The Railway Children

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9780194791281

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72p.

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Great First World War

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9780753727218

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Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin enters their household as a "hired girl", Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives…

The House of Mirth

n The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century. The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from …

The Age of Innocence

Newland Archer and May Welland have just announced their engagement to New York society, and the match seems perfect -- until Archer meets Countess Olenska, a sharp, beautiful woman in the midst of a divorce . . . it's for good reason this book won Edith Wharton Pulitzer Prize. "Is it -- in this world -- vulgar to ask for more? To entreat a little wildness, a dark place or two in the soul?" --…

The Age of Innocence

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9780194792165

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104p; ill; bw; pbk

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Oxford Bookworms 5

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Ethan Frome

from the back cover: Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silver, a young cousin, comes to live with the Fromes, to help Zeena and do the ho…

Five Children and It

from the back cover: When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said. But wishes are difficult…

On The Day I Got My Period: Stories From Around The World Paperback

Did you have a lonely or scary first period? Do you want something different for your daughter? Unsatisfied with her own first period, the author of On The Day I Got My Period sent a request to her friends around the world to share stories about their first periods. She asked them to focus on the emotions of menstruation and not sexuality. In response, she got unique, interesting stories with m…

Brainy Baby

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1-59394-781-X

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