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Verb Tenses (created by Charlie)

Here is a quick, helpful tip: When a sentence is a command asked in second person, the simple subject is often you even if it doesn't appear in the sentence e.g. "Go to the store." Many people may say that store is the simple subject, however the store receives the action (you are going to it) making it the direct object. This is called implied. You can test this by putting you in front of the sentence and seeing if it becomes the subject, in the sentence "You go to the store" the subject is clearly you.  ===[|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] === 1884 by Mark Twain Justice and honor are celebrated in this story about Huck’s adventures on the Mississippi River with the runaway slave Jim. ===[|All Quiet on the Western Front] === 1929 by Erich Maria Remarque Though the war he describes is World War I, Remarque writes eloquently of all wars in this tale of a young German sent to fight in the trenches.
 * List of classic books and authors**
 * David Copperfield by Charles Dickens**
 * War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy**
 * Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien**
 * Les Miserables by Victor Hugo**
 * Tom Sawyer by Mark**

[|Beloved]
1987 by Toni Morrison Morrison’s heart-breaking novel tells the story of a woman who escapes from slavery to freedom in Cincinnati but remains haunted by her daughter’s murder.  ===[|The Best Short Stories] === 1945 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by O. Henry <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Short vignettes display irony and coincidence in everyday life. O. Henry’s forte is the surprise ending. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Brave New World] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1932 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Aldous Huxley <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Huxley brilliantly satirizes contemporary society’s dehumanization in this grim novel of the future. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Call of the Wild] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1903 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Jack London <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">When his beloved master is killed, the dog Buck flees to the wild, where he becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Rousing adventure set in Alaska’s Klondike country. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Catch-22]
<span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1961 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Joseph Heller <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">This black comedy about World War II Army Air Corps aviators attempting to survive the absurdities of military bureaucracy has become a part of the American collective consciousness. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Catcher in the Rye] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1951 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by J.D. Salinger <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Fleeing his Pennsylvania prep school, Holden Caulfield holes up in New York City and rails against adult phoniness while trying to lose his innocence. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Complete Sherlock Holmes] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1936 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Arthur Conan Doyle <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">The Baker Street saga is chronicled in this collection that includes “A Study in Scarlet,” the 1887 story that introduced the English detective Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant Dr. Watson. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Crime and Punishment] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1886 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Fyodor Dostoevsky <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">First published in Russian in 1866, this masterful psychological novel shows the horror and remorse of Raskolnikoff, a student, after he has killed an old woman for her money. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Cry, the Beloved Country] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1948 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Alan Paton <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">In lyrical language Paton relates the moving story of a Zulu minister who searches for his children in Johannesburg, only to learn that South African society has destroyed their lives.

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Don Quixote]
<span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1612 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Miguel de Cervantes <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Originally published in Spanish in 1605, Cervantes’ satire about a gentle visionary who becomes a knight after reading too many chivalric romances is a universal tale of idealism versus practicality. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Ethan Frome]
<span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1911 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Edith Wharton <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">An unhappy couple attempts suicide but find a far worse fate in this tale of irony and retribution in rural New England. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Gone with the Wind] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1936 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Margaret Mitchell <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Set against the backdrop of Georgia during the Civil War, Mitchell’s massive historical novel chronicles the tempestuous romance of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Good Earth] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1931 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Pearl S. Buck <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">This Pulitzer Prize winner follows Wang Lung’s family from their early struggles to live off the land to their final disintegration as they move to the city. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Grapes of Wrath] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1939 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by John Steinbeck <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Proletarian fiction at its finest, Steinbeck’s portrait of an Oklahoma family during the Depression spurred legislation to help stricken migrant workers. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Great Gatsby] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1925 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by F. Scott Fitzgerald <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Jay Gatsby has built an illegal empire to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, but his sacrifices for her prove to be his downfall. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Heart of Darkness] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1902 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Joseph Conrad <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Marlow relates the tale of Mr. Kurtz, successful in his greedy quest for ivory in the African Congo but leaving in its place hunger, death and slavery, for the natives. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Invisible Man] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1952 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Ralph Ellison <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">A young African American man moves to New York City and discovers he is “invisible,” seen only as a racial stereotype and never as himself. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Jane Eyre 1847] === <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Charlotte Bronte <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Jane Eyre’s ill-fated love for the brooding Mr. Rochester endures in this story of a strong-willed heroine who refuses to compromise herself. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Lord of the Flies] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1954 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by William Golding <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">A group of English schoolboys, marooned on a tropical island during a time of atomic warfare, bring both civilization and savagery to their community. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Moby Dick]
<span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1851 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Herman Melville <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Captain Ahab’s obsessive struggle to defeat Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him, is the focus of Melville’s masterpiece.

