Candide and Other Stories

Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolen…

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?" --…

Gulliver's Travels

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ISBN/ISSN

978014038240

Collation

345p; bw; pbk

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Call Number

823 SWI G

Vanity Fair : A Novel Without A Hero

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ISBN/ISSN

9780141195452

Collation

862p; bw; pbk

Series Title

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Call Number

823 THA V

Moby Dick

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ISBN/ISSN

9780062085641

Collation

588p; bw; pbk

Series Title

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Call Number

823 MEL M

Paradise Lost : Books 1 & 2

One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights.