way to build a handsome library of classic literature. These are the essential novels that belong in every home. They'll transport readers to imaginary worlds and provide excitement, entertainment, and enlightenment for years to come. All of these novels feature attractive illustrations and have an unequalled period feel that will grace the library, the bedside table or bureau.
| Call Number: PR6019 .O9 P6 | Publication Date: 1916 |
Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
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| Call Number: PR6019 .O9 F5 | Publication Date: 1939 |
Ulysses
by Joyce, James
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| Call Number: PR6019 .O9 U4 | Publication Date: 1922 |
Schindler's List
by Keneally, Thomas
Winner of the Booker PrizeWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for FictionSchindler's Listis a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers.Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's Jews, Thomas Keneally artfully depicts the courage and shrewdness of an unlikely savior, a man who is a flawed mixture of hedonism and decency and who, in the presence of unutterable evil, transcends the limits of his own humanity.
| Call Number: PR9619.3 K46 S3 1993 | Publication Date: 1982 |
On the Road
by Kerouac, Jack
Fans of Kerouac get the whole beautiful, groovy deal with this new recording of the radically hip novel that many consider the heart of the Beat movement. Poetic, open and raw, Kerouac's prose lays out a cross-country adventure as experienced by Sal Paradise, an autobiographical character. A writer holed up in a room at his aunt's house, Paradise gets inspired by Dean Moriarty (a character based on Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady) to hit the road and see America. From the moment he gets on the seven train out of New York City, he takes the reader through the highs and lows of hitchhiking, bonding with fellow explorers and opting for beer before food. First published in 1957, Kerouac's perennially hot story continues to express the restless energy and desire for freedom that makes people rush out to see the world. The tale is only improved by Dillon's well-paced, articulate reading as he voices the flow of images and graveled reality of Paradise's search for the edge.
| Call Number: PS3521 .E735 O5 | Publication Date: 1957 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Kesey, Ken
Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce artinet. Quickly, he takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt so that they can see the world series on television, and arranges a rollicking midnight party with liquor and chippies. For one offense, the head nurse has him submit to shock treatment. The party is too horrid for her and she forces him to submit to a final correction a frontal lobotomy. Winner of the 2001 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival. "Cuckoo is captivating." - the New York Post "Scarifying and powerful." - the New York Times
| Call Number: PS3561 .E667 O6 | Publication Date: 1962 |
Kim
by Kipling, Rudyard
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| Call Number: PR4854 .K5 | Publication Date: 1901 |
A Separate Peace
by Knowles, John
John Knowles' beloved classic has been a bestseller for more than 30 years and is one of the most moving and accurate novels about the trials and confusions of adolescence ever written. Set at an elite boarding school for boys during World War II, A Separate Peace is the story of friendship and treachery, and how a tragic accident involving two young men forever tarnishes their innocence.
| Call Number: PS3561 .N68 S435 2000 | Publication Date: 1960 |
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by Lawrence, D. H.
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| Call Number: PR6023 .A93 L2 | Publication Date: 1928 |
Sons and Lovers
by Lawrence, D. H.
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| Call Number: PR6023 .A93 A6 1985 | Publication Date: 1913 |
Women in Love
by Lawrence, D. H.
Two of D. H. Lawrence's most renowned novels-now with new packages and new introductions Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, "Women in Love" continues where "The Rainbow" left off, with the third generation of the Brangwens. Focusing on Ursula Brangwen and her sister Gudrun's relationships-the former with a school inspector and the latter with an industrialist and then a sculptor-"Women in Love" is a powerful, sexually explicit depiction of the destructiveness of human relations.
| Call Number: PR6023 .A93 W63 1987 | Publication Date: 1920 |
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Lee, Harper
Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.
| Call Number: PS3562 .E353 T64 | Publication Date: 1960 |
Babbitt
by Lewis, Sinclair
""I know of no American novel that more accurately presents the real America," wrote H. L. Mencken when Babbitt appeared in 1922. "As an old professor of Babbittry I welcome him as an almost perfect specimen. Every American city swarms with his brothers. He is America incarnate, exuberant and exquisite."" "In the character of George F. Babbitt, the boisterous, vulgar, worried, gadget-loving real estate man from Zenith, Lewis fashioned a new and enduring figure in American literature - the total conformist. Babbitt is a "joiner," who thinks and feels with the crowd. Lewis surrounds him with a gallery of familiar American types - small businessmen, Rotarians, Elks, boosters, supporters of evangelical Christianity. In bitingly satirical scenes of club lunches, after-dinner speeches, trade association conventions, fishing trips, and Sunday School committees, Lewis reproduces the noisy restlessness of American commercial culture." "In 1930 Sinclair Lewis was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, largely for his achievement in Babbitt.
| Call Number: PS3523 .E94 B26 1991 | Publication Date: 1922 |
Main Street
by Lewis, Sinclair
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| Call Number: PS3523 .E94 M2 1992 | Publication Date: 1920 |
The Call of the Wild
by London, Jack
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| Call Number: PS3523 .O46 A6 | Publication Date: 1903 |
The Naked and the Dead
by Mailer, Norman
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| Call Number: PS3525 .A4152 N3 | Publication Date: 1948 |
Tropic of Cancer
by Miller, Henry
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| Call Number: PS3525 .I5454 T7 1987 | Publication Date: 1934 |
Winnie-the-Pooh
by Milne, A. A.
