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Pre1950 Classics March 2019
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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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Animal farm
by 1903-1950 Orwell, George
A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother, is awakened to the full force of her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation.
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
The Ramsay family and the one summer spent with their friends in their holiday home in Scotland. Offshore stands the lighthouse; remote, inaccessible, and an external presence in a changing world.
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Silas Marner : The Weaver of Raveloe
by George Eliot
Here is a tale straight from the fireside. We are compelled to follow the humble and mysterious figure of the linen weaver Silas Marner, on his journey from solitude and exile to the warmth and joy of family life. His path is a strange one; when he loses his hoard of hard-earned coins all seems to be lost, but in place of the golden guineas come the golden curls of a child and from desolate misery comes triumphant joy.
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
"The only hardcover edition of the beloved, internationally best-selling gothic mystery. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. The unassuming young heroine of Rebecca finds her life changed overnight when she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome and wealthy widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Rescuing her from an overbearing employer, de Winter whisks her off to Manderley, his isolated estate on the windswept Cornish coast--but there things take a chilling turn. Max seems haunted by the memory of his glamorous first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy is lovingly tended by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers. As the second Mrs. de Winter finds herself increasingly burdened by the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, she becomesdetermined to uncover the dark secrets that threaten her happiness, no matter the cost"
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Engaged to marry socialite May Welland, Newland Archer meets Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman unbound by convention and surrounded by scandal, and is forced to decide between happiness and the social code that has ruled his life.
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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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Crime and punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A new translation of the Russian literature masterpiece follows an impoverished former student who commits a random and unremorseful murder in the slums of St. Petersburg as he plays cat and mouse with a police investigator. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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Their eyes were watching God : A Novel
by Zora Neale Hurston
When Janie Starks returns to her rural Florida home, she reminisces to her best friend, Pheoby, about her marriages and her relationship with a younger man. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.
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For additional reading ideas, talk with your library staff!
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