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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Author
Series
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.
Author
Series
Viking portable library volume no. P41
Language
English
Description
François-Marie Arouet, who later took the name of Voltaire, was the son of a notary. His father wanted him to study the law, but he was determined on a literary career. He gained an introduction to the intellectual life of Paris, and soon won a reputation as a writer of satires and odes--but the suspicion of having written a satire on the Regent procured him six months' imprisonment in the Bastille. His first tragedy, Oedipe (1718) met with great...
4) The Antigone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disaster follows when Creon, King of Thebes, forbids Antigone to bury her brother whom he has declared a traitor
5) One piece
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
HL 300L
Language
English
Description
When Monkey D. Luffy accidentally gains the power to stretch like rubber at the cost of never being able to swim again, he and his crew of pirate wannabes set off in search of the "One Piece," the greatest treasure in the world.
Author
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Language
English
Formats
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...
11) The trial
Author
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...
Author
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...
13) 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,...
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...
16) Anna Karenina
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 69
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina is the story of a married aristocrat/socialite and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story opens when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing. A bachelor, Vronsky is eager to marry her if she will agree to leave her husband Karenin, a senior government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, the moral laws of the Russian Orthodox Church, her...
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the world's oldest epic. Tyrannical King Gilgamesh rules the ancient city of Uruk, ruthlessly trampling its citizens. The gods send an untamed man named Enkidu to control the ruthless king, but he ends up befriending Gilgamesh and together they embark on a series of adventures. When Enkindu is felled by disease, Gilgamesh moves on in a soul-searching journey of self-discovery.
19) Candide
Author
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...