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1) The Beautiful and damned

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Series

Scribner library of contemporary classics

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22

Language

English

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"The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. Anthony and Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured and they dedicate their lives to the pursuit of happiness and we follow the intimate story of their marriage as it disintegrates under the weight of their...

2) The great Gatsby

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Series

Contemporary classics
Scribner classics
American Classics Children's Collection
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...

3) A farewell to arms

Author

Hemingway, Ernest

Series

The Scribner library volume SL61

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13

Language

English

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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto -- of lines of...

4) For whom the bell tolls

Author

Hemingway, Ernest

Series

Scribner classics
Hudson River editions
The Scribner library ; SL4

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28

Language

English

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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In...