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The Aeneidby Virgil, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 0394725964 (0-394-72596-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:Arma virumque cano: "I sing of warfare and a man at war." Long the bane of second-year Latin students thrust into a rhetoric of sweeping, seemingly endless sentences full of difficult verb forms and obscure words, Virgil's Aeneid finds a helpful translator in Robert Fitzgerald, who turns the lines into beautiful, accessible American English. Full of betrayal, heartache, seduction, elation, and violence, the Aeneid is the great founding epic of the Roman empire. Its pages sing of the Roman vision of self, the Roman ideal of what it meant to be a citizen of the world's greatest power. The epic's force carries across the centuries, and remains essential reading. [via]
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The Aeneidby Robert Fitzgerald, VirgilISBN 0394528271 (0-394-52827-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:Arma virumque cano: "I sing of warfare and a man at war." Long the bane of second-year Latin students thrust into a rhetoric of sweeping, seemingly endless sentences full of difficult verb forms and obscure words, Virgil's Aeneid finds a helpful translator in Robert Fitzgerald, who turns the lines into beautiful, accessible American English. Full of betrayal, heartache, seduction, elation, and violence, the Aeneid is the great founding epic of the Roman empire. Its pages sing of the Roman vision of self, the Roman ideal of what it meant to be a citizen of the world's greatest power. The epic's force carries across the centuries, and remains essential reading. [via]
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Alistair Cooke's Americaby Alistair CookeISBN 0394734491 (0-394-73449-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alistair Cooke's America'Book summary:As the United States adjusts to its role as sole superpower in a world of shifting allegiances, it has never been more important to understand what makes the country work. It is 30 years now since Alistair Cooke's award-winning 'personal history of the United States' appeared on TV and in the bestseller lists. Since then empires have fallen, reputations have been made and lost and 'globalization' has entered the dictionary. Time is a stern test for historians and this highly perceptive and wonderfully readable account has proved itself a classic. ALISTAIR COOKE'S AMERICA traces the history of America from the eve of discovery by European explorers to modern times: the young nation fighting for independence and forging its identity; the indomitable spirit of those who set out to tame the West; the fate of slaves and their masters; the 'huddled masses' who came seeking a new life. For this new edition, Alistair Cooke has written an extensive 'note to the reader' compiled with the inimitable wisdom that has engaged his audiences and readers for over half a century. [via]
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The American Tradition in Literatureby Sculley Bradley, George B. PerkinsISBN 0394340728 (0-394-34072-8)
Softcover, Random House
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The American Tradition in Literatureby George B. PerkinsISBN 0394340752 (0-394-34075-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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American Violence: A Documentary Historyby Michael Wallace, Richard HofstadterISBN 0394414861 (0-394-41486-1)
Hardcover, Knopf
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American Violence; A Documentary History,by Richard HofstadterISBN 0394716868 (0-394-71686-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Americans: The Colonial Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394705130 (0-394-70513-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americans, the Colonial Experience'Book summary:The first book in a trilogy--and in many respects the best of the bunch--The Colonial Experience is an essential interpretation of how the habits of people who lived more than two centuries ago shaped the lives of modern Americans. Boorstin shows how an undiscovered continent shattered long-standing traditions and utopian fantasies with the hard demands of everyday life far from the sophisticated centers of European civilization: "Old categories were shaken up, and new situations revealed unsuspected uses for old knowledge," writes Boorstin. He starts with a series of penetrating essays on the Puritans of Massachusetts, the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the philanthropists of Georgia, and the planters of Virginia, then tackles a set of diffuse topics that range from astronomy to language to medicine in fascinating vignettes.
