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The Wave
The Wave

The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long The Wave, with its rules of "strength through discipline, commu...

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Years of Grace
Years of Grace

Set in turn-of-the-century Chicago, this 1931 Pulitzer Prize winner follows the life of Jane Ward, from her first girlhood crush to the autumn of her life. Barnes reminds us that even the smallest decisions can make a carefully built life topple like a house of cards. This story will resonate deeply with anyone who has ever looked back and thought. What if?

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So Big
So Big

Winner of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber's crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.

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Andersonville
Andersonville

"The greatest of our Civil War novels."?The New York Times. The 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.

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Journey in the Dark
Journey in the Dark

In a sensitive and full dimensioned portrayal of American life, Martin Flavin has created a memorable character. By turns admirable, pitiable, tough, noble, weak, futile, and brilliantly effective, a lonely man going nowhere in the dark, Sam Braden mirrors thousands like him who have put their familiar stamp upon the American way of life. He wanted wealth, and he got it. He wanted to belong to ...

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Портрет Дориана Грея. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Портрет Дориана Грея. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Перед вами всемирно известный роман Оскара Уайльда "Портрет Дориана Грея". Несмотря на то, что роман написан в конце 19 в., по своей проблематике он остро современен потому, что его темы – Личность, мораль, ответственность, предрассудки – вечны. Текст произведения подготовлен для уровня 4 (т. е. для продолжающих учить английский язык верхней ступени) и снабжен комментариями. В конце книги дается а...

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Lamb in His Bosom
Lamb in His Bosom

In 1934, Caroline Miller's novel Lamb in His Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. It was the first novel by a Georgia author to win a Pulitzer, soon followed by Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind in 1937. In fact, Lamb was largely responsible for the discovery of Gone With the Wind; after reading Miller's novel, Macmillan editor Harold S. Latham sought other southern novels and authors...

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A Death in the Family
A Death in the Family

Told with great lyrical beauty and power, James Agee's novel is an exquisitely tender account of the pain and bewilderment of loss. Driving back home to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1915 after tending to a family emergency, Jay Follet is killed in a car accident. He leaves behind a wife and two small children, who must come to terms with his absence as the days after his death slowly unfold. "A Deat...

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In This Our Life
In This Our Life

This novel is an analytical study of the feeling of kinship as it is manifested in the Timberlake family, decayed aristocrats living in a souther city. The story of how two marriages are wrecked and a great wrong done to an innocent Negro boy, is told largely as it is viewed by Asa Timberlake, sixty years of age, husband of a hypochondriac wife, father of two daughters, one utterly selfish and fem...

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His Family
His Family

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare?s finesse to Oscar Wilde?s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as ...

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Honey in the Horn
Honey in the Horn

Honey in the Horn is a novel about life in the homesteading days of Oregon, 1906-1908. It is about the coming of age of an orphan boy named Clay Calvert, but it is also the about the trials of the pioneers who came to Oregon following the American Dream. Through the characters that Clay meets along the way, the author introduces the readers to the various occupations of the settlers of that era. (...

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The Store
The Store

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1933, The Store is the second novel of Stribling's monumental trilogy set in the author's native Tennessee Valley region of North Alabama. The novel's action begins in 1884, when Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War, and it centers about the emergence of Colonel Miltiades Vaiden as a figure of wealth and power in the ci...

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A Bell for Adano
A Bell for Adano

An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he teaches them democracy and searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists.

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The Able McLaughlins
The Able McLaughlins

This neglected novel tells the story of Wully McLaughlin coming home from the Civil War to find his sweetheart pregnant with another man?s child.

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Alice Adams
Alice Adams

Бут Таркингтон американский романист, драматург, а также художник-иллюстратор. Основные темы литературного творчества Таркингтона - появление класса "новых богатых" и изменение жизненных ценностей и нравов американского общества. Действие большинства книг разворачивается в родном краю писателя - на Среднем Западе США. В романе "Элис Адаме" нашли отражение обе излюбленные литератором темы. Расска...

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The Way West
The Way West

(The Big Sky #2) An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentiment...

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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

The Travels of Jamie McPheeters is the sweeping, romance-warmed story of the journey of a father and his son answering the lure of California gold in 1849. It was a harsh trip, often halted by cut-throats, Indians, disease, and murder yet a trip of pastoral beauty, full of wonder for an untrod land and awakening youg love. The novel carries you along as swiftly as it moves from crisis to cri...

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Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady
Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

Bromfield takes a close look at the Pentlands- a fictional rich family in New England- exposing the hypocrisy and ignorance behind their luxurious facade. Bromfield's eloquence when describing both his characters and their surroundings is breathtaking, and his accuracy in describing the characters' complicated emotions makes it apparent that he knows human nature very well. A fascinating study on ...

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The Road to Oz (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
The Road to Oz (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ever written in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other wor...

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The Moon Pool
The Moon Pool

2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in 1919, "The Moon Pool" is a fantasy novel by Abraham Merritt (1884-1943). It originally appeared as two short stories in "All-Story Weekly." The book is narrated by Dr. Walter T. Goodwin, an American botanist. It begins with his chance meeting of an old col...

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The Late George Apley
The Late George Apley

Book DescriptionSweeping us into the inner sanctum of Boston society, into the Beacon Hill town houses and exclusive private clubs where only the city's wealthiest and most powerful congregate, this novel gives us-through the story of one family and

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In Secret
In Secret