Two on a Tower
By: Thomas Hardy
First published in 1882, Two on a Tower charts the tragic romance of Lady Viviette Constantine and Swithin St. Cleve, who is both Lady Viviette's social inferior and ten years her junior. It is a moving depiction of modern love and a superb novel of ideas.
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Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
It portrays the disappointments of Ivan Voynitsky ("Uncle Vanya"), who comes to see that he has wasted his life managing the business affairs of his brother-in-law, Serebryakov--who has himself squandered his entire career in a futile attempt to succeed as an academic and scholar.
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Ulterior Motives
By: Mark ONeal
Ulterior Motives is a crime drama that takes place in Chicago. Maurice Ousley is a rising pro basketball star who gets over a devastating first-round loss in the playoffs. He comes home for Mother's Day weekend to spend time with his family after a very hectic week. Moments after his plane lands, his stepfather is kidnapped for a million-dollar ransom. Maurice has less than forty-eight hours to raise the money or else his stepfather is dead. Will Maurice rescue his stepfather or die trying? He experiences heartache, betrayal and love in this action-packed thriller.
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Ulysses
By: James Joyce
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies surrounding its anti-slavery sentiments. In fact, it is a compelling adventure story with richly drawn stories & has earned a place in both literary & American history.
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Under the Lilacs
By: Louisa May Alcott
An adventure story by the author of "Little Women" and "Jo's Boys".
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Urbain Grandier
By: Alexandre Dumas, Pere
Urbain Granadier was not satisfied with the arrogant demonstration by which he signalized his return, which even his friends had felt to be ill advised; instead of allowing the hate he had aroused to die away or at least to fall asleep by letting the past be past, he continued with more zeal than ever his proceedings against Duthibaut, and succeeded in obtaining a decree from the Parliament of La Tournelle.
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Under the Greenwood Tree
By: Thomas Hardy
Under the Greenwood Tree is Thomas Hardy's first Wessex novel, a world that rivals that of Balzac and Dickens, but instead of focusing on life in the city, Hardy instead focuses on the happenings of rural life.
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Vandover and the Brute
By: Frank Norris
Vandover, fresh out of college and the son of a wealthy owner of slum properties, has dreams of being an artist but lacks the discipline to fulfill them. His seduction of a young woman results in her suicide and the death of his own father. Cheated by false friends of part of his patrimony, Vandover gambles away the rest.
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Vaninka
By: Alexander Dumas, Pere
Gregory sighed heavily, threw a last look up at the window, and seeing that everything remained the same there, he mustered up resolution enough to lie down on the fatal plank. At the same time two other serfs, chosen by Ivan for assistants, took him by the arms and attached his wrists to two stakes, one at either side of him, so that it appeared as though he were stretched on a cross. Then they clamped his neck into an iron collar.
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