Eugenie Grandet  |
| Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850) |
Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet? Enter one cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Set in provincial France in the aftermath of the French Revolution, Eugenie Grandet is a tale of a father's financial cunning and miserliness pitched against a daughter's determination to rebel. |
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| Far From the Madding Crowd |
| Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) |
Young, beautiful, proud and independent, Bathsheba Everdene moves to rural England to live with her aunt and uncle. A young and loyal shepherd, an older gentleman farmer and a dashing Sergeant all vie for her affections. But changes in fortune and circumstances as much as her own pride and independence, thwart her efforts to find true love and happiness. Thomas Hardy is well known for both his sensational story telling and evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes for good reason. |
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| Imitation of Christ |
| Thomas A Kempis (1380 - 1471) |
Widely considered one of the greatest manuals of devotion in Christianity it has inspired conversion and stimulated religious devotion for over five hundred years. It is praised by both Protestants and Roman Catholics, and counted among the Jesuit "exercises". |
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| Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato |
| Thomas Taylor / Plato (427BC - 348BC) |
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| No Name |
| Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) |
When published in 1862 it was condemned by critics as immoral, today it is regarded as a novel of outstanding social insight. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover that their parents were not married at the time of their birth and that they are, therefore, illegitimate. They are disinherited and expelled from their family estate. They either adapt to their new station in life, or attempt to recover their wealth by any means... |
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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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| Pygmalion |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
Shaw uses a re-telling of Ovid's classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his statue of the perfect woman to promote his feminist views and satirize the British class system. In the play Professor Higgins plans to present the cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a duchess. Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised Edwardian audiences in 1914. The actress who played the role of Eliza was considered to have risked her career by speaking the line "Not bloody likely!". Later used as the basis for the film MyFair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn. |
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