Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=3295&N=3+7104+4294954182 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727480 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714152 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693153 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713307 A curated collection of Mark Twains autobiographical writings with particular attention to texts reflecting his early life. Our edition is significantly less apparatus-heavy than the UC Press edition and also includes various additional writings. R. Kent Rasmussen contributes a substantial introduction, summarizing the most interesting elements from modern scholarship surrounding the history of Twains autobiography and his long-lasting appeal over one hundred years after his death. Also includes a new suggested further reading, as well as an edited Chronology and Sites to Visit from the enriched eBook edition of THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705273 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621926 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714149 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615038 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713306 Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austens most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706274 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705300 Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals, and social climbers-and everyone is out for what he can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees the potential to make a fortune in two beautiful, aristocratic women who visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring Eugene the status and acceptance he craves? Nothing is as it seems in Paris, however, and soon he is over his head in a world of greed and obsession. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697731 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727478 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714148 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714804 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705272 The 25th-anniversary edition of a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature. (Wallace Stegner) In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The men hunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party against the enemy Crow. The women tan the hides, sew the beadwork, and raise the children. But the year is 1870, and the whites are moving into their land. Fools Crow, a young warrior and medicine man, has seen the future and knows that the newcomers will punish resistance with swift retribution. First published to broad acclaim in 1986, Fools Crow is James Welchs stunningly evocative portrait of his peoples bygone way of life. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705274 The first Western autobiography since Augustines Confessions offers a view of medieval life and society during the First Crusade and is accompanied by a theological manifesto appearing in English for the first time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714803 This collection of Kiplings short stories follows the development of his work over fifty years, and range from the harsh, cruel, world of the Indian stories, through the experimental modernism of his middle period, to the highly wrought subtleties of his later pieces.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714776 A subtle collection of 300 witty and thought-provoking aphorisms. From the art of being lucky to the healthy use of caution, these elegant maxims were created as a guide to life, with further suggestions given on cultivating good taste, knowing how to refuse, the foolishness of complaining and the wisdom of controlling ones passions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714745 Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kiplings first collection of short stories, established his reputation and brought India to the British imagination ... Originally published for a newspaper in Lahore, when Kipling was a journalist, the tales were later revised by him to re-create as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for readers at home.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705301 The private and social worlds of three families are revealed through the experiences of the heroine, Fanny Price. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714753 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268496 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697713 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713304 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694519 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694494 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268494 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1346952 Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune-in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. In this affecting narrative, Wallace Stegner portrays over three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562684 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697720 Overview: Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt this terrifying new selection of ghost stories. Bringing together the best works from the masters of the supernatural, these are stories that defined the genre. They range from the famous, such as M. R. Jamess tale of an ancient curse, Oh, Whistle, and Ill Come To You, My Lad, and W. W. Jacobss story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, The Monkeys Paw, to lesser-known master-pieces: Robert Louis Stevensons Thrawn Janet, telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; No. 1 Branch Line, Charles Dickenss unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lyttons The Haunted and the Haunters, where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453672 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130128 Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literary coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputation as one of the eras most beloved poets. Parkers satirical wit and sharp-edged humor earned her a reputation as the wittiest woman in America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1281368 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562492 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573329 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693144 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1281370 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705271 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714802 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1482475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251137 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112808 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130112 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112809 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=1130117 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697712 Presents selected essays, diary entries, letters, and addresses produced in the last three decades of the authors life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303787 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130120 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1482460 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130110 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=966492 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303785 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1545747 In AD 68 Neros suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events he describes, gives a detailed account of the long but single year when four emperors emerged in succession: Galba, the martinet; Otho, conspirator and dandy; Vitellius, the unambitious hedonist; and the ultimate victor, Vespasian, who established the Flavian dynasty. With great vividness and emotional power, Tacitus gripping narrative lays bare corruption, injustice and folly, and sheds lasting light on the nature of power. This revised version of Kenneth Wellesleys translation has sensitively updated it to render it more accessible to the modern reader. This edition contains a new introduction by Rhiannon Ash discussing Tacitus life and his contemporary audience, a note on the text, further reading, a glossary of place and peoples, expanded notes and a chronology--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1137615 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=1713301 Goethes masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727470 Introduces Harry Trellman, an aging businessman and lifelong outsider whose forty years of longing for an interior decorator is fulfilled, thanks to a billionaire friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268480 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112113 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697665 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088694 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715326 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1535818 The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome obstacles in the afterlife. The papyruses were often left in sarcophagi for the dead to use as passports on their journey from burial, and were full of advice about the ferrymen, gods and kings they would meet on the way. Offering valuable insights into ancient Egypt, The Book of the Dead has long inspired fascination with the occult and the afterlife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694570 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268470 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714742 Four stories about love and the very different attitudes towards it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279835 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=1714118 Loosely based on Parkers life, this is a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. With husbands dead and children, if any, too busy for aging parents, the ladies are empty-nesters struggling with lives that have lost their centers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694502 A master of gritty naturalism, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall comes to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities-- a struggle for spoils without conscience or pity.--P. [4] of cover. 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=1279836 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694572 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268472 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=840073 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704337 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=825029 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713299 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671785 Offers the complete text and lyrics of fourteen operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan, including HMS Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Sorcerer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393049 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697726 Verkhovensky and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the government, destroy society and seize power for themselves. But when it seems their motley group is about to be discovered, will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own circle in order to cover their tracks?--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714741 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130107 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=840587 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713300 An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnuttan incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the Southis widely credited with almost single-handedly inaugurating the African American short story tradition and was the first African American novelist to achieve national critical acclaim. This major addition to Penguin Classics features an ideal sampling of his work: twelve short stories (including conjure tales and protest fiction), three essays, and the novel The Marrow of Tradition. Published here for the 150th anniversary of Chesnutts birth, The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt will bring to a new audience the genius of a man whose legacy underlies key trends in modern black fiction.--Publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=825062 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112096 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1314147 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=966712 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697664 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714752 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303816 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713323 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279834