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1) The Aeneid
Author
Language
English
Description
"This new translation brings Virgil's masterpiece newly to life for English-language readers. It's the first in centuries crafted by a translator who is first and foremost a poet, and it is a glorious thing. David Ferry has long been known as perhaps our greatest contemporary translator of Latin poetry, his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics having established themselves as much-admired standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius,...
2) The Odyssey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1270L
Language
English
Description
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
In 1811, Jane Austen's first published work, Sense and Sensibility," " marked the debut of England's premier novelist of manners. Believing that "3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work on," she created a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Romantic walks through lush Devonshire and genteel dinner parties at a stately manor draw two pretty sisters into the schemes and manipulations of landed gentry determined to marry...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
In Jane Austen's third published novel after Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice? young Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt? Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram? at Mansfield Park. Raised among her four cousins? Fanny, the poor relation, often goes unobserved in the household? making her a unique observer of the ethics? morals? attitudes and behavior of English society.
7) Emma
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Having engineered the marriage of the governess, Emma now turns her attention towards making a match for Mr. Elton, the local vicar. Emma's one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behavior with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm but she will find that it is all too easy to confuse good intentions...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
"Few works by comic book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson's illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein was met with upon its original release in 1983. A generation later, this magnificent pairing of art and literature is still considered to be one of the greatest achievements made by any artist in the field. This book includes the complete text of the original groundbreaking novel,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
"A timeless classic, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is both a coming-of-age story and a parody of the Gothic novels of the nineteenth century. Catherine Morland is destined to be the heroine of her own life story as she navigates friendships and romantic relationships, and as she learns to let go of childish notions of fantasy regarding the lives of others. Held from publication for more than a decade, this story was an instant success when it was...
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Series
Everyman's library. Travel and topography volume no. 104
Harvard classics volume 29
Natural history library volume N16
Harvard classics volume 29
Natural history library volume N16
Language
English
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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overview: Alexandre Dumas's novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery - one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written - appears here in a newly revised translation. "This novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress the Chateau d'If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest...
13) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the savage, tormented foundling Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. A book of great power and strength, it is filled with the raw beauty of the moors and an uncanny understanding of the terrible truths about men and women. It is an understanding made even more extraordinary by the fact that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1420L
Language
English
Description
The Puritans thought Hester Prynne's crime was unforgiveable. She was convicted, imprisoned -- and then forced to wear, forever, a public reminder of her sin. The Scarlet Letter. The Letter was unending punishment: it set Hester apart from society, it tormented her days and haunted her soul. But the Letter haunted others, as well. Its mystery turned Roger Chillingworth from a gentle healer into a man driven by revenge. Its meaning burned into Rev....
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Series
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white sperm whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
18) Madame Bovary
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 19th-century woman pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers.
19) Adam Bede
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Arthur's seduction of an innocent, young country girl results in remorse, suffering, and regret.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...