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The Adventures of Peregrine Pickleby Paul-Gabriel Bouce, Tobias George Smollett, James Lowry CliffordISBN 0192816632 (0-19-281663-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. 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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The Adventures of Roderick Randomby Paul-Gabriel Bouce, Tobias George SmollettISBN 0192837168 (0-19-283716-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Age of Revolution 1789 1848by Eric J. HobsbawnISBN 0451627202 (0-451-62720-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Age of Scandal: An Excursion Through a Minor Periodby T.H. WhiteISBN 0192819488 (0-19-281948-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Alexander Pope: A Lifeby Maynard MacKISBN 0300043031 (0-300-04303-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander Pope: A Life'Book summary:The first comprehensive biography of the greatest English poet of the classical age.
Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Robert Kirsch Award of the Los Angeles Times. [via]More editions of Alexander Pope: A Life:
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Blind Justiceby Bruce AlexanderISBN 0425150070 (0-425-15007-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind Justice'Book summary:Falsely charged of theft in 1768 London, thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor finds his only hope in Sir John Fielding, the founder of the Bow Street Runners police force, who recruits young Jeremy in his mission to fight crime. Reprint. K. NYT. PW. [via]
Captivesby Linda ColleyISBN 0375421521 (0-375-42152-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850by Linda ColleyISBN 0385721463 (0-385-72146-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850'Book summary:In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate understanding of the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean, North America, India, and Afghanistan.
Here are harrowing, sometimes poignant stories by soldiers and sailors and their womenfolk, by traders and con men and by white as well as black slaves. By exploring these forgotten captives and their captors Colley reveals how Britains emerging empire was often tentative and subject to profound insecurities and limitations. She evokes how British empire was experienced by the mass of poor whites who created it. She shows how imperial racism coexisted with cross-cultural collaborations, and how the gulf between Protestantism and Islam, which some have viewed as central to this empire, was often smaller than expected. Brilliantly written and richly illustrated, Captives is an invitation to think again about a piece of history too often viewed in the same old way. It is also a powerful contribution to current debates about the meanings, persistence, and drawbacks of empire. [via]More editions of Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850:
A Case of Curiositiesby Allen KurzweilISBN 0156012898 (0-15-601289-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Confusionby Neal StephensonISBN 0434012386 (0-434-01238-6)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion'Book summary:Thrown back into a web of international intrigue, Eliza must contend with all manner of characters, including buccaneers, poisoners, Jesuits, financial manipulators, and ever the stray cryptographer or two.-In this hugely ambitious, profoundly compelling adventure, Neal Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery - men and women whose exploits defined an age known as the Baroque. [via]
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Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Centuryby Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, Mimi HellmanISBN 0300107145 (0-300-10714-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century'Book summary:During the reigns of Louis XV (1723-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92), fashion and furniture were not simply meant to be beautiful but were also intended to arouse, attract, and seduce. Published in response to the critically acclaimed and hugely popular exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in the fall of 2004, Dangerous Liaisons focuses on fashion and its interplay with the paintings, furniture, and decorative arts of eighteenth-century France. Featuring beautiful color photographs of the exhibitions installation, details of the garments, and supplementary historical material, the book demonstrates how the extravagant clothing of the period reiterated the splendor of Rococo and Neoclassical interiors.[via]More editions of Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century:
The Deerslayerby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0375760873 (0-375-76087-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deerslayer'Book summary:The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero Natty Bumppo. This novel marks Cooper's return to historical romance after more than a decade given largely to social and political commentary. This edition provides the authoritative text of the novel and prefaces to The Deerslayer (1841 and 1850) and to the Leatherstocking Tales (1850). [via]
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- The Deerslayer: ISBN 0451524845 (0-451-52484-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Deerslayer: ISBN 0192828118 (0-19-282811-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Deerslayer: ISBN 0192837257 (0-19-283725-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Deerslayer: ISBN 0451529391 (0-451-52939-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Deerslayer: ISBN 0375760873 (0-375-76087-3)
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- The Deerslayer: ISBN 0451524845 (0-451-52484-5)
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Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher BettsISBN 0192827502 (0-19-282750-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract'Book summary:Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today. Also included in this edition is Rousseau's Discourse on Political Economy", a key transitional work between his Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. This new translation offers fresh insight into a cornerstone of political thought, which is further illuminated by a comprehensive introduction and notes. [via]
