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Christina's Favorite Classics
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Click on any title or cover to find the item in the SWAN Online Catalog. |
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Classic / British English Jane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in misery until she becomes the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr Rochester appears to be hiding a terrible secret. Can Jane even hope for happiness?
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Wuthering Heights : the 1847 text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
by Emily Bronte
Over a hundred and fifty years after its initial publication, Emily Bronte's turbulent portrayal of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, two northern English households nearly destroyed by violent passions in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, continues to provoke and fascinate readers. Heathcliff remains one of the best-known characters in the English novel, and Catherine Earnshaw's impossible choice between two rivals retains its appeal for contemporary readers.
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
Presents Burgess' satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence, and includes the final chapter deleted from the first American edition.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
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A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
A conflict of loyalties between Gene and his fearless friend, Phineas, leads to tragedy.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a young girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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1984 : a novel
by George Orwell
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.
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
With the author's recent passing, the classic novel about young Holden Caulfield's disillusionment with the adult world and its "phoniness" will only rise in popularity--and controversy, since it is a favorite target of censors, who often cite profanity and sexual references in their efforts to ban the book.
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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
Complemented by a reproduction of Elmer Hader's original Viking first edition cover illustration and other enhancements, a 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression shares insights into its influence and reflection of period politics.
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
The American novelist's classic work of two itinerant farmhands' perpetual search for a home.
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