Great Expectations
Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: young men, england, dickens, charles, orphans, coming of age, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, benefactors, youth, bildungsromans, great britain, man-woman relationships, revenge, historical fiction, closed caption video recordings, closed captioning, dvds, audiobooks, working class, inheritance and succession, literature - adapted, gifts, bildungsromane, audiobooks, bildungsromans, adaptations, graphic novels, love stories, love, cartoons and comics, conduct of life, industrial revolution, social classes, electronic books
Nicholas Nickleby
Left penniless by the death of his improvident father, young Nicholas Nickleby assumes responsibility for his mother and sister and seeks help from his Scrooge-like Uncle Ralph.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1250
Hard Times
Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster in Cokestown, a northern English village beset by industrialism, runs his family and his school with a rigid adherence to facts, but his daughter's loveless marriage, his son's involvement with gambling and robbery, and his encounters with a variety of characters, force him to recognize the value of the human heart.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1060
subjects: social problems, political fiction, domestic fiction, england, social problems-fiction; utilitarianism-fiction; married people-fiction; england-fiction, political, domestic