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1) The Odyssey of Homer

Author

Series

Harper Colophon Books CN 479
Harvard classics
The modern library of world's best books
100 greatest books ever written
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Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, Large Print

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A complete translation of the Greek poem recounting the experience of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan war.

2) Wuthering heights

Author

Brontë, Emily

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23

Lexile measure

960L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway

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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...

3) Poems

Author

Poe, Edgar Allan

Series

Macmillan's pocket American and English classics

Language

English

4) Tales of a wayside inn

Author

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Series

Macmillan's pocket classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

5) Macbeth

Author

Shakespeare, William

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 4

Lexile measure

310L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Manuscript, Playaway

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This complete, line-by-line Macbeth translation makes the language of Shakespeare's play more modern while preserving the metrical rhythm, complexity, and poetic qualities of the original. The aim is to capture the sound and sense of Shakespeare's tragedy without the need for glosses or notes--to use contemporary language without simplifying or modernizing the play in any other way.

6) Shakespeare's As you like it

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Eclectic English classics
Macmillan's pocket American and English classics

Language

English

Description

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William Shakespeare's As You Like It, the incredible story about love, rebellion, and generosity. --

7) Twenty years at Hull-House, with autobiographical notes

Author

Addams, Jane

Series

Macmillan's pocket American and English classics
Prairie State books
100 greatest masterpieces of American literature

Lexile measure

1650L

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

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Addams traces the experiences through which various conclusions were forced upon her.

8) Les Miserables

Author

Hugo, Victor

Series

Barnes and Noble Classics
Macmillan's pocket American and English classics
Classics Illustrated
Stepping Stones

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 105

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and opressed.

9) The last of the Mohicans: a narrative of 1757

Author

Cooper, James Fenimore

Series

Leatherstocking tales volume 2
Works
Macmillan's pocket classics
Signet classic

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32

Lexile measure

1350L

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

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While guiding a small party of English settlers to the protection of a fort during the French and Indian War, Hawkeye, a frontier scout, and his two Indian friends, the remaining braves of the Mohican tribe, struggle against the evils of Uncas who desires a white maiden for his wife.