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Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract: And, the Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher BettsISBN 0192835971 (0-19-283597-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract: And, the Social Contract'Book summary:Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today. Also included in this edition is Rousseau's Discourse on Political Economy", a key transitional work between his Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. This new translation offers fresh insight into a cornerstone of political thought, which is further illuminated by a comprehensive introduction and notes. [via]
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequalityby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Franklin PhilipISBN 0192829475 (0-19-282947-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourse on the Origin of Inequality'Book summary:In Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. His sweeping account of humanity's social and political development epitomizes the innovative boldness of the Enlightenment, and it is one of the most provocative and influential works of the eighteenth century. This new translation by prize-winning translator Franklin Philip includes all of Rousseau's own notes, and Patrick Coleman's introduction builds on recent key scholarship, considering particularly the relationship between political and aesthetic thought. [via]
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English Romantic Writersby David PerkinsISBN 0155226606 (0-15-522660-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub
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English Romantic Writersby Perkins DavidISBN 0155016881 (0-15-501688-1)
Hardcover, Heinle
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Romantic Writers'Book summary:When preparing english romantic writers, one of the principal considerations was the relevance of the english romantic writers to our own generation. This book offers a very generous selection from authors who have traditionally held a large place in our consciousness of english romanticism, but it also includes other figures, especially women, who have been less emphasized in the past. The intellectual discourses of the age concerning governance, politics, and the impact of the french revolution, gender and the status of women, the nature of nature and of human psychology, and the theory of literature and art are represented in the prose and poetry of writers like wordsworth, coleridge, the shelleys, and keats. There is also an usually large selection of ancillary materials -- letters, journals, reviews, and reminiscences of the writers [via]
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An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormentingby Jane Collier, Katharine A. CraikISBN 0192805525 (0-19-280552-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting'Book summary:Wickedly funny and bitingly satirical, The Art is a comedy of manners that gives insights into eighteenth-century behavior as well as the timeless art of emotional abuse. It is also an advice book, a handbook of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners. Collier describes methods for "teasing and mortifying" one's intimates and acquaintances in a variety of social situations. Written primarily for wives, mothers, and the mistresses of servants, it suggests the difficulties women experienced exerting their influence in private and public life--and the ways they got round them. As such, The Art provides a fascinating glimpse into eighteenth-century daily life.
The first to employ modern spelling, this edition includes a lively introduction by editor Katharine A. Craik. Craik puts in context the various disputes described in The Art (domestic squabbles, quarrels between female friends, altercations between social classes) by describing the emergence in mid-eighteenth century of new notions of bourgeois femininity, along with new ideas of leisure and recreation. The result is a literary work sure to be enjoyed both by lovers of satire and those with an interest in the real daily dramas of the eighteenth-century world. [via]More editions of An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting:
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The Essential Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf, Christopher BingISBN 0452269687 (0-452-26968-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Frankenstein'Book summary:Horror expert Wolf's sublime edition of this literary masterpiece features in-depth and extensive notes on all the novel's most interesting aspects, plus biographical information revealing how Mary Shelley's turbulent personal life influenced her work. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings. [via]
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The Essential Rousseauby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lowell Blair, Lowell BairISBN 0452010314 (0-452-01031-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Flesh In The Age Of Reasonby Roy PorterISBN 0393326969 (0-393-32696-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soulby Roy Porter, Simon SchamaISBN 0393050750 (0-393-05075-0)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul'Book summary:How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see themselves in a new light? Starting with the revolutionary ideas of the Renaissance that challenged the sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter goes on to chart how - through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson and Gibbon - ideas about medicine, politics and religion fundamentally changed notions of self. He shows how the body moved centre stage in the 18th century, writing on the ways in which men and women flaunted, decorated, tanned and dieted themselves: activities that we find familiar but that a Puritan divine would have considered Satanic. Porter also explores how, at the end of the century, the human soul took on a new significance in the works of Godwin, Blane and Byron. [via]
