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1632by Eric FlintISBN 0671319728 (0-671-31972-8)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: '1632'Book summary:1632 is an alternate history written by Eric Flint, the author of Mother of Demons, which was selected by Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the best novels of 1997. Flint is also the co-author, with David Drake, of the acclaimed Belisarius series: An Oblique Approach, In the Heart of Darkness, Destiny's Shield and Fortune's Stroke (forthcoming in June, 2000). The bestselling SF author David Weber says of Destiny's Shield: "It isn't often you come across a book or series you recommend to everyone. This one is an exception. But all three books. Read them. Now!" [via]
1633by David Weber, Eric Flint, James BaenISBN 0743471555 (0-7434-7155-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: '1633'Book summary:Hurled back in time into the Thirty Years War by a mysterious cosmic force, the West Virginian coal miners led by Mike Stearns have allied with the King of Sweden to form the Confederated Principalities of Europe. Cardinal Richelieu, effective ruler of France, is bent on their destruction. As the greatest naval war in European history erupts, Mike's "native" wife is trapped in war-torn Amsterdam, and his sister is a prisoner in the Tower of London! But Mike has plans for correcting that situation; very explosive plans. . . . [via]
The Annotated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0681322608 (0-681-32260-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Press
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Bartholomew Fairby Ben Johnson, G. R. HibbardISBN 0713635312 (0-7136-3531-2)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartholomew Fair'Book summary:The fair of St. Bartholmew, an annual summer carnival, offered Londoners an event to indulge their need for bodily delights and festival exuberance. The setting serves as Jonson's opportunity to dissect a wide cross-section of Londoners and their various reasons for spending a day out among the booths, stalls, smells and noises of the fair. Unusually magnanimous for a Jonsonian city comedy, the main thrust of the satire is not against fools, madmen, fortune-hunters, cuckolds or prostitutes, but against hypocrisy and bigotry.This edition shows that the play can be read as a comprehensive refutation of puritanism and the London magistracy, both of whom were attacking the theatre (and the festive culture of which it was still part) as idolatrous, seditious and disorderly.[via] 
Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroqueby Rudolf WittkowerISBN 0714837156 (0-7148-3715-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Readerby Robert DemariaISBN 0631197419 (0-631-19741-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Reader'Book summary:Designed to complement DeMaria's textbook British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology , this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixteen contemporary literary critics and covers the full range of works printed in the anthology. [via]
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British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthologyby Robert DemariaISBN 0631195289 (0-631-19528-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Softcover, Blackwell Pub - British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology: ISBN 0631217681 (0-631-21768-1)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub - British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology: ISBN 0631195289 (0-631-19528-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Captain Kidd and the War Against the Piratesby Robert C. RitchieISBN 0674095022 (0-674-09502-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates'Book summary:The legends that die hardest are those of the romantic outlaw, and those of swashbuckling pirates are surely among the most durable. Swift ships, snug inns, treasures buried by torchlight, palm-fringed beaches, fabulous riches, and, most of all, freedom from the mean life of the laboring man are the stuff of this tradition reinforced by many a novel and film.
It is disconcerting to think of such dashing scoundrels as slaves to economic forces, but so they were--as Robert Ritchie demonstrates in this lively history of piracy. He focuses on the shadowy figure of William Kidd, whose career in the late seventeenth century swept him from the Caribbean to New York, to London, to the Indian Ocean before he ended in Newgate prison and on the gallows. Piracy in those days was encouraged by governments that could not afford to maintain a navy in peacetime. Kidd's most famous voyage was sponsored by some of the most powerful men in England, and even though such patronage granted him extraordinary privileges, it tied him to the political fortunes of the mighty Whig leaders. When their influence waned, the opposition seized upon Kidd as a weapon. Previously sympathetic merchants and shipowners did an about-face too and joined the navy in hunting down Kidd and other pirates.
By the early eighteenth century, pirates were on their way to becoming anachronisms. Ritchie's wide-ranging research has probed this shift in the context of actual voyages, sea fights, and adventures ashore. What sort of men became pirates in the first place, and why did they choose such an occupation? What was life like aboard a pirate ship? How many pirates actually became wealthy? How were they governed? What large forces really caused their downfall?
