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Earliest Publication Date
1932
Description
"A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature,...
2) Jane Eyre
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1941
On Shelf
Oak Lawn Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BRONTE
2 available
FICTION BRONTE
2 available
Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION BRONTE
1 available
YOUNG ADULT FICTION BRONTE
1 available
eBook
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
Earliest Publication Date
1850
On Shelf
Oak Lawn Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAWTHORN
1 available
FICTION HAWTHORN
1 available
Oak Lawn Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAWTHORNE
5 available
FICTION HAWTHORNE
5 available
eBook
Description
"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta. At once retrospective and radically new, [this book] portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...
4) The trial
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1957
Description
Franz Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early twentieth-century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, a young bank official named Joseph K is arrested although he has done nothing wrong and is never told what he's been charged with. The Trial is the chronicle of his fight to prove his innocence, of his struggles and encounters...