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The Flight to Italy: Dairy and Selected Lettersby T.J. Reed, Johann Wolfgang GoetheISBN 0192838865 (0-19-283886-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0192834878 (0-19-283487-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0226752275 (0-226-75227-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 031219126X (0-312-19126-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Frankenstein: ISBN 0321399536 (0-321-39953-6)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group - Frankenstein: ISBN 0375753419 (0-375-75341-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 0393964582 (0-393-96458-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 0394848276 (0-394-84827-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192815326 (0-19-281532-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0321096983 (0-321-09698-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Frankenstein: ISBN 044092717X (0-440-92717-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0451183770 (0-451-18377-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Frankenstein: ISBN 019251010X (0-19-251010-X)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192553259 (0-19-255325-9)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P. - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192811169 (0-19-281116-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Frankenstein: ISBN 0195149017 (0-19-514901-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0312065256 (0-312-06525-6)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - Frankenstein: ISBN 0312249489 (0-312-24948-9)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - Frankenstein: ISBN 0330241885 (0-330-24188-5)
Hardcover, Pan Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192834878 (0-19-283487-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- Frankenstein: ISBN 0226752275 (0-226-75227-5)
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Frankenstein Mary Shelleyby J. SmithISBN 0312044690 (0-312-04469-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein Mary Shelley'Book summary:This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelleys English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender, and cultural studies perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. In the second edition, 3 of the 6 essays are new. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.[via]More editions of Frankenstein Mary Shelley:
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Marilyn ButlerISBN 0192833669 (0-19-283366-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0192822837 (0-19-282283-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0451523369 (0-451-52336-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Frankenstein : Or, the Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0385487320 (0-385-48732-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0394605063 (0-394-60506-3)
Hardcover, Modern Library - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0396082777 (0-396-08277-7)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0448409666 (0-448-40966-6)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0192833669 (0-19-283366-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0192822837 (0-19-282283-7)
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Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0451523636 (0-451-52363-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Three horror classicswith an introduction by Stephen King[via]
Some of literatures most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome.
@NotoriousDOC Just did a bit-torrent-style grave robbery. My new man will be an artful collage. Also, good conversation starter.
Its alive! Id better beat it over the head repeatedly with a fire extinguisher.
So sometimes you build something, and it gets away. Theyre gonna can me at the university if they find out about this.
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Letters Concerning the English Nationby Voltaire, Nicholas CronkISBN 0192837087 (0-19-283708-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters Concerning the English Nation'Book summary:Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophhy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires.
Voltaire wrote most of the book in English, in which he was fluent and witty, and it fast became a bestseller in Britain. He re-wrote it in French as the Lettres Philosophiques, and current editions in English translate his French. This edition restores for the modern reader Voltaire's own English text, allowing us to appreciate him as a stylist at first hand. It is the only critical edition of the original text and, as well as providing an introduction and notes, it includes intriguing accounts of Voltaire by contemporary English observers. [via]More editions of Letters Concerning the English Nation:
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The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singletonby Daniel DefoeISBN 0192822004 (0-19-282200-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton'Book summary:Abducted as a child and forced to sea at the age of 12, Bob Singleton loses the fortune he made crossing Africa on foot, only to make a greater one as a pirate, before his realisation that he is `a Thief, a Pirate, a Murtherer, and ought to be hanged' sets him on the road to salvation in the company of one of Defoe's most memorable characters, William the Quaker. At once an adventure story, travel narrative, and view of eighteenth century society through the eyes of one of its outcasts, Captain Singleton is no longer considered one of Defoe's minor works, but an outstanding novel of ideas. [via]
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Mary Shelley: Frankensteinby Berthold Schoene-Harwood, Richard BeynonISBN 0231121938 (0-231-12193-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Shelley: Frankenstein'Book summary:Mary Shelley's first novel has established itself as one of modernity's most compelling and ominous myths. Frankenstein poignantly captures the spirit of the early 1800s as an age of transition tragically divided between scientific progress and religious conservatism, revolutionary reform and conformist reaction.
