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Though written in the 1850s, 'The Scarlet Letter' is a story fit for our modern times, with its exploration of female independence in a restrictive society where the concept of sin is used as a repressive instrument of control, particularly of women. A clear inspiration for Margaret Atwood's dystopian powerhouse, 'The Handmaid's Tale,' Hawthorne artfully highlights the hypocricy of Hester Prynne's humiliation, and charts her struggle to assert her...
3) Moby Dick
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English
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Retells the story of the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him
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English
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The tragedy of a young man brought up in simple Salvation Army piety who goes east to find success. The author's classic vision of the dark side of American life looks at the failings of the American dream, in the story of the rise and fall of Clyde Griffiths, who sacrifices everything in his desperate quest for success
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Library of America volume 6
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Viking Press
Pub. Date
©1982
Physical Desc
1,020 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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A collection of London's stories about dogs.
11) Novels
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Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
1,272 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
13) Redburn, his first voyage ; White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale
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Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
1,437 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Library of America volume 25
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
1,034 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of a mourning family remembering its past, a vicious gangster, a young pregnant woman searching for her child's father, and barnstorming pilots at an air show.
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Library of America volume 30
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Viking
Pub. Date
c1985
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1,328 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 35
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
1,336 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 36
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
1,168 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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