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Centuries before the Human-Covenant War would rage across the galaxy, a similar conflict erupted between the Prophets and the Elites - two alient races at odds over the sacred artifacts left by the powerful Forerunners, who disappeared eons ago. Although they would eventually form a stable alliance called the Covenant, there are those on both sides who question this fateful union.
| LCC: | PS3569.H558 B76 2014 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play it as it Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, plumbing the emptiness and ennui of a seemingly bankrupt society in spare sentences that scour and disturb. Set in the moral limbos of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the Mojave Desert, Play it as it Lays remains, more than 40 years after its original publication, a profoundly unsettling novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis, stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
| LCC: | PS3554.I33 P57 2005 |
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| FDC: | 814 |
This new edition is a thorough and sensitive revision of the unique, justly acclaimed, and much used anthology of modern poetry in English. In revising the book, the editors have kept to the principles that served the first edition so well. The selections are generous, often demonstrating the span of a career. More attention is given to major poets and to major poetic trends. Contemporary poetry is once again given full representation, in such a way that its outlines are always clear.
| LCC: | PS613 .N67 1988 |
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| FDC: | 821 |
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| FDC: | 822 |
Read Romeo and Juliet in all its brilliance and actually understand what it means. No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Romeo and Juliet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy to understand translation on the right.
| LCC: | PR2831 .A25 2003 |
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| FDC: | 822 |
Salt Dances is the dramatic story of one woman's redemptive journey back to her childhood through layers of memory and longing. Unmarried and pregnant at 41, architect Julia Ives returns to her home in the Pacific Northwest, determined to understand her family's troubled past before her child is born. Haunted by memories of betrayal and abandonment, she confronts the father she has not seen in 21 years.
| LCC: | PS3558.E4185 S25 1995 |
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| FDC: | 823 |
When fifteen-year-old Christina Eudora Van Scholls learns that her family will leave Germany for Texas, her greatest sorrow is leaving behind her beloved grandmother. And so, in a series of letters, she takes "Oma" on this great adventure with her family - and takes us as readers. Sometimes the letters are dark with discouragement, for the Von Scholls find, as did many German-Texas families, that the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants, known as the Adelsverein, was unable to fulfill its promises of land, housing, horses, and farm implements.
| LCC: | PZ7.G98145 Le 1989 |
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| FDC: | 833 |
In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes - moral, religious, political and social - that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works.
| LCC: | PG3326 .Z4 1992 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
The Cherry Orchard was first produced by the Moscow Art Theatre on Chekhov's last birthday, January 17, 1904. Since that time it has become one of the most critically admired and performed plays in the Western world, a high comedy whose principal theme, the passing of the old semifeudal order, is symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevsky.
| LCC: | PG3456.V5 E5 1991 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
This rich selection of four short stories by the great 19th century Russian author of Dead Souls includes The Nose, a savage satire of incompetent bureaucrats and the snobbery and complacency of the Russian upper classes; Old Fashioned Farmers, a sketch depicting an elderly couple who live a happy but simple life in rustic seclusion; The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ican Nikiforovich, one of Gogol's most famous comic series; and The Overcoat, an exceptionally moving tale - considered a masterpiece of the form - about a poor and much-ridivuled St. Petersburg official.
| LCC: | PG3333 .A6 1992 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) also wrote numerous excellent short stories, three of which are contained in this volume. The Kreutzer Sonata (1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young men and women in the matters of sex. In The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886), a symbolic Everyman discovers the inner light of faith and love only when confronted with death. How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886) is a simple, didactic story of peasant life, written by Tolstoy in the wake of a spiritiau lcrisis. All three tales offer readers a splendid introduction to Tolstoy's work as well as the focused delights of the short story form brought to a pinnacle in the hands of a master.
| LCC: | PG3366 .A13 1993 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
Besides the brilliant title story, a cunningly wrought narrative of romance and murder in the haute bourgeoisie of St. Petersburg, this volume includes all five stories originally collected as The Tales of the Late P. Belkin.
| LCC: | PG3347 .A2 1994 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
The impressionable young student Arkady Kirsanoff arrives home in the company of his friend Bazarov, a cynical biologist. Arkady's father and uncle, already distressed by the upheaval of the peasants, grow increasingly irritated at Bazarov's outspoken nihilism and his ridicule of the conventions of state, church, and home. The young friends, bored by the rustic life of the Kirsanoff estate, venture off to the provincial capital in search of amusement. There they encounter both romance and alienation.
| LCC: | PG3421 .O813 1998 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
Three of Gorky's best knon works appear in this collection - the title story, in which a thieving vagrant takes on a young, unwilling apprentice; Makar Chudra, the story of an ill-fated, tempestuous romance between a pair of nomad lovers; and Twenty-six Men and a Girl, widelyregarded as Gorky's best short story, in which a wretched crew of prezel-makers, laboring in a damp and grimy cellar, destroy their only source of joy.
| LCC: | PG3463 .A15 1999 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul. These 36 half-hour lectures delve into more than 40 works by a dozen writers under the guidance of Professor Irwin Weil of Northwestern University.
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| FDC: | 891 |
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