As the saga of the buccaneers unfolds, we see the impact of early modern life: social changes and Anglo-American politics, the English judicial system, colonial empires, rising capitalism, and the maturing bureaucratic state are all interwoven in the story. Best of all, Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates is an epic of adventure on the high seas and a tale of back-room politics on land that captures the mind and the imagination.
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The Changelingby Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Joost DaalderISBN 0713668849 (0-7136-6884-9)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Changeling'Book summary:Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play. [via]
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Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl - The Changeling: ISBN 071901610X (0-7190-1610-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan - The Changeling: ISBN 0713668849 (0-7136-6884-9)
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The Comedy of Errorsby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743484886 (0-7434-8488-6)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Errors'Book summary:Each edition includes:
· Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
· Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
· Scene-by-scene plot summaries
· A key to famous lines and phrases
· An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
· An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
· Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Arthur F. Kinney
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe.
In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
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The Comedy of Errorsby Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722573 (0-671-72257-3)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Errors'Book summary:Generally believed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, The Comedy of Errors was first performed at the London Inns of Court in 1594, and has been unfairly dismissed as a piece of knockabout farce from Shakespeare's apprentice years. The play's action is very funny, especially in performance. Shipwrecked many years before the start of the play, Egeon of Syracuse searches vainly for his lost wife, one of his twin sons and one of their twin servants. Landing in Ephesus he falls foul of an obscure law condemning him to death unless he pays an enormous fine within 24 hours. The clock starts ticking and the action of the play begins to unfold. Egeon is not aware that his son Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio have also landed in Ephesus, but even worse, it soon becomes clear to the audience that Ephesus is also the home of the lost twin and servant, Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus.
So begins the comedy of errors, as the pairs of twins are repeatedly and hilariously mistaken for each other, much to the consternation of their friends, creditors and lovers. Yet the play is also shot through with more serious issues. The sentence of death hangs over the father from the very beginning of the play, strange things happen to time as the play progresses, and the space of trade and the marketplace are never far away. The laughter of mistaken identity also gives way to more profound questions of identity, as when Antipholus of Syracuse says of himself that "I to the world am like a drop of water/That in the ocean seeks another drop." The Comedy of Errors is a much neglected play which is only now achieving the critical and theatrical attention it deserves. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Complete English Peoms: Everyman's Libraryby John Milton, Gordon CampbellISBN 0679409971 (0-679-40997-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Complete English Worksby George Herbert, Ann Pasternak SlaterISBN 0679443592 (0-679-44359-2)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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The Consolation of Philosophyby BoethiusISBN 0672602733 (0-672-60273-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Country Wifeby William WycherleyISBN 0713666889 (0-7136-6688-9)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Doctor Faustus: A- And B- Textsby David Bevington, Eric Rasmusse N, David M. BevingtonISBN 0719016436 (0-7190-1643-6)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Faustus: A- And B- Texts'Book summary:This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments.[via]More editions of Doctor Faustus: A- And B- Texts:
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Donne Poems and Proseby John DonneISBN 067944467X (0-679-44467-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Donne Poems and Prose'Book summary:The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Donne contains Songs and Sonnets, Letters to the Countess of Bedford, The First Anniversary, Holy Sonnets, Divine Poems, excerpts from Paradoxes and Problems, Ignatius His Conclave, The Sermons, Essays and Devotions, and an index of first lines. [via]
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Dr. Faustusby Christopher Marlowe, Roma GillISBN 0713667907 (0-7136-6790-7)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Faustus'Book summary:This edition is based on the earlier version of this hugely successful[via]
Renaissance tragedy, the A-text published in 1604 which, it is
generally agreed, preserves much of Marlowe's original version. In
addition, it separately includes the scenes that were adapted or added
in the B-text of 1616. Marlowe joined the form of the late medieval
morality play to the historical material found in the German tale of
Johann Faust, who sells his soul to the devil in return of infinite
power and knowledge. Ironically undercutting the aspirations of
Renaissance Man, the play presents a devil who fails to impress the
sinner with the realities of hell - 'I think hell's a fable,' Faustus
shrugs - and calls into question the medium of theatre, which time and
again serves the devil to distract Faustus when the pious promptings of
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Dr. Faustusby Roma Gill, Christopher MarloweISBN 0713632313 (0-7136-3231-3)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Faustus'Book summary:Marlowe's play has two different recognized texts, with most editions based on the B text. Due to recent arguments for the authenticity of A, this edition is based on the A text. It includes a discussion of biographical, dramatic and theatrical aspects of the play. [via]
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The English Philosophers from Bacon to Millby Edwin A. BurttISBN 0679601317 (0-679-60131-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill'Book summary:The thirteen essays in this Modern Library edition comprise a complete survey of the golden age of English philosophy. The anthology begins in the early seventeenth century with Francis Bacon's comprehensive program for the total reorganization of all knowledge; it culminates, some two hundred and fifty years later, with John Stuart Mill. The thinkers represented here are the creators of the twentieth-century world. Indebted to them is a long line of economists, sociologists, and political leaders whose work has profoundly influenced the life and thought of our own time.
