Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6639&N=7435 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736040 First published as four separate novels, Parades End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends into the chaos of war. Christopher Tietjens is an officer from a wealthy family who finds himself torn between his unfaithful socialite wife, Sylvia, and his suffragette mistress, Valentine.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734443 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733166 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1482170 Picking up where Trick Baby left off we dive into the world of Johnny OBrien, better known as White Folks. After learning to use his fair skin to his advantage to rise to the top of the Chicago con game, Folks is back for the big money and the big stakes of the long con. Following the death of his partner and mentor, Blue, Folks takes off for Canada. Having honed his skills and polished his acting, Johnny is done cheating marks out of small money. With a gang of grifters working with him, High Pockets Kate, High Ass Marvel and the Vicksburg Kid among them, Folks is after the biggest score of his life--Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629624 When a wounded American volunteer ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I falls in love with an English nurse they try to find some sanctuary in a world gone mad with war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748075 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743000 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1289616 After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett OHara sets about to salvage her plantation home. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392363 A searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman is the iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1382055 A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s, learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1283904 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1209587 As a result of a divorce and the recession, Joanie, her teenage daughter, Caroline, and her elderly mother, Ivy, try to live under the same roof without going completely crazy and learn that the past can sometimes be undone. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249353 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393445 When General Macbeth is foretold by three witches that he will one day be King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth convinces him to get rid of anyone who could stand in his way--including committing regicide. As Macbeth ascends to the throne through bloody murder, he becomes a tyrant consumed by fear and paranoia.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1454686 An annotated version of the classic story of the boy who never grows up includes period photos and a discussion of the tales controversial history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538065 Set in the mid-1950s, The World of Suzie Wong is a beautifully written time capsule of a novel. First published more than 50 years ago, it resonated with readers worldwide, inspiring a film, a ballet, and even a reggae song. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277957 Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=4040 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277953 Two of Dickens novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364139 Sebastian Dangerfield leaves his family in Dublin and journeys to London for a life of leisure and vice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695438 Lord Emsworths time with his prized pig, the Empress of Blandings, is cut short when he gets entangled in the trials of his family and their self-invited guests, which include a stolen painting, imposters, and complicated love affairs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681611 Presents an allegorical account of Christians journeys towards the Celestial City from the City of Destruction. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279998 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1550697 Georges Duroy is a down-and-out journalist from a humble background who engineers a stunning rise to the top of Parisian society through his relationships with influential and wealthy women. Making the most of his charm and good looks (his admirers nickname him Bel ami), Duroy exploits the weaknesses of other to his own advantage--in the process betraying the woman who has most selflessly supported him--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=947460 First published in 1936, this book is a historical novel set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War. It tells the love story of Scarlett OHara and Rhett Butler. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112809 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991433 The complete collection of Aesops fables. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1041794 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=942386 Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teachers fierce intellect and sense of discipline. When Narcissus persuades the young student that he is not meant for a life of self-denial, Goldmund sets off in pursuit of aesthetic and physical pleasures, a path that leads him to a final, unexpected reunion with Narcissus. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=946962 Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the kings purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=935219 A young Victorian Englishwoman runs from love in Florence, but returns to England where she must be taught how to listen to her heart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279996 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=934670 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1193134 Humbert Humbert attempts to justify his love for and obsession with the barely adolescent Dolores Haze, known as Lolita. Humberts cross-country flight with his adored nymphet ends with her betrayal of him with his rival, the evil Quilty, who pursues Lolita not out of love but out of lust and selfishness, and who functions as a kind of double for the more pure-hearted (if perverse) Humbert. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1346953 Jules Vernes pioneering classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher, written in runes, tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own. So with his nephew reluctantly in tow, the Professor follows this cryptic clue down into a dormant volcano, and the further they descend, the more extraordinary the discoveries and creatures that they encounter, the greater the dangers, and the more ancient the living past that surrounds them. This new translation by Frank Wynne is accompanied by an introduction on the science of Vernes work and its influences. