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Date added:
May 16, 2024
Date added:
May 16, 2024
This novel about the effects of America's repressive moral climate was controversial in its day, and its availability to the public was delayed 12 years because of the "immorality" in Dreiser's sordid, realistic portrayal of the downfall of an innocent young woman who leaves her country town for the big city.
Date added:
May 16, 2024
A collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald of eleven of his magazine stories. Divided into three separate parts, it includes one of his best-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" as well as the novella, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz." Unlike most story collections, this one includes the author's own commentary on each story, by way of an introduction.
The tale of a passionate, independent woman and her three suitors, Far from the Madding Crowd tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene and her relationships with the devoted Gabriel Oak, the dashing Sergeant Troy, and the reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr. Boldwood. Through her wayward nature and a winding path of events propelled by Thomas Hardy's recurring feminist themes, Bathsheba is led to tragedy and, finally, true love. Written in 1874, Far from the Madding Crowd was Hardy's first masterpiece.
"Since witnessing the murder of her beloved parents, Miriam Hochstedler suffers from paralyzing anxiety and a deep-seated fear of the Englisch. Unwilling to venture beyond her family's Tennessee farm, she forms a close bond with a badly injured gelding. Like Miriam herself, the traumatized animal seems unlikely to recover - until skilled horse whisperer Reuben Brenneman arrives. A survivor of an abusive childhood, Reuben understands fear better than most. He'll do whatever it takes to help a ter
Inspired by the author's own father, a doctor in Maine's rural countryside, the story describes Nan Prince, who finds herself the ward of a kindly widowed doctor, Dr. John Leslie. Leslie takes her along on his patient visits and inspires in her a strong interest in medicine and the desire to become a doctor herself.