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Everyman's library volume 157
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Considered to be, one of Virginia Woolf's most popular novels, Mrs. Dalloway follows one high-society woman as she goes about her day planning a splendid party for her acquaintances. As she goes about her day, she ponders on the life she could be living had she not married the reliable Richard Dalloway, and instead sought the enigmatic Peter Walsh. At one point, she muses on the fact that she had not the option to be with a close female friend of...
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Clym Yeobright has returned to the area of Edgon Heath to become a school teacher after a successful but shallow career as a jeweler in Paris. Clym's wife,Eustacia Vye, longs for the excitement of city life and sets off on a reckless affair that ends in death.
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Works of Charles Dickens volume 1
Airmont classic volume CL 65
Modern Library classics
Everyman's library volume 31
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Airmont classic volume CL 65
Modern Library classics
Everyman's library volume 31
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 66
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When David Copperfield's widowed mother remarries, David suffers from his stepfather's abuse. At age 8, David is sent away to a harsh school where the principal routinely beats the students. David's circumstances become even worse when he is removed from school and, at age 10, forced to labor from morning to night in a London warehouse. David then decides to take desperate action. He will run away to his great-aunt, who lives in Dover. Having never...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 40
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Drawing upon experiences from his own prison days, the author recounts in feverish tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own nihilism, and the struggle between good and evil. Believing that he is above the law, and convinced that humanitarian ends justify vile means, he brutally murders an old woman -- a pawnbroker whom he regards as "stupid, ailing, greedy... good for nothing." Overwhelmed afterwards by feelings...
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IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
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Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling up river to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery of how Kurtz has gained his position of power over the local people involves him in a radical questioning, not only of his own nature and values, but those of Western civilization....
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