Brave
New World by: ALDOUS HUXLEY
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It is the year AF
632 and the breeding and conditioning of humans by scientific methods have
created worldwide stability and happiness. Or have they? John brings passion
to the New World and the value of the New World are thrown into perspective.
Cry,
the Beloved Country by: ALAN
PATON
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When Reverend Kumalo
sets off for Johannesburg, he hopes to find his son and his brother. What
he finds is that in their struggle to survive city life under apartheid,
his relatives have lost sight of honesty, love and respect, with terrible
consequences.
Great
Expectations by: CHARLES
DICKENS
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Pip’s life changes
when he is provided with money by a secret benefactor and he goes to London
to live as a gentleman. He thinks he will now be able to marry the woman
he loves. But Pip’s ‘Great expectations’ do not turn out as he hoped.
Kolymsky
Heights by: LIONEL
DAVIDSON
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An Oxford professor
receives an envelope, which contains two blank pieces of paper. Two coded
message on them reads:
“Send me the man that
speaks the tongues of the north”. The message, the professor realizes,
is from the director of a secret research station in Siberia. Johnny
Porter, brilliant linguist and Native Canadian, is the man the director
wants. We follow Porter on his dangerous mission to Siberia. But how does
he get into such a secret place, why is he needed there, and how will he
get out again ?
Snow
Falling On Cedars by: DAVID
GUTERSON 0 582 27845 7
New
It is 1954 and a young
man is on a trial for murder. He is Kabuo Miyamoto, one of many Japanese
Americans living on the small island of San Piedro, off the north-west
coast of America. Is he responsible for the mysterious death of the fisherman,
Carl Heine ?
Some islanders are
happy to think so.
As we follow the trial
through the eyes of Ishmael Chambers, the local reporter, we see how the
Second World War has affected this small community. In the atmosphere
of anger and suspicion, that exists on the island, will Kabuo receive a
fair trial, and will the true cause of Carl Heine’s death be discovered
?
Animal
Farm by: GEORGE ORWELL
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“All animals are equal”
“Down with the Dogs”
When the animals take
over the farm, they think it is the start of a better life. Their dream
is of a world where all animals are equal and all property is shared. But
soon the pigs take control, and one of them, Napoleon, becomes leader of
all the animals. One by one the principles of the revolution are abandoned,
until the animals have even less freedom than before. The Pigs promise
a better society and work for all the animals, saying that all animals
are equal, but as it appears, some animals are more equal than others.
The Pigs turn out to be even more cruel than their old masters. This classic
story of modern English fiction is a powerful study of the use and abuse
of political power.
Bleak
House by: CHARLES
DICKENS
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‘Your mother, Esther,
was your disgrace and you are hers.’
These words were Esther’s
earliest memory. But who was Esther’s mother? What was the disgrace? And
why did the ghost walk at Chesney Wold?
The
Call of the Wild by: JACK
LONDON
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Set at the time of
the gold rush in North America, a dog called Buck is stolen and sold for
work as a sledge dog.
Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by: ROBERT
LOUIS STEVENSON
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The battle of
good and evil within the personality of one man..
Kidnapped
by: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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David Balfour’s account
of the sufferings inflicted upon him by his evil uncle, and his perilous
journey in the Highlands of eighteenth-century Scotland.
The
Prince and the Pauper by: MARK
TWAIN
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Young Prince Edward
changes places with a beggar, Tom Canty.
Robinson
Crusoe by: DANIEL DEFOE
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World-famous story
of survival on a desert island.
Silas
Marner by: GEORGE ELIOT
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Silas Marner leads
a very simple life: all he does is work. Silas loves only one thing: his
money, which he counts every night. Then one day his money is stolen and
a little girl comes to live with him. Soon Silas Marner starts to change.
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