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Doubt : a parable
John Patrick Shanley
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Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a nun is faced with uncertainty as she has grave concerns for a male colleague
2005; 58 p.; isbn:1559362766 More Information |
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Equus
Peter Shaffer
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In Equus , which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic, Peter Shaffer depicts the story of a deranged youth who blinds six horses with a spike. Through a psychiatrist's analysis of the events, Shaffer creates a chilling portrait of how materialism and convenience have killed our capacity for worship and passion ...
1973; 108 p.; isbn:0140260706 More Information |
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
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1993; 682 p.; isbn:0679424725 More Information |
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Falling man : a novel
Don DeLillo
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"There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years." "Falling Man is a novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people." "First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble ...
2007; 246 p.; isbn:1416546022 More Information |
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
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Dickens' classic story of a boy forced to live in a dark and dismal London workhouse lorded over by the awful Mr. Bumble. Desperate but determined, Oliver makes his escape and discovers that life in the harsh streets of London's underworld makes the workhouse look like a picnic.
1992; 427 p.; isbn:0679417249 More Information |
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George Eliot, selected works
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
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1995; 820 p.; isbn:0517122235 |
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Silas Marner : the weaver of raveloe
George Eliot
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What is the value of human relations, the connection between souls? In Silas Marner , George Eliot explores this question in the story of a reclusive weaver in a small English town who learns to trade his love of gold for the love of those around him. Though he started life as a religious man, a heartbreaking betrayal drove Silas Marner to become ...
1993; 206 p.; isbn:0679420304 More Information |
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Extremely loud and incredibly close
Jonathan Safran Foer
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"Jonathan Safran Foer confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination." "Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, and pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission ...
2005; 326 p.; isbn:0618329706 More Information |
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Terrorist
John Updike
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"John Updike's twenty-second novel tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam." "The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He feels his faith threatened ...
2006; 310 p.; isbn:0307264653 More Information |
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