Included are the excerpts from Francis Bacon's The Great Instauration, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, and John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The complete texts are provided for Locke's second "Treatise of Government", George Berkeley's "Treatise Concerning the Principle's of Human Knowledge", David Hume's "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" and "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", John Gay's "Concerning the Fundamental Principle of Virtue or Morality", James Mill's "Government", and John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism" and "On Liberty". With an introduction as well as nine biographical prefaces by Edwin A. Burtt. [via]More editions of The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill:
The English Revolution, 1600-1660;by E.W. IvesISBN 0713154268 (0-7131-5426-8)
Hardcover, Edward Arnold
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Every Man in His Humourby Ben JonsonISBN 0713643978 (0-7136-4397-8)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Fire and Water: A Life of Peter the Greatby Alex De JongeISBN 0698110188 (0-698-11018-8)
Hardcover, Coward Mc Cann
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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slavesby Ira BerlinISBN 0674016246 (0-674-01624-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroqueby Howard Hibbard, Rudolf Wittkower, Margot Wittkower, Thomas MartinISBN 0714821934 (0-7148-2193-4)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750by Laurel Thatcher UlrichISBN 0679732578 (0-679-73257-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750'Book summary:This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising -- and, all too often, mourning -- her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best. [via]
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Havoc, In Its Third Yearby Ronan BennettISBN 0743258576 (0-7432-5857-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Havoc, In Its Third Year'Book summary:A penetrating and ambitious historical novel, Havoc, in Its Third Year is an ingenious, often deeply unnerving narrative of seventeenth-century England that speaks directly to the fanaticism and fears of today.
The time is the early seventeenth century, as the quarrel between Royalists and Parliamentarians turns toward civil war, and that between Catholics and Protestants leads toward bloody religious tyranny; the place is a town in northern England, set in a grim landscape swept by crop failures, plague and rumors of war, in which rigid Puritans have taken over government and imposed their own rules.
At the center of the novel is John Brigge, the Coroner and a Governor of the town, though not by any means as convinced a zealot as his fellow governors have become. Married and deeply in love with Elizabeth, who is pregnant with their first child, he has a guilty secret to hide in his affection for Dorcas, his wife's ward -- a secret which, in the world of religious prejudice and extremism toward which England is moving, can be lethal.
Determined to obey the law, rather than prejudice and the need to make an example of an Irishwoman accused of murdering her own infant, Brigge draws upon himself the hostility and suspicion of the powerful men who have been his fellow governors and who now set out to destroy him in the name of morality.
