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Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift ; with an introduction by Pat Rogers. by Series: Everyman's library ; 26
Material type:  Text; Format:
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Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1991]
Dissertation note:
An immediate success on its publication in 1726, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was read, as John Gay put it, "from the cabinet council to the nursery." Dean Swift's great satire is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 823.5 S.J.G 1991, ...
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Howards End / E.M. Forster. by Series: Everyman's library ; 25
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Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1991]
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.912 F.E.H 1991.
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I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou. by
Edition: 1st ed.
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Publication details: New York : Random House, 2002
Dissertation note: Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis,
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 920.073 A.M.I 2002, ...
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I think of you : stories / Ahdaf Soueif. by
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Publication details: New York : Anchor Books/Random House, 2007
Dissertation note: Ahdaf Soueif, the bestselling author of The Map of Love, writes poignantly and beautifully about love, and about finding one’s place in the world. Achingly lyrical, resonant and richly woven, and with a spark of defiance, these stories explore areas of tension–where women and men are ensnared by cultural and social mores and prescribed notions of “love,” where the place you are is not the place you want to be
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.914 S.A.I 2007.
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Jude the obscure / Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction by J. Hillis Miller. by Series: Everyman's library
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Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992
Dissertation note: Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.8 H.T.J 1992.
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Lasher : a novel / by Anne Rice. by
Edition: 1st ed.
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Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1993
Dissertation note: From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers--readers by the hundreds of thousands--have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice. And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise and the multitudes of her readers once more increased.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 R.A.L 1993.
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Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf. by Series: Everyman's library ; 157
Edition: 1st ed
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.912 W.V.M 1993.
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No safe place Richard North Patterson. by
Edition: 1st trade ed.
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Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 P.R.N 1999.
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Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen ; with an introduction by Claudia L. Johnson. by Series: Everyman's library ; 109
Edition: Reprint Edition.
Material type: Text; Format:
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Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992
Dissertation note: Northanger Abbey is a perfectly aimed literary parody that is also a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance. When she is invited to Northanger Abbey,
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.7 A.J.N 1992.
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Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard / Joseph Conrad. by Series: Everyman's library ; 88
Edition: Reprint edition.
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Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1992]
Dissertation note: Joseph Conrad’s foresight and his ability to distill human adventure from complex historical circumstances were so keen that his greatest novel, Nostromo—though more than a century old—says as much about Latin America as any recent account of that region’s turbulent political life
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.912 C.J.N 1992.
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One more Sunday / John D. MacDonald. by
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Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1984
Dissertation note: Welcome to the Eternal Church of the Believer, where devout workers operate state-of-the-art computer equipment to solicit and process the thousands of dollars that pour in daily
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 M.J.O 1984.
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