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60 Storiesby Donald Barthelme, David GatesISBN 0141180935 (0-14-118093-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: '60 Stories'Book summary:This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected. [via]
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Jerniganby David GatesISBN 0330321269 (0-330-32126-9)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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Little Dorrit: Library Editionby Charles Dickens, David GatesISBN 037575914X (0-375-75914-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Dorrit: Library Edition'Book summary:Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickenss previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickenss other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1857 edition. [via]More editions of Little Dorrit: Library Edition:
The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815by David GatesISBN 0340614471 (0-340-61447-1)
Softcover, Hodder Arnold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815'Book summary:Until they were surpassed by the war of 1914-1918, the Napoleonic Wars of 1803-1815 were often collectively tagged, "The Great War". Progressively engulfing not only the whole of the continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states, it was a war of unprecedented scale and intensity. In many ways a product of change, it acted as a catalyst for upheaval and reform across much of Europe. This study draws on recent findings and applies a "total" history approach, covering the causes and effects of the conflict and its place in the evolution of modern warfare. It explores and reappraises the most significant and controversial military ventures, including the war at sea and Napoleon's campaigns of 1805-1809, yet demonstrates, in interspersed thematic sections, how incomplete our understanding of the stuggle must be without an appreciation of the wider economic, cultural, political, and intellectual dimensions. [via]
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Non-Offensive Defence: An Alternative Strategy for NATO?by David GatesISBN 0312068166 (0-312-06816-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Preston Falls : A Novelby David GatesISBN 057506823X (0-575-06823-X)
Softcover, Gollancz Limited, Victor
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Put It in Writingby Joanne Buckley, David GatesISBN 0131231006 (0-13-123100-6)
Softcover, Pearson Education Canada
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane Austen, David GatesISBN 0375756736 (0-375-75673-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writersby Lynn Q. Troyka, Joanne Buckley, David GatesISBN 0139547517 (0-13-954751-7)
Hardcover, Pearson Education Canada
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Sixty Storiesby Lynn Q. Troyka, Joanne Buckley, David GatesISBN 0142437395 (0-14-243739-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sixty Stories'Book summary:This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected. [via]
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The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular Warby David GatesISBN 0306810832 (0-306-81083-2)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Warfare in the Nineteenth Centuryby David GatesISBN 033373534X (0-333-73534-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warfare in the Nineteenth Century'Book summary:Warfare in the Nineteenth Century not only covers warfare as it evolved throughout the century, but also explores its connection with, and effect on, technical, social, economic, political, and cultural change. The book discusses specific battles and campaigns in order to highlight the turning points in the development of the way in which military operations were conducted. David Gates places war during the 1800's in its wider historical context in a way that is thoughtful, wide-ranging, and informed.[via]More editions of Warfare in the Nineteenth Century:
The Wonders of the Invisible World : Storiesby David GatesISBN 0575068248 (0-575-06824-8)
Softcover, Gollancz Limited, Victor
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