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"While John Bunyan was in prison for preaching without a license, he came up with one of the most inspired plots ever to grace English literature. Bunyan turned the Christian life, with all its struggles and its victories, into a romantic quest through a strange land. A man called Christian flees the City of Destruction and journeys to the Celestial City. Along the way he meets such memorable obstacles and characters as the Slough of Despond, Mr....
2) White Fang
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Set during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory, London's 1906 story chronicles the story of a half-dog, half-wolf beast in the wild. As opposed to his famous Call of the Wild tale of a domestic dog reverting to the wild, White Fang depicts a wild animal eventually becoming domesticated. It is a gripping tale told from the wolf's point of view about the hard life in the frozen wilds of the north. The story concludes with White Fang returning...
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[2009]
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Robert Pinsky, admired for his ability to bring poetry to life as spoken language, has collected poems that sound marvelous in any reader's actual or imagined voice. Pinsky has organized the book into sections with brief introductions that emphasize the intuitive, attentive, and reflective process of listening to poetry. This structure also provides an implicit definition-by-example of poetry itself and an approach to poetry's range of pleasures.
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