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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1902, this is a story of deceit and betrayal, as well as of forgiveness. Milly Theale is an heiress with a short time to live and a passion for experiencing life to its fullest. Merton Densher is the man she loves, and the magnificent, predatory Kate Croy is the woman he loves, and will conspire with against Millie.
5) On liberty
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English
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John Stuart Mill's resolute dedication to the cause of freedom inspired this 1859 treatise. Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the publication of this enduring work which applies an ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state which to this day remains well known and studied.
Mills (1806-1873), a British economist, philosopher, and ethical theorist whose argument...
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"This Norton Critical Edition begins with Paul E. Sigmund's comprehensive introduction to the volume, which provides readers with biographical background and a history of the interpretation of Locke's writings, giving particular attention to the ideologically influenced debates of the last fifty years. Locke's most important political writings - The Two Treatises of Government (The First Treatise generously excerpted; The Second Treatise complete)...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In addition to the texts of 'Walden' and 'Civil Disobedience', this revised and expanded 'Norton Critical Edition' reprints the increasingly important works 'Slavery in Massachusetts', 'Walking' and 'Wild Apples'. All texts are accompanied by annotations
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Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"This Norton Critical Edition, edited by the pioneer of Great Expectations scholarship, presents the most thorough textual edition of the novel (1861) available. The newly established text is based on all extant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays. Backgrounds provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included....
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript. Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date -- the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied...
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"Nella Larsen (1891-1964) occupies a central place in African-American and Modernist literature, and her status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer is rivaled only by Zora Neale Hurston's. This edition of Larsen's 1929 novel is accompanied by Carla Kaplan's introduction and explanatory annotations."--BOOK JACKET.
16) Walden, and Civil disobedience: Authoritative texts, background, reviews, and essays in criticism
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Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
Includes the text and textual notes on Walden and Civil disobedience plus critical reviews and essays.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
This edition includes:The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by a preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.Twenty-two illustrations and historical documents on slavery and abolitionism are included, as are seventeen critical reviews spanning more than 160 years.
19) Frankenstein
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English