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62) Jane Eyre
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Language
English
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Description
The literary masterpiece, introduced by contemporary novelist-of-manners Diana Johnson, is a quintessential love story where a bright, lonely, and steadfast young woman finds mystery, sorrow, and true love with the inimitable Mr. Rochester.
63) Adam Bede
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The stern and highminded hero, Adam Bede, loves the vain and selfish Hetty Sorrel, but their happiness is ruined when Hetty is seduced by a young squire.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological tragedies whose consequences are unravelled by the mind of Holmes before the eyes of Watson.
68) She
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
From the cover. "My empire is of the imagination." These are the words of Ayesha, the mysterious white queen of a Central African tribe, whose dread title, She-who-must-be-obeyed, testifies to her undying beauty and magical powers; but they serve equally well to describe the hold of her author, Henry Rider Haggard, on generations of readers. Writing "at white heat," and in the flush of success after the publication of King Solomon's Mines, Haggard...
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red's Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, the sagas recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik's son Leif the Lucky's perilous voyages...
72) Peter Pan
Author
Series
Publisher
Big & Small
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. Peter Pan lives in Neverland, where he is aided in his epic battles with Red Indians and pirates by the motherly and resourceful Wendy Darling.
73) Cinderella
Author
Series
Publisher
Big & Small
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Bright, cheerful colors and humorous characters bring this beloved classic back to life. The funky artwork will appeal to princesses and kids of all ages.
75) Puss in boots
Author
Series
Publisher
Big & Small
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Presents a retelling of the cat who helps his owner, the youngest of three sons, luck his way into a wife and a castle.
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Series
Publisher
Skyhook Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The storyteller stands beside the fire, swaying, dancing, miming, singing, reciting. With one hand he shakes a gourd rattle, with the other he swings a conga — a flyswatter made with a buffalo tail on a wooden handle. Anklet bells tinkle as he moves. Three young men beat a wooden drum with sticks.
Listening to him is a crowd of men, women, and children. They sing along at a song's refrain, they repeat whole lines of the story when