This "Guide" encapsulates the most important critical reactions to a novel that straddles the realms of both "high" literature and popular culture. The selections shed light on "Frankenstein"'s historical and socio-political relevance, its innovative representations of science, gender, and identity, as well as its problematic cultural location between academic critique and creative production. Ranging from the first reviews in 1818 to postmodern readings of the mid-1990s, the "Guide" illuminates one of British literature's most spectacular novels. [via]
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Mason & Dixonby Thomas PynchonISBN 0312423209 (0-312-42320-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mason & Dixon'Book summary:A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Fans of the postmodern master of paranoia will recognize Pynchon's personality in the novel's first phrase: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs," a brief echo of the rockets that curve across the skies in the writer's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow. [via]
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The Masqueradersby Georgette HeyerISBN 0373836066 (0-373-83606-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulphby Frances Sheridan, Patricia Koster, Jeancoates ClearyISBN 0192823086 (0-19-282308-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph'Book summary:Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph is at the center of many important currents in the eighteenth-century novel. It is a sentimental classic, a love story of great moral complexity, and also a probing example of conduct-book fiction. Sidney's story takes the cult of female distress into the conjugal relationship, showing the tortures that the virtuous mid-eighteenth-century woman suffers when she tries to live her life according to the period's laws of proper conduct. This is the only fully annotated edition of the book available, and it offers an introduction that examines the literary and social climate in which it was written. [via]
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The Music of the Spheresby Elizabeth RedfernISBN 042520538X (0-425-20538-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Newton's Cannonby Greg KeyesISBN 0345433785 (0-345-43378-5)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Newton's Cannon'Book summary:Newton's Cannon is an alternate history set primarily in the court of Louis XIV. This might sound familiar to readers of Vonda McIntyre's Nebula-winning The Moon and the Sun. Keyes, like McIntyre, blends alchemy, history, and fantasy in his novel.
Keyes's characters are expertly drawn: Louis XIV, the aging King of France who seeks a return to international preeminence, young Ben Franklin of Boston, a printer's apprentice who yearns to master alchemy, and Adrienne de Montchevreuil, a lovely, impoverished noblewoman who secretly pursues mathematics, but attracts Louis's lustful attention. The many secondary characters are also believable personalities, and the plot is original and suspenseful. Keyes's writing is precise and witty. "It was, Adrienne reflected, impossible not to be impressed by the Grand Canal. More like a cruciform inland sea with banks of polished marble, it summed up many things about Versailles. It was monumental in proportion, insanely expensive, impossible to overlook, and entirely frivolous."
Though the ending of Newton's Cannon leaves much unresolved--setting up book two of The Age of Unreason, A Calculus of Angels--it's fine entertainment all by itself. --Nona Vero [via]
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Newton's Cannonby J. Gregory KeyesISBN 0345406052 (0-345-40605-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Newton's Cannon'Book summary:Newton's Cannon is an alternate history set primarily in the court of Louis XIV. This might sound familiar to readers of Vonda McIntyre's Nebula-winning The Moon and the Sun. Keyes, like McIntyre, blends alchemy, history, and fantasy in his novel.
Keyes's characters are expertly drawn: Louis XIV, the aging King of France who seeks a return to international preeminence, young Ben Franklin of Boston, a printer's apprentice who yearns to master alchemy, and Adrienne de Montchevreuil, a lovely, impoverished noblewoman who secretly pursues mathematics, but attracts Louis's lustful attention. The many secondary characters are also believable personalities, and the plot is original and suspenseful. Keyes's writing is precise and witty. "It was, Adrienne reflected, impossible not to be impressed by the Grand Canal. More like a cruciform inland sea with banks of polished marble, it summed up many things about Versailles. It was monumental in proportion, insanely expensive, impossible to overlook, and entirely frivolous."
Though the ending of Newton's Cannon leaves much unresolved--setting up book two of The Age of Unreason, A Calculus of Angels--it's fine entertainment all by itself. --Nona Vero [via]
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Paul Revere's Rideby David Hackett FischerISBN 0195098315 (0-19-509831-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul Revere's Ride'Book summary:Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the events of the night of April 18, 1775--what led up to it, what really happened, and what followed--uncovering a truth far more remarkable than the myths of tradition.