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and suggested further reading.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279997 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1283909 Two classic novels are included in a single volume, first, Miss Lonelyhearts, about a newspaper reporter seeking to avoid writing an agony column, with only his cynical editor Shrike in the way, the second, The Day of the Locust, about Tod Hackett, who pines for a role in the film industry, only to discover the emptiness of Hollywoods inhabitants. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1343005 A teacher at a girls school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorities because of her unorthodox teaching methods. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112808 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1078584 The story of Tommy Wilhelm, an honest, hard-working man who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and part of his sanity as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993187 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836923 An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, its formal innovation, formerly taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution have exerted their influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J.G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally. This restored text includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs notes on the text, and several essays he wrote over the years about the book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=939473 Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teachers fierce intellect and sense of discipline. When Narcissus persuades the young student that he is not meant for a life of self-denial, Goldmund sets off in pursuit of aesthetic and physical pleasures, a path that leads him to a final, unexpected reunion with Narcissus. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1327397 James controversial novel probes the mind of an American heiress as she becomes aware of the affair between her husband and her fathers young wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=974950 Kim is the son of an Irish soldier born under British Imperial rule in 19th century India. Left in the care of a half-caste woman, Kim is free to explore the back allies and bazaars of Lahore . But when he meets with his fathers old regiment he trades his native clothes for European suits and abandons his free wheeling life for the trappings of a secret agent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1007694 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=998735 More than just a simple tale of the supernatural, James poses questions about childhood innocence, corruption and hysteria. The story focuses on a nave governess who takes charge of two children at the lonely house of Bly. When she begins to see ghosts, she believes that the children do too, with devastating consequences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1365427 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696556 For 120 years, an ideal society has flourished on a Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesnt expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and give him hope. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993877 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1150015 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1474095 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=790148 A retelling of Homers epic that describes the wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=963682 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1314147 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1275830 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805655 A friends mother, war, and newly discovered self-respect draw a young man toward his psychological awakening. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804913 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304297 The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel recounts the story of a Midwestern physician who is forced to give up his profession due to the ignorance, corruption, and greed of society. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=810933 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804885 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053305 The relationship between a middle-class woman and a coal miner is observed in this highly-studied piece of literature. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=776386 Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austens first published novel, is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804914 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=826336 Charles Dickens classic tale of orphan Philip Pirrip. Struggling to grow into a gentleman, Philip faces many truths about the world around him and ultimately himself as his expectations are tested and questioned. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=946963 The sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Through the looking-glass, finds Alice in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804915 A headstrong young womans life becomes entwined with three disparate men: a dashing soldier, a wealthy landowner, and a sheep farmer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804903 Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804674 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=752239 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1363407 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999413 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=766505 Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1235991 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836950 The daughter of an imprisoned debtor suffers injustices of nineteenth-century English society. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=935235 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968428 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=752231 In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer, who has a terrible secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1327396 Sent to Paris by a wealthy matron to retrieve her son, Strether becomes sidetracked by an intriguing complication. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=789160 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=886089 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280461 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279993 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=756321 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1204170 Presents the title story about the curious case of a baby, born in 1860, who begins life as an old man and who proceeds to age backward, accompanied by eighteen other stories set against the backdrop of Jazz Age America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=790165 This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies, but against the woman he loves? This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies, but against the woman he loves? With one part of reason, one tries to reject the grim horror of the portrait drawn of the final bastion of the once free world falling into a new sort of Dark Ages. The sins of the power magnates are taking their toll. In terror over the threat to their security contained in the ruthless drive of a few leaders of industry, they sell out their initiative, their imagination, their creative powers, their right to independence of thought and action to government, in exchange for imagined security of regulation and strangulation. The thinkers, the creators, the doers, the free spirits fade out of the picture; those who remain label them deserters and traitors. But a few of them, under the leadership of the freest spirits, lay the groundwork for a new social order. Their philosophy has much that will shock the conventional; their oath -- ...I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine -- seems to contain a negation of the code of humanity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=790166 This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies, but against the woman he loves? With one part of reason, one tries to reject the grim horror of the portrait drawn of the final bastion of the once free world falling into a new sort of Dark Ages. The sins of the power magnates are taking their toll. In terror over the threat to their security contained in the ruthless drive of a few leaders of industry, they sell out their initiative, their imagination, their creative powers, their right to independence of thought and action to government, in exchange for imagined security of regulation and strangulation. The thinkers, the creators, the doers, the free spirits fade out of the picture; those who remain label them deserters and traitors. But a few of them, under the leadership of the freest spirits, lay the groundwork for a new social order. Their philosophy has much that will shock the conventional; their oath -- ...I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine -- seems to contain a negation of the code of humanity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753117 Victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy, Tess is a woman whose intense vitality flares unforgettably against the bleak background of a dying rural society. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and indelibly poignant beauty. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=762921 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1346881 A 1908 novel that presents a portrait of English provincial life through the story of two sisters, Constance, who marries her fathers chief assistant and remains at home her entire life, and Sophia, who elopes to Paris with an irresistible, unscrupulous traveler. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=748962 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=708717 This is a self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of Hemingways final African safari to Kenya with his wife, Mary, and son, Patrick. The whole family is caught up in Marys pursuit of a black-maned lion and Hemingway wants to take Debba, an African girl, as his second bride. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=748966 A symbolistic study of the tyranny of modern social systems. Portrays the experiences of a young man who is mysteriously arrested by agents of the police for an unspecified crime and is prepared for questioning and trial. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=732835 1984, the world is a power-play and contemporary man is a non-entity controlled and watched by Big Brother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688247 Declared worthless and dehumanizing by the novelist and critic James Baldwin in 1955, Uncle Toms Cabin has lacked literary credibility for over fifty years. Now, in a refutation of Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and his coeditor, Hollis Robbins, affirm the literary transcendence of Harriet Beecher Stowes 1852 masterpiece. As Gates and Robbins underscore, there has never been a single work of fiction that had a greater effect on American history than Uncle Toms Cabin. Expanding on recent scholarship and providing a new, African-American perspective, Gates and Robbins discuss how Baldwin got it wrong, and that the time seems right for a reassessment both of the novel and of James Baldwins critique, itself by now a part of the canon. Deciding to reprint the entire Stowe text, they reinvigorate this classic American story, allowing the modern reader to understand how entrenched racism came to distort both our perception of the characters as well as the meaning of the original novel. New readers will be moved by the story of Eliza Harris, the young slave mother who escapes from the Shelby plantation in Kentucky to avoid being sold away from her child, but they will also learn how Stowe had to whiten the character of Eliza in order to offset Elizas marital sexuality. In retracing Toms stoic journey from Kentucky to the grand mansion of Augustine St. Clare in New Orleans, to Simon Legrees hellish plantation, we will also watch as generations of illustrators simultaneously emasculated the character of Tom in his scenes with Little Eva, while underscoring his inner strength as hes whipped by Legree and dies a martyrs death. Gates and Robbins have compiled a comprehensive set of images that span the entire published history of the book. Original woodcuts and illustrations, advertisements, cartoons, rare prints, posters, paintings, photographs, and movie stills show the pervasive influence of Uncle Toms Cabin on American history and pop culture. Along with these images and the introductory essay, Gates and Robbins have richly edited the original text with hundreds of annotations illuminating life in the South during nineteenth-century slavery, the abolitionist movement and the influential role played by devout Christians, the life story of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Underground Railroad, Stowes literary motives, her writing methods, and the novels wide-ranging impact on the American public.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=726792 Love is blind, fickle and true. Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged to Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titanias band or Oberons, so Oberon tries to get the boy from her by using some magic. Lysander and Hermina meet in the forest. Helena and Demetrius are there as well. There are actors practicing a play for the upcoming wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit more confused. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=762918 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277954