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Title |
Author |
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The Stranger |
Camus, Albert |
An
ordinary man is unwittingly caught up in a senseless murder in Algeria |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Dostoevsky, Fyodor |
Three sons of an old drunkard search for faith in God. |
| Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky, Fyodor |
Raskolnikoff murders an old moneylender and her sister, and after a lengthy investigation a saintly prostitute Sonya convinces him to confess. |
| Lord of the Flies | Golding, William | The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island |
| The Turn of the Screw | James, Henry | The story unfolds with the arrival of a new governess at a remote country estate. She has been hired by the uncle of two young orphans to take complete charge of the children's lives and upbringing. Her first peaceful weeks are disturbed by the apparition of the ghosts of two evil servants who once served in the house. |
| Death of a Salesman | Miller, Arthur | Dark drama of traveling salesman Willy Loman who struggles with the conflict of family values and society's expectations of success. |
| Hamlet | Shakespeare, William | Shakespeare's tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness in order to trap his father's murderer. |
| One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich | Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich | One of the most chilling novels ever written about the oppression of totalitarian regimes--and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps, this book allowed Solzhenitsyn, who later became Russia's conscience in exile, to challenge the brutal might of the Soviet Union. |
| Dracula | Stoker, Bram | Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. |