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The Abyssinianby Jean-Christophe RufinISBN 0393321096 (0-393-32109-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abyssinian'Book summary:At the heart of Jean-Christophe Rufin's marvelous first novel is a nugget of truth: in the year 1699, Louis XIV of France sent an embassy to the King of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia). From this small fact Rufin has spun a mesmerizing tale of adventure, romance, and political intrigue that is one part Alexandre Dumas and two parts Rafael Sabatini, with just a dash of Brian Moore thrown in for good measure.
The hero of this epic tale is Jean-Baptiste Poncet, a young French doctor who has been practicing medicine without a license in Cairo. Poncet first comes to the notice of the authorities when the French consul in Egypt receives a secret message from a Jesuit priest commanding him in Louis's name to send a diplomatic mission to the king of Abyssinia. Foreigners--especially Christians--have not been welcome in that country since the Jesuits were expelled 50 years before, and a regular delegation would almost certainly be killed. When the consul, Monsieur de Maillet, hears that the Abyssinian monarch requires a doctor, however, he devises a plan to send Poncet both to cure and to convince the king to send a return delegation to Versailles.
Poncet has his own reasons for agreeing to go on this perilous mission: he has fallen in love with de Maillet's beautiful daughter, Alix. Unfortunately, he knows that "within the Frankish colony in Cairo, he was nothing more--whatever pains he took to hide his ancestry--than the son of a servant girl and an unknown man." The only hope he has of gaining the consul's blessing is to win Louis XIV's favor; bringing an Abyssinian embassy to Versailles might just do the trick. Poncet starts out for self-serving reasons; upon meeting King Negus, however, he comes to admire him, and soon finds himself jeopardizing his own future in order to thwart the political intrigues of his countrymen.
Rufin tells this larger-than-life tale with wit, sophistication, and a wholehearted enjoyment that shines through every sentence of this beautifully translated novel. Jean-Baptiste Poncet, a young man who "had been offered every opportunity for sadness and despair, yet ... had decided long ago that he would never succumb to such feelings," is a hero with heart, intelligence, and charm, and the book's many secondary characters are equally well developed. All in all, The Abyssinian marks a delightful literary debut. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Abyssinianby Willard Wood, Jean-Christophe RufinISBN 0393047164 (0-393-04716-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abyssinian'Book summary:At the heart of Jean-Christophe Rufin's marvelous first novel is a nugget of truth: in the year 1699, Louis XIV of France sent an embassy to the King of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia). From this small fact Rufin has spun a mesmerizing tale of adventure, romance, and political intrigue that is one part Alexandre Dumas and two parts Rafael Sabatini, with just a dash of Brian Moore thrown in for good measure.
The hero of this epic tale is Jean-Baptiste Poncet, a young French doctor who has been practicing medicine without a license in Cairo. Poncet first comes to the notice of the authorities when the French consul in Egypt receives a secret message from a Jesuit priest commanding him in Louis's name to send a diplomatic mission to the king of Abyssinia. Foreigners--especially Christians--have not been welcome in that country since the Jesuits were expelled 50 years before, and a regular delegation would almost certainly be killed. When the consul, Monsieur de Maillet, hears that the Abyssinian monarch requires a doctor, however, he devises a plan to send Poncet both to cure and to convince the king to send a return delegation to Versailles.
Poncet has his own reasons for agreeing to go on this perilous mission: he has fallen in love with de Maillet's beautiful daughter, Alix. Unfortunately, he knows that "within the Frankish colony in Cairo, he was nothing more--whatever pains he took to hide his ancestry--than the son of a servant girl and an unknown man." The only hope he has of gaining the consul's blessing is to win Louis XIV's favor; bringing an Abyssinian embassy to Versailles might just do the trick. Poncet starts out for self-serving reasons; upon meeting King Negus, however, he comes to admire him, and soon finds himself jeopardizing his own future in order to thwart the political intrigues of his countrymen.