Brigge is both sympathetic and deeply vulnerable. He genuinely loves Elizabeth and longs for their child to be born, but he is also deeply attracted to Dorcas; he is, however guardedly, of "the old faith" and does not hesitate to hide a priest; he favors the wretched vagrants who infest the roads, seeking shelter and a bite to eat, and employs one of them on his farm. He insists on finding out the truth about the Irishwoman's baby, despite the fact that everybody has already decided on her guilt. In short, without intending to do so, John Brigge offers himself up as a victim by refusing to cooperate with the political and religious masters of the town or to subordinate his own conscience to their demand for rigid obedience and piety. Even his own clerk Adam, whom he regards as a son, turns against him in the end in a struggle that will almost cost Brigge his life and that sends him out into a cold and dangerous world, having sacrificed everything he once held dear, stripped of his power and authority, but made heroic by his commitment to love, truth and human feelings.
Havoc, in Its Third Year is a novel of great power, drama and terror, at once a love story and a superb work of historical fiction. It confirms Ronan Bennett's reputation as a masterful creator. [via]
Henry Vby William ShakespeareISBN 0671415212 (0-671-41521-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.
The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The History of Henry the Fourth, Part 1by William ShaespeareISBN 0671733559 (0-671-73355-9)
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A History of the Arab Peoplesby Albert HouraniISBN 0674010175 (0-674-01017-5)
Hardcover, Belknap Pr
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fallby Christopher HibbertISBN 0688053394 (0-688-05339-4)
Softcover, Quill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall'Book summary:At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the familys huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early 1430s with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de Medici, it moves through their golden era as patrons of some of the most remarkable artists and architects of the Renaissance, to the era of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florences slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line. [via]
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King Richard IIby Margaret ShewringISBN 0719046262 (0-7190-4626-2)
Softcover, Manchester University Press
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Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Laclos Choderlos DeISBN 0671675281 (0-671-67528-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Richard Aldington, Choderlos De LaclosISBN 0679413251 (0-679-41325-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'Book summary:Au petit jeu du libertinage, l'adorable Valmont et la délicieuse Madame de Merteuil se livrent à une compétition amicale et néanmoins acharnée : c'est à celui qui aura le plus de succès galants, et le moins de scrupules. Peu importent les sentiments, seule la jouissance compte. Les conquêtes se succèdent de part et d'autre, jusqu'à ce que Valmont rencontre la vertu incarnée : la présidente de Tourvel. Elle est belle, douce, mariée et chaste : en un mot, intouchable. Voilà une proie de choix pour Valmont : saura-t-il relever ce défi sans tomber dans les pièges de l'amour ? De lettre en lettre, les héros dévoilent leurs aventures, échangent leurs impressions et nous entraînent dans un tourbillon de plaisirs qui semble n'avoir pas de fin.
Ce sulfureux roman a longtemps été censuré, ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de fasciner des générations de lecteurs et, plus près de nous, de captiver bon nombre de cinéastes : Les Liaisons Dangereuses de Stephen Frears mais aussi les adaptations de Roger Vadim, et de Milos Forman. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Liberty Against the Law : Some Seventeenth-Century Controversiesby Christopher HillISBN 0713991194 (0-7139-9119-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Life of Timon of Athensby William ShakespeareISBN 0671669354 (0-671-66935-4)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Timon of Athens'Book summary:A messy, uneven and disillusioned play, Timon of Athens is rarely studied or performed because of scepticism regarding both its authorship and completion. Like Pericles there seems little doubt that Shakespeare wrote the majority, but quite what he was trying to do is another matter.
Timon of Athens is rich and generous, happy to provide his friends, servants and acquaintances with money whenever they require it. Only the cynical Apemantus questions the soundness of Timon's actions, and the motives of his supposed friends, wondering at "what a number of men eats Timon, and he sees 'em not. It grieves me to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood." When Timon's creditors ask for payment of their loans, Timon goes to his friends, but they all refuse to help him. Even worse, Timon's one loyal friend Alcibiades is exiled from Athens. After renouncing all his friends at one last banquet, Timon retires to a misanthropic life as a hermit in a cave. As he rails against "yellow, glittering precious gold", he completely renounces mankind, to die alone in his cave, his epitaph claiming that "Here lie I, Timon, who alive / All living men did hate". One of Shakespeare's more puzzling plays, Timon of Athens is unusually bleak and unforgiving, with Timon behaving like an unsympathetic version of Lear (they were both written within a couple of years of each other). --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Merry Wives of Windsorby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722786 (0-671-72278-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'Book summary:Written around 1597, critics believe that The Merry Wives of Windsor was written to capitalise on the popular success of the corpulent, knavish Sir John Falstaff in the two parts of Henry IV. Falstaff takes centre stage again in this play, hard up for money and planning to pay off his debts by seducing the wives of two rich citizens, Ford and Page. As in the earlier Henry IV plays, Falstaffs elaborate plans go awry, with disastrous and humiliating consequences. Ford is furious with Falstaff's attempt to woo his wife, whilst both Mistress Ford and Mistress Page have the measure of Falstaff, and repeatedly dupe him, first hiding him in a laundry basket and dumping him in the river, then tormenting him in the forest of Windsor with children disguised as fairies.
