Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Bleak House Bleak House Charles Dickens As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually be… OL14868510W
Novels (Great Expectations / Oliver Twist / Tale of Two Cities) Novels (Great Expectations / Oliver Twist / Tale of Two Cities) Charles Dickens Contains: - [Great Expectations](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8721462W) - [Oliver Twist](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193478W) - [Tale of Two Cities](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL87… OL14869391W
Hotel du Lac Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. S… OL166437W
The Eleventh Commandment The Eleventh Commandment Jeffrey Archer Connor Fitzgerald has an impressive resume. Military hero. Devoted family man. Servant of his country—as an assassin. Just as he's about to put his twenty-eight-year career at the CIA behind him, he … OL1807039W
The Daydreamer The Daydreamer Ian McEwan An imaginative ten-year-old boy, who is best understood by his family, recounts some of the adventures he has while daydreaming. OL1855936W
The good shepherd The good shepherd C. S. Forester The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, t… OL1937784W
El Libro de la selva / The Jungle Book El Libro de la selva / The Jungle Book Classic Reads,Michael Page,Clapton Commons Clapton Commons Publishing,Brigitte Juanals,Rudyard Kipling,Norman Nodel,Carl Bowen,Louis Fabulet,Karl Simrock,Liz Miles,Maurice Wilson,Nicola Butler,Gwen Keraval,Brigitte Zaugg,Dave Gibbons,Gerardo Sandoval,Jessica Swale,Nik Marcel,Benny Fuentes,Alex Fabrizio,Francisca Marquez,John Lockwood Kipling,Giovanni Pota,Rafael Mayani,Joe Stilgoe,Virginie Clauzel,Janice Greene,Robert d'Humieres,Stéphane Mourgues,Geneviève Debeuré-De Jongh,Jean-Claude Henryot,Stéphane Mourgues,Geneviève Debeuré-De Jongh,Jean-Claude Henryot,Aberdeen Press The adventures of Mowgli, a man-child raised by wolves in the jungle, have captured the imaginations not just of children, but of all readers, for generations. OL19870W
A literature of their own A literature of their own Elaine Showalter A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation,… OL2041593W
Treasure Island Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as se… OL24034W
Overload Overload Arthur Hailey In the middle of a sweltering July heat wave that has no end in sight, California’s Golden State Power and Light is on overload. An emergency brownout is already in effect. Then, GSP&L’s newest and l… OL2475094W
The Return of the King The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien THE RETURN OF THE KING, which brings to a close the great epic of war and adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and continued in The Two Towers, is the third and final part of J. R. R. Tolkie… OL27516W
Gentian Hill Gentian Hill Elizabeth Goudge Novel set in England at the time of Napoleonic Wars. They met as children... Unable to bear the prospect of life at sea, young Anthony O'Connell deserts his ship at Torquay and escapes into the Devon… OL535191W
When We Were Orphans When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro 'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cas… OL59042W
Carrie Carrie Stephen King The story of misfit high-school girl, Carrie White, who gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers. Repressed by a domineering, ultra-religious mother and tormented by her peers at school, h… OL81626W