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A play about a Southern woman who is anxious for her crippled daughter to be married.

A classic story of survival.

The brilliant Dupin uses psychological reasoning to deduce the hiding place of a stolen letter.

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

As the French Revolution gives way to the Reign of Terror, an English aristocrat known for little more than dandyism and sloth, risks his life to enter France in disguise to save French aristocrats from Madame Guillotine.

This is the story of Gawaine le Coeur-Hardy, the least promising student, who learns dragon-slaying. The headmaster gives Gawaine a magic word to say to himself when he experiences facing the dragon.

A classic story of compassion.

In seeking to avenge his unjustly accused father, young Myles Falworth is knighted and wins the friendship of King Henry IV.

An underprivileged boy is determined to guess the amount of money in and thereby win a jug of silver coins so that he can do something very special for his sister.