Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Pilgrim's Progress	John Bunyan	Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley …	OL107195W
The heart is a lonely hunter	Carson McCullers	Set in 1930s Georgia, the novel centers around a deaf and mute man, John Singer. Singer has been devastated by the loss of his dear friend, Antonapoulos, who was committed to an asylum for bad behavi…	OL14864437W
Godhanger	Dick King-Smith	When a mysterious bird arrives in Godhanger Wood to protect the frightened animals from the cruel gamekeeper, this Christ-figure deliberately sacrifices himself to save them from death.	OL14906W
Botticelli, Allegory of spring	Federico Zeri	Books invites the reader on a journey through the most famous paintings in the history of art. Detailed, informative, and stimulating portraits of the individual artist are documented alongside beaut…	OL16027467W
Things that are	Amy Leach	The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Best American Essays selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length pu…	OL16176878W
The rabbits	John Marsden	originally published Port Melbourne:Lothian	OL17937556W
Bastard out of Carolina	Dorothy Allison,Dorthey Allison,Dorothy Allsion	Essential Edition handsomely packaged with french flaps, rough fronts, high-quality paper, and a distinctive cover lookGreenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright…	OL1810280W
A year at River Mountain	Michael Kenyon	Part intellectual mystery and part spiritual adventure, A Year at River Mountain tells the story of an aging actor from Vancouver who has immersed himself in monastic life in China and is now examini…	OL18183961W
Iconologie par figures	Hubert François Gravelot	This book is one of the most eminent examples of iconology in revolutionary France. Published in 1791, two years after Frenc Revolution, takes elements from Ripa´s Iconology in a new context: the bir…	OL185971W
The boy and the hat	Neal Starkman	In this allegory about marihuana abuse, Brian begins to withdraw from his family after his friend gives him a mysterious hat to wear.	OL18953441W
Works (Bachman Books / Thinner / Tommyknockers)	Stephen King	Contains: - [The Bachman Books][1] - [Rage](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149154W/Rage) - [The Long Walk](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917769W/The_Long_Walk) - [Roadwork](https://ope…	OL19665463W
The Rabbits	Shaun Tan	The Rabbits offers a rich and immensely valuable perspective on the effect of man on his environment. Visually loaded and told with a passion for truth and understanding, The Rabbits aims to promote …	OL20981998W
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville	SparkNotes,Herman Melville	"Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school."--Back jacket.	OL21848786W
Art and magic in the court of the Stuarts	Vaughan Hart	Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art, in the context of the first Stuart Court. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' Divine Right, and late…	OL2415054W
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Stevenson’s famous gothic novella, first published in 1886, and filmed countless times is better known simply as Jekyll and Hyde. The first novel to toy with the idea of a split personality, it featu…	OL24156W
The operator is calling	Rudi London	This is the saga of Michael. You now know more than he did because, in the beginning, he didn't even know his own name. Suddenly one day, with the flick of a switch, evil came knocking at his door. H…	OL24290112W
Seeing	Margaret Jull Costa,José Saramago	307 pages ; 20 cm	OL25048623W
Leo the lion	Gerda Wagener	An allegory about Leo the lion who searches for someone who will show him love and affection.	OL2672288W
Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira	José Saramago	Una ceguera blanca se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos por la ciudad, los ciegos deben enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la especie humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir …	OL27420W
Promoted to glory	Patricia A. Junker	68 p. : 27 cm	OL2749489W