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Top Books (Literary Collections)
1969
| A guide to reading "Macbeth" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. |
1981
| This collection of short stories includes "In a Grove," a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide; "Rashomon," the story of a thief scared into honesty by an encounter with a ghoul; and "Kesa and Morito," the story of man driven to kill someone he doesn't hate by a lover whom he doesn't love. |
1972
| Frankenstein is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothicism and the prototype of the twentieth-century science-fiction novel. It was conceived in the Swiss Alps in mid-June 1816 after a conversation about bringing corpses to life provoked a nightmare, and was written over the next eleven months in largely morbid circumstances. Death and the terrors of childbirth--as much as Romanticism, a burgeoning awareness of unconscious drives, and contemporary ideas of atheism, the collapse of the social ....[more] |
2007
| What an awesome journey to walk in another’s shoes! It’s a journey not for the faint of heart, especially if they are the shoes of a beloved mother. That walk is a rare opportunity to experience the life, if only for a brief moment, of someone who endured so much so that we could stand on firm ground enjoying what her hard work and sacrifice provided. Shoes are a symbol of a legacy of strength and faith in the face of uncertainty. As you slide your feet into the shoes of another, allow yourself ....[more] |
2009
| In this provocative collection of essays, edited by Nobel Prize-winner Morrison, writers speak out on the power of the written word. |
1996
| A new collection of tales of all creatures-bright and beautiful, great and small-from the pen of the world's most beloved veterinarian. Share Dr. Herriot's wonder and humor, his adventures and misadventures as he contends with pet owners and landowners; rough-spoken farmers and soft-spoken gentry; orphaned lambs, litters of piglets and puppies, cattle and draught horses; and miscellaneous cats and dogs including, of course, Mrs. Pumphrey's inimitable Pekinese, Tricki Woo. A perfect introduction ....[more] |
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