Rufin tells this larger-than-life tale with wit, sophistication, and a wholehearted enjoyment that shines through every sentence of this beautifully translated novel. Jean-Baptiste Poncet, a young man who "had been offered every opportunity for sadness and despair, yet ... had decided long ago that he would never succumb to such feelings," is a hero with heart, intelligence, and charm, and the book's many secondary characters are equally well developed. All in all, The Abyssinian marks a delightful literary debut. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Advancement of Learningby Francis Bacon, Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0375758461 (0-375-75846-1)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Advancement of Learning'Book summary:While he didn't exactly invent science, Francis Bacon is its best-known early promoter. The Advancement of Learning is his 1605 argument in favour of natural philosophy and inductive reasoning, and is just as vigorous and cogent today. Though using the language of Shakespeare, the book is still largely accessible to modern readers--still, a bit of classical knowledge is helpful. Shaking off the centuries-old domination of Aristotle, Bacon advocated building scientific theories on facts and observations rather than pure reason; little has changed in our approach to understanding the world since then. Of greatest interest to historians and philosophers of science, the book will also appeal to those curious about the underpinnings of today's naturalistic thinking. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1689by Richard S. DunnISBN 0393098915 (0-393-09891-5)
Hardcover, Norton
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The Alchemistby Ben JonsonISBN 0393900142 (0-393-90014-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist'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]-
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginiaby Edmund Sears MorganISBN 0393312887 (0-393-31288-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginiaby Edmund S. MorganISBN 039332494X (0-393-32494-X)
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in Americaby Robert HughesISBN 0375703659 (0-375-70365-9)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The Barbary Coast: Algiers under the Turks, 1500 to 1830by John Baptist WolfISBN 0393012050 (0-393-01205-0)
Hardcover, Norton
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Baroque Paintersby John CanadayISBN 0393006654 (0-393-00665-4)
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Book of the Courtierby Baldesar CastiglioneISBN 0385094213 (0-385-09421-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Classic Theatre.by Eric Russell BentleyISBN 0385093853 (0-385-09385-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 037576030X (0-375-76030-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumass grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal. As Robert Louis Stevenson declared, I do not believe there is another volume extant where you can breathe the same unmingled atmosphere of romance.
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Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New Englandby Stephen InnesISBN 0393035840 (0-393-03584-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Descartes: The Project Of Pure Enquiryby Bernard WilliamsISBN 0391005634 (0-391-00563-4)
Hardcover, Humanities Press
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Deaths Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donneby John Donne, Izaak WaltonISBN 0375705481 (0-375-70548-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Deaths Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne'Book summary:Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel, one of the handsome series of Vintage Spiritual Classics, contains a rich collection of extraordinary writings, any one of which would be worth the price of the whole book. Andrew Motion's clear, accessible, entertaining, and erudite introduction explains the situation of both Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions--written in 1624, when Donne was feeble with a fever that doctors believed might kill him--and Death's Duel--Donne's final sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral, preached only a month before his death at age 59. Also included is Izaak Walton's The Life of Dr. John Donne, a spry and penetrating biography of the poet, written in 1640. And then there is the meat: both Devotions and Death's Duel show Donne at his very best--theatrical, humble, faithful, and doubting all at once. This is a book of severe and joyful mortality. Here is a foretaste from Devotions: "Death is in an old man's door, he appears and tells him so, and death is at a young man's back, and says nothing.... There is scarce anything that hath not killed somebody; a hair, a feather hath done it; nay, that which is our best antidote against it hath done it; the best cordial hath been deadly poison." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Dreadful Judgement: The True Story of the Great Fire of London, 1666by Neil HansonISBN 0385601344 (0-385-60134-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Dream of the Red Chamberby Chan TsaoISBN 0385093799 (0-385-09379-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Empiricistsby George Berkeley, David Hume, John LockeISBN 0385096224 (0-385-09622-4)
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Epicoene : Or, the Silent Womanby Ben Jonson, R. V. HoldsworthISBN 0393900401 (0-393-90040-1)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Forever in Your Embraceby Kathleen E. WoodiwissISBN 038081644X (0-380-81644-X)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forever in Your Embrace'Book summary:In a world of opulent splendor, destiny unites them--a beautiful countess of royal blood and a darling soldier-of-fortune. Once the bold adventurer saved the life of the highborn lady--and now she repays his courage by deceit. . .ensnaring him an inescapable web of irresistible seduction.In a magnificent court rife with dangerous plots, the handsome British Colonel, Tyrone Rycroft, falls unwitting but willing prey to the amorous intrigues of a regal temptress. But the lovely Synnovea, betrayed by her own impassioned yearnings for the brave and virile stranger, is consumed by the raging fires she ignites. . .but is powerless to control. [via]
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Frenchman's Creekby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 038000979X (0-380-00979-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frenchman's Creek'Book summary:"Highly personalized adventure, ultra-romantic mood, and skillful storytelling." New York Times
DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S LOST CLASSIC; AN ELECTRIFYING TALE OF LOVE AND SCANDAL ON THE HIGH SEAS.
