Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+7435+7265 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=1365427 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279997 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=756321 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=935235 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1314147 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1363407 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=1235991 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280917 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=752239 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277954 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=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=641203 Elie Wiesels true story of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War Two. 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=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=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=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=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=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=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=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=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=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=806179 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=537471 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=551719 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=521056 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279952 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=521047 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991059 In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=510609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=767436 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511248 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1235969 Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government, considered a Negative Utopia, watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1001576 After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine. This edition uses the text as it appeared in its first serial publication in 1859 to convey the full scope of Dickenss vision, and includes the original illustrations by H.K. Browne (Phiz). Richard Maxwells introduction discusses the intricate interweaving of epic drama with personal tragedy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=469666 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=998279 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=543495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511244 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=522870 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511259 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511422 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511226 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511228 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=476223 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=522860 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279954 A poignant tale of childhood and the ties of family, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn will transport the reader to the early 1900s where a little girl named Francie dreamily looks out her window at a tree struggling to reach the sky. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=508815 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511245 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=382077 First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthornes defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values, replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a mysterious and terrible past and the generations linked to it, Hawthornes chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Olivers words, lives caught in the common fire of history.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=481783 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=1279947 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279945 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279944 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511225 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=395014 Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoes adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow. Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants, and constructing a modest home for himself. But his solitary existence is threatened when he discovers - in one of the most memorable moments in literature - another footprint in the sand. Robinson Crusoe is more than a great yarn, it is an allegory rife with moral and religious symbolism and significance, seen through the eyes of an ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=445511 Based on an actual criminal case, An American Tragedy was the inspiration for the award-winning film A Place in the Sun. This book, the only paperback edition of Dreisers masterpiece, features an Introduction by Richard Lingeman, one of the foremost experts on Theodore Dreiser. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=464227 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=333119 Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches the forest from her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her most private spaces and confound her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, another web of lives unfolds as Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmers wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the complexities of a world neither of them expected. Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes a green and profligate countryside, these characters find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one part of life on earth.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529902 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749111 During an eventful social season at Bath, the charmingly imperfect Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey, the mysterious country home of the sophisticated Tilney family. There she believes she has discovered all the trappings of a gothic novel, and she imagines the worst. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=469439 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511450 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=395046 The Centenary Edition includes the two celebrated Alice stories together with Carrolls manuscript version, Alices Adventures under Ground - the germ of Alices Adventures in Wonderland - for the first time; reprints Carrolls essay Alice on the Stage written for The Theatre in 1887; and is the most comprehensive annotated edition available. Carrolls delightful nonsense books provide readers of all ages with a double window on the wonderlands of childhood and adulthood. Undisputed childrens classics, they are also, as Hugh Haughton writes in his introduction, two of the most original, experimental works of literary fiction in the nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition also includes all of Tenniels illustrations along with a selection from Carrolls own pencil illustrations for Alices Adventures under Ground.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729849 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511216 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=352934 Generally considered to be Londons greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. White Fang (1906), which London conceived as a complete antithesis and companion piece to The Call of the Wild, is the tale of an abused wolf-dog tamed by exposure to civilization. Also included in this volume is To Build a Fire, a marvelously desolate short story set in the Klondike, but containing all the elements of a classic Greek tragedy.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116411 A young reporters life in the 1950s. Paul Kemp breaks into the profession on a newspaper in Puerto Rico and through his eyes are portrayed colorful characters in the days when newspapers flourished. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=295182 Written in gritty, journalistic detail, The Naked and the Dead follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailers age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=284351 Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. He was a nigger in a white mans world, and his crimes upset the whole of Chicago. He killed his first young victim in an unpremeditated moment of panic--and found himself caught up by forces outside his control and understanding. But at last he felt alive. He felt a sense of freedom and identity in his acts of violence that neither his woman. Bessie, with her whiskey, nor his mother, with her religion, had been able to give him. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wrights powerful novel is just as meaningful today as when it was written, both in its unsparing reflection of the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and in what it means to be black in America. An undisputed classic since it was first published in 1945. Native Son has sold close to three million copies. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511237 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279932 By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingways story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516527 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279927 The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=249967 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickenss great historical novel, set against the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the authors novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes - imprisonment, injustice, and social anarchy, resurrection and the renunciation that fosters renewal.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=433846 A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned--a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. Available in April. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=153273 Equality 7-2521 lives in the Dark Ages of the future, when all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, all traces of individualism have been wiped out. But the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in Equality 7-2521s breast, though he doesnt know what to call his passion to think and choose for himself, other than sinful. In a world where he is punished for being better than his brothers, he finds a tunnel from ancient times where he can be by himself to write and think. He discovers electricity - and the miracle of the love that a man can have for a woman. Equality 7-2521 comes close to losing his life for this because his knowledge was regarded as a treacherous blasphemy. In a world where the crowd is one - a great WE, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word - I. This 50th Anniversary edition of Ayn Rands powerful novel includes a new Introduction by Ayn Rands heir, Leonard Peikoff. It contains excerpts from documents - letters, interviews, and journal notes - by Ayn Rand in which she discusses Anthem. The Appendix reproduces the entire original British edition with Ayn Rands handwritten editorial changes.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=167473 The most famous and important novel in South Africas history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Patons impassioned novel about a black mans country under white mans law is a work of searing beauty. Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=179420 Called a perfect novel by Harold Bloom, Persuasion was written while Jane Austen was in failing heath. She died soon after its completion, and it was published in an edition with Northanger Abbey in 1818. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=125880 Hemingways triumphant yet tragic story of an old Cuban fisherman and his relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream combines the simplicity of a fable, the significance of a parable, and the drama of an epic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=20223 Magnificently restored to include all of Fitzgeralds own revisions, manuscript notes, and corrected proofs, this definitive edition presents Fitzgeralds masterpiece as the author himself intended it. The timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely acknowledged to be the closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434005 Jane Eyre is Charlotte Brontes most enduring masterpiece, the unforgettable tale of an orphan girls ardent search for a wider and richer life. Originally published in 1847, it was an immediate popular success, but it also caused a storm of controversy. Brontes firm insistence on the equality of the sexes and her prescient creation of one of literatures most independent heroines shocked many of her contemporaries. This surprisingly modern sensibility, combined with Brontes magical use of language and her incandescent storytelling, makes the novel particularly rewarding and accessible today. Set in Englands lonely moors and peopled with such memorable characters as the brooding Mr. Rochester, passionate yet melancholy, and the keeper of a terrible secret; the hypocritical Mr. Brocklehurst, a dour black marble clergyman; Helen Burns, Janes beloved but doomed young friend; Bertha, the famous madwoman in the attic; and of course, its incomparable heroine, Jane Eyre has rightfully taken its place among our greatest literary works. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749792 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1346878 House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory are included with the tale of a fun-loving amoral playgirl in New York City. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=144803 The Fountainhead, possibly the most influential and controversial novel of ideas in American history, presents a philosophy of vital interest to anyone seeking an understanding of our present-day culture. As relevant and exciting now as it was for those who clamored to read it when it burst upon the scene in 1943, this book continues to focus worldwide attention on its brilliant author, who pointedly asks, Is it possible to be an individual in todays world? Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=123314 In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=170959 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=96630 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=763253 When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Puddnhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=16165 Sony brings this powerful and moving story of love and redemption to the big screen in a major motion picture starring Liam Neeson, Uma Thurman, Academy Award-winner Geoffrey Rush, and Claire Danes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=78420 This edition of Moby-Dick, released in honor of the books sesquicentennial, is the authoritative text of one of the worlds great adventure stories. A crew of whalers sets out in pursuit of a fierce white whale that cost their captain his leg on a previous expedition. Their names ring through the canon of American literature: Ishmael, the narrator; Queequeg, a South Seas harpooner; Starbuck, the sober and serious chief mate; and above all Captain Ahab, part Faust and part Job, leading his men to the ends of the earth - and the destiny he will share with his foe. Melville was heavily influenced and inspired by his experiences as a young cabin boy on the whaler Acushnet and later in the U. S. Navy sailing the Atlantic and the South Seas. His novel Typee and its sequel, Omoo, are accounts of his capture and subsequent captivity at the hands of a tribe of cannibals in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. Both works were highly successful, and thus the lukewarm reaction to Moby-Dick upon its release in 1851 was a blow to Melville, who had set out to write a mighty book on a mighty theme. It was not until the 1920s that Moby-Dick began to receive the critical attention it deserved. Today Moby-Dick is recognized as one of the premier American epics and indeed the ultimate tale of obsession and revenge. This text of Moby-Dick is an Approved Text of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association of America).--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=196534 The 1934 text, as corrected and reset in 1961. Ulysses is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It was not easy to find a publisher in America willing to take it on, and when Jane Jeap and Margaret Anderson started printing extracts from the book their literary magazine The Little Review in 1918, they were arrested and charged with publishing obscenity. They were fined $100, and even The New York Times expressed satisfaction with their conviction. Ulysses was not published in book form until 1922, when another American woman, Sylvia Beach, published it in Paris for her Shakespeare & Company. Ulysses was not available legally in any English-speaking country until 1934, when Random House successfully defended Joyce against obscenity charges and published it in the Modern Library. This edition follows the complete and unabridged text as corrected and reset in 1961. Judge John Woolseys decision lifting the ban against Ulysses is reprinted, along with a letter from Joyce to Bennett Cerf, the publisher of Random House, and the original foreword to the book by Morris L. Ernst, who defended Ulysses during the trial.