Miscellaneous Fiction

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Title	Author	Novelist Blurb
The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	A prose translation of the medieval classic that features members of a fourteenth century pilgrimage sharing stories as they travel to Canterbury
The Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.
The Old Man and the Sea	Hemingway, Ernest	Story of an old fisherman's struggle against natural obstacles that hinder the catch of a huge marlin.
Odyssey	Homer	Chronicles the perilous ten-year journey of Odysseus from the battlefields of Troy to his home in Ithaca.
Black Like Me	Griffin, John Howard	A white magazine reporter changes the color of his skin and moves to a series of small southern towns so he can experience life as a black man.
Tales from Shakespeare	Lamb, Charles	Shakespeare's fourteen comedies and six tragedies retold in prose.
	Shakespeare, William	Various tragedies and comedies
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.
Antigone	Sophocles	Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky.