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Identity

Orlando (Virginia Woolf)

14th November 2021 jng 0

Author: Virgina Woolf Project: Identity – Sexual Identity Year of publication: 1928 Pages: 252 Goodreads: Orlando              

War

Johnny Got his Gun (Dalton Trumbo)

14th July 2021 jng 0

Johnny Got his Gun Author: Dalton Trumbo Project: War – World War I Year of publication: 1939 Pages: 251 Goodreads: Johnny Got His Gun              

War

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)

20th May 2020 jng 0

For Whom the Bell Tolls Author: Ernest Hemingway List: Open Option Project: war Year of publication: 1940 Pages: 471 Goodreads: For Whom the Bell Tolls     “Set in the Spanish Civil War this novel […]

Open Option

To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)

13th August 2019 jng 0

To the Lighthouse Author: Virginia Woolf List: Open Option Year of publication: 1927 Pages: 209 Goodreads: To the Lighthouse          

Open Option

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

12th August 2019 jng 0

Of Mice and Men Author: John Steinbeck List: Open Option Year of publication: 1937 Pages: 112 [½] Goodreads: Of Mice and Men          

Open Option

The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

24th August 2018 jng 0

The Grapes of Wrath Author: John Steinbeck List: Modern Classic Year of publication: 1939 Pages: 464 Goodreads: The Grapes of Wrath            

Orpheus

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

19th August 2018 jng 0

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Published: 1925 Pages: 180 Project: Orpheus – fleeting nature of happiness / love and trust               please note that subscription libraries change over time; at […]

Dystopia

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

14th August 2018 jng 0

Brave New World is a dystopian novel set in a futuristic society where citizens are genetically engineered and conditioned for conformity and pleasure. The story follows a man named Bernard Marx who challenges the societal […]

War

A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)

8th August 2018 jng 0

A Farewell to Arms Author: Ernest Hemingway Project: War – World War I Year of publication: 1929 Pages: 293 Goodreads: A Farewell to Arms      

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