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1) Selected short stories of Franz Kafka

Author

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

Volume

83

Earliest Publication Date

1952

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Donated by the estate of Donald S. Moore.

2) The Thurber carnival

Author

Thurber, James, 1894-1961

Volume

85

Earliest Publication Date

1945

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"An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner." -Philadelphia Inquirer James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century. A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945, The Thurber Carnival captures the depth of his talent...

3) Gulliver's travels, and other writings

Author

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745

Volume

100

Earliest Publication Date

1958

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The classic story of a traveler's voyages to several fantastical lands presents the eighteenth-century English writer's scathing satire on the political and moral conditions of his time. Also includes many of Swift's other major writings.

4) The young lions

Author

Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984

Volume

112

Earliest Publication Date

1948

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Irwin Shaw's classic novel stands among the best fictional depictions of World War II Told from the points of view of one German and two very different Americans, this sweeping fresco brings home the reality of the most important historical event between the Great Depression and September 11, 2001: the Second World War. Considered by critics to be one of the most lucid visions of war in American fiction, The Young Lions remains a benchmark of twentieth-century...

5) Crime and punishment

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Volume

199

Earliest Publication Date

1914

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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...

6) Pere Goriot ; and, Eugenie Grandet

Author

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850

Volume

245

Earliest Publication Date

1946

7) The best short stories of Bret Harte

Author

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902

Volume

250

Earliest Publication Date

1947

8) The philosophy of Kant: Immanuel Kant's moral and political writings

Author

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804

Volume

266

Earliest Publication Date

1949

9) Basic writings

Author

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961

Volume

300

Earliest Publication Date

1959

10) The European philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche

Volume

a modern library giant, g-16

Earliest Publication Date

1960

11) Thirty famous one-act plays

Volume

g22

Earliest Publication Date

1949

12) Thus spake Zarathustra

Author

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900

Volume

no. 9

Earliest Publication Date

1954

13) New voices in the American theatre

Volume

no. 258

Earliest Publication Date

1955

14) A bell for Adano

Author

Hersey, John, 1914-1993

Earliest Publication Date

1944

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John Hersey grew up in China, studied at Yale and Cambridge, worked as a journalist, and astonished the nation when he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for A Bell for Adano. His first novel, its offbeat blend of patriotism and warm humor immediately captured readers' hearts. In 1943, the American Major Victor Joppolo finds himself the civil affairs officer-the mayor-of a small town in Sicily. Equipped with the rulebook, How to Bring American Democracy...

15) A comprehensive anthology of American poetry

Author

Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973

Earliest Publication Date

1944

16) A doll's house ; Ghosts ; An enemy of the people

Author

Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906

Earliest Publication Date

1925

17) A farewell to arms

Author

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

Earliest Publication Date

1929

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"Set against the harrowing backdrop of World War I, A Farewell to Arms tells the powerful and semiautobiographical story of Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. As the world around them descends into chaos, their love becomes a fragile beacon of hope and connection. Through Hemingway's raw and vivid prose, this novel captures the intensity of life on the Italian front--the horrors of the battlefield,...