Frank Carlson Library

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Jane Austen is one of the founders of classic novels for women. Her most famous novel Pride and Prejudice is rightfully considered to be the masterpiece of the world literature. Walter Scott, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf and Richard Aldington admired the talented (3z(Bfirst Lady(3y (Bof the English literature. Wittily and directly described actions of the Pride and Prejudice happen in provincial England in the end of eighteenth century. For about...

2) Little women

Author

Alcott, Louisa May

Series

Little Women series volume 1
Barnes and Noble Classics
Illustrated junior library
The World's best reading
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2

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English

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From the time it was written back in 1868, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women has enchanted young readers, who identify with the realistic and lively personalities of the four March sisters. Growing up as the Civil War rages, Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy face the challenges and difficulties of life--and, sometimes, each other. Francesca Rossi's wonderful illustrations are perfect for the contemporary audience.

3) The rose code: a novel

Author

Quinn, Kate

Language

English

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Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip. "1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Osla puts her fluent German to use as a translator...

4) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

Best Mark Twain Books
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Airmont classic volume Cl-4
Adapted Junior Classic
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18

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English

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Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.

5) Anna Karenina

Author

Tolstoy, Leo

Series

Great illustrated classics Titan editions
Signet classic
Modern Library college editions volume T36
World's great classics

Language

English

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The World's best reading
Bantam classic
World's great classics
Great illustrated classics

Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer.

6) The scarlet letter

Author

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14

Language

English

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"A sinful act ruins the lives of three people, especially that of Hester Prynne, a young, beautiful, and dignified woman, who has conceived a child out of wedlock and receives a public punishment of having to wear a scarlet "A" on her clothing. Despite Hester's attempts through the years to distance herself from her past and repent for her sins, she continues to be rejected by society. A best-seller upon its publication in 1850, The Scarlet Letter's...

7) The great Gatsby

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Series

Scribner classics
Contemporary classics
The Scribner library volume 884

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

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"One of the great American novels-and one of America's most popular-featuring a new foreword by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko Jay Gatsby seemingly has everything. Everybody who's anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his West Egg, Long Island, mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing, and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby--young, handsome, fabulously rich--always seems...

8) The girl in his shadow: a novel

Author

Blake, Audrey

Language

English

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"When Dr. Croft takes in orphan Eleanor Beady, he doesn't realize that he's gained an apprentice. Raised amidst Croft's experiments, "Nora" becomes his most trusted assistant-an unthinkable and unlawful pursuit for a woman. Nora helps Croft's groundbreaking research and his clinic gain recognition, and she finds she doesn't mind working in the background, as long as she can continue to hone her skills. But the arrival of a new surgical resident threatens...

9) Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Author

Quinn, Julia

Series

Bridgerton series volume 4
Avon romance

Language

English

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"Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for... well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret... and fears she doesn't know him at all. Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can't...

10) A Christmas carol

Author

Christmas Books
Graphic Revolve Common Core Editions
Sterling Unabridged Classics

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint who hates everyone, especially children, but at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, and scare him into mending his ways. He finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and family, that geniality brings its own reward.

11) Oliver Twist

Author

Dover thrift editions
Arcturus Children's Classics
Timeless Classics
Adapted Junior Classic
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33

Language

English

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Complete Jane Austen collection
Classic collection)
Marjolein Bastin classics
World's best reading
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Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London.

12) Emma

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30

Language

English

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Description

Classic Lines
World's great classics

Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding. Discomfort and vexation lie on the horizon, triggered by her penchant for matchmaking. Emma's latest scheme involves finding a suitable husband for ingenue Harriet Smith, and to that end she persuades the latter to reject good-natured farmer Robert Martin, despite a mutual attraction. Harriet must set her sights higher, she exhorts, fixing on...

13) Jane Eyre

Author

Brontë, Charlotte

Series

Language

English

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The classic story of the relationship between Jane Eyre, a governess, and the eccentric millionaire Rochester.

14) David Copperfield

Author

Works
The Golden heritage
Great illustrated classics

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 66

Language

English

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A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way. Jeremy Tambling's provocative Introduction reveals subtle themes relevant today in Dickens' favorite work.

15) Gulliver's travels

Author

Swift, Jonathan

Series

A Golden illustrated classic
Doubleday junior classics
Everyman's library volume 26
Educators classic library
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 13.5 - AR Pts: 25

Language

English

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Dover thrift editions
Penguin classics deluxe edition
[Modern library of the world's best books]
World's great classics

Originally written as a political satire and now read as an adventure story, the travels of Gulliver include adventures in a land where people were only inches tall, in a land of giants, on an island that floated in the air, and in a country ruled by horses.

16) Wuthering Heights

Author

Brontë, Emily

Series

Language

English

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In nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation.

17) My brilliant friend

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Series

Neapolitan novels volume 1
L'amica geniale

Language

English

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The story of Elena and Lila begins in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. The two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, sometimes to their own detriment, as each discovers more about who she is and suffers or delights in the throes of their intense friendship. There is a piercing honesty about Ferrante's prose that makes My Brilliant Friend a compulsively readable portrait of two young women,...

18) Great expectations

Author

Barnes and Noble classics
The Oxford illustrated Dickens
Tantor unabridged classics
Everyman's library
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35

Language

English

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The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.

19) Sense and Sensibility

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Complete Jane Austen collection
Classic Lines
Audio book
Everyman's library volume 51

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22

Language

English

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With Mr. Dashwood's death, his wife and two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, must accustom themselves to genteel poverty. When Marianne meets the man of her dreams, everyone expects a marriage; unaccountably, he rejects her, with devastating effect. It falls to Elinor, the sensible elder sister, to pick up the pieces, while harboring a secret longing of her own. In Sense and Sensibility, the warmth between two very different sisters contrasts with...

20) I know why the caged bird sings

Author

Angelou, Maya

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13

Language

English

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