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1) Don Quixote
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Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the classic early 17th century Spanish novel of chivalry and abiding optimism, depicting the exploits of a knight who attempts to bring justice and truth to the world.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 58
Language
English
Description
The nineteenth-century Russian writer's masterful novel of a woman's bitter struggle to live outside moral law after she has forsaken her husband for a lover.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 301
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
In this Orwellian dramatization, religion becomes a tool of repression and social control to force women into the roles of stay-at-home wives, domestic staff, prostitutes, or surrogate mothers. They have no rights to their bodies or property and are completely dependent upon men. Those women who have had at least one child find themselves forced into the role of breeding machine, producing children for childless couples. References to 20th-century...
Author
Publisher
Everymans Library
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 1102 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lyra Belacqua tries to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments, decides to help Will Parry search for his father, and finds that she and Will are caught in a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by her uncle, Lord Asriel.