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1) The idiot
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"Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate...
2) Pollyanna
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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“Once you start looking for the happy things, you dont think about the bad ones as much.” Thats the joyful way Pollyanna sees the world: no matter what happens, she plays her “Just Be Glad” game and finds the sunny side of any situation. But when shes orphaned and forced to live with her rigid Aunt Polly, will high-spirited Pollyanna succeed in melting her Aunts cold heart? -Amazon Summary
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American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall-of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. Seymour "Swede" Levov-a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory-comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents one of Shakespeare's earliest plays about the mistaken identity of two sets of twins. This volume includes the full text of the play, plus an introduction to the play, a scene-by-scene analysis, commentary on past and current productions, photographs of key RSC productions, and an overview of Shakespeare's theatrical career and chronology of his plays.
5) Lysistrata
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Along with Sophocles and Euripides, Aristophanes is considered one of the three great Greek playwrights. Only eleven of his nearly forty plays survive in their entirety to this day. Of his extant works Aristophanes's "Lysistrata" is considered one of his finest and one of the truly great comedies from classical antiquity. Central to the work is the vow by the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until they end the brutal war between...
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Kensington Studios
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2022
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This book is a prequel to last year's THE ROAD REMEMBERED and the story follows the parents of Sam Ryan, who fought in World War II. Sam's parents must endure a number of life's hardships before their future is bright only to have that snatched from them as well.
9) The Crucible
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The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft - and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
About this author: Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright...
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L.A. Theatre Works
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This acclaimed World War II psychological courtroom drama was the sensation of 1954. The play reveals the destructive madness of Lieutenant Commander Queeg and his questionable behavior aboard the USS Caine Mutiny during a typhoon in the Pacific. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring James Avery, Chuma Hunter-Gault, Ian Lithgow, Scott Lowell, Frank Muller, Michael Rivkin, David Selby and Grant Shaud.
11) Henry VIII
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Project Gutenberg
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Henry VIII - William Shakespeare - King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes...
12) Palace walk
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Cairo trilogy volume 1
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The first book of the Cairo Trilogy recreates turn-of-the-century Cairo, with characters who are simultaneously disciplined and sensual. This novel provides a close look into Cairo society at the end of World War I. Mahfouz's vehicle for this examination is the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad, a middle-class merchant who runs his family strictly according to the Qur'an and directs his own behavior according to his desires. Consequently, while his wife and...
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