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—Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907.
2001

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Durtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the monstrous fifteenth-century child-murderer thought to be the original for...
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—Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

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After a tumble down the rabbit hole, Alice finds herself far away from home in the absurd world of Wonderland....
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—Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

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The Jungle Book key characters are Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and Sher Khan, biggest tiger in India. As Baloo the sleepy brown bear, Bagheera the...
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—Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running...
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—Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

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committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter...
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—London, Jack.

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The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike....
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—Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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12 different adventures of Sherlock Holmes...
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—Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys...
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—Defoe, Daniel

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the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstanc...
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—Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England....
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—Leroux, Gaston

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The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is...
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—Verne, Jules

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One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established...
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—Lang, Andrew

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The tales of told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular...
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—Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

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Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of...
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—Swift, Johnathan

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Lemuel Gulliver's travels in the strange countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. The people of these countries, with all their curiously human failings...
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—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: t...
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—Flaubert, Gustave

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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of...
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—Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986, author.
2006

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This is Simone de Beauvoir's first novel, written as an act of revenge against the woman who nearly destroyed her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre....
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—Homer.

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The Odyssey is Homer's epic of Odysseus' 10-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. While Odysseus battles mystical creatures and faces the...

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Listening to the Classics

… Listening to the Classics Blog Body Okay. Please don’t jump down my throat. But I’m a sucker for “The Classics”. You know the ones I’m talking about: the likes of … open metaphorically musty hardbacks to connect with “The Classics”. In fact, you don’t have to strain your eyes at …

The Joy of Book Clubs

… more titles, Overdrive has a collection of always available classics such as Pride and Prejudice , The Adventures of …

8 Unexpected Holiday Reads from the Writer in Residence

… so they can give it to a family that has no food. Other classics: Christmas Day in the Morning (Pearl S. Buck); A …

Reading Resources

… (Libby)  is a terrific resource for finding best sellers, classics, and more, for all ages. Overdrive also has titles …

Resources for educators

… TumbleBook Library hoopla We also have a  collection of classics  in the  Overdrive (Libby)  app and children and …

About the RPL Film Theatre

… and arthouse films Documentaries Cult favourites Cinema classics, including restorations We also provide access to …
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