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The stoning of Soraya M.

a story of injustice in Iran
2011
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Madame Bovary

Backgrounds and sources; essays in criticism
1965

The scarlet letter

The story of Hester Prynne, shunned for her adultery in seventeenth century Massachusetts, and how she used her inner strength to overcome society's ridicule.
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The scarlet letter

Classic tale about Hester Prynne, her lover, their child, and Hester's husband, and the effect of sin on the mind and spirit of these characters.
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Blood simple

Abby is cheating on Marty, her saloonkeeper husband, with Ray, one of his employees. Marty hires a hitman, Visser, to kill the lovers, but Visser has his own, more lucrative, plans.
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Fatal attraction

After he ends their brief affair, a married man's ex-lover terrorizes him and his family.
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Othello

William Shakespeare's tragedy in which Iago, jealous of Othello's successes in the army of Venice, plots against him, pretending to be his friend while planting seeds of doubt about the faithfulness of his wife, Desdemona.
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The Scarlet Letter

a guide to the novel
Makes study for the SAT easier using a facing-page format which, on the right-hand side, lays out the text of The Scarlet Letter, highlighting challenging SAT words, and, on the left-hand side, their definitions, part of speech, pronunciation, and synonyms.

Madame Bovary

A nineteenth-century French woman pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers.

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