Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+7435&No=70 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=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=1277954 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753097 Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, the portly innocent embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. But can Pickwick retain his good will towards his fellow humans once he discovers the evils of the world? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=707555 When Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relations at Mansfield Park she seems shy and withdrawn beside her witty and vivacious cousins. But Fannys steadfast and purposeful character makes her an indispensable part of the household. As the others become entangled in a maze of flirtation and intrigue, it is only Fanny whose deep but secret love for Edmund Bertram remains true despite his fascination with her brilliant but frivolous cousin Mary. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=728787 A collection of five classic tales involving ghosts, vampires, haunted castles, and forbidden love presented in an illustrated format by prominent artists working in the fields of comics, book illustration, and fine arts. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280441 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=969626 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=671372 The story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=697127 For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War-era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces you to an unlikely team behind a church whose rock was the curb at 126th and Lenox. Essie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed live in adjoining tenement flats, adrift on public relief. Essie wants to somehow earn enough money to reunite with her daughter and provide her with a nice home; Laura loves young men, mink coats, and fine Scotch. On a day of inspiration, the friends decide to use a thrift-store tambourine and lay-away Bible to start a church. Their sidewalk services are a hit: Lauras a natural street performer who loves the limelight, while Essie is a charismatic singer with a quiet spirituality. Before long they move to a thousand-seat theater called the Tambourine Temple. The two women are joined in their ministering by Birdie Lee, the little-old-lady trap drummer who can work the congregation to a feverish pitch, and Deacon Crow-For-Day, an impassioned confessor. But then Laura falls for Buddy, a scam artist who suggests selling to the faithful lucky numbers from Scripture and bottles of tap water as Holy Water from the Jordan. Even with a Cadillac and piles of money from Laura, Buddy wont stay faithful, igniting a crime of passion and betrayal.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=671861 The story of Robert Jordan, an American fighting, during the Spanish Civil War, with the anti-fascist guerillas in the mountains of Spain. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=650560 Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299623 From the Publisher: The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century. This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper familys rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=671375 The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingways frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto--of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized--is one of the greatest moments in literary history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=709137 Since its publication in 1914, Dubliners has been arguably the most famous collection of short stories written in English. Through what James Joyce described as their style of scrupulous meanness, the stories collectively present a direct, sometimes searing view of the city of Dublin in the twentieth century. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gablers scholarly edition and includes Gablers edited text, his textual notes, and a newly revised version of his introduction, which details and discusses the complicated publication history of Dubliners. Explanatory annotations are provided by the volume editor, Margot Norris. Contexts is a rich collection of materials intended to bring Dubliners to life for twenty-first-century readers. The Irish capital of a century ago is captured through photographs, maps, songs, newspaper items, and advertising. Early versions of two of the stories and Joyces satirical poem about his publication woes provide additional background. Criticism includes eight interpretive essays that illuminate some of the stories most frequently taught and discussed -Araby, Eveline, After the Race, The Boarding House, Counterparts, A Painful Case, and The Dead. The contributors are David G. Wright, Heyward Ehrlich, Margot Norris, James Fairhall, Fritz Senn, Morris Beja, Roberta Jackson, and Vincent J. Cheng. A Selected Bibliography is also included.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1197080 The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbroughs meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been re-punctuated in accordance with Conrads style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlows voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. Backgrounds and Contexts provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring the Belgian Congo to life. Textual materials, topically arranged, address nineteenth-century views of imperialism and racism and include autobiographical writings by Conrad on his life in the Congo. New to the Fourth Edition is an excerpt from Adam Hochschilds recent book, King Leopolds Ghost, as well as writings on race by Hegel, Darwin, and Galton. Criticism includes a wealth of new materials, including nine contemporary reviews and assessments of Conrad and Heart of Darkness and twelve recent essays by Chinua Achebe, Peter Brooks, Daphne Erdinast-Vulcan, Edward Said, and Paul B. Armstrong, among others. Also new to this edition is a section of writings on the connections between Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now by Louis K. Greiff, Margot Norris, and Lynda J. Dryden. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=689858 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=678055 On a Bahamian island in 1940, an American artist welcomes his three sons and reflects on the futility of life during World War I. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=689276 A cynical boat owner who runs contraband shipments between Cuba and Key West during the 1930s gets involved in an unlikely love affair. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=762927 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=699180 Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood strengthens Janes natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she takes a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay with him and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving the man she loves? Jane Eyre (1847) shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a womans search for equality and freedom. In her introduction, Stevie Davies discusses the novels language and its literary influences. This edition also includes a chronology, further reading, an appendix and notes.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688320 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=831188 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=678053 Villette is the semi-autobiographical tale of Lucy Snowe. Left with no family and no money, Lucy goes against her own timid nature and travels to the small city of Villette, France, where she becomes a school teacher in Madame Becks school for girls.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280436 Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=685102 A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmers daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641203 Elie Wiesels true story of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War Two. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=669659 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1521357 A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resolves to find the secret of eternal life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279987 Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1661776 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=691987 One of renowned French author Honor de Balzacs finest works, Pre Goriot provides a fascinating glimpse into Parisian life of the early 19th century. The rich character studies and themes of class, personal ambition, and materiality make this insightful novel as compelling today as when it was first published.--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805651 In the small coastal city of Iran, Algeria, rats begin rising from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. And just as mysteriously as it appeared, the rodent problem seems to vanish. Shortly after, however, many local residents experience intense fevers and then perish--victims of the unseen menace of the bubonic plague. And as life in the town comes to a halt, the survivors attempt to come to terms with their own mortality and the rigors of isolation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=691986 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1066716 This rollicking novel is rife with unscrupulous politicians, colorful plutocrats, and blindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance, murder, and surefire deals gone bust. First published in 1873 and filled with unforgettable characters such as the vainglorious Colonel Sellers and the ruthless Senator Dilsworthy, The Gilded Age is a hilarious and instructive lesson in American history. -- From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=672640 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=671370 In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From Saurons fastness in the Dark Tower of Morder, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=603107 In 1938, after fifteen years in exile, Pietro Spina, a member of the Communist Party, returns to Italy disguised as a priest and finds truth and a meaningful way of life among peasants of the countryside of Abruzzi. