Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+4294967128 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110258 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1365627 The Foundation, established after the Old Empire gives way to barbarism, fights against a mutant strain called the Mule and tries to get rid of the Second Foundation after learning it will inherit a future Empire. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088369 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=979929 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=839337 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279996 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=829736 Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastians health deteriorates. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=829785 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279991 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=824295 A new translation of stories by a 19th century Russian master. One story is on a madman convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know, another is on a downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by a new overcoat. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=720655 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=726425 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=720654 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=720653 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=702433 Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the contemporary wasteland of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in Political Fictions - on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and compassionate conservatism, among others - show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=665015 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=702435 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=665305 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=703548 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=707997 Charles Dickenss first historical novel - set during the anti-Catholic riots of 1780 - is an unparalleled portrayal of the terror of a rampaging mob, seen through the eyes of the individuals swept up in the chaos. Those individuals include Emma, a Catholic, and Edward, a Protestant, whose forbidden love weaves through the heart of the story; and the simpleminded Barnaby, one of the riot leaders, whose fate is tied to a mysterious murder and whose beloved pet raven, Grip, embodies the mystical power of innocence. The story encompasses both the rarified aristocratic world and the volatile streets and nightmarish underbelly of London, which Dickens characteristically portrays in vivid, pulsating detail. But the real focus of the book is on the riots themselves, depicted with an extraordinary energy and redolent of the dangers, the mindlessness, and the possibilities - both beneficial and brutal - of the mob. One of the lesser-known novels, Barnaby Rudge is nonetheless among the most brilliant - and most terrifying - in Dickenss oeuvre.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298040 Chilean writer Isabel Allendes classic novel is both a symbolic family saga and the story of an unnamed Latin American countrys turbulent history. Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba familys passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280456 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=541048 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=544293 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=474478 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303810 A 1934 satirization of a segment of English society in which all the characters have money but few other qualities to recommend them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=415387 The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades. These stories are where Chandler honed his art and developed his vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories - in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around the cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famous detective Philip Marlowe - Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothic romance. This treasury of twenty-five stories shows Chandler developing the terse, laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces, and immerses the reader in the fictional universe that has become an enduring part of our literary landscape.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=415386 Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the day and exemplified an incisive prose style that is still universally admired. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwells famous discussion of pacifism, My Country Right or Left; his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in Shooting an Elephant; and his very firm opinion on how to make A Nice Cup of Tea. In his essays, Orwell elevated political writing to the level of art, and his motivating ideas - his desire for social justice, his belief in universal freedom and equality, and his concern for truth in language - are as enduringly relevant now, a hundred years after his birth, as ever.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=479010 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=538866 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1293847 Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updikes playfully irreverent alter ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. The Bech stories - here collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story, His Oeuvre - cast an affectionate eye on the famously unproductive Jewish-American writer, offering up a stream of wit, whimsy, and lyric pungency unmatched in American letters. From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naive, wry and avuncular, and always amorous, he is Updikes most endearing confection - a Lothario, a curmudgeon, and a winsome literary icon all in one. A perfect forum for Updikes limber prose, The Complete Henry Bech is an arch portrait of the literary life in America from an incomparable American writer.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=275719 From one of the 20th centurys great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Vladimir Nabokovs Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokovs life and times. A moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and emigre life in Paris and Berlin, Speak, Memory is Nabokov at his incomparable best. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1301738 Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Ripley, is soon to be released from Miramax starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, and Matt Damon. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=567085 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=528366 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=275933 Dickenss first novel -- and first masterpiece -- was published when he was 25, and is one of the great comic novels in English literature. It is a generous panorama of English life in the 1830s, a cornucopia of stories and vignettes featuring dozens of vividly drawn characters. Chief among them are Mr. Pickwick himself, a latter-day Don Quixote traveling about the country righting wrongs; and his Sancho Panza, Sam Weller, whose pithy sayings and bizarre anecdotes immediately became, and have remained, apart of the national mythology. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=767437 The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112812 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279935 In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean - a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert - Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516527 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=728812 One of Italys leading men of letters, a chemist by profession, writes about incidents in his life in which one or another of the elements figured in such a way as to become a personal preoccupation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=806333 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=500619 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765697 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=277900 This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279922 One of the most chilling novels ever written about the oppression of totalitarian regimes--and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalins prison camps, this book allowed Solzhenitsyn, who later became Russias conscience in exile, to challenge the brutal might of the Soviet Union. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=174791 With its extraordinary capacity to move its readers, Uncle Toms Cabin evoked a surge of indignation that contributed crucially to the abolition of slavery in America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=19017 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279978 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=175914 The author of The Stananic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction.--The Philadelphia Inquirer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=228929 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=125031 For the character of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, Dickens drew on a tragedy in his own life, the death at the age of seventeen of his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth. Five years later he wrote, the desire to be buried next her is as strong upon me now ... and I know (for I dont think there ever was love like that I bear her) that it will never diminish. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickenss creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters - the eloquent neer-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the Marchioness; the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilps brow-beaten mother-in-law, and Quilp himself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nells purity.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1293676 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=556985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529378 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=509669 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279965 Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, and impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevskys masterpieces, Crime And Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imagination. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=528036 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988983 Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events--the social alliances, the shopkeepers exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=439658 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=17492 In Conrads haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlows struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and values but the nature and values of his society. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=395033 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279912 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1001376 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=174795 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=16183 A classically shaped story about the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a man marked out for a complicated fate, The Mayor of Casterbridge, is an emblematic product of Hardys fictional maturity - vigorous, forceful, and unclouded by illusions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765702 Presents Dickens classic novel of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution. During the French Revolution a sissolute English lawyer goes to the guillotine to save a French aristocrat, husband of the woman he loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=159287 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=61724 Silas Marner, a simple, religious man, angrily retreats from his community and church when he is unjustly accused of theft. In an isolated cottage, Silas spends his days weaving cloth and his nights sifting through the piles of gold he obsessively accumulates. Then, one New Years Eve, a little girl, Eppie, appears at his home, and his life is miraculously transformed. Eliots timeless tale includes an Introduction by David Carroll. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=249087 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=16210 Henry James story of a pair of adulterous lovers who are married, respectively, to a rich American collector of European art and to his inexperienced daughter provides--beyond its expensive, burnished, beautifully appointed exteriors--an understanding of the risks and betrayals inherent in society that is unparalleled in literature. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=200964 The doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and it found its most brilliant realization in Robert Louis Stevensons story of Dr Jekyll, whose reckless genius allows him to bring his own appalling double to life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=297419 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279910 A classic account of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=225262 Vladimir Nabokovs novel about the poet John Shade and the demented Slavic scholar who worships him is an ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary in which is hidden a tale of madness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=176571 A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesnt experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs entirely to the woman whose name it bears, whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by a writer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765644 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=803295 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=27335 Chinua Achebes first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in peoples lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwos downfall results from his own character as well as from external forces.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1007320 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765682 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765717 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279906 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644961 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279973 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303808 When the silver mines of the South American republic of Costaguana are threatened by rebel forces, a brave captain, Nostromo, steps in and offers to bury the silver to ensure its safety. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=157297 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=528764 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=810063 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280427 Presents Hardys classic novel of two people caught up in their passion for each other and conflicting ambitions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=216993 Among the sacred books of India are the hymns of the Rig-Veda, the worlds first recorded poems, the stirring pantheistic speculations of the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad-Gita, a cosmic drama of Gods self-revelation in human history, on the field of human battle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=299026 Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, To The Lighthouse is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universality. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279909 The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1037919 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279907 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303807 Arthurs seduction of an innocent, young country girl results in remorse, suffering, and regret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=206705 While the totalitarianism that provoked George Orwell into writing Nineteen Eighty-Four seems to be passing into oblivion, his harrowing, cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate, and its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=29346 His deterministic tale of the havoc wrought by genetic inheritance, suggests, one of the great British masters of the novel of ideas. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=246513 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=116760 One of Lawrences most popular novels, this fascinating and disturbing sequel to The Rainbow depicts the emotional life of the Brangwen sisters. Set just after World War I, this prophetic masterpiece is filled with perceptions about sexual powers and sexual obsession now held to be timeless and true.