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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When A Doll's House was first published in 1879 it created a sensation. The play follows the ordinary life of a housewife. Gradually the tensions within her marriage become clear and build to a final, stunning action. The play is widely studied because of its sharp critique of 19th century marriage norms, and its feminist tendencies.
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Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Language
English
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Description
"Although the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb is not a household name in the United States, he is well known throughout the Islamic World as a seminal thinker in the Islamist movement, influential as far away as Pakistan and Malaysia. A member of the Islamic Brotherhood, he was jailed by Gamal Abdul Nasser's government as early as 1954. He became one of the most uncompromising voices of the movement we now call Islamism and is best known perhaps for his...
Author
Publisher
National Bureau of Translations in partnership with Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of Kazakh poetry from the 20th and 21st centuries
A new anthology of the selected Kazakh poetry writers since independence, translated into English for the first time.
A major international collection that brings together the work of more than thirty writers of Kazakh descent, celebrating their artistry and showcasing their contributions to modern literature and international culture. Featuring the work of some of Kazakhstan?s finest...
5) The trial
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Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge. Kafka's final work was left unfinished at the time of his 1924 death, and the original 1925 and subsequent editions were edited according to the standards of the day. This edition endeavors to restore the text as closely as possible to the original manuscript. In addition to the text, this volume includes a bibliography and a...
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Language
English
Description
A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of capital punishment engraves the letter of the law into the body of the condemned. Such are the nightmare scenarios that emerge in the short stories of Franz Kafka, one of the twentieth century's most formative, mystifying literary figures. Though immediate in their impact, Kafka's stories invite endless angles...
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Because of their visibility in society and ability to shape public opinion, prominent literary figures were among the first targets of Communist repression, torture, and incarceration. Authors such as Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn famously documented the experience of internment in Soviet gulags. Little, however, has been published in the English language on the work of writers imprisoned by other countries of the Soviet bloc. For the first time, The Walls...
8) Candide
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Series
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this 'optimism' concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the 'all for the best' approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging...
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Series
Harvard classics volume 22
Lexile measure
1260L
Language
English
Description
A complete translation of the Greek poem recounting the experience of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.
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Language
English
Description
Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the year 1207 and until the age of thirty-seven was a brilliant scholar and popular teacher. But his life changed forever when he met the powerful wandering dervish, Shams of Tabriz, of whom Rumi said, "What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being." From this mysterious and esoteric friendship came a new height of spiritual enlightenment. When Shams disappeared, Rumi began his transformation from scholar...