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41) Middlemarch (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

Author

Eliot, George

Series

Dover thrift editions

Pub. Date

2015.

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CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Longer Book Club Reads
CSL - Woman Authors

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"Praised by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," Middlemarch offers remarkably modern psychological insights. George Eliot's splendidly plotted tale unfolds in an English town of the 1830s, where memorable residents include an idealistic young woman, an ambitious doctor, and a financier with a secret past"-- "Splendidly plotted tale, set in 1830s England, recounts incidents of love, death, betrayal, and redemption...

42) The Thanksgiving MEGAPACK™: 35 Holiday Classics for Thanksgiving

Author

Henry, O

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Thanksgiving is an American tradition, celebrating the coming of autumn, the bounty of the harvest, the peaceful coexistence of the Pilgrims and the Native Americans, football, family - and, of course, the obligatory celebration feast. Here are 35 tales celebrating Thanksgiving in all its forms, by classic authors you know and love (O. Henry, Harriet Becher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne) and others who may be new to you. Included are: TWO THANKSGIVING...

43) Silas Marner

Pub. Date

c1987

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A young linen weaver's dreams are destroyed when he is falsely accused of a crime. Isolating himself, he becomes a selfish, despondent miser until he adopts an abandoned child.

44) The Mill on the Floss

Pub. Date

[2006]

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The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.

45) Silas Marner: the weaver of Raveloe

Series

BBC Video classics

Pub. Date

[2007]

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Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.

46) Adam Bede

Pub. Date

2007

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Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.