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1) Arrowsmith
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"After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life." --
2) Main street
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"Introduction and notes by Brooke Allen. A fiercely satiric portrait of small-town America, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street created a sensation when it first appeared in 1920. 'If it was not the most important revelation of American life ever made,' wrote Lewis's biographer Mark Shorer, 'it was the most infamous libel upon it.' The story's heroine is Carol Kennicott, a naive college graduate who leaves St. Paul, Minnestoa, to marry a country doctor...
3) Babbitt
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"Zenith is the finest example of American life and prosperity to be found anywhere." Zenith is the Midwestern city where George F. Babbitt lives and works. A successful real estate agent, his business provides all the material trappings and comfort he thinks he ought to have. He is a member of all the right clubs, and unquestioningly shares the same aspirations and ideas as his friends and fellow Boosters. Yet even complacent, conformist Babbitt dreams...
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An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a 10 year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time.
"Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is one of her greatest literary achievements and among the most influential novels of the twentieth century. The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement...
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