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Everyman's library volume 230
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A Londoner encourages her secret fiancé to woo a wealthy American who is dying, so he will inherit her fortune and they can marry and be rich, but he becomes too guilt-ridden to accept the money
6) the Odyssey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
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Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the "complicated"...
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Initially conceived after reading the works of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who was known for his early studies of Native American culture, "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is an epic poem based on the legends of the Ojibwa Indians of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Written in 1855 in trochaic tetrameter, the tale is set in the picturesque Pictured Rocks area along the south shore of Lake Superior. The lyrical descriptions of this...
9) Jane Eyre
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Follows the journey of a poor orphan girl who overcomes cruelty, loneliness, starvation and heartbreak on her quest for independence. Her passionate romance with rich, brooding Mr. Rochester, and her discovery of his devastating secret, forces her to choose between love and self-respect.
10) The BFG
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first...
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In Boswell's 'Life of Samuel Johnson', one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. While Johnson's Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, we owe our knowledge of the man himself to this biography. Through a series of wonderfully detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure with a huge appetite for life, crossing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss -...
15) O pioneers!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Everyone knows that Hester Prynne's little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl's father. Hester's refusal to name him brings more condemnation upon her. But she stands strong in the face of public scorn, even when she is forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes--the scarlet letter "A" for "Adulteress."
17) The stranger
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Everyman's library volume 139
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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An ordinary man is unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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The story of an abandoned waif who discovers life and love in an indifferent world, this classic tale of childhood is populated with a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains who number among the author's greatest creation
19) Dubliners
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Everyman's library volume 49
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English
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Fifteen stories of early twentieth century Dublin
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