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Adam Bede / George Eliot. by Series: Everyman's library ; 59
Edition: 1st ed
Material type:  Text; Format:
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Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992
Dissertation note: Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire’s estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many people’s lives. When Hetty lands in prison, accused of murder and facing a sentence of execution by hanging, it is her fervent young cousin Dinah Morris,
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.8 E.G.A 1992.
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Before and after / Rosellen Brown. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
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Publication details: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1992
Dissertation note: In the hospital of her small New Hampshire town, pediatrician Carolyn Reiser views the viciously smashed skull of teenager Martha Taverner, who had been a classmate of her son Jacob. Carolyn and her sculptor husband Ben soon discover that Jacob--mysteriously missing--was the girl's lover and is the prime suspect in her murder. Brown captures the Reisers' shock and disorientation as they confront the unthinkable, and makes credible Ben's instant decision to destroy the incriminating evidence--a blood-covered jack that he finds in the trunk of Jacob's car. As the family disintegrates during the course of Jacob's arrest and trial, the moral conflict that develops between Carolyn and Ben, though an inevitable outcome of their personalities and principles, is played out in a way that strains credulity somewhat. Yet readers will remain immersed in Brown's gripping story, mesmerized by the questions she raises and by the brave, intelligent, compassionate manner in which she deals with which she grapples with them.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 813.54 B.R.B 1992, ...
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Jude the obscure / Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction by J. Hillis Miller. by Series: Everyman's library
Material type: Text; Format:
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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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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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Fiction
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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