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Penguin Books Ltd
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Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man.
Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as the 'talking cure', yet it is also and profoundly,
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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The villiage of Cooperstown, named for its Quaker founder, William Cooper, lay near the edge of a forest. Fascinated by its dark green depths, its mysterious hiding places, James, youngest but one of the twelve Cooper children, had many romantic dreams about it - dreams and romances that stayed with him long afterwards and found their way into his books, The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, and the rest of the Leather Stocking Tales.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized...
5) The Odyssey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this ... version--the first English translation ... by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary...
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'All over Italy men were conscripted, and weapons requisitioned; money was exacted from towns, and taken from shrines; and all the laws of god and man were overturned.' The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the...
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Penguin
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1972
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English
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This edition contains six of Euripides' eighteen surviving works, including "Orestes." In writing "Orestes" (408 B.C.E.), Euripides utilized the mythology of the Bronze Age to reflect upon the politics of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. The story takes places after Orestes has murdered his mother to avenge his father, Agamemnon, and follows him as he attempts to save his own life. The play explores themes of man's subordination to the gods and...
9) Dracula
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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"Jonathan Harker is sent to see a client of his company in a distant part of Europe. The castle is deserted and the Count is a very strange host. But little does young Jonathan suspect that he and the people closest to him are about to be put into the worst danger and the most gruesome terror that anyone can imagine! Now they must track and destroy Dracula before he finds and destroys each of them!"--Book back cover.
12) Paradise lost
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Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in English literature, and Milton's Satan one of its most compelling figures. The controversy has been exceeded only by its tremendous influence: countless masters of English verse have paid homage to Milton and Paradise Lost. A profound meditation on the role of man under God, Pardise Lost is essential reading.
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Ranked among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 by The Times, internationally bestselling author John le Carré is perhaps best known for his classic novel The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. In The Little Drummer Girl, aspiring actress Charlie travels to Mykonos, wanting only to escape the dreariness of her home in England. But once there she meets a handsome Israeli intelligence officer and is soon lured into a deadly
...15) Les miserables
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"Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, the work follows Jean Valjean, a victim of society who has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and mayor of a northern town. Despite this he is haunted by an impulsive, regretted former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert. Valjean eventually...
16) Moby Dick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature."...
18) The pearl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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The classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other,...
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other,...
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...
20) Of mice and men
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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The tragic story of two itinerant ranch hands on the run--one is the lifelong companion to the other, a developmentally disabled man.
"They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living...
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