Jaded by the numbing politeness of Restoration London, Lady Dona St. Columb revolts against high society. She rides into the countryside, guided only by her restlessness and her longing to escape.
But when chance leads her to meet a French pirate, hidden within Cornwall's shadowy forests, Dona discovers that her passions and thirst for adventure have never been more aroused. Together, they embark upon a quest rife with danger and glory, one which bestows upon Dona the ultimate choice: sacrifice her lover to certain death or risk her own life to save him.
Frenchman's Creek is the breathtaking story of a woman searching for love and adventure who embraces the dangerous life of a fugitive on the seas.
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The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks At Early Americaby Edmund S. MorganISBN 0393327140 (0-393-32714-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks At Early America'Book summary:Edmund Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, examines the history of the American colonies from the arrival of the first settlers to the American Revolution. Filled with illuminating discussions of American leaders, the book's range is extraordinary-from the sex lives of the Puritans to the Salem witch trials and the effects of slavery on the soul of Virginia. No living historian has had a more profound role in shaping our perception of the American colonies than Morgan and The Genuine Article reflects his genius like no previous work. [via]
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George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets: Authoritative Texts Criticismby George HerbertISBN 0393092542 (0-393-09254-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Golden Tulipby Rosalind LakerISBN 0385415605 (0-385-41560-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Henry V: By William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Kenneth BranaghISBN 0393316777 (0-393-31677-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry V: By William Shakespeare'Book summary:Kenneth Branagh made his mark as our generation's premier Shakespearean actor and director upon the release of Henry V, his first film.
Henry V established Kenneth Branagh as one of the most gifted and versatile film artists of our time. Branagh wrote the screenplay, starred in, and directed the film to astounding critical and popular acclaim. With a marvelous cast, including himself as Henry V, Emma Thompson as Katherine, Derek Jacobi as the Chorus, Ian Holm as Fluellen, Paul Scofield as the King of France, Judi Dench as Mistress Quickly, and Robbie Coltrane as Falstaff, Branagh brings the play into contemporary times, adding a darker and harsher sensibility. Included here are Branagh's screenplay and introduction, and dramatic stills from the film. [via]More editions of Henry V: By William Shakespeare:
His Forbidden Kissby Margaret MooreISBN 0380813351 (0-380-81335-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Historical Costumes of England: From the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuryby Nancy Margetts BradfieldISBN 0389016470 (0-389-01647-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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A History of Modern Europeby John MerriamnISBN 0393924947 (0-393-92494-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Modern Europe'Book summary:Available in both one-volume and two-volume paperback editions, A History of Modern Europe presents a panoramic survey of modern Europe from the Renaissance to the present day.
A seasoned teacher and talented historian, Professor Merriman offers a carefully crafted narrative that guides students through a vast amount of complex material, integrating the many aspects of the European experience into a larger, interconnected whole. A full 10% shorter than its predecessor, the Second Edition has tightened organization throughout to make room for recent research and descriptions of the current issues and events that define Europes role in the world today. [via]More editions of A History of Modern Europe:
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A History of Philosophyby Frederick J. CoplestonISBN 038523032X (0-385-23032-X)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Philosophy'Book summary:Here in one convenient volume are Volumes IV, V, and VI - complete and unabridged - of the acclaimed reference work that has dominated the field of phlosophy for two decades. Volume IV discusses the philosophies of Descartes, Pascal, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Volume V covers British philosophy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, marked by such giants as Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, as well as other movements of far-reaching significance. Copleston takes up the eighteenth-century continental philosophers in Volume VI - beginning with the French Enlightenment (including Fontenelle, Helvétius, Robinet, Rousseau) and then going to the German Enlightenment (which includes the work of Lessing and Wolff) and finally to an intense treatment of Immanuel Kant. These individual volumes have been hailed as "profound and well organized ... a remarkable accomplishment [marked by] dispassionate objectivity ... a magnificent survey." Now available as a three-in-one paperback, it will be welcomed by students and scholars of modern philosophy as a reference work that no library should be without. [via]
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A History of the Modern Worldby R. R. Palmer, Joel Colton, Lloyd KramerISBN 0375413987 (0-375-41398-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Modern World'Book summary:Conceived and written as a history of the modern world rather than a truncated Western Civilization book, this text is one of the most highly praised history texts ever published. It has been adopted at more than 1000 schools and has been translated into six languages. Lloyd Kramer joins the author team for this ninth edition that includes two new color inserts highlighting fine art, additional pedagogy to guide students through challenging material, and full, up-to-date inclusion of current events. Now packaged with PowerWeb, a dynamic course-specific rather than book-specific supplement that engages your students in three levels of resource materials and provides a true avenue to extending learning about a subject, A History of the Modern World is a necessity in any world history course. [via]
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The Iliadby Homer, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 038505940X (0-385-05940-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:Anger be now your song, immortal one,[via]
Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men-carrion
for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.
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Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that "makes Homer live as never before" (Library Journal).
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The Iliadby Robert Fitzgerald, HomerISBN 0385059418 (0-385-05941-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Iliad of Homer: Shorten Versionby I.A. RichardsISBN 0393001016 (0-393-00101-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad of Homer: Shorten Version'Book summary:According to legend, in ancient times Agamemnon led the Greeks into war with the city of Troy to recapture the beautiful Helen of Troy, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta.
The Iliad, the heroic Greek epic called by I. A. Richards "the most influential poem in the Western tradition," describes what happens toward the end of the Trojan War, when a quarrel between Agamemnon and the Greek hero Achilles sets in motion tragic events that bring the war to its conclusion.
This edition of the Iliad, abridged and translated by the noted critic and translator I. A. Richards, has made this classic work of literature available to modern readers since 1958 in a remarkably readable version. Mr. Richards has cut many passages that are not essential to the storyline and has omitted books 2, 10, 13, and 17. Removing the stylized decoration that can hinder a nonspecialist reader, he makes the language of the poem clearly accessible, and his narrative condensation allows the action to stand out boldly. [via]More editions of Iliad of Homer: Shorten Version:
Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontierby James Hart MerrellISBN 0393319768 (0-393-31976-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier'Book summary:Although the American West was ultimately won by killing nearly every Indian who got in the way, the initial contacts between native and Euro-American cultures were for the most part peaceful, defined by the social and geopolitical norms set by the land's original inhabitants. Into the American Woods examines how semiprofessional negotiators defined a "middle ground" in frontier Pennsylvania where schisms between Anglos and native Americans were temporarily appeased for mutual economic and political gain.
English colonial administrators, seeking to purchase land, establish trade, and avert conflict, became dependent on opportunists at the colony's edge, such as German entrepreneur Conrad Weiser, or trader George Groghan, to negotiate with the Delaware, Shawnee, Iroquois, and other regional tribes and bands. Uninterested in learning the ways of new arrivals, the native peoples sent sons of mixed European and Indian heritage or Christian converts to negotiate on their behalf. By trading wampum, using sign language, and scribbling pictographs, these go-betweens developed ambiguously effective means of bridging cultural divides. Negotiators, however, did not fully trust each other's intentions and maintained the prejudices of their own cultures. The French-Indian Wars lessened the effectiveness of councils or other forms of negotiation and tensions between Anglo and Native American civilizations intensified, culminating in the infamous "Paxton Boys" massacre of 1763. Each stage of Merrell's lively, extremely well-researched analysis is filled with colorful "woods lore"--anecdotes often comic in nature, focusing on the rampant alcoholism and bawdiness of frontier life--which illustrate the personalities of key negotiators, as well as the strategies and conditions by which White and Native America conversed in the early 18th century, an era when the wampum belt carried more power on the frontier than the flintlock. --John Anderson [via]
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The Knight of the Burning Pestleby Francis Beaumont, Michael HattawayISBN 0393900002 (0-393-90000-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Knight of the Burning Pestle'Book summary:This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR?d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Legacyby Susan KayISBN 038070322X (0-380-70322-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legacy'Book summary:A Spellbinding Tale of England's Most Passionate Queen-and the Three Men Whose Destinies Belonged to Her Alone.
"Fast-paced...one of the most fascinating monarchs in history."
