F
CAT |
Cather, Willa. |
Paul’s
Case. |
|
A sensitive
and romantic young man steals money from
his employer and escapes to New York to
live the glamorous life until reality brings
tragedy. |
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| |
F
CON |
Conrad,
Joseph. |
The
Secret Sharer. |
|
| A captain
recounts his tale of overcoming a debilitating
insecurity to capably command his ship. |
| |
| |
F
HAR |
Harte, Bret. |
The Luck of
Roaring Camp. |
|
| Does a baby
boy, orphaned in a California gold mining
camp, bring good luck to the miners who
decide to raise him, or is it all coincidental? |
| |
| |
F
HAW |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. |
Young Goodman
Brown. |
|
| A nocturnal journey with the
devil and a strange vision in the forest lead
Puritan Goodman Brown to regard the Salem
townspeople as devil worshipers. |
| |
| |
F
HEN |
Henry, O. |
The Ransom
of Red Chief. |
|
| After kidnapping
a mischievous boy and requesting a large
ransom, two men get more than they bargained
for and end up poorer but wiser. |
| |
| |
F
IRV |
Irving, Washington. |
The Legend
of Sleepy Hollow |
|
Ichabod Crane,
a superstitious schoolteacher in love with
Katrina Van Tassel, a wealthy farmer’s
daughter, has a terrifying encounter with
a headless horseman. |
| |
| |
F
JAC |
Jackson, Shirley. |
The Lottery.
|
|
| Villagers
gather for the annual lottery, with unusual
consequences for the recipient of that piece
of paper with the black spot. |
| |
| |
F
MAU |
Maupassant, Guy
de. |
The Necklace. |
|
A petulant
young woman borrows a necklace from her
rich friend to wear to a ball, but the cost
is unimaginable. |
| |
| |
F
POE |
Poe, Edgar Allan. |
The Tell-Tale
Heart. |
|
| Is it paranoia
that drives the nervous narrator to confess
his crime? |
| |
| |
F
SAI |
Saint-Exupery,
Antoine. |
The Little
Prince. |
|
| A pilot, stranded
in the African desert, encounters a stranger
from a small planet who explains valuable
lessons about life. |
| |
| |
F
STE |
Steinbeck, John. |
The Red Pony.
|
|
A young boy
forges a connection with a hot-tempered
pony and learns about nature and man. |
| |
| |
F
WEL |
Wells, H.G. |
The Time Machine. |
|
| A scientist
invents a time machine that allows him to
leap backward
and forward in history. |
| |
| |
F
WHA |
Wharton, Edith. |
Ethan Frome. |
|
| Mattie Silver
arrives to help her cousin Zeena, the sickly,
cantankerous wife of New England farmer
Ethan Frome. |
| |
| |
F
WIL |
Wilde, Oscar.
|
The Canterville
Ghost. |
|
| A celebrated
and feared English ghost is outraged when
the new owners of his haunting place refuse
to take him seriously. |
| |
| |
F
WOO |
Woolf,
Virginia. |
The
New Dress. |
|
| Mabel Waring
arrives at Clarissa Dalloway’s party
and is consumed by feelings of inadequacy
and inferiority. |
