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Unabridged English value reproduction of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe in response to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the book was the most popular novel of the 1800’s. A fable based in reality, it dramatizes the plight of slaves through many memorable and idealized characters.
2) Little women
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The classic story of the March family whose 4 daughters are growing up in New England in the mid-1800s. There are numerous sequels, for example, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Annotation. Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during...
3) Roughing it
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Twain's record ("a personal narrative") of his travels in the West, as civil servant, gold prospector, reporter, and lecturer. He met people famous and obscure, from Brigham Young to a farmer who sought advice on turnips.
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The Mississippi River, known as "America's river," and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. The popularity of Twain's steamboat and steamboat pilot on the ever-changing Mississippi has endured for over a century.
A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life on the Mississippi evokes the great river that Mark Twain knew as a boy and young man and the
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Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy D'Urberville "cousins," Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded, she finds work as a milkmaid, and her steadfast integrity is finally rewarded by the love of Angel Clare. Yet Angel's idealized love cannot withstand the truth about Tess's past; he abandons her to poverty and hardship, which she accepts as her just desserts, until Alec reappears.
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"'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' With this famous declaration Jane Austen launches into the story of the five Bennet sisters. It is a story that on first reading is full of suspense, surprise and, ultimately, satisfaction, and which on re-reading commands a deeper admiration for the author's remarkable skill in managing a deceptively complex plot to its triumphant...
11) Treasure Island
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An innkeeper's son finds a treasure map that leads him to a pirate's fortune. Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. "Treasure Island" has enthralled readers for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are pieces of folklore for as long as children read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. Illustrations.
12) My Antonia
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"Captures intact the strengths and passions of the early settlers of the prairie and their spiritual attachment to the land."
15) Lost horizon
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Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people is hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
16) The yearling
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"An instant bestseller when it was published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize winner has been beloved by readers of all ages for the last eighty years. Set in the 1870s, this classic story of one family and their wild, hard, and satisfying life in remote central Florida is a rich and varied tale. The Yearling is tender in its understanding of childhood, filled with excitement of the backwoods hunt and vivid descriptions of the countryside, and written...
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First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...
18) Jane Eyre
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
19) Oliver Twist
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The adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.