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1) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation immigrants.
"Willa Cather's My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda,...
4) Dubliners
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"This collection of 15 stories provides an introduction to the style and motifs found in Joyce's writing. The stories stand alone as individual scenes of Dublin society and are intertwined by the use of autobiography and symbolism." Shapiro. Fic for Youth. 3d edition.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's compelling tragicomedy that explores restraint—and lack thereof.
Who legislates morality?
The duke's authoritarian deputy, Angelo, is hell-bent on stamping out moral decay. He reactivates outdated draconian laws and aims his arrogant crosshairs at a young man whose fiancée is pregnant, sentencing him to death. Angelo
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is an expansion of the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than on 'universal' psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and illustrates the literary symbols that we frequently encounter (such as swan, rose, moon, gold) and gives thousands of cross-references and quotations. The dictionary concentrates on English literature, but its entries range widely from the Bible and classical authors to the twentieth century,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
Warren takes you on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Dickens. She shows how he used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor, becoming one of the great reformers of his or any age.
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 1
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the plot, setting, characters, themes, and symbolism in Hawthorne's novel, and discusses the purpose of its "Custom-house" portion.
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of the novel from the moralising reactions of Hawthorne's contemporaries, through the assessments of writers such as Henry James and D.H. Lawrence, to the more recent approaches of the New Criticism, formalism, psychoanalytical criticism, structuralism and feminism. Each of the interpretative essays that follow places The Scarlet Letter in a specific historical and cultural context. The...
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 27
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Tracing the social and political developments leading to the Dust Bowl, Owens clearly explains how the novel represents Steinbeck's indictment of the Promised Land myth.
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 148
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Go Down, Moses is one of William Faulkner's most direct and powerful assessments of race relations in America. In this compelling study, Arthur F. Kinney asserts that it is also his most personal - and perhaps most important - novel. Composed of seven complete stories spanning several generations in Faulkner's fictitious Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the book's structure is deceptively simple. Indeed, Faulkner's publisher incorrectly printed...