Often dismissed as a hasty and mechanical play lacking in depth, The Merry Wives of Windsor is in fact a wonderfully inventive farce. Falstaff is a ludicrous mock hero, dressed as a mythical hunter in the forest, declaiming "powerful love that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some others a man a beast!" Mistress Ford and Page are also great comic creations, witty and resilient women who drive the comedy, no longer "in the holiday time" of beauty, but wise and streetwise women who are always one step ahead of the absurd Falstaff. A greatly underrated play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Modern Ireland, 1600-1972by R. F. FosterISBN 0713990104 (0-7139-9010-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Ireland, 1600-1972'Book summary:This survey of the history of modern Ireland begins in 1600, with the end of the Elizabethan wars and the establishment of the Ulster plantation, and ends in 1972, the year in which the Republic joined the EEC and the Stormont parliament in Northern Ireland was suspended. Social, cultural and economic factors are given as much prominence as politics, and there are thematic chapters on such topics as emigration, colonization and ascendency culture. The author incorporates the controversies and conclusions which have emerged over the last 25 years and also presents his own personal view of the emergence of modern Ireland during the last three centuries. R.F.Foster is author of "Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and His Family" and "Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life". [via]
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New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Centuryby Bernard BailynISBN 0674612809 (0-674-61280-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century'Book summary:By the middle of the eighteenth century the merchants were dominant figures in the northern American colonies, powerful economically, politically, and socially. But in New England this preeminence had not been present in the first years of settlement; it had been achieved in the course of three generations of social development as the merchants often Puritans themselves, rose within the Bible Commonwealths to challenge the domination of the Puritan fathers.
In lively detail Mr. Bailyn here presents the struggle of the merchants to achieve full social recognition as their successes in trade and in such industries as fishing and lumbering offered them avenues to power. Surveying the rise of merchant families, he offers a portrait in depth of the emergence of a new social group whose interests and changing social position powerfully affected the developing character of American society.
The story of this group is the story of people and of their manysided interests. The merchants were united by the demands of their common devotion to trade, yet they did not form a socially homogeneous unit. In fact their social differencescreated in the confusions and dislocations of the early days of settlement came to play an important role in their business and political activities. Moreover, their commercial ventures, successes, and failures affected their social and political situation. Internationalists by occupation, they were deeply affected by personal relations with Europeans as well as by events in the Old World.
Drawing on source material from many fieldsbusiness records, religious and political data, literary remains, and genealogical informationMr. Bailyn has discovered much that is new about the merchants, and has brought it all together into a composite portrait of our economic founding fathers that is fascinating in itself and that will reorient our thinking about many aspects of early New England history.
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The Oracle Glassby Judith Merkle RileyISBN 0670850543 (0-670-85054-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oracle Glass'Book summary:With imaginative verve, intelligence, and exceptional detail, the author of A Vision of Light captures the rich tang of one of history's most irresistible eras. This is the story of a precocious 15-year-old girl who is transformed into an imperious, 150-year-old fortune teller. [via]
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Periclesby William ShakespeareISBN 0671669141 (0-671-66914-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles'Book summary:Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare's inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style and content. However, Shakespeare was clearly the driving force behind the play, and it is important to remember that it was one of the most popular plays of its time.