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| Call Number: PZ7 .M64 Wi10 | Publication Date: 1926 |
Gone with the Wind
by Mitchell, Margaret
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| Call Number: PS3525 .I972 G6 | Publication Date: 1936 |
Beloved
by Morrison, Toni
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| Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 B4 | Publication Date: 1987 |
Jazz
by Morrison, Toni
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| Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 J38 1993 | Publication Date: 1992 |
Song of Solomon
by Morrison, Toni
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| Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 S66 | Publication Date: 1977 |
Lolita
by Nabokov, Vladimir
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| Call Number: PS3527 .A15 L6 | Publication Date: 1955 |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
by O'Connor, Flannery
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| Call Number: PS3565 .C57 G6 | Publication Date: 1955 |
1984
by Orwell, George
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| Call Number: PR6029 .R8 N49 | Publication Date: 1949 |
Animal Farm
by Orwell, George
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| Call Number: PR6029 .R8 A5 | Publication Date: 1945 |
Atlas Shrugged
by Rand, Ayn
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| Call Number: PS3535 .A547 A94 1992 | Publication Date: 1957 |
The Fountainhead
by Rand, Ayn
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| Call Number: PS3535 .A547 F6 | Publication Date: 1943 |
The Wide Sargasso Sea
by Rhys, Jean
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| Call Number: PZ7 .R3478 Wi | Publication Date: 1966 |
Midnight's Children
by Rushdie, Salman
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| Call Number: PR6068 .U757 M5 1995 | Publication Date: 1981 |
Satanic Verses
by Rushdie, Salman
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| Call Number: PR6068 .U757 S28 1997 | Publication Date: 1988 |
Catcher in the Rye
by Salinger, J. D.
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| Call Number: PS3537 .A426 C36 | Publication Date: 1951 |
Franny and Zooey
by Salinger, J. D.
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| Call Number: PS3537 .A426 F7 | Publication Date: 1961 |
The Jungle
by Sinclair, Upton
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| Call Number: PS3537 .I85 J8 | Publication Date: 1906 |
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Stein, Gertrude
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| Call Number: PS3537 .T323 Z52 1960 | Publication Date: 1933 |
Of Mice and Men
by Steinbeck, John
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| Call Number: PS3537 .T3234 O2 | Publication Date: 1937 |
The Grapes of Wrath
by Steinbeck, John
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| Call Number: PS3537 .T3234 G8 | Publication Date: 1933 |
Sophie's Choice
by Styron, William
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| Call Number: PS3569 .T9 S67 | Publication Date: 1979 |
The Lord of the Rings
by Tolkien, J. R. R.
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| Call Number: PR6039 .O32 L6 | Publication Date: 1954 |
Rabbit, Run
by Updike, John
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| Call Number: PS3571 .P4 R3 | Publication Date: 1960 |
Cat's Cradle
by Vonnegut, Kurt
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| Call Number: PS3572 .O5 C3 | Publication Date: 1963 |
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Vonnegut, Kurt
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| Call Number: PS3572 .O5 S6 | Publication Date: 1969 |
The Color Purple
by Walker, Alice
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| Call Number: PS3573 .A425 C6 | Publication Date: 1982 |
All the King's Men
by Warren, Robert Penn
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| Call Number: PS3545 .A748 A7 | Publication Date: 1946 |
Brideshead Revisited
by Waugh, Evelyn
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| Call Number: PR6045 .A97 B7 1979 | Publication Date: 1945 |
The War of the Worlds
by Wells, H. G.
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| Call Number: PR5774 W3 1983 | Publication Date: 1898 |
Age of Innocence
by Wharton, Edith
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| Call Number: PS3545 .H16 A35 | Publication Date: 1920 |
Ethan Frome
by Wharton, Edith
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| Call Number: PS3545 .H16 E73 1998 | Publication Date: 1911 |
Charlotte's Web
by White, E. B.
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| Call Number: PZ7 .W58277 CH | Publication Date: 1952 |
Bonfire of the Vanities
by Wolfe, Thomas
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| Call Number: PS3573 .O526 B6 1987 | Publication Date: 1987 |
Look Homeward, Angel
by Wolfe, Thomas
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| Call Number: PS3545 .O337 L6 | Publication Date: 1929 |
Mrs. Dalloway
by Woolf, Virginia
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| Call Number: PR6045 .O72 M7 | Publication Date: 1925 |
Orlando
by Woolf, Virginia
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| Call Number: PR6045 .O72 O7 | Publication Date: 1928 |
To the Lighthouse
by Woolf, Virginia
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| Call Number: PR6045 .O72 T6 | Publication Date: 1927 |
Native Son
by Wright, Richard
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| Call Number: PS3545 .R815 N3 | Publication Date: 1940 |
