Take a glimpse @ 101 Great Books

1. Take a glimpse @ 101 Great Books By r. kohute

2. AdventureWatership Down Why can’t we just be friends? Oppressed, a group of rabbits struggle to live in peace

3. AdventureBeowulf Beowulf, the ultimate hero, Fights the evil, “born in slime” monster seeking to avenge his monster mother’s death (written in verse)

4. A Death in the Family A sudden death destroys a family Emotional and poignant Grab your tissues

5. RomanceEmma Emma written by Jane austen Single, not looking for love, emma tries to be the matchmaker for all her friends… until she is drawn in to the world of romance.

6. RomancePride and Prejudice It was not love at first sight, but will strong-willed elisabeth and the wealthy mr.darcy overcome their pride and be a couple? (meanwhile mom arranged other economic advantageous marriages for the other daughters.

7. FamilySense and Sensibility Can sisters ever get along? When one is the practical sister and one is the emotional sister…. The two are bound to argue

8. Adventure… Sci-Fi StyleThe Martian Chronicles Earthlings have escaped a dying earth to come to mars to conquer space and colonize the planet. Life on mars is not like it used to be…

9. RomanceJane Eyre A Shy governess finds herself falling in love with her mysterious employer Edward

10. RomanceWuthering Heights Flashback and Follow the ups and downs of the Tempetous love affair between heathcliff and catherine

11. Historical Overcome the OddsThe Good Earth Set in china, a peasant overcomes nature’s wrath to become a successful landowner

12. The Stranger Wrong place, wrong time A man is caught up in a murder in another country

13. Historical & EnlighteningDeath Comes for the Archbishop A missionary priest travels to the new territories to work with the catholic believers of that region.

14. Entertaining The Canterbury Tales Are we there yet? Travelers on a trip to canterbury entertain each other by telling stories… some funny, some with a lesson…

15. Western AdventureThe Ox-Bow Incident The murder of a cowboy leads to vigilantes forming a posse to hunt down the killer lynching

16. AdventureHeart of Darkness Adventurer Marlowe travels the congo. He is greeted by savages and cannabilism as he is looking for a Kurtz, a company agent, who has gone insane

17. AdventureLord Jim Labeled as a coward, a young man strives to redeem himself

18. Historical AdventureThe Deerslayer

19. The Last of the Mohicans 1757… French and indian war era A man agrees to accompany two sisters through the dangerous, hostile indian territory Trivia: Hawkeye from M*A*S*H* was named after the main character

20. WarRed Badge of Courage a young soldier experiences the confusion and horror of a civil war battlefield

21. Historical AdventureDon Quixote (insert latin accent here) Oh, yes, adventures of the legendary, chivalrous, brave knight… don quixote… 16th century spain

22. Robinson Crusoe The original survivor castaway An englishman is the sole survivor of a shipwreck. This is his story of his adventures trying to survive for almost 30 years on a deserted island. Cultural note: The phrase “My man Friday” alludes to this novel

23. David Copperfield What happens when your mother dies and your stepfather kicks you out? Read to find out how david struggled through school and life in london trying to survive and find happiness.

24. Great Expectations A mystery with an amazing cast: Pip, the orphan Magwitch, the convict Estella, the beautiful Miss Havisham, the spiteful and beautiful Mr. jaggers, the ambitious lawyer

25. Oliver Twist Again… a young orphan… trained for a life of crime… tries to escape that life and the workhouse

26. A Tale of Two Cities Off with their heads! Set during the french revolution,

27. Crime and Punishment A moneylender (loanshark?) and her sister are murdered! An investigation ensues, And a prostitute with a heart of gold convinces the murderer to confess

28. Frederick Douglass

29. Hound of the BAskervilles Sir Henry Baskerville has been warned. If he moves into the cursed family home that he inherited, he will die… can sherlockholmes help him?

30. An American Tragedy Poor Clyde Griffiths. He wanted the american dream… and he sacrifices it all to get try to get it.

31. Count of Monte Cristo Edmund wants revenge… Revenge for his unjust punishment of fourteen years in prison

32. The Three Musketeers 17th century france A tale of swashbuckling Four men try to outwit the enemies of the king and queen (but I thought it was the three musketeers?)

33. FamilyAs I Lay Dying As the family attempts to carry out Addie’s dying wish, they experience setback after tragic setback, including a fire, a washed-out bridge, a seduction, broken limbs… (not in that order )

34. Pyschological FictionThe Sound and the Fury Four narrators share what happened their views on different episodes that show the decline of the compton family: Benjy: the 33-year-old mentally retarded man Quentin: the student who commits suicide Jason: the bitter, cynical brother Dilsey: the family’s black servant

35. Tom Jones Star-crossed lovers? Orphan Tom falls for wealthy landowner’s daughter….

36. Mircale Worker A play set in alabama where the “mircale worker” annesullivan attempts to educated the wild, six-year old helenkeller who was rendered blind, deaf, and mute by an illness.

37. FamilyDeath be not proud Young Johnny gunther has a cancerous brain tumor. This is the story of his struggle.

38. A raisin in the sun “what happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?” --Langston Hughes The younger family dreams of leaving their cramped chicago apartment to move to a better neighborhood

39. Far from the madding crowd Bathsheba has the beauty and pride to toy with three men’s affections. But the story plays like a soap opera… will anyone find true love?

40. Tess of the d’urbervilles Overwhelmed by poverty, tess pretends to be kin with the wealthy d’urbervilles…

41. MysteryHouse of the seven gables The house itself is a character with its fraudulent and witchcraft history. The story: Hepzibah opens a small shop in the gloomy family mansion to help support her brother just released from prison after 30 years for murder. A mystery unfolds about the house.

42. War (and Satire)Catch 22 Near the end of wwII…Main character: Yossarian of the u.s. army Fighting Squadron 256 “The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with”

43. War and RomanceA Farewell to arms Lnt. Henry, an American ambulance driver during WWI, experiences battles, injury, treachery, love, and defeat on the italian front

44. WarFor whom the bell tolls Spanish civil war Robert Jordan is an explosives expert sent to blow up a bridge. He and the other guerrillas face death.

45. AdventureThe sun also rises 1920’s Expatriate american, jakebarnes, attempts to fulfill his life with distracting behavior with hard work, drinking, and bullfighting in europe

46. All creaturues great and small

47. Fantasy AdventureLost Horizon After a plane crash, the survivors stumble upon a utopia, Shangri-la, where life is eternal.

48. The iliad Heroes engage in battle, gods and goddesses interfere to help and hurt.. And why? Because of the most beautiful woman in the world… helen of troy… (The face that launched a thousand ships)

49. The odyssey Odysseus, the ultimate ladies man and ultimate hero, travels on a ten-year journey to get back home. Some of his adventures Along the way, he encounters circe… who turns men into pigs and the dreaded cyclops

50. Romance & AdventureHunchback of Notre Dame Medieval paris, the disfigured quasimodo, bellringer, saves the gypsy dancer, esmerelda from execution