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The Yearling
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag after a fatal encounter with his mother and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as … |
OL111382W |
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The Good Earth
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Ruth Goode,Donald F. Roden,Stephen Colbourn,Nick Bertozzi,Pearl S. Buck,Ernst Simon |
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby,… |
OL1140109W |
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All the King's Men
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Robert Penn Warren |
The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to n… |
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Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers--Volume Nine
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Joseph Conrad,Emily Brontë,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,James Fenimore Cooper |
[Wuthering Heights](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21177W) / Emily Bronte
Typhoon / Joseph Conrad
Last of the Mohicans / James F. Cooper
[The Yearling](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL111382W)… |
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The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck |
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Drive… |
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Gone With the Wind
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Margaret Mitchell |
Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the cen… |
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The late George Apley
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John P. Marquand |
From back cover of Washington Square Press paperback January 1970:
A wicked satire
This is a brilliantly etched portrait of a Bostonian and of the tradition-bound, gilded society in which he li… |
OL5102221W |