Alexs Summer Reading List
Dive into Alex’s summer reading list featuring classic fiction and thought-provoking history. Explore Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, and the eye-opening Lies My Teacher Told Me for your seasonal bookshelf.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
by James W. Loewen
Examines the reasons why wrong information has been provided in American history textbooks.
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A young woman, publicly scorned for bearing an illegitimate child, refuses to be vanquished by the seventeenth-century Boston community.
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Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
The nineteenth-century Frenchman's epic work which depicts the life of Jean Valjean, a reformed convict who has dedicated his life to helping others
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Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
There's a tale that goes around even now regarding Thomas Hardy -- that is, that the reaction of readers to one of his novels was so intense -- and so disturbing! -- that he swore off novels and spent the rest of his life committing poetry. Well, the story is true, the way it happens and this is the book responsible: Jude the Obscure.