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The rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo as told through the history of the Buendia family.
| Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | Non-Fiction | 36 | 12 | 12/1/2010 | 12th Honors English & AP Literature and Composition, Parental Permission required before instruction begins. |
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Depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future.
| Orwell, George | Satire | 43 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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An English veterinarian reminisces about his life, career, and animal patients in a small village.
| Herriot, James | Biography | 2 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
| | Christie, Agatha | Fiction | 4 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
| | Peters, Ellis | Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
| | Shakespeare | Drama | | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Portrays the conflict of loyalties to church and state as they influenced the lives of two powerful men in English history.
| Anouilh, Jean | Play | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
| | | Epic Poem | 3 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.
| Huxley, Aldous | Fiction | 35 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
| | Lewis, C. S. | Science Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A group of pilgrims tell their stories on the way to Canterbury Cathedral.
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | Poetry | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Sixteenth-century drama about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
| Marlowe, Christopher | Play | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist, takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde by night.
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Fiction | 3 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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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 empire.
| Stoker, Bram | Fiction | 36 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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The first book of the famous fantasy trilogy.
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Fantasy | 3 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Victor Frankenstein has discovered the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and has created a monster being by using this terrible power.
| Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | Fiction | 61 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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The voyages of an Englishman carry him to a land of people six inches high, a land of giants, and island of sorcerers, and a land where horses are masters of human-like creatures.
| Swift, Jonathan | Fiction | 2 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A Danish prince seeks vengeance for his father’s murder after being visited by his ghost.
| Shakespeare, William | Play | 92 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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The captain of a steamship on the Congo River meets and observes Mr. Kurtz, the fabled chief of the Inner Station for the trading company on that river in 1890.
| Conrad, Joseph | Fiction | 25 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A play about court and double-dealing in the King’s court.
| Shakespeare, William | Play | 28 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.
| Adams, Douglas | Science Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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In this satire of Victorian social hypocrisy, Jack Worthing is a fashionable young man who lives in the country with his ward Cecily. He has invented a rakish brother named Ernest whose supposed exploits give Jack an excuse to travel to London periodicall
| Wilde, Oscar | Drama | 2 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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When a penniless governess falls in love with the brooding master of Thornfield, she is unaware of the tragic events that will follow.
| Bronte, Charlotte | Fiction | 20 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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King Lear disinherits his daughter when she speaks out against him and splits his kingdom between his other two daughters who are plotting against him.
| Shakespeare, William | Play | 33 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Amir and Hassan are good friends growing up together in Afghanistan but when the Soviets invade the country, Amir and his family use their wealth and influence to flee to California, but Hassan and his impoverished family, who are also a shunned ethnic mi
| Hosseini, Khaled | Fiction | 1 | 12 | | |
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Stranded on an island while an atomic war destroys the rest of the world, a group of young boys revert to savagery as they struggle to survive.
| Golding, William | Fiction | 79 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A Scottish noble kills the king to claim the throne for himself.
| Shakespeare, William | Play | 48 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A new twist on the Don Juan legend.
| Shaw, George Bernard | Drama | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A play based on the historical relationship between Henry VIII and Thomas More whom he appointed Bishop of Canterbury.
| Bolt, Robert | Play | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Play which journeys so deep into the psychosis of racism that all national boundaries quickly disappear.
| Fugard, Athol | Play, Nonfiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Shakespeare’s comedy about a creditor demanding a pound of flesh in payment of a defaulted debt and a lover who must choose among three caskets in a riddle game to win the hand of a wealthy lady.
| Shakespeare, William | Play | 3 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A portrait of 19th century English provincial life focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family.
| Eliot, George | Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Shakespeare’s play involving young Athenian lovers, a boisterous group of local tradesmen, and the monarchs and subjects of the fairy kingdom.
| Shakespeare, William | Play | 52 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A drama of the conflict between church and state in 12th century England culminates in the murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
| Eliot, T. S. | Play | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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In a series of adventures Nicholas, a young hero, journeys from the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys’ boarding school to a high-spirited acting troupe in nineteenth-century England.
| Dickens, Charles | Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Philip Cary, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a self-indulgent Victorian clergyman. Shedding his religious faith as a young man, he begins to study art in Paris, but finally returns to London to qualify as a doctor.
| Maugham, W. Somerset | Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Iago, who has been passed over for a promotion, plots revenge against Othello, a general in the service of Venice.
| Shakespeare, William | Play | 44 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Epic poem which deals with the original sin of Adam and Eve and their temptation by the devil.
| Milton, John | Poetry | 2 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A classic account of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century revealing the menace lurking just under the surface of ordinary misunderstanding.
| Forster, E. M. | Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil.
| Wilde, Oscar | Fiction | 29 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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This enthralling novel about a troubled white American family in Africa is narrated by a missionary's four funny, smart, brave daughters, who are caught up in the political upheaval of what was called the Congo in 1961.
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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An autobiographical novel depicting the childhood, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus.
| Joyce, James | Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
| Austen, Jane | Fiction | 28 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A play about Eliza Doolittle, an untutored flower girl who is transformed into a "duchess" with the help of Henry Higgins.
| Shaw, George Bernard | Play | 32 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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For months after her death, the memory of Rebecca de Winter continues to dominate everyone at her former home, Manderley, one of the most famous English country houses.
| Du Maurier, Daphne | Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to Egdon Heath to open a school. There he marries a pleasure-loving girl and tragedy follows.
| Hardy, Thomas | Fiction | 2 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Presents the play of Hamlet as seen through the eyes of Resencrantz and Guildenstern.
| Stoppard, Tom | Play | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.
| Dickens, Charles | Fiction | 37 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Play about a man who sets out to tame his shrewish wife.
| Shakespeare, William | Play | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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An English woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control.
| Hardy, Thomas | Fiction | 29 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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The second book of the famous fantasy trilogy has the Fellowship of the Ring divided by an attack of the Orc soldiers.
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Fantasy | 61 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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A middle-aged man looks back on his first love at age seventeen.
| Sparks, Nicholas | Fiction | 6 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Imaginatively constructs the girlhood and marriage of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, the mysterious madwoman in Jane Eyre.
| Rhys, Jean | Historical Fiction | 1 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |
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Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.
| Bronte, Emily | Fiction | 69 | 12 | 1/1/2004 | |