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"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man brings readers along on a journey through a mans life, from his childhood through adulthood. The protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, begins life with fear and confusion of the world, but as he grows older and becomes more educated and world-wise. The novel follows him through his days at a Jesuit college with a strict administration, through his familys difficult economic times, his return to religion and faith as...
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Recorded Books
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p2015
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This whimsical, autobiographical novel recounts Cummings' unjust incarceration at the hands of the French during World War I. Though a conscientious objector, Cummings nevertheless volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, leading to a comedy of errors that resulted in him being accused of treason and thrown into a French concentration camp in Normandy.
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p2015
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This story of William Crimsworth, who goes to Brussels to seek his fortune and falls in love with Frances, a schoolteacher and lace-maker while he is himself pursued by Madamoiselle Reuter, is a subtle portrayal of a self-made man and his relationships in a society that worships property and propriety.
4) Agnes Grey
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The story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Bronte set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess's life involved: the frustration, the isolation, and the insensitve and cruel treatment on the part of employers and their families.
6) Shame
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Recorded Books
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p2017
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The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is "not quite Pakistan." In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men--one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure--Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation--"shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence".
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Carlos Castaneda was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century. In this edition of his bestselling book, he takes the listener on an amazing journey of the soul via the teachings of the great sorcerer don Juan and reveals that there are worlds existing within our own that can be visited through dreams.
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Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical." The Fire from Within is the author's most brilliant thought-provoking and unusual book, one in which Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan and his "disciples," at last constructs, from the teachings of don Juan and his own experiences, a stunning portrait of the...
9) The wheel of time: the shamans of ancient Mexico, their thoughts about life, death and the universe
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Recorded Books
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[2019]
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World-renowned bestselling author Carlos Castaneda's Selection of his wrtings on the shamans of ancient Mexico. Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus for his knowledge of mind-altering plants, bestselling author Carlos Castaneda soon immersed himself in the sorcerer's magical world entirely. Ten years after his first encounter with the shaman, Castaneda examines his field notes and comes to understand what don Juan knew...
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[2020]
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Millions of readers worldwide have treasured the visionary brilliance of Carlos Castaneda, who first explore the world of the Yaqui Indian sorcerer in The Teachings of don Juan. Now, at last, don Juan returns in The Power of Silence-wise, infuriating, capable or working miracles and playing practical jokes, but always seeking the wisdom of the warrior. The Power of Silence is Castaneda's most astonishing book to date -- a brilliant flash of knowledge...
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