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-- Nineteen eighty-four1981., Plume/Harcourt Brace Book Call No: Dystopian Fic Orwell Genre: Classic, Science fiction Availability:2 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: An allegory exploring the dangers of life in a strictly totalitarian society governed by Big Brother and the Thought Police. As an employee at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith is constantly confronted with lies invented by the government to perpetuate its own power. Smith joins a rebel group called the Brotherhood dedicated to destroying the Party and freeing everyone under its control.
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-- Twenty thousand leagues under the seac2000., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: Sci Fi FIC Verne Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scholastic classicsSummary Note: Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
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1994., Dover Publications Call No: Adventure FIC Twain Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dover large print classics
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-- Huckleberry Finn2008., Signet Classic Call No: Adventure FIC Twain Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Huck tells of his adventures travelling down the Mississippi on a raft with an escaped slave.
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no date., Weekly Reader Books Call No: Adventure FIC Twain Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small 19th-century town on the Mississippi River.
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c2007., Juvenile, F. Watts Call No: Adventure FIC Twain Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Scholastic classicsSummary Note: The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
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1983., Distributed by Random House, : Distributed by Random House Call No: Fantasy FIC Carroll Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
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1996., Ballantine Books Call No: Historical FIC Remarque Edition: 1st Ballantine Books trade ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I.
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2000., Modern Library Call No: Romance FIC Tolstoy Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Modern Library classicsSummary Note: In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage. Includes an introduction by Mona Simpson, commentary, and a reading group guide.
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-- Uncle Tom's cabinc2007., W.W. Norton Call No: Historical FIC Stowe Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Summary Note: Presents an annotated version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that describes the lives of slaves and abolitionists in the 1800s, historical discussions of the Underground Railroad, slave trade, plantation life, and advertisements that were influenced by the novel.
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By Rand, Ayn1999, c1946., Caxton Press Call No: Sci Fi FIC Rand Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a future world, only one man dares to think, strive, and love as an individual in the midst of a paralyzing collective humanity.
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2000., Modern Library Call No: Classic FIC Cho Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Modern Library classicsSummary Note: Presents Kate Chopin's 1899 novel about an unhappy wife and mother who embarks on an affair with a younger man and eventually commits suicide; and includes twelve short stories of Creole Louisiana, as well as a scholarly introduction and a reading group guide.
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1999, c1971., Perennial Classics Call No: Realistic Fic Plath Edition: 1st Perennial Classics ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented, and successful young woman.
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2012., Duke Classics Click to access OverDrive digital title. Summary Note: Beowulf is the earliest surviving poem in Old English. Although the authorship is anonymous it is believed to have been written before the 10th century AD. The only extant European manuscript of the Beowulf text is placed at around 1010. The epic tells the tale of the Scandinavian hero Beowulf as he struggles against three adversaries; the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother and an unnamed dragon. The epic was recently released as a blockbuster film starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman, and Angelina Jolie.
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-- Brave new world and Brave new world revisited2010., Harper Perennial Modern Classics Call No: Sci Fi FIC Huxley Edition: 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe ed. Genre: Classic, Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Contains both the fictional "Brave New World" and the non-fictional "Brave New World Revisited," which compares the modern-day world with his earlier prophetic fantasy.
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c1988, 2008., Juvenile, Puffin Books Call No: FIC LONDON Availability:6 of 7 At Location(s) Summary Note: A dog in the Klondike reverts to wilderness life and becomes the leader of a pack of wolves.
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1990, c1986., TOR Call No: Adventure FIC London Edition: 1st Tor ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Perma-Bound classicsSummary Note: The story of the sled dog, Buck, who was mistreated by his master and broke free to roam the Alaskan wilderness.
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-- Gato ensombrerado[2015], Primary, Random House Call No: JUV002050 Edition: Bilingual ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A zany but well-meaning cat brings a cheerful, exotic, and exuberant form of chaos to a household of two young children one rainy day while their mother is out. Presented in English and Spanish.
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-- Catch-twenty-two1996, c1989., Simon & Schuster Call No: Historical FIC Heller Edition: 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. Genre: Classic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: A bombardier, based in Italy during World War II, repeatedly tries to avoid flying bombing missions while his colonel tries to get him killed by demanding that he fly more and more missions.
