Looking Backward
Presents Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, originally published in 1888, which follows the adventures of Julian West after he falls asleep in 1887 and awakens to find Boston in the year 2000 a near-perfect society, and includes an introduction, a chronology of Bellamy's life, and other references.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: two thousand, a.d, social problems [X], time travel, utopias, boston (mass.), voyages, imaginary, twenty-first century, imaginary voyages, world history, science fiction, american literature
Bleak House
Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades?the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1180
subjects: illegitimate children, guardian and ward, young women, illegitimacy, london (england), england, guardian-ward relationship, inheritance and succession, bildungsromans, mystery fiction, social problems [X], didactic fiction, trusts and trustees, domestic fiction, didactic fiction
Hard Times
Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster in Cokestown, a northern English village beset by industrialism, runs his family and his school with a rigid adherence to facts, but his daughter's loveless marriage, his son's involvement with gambling and robbery, and his encounters with a variety of characters, force him to recognize the value of the human heart.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1060
subjects: social problems [X], political fiction, domestic fiction, england, social problems-fiction; utilitarianism-fiction; married people-fiction; england-fiction, political, domestic