-New York Times Book Review"A stupendous achievement...a book that captures
Queen Elizabeth I completely."
-Mainstream HistoricalBeloved for its stunning storytelling, Legacy offers an exquisite portrait of the queen who defined an era. Tracing the unlikely path from her tragic childhood to her ruthless confrontations with Mary, Queen of Scots, and capturing in all its glory her brilliant reign as Europe's most celebrated queen, Legacy peels back the layers from a mysterious monarch and satisfies the questions of history.
Winner of the Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize and the Betty Trask Award, Legacy gives us Elizabeth the woman: proud, passionate, and captivating in her intensity. She inspired men to love her with bewitching devotion, no matter what the cost, but the depth of her love for England required a sacrifice that would haunt her to the grave.
"Full of dramatic twists and turns, not to mention a scintillating central character and colorful supporting cast. Readers will lose themselves for hours in this richly entertaining novel."
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The Lost Paintingby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375759867 (0-375-75986-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpieceby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375431535 (0-375-43153-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece'Book summary:In 1992 a young art student uncovered a clue in an obscure Italian archive that led to the discovery of Caravaggio's original The Taking of the Christ, a painting that had been presumed lost for over 200 years. How this clue--a single entry in an old listing of family possessions--led to a residence in Ireland and the subsequent restoration of this Italian Baroque masterpiece is the subject of this brisk and enthralling detective story. The Lost Painting reads more like a historical novel than art history, as Harr smoothly weaves several narratives together to bring the story alive. Though he does not provide an in-depth examination of the painting itself--the book is not aimed specifically at art experts--Harr does include many details for lay readers about restoration, the various methods used to track artwork through history, how originals are distinguished from copies, and an inside view of the art world, past and present. He also discusses various forensic approaches, including X ray, infrared reflectography, chemical analysis of the paints and canvas, and other modern techniques. But most of the book is focused on more primitive methods, including dogged research through dusty archives and meticulous attention to detail.
This entertaining book boasts an engaging cast of characters, all of whom are inflicted with the "Caravaggio disease," including some of the foremost Caravaggio scholars in the world, persistent students, obsessive restorers, and most of all, the artist himself. Mercurial, supremely gifted, and prone to violence, Caravaggio lived like an outlaw and a pauper most of his troubled life. Yet even when he attained wealth and fame--and briefly, respectability--he was still hounded by the law (for murder) and numerous vengeful enemies. Harr does an admirable job of bringing the man alive in these pages while keeping his long-lost painting at the center of the action. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Man and Citizen: Thomas Hobbes's De Homineby Thomas Hobbes, Bernard GertISBN 0385086253 (0-385-08625-3)
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Man of Modeby George EtheregeISBN 039390041X (0-393-90041-X)
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Marriage A-La-Modeby John Dryden, David Lisle CraneISBN 0393900649 (0-393-90064-9)
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Master and Commanderby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393307050 (0-393-30705-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master and Commander'Book summary:An attractive movie-tie-in jacket for the release of the motion picture Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World starring Russell Crowe: "The best sea story I have ever read."--Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultless rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle. It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. When Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to captain, he inherits command of HMS Sophie , an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and gifted seaman, his thirst for adventure and victory immense. With the aid of his friend Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and secret intelligence agent, Aubrey and his crew engage in one thrilling battle after another, their journey culminating in a stunning clash with a mighty Spanish frigate against whose guns and manpower the tiny Sophie is hopelessly outmatched. [via]
A Midsummer Tempestby Poul AndersonISBN 0385055056 (0-385-05505-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby Meyer Howard AbramsISBN 0393151093 (0-393-15109-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature'Book summary:This seventh edition's thoroughly revised text incorporates recent scholarly developments while retaining the elements that have made the anthology useful in the past. New features includes a broader representation of women writers of all historical periods such as Marie de France, Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and Eavan Boland; a richer treatment of post-Colinial writers such as Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee and Paul Mundoon; and a new set of cultural and thematic "Issues" such as "The Literature of the Sacred", "The Science of Self and World", "Slavery and Freedom", "Revolution, Rights and Liberation" and "The Rise and Fall of Empire". The period introductions, author headnotes, annotations and bibliographies have been revised and many have been rewritten for this edition. The highlight of this edition is a new verse translation of "Beowulf" by Seamus Heaney. [via]
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Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in Englishby Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan GubarISBN 0393019403 (0-393-01940-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English'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: The Tradition in English:
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The Norton Anthology Of Western Literatureby Sarah LawallISBN 0393925722 (0-393-92572-2)
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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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Outlanderby Diana GabaldonISBN 0385319959 (0-385-31995-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Outlander'Book summary:In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don't let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It's one of the fastest reads you'll have in your library.
