Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+7517+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=4040 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=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=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=1279998 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=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=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=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=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=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=1314147 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279993 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280461 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=748962 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=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=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=620341 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=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=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=691986 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=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=741462 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=511248 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=521047 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=4308 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=510609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=767436 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=521056 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280000 Set in 17th-century Puritan New England, this story of illicit passion, guilt and punishment revolves around the beautiful and mysterious Hester Prynne. She is condemned to wear a scarlet letter as a sign of her adultery, and it has a strange and disturbing effect upon those around her - neighbours, husband, lover and child. The student will find a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1111803 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434475 Written at the height of his powers, these three novels from the 1920s continue the vigorous unmasking of the pretenses and hypocrisies of American middle-class life that Sinclair Lewis began in Main Street and Babbitt. The social sweep and descriptive power of Lewiss fiction earned him international recognition as a chronicler of his times, and in 1930 he was awarded the Nobel Prize, the first American thus honored. In Arrowsmith (1925) Lewis portrays the medical education and career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician who finds his committment to the ideals of his profession tested by the greed and opportunism he encounters in private practice, public health work, and scientific research. The novel reaches its climax as its hero faces his greatest medical and moral challenges amid a deadly outbreak of plague on a Caribbean island Arrowsmith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, which Lewis refused to accept. Elmer Gantry (1927) aroused intense controversy with its brutal depiction of a hypocritical preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Through his satiric examination of evangelical religion, Lewis captures the growing cultural and political tension during the 1920s between the forces of secularism and fundamentalism. Gantry, with his glib eloquence and behind-the-scenes self-indulgence, has become an archetypal figure in American culture. Dodsworth (1929) follows Sam Dodsworth, a wealthy, retired Midwestern automobile manufacturer, as he travels through England, France, Germany, and Italy with his increasingly restless wife, Fran. The novel intimately explores the unraveling of their marriage while pitting the proud heritage of European high culture against the rude strength of ascendant American commercialism.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=481495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=532116 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1465745 A third year medical student at a Boston teaching hospital uncovers a medical black market dealing in human organs when she investigates why two young patients have lapsed into comas. They called it minor surgery, but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others; all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up. Considered one of the best books of the genre and the book that launched Robin Cook s career, earning him the reputation as the master of the medical thriller Coma celebrates the 25th anniversary of its publication with this special mass market edition that includes a letter to readers from the author. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511440 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511226 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279948 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=504488 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=511225 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629455 Michael Keddington and Faye Murrows love must weather the worst of storms before they can be sure it is going to last. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=139522 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=508815 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=464227 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292755 Forty years after Gardners groundbreaking publication of the annotated version of Carrolls most famous work comes this new version, featuring fascinating insights, Notes, and newly discovered line drawings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=508768 From the day of its troubled publication in 1900 to its inclusion in Modern Librarys list of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, Sister Carrie has been a source of controversy and debate. Regarded as the first masterpiece of the American naturalist movement, this 100th Anniversary Edition of the classic includes material by the author and a new introduction by the definitive Dreiser biographer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=339517 This classic of twentieth-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha - a spiritual journey that has inspired generations of readers. Here is a fresh translation from Sherab Chodzin Kohn, a translator and longtime student of Buddhism and Eastern philosophy. Kohns translation conveys the philosophical and spiritual nuances of Hesses text, paying special attention to the qualities of meditative experience. This edition also includes an introduction exploring Hesses own spiritual journey as evidenced in his journals and personal letters.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687464 Presents a collection of humorous stories, including The Truth about George, Ukridges Dog College, The Coming of Gowf, The Purity of the Turf, and A Slice of Life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=274593 Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingways last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery - the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool dark nights broken by the sounds of the hyenas cry. As the group at camp help Mary track her prize, she and Ernest suffer the incalculable casualties of marriage, and their attempts to love each other well are marred by cruelty, competition and infidelity. Ernest has become involved with Debba, an African girl whom he supposedly plans to take as a second bride. Increasingly enchanted by the local African community, he struggles between the attraction of these two women and the wildly different cultures they represent.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=469439 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279937 Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses (1922), James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book - the night. A nocturnal state...That is what I wanted to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream. The work, which would exhaust two decades of his life and the odd resources of some sixty languages, culminated in the 1939 publication of Joyces final and most revolutionary masterpiece, Finnegans Wake. A story with no real beginning or end (it ends in the middle of a sentence and begins in the middle of the same sentence), this book of Doublends Jined is as remarkable for its prose as for its circular structure. Written in a fantastic dream-language, forged from polyglot puns and portmanteau words, the Wake features some of Joyces most brilliantly inventive work. Sixty years after its original publication, it remains, in Anthony Burgesss words, a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly ever page.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=840075 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529902 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=77590 Nikolai Gogols stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a new translation - from an award-winning team of translators - presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glory to English-speaking readers. For the first time, the best of Gogols short fiction is brought together in a single volume: from the colorful Ukrainian tales that led some critics to call him the Russian Dickens to the Petersburg stories, with their black humor and wonderfully demented attitude toward the powers that be. All of Gogols most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat, the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729849 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=805639 A chilling story of the invasion of Earth by Martians. Mass evacuation begins in panic as nations unite in an effort to repel the aliens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516527 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=1279933 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279926 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=119277 The worlds greatest fantasy classic is the magical epic of King Arthur and his shining Camelot, of Merlyn and Guinevere, of beasts who talk and men who fly, of wizardry and war. It is the book of all things lost and wonderful and sad. It is the fantasy masterpiece by which all others are judged.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279929 Set at a boys school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=278826 Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. 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=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=368649 Published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice announced the arrival of the comedy of manners, a welcome change from the stiff, moralistic novels of the past. In recounting the courtship of the witty, indpendent Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy--the handsome bachelor whose arrogant pride Elizabeth regards as a fatal flaw--Austen illuminates, with subtle humor, the prejudices of society as a whole. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=832762 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=231176 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=91679 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=528036 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=473704 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=605509 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=96630 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=993188 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. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280009 This is a riveting mystery, not about the murder of a mans body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of mans spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events--with a ruthlessly brilliant plot and irresistible suspense. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, male and female, charged with awesome questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a giant novel--the supreme triumph and ultimate testament of one of the towering geniuses of our time. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. 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=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=62065 Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wildes brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.. Encouraged by Lord Henry to substitute pleasure for goodness and art for reality, Dorian tries to watch impassively as he brings misery and death to those who love him. But the picture is watching him, and, made hideous by the marks of sin, it confronts Dorian with the reflection of his fall from grace, the silent bearer of what is in effect a devastating moral judgement. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=78945 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=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=1279899 Intimately rooted in the authors own biography and written as a first-person narrative, David Copperfield charts a young mans progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way. Jeremy Tamblings provocative Introduction reveals subtle themes relevant today in Dickens favorite work. 39 illustrations. Map.