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|My Antonia]
<span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1918 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Willa Cather <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">In spite of a life of hard work, Bohemian immigrant Antonia Shimerda is sustained by the healthy Nebraska soil and her warm-hearted brood of children.

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Native Son]
<span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1940 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Richard Wright <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">The accidental death of his white boss’s daughter begins a chain of events from which Bigger Thomas, a bitter young black man, cannot escape. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Nineteen Eighty Four] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1949 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by George Orwell <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Ignorance is strength and peace is war in Orwell’s darkly imaginative vision of a future controlled by Big Brother and the Thought Police. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Of Human Bondage] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1915 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by W. Somerset Maugham <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Afflicted with a club foot, Philip Carey suffers through his life, struggling to free himself from a destructive love affair and finally finding contentment as a country doctor. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Of Mice and Men] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1937 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by John Steinbeck <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">George and Lenny, itinerant Depression-era farm laborers, have their dream of attaining the good life shattered on a troubled ranch in the the Salinas Valley in Steinbeck's monumental novella of social realism. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Old Man and the Sea] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1952 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Ernest Hemingway <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Santiago realizes the dream of catching a giant marlin, but he must battle the sharks for two days to bring his prize home. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Pride and Prejudice] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1813 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Jane Austen <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">A delightful comedy of marriage traces the courtship of Elizabeth and Darcy as they overcome his pride and her prejudice and fall in love. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Red Badge of Courage] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1895 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Stephen Crane <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young Civil War soldier, we see the fears of battle and the inexplicable courage that comes when soldiers unite in a wartime machine. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Robinson Crusoe] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1719 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Daniel Defoe <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Defoe’s novel about a castaway marooned for twenty-four years on a deserted island is an engrossing story of survival, civilization, and barbarism. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Scarlet Letter] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1850 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Nathaniel Hawthorne <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Hawthorne’s novel is a study of sin, guilt, and revenge. Adultress Hester Prynne must bear public humiliation but Roger Chillingsworth and Arthur Dimmesdale suffer equally. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|A Separate Peace] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1959 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by John Knowles <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Fifteen years later, the narrator remembers his boarding school roommate. The rivalry that tinged their friendship eventually leads to tragedy. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Silas Marner] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1861 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by George Eliot <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">This classic story shows redemption for a lonely and bitter man in the form of a child who brings him love and hope. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Sound and the Fury] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1929 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by William Faulkner <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">The moral decay of the Old South is presented through the eyes of four members of the once prominent Compson family of Jefferson, Mississippi. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|The Stranger] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1946 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Albert Camus <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">First published in French in 1942, the narrator of Albert Camus’ existential masterpiece is an autobiographical figure who does not conform to religious morality or social convention. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|A Tale of Two Cities] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1859 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Charles Dickens <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">This dramatic story of Paris and London during the Reign of Terror contains some of Dickens’ most memorable characters—Madame Defarge with her knitting and the self-sacrificing Sidney Carton. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Tales]
<span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1952 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Edgar Allan Poe <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">A collection of short stories by the nineteenth century master of the macabre. Included are “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Tess of the D’Urbervilles] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1891 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Thomas Hardy <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Tess is ruined when her father’s vanity forces her to seek the favors of rich relations, and her life becomes a study in the grim reality of her times. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Their Eyes Were Watching God] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1937 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Zora Neale Hurston <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">An African-American woman in 1930s rural Florida finds freedom and self-knowledge through a personal journey encompassing three very different marriages. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|To Kill a Mockingbird] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1960 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Harper Lee <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Small town Alabama in the 1930s is the setting for this fine novel of a child’s brutal introdution to racial prejudice and adult injustice. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Uncle Tom’s Cabin] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1852 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Harriet Beecher Stowe <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Stowe’s sentimental but realistic novel is often credited with heightening public awareness about the evils of slavery, thus hastening the Civil War. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|War and Peace] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1889 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Leo Tolstoy <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">An enormous cast of characters brings life to Tolstoy’s panoramic chronicle of Napoleonic Russia. Originally published in the 1860s. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Winesburg, Ohio] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1919 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Sherwood Anderson <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Twenty-three stories of small town America show the characters’ spiritual dreams in conflict with society’s provincialism and materialism. ===<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); text-decoration: none;">[|Wuthering Heights] === <span class="year" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1847 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">by Emily Bronte <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Catherine and Heathcliff are the tempestuous lovers in this tale of passion and revenge on the Yorkshire moors. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Need more suggestions? Email the [|Popular Library] or contact your local branch and our staff will be happy to assist you.