While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn't all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she's never known before.
I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness."
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Pamelaby Samuel RichardsonISBN 0393001660 (0-393-00166-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pamela'Book summary:Based on actual events, Pamela is the story of a young girl who goes to work in a private residence and finds herself pursued by her employer's son, described as a "gentleman of free principles."
Unfolding through letters, the novel depicts with much feeling Pamela's struggles to decide how to respond to her would-be seducer and to determine her place in society.
Samuel Richardson (16891761), a prominent London printer, is considered by many the father of the English novel, and Pamela the first modern novel. Following its hugely successful publication in 1740, it went on to become one of the most influential books in literary history, setting the course for the novel for the next century and beyond. Pamela reflects changing social roles in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, as a rising middle class offered women more choices and as traditional master-servant relationships underwent change. [via]More editions of Pamela:
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Pantagruel Gargantuaby Francois Rabelais, Burton RaffelISBN 0393308065 (0-393-30806-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pantagruel Gargantua'Book summary:Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience.
Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature. [via]More editions of Pantagruel Gargantua:
Pargeters/a Historical Novel of Seventeenth-Century Englandby Norah LoftsISBN 0385194005 (0-385-19400-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Plain Dealerby William WycherleyISBN 0393900428 (0-393-90042-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plain Dealer'Book summary:Man. Nay, good young gentleman, enough, for shame! Thou hast been a page, by thy flattering and lying, to one of those praying ladies who love flattery so well they are jealous of it; and wert turned away for saying the same things to the old housekeeper for sweetmeats, as you did to your lady; for thou flatterest everything and everybody alike. [via]
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Relapseby Bernard HarrisISBN 0393900320 (0-393-90032-0)
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A Religious History of the American Peopleby Sydney E. AhlstromISBN 0385111649 (0-385-11164-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Religious History of the American People'Book summary:This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Centurys choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day.Praise for the earlier edition:An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language. B.A. Weisberger, Washington Post Book World[via]
The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition. Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review
An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor. America
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Rembrandt's Eyesby Simon SchamaISBN 0375709819 (0-375-70981-9)
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Revolution of 1688 in Englandby JonesISBN 0393054594 (0-393-05459-4)
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Roaring Girlby Elizabeth CookISBN 0393900851 (0-393-90085-1)
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The Roaring Girlby Thomas Middleton, Thomas DekkerISBN 039390024X (0-393-90024-X)
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Rochester:the Critical Heritage: The Critical Heritageby David Farley-HillsISBN 0389044393 (0-389-04439-3)
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Salonica, City Of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims And Jews, 1430-1950by Mark MazowerISBN 0375727388 (0-375-72738-8)
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Shakespeare: The Biographyby Peter AckroydISBN 0385511396 (0-385-51139-6)
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Shakespeare After Allby Marjorie GarberISBN 0385722141 (0-385-72214-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare After All'Book summary:A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the countrys foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeares life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time. [via]
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Shakespeare Our Contemporaryby J KottISBN 0393007367 (0-393-00736-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare Our Contemporary'Book summary:This book is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare; more than that, however, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions.
Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage-conceptions. Readers all over the worldShakespeare Our Contemporary has been translated into nineteen languages since it appeared in 1961have similarly found their responses to Shakespeare broadened and enriched. Mary McCarthy called the work "the best, the most alive, radical book about Shakespeare in at least a generation." [via]More editions of Shakespeare Our Contemporary:
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Slaughter House Fiveby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385333846 (0-385-33384-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade'Book summary:Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
The Sot-Weed Factorby John BarthISBN 0385240880 (0-385-24088-0)
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The Spanish Tragedyby Thomas KydISBN 0393900576 (0-393-90057-6)
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The Story of American Freedomby Eric FonerISBN 0393319628 (0-393-31962-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of American Freedom'Book summary:Freedom, Eric Foner writes, is "the oldest of clichés and the most modern of aspirations." But what does it mean to be free? For the people of the United States, the concept of "freedom"--and its counterpart, "liberty"--have had widely differing meanings over the centuries. The Story of American Freedom, therefore, "is not a mythic saga with a predetermined beginning and conclusion, but an open-ended history of accomplishment and failure, a record of a people forever contending about the crucial ideas of their political culture."
