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Series
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a middle-aged Spanish hidalgo who, under the influence of chivalric romances, sets out under the assumed name of Don Quixote to revive the chivalric tradition and improve the world. He is accompanied in his quest by his down-to-earth squire, Sancho Panza.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
In Holland, after their parents die in a car accident, two brothers and a sister are placed in different foster homes. The novel chronicles the effect this has on their adult lives, the narrator being the younger brother.
34) Going down
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A funny novel on Bennington Bloom, 19, of New York, a student who becomes a call girl to pay for acting classes. Things turn less funny when she meets a man and moves in with him, lying about her work rather than give up the easy money. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
Ungar
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
A picaresque novel of the lower Baroque style, written in 1668 by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and probably published the same year (although bearing the date 1669). Inspired by the events and horrors of the Thirty Years' War which devastated Germany from 1618 to 1648, it is regarded as the first adventure novel in the German language and the first German novel masterpiece. The novel is told from the perspective of its protagonist Simplicius,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1946, "Zorba the Greek," is, on one hand, the story of a Greek working man named Zorba, a passionate lover of life, the unnamed narrator who he accompanies to Crete to work in a lignite mine, and the men and women of the town where they settle. On the other hand it is the story of God and man, The Devil and the Saints; the struggle of men to find their souls and purpose in life and it is about love, courage and faith.
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a traveling portrait painter in 19th century New England. They include abduction and months of captivity at the hands of a wealthy man seeking intimacy. She escapes and travels to Italy, where she meets art critic John Ruskin and becomes famous.
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