LibGuides: English and Literature: Books

This is a curated selection of books available to you through the Northland Pioneer College Libraries with a library card.

You can find additional resources in our online catalog.

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Books

1,300 Critical Evaluations of Selected Novels and Plays by Frank N. Magill
PDC Library REFERENCE SECTION
Critical evaluations of selected novels and plays.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
PDC and WRV Libraries REFERENCE SECTION
A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.
Beyond the Looking Glass by Jonathan Cott
SCC Library
The king of the Golden River; Petsetilla's posy; Wooden Tony : an anyhow story; Through the fire; The wanderings of Arasmon; Wanted--a king; Tinykin's transformations; The golden key; The day boy and the night girl; Goblin market.
The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller
WMC Library
The writer who envisioned rocket travel to the stars but who never learned to drive a car; the futurist who brought astonishing tomorrows to life yet refused to operate a computer.
Clashes of Culture by Great Books Foundation Staff (Editor, Introduction by)
PDC Library
Short works by classic and modern authors from around the world, and includes prose, poetry, and discussion questions for each selection.
Hans Christian Andersen by Jackie Wullschlager
LCC Library
Biography of one of the most gifted storytellers the world has ever known. From Copenhagen to Germany and Italy, he becomes a figure every bit as fascinating as a character from one of his stories.
Masterplots by Laurence W. Mazzeno; Salem Press Editors
WMC Library REFERENCE SECTION
Fundamental reference data, plot synopses and critical evaluations of the most important works in all genres throughout history and around the world.
The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces by Maynard Mack (Editor)
SCC Library
Literatures of India, China, Japan, the Middle East, Africa, and native America alongside the masterpieces of the Western tradition.
Well Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
SCC Library
Brief, entertaining histories of five literary genres' fiction, autobiography, history, drama, and poetry accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type.
What Happens in Literature? by Edward W. Rosenheim
WRV Library
Designed for students of literature as well as those who simply like to read, What Happens in Literature helps readers appreciate literary works as unique creations, born in a particular time and place, but powerful enough to speak across centuries.
World Literature by Salem Press Editors
WMC Library
41 works; novels, short stories, and poems written by authors from around the world, published between 1719 and 2003. .
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald by Linda Wagner-Martin
SCC Library
Swept away from her stable home life into Jazz Age New York and Paris as the new wife of Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda eventually learned to be a writer and a painter. An evocative portrayal of a talented woman's professional and emotional conflicts.

eBooks

Alice Walker: a Woman for Our Times by Deborah G. Plant
ELECTRONIC BOOK
This biography explores Alice Walker's life experiences and her lifework in context of her philosophical thought, and celebrates the author's creative genius and heroism.
Ernest Hemingway by Dearborn, Mary V., author.
ELECTRONIC BOOK
A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short-story writer, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
The Life of D. H. Lawrence by Andrew Harrison
ELECTRONIC BOOK
Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources,

The Aeneid [electronic resource] / by Virgil.
ELECTRONIC BOOK
The Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil is an epic poem in 12 books that tells the story of the foundation of Rome from the ashes of Troy. It was probably written down in Rome from 30-19 BC.
The anti-Christ [electronic resource] by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
ELECTRONIC BOOK
Nietzsche’s concept of the will to power, the animating force that he sees as the motivation behind most human behavior.
The Art of Writing [electronic resource] by Robert Louis Stevenson
ELECTRONIC BOOK
A collection of essays and lectures on the art of writing and the importance of clarity and simplicity in writing, emphasizing the need for writers to communicate their ideas effectively to their readers.
Black women of the Harlem Renaissance era [electronic resource]
ELECTRONIC BOOK
The Harlem Renaissance era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political, and economic ideas that denied them citizenship and access to the American Dream.
Bleak house [electronic resource] by Charles Dickens.
ELECTRONIC BOOK
Bleak House is the story of the Jarndyce family, who wait in vain to inherit money from a disputed fortune in the settlement of the extremely long-running lawsuit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
Civil disobedience [electronic resource] by Henry David Thoreau
ELECTRONIC BOOK
An espousal of the need to prioritize one's conscience over the dictates of laws. A criticism of American social institutions and policies, most prominently slavery and the Mexican-American War.
The Count of Monte Cristo [electronic resource] by Alexandre Dumas
ELECTRONIC BOOK
The classic story of an innocent man wrongly, but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him.
Creative Writing [electronic resource] by Casey Clabough, PhD.
ELECTRONIC BOOK
A guide for anyone interested in writing helping readers master the basics of crafting compelling fiction and nonfiction stories. Content includes the fundamental elements, such as plot, character, point-of-view, setting, dialogue, style, and theme.
Dracula [electronic resource] by Bram Stoker
ELECTRONIC BOOK
The story of Count Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
English Grammar : A University Course
ELECTRONIC BOOK
This award-winning grammar course book provides the basis for linguistic courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies.
Of Essay Writing [electronic resource]
ELECTRONIC BOOK
The author passionately argues that essays provide a forum for discussing his philosophy of "common life."
Roget's thesaurus [electronic resource]
ELECTRONIC BOOK
Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer.