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A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...
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Socrates Fortlow, an ex-convict forced to define his own morality in a lawless world, confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore and comes face-to-face with the most dangerous emotion: hope. It has been nine years since his release from prison, and he still makes his home in a two-room shack in a Watts alley. But he has a girlfriend now, a steady job, and he is even caring for a pet, the two-legged dog he calls Killer. These responsibilities...
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Great books of the Western world volume 22
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
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English
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Original and modern versions in parallel columns.
Contains both Chaucer's epic poem, detailing tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy, and Canterbury Tales, a frame story of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together.
6) Local girls
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An anthology of interconnected short stories captures the lives and destinies of the Samuelsons, a family struggling with tragedy and divorce.
8) My century
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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One hundred stories, each named after a year this century. In one, Erich Maria Remarque gives his views on World War I, in another former Nazis reflect on the good old days, while a third is on the fall of the Berlin Wall from a dead woman's point of view.
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Vintage Books
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1990.
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English
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The professor's house was published in 1925, when she was fifty-two. At the time she was an author with a worldwide reputation, having won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of ours. Reaching the top of her profession had produced a letdown, and she later wrote that around the time she won the Pulitzer she had felt that for her the world had broken in two. The situation of the professor in this novel reflects the troubled time in Cather's own life....
11) Grand Avenue
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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In Santa Rosa, California, lives a community of Indians in two rows of army barracks separated by a potholed dirt road littered with junk. This is the grand avenue of the title. In ten short stories its members describe their squabbles, illnesses, poverty, as well as the warmth of their communal life. A debut in fiction for the author of Keeping Slug Woman Alive.
