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Andersonville

Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp, Andersonville prison, during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. Source:Wikipedia

The Phantom Tollbooth

Children’s fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster, with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, first published in 1961. The story follows a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth that transports him to the once prosperous, but now troubled, Kingdom of Wisdom

Dubliners

Collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century

A False Spring

In A False Spring, Pat Jordan traces the falling star of his once-promising pitching career, illuminating along the way his equally difficult personal struggles and quest for maturity. When the reader meets Jordan, he is a hard-throwing pitcher with seemingly limitless potential, one of the first “bonus babies” for the Milwaukee Braves organization. Jordan’s sojourn …

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The Trial

Novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and ’15 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader

The Boys of Summer

The Boys of Summer may refer to one of several literary and musical works: The Boys of Summer (book), a 1972 book by Roger Kahn“The Boys of Summer” (song), a 1984 song by Don Henley, also covered by DJ Sammy and The Ataris“Boys of Summer” (The Wire), an episode of The WireBoys of Summer (comics), …

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