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Pride and Prejudice novel of manners by Jane Austen. Elizabeth Bennet is the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. The novel follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. Here are the complete works of William Shakespeare.
"SHOOT ALL THE BLUEJAYS U WANT, IF U CAN HIT 'EM, BUT REMEMBER IT'S A SIN TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD"
The book is narrated by Scout Finch, a six-year-old tomboy who lives with her lawyer father Atticus and her older brother Jem telling the story of the young narrator's passage from innocence to experience when her father confronts the racist justice system of the rural, Depression-era South.
The story revolves around protagonist Fanny Price as she navigates her adolescence and young adulthood. As a child, Fanny is sent to live with her aunt and her uncle at their country estate, Mansfield Park. Mrs. Price, Fanny’s mother is of a lower class and struggles financially due to her poorly chosen marriage to naval officer Mr. Price. Together they have too many children to care for, so Fanny’s aunt contrive to take in Fanny, who is her eldest daughter.
The Book Thief is a story narrated by a compassionate Death who tells us about Liesel, a girl growing up in Germany during World War II. She steals books, learns to read, and finds comfort in words. Liesel's foster family risks their lives in sheltering a young Jewish man named Max Vandenburg, with whom Liesel develops a strong and loyal bond. She and Max are the only main characters that survive the war. The book centers around themes of friendship, love and loyalty.
The Sun Also Rises follows a group of young American and British expatriates as they wander through Europe in the mid-1920s. They are all members of the cynical and disillusioned Lost Generation. Jake, the novel’s narrator, is a journalist & veteran. During the war Jake suffered an injury that rendered him impotent. The title obliquely references Jake’s injury and what no longer rises because of it.
It is a posthumous collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, published in 1987. It contains the classic First Forty-Nine Stories plus a number of other works and a foreword by his sons.
The Mysterious Island follows the adventures of a group of castaways who use their survivalist savvy to build a functional community on an uncharted island. A hot-air balloon carrying five passengers and a dog escapes during the American Civil War.
It is about the journey of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy. He sees the same dream every night in which a child says that he will find treasure at the Egyptian pyramids. He starts his journey in the search of treasure. In the end, he meets an alchemist who makes him realize his true self.
It's the Roaring Twenties and New York City is the place to be. Everything can be purchased, everyone can be bought. But, can you make money erase your past? As more and more people lose themselves to the lure of money, ironically the only person who remains unaffected is Jay Gatsby, the enigmatic host of the most extravagant parties. In this definitive tale on American culture, Fitzgerald pits a chaste dream against the corrupting influences of wealth.
Animals, who live in Mr. Jones farm are tired of serving human and find it very exploiting as they use animals for all their needs. Rebellion starts on the day when Mr. Jones forgets to feed the animals. Under the charge of two pigs: Napoleon and Snowball, animals thus plan to invade humans and take over the farm. The book reflects incidents and events that led to Russian Revolution in 1917, followed by Soviet Union's Stalinist Era.
The whole world is gradually changing. The nations which enjoy freedom, have distorted into unpleasant and degraded places. This is the world where the Big Brother controls everything. Winston Smith works on writing the newspaper articles in order to make history relevant to today's time. Julia, a young girl who is morally very rigid comes into the fore. She too hates the system. Gradually, they get into an affair but have to conceal their feelings for each other, as it will not be acceptable by Big Brother. In Big Brother's world, freedom is slavery & ignorance is strength.
An impetuous German professor, Otto Lidenbrock, discovers an encoded manuscript wherein is mentioned the passageway to the center of the earth. He prepares a roller-coaster expedition on the basis of this and is accompanied by his nephew and his stoic Icelandic guide. The many months they spend in the underground world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, fantastic sea creatures and their final resurfacing is truly an adventure of a lifetime.
“ANYTHING ONE MAN CAN IMAGINE, OTHER MEN CAN MAKE REAL.”
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand, whether train or elephant, overcoming set backs and always racing against the clock.
When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane’s adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a manned flight, one man’s dream turns into an international space race.
Take a journey on a giant raft with Joam Garral down 800 Leagues on the Amazon. Garral, a Brazilian, lives on a thriving fazenda in the Peruvian frontier with his loving family. But, his daughter's imminent marriage to a Brazilian army surgeon compels him to return to his homeland to face the dark secrets of his past. Will his love and dedication to his family help him in his struggle to right injustice? Will a strange encoded message be deciphered in time to save him?
"THE SOUL IS A TERRIBLE REALITY. IT CAN BE BOUGHT AND SOLD AND BARTERED AWAY"
Meet Dorian Gray, the beautiful young man with an impossibly charming face and spirit. Basil Hallward a deeply moral artist wants to paint him. Dorian is enchanted by the perfection of his portrait, but becomes jealous of it and wishes that the portrait bear the scars of his passing youth and age, while he would remain young forever. And Alas, his wish comes true!
The book manages to capture the various phases and glories of the human history. The theme of this book is about two families that witness various stages of life over the period of a century. This brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love in rich, imaginative prose has come to define an entire genre known as magical realism.
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around NYC seeking solace in fleeting encounters. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness & seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.
"UNTIL YOU'VE LOST YOUR REPUTATION, YOU NEVER REALIZE WHAT A BURDEN IT WAS OR WHAT FREEDOM REALLY IS."
Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. But none take us into the burning fields and cities as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes & thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear & hunger for the rest of our lives. Ms. Mitchell tells a timeless story of survival under the harshest circumstances In the irresistible Scarlett and the contemptuous Rhett.
Huck is back. Taken for a son by Widow Douglas, struggling against the society and its attempts to civilize him. Escaping his alcoholic father by faking his death, we join him as he voyages down the Mississippi River seeking liberation. Finding his way to Jackson's island where he meets Jim, Mrs. Watson's runaway slave. What happens as they team up, capture a raft and encounter a seemingly haphazard array of people and situations? Immersed in deadly violence, finding tranquility only on the river with Jim, will Huckleberry Finn find the freedom and independence he is seeking?
"HE'S MORE MYSELF THAN I AM.
WHATEVER OUR SOULS ARE MADE OF, HIS AND MINE ARE THE SAME."
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In this epic story of love, envy, betrayal & revenge, Heathcliff and Catherine come together in a romance that destroys them and those around them. Set in the lonely and bleak Yorkshire moors, this classic tale of thwarted passion begins when the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, Mr. Lockwood, is forced to seek shelter for a night at Wuthering Heights. As the night passes, Lockwood learns of the tumultuous past of the place and of those connected with it.
"SHE IS TOO FOND OF BOOKS AND
IT HAS TURNED HER BRAIN."
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Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But although they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with color, as they play games, put on wild theatricals, make new friends, argue, grapple with their vices, learn from their mistakes, nurse each other through sickness and disappointments, and get into all sorts of trouble.
"I SHALL TAKE THE HEART. FOR BRAINS DO NOT MAKE ONE HAPPY, AND HAPPINESS IS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD."
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Dorothy thinks she's lost forever when a tornado whirls her and her dog, Toto, into a magical world. To get home, she must find the wonderful wizard in the Emerald City of Oz. On the way she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. But the Wicked Witch of the West has her own plans for the new arrival... will Dorothy ever see Kansas again?
A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please," asks the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries.
Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess.
When Mary Lennox, the unloved and spoiled ten-year-old, is found alone in the deserted house after her parents' death, she is sent to live with her uncle. In Yorkshire, at his secluded manor, Martha Sowerby, a warm hearted chambermaid, introduces Mary to the late Mrs. Craven and her private walled garden, which has been locked for years. As Mary becomes curious to explore this secret garden, will she be able to find the key?