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NetLibrary, in partnership with Rosetta Books, is pleased to bring you instant and affordable access to 99 of the
greatest authors of the twentieth century. Ideal for school, public, and college libraries, the Modern Masters Collection includes:
- Immortal fiction by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and William Styron
- Award winning mystery titles by Robert Parker and Ed McBain
- Science fiction classics by Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, and Robert
- And more
Ordering the Modern Masters Collection is easy. You can enhance your collection by purchasing select titles. Or,
you can provide your patrons with unlimited access to the complete collection through an annual rental agreement.
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by Kurt Vonnegut
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Published in 1969, Slaughterhouse Five became one of the most popular and enduring novels of its time.
Its indelible ironic tone, its trippy plotting and its bold, even hilarious use of science fiction make
it an utterly unique reading experience. Slaughterhouse Five remains perhaps the signature work in Vonnegut's
large and varied catalogue of writings.
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by Pat Conroy
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Ambitious and intoxicating, The Prince of Tides is Conroy's biggest and most popular novel. The
character of Tom Wingo is among the author's finest creations, a good man who very badly wants to
make things right -- like most Conroy heroes, a man in a bad situation, struggling to find an honorable
way out. Conroy tells Tom's sprawling story with skill and abandon, and with a fearless reach for the most
lyrical and heartfelt expression of a man, seemingly, learning to breathe again.
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by Winston Churchill
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston Churchill's monumental The Second World
War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told
through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one
nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny.
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by Aldous Huxley
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Huxley's novel of a grim, over technologized and dispirited future was published in 1932 and has never been
out of print. Amazingly predictive in some ways, happily wrong in others, its vision of a world dominated by
the spirit of Henry Ford and loveless procreation also prefigures his student George Orwell's 1984.
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by W.P. Kinsella
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W.P. Kinsella has been called a great writer of baseball novels, but this is misleading. While his works all
evince a love for the game he grew up watching, Kinsella doesn't merely treat baseball as a subject in itself.
Rather, he uses it as a metaphor, a way to talk about things like innocence, belief and, perhaps above all,
America. Shoeless Joe is a parable about one of the most fundamental of American ideals, beginning anew.
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by Virginia Woolf
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One of the most important works of art of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is a profound, stirring,
and ambitious novel written by an artist at the height of her extraordinary powers. Like all great works of
art, To the Lighthouse is rich with meaning and implication. On the simplest level, it is about the Ramsay
family, their vacation home on the Hebrides Islands in Scotland, and the guests who come to stay with them
there. On a deeper level, the novel is a meditation on time, on how it is experienced, and on what resources
human beings have to reckon with its relentless, withering passage.
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