The Colonial Experience is must reading for anybody interested in the development of the American character. --John J. Miller [via]
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Anatomy of Revolutionby Clarence Crane BrintonISBN 0394700449 (0-394-70044-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Angelique and the Demonby Anne GolonISBN 039911193X (0-399-11193-X)
Hardcover, Putnam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angelique and the Demon'Book summary:Angelique happily settles in the New World, joyfully reunited with her long-lost husband Joffrey de Peyrac, and her children. But something is wrong. Dark, mysterious forces threaten her marriage. Soon there are ominous whispers that Satan himself is present. Angelique battles for her life. . . . Have you met Angelique? If you haven't, you've missed one of the most irresistible heroines in the history of fiction. Saucy, emerald-eyed slave of passion, Angelique's stormy adventures have taken her from the gutters of Paris to the harems of Africa to the silken prison of a king. Compared by critics to Fanny Hill, Amber and Scarlett O'Hara, Angelique has loved, intrigues, hated and fought her way into the hearts and lives of millions of readers everywhere in the world. [via]
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The Book of the Courtierby Daniel Javitch, Castiglione, Baldassare, ConteISBN 0393976068 (0-393-97606-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Candideby VoltaireISBN 0394605225 (0-394-60522-5)
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Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticismby VoltaireISBN 0393960587 (0-393-96058-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism'Book summary:Robert M. Adams's superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.
The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major critical issues relevant to Candide and to the intellectual climate of the period. In addition to the reports of five English visitors to Ferney, essays by Haydn Mason, Erich Auerbach, Ernst Cassirer, and Robert M. Adams are included. The final section of the edition, "The Climate of Controversy," summarizes the debate surrounding Voltaire's works and includes essays by Peter Gay, Raymond Naves, Gustave Lanson, and John Morley. Also included are a series of quotations about Voltaire by such prominent figures as Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, and Stendhal, as well as the text of "Pangloss's Song," a ballad from the 1956 Candide-based operetta by Richard Wilbur. [via]More editions of Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism:
Comical Romanceby Paul Scarron, Tom BrownISBN 0405089279 (0-405-08927-9)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetryby Conrad Potter AikenISBN 0394601017 (0-394-60101-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacyby Kirkpatrick SaleISBN 039457429X (0-394-57429-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 0396082556 (0-396-08255-6)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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While locked away, Edmond learns from another prisoner of a secret treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond concocts a daring and audacious plan: escape and find the treasure! But it is years later--long after Edmond has transformed himself into the Count of Monte Cristo--that his plan for revenge begins to unfold.
Disguised as the wealthy count, Edmond returns to his native land to find his enemies--and make them pay!More editions of Count of Monte Cristo:
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The Course of Empireby Bernard Augustine De VotoISBN 0395924987 (0-395-92498-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Course of Empire'Book summary:Until his death in 1955, critic Bernard DeVoto explored a conception of the American character rooted in the experience of westward expansion. Unlike those who championed the civilizing graces of the agrarian frontier, DeVoto drew inspiration from the mercenary, imperial designs of the fur trade. The Course of Empire, the most elaborate of his chronicles of mountain men and their impact on U.S. history, meticulously accounts for every major Euro-American expedition and enterprise west of the Alleghenies from the 1520s through the 1830s.
In exploiting the West's resources, trappers, priests and explorers had to find new ways of navigating, mapping, and staking territorial claims. Eventually they made alliances amongst some of the native inhabitants and war upon hostiles and interlopers in order to protect their nation's trade routes. This unique political economy, according to DeVoto, ultimately shaped the budding republic's belief that it was destined to rule the continent. By emphasizing how indigenous social and environmental factors effected the protocols of conquest, The Course of Empire foreshadowed cultural studies such as Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land and Richard Slotkin's trilogy of books on "the myth of the American frontier." Its linkage of geography to the concept of empire also puts it in dialogue with the histories of William Cronon and Donald Worster. In a field marked by rapid conceptual change, DeVoto's analysis has retained its relevance to the present day. --John M. Anderson [via]
Craftsman in Early Americaby Ian M. G. QuimbyISBN 0393954498 (0-393-95449-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Crying of Lot 49by Thomas PynchonISBN 0397004184 (0-397-00418-4)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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Descartes; A Study of His Philosophy.by Anthony John Patrick KennyISBN 0394306651 (0-394-30665-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Don Quijoteby Miguel De Cervantes, Burton Raffel, Diana De Armas WilsonISBN 039397281X (0-393-97281-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quijote'Book summary:The text reprinted here is based on award-winning translator Burton Raffels masterful translation of Don Quijote, which is consistent, fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish.
"Backgrounds and Context" invites readers to explore the creative process that culminated in the publication of Don Quijote. Included are selections from works parodied by Cervantes (Amadis of Gaul and Orlando Furioso) and a portion of the spurious sequel to Part 1 written by Fernándes de Avellaneda.
