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1) Dubliners

Author

Joyce, James

Series

A Viking compass book C41
Everyman's library volume 49

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12

Formats

Book, CD

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In this collection of masterful stories, steeped in realism, James Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization.

2) Of mice and men

Author

Steinbeck, John

Series

Viking Large type Book
The Modern library of the world's best books
Classics

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4

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Banned & Challenged Books

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Book, CD, DVD

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An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...

3) The grapes of wrath

Author

Steinbeck, John

Series

The World's best reading
Penguin classics
The Viking critical library

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25

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Nobel Laureates
pulitzer
Pulitzer Winners Fiction

Formats

Book, CD, Large Print, LENDABLE KIT

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The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

4) Edgar Allan Poe

Author

Poe, Edgar Allan

Series

The Viking portable library
Poetry for young people
Graphic classics volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1

Formats

Book, Graphic Novel

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Five stories by the nineteenth-century American writer best known for his tales of horror.

5) The portable Blake

Author

Blake, William

Series

Viking portable library

Pub. Date

1946

Description

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A collection of the most notable writings of William Blake, with an introductory commentary by the editor.

6) The portable D. H. Lawrence

Author

Lawrence, D. H

Series

The Viking portable library

Pub. Date

1946

7) The portable Faulkner

Author

Faulkner, William

Series

The Viking Portable library
Penguin classics

Description

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Presents self-contained sections from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels, including such stories as "A Rose for Emily," "That Evening Sun," and "Old Man"; a Yoknapatawpha County map; a chronology of the Compson family; and Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize address.

8) The portable Mark Twain

Author

DeVoto, Bernard

Series

The Viking portable library

Pub. Date

1946

9) The portable Mark Twain

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

The Viking portable library

10) The portable Steinbeck

Author

Steinbeck, John

Series

The Viking portable library

Pub. Date

Description

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Presents a selection of the most notable of Steinbeck's writings, including the complete texts of The red pony and Of mice and men. Includes biographical notes and a chronology.

11) The portable Thoreau

Author

Thoreau, Henry David

Series

Viking portable library
Penguin classics

Description

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Selections by the celebrated author include poems, letters, journal entries, and the complete texts of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience."

12) The portable Plato: Protagoras, Symposium, Phaedo, and the Republic: complete, in the English translation of Benjamin Jowett

Author

Plato

Series

The Viking portable library 40

Pub. Date

1979, c1948

13) Death of a salesman

Author

Miller, Arthur

Series

Viking critical library

Formats

Book, CD

Description

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Arthur Miller and the loss of conscience / William B. Dillingham -- Arthur Miller : man and his image / Gerald Weales -- [Section 6.] Analogues -- The know-it-all salesman / Walter D. Moody -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- The last of my solid gold watch / Tennessee Williams -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw.

14) Poets of the English language

Series

The Viking portable library volume 49-53

Pub. Date

1950

15) The portable Coleridge

Author

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Series

The Viking portable library [48]

16) The portable Nietzsche

Author

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Series

The Viking portable library [62]

Pub. Date

1982

17) One flew over the cuckoo's nest: a novel

Author

Kesey, Ken

Series

Penguin classics deluxe edition
The Viking critical library
Classics of modern literature

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18

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Banned & Challenged Books

Formats

Book, CD

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This 1962 novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, and depicts the chaos when McMurphy, a rebellious prison inmate who has faked insanity in order to finish his sentence in the hospital, incites the other patients to disobey the feared Nurse Ratched. An escalating series of incidents leads to a tragic conclusion.