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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In an open cart, Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered--the hard way--the world of the African. This book recounts Huxley's childhood on the small farm at a time when Europeans waged their fortunes on a land that was as harsh as it was beautiful. For a young girl, it was a time of adventure and freedom,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of his years there, Stegner applied childhood remembrances and adult reflection to the history of the region to create this wise and enduring portrait of a pioneer community existing on the verge of a modern world."--Jacket.
3) On the road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
5) Cannery Row
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and masochistic affair.
9) The red pony
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The classic story of a boy's journey to manhood under the joys and hardships of ranch life, focused around the life and death of his red pony.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
"World War I, in the background of Rebecca West's first novel, was "the first war that women could imagine," writes Samuel Hynes in his eloquent introduction, "and so it was the first that a woman could write into a novel." Narrated by a woman who, like West, has never experienced war and yet for whom the war was very real, The Return of the Soldier (1918) takes place not on a battlefield, but in an isolated country house. It examines the relationships...
13) The immoralist
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Michel, a young Frenchman living in an Algerian village, nearly succumbs to a fatal illness and, after recovering, rebels against his former standards of morality.
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