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280458 A scientist who has discovered a way to make himself invisible unleashes his growing madness and frustrations by terrorizing a small town. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=582487 Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliels parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka. With his Jewish identity hidden, he survives the war, but in 1956, to escape the stranglehold of communism, he leaves Budapest after painfully parting with Ilonka. He settles in Vienna, then Paris, and finally, after a failed marriage, in New York, where he works as a ghostwriter, living through the lives of others. Eventually, he falls in with a group of exiles: a Spanish Civil War veteran, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, a victim of Stalinism, a former Israeli intelligence agent, and a rabbi - a mystic whose belief in the potential for grace in everyday life powerfully counters Gamaliels feelings of loss and dispossession. When Gamaliel is asked to help draw out an elderly, disfigured Hungarian woman who is barely able to communicate but who may be his beloved Ilonka, he begins to understand that a real life in the present is possible only if he will reconcile with his past.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=698189 A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Candide, his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is the best of all possible worlds. The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunegonde, tortured by the Inquisition, et cetera, all without losing his resilience and will to live and pursue a happy life. This Modern Library edition, published to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House, is a facsimile of the first book ever released under the Random House colophon. It includes the timeless illustrations by Rockwell Kent, a twentieth-century artist whose wit and genius serve as a counterpart and compliment to Voltaires.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280004 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741462 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=697137 First published in 1904, The Heart of Happy Hollow features sixteen short stories that provide rare glimpses into the lives of African Americans after the Civil War. Through characters ranging from schemers to preachers, Paul Laurence Dunbar crafted a rare snapshot of long-lost communities and their poignant sensibilities. An author who achieved remarkable versatility, he draws on language that is by turns folksy and formal, putting forth controversial vernacular dialects as easily as he delivers a hauntingly poetic scene. In this collection, readers meet an influential entrepreneur who must navigate a treacherous political landscape; a Southern spiritual leader who must learn to accept the mores of his son, who was educated in the North; a reporter who restores hope in Santa Claus to a group of destitute siblings; and a host of other unique men and women giving voice to timeless themes.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=704762 This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jacksons lifetime, unites The Lottery with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jacksons remarkable range - encompassing the hilarious and the horrible, the unsettling and the ominous - as well as her power as a storyteller.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116112 Containing the last 60 chapters of this epic Chinese work, ably translated by Brewitt-Taylor. In this second volume, we learn more of the rise of Jin, the fates of Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and how the near-century of strife caused by the fall of Han came to a close.--Back cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=837813 At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren familys bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addies life. As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren familys trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself. 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=694057 Willa Cathers My Antonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1372291 In the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flappers historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgeralds many short stories. This original volume includes notes, an appendix of essays by Fitzgerald and his contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations.--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=806179 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=632367 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=746584 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=663814 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1007740 A young mans encounter with an eccentric scientist on a lonely island leads to terror and a fight for survival. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1605127 When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=704557 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1007735 A young mans encounter with an eccentric scientist on a lonely island leads to terror and a fight for survival. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694563 A simple heart -- The legend of Saint Julian Hospitater -- Herodias. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=544624 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=535744 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=554051 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=482122 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=606188 Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home to Normandy from Paris when he first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and their paths cross and re-cross over the years. Through financial upheaval, political turmoil and countless affairs, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreaus life. Flaubert described his sweeping story of a young mans passions, ambitions and amours as the moral history of the men of my generation. Based on his own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education blends love story, historical authenticity and satire to create one of the greatest French novels of the nineteenth century. Geoffrey Walls fresh revision of Robert Baldicks original translation is accompanied by a new introduction discussing the personal and historical influences on Flauberts writing. This edition also contains a new chronology, further reading and explanatory notes.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=547889 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1113466 When adulteress Thrse and her lover Laurent murder her sickly husband Camille, the ghost of Camille haunts them after their marriage, transforming their passion for each other into hatred. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=552678 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=538263 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=551719 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=537471 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645032 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1172400 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279381 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=544623 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=551526 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=554681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561554 The first three works by Elie Wiesel are here brought together in one volume, where the terrifying truth of their vision, the stunning simplicity of their art, and the power of their unity achieve epic dimensions. Night, first published in 1960, is Wiesels true account of spiritual and national exile and one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. The adolescent Elie and his family, among hundreds of thousands of Jews from all parts of Eastern Europe, are cruelly deported from their hometown to the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day. In the short novel Dawn (1961), Elisha - the sole survivor of his family, whose immolation he witnessed at Auschwitz - has survived the Second World War and settled in Palestine. Apprenticed to a Jewish terrorist gang, he is commanded to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage. During the lonely hours before dawn, he meditates on the act of murder he is waiting to commit. In The Accident, (1962), Wiesels second novel, Elisha, now a journalist living in New York, is the victim of a nearly fatal automobile accident. This fiction questions the limits of the spirit and the self: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life without the memories of the old? As the author writes in his introduction, In Night it is the I who speaks; in the other two [narratives], it is the I who listens and questions. Wiesels trilogy offers meditations on mankinds attraction to violence and on the temptation of self-destruction.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765684 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=538264