Mr. Britling Sees it Through  |
| H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1917.
"Beyond question the greatest novel of the year" -- New York Times 1916
Tells the story of how Mr. Britling makes it though World War I.
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| Nicholas Nickleby |
| Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) |
An idealistic young man, the title character of Nicholas Nickleby is left to find work and to support and protect his mother and sister after his father's death leaves them penniless. After his cold-hearted Uncle Ralph turns down his pleas for help, Nicholas Nickleby is left to find his own way, opening him up to all manner of queer folk, rogues and scoundrels. Dickens shows himself not only to be a literary genius but a comic one as well. |
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| Old Indian Legends |
| Zitkala-Sa (1876 - 1938) |
Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird) 1876 - 1938 was born and raised on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota. She lived a traditional lifestyle until age eight when she left for Quaker school. Old Indian Legends is a collection of folktales that she gathered during her visits home to the reservation. |
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| Robinson Crusoe |
| Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) |
Published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. A fictional autobiography of an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote island, encountering savages, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. Novelist James Joyce said: "He is the true prototype of the British colonist... The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity". |
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| Ruth |
| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 - 1865) |
Ruth Hilton, a young orphaned seamstress, becomes involved with Harry Bellingham - a gentleman who ultimately deserts her, leaving a terrible legacy. Ruth copes and begins to re-build her life, only to re-encounter Harry. The honest portrayal of Ruth and her illegitimate child were a challenge to the views of the society when it was written in 1853. |
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| Tarzan 1: Tarzan of the Apes |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950) |
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| Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
| Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) |
The novel tells the story of Tess whose fate is changed when her ne'er-do-well father tries to improve the family fortune via a misguided association with a local well to do family. Hardy's writing produces such empathy for Tess that one is compelled to continue reading even though it is unbearable to imagine where the story will go. |
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