"Criticisms" presents fifteen major interpretations of both the novel and selected episodes, describing Cervantes intellectual milieu, revealing how he infused new life into the literary modes and motifs he had inherited, and illustrating the fundamental importance of Don Quijote in the history of modern fiction. [via]More editions of Don Quijote:
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Elizabethan World Pictureby TillyardISBN 0394701623 (0-394-70162-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabethan World Picture'Book summary:This brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars and Fortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm and Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; and the Cosmic Dance-ideas and symbols which inspirited the minds and imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all men of the Renaissance. [via]
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English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthologyby David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmusse N, Lars Engle, Katharine Eisaman MausISBN 0393976556 (0-393-97655-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The First Churchill: Marlborough, Soldier and Statesmanby Correlli BarnettISBN 0399112979 (0-399-11297-9)
Hardcover, Putnam
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The First Saluteby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0394553330 (0-394-55333-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Salute'Book summary:This is a narrative history of the tumultuous years of the American War of Independence, using the salute of the St Eustatius as the starting point in an examination of the rivalries that determined Europe's crucial role in the American struggle. [via]
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Five Playsby Aphra BehnISBN 041317090X (0-413-17090-X)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Albert J. RiveroISBN 0393957241 (0-393-95724-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 textthe edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative.
It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.
"Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels, and relevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel.
"Criticism" includes fourteen assessments of Gulliver's Travels by the Earl of Orrery, Sir Walter Scott, Pat Rogers, Michael McKen, J.A. Downie, J. Paul Hunter, Laura Brown, Douglas Lane Patey, Dennis Todd, Richard H. Rodino. Irvin Ehrenpreis, Janine Barchas, Claude Rawson, and Howard D. Weinbrot.
A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included. [via]More editions of Gulliver's Travels:
Her Own Life : Autobiographical Writings by 17th Century Englishwomenby Elspeth Graham, Hilary Hinds, Elaine HobbyISBN 0415016991 (0-415-01699-1)
Hardcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
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Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomenby Elspeth Graham, Hilary Hinds, Elaine Hobby, Helen WilcoxISBN 0415017009 (0-415-01700-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Hidden from History: Rediscovering Women in History from the 17th Century to the Presentby Sheila RowbothamISBN 0394494121 (0-394-49412-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Historic Costume: A Chronicle of Fashion in Western Europe 1490-1790by Francis M. Kelly, Randolph SchwabeISBN 0405086873 (0-405-08687-3)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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A History of Modern Europeby John MerriamnISBN 0393983382 (0-393-98338-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Age of Napoleonby John MerrimanISBN 039396888X (0-393-96888-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A History of the Modern Worldby R. R. PalmerISBN 0394320409 (0-394-32040-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Iliad of Homerby HomerISBN 0394309227 (0-394-30922-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Iliads and Odysseys of Homerby HomerusISBN 0404541186 (0-404-54118-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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In the Days of the Salem Witchcraft Trialsby Marilynne K. RoachISBN 0395697042 (0-395-69704-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Julius Caesar and Related Readingsby William ShakespeareISBN 0395775426 (0-395-77542-6)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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King Henry Vby William Shakespeare, T. W. CraikISBN 041501414X (0-415-01414-X)
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The Later Renaissance in England: Nondramatic Verse and Prose, 1600-1660by Hershel BakerISBN 0395160383 (0-395-16038-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Lorna Dooneby R. D. BlackmoreISBN 0396066046 (0-396-06604-6)
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reasonby Michel FoucaultISBN 039471914X (0-394-71914-X)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Man of Modeby George EtheregeISBN 0413190706 (0-413-19070-6)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man of Mode'Book summary:New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
" The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
" Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings
" Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play
" Critical, contextual and staging notes
" Photographs of productions where applicable
" A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading.
Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike. [via]More editions of Man of Mode:
Marlboroughby Correlli BarnettISBN 0413295400 (0-413-29540-0)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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Mother Courage and Her Childrenby Bertolt Brecht, John WillettISBN 0413397904 (0-413-39790-4)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' Warby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0394171063 (0-394-17106-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A New England Town: The First Hundred Years Dedhan, Massachusetts, 1636-1736by Kenneth A. LockridgeISBN 0393954595 (0-393-95459-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The colonial New England Town is one of the myths of American history, along with such others as George Washington and the Cherry Tree and The Frontier. They are difficult to shatter, for they perpetuate the popular belief that the nation has always enjoyed universal democracy, honesty, and opportunity. The New England Town, however, deserves more than a mythical place in American history. In this industrial village society, the unique American experience had its beginnings.
In his highly original and controversial study. Professor Lockridge traces the origins of Dedham, Massachusetts, carefully examining its establishment as a utopia in 1636, the changes that occurred during the first four generations of its settlement, and the kind of community it had become by the mid-eighteenth century. In bringing to life this peculiarly American town he creates a view of all New England towns, so vital to an understanding of how the American character and society were shaped. He also gives answers to the basic questions shrouded by the myths: Was the New England Town democratic? Was it equalitarian? Was opportunity great? was society mobile? was it static or dynamic? Who had power, and who wanted it? In examining these questions Professor Lockridge has gone to the heart of the controversy surrounding the New England Town experience, finding some truth, and not a little irony, in the myth.
This enlarged edition includes an updated bibliography and an afterword in which Lockridge addresses two questions about the story of Dedham: What does it tell us about the impulses that led to American independence? The answers to these questions suggest the connections between the "new" social history and the broad political themes of the revolutionary period.
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The Norton Anthology of American Literatureby Nina BaymISBN 0393929930 (0-393-92993-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of American Literature'Book summary:Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of American Literature has been revitalized in this Seventh Edition through the collaboration between three new period editors and five seasoned ones.
Under Nina Bayms direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool.
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature to 1820: Literature to 1820by Nina BaymISBN 0393978982 (0-393-97898-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of American Literature to 1820: Literature to 1820'Book summary:Previous editions are cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. . In this sixth edition of the anthology, the former Volumes 1 and 2 have been divided into five individual volumes. Volume A covers American literature to 1820. A wide variety of literature is represented, including Native American [via]
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1 : 16th/17th Centuryby M. H. Abrams, GreenblattISBN 0393975665 (0-393-97566-5)
Softcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1 : 16th/17th Century'Book summary:With adoptions at over 1,300 colleges and universities in its first semester; the Seventh Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Seventh Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings and apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship make the Seventh Edition the choice for breadth, depth, and quality.
For the first time ever, the acclaimed Norton Anthology of English Literature is available in six separate volumes, each of which cover a specific period of English lit and focus on the wide range of writers and literature, with full annotation and commentary. Adapted unabridged from the full Norton Anthology, this volume is ideal for focused study or specific coursework in the period. [via]
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Norton Anthology of Literature by Womenby Sandra GilbertISBN 0393953912 (0-393-95391-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Norton Anthology of Literature by Women'Book summary:Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of womens writing in English.
Now, the much-anticipated Third Edition responds to the wealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all) whose diverse works span six centuries. A more flexible two-volume format and a versatile new companion reader make the Third Edition an even better teaching tool.
"As diversity itself has shaped the evolution of feminist criticism, from its early preoccupation with women's shared experiences to its more recent absorption in the complex issues and assumptions informing English-language texts by women writers of diverse geographical, cultural, racial, sexual, religious, and class origins and influences, so diversity has shaped the revisions of this anthology." From the Preface [via]More editions of Norton Anthology of Literature by Women:
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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in Englishby Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan GubarISBN 0393968251 (0-393-96825-1)
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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in Englishby Susan Gubar, Sandra M. GilbertISBN 0393930130 (0-393-93013-0)
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticismby Vincent B. LeitchISBN 0393974294 (0-393-97429-4)
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The Norton Anthology Of Western Literatureby Sarah LawallISBN 0393926168 (0-393-92616-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology Of Western Literature'Book summary:Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of Western Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of Western literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton anthologiesthorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possiblethe Eighth Edition features a significantly expanded selection of literature (37 new authors and over 150 new pieces) as well as three new pedagogical features designed to enrich students understanding of the historical and cultural context of the literary works.