In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic. Beginning in the years before the eruption of war, Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man far more complex than the simple artisan and messenger of tradition. Revere ranged widely through the complex world of Boston's revolutionary movement--from organizing local mechanics to mingling with the likes of John Hancock and Samuel Adams. When the fateful night arrived, more than sixty men and women joined him on his task of alarm--an operation Revere himself helped to organize and set in motion. Fischer recreates Revere's capture that night, showing how it had an important impact on the events that followed. He had an uncanny gift for being at the center of events, and the author follows him to Lexington Green--setting the stage for a fresh interpretation of the battle that began the war. Drawing on intensive new research, Fischer reveals a clash very different from both patriotic and iconoclastic myths. The local militia were elaborately organized and intelligently led, in a manner that had deep roots in New England. On the morning of April 19, they fought in fixed positions and close formation, twice breaking the British regulars. In the afternoon, the American officers switched tactics, forging a ring of fire around the retreating enemy which they maintained for several hours--an extraordinary feat of combat leadership. In the days that followed, Paul Revere led a new battle-- for public opinion--which proved even more decisive than the fighting itself.
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When the alarm-riders of April 18 took to the streets, they did not cry, "the British are coming," for most of them still believed they were British. Within a day, many began to think differently. For George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Thomas Paine, the news of Lexington was their revolutionary Rubicon. Paul Revere's Ride returns Paul Revere to center stage in these critical events, capturing both the drama and the underlying developments in a triumphant return to narrative history at its finest. [via] 
Peregrine Pickleby Tobias George SmollettISBN 0460008382 (0-460-00838-2)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Peter the Great: His Life and His Worldby Robert K. MassieISBN 0394500326 (0-394-50032-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century. [via]More editions of Peter the Great: His Life and His World:
Peter the Great: His Life and Worldby Robert MassieISBN 0345298063 (0-345-29806-3)
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Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century. [via]More editions of Peter the Great: His Life and World:
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself As Science: With Two Early Reviews of the Critique of Reasonby Immanuel Kant, Gunter Zoller, Peter G. LucasISBN 0198751516 (0-19-875151-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Rape of the Lockby Alexander Pope, Geoffrey TillotsonISBN 0415039991 (0-415-03999-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Rape of the Lock: A Cultural Editionby Pope, Cynthia WallISBN 0312115695 (0-312-11569-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Rivals, the Duenna, a Trip to Scarborough, the School for Scandal, the Criticby Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Michael CordnerISBN 0192825674 (0-19-282567-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Sentimental Journey and Other Writingsby Laurence Sterne, Ian Robert James Jack, Tim ParnellISBN 0192839969 (0-19-283996-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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On his journey to France and Italy, Yorick gets little further than Lyons but finds much to appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus and Mundungus. A master of ambiguity and double entendre, Sterne is nevertheless as concerned as his peers with exploring the nature of virtue and unlike other writers of sentimental fiction Sterne insists on the inseparability of desire and feeling.
This new edition includes a selection from The Sermons of Mr. Yorick as well as The Journal to Eliza and A Political Romance, both works that shed light on A Sentimental Journey. [via]More editions of A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings:
A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Centuryby John BrewerISBN 0374529779 (0-374-52977-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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A Sicilian Romanceby Ann Ward Radcliffe, Alison MilbankISBN 0192836668 (0-19-283666-8)
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The Social Contract and the First and Second Discourses: And, the First and Second Discoursesby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gita May, Susan DunnISBN 0300091419 (0-300-09141-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Social Contract and Discoursesby J. RoussearISBN 0460016601 (0-460-01660-1)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Through a Glass Darklyby Karleen KoenISBN 0380704161 (0-380-70416-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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a grand and glorious eraAs opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates.Through a glass darkly kill sweep you away tothe splendors of a lost era. Like gone with the wind,it is richwith characters so vivid -- from aristocrats toscoundrels--they create their own immortality Here is thestory of a great family ruled by a dowager of extraordinarypower: of a young woman seeking low in a world of Englishluxury and French intrigue" and of a man haunted by asecret that could turn all their dreams to ashes...
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Whig Supremacy, 1714-1760by Basil WilliamsISBN 0198217102 (0-19-821710-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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