Famous for its resurrection of John Gower, the 14th-century English writer, who acts as the play's chorus, Pericles is a play which is obsessed with incest. The dramatic action begins in Antioch, where Pericles travels to solve the riddle of King Antiochus, who "to incest did provoke" his daughter. When Pericles realises Antiochus' terrible secret, he flees, wandering the seas, where he meets his wife Thaisa, who apparently dies whilst giving birth to her daughter Marina during a terrible storm. Pericles' grief is compounded by the apparent death of his daughter whilst staying at Tarsus some months later. She has in fact been sold into sexual slavery, and as Pericles resumes his wanderings, 16 years later Marina battles to retain her "peevish chastity". As with many of Shakespeare's later plays, or romances, recognition and reunion occurs in the most unlikely of circumstances. Despite questions of authorship and textual corruption, Pericles continues to fascinate audiences and critics with its dark and ambivalent account of the relations between fathers and daughters. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Pericles, Prince of Tyreby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 074327329X (0-7432-7329-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Period Costume for Stage and Screen: Patterns for Women's Dress 1500-1800by Jean HunnisettISBN 0713526602 (0-7135-2660-2)
Softcover, Quite Specific Media Group Ltd
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Poisonby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0679431403 (0-679-43140-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Practice of the Presence of Godby LawrenceISBN 0687609046 (0-687-60904-6)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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The Puritan Dilemma: The Story Of John Winthropby Edmund Sears MorganISBN 067339347X (0-673-39347-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Puritan Dilemma: The Story Of John Winthrop'Book summary:In 1630, along with hundreds of other settlers, John Winthrop left England for the New World. Because of his ardent Puritan beliefs and natural talent for government and politics, he was appointed governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. He became the foremost political leader in the colony for nearly 20 years, including twelve nonconsecutive terms as governor. When Winthrop and these new settlers arrived in the New World, they were aiming to create their own utopia, but they encountered difficulty and dissent.
In The Puritan Dilemma: John Winthrop, biographer Edmund Morgan helps us understand the motivations behind Puritan migration to America and the ideological and political difficulties they faced once they arrived. What does freedom mean? What is the proper role of the individual in society? Alongside the unfolding drama of a developing country, Morgan explores the life of John Winthrop and the core question of what level of responsibility people owe to their community and society. [via]
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Richard IIby William Shakespeare, Paul WerstineISBN 0671722832 (0-671-72283-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard II'Book summary:Each edition includes: [via]" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
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" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
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" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Phyllis Rackin
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Ring of Fireby Eric Flint, James BaenISBN 074347175X (0-7434-7175-X)
Hardcover, Baen Books
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000by Paul M. KennedyISBN 0679720197 (0-679-72019-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743477111 (0-7434-7711-1)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Romeo and Julietby Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, William ShakespeareISBN 0671042882 (0-671-04288-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Romeo Y Julieta Julio Cesarby William ShakespeareISBN 0606161031 (0-606-16103-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Rosicrucian Enlightenmentby Frances A. YatesISBN 0710073801 (0-7100-7380-1)
Hardcover, Routledge and Kegan Paul
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rosicrucian Enlightenment'Book summary:Available as a single volume or part of the 10 volume set Frances Yeats: Selected Works [via]
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Shakespeare Set Free Pt. 1: Hamlet and Henry IVby Peggy O'Brien, Jane Rosenman, William ShakespeareISBN 0671760483 (0-671-76048-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 0671006541 (0-671-00654-1)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870by Hugh ThomasISBN 0684835657 (0-684-83565-7)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 074347757X (0-7434-7757-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men -- the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio -- and the two sisters they meet in Padua. Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, the apparently ideal younger daughter of the wealthy Baptista Minola. But before they can marry, Bianca's formidable elder sister, Katherine, must be wed. Petruchio, interested only in the huge dowry, arranges to marry Katherine -- against her will -- and enters into a battle of the sexes that has endured as one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable works. [via]
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Testimony of an Irish Slave Girlby Kate McCaffertyISBN 0670030651 (0-670-03065-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Timon of Athensby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671479555 (0-671-47955-5)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timon of Athens'Book summary:FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY
THE WORLD'S LEADING CENTER FOR SHAKESPEARE STUDIES
Each edition includes:
- Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
- Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
- Scene-by-scene plot summaries
- A key to famous lines and phrases
- An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
- An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
- Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Coppélia Kahn
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.
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Titus Andronicusby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722921 (0-671-72292-1)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Titus Andronicus'Book summary:FOLGER Shakespeare Library
The world's leading centerfor Shakespeare studies
Each edition includes:
· Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
· Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
· Scene-by-scene plot summaries
· A key to famous lines and phrases
· An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
· An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
· Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Alexander Leggatt
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
Tragedy of Dr Faustusby Christopher MarlowISBN 0671509772 (0-671-50977-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Tragedy of Richard the Secondby William Shakespeare, Louis B. Wright, Virginia A. LamarISBN 0671531425 (0-671-53142-5)
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 0671722859 (0-671-72285-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Arousedby Mike DashISBN 060980765X (0-609-80765-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused'Book summary:For history buffs or gardeners who enjoy more than just digging in the dirt, Tulipomania presents a fascinating look at the tulip frenzy that took place in Holland in the mid-1600s. Beginning as gifts given among the wealthy and educated folk of Europe and Asia, the tulip rapidly became a source of incredible financial gain--similar to today's Internet start-up companies or Beanie Baby collections. Stories of craftsmen discontinuing their trade and focusing on raising tulips for public auction, where they sold for prices comparable to that of a manor house, are astonishing. Poets, moralists, businessmen--it seems everyone was involved at some level.
Lack of regulation and poor quality control were just a couple of the details that led to the abrupt crash in February 1637. Tulipomania was the original market bust--people were ruined, debts went unpaid. It was a disaster similar to the stock-market crash of 1929. A brief resurrection of the mania occurred 65 years later in Istanbul, and while it was not the financial obsession Holland experienced, it led to the creation of standards in flower shape and increased the development of new types. You don't need to be obsessed to enjoy this book--an interest in tulips, history, and the futures market ensures that this will be a remarkable read. --Jill Lightner [via]
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Unnatural Fireby Fidelis MorganISBN 0688176836 (0-688-17683-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Vermeerby Martin BaileyISBN 0714834637 (0-7148-3463-7)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vermeer'Book summary:The series has always been highly regarded for its insight and authority, providing an invaluable introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each volume contains an introductory essay, forty-eight full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white. [via]
Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Livesby Natalie Zemon DavisISBN 0674955218 (0-674-95521-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives'Book summary:As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the seventeenth century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian, equally remarkable though very different, were not queens or noblewomen, their every move publicly noted. Rather, they were living "on the margins" in seventeenth-century Europe, North America, and South America. Yet these women--one Jewish, one Catholic, one Protestant--left behind memoirs and writings that make for a spellbinding tale and that, in Davis' deft narrative, tell us more about the life of early modern Europe than many an official history.
All these women were originally city folk. Glikl bas Judah Leib was a merchant of Hamburg and Metz whose Yiddish autobiography blends folktales with anecdotes about her two marriages, her twelve children, and her business. Marie de l'Incarnation, widowed young, became a mystic visionary among the Ursuline sisters and cofounder of the first Christian school for Amerindian women in North America. Her letters are a rich source of information about the Huron, Algonquin, Montagnais, and Iroquois peoples of Quebec. Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname. Along the way she abandoned her husband to join a radical Protestant sect in the Netherlands. Drawing on Glikl's memoirs, Marie's autobiography and correspondence, and Maria's writings on entomology and botany, Davis brings these women to vibrant life. She reconstructs the divergent paths their stories took, and at the same time shows us each amid the common challenges and influences of the time--childrearing, religion, an outpouring of vernacular literature--and in relation to men.
The resulting triptych suggests the range of experience, self-consciousness, and expression possible in seventeenth-century Europe and its outposts. It also shows how persons removed from the centers of power and learning ventured in novel directions, modifying in their own way Europe's troubled and ambivalent relations with other "marginal" peoples.
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