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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpiecesby Maynard MacKISBN 0393954323 (0-393-95432-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces'Book summary:This groundbreaking Norton Anthology offers the best of the literatures of India, China, Japan, the Middle East, Africa, and native America alongside the masterpieces of the Western tradition.
These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers. Like all Norton Anthologies, the Expanded Edition in One Volume of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is foremost a teaching anthology, edited to meet the needs of todays students discovering a range of literary traditions for the first time. [via]More editions of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces:
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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: Beginnings to 1650by Maynard MacKISBN 0393963462 (0-393-96346-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: Beginnings to 1650'Book summary:In 1995, Norton changed the way world literature is taught by introducing The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition. Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Now published in 2 slipcased sets (this set, Package 1, contains three volumes covering from the beginnings of world lit to 1650), the new anthology boasts slimmer volumes, thicker paper, a bolder typeface, and dozens of newly included or newly translated works from around the world.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature represents continuity as well as change. Like its predecessor, the anthology is a compact library of world literature, offering an astounding forty-three complete longer works, more than fifty prose works, over one hundred lyric poems, and twenty-three plays. More portable, more suitable for period courses, more pleasant to read, and more attuned to current teaching and research trends, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most authoritative, comprehensive, and teachable anthology for the world literature survey.
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The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume A: Beginnings to A.D. 100 (ISBN 0393977552)
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Pamelaby Samuel RichardsonISBN 0395111552 (0-395-11155-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Pamela or Virtue Rewardedby Samuel RichardsonISBN 0395111528 (0-395-11152-8)
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People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilizationby Michael G. KammenISBN 0394460774 (0-394-46077-4)
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The Peopling of British North America: An Introductionby Bernard BailynISBN 0394757793 (0-394-75779-3)
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Peter the Great: His Life and His Worldby Robert K. MassieISBN 0394500326 (0-394-50032-6)
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Plain Dealerby William WycherleyISBN 0413190609 (0-413-19060-9)
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Purity of Bloodby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0399153209 (0-399-15320-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purity of Blood'Book summary:Arturo Perez-Reverte is one of the most beloved writers in the world. His bestselling novels, including The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South, have been published in fifty countries and translated into twenty-eight languages. Now, with The Adventures of Captain Alatriste, he delivers a magnificent series, already a million-copy bestseller in Spain, that chronicles the heroic adventures of a seventeenth-century swordsman.
In Purity of Blood, the second novel in the series, the courageous Alatriste is considering rejoining his old regiment to fight in Breda-but his blade leads him to another adventure. A desperate father hires him to rescue his daughter from a convent where a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. The father has been prevented from legal recourse because the priest has threatened to reveal that the man's family is "not of pure blood"-is, in fact, of Jewish descent -which will all but destroy the family name. Alatriste agrees to help, and several nights later, under the cloak of darkness, a rescue attempt is made.
But soon Alatriste discovers that he has become part of a religious and political conspiracy that leads all the way to the highest levels of the Inquisition. When a date is set to burn the man's daughter at the stake, Captain Alatriste springs into action -sword first-setting off a series of twists and turns that will keep readers riveted to the page.
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Shadows on the Rockby Willa CatherISBN 0394716809 (0-394-71680-9)
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Silent Woman or Epicoeneby Ben JohsonISBN 0413620603 (0-413-62060-3)
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The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State, 1688-1783by John BrewerISBN 0394577760 (0-394-57776-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Thirty Years' Warby Geoffrey ParkerISBN 0415025346 (0-415-02534-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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Thomas Shadwell: His Life and Comediesby Albert S. BorgmanISBN 0405082894 (0-405-08289-4)
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A Tinker and a Poor Man : John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88by Christopher HillISBN 0394572424 (0-394-57242-4)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0394847253 (0-394-84725-3)
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The Two Noble Kinsmenby William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Simon Trussler, R.S. Means CompanyISBN 0413405303 (0-413-40530-3)
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The White Devilby WebsterISBN 0413570304 (0-413-57030-4)
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The Winthrop Womanby Anya SetonISBN 0395081769 (0-395-08176-9)
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World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867by Donald KeeneISBN 0394170741 (0-394-17074-1)
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Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment : Popular Religious Belief in Early New Englandby David D. HallISBN 039450108X (0-394-50108-X)
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