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A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz)) A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of t+E3he French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette. Book Author Charles Dickens ISBN 9798736424061 Number of Pages 488 Year of Publication 2021 Publisher Independently Published Category Novels  

Lolita The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl. Book Author Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ISBN 0783880804 Number of Pages 471 Year of Publication 1955 Publisher Thorndike Press Category Novels  

Heart of Darkness "Previous editions edited by Robert Kimbrough." Book Author Joseph Conrad and Paul B. Armstrong ISBN 9780393926361 Number of Pages 514 Year of Publication 2006 Publisher W. W. Norton Category Novels  

The Kite Runner Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. Book Author Khaled Hosseini ISBN 9781408824856 Number of Pages 337 Year of Publication 2011 Publisher A&C Black Category Novels  

The Stranger With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward. Book Author Albert Camus ISBN 9780307827661 Number of Pages 144 Year of Publication 2012 Publisher Vintage Category Fiction  

The Little Prince In the meeting of the narrator who has ditched his plane in the Sahara desert, and the little prince, who has dropped there through time and space from his tiny asteroid, comes an intersection of two worlds, the one governed by the laws of nature, and the other determined only by the limits of imagination. The world of the imagination wins hands down, with the concerns of the adult world often shown to be lamentably silly as seen through the eyes of the little prince. While adult readers can find deep meanings in his various encounters, they can also be charmed back to childhood by this wise but innocent infant. This popular translation contains the author's own delightful illustrations, bringing to visual life the small being at the tale's heart, and a world of fantasy far removed from any quotidian reality. It is also a sort of love story, in which two frail beings, the downed pilot and the wandering infant-prince who has left behind all he knows, share their short time together isolated from humanity and finding sustenance in each other. Book Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ISBN 9781840227864 Number of Pages 144 Year of Publication 2018 Publisher Wordsworth Collector's Editions Category Fiction  

The Book Thief #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. Book Author Markus Zusak ISBN 9780307433848 Number of Pages 578 Year of Publication 2007 Publisher Knopf Books for Young Readers Category Novels  

Gone with the Wind Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet. Source: Publisher Book Author Margaret Mitchell ISBN 9781416548942 Number of Pages 1476 Year of Publication 2008 Publisher Simon and Schuster Category Novels  

The Shining This inspiring and compelling book has won ten awards to date, including Honorable Mentions at the December 2012 New England and London Book Festivals, October 2012 Southern California Book Festival and June 2012 New York Book Festival in the category of Spiritual books; is winner of the North American Bookdealers ́ Exchange (NABE) Pinnacle Award for “Inspirational” books in Spring 2011; and has become a much sought-after reference for people seeking to affect positive change around the globe. Readers are: * taught how to recognize, harness and channel positive personal power for the betterment of themselves, their loved ones, associates and our universe * provided an invaluable checklist of great leadership behaviors and attitudes * taught how to recognize controlling behaviors of others and the negative patterns in society * inspired to be the best they can be * compelled to ask themselves "why am I here; what good can I do for humanity?" * taught how to recognize a self-limiting posture so they can improve their level of self-awareness......to the point of real self-intelligence and, by so doing, break free of life’s boxes, labels and restrictions * encouraged to erase their fears, trust their abilities and remove their baggage........and take the journey to empowerment and fulfilment in everything they do! Book Author Stephen King ISBN 9780743437493 Number of Pages 530 Year of Publication 2002 Publisher Simon and Schuster Category Novels  

Life of Pi Pi Patel, a zookeeper's son, sets sail for America with his family, but when the ship sinks, he finds himself lost at sea on a life boat with four animals, which eventually dwindle down to one-a hungry Bengal tiger. Book Author Yann Martel ISBN 9780739377956 Number of Pages 456 Year of Publication 2010 Publisher Random House Large Print Publishing Category Novels  

The Secret Garden Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. Read by Jenny Agutter. Book Author Frances Hodgson Burnett ISBN 9781402212444 Number of Pages 137 Year of Publication 2008 Publisher Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Category Fiction  

A Clockwork Orange In a cult classic that rivals Pulp Fiction for its portrayal of violence in the postmodern society, Anthony Burgess's drama is part horror farce, part social prophecy and part penetrating study of human choice between good and evil. Book Author Anthony Burgess ISBN 9780413735904 Number of Pages 101 Year of Publication 1998 Publisher A&C Black Category Fiction  

Slaughterhouse 5 As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Vonnegut tried to write about Dresden by the words would not come. When he did write about it, he combined his trademark humour, unfettered imagination, boundless humanity and keen sense of irony to create one of the most powerful anti-war books ever written. Fifty years on from first publication, Slaughterhouse Five remains unique in its wild storytelling, its powerful delivery of unavoidable truths, and its alchemy of love and tragedy. -- from jacket. Book Author Kurt Vonnegut ISBN 9781784874858 Number of Pages 256 Year of Publication 2019 Publisher Arrow Category Novels