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This timeless adventure tells the tale of Beowulf, the greatest of Geat warriors, who sets out to avenge the monster Grendel's slaughter of thirty warriors of the Danish king Hrothgar. Beowulf must risk his life and the lives of his followers as he faces the monster and tries to bring an end to Grendel's reign of terror.
This classic tale follows the life of a domesticated dog named Buck who is stolen from his comfortable California home and taken to the harsh wilds of the Alaskan gold rush of 1897 to work as a sled dog. Although told from the perspective of a dog, the allegorical story presents the journey undertaken by anyone who has left the predictable and safe for adventure and danger and who has consequently undergone a complete transformation along the way.
When Frankenstein appeared in 1818, it not only opened the door for the new genre of science fiction but also introduced a theme of enduring importance: moral responsibility in light of scientific invention. The story centers on young Dr. Frankenstein and his obsession with giving an inanimate object life. Upon seeing the grotesqueness of his creation, Dr. Frankenstein flees it. The creature, however, seeks to find acceptance among humans but is rejected. In the end, both the creator and the creature are destroyed.
One of the most light-hearted of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream follows young lovers into a magical forest where the meddling of a mischievous elf causes comedy and chaos to ensue. In the end, the magic is reversed and true love wins out.
Stephen Crane had no personal experience of warfare when he wrote this novel, yet he successfully depicts the experiences, the terror, and the bravery of an ordinary soldier in the Civil War. Facing his own cowardice and the gruesome death of a friend, Henry Fleming finds courage and returns to fight with all illusions of the glory of war gone forever.
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