Foner begins with the colonial era, when the Puritans believed that liberty was rooted in voluntary submission to God and civil authorities, and consisted only in the right to do good. John Locke, too, would argue that liberty did not consist of the lack of restraint, but of "a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power." Foner reveals the ideological conflicts that lay at the heart of the American Revolution and the Civil War, the shifts in thought about what freedom is and to whom it should apply. Adeptly charting the major trends of 20th-century American politics--including the invocation of freedom as a call to arms in both world wars--Foner concludes by contrasting the two prevalent movements of the 1990s: the liberal articulation of freedom, grounded in Johnson's Great Society and the rhetoric of the New Left, as the provision of civil rights and economic opportunity for all citizens, and the conservative vision, perhaps most fully realized during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, of a free-market economy and decentralized political power. The Story of American Freedom is a sweeping synthesis, delivered in clearheaded language that makes the ongoing nature of the American dream accessible to all readers. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfectionby Toby FaberISBN 0375760857 (0-375-76085-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection'Book summary:Antonio Stradivari (16441737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive, their quality unequalled by any subsequent violin-maker. In this fascinating book, Toby Faber traces the rich, multilayered stories of six of these peerless creationsfive violins and a celloand the one towering artist who brought them into being. Blending history, biography, meticulous detective work, and an abiding passion for music, Faber takes us from the salons of Vienna to the concert halls of New York, and from the breakthroughs of Beethovens last quartets to the first phonographic recordings. This magnificent narrative invites us to share the life, the intrigue, and the incomparable beauty of the worlds most marvelous stringed instruments. [via]
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A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-1688by Christopher HillISBN 0393306623 (0-393-30662-3)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, David CordinglyISBN 0375756825 (0-375-75682-5)
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Tulip Feverby Deborah MoggachISBN 0385334923 (0-385-33492-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tulip Fever'Book summary:Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever takes place in 17th-century Amsterdam, where roguish Rembrandt wannabes like Jan van Loos are just waiting to fall into ticklish situations. In this case, a paunchy merchant named Cornelis Sandvoort wanders into the artist's studio, hoping to impress posterity with a portrait of himself and his young wife. Apart from the fat commission, which van Loos can use, there is the bride to consider. Beautiful and bored, Sophia is easily swayed by his youthful passion--but this time, the raffish van Loos actually falls in love with one of his sexual conquests. The two carry out their affair with increasing doses of rashness and deception, meanwhile becoming dependent on the complicity of a servant, the astonishing gullibility of the old man, and the fast cash to be made on the tulip-bulb exchange.
The plot of Moggach's 13th novel neatly matches the speculative frenzy of the period, careening from one improbable thrill to the next. It was, to be sure, a time of stunning economic lunacy, when a single Semper Augustus bulb could be sold for "six fine horses, three oxheads of wine, a dozen sheep, two dozen silver goblets and a seascape by Esaias van de Velde." The author expertly dabs in this sort of period detail, and her chapter epigraphs quote some charming 17th-century Dutch sources on morals and conventional wisdom. Indeed, it's these quasi-surreal touches--whales washing up on the coast, chimney pots toppling into the street, women rubbing goose fat into their hands--that make the lovers' overheated sentiments so plausible. "For centuries to come," the narrator says, "people will gaze at these paintings and wonder what is about to happen." Tulip Fever gives us the chance to do exactly that. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Virgil's Aeneidby Virgil, Cecil Day LewisISBN 0385093187 (0-385-09318-7)
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The Whole Duty of a Womanby Angeline GoreauISBN 0385278780 (0-385-27878-0)
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Witch of Edmontonby Thomas DekkerISBN 0393900878 (0-393-90087-8)
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A Woman Killed with Kindnessby Thomas Heywood, Brian ScobieISBN 0393900525 (0-393-90052-5)
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Women Beware Womenby Thomas MiddletonISBN 0393900479 (0-393-90047-9)
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World Masterpiecesby Maynard MacKISBN 0393096165 (0-393-09616-5)
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