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

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Call Number

823 THA V

The Ransom of Red Chief

from the back cover: Bill and Sam arrive in the small American town of Summit with only two hundred dollars, but they need more and Sam has an idea for making a lot of money. When things start to go very wrong, both men soon regret their visit - and their idea.

Moby Dick

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ISBN/ISSN

9780062085641

Collation

588p; bw; pbk

Series Title

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Call Number

823 MEL M

Persuasion

from the back cover: At nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, persuaded to do so by Lady Russell, a friend of her dead mother. Wentworth is a sailor, with no money and an uncertain future, says Lady Russell - just a nobody, certainly not worthy of a baronet's daughter. Eight years later Wentworth returns, a rich and successful captain, looking for a wi…

Kidnapped

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194791205

Collation

72p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Bookworms 3

Call Number

STE

Tales from Longpuddle

from the back cover: Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the …

Paradise Lost : Books 1 & 2

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

Huckleberry Finn

from the back cover: Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who …