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1) Abstract painting: fifty years of accomplishment, from Kandinsky to the present

Author

Seuphor, Michel, 1901-1999

Earliest Publication Date

1962

2) A tale of two cities

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Earliest Publication Date

1859

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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores...

3) Beginner's guide to archaeology: the modern digger's step-by-step introduction to the expert ways of unearthing the past

Author

Brennan, Louis A

Earliest Publication Date

1974

4) Coming of age in Samoa: a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilization

Author

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978

Earliest Publication Date

1961

5) Great Irish short stories

Earliest Publication Date

1964

6) Six great modern plays: Chekhov, Ibsen, Shaw, O'Casey, Williams, Miller

Earliest Publication Date

1958

7) The myth of American manhood

Earliest Publication Date

1978

8) The novel: a modern guide to fifteen English masterpieces

Author

Drew, Elizabeth A., 1887-1965

Earliest Publication Date

1963

9) The picture of Dorian Gray

Author

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

Earliest Publication Date

1890

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Dorian Gray is arrogant. He is pompous, selfish, devastatingly narcissistic, and for much of his life he has never had to think twice about the ramifications of his actions.When the arrival of artist Basil Hallard forces Gray to confront his deepest insecurities, Dorian's most vulnerable self is imminently revealed. After having traded his righteousness for riches, Dorian Gray becomes faced with many regrettable truths he must learn to tackle head...

10) The prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Author

Spark, Muriel

Earliest Publication Date

1962

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A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorities because of her unorthodox teaching methods.

11) Trout fishing in America

Author

Brautigan, Richard

Earliest Publication Date

1967

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Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called "the last of the Beats." His early books became required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication Trout Fishing in America became an international bestseller. An indescribable romp, the novel...