Dalton Trumbo
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers
An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo's stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that's as timely as ever....
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The Time of the Toad is a searing classic about political repression in America by the legendary screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. In the early 1940s, Trumbo and many other artists, writers, and intellectuals who shared anti-war sympathies and anti-fascist ideals were active members of the American communist party, but their ideology did not go unnoticed. In 1947, during the era of Joseph McCarthy and the "Red Scare" in America, he and nine other Hollywood...
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This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives. This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless, and gruesome...but so is war. Johnny Got His Gun holds a place as one of the classic...
6) Spartacus
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
The epic tale of the bold gladiator slave Spartacus (Douglas), the woman who believed in his cause, and the power-hungry Roman general who challenged his convictions.
9) Hawaii
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a New England farm boy who has decided that the Lord has commanded him to go to Hawaii in order to Christianize its inhabitants.
12) The sandpiper
Pub. Date
1965.
Description
A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.
14) Exodus
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The story of the birth of Israel as an independent state, based on the novel by Leon Uris.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
After a shell leaves his body mangled on the final day of World War I, young Joe Bonham lies trapped in a hospital bed. He is a fully conscious quadruple amputee who cannot speak, hear or see. He is left to wander within his own mind and goes between his harsh reality and memories of a happier life long gone. Delve into the mind of a man lost somewhere on the edges of sanity and insanity, life and death.
16) Spartacus
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
17) A guy named Joe
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Description
A flier is killed but comes back as a ghost to guide fledging airmen and to supervise his ex-girl's new romance.
18) Elizabeth Taylor
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Cat on a hot tin roof: A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
Father of the bride: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
Butterfield 8: A high-class call girl...
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