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Alexander Popeby Alexander Pope, Pat RogersISBN 0192813463 (0-19-281346-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander Pope'Book summary:Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one. A succession of brilliant poems followed, including An Essay on Criticism (1711), Windsor Forest (1715), and his masterpiece, The Rape of the Lock. A second period of great poetry was begun in 1728 with the appearance of the first Dunciad. All these works--which exhibit Pope's astonishing human insight, his wide sympathies, and powers of social observation (displayed to greatest effect in his talent for satire)--are included in this selection of his poetry. It has been compiled by the distinguished Pope scholar and editor Pat Rodgers, who also provides an indispensable introduction that offers a new interpretation of Pope's poetry, and the philosophical ideas behind it. [via]
The Ancien Regimeby Pierre GoubertISBN 0061361011 (0-06-136101-1)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Ancien Regime French Society 1600-1750by Pierre GoubertISBN 0061318221 (0-06-131822-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Belindaby Maria Edgeworth, Kathryn J. KirkpatrickISBN 0192837095 (0-19-283709-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bountyby Caroline AlexanderISBN 0142004693 (0-14-200469-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bounty'Book summary:Few episodes in the history of British sea-faring are as gripping and sensational as The Bounty--an account of a mutiny of 1789. While the French were having a revolution in Paris, in the South Pacific a very English coup took place when Master's mate Fletcher Christian deposed Captain Bligh, the ruler of his ship, and set off with his fellow mutineers for a new life in the paradise of Tahiti. The tale has all the ingredients of an adventure--Robinson Crusoe, Captain Cook, Robert Louis Stevenson and Lord of the Flies all rolled into one. And, as Caroline Alexander points out, myth and legend have often got in the way of the real truth of why the mutiny took place. She sets out to find out what really happened, and does so by not only reconstructing the fateful voyage of the ship, but also by focusing in on all the principal and minor characters in the drama.
The trouble with this book is that there seems to be too many different tales to tell and the author struggles to keep up with her narrative. Like a lost ship we set sail in one direction only to back-track and recover the same course over again. The promised treasure--why Christian really did it--is never found. Readers wanting a clearer and simpler chart might be better advised to read Captain Bligh's own famous account, and Edward Christian's defence of his brother The Bounty Mutiny and then follow-up with Greg Dening's book, Mr Bligh's Bad Language. --Miles Taylor [via]
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Corinneby Sylvia Raphael, Madame De Stael, John IsbellISBN 0192825054 (0-19-282505-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Corinne'Book summary:Corrine, or Italy, is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil, and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. Stael, the subject of recent feminist rediscovery, weaves discreet political allusion into her romance, and upon its publication Napoleon renewed her order of exile. Sylvia Raphel's new translation preserves the natural character of the French original, while the notes and introduction place this extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical and political context. [via]
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Costume in Detail: Women's Dress 1730-1930;by Nancy Margetts BradfieldISBN 0245536086 (0-245-53608-6)
Hardcover, Harrap
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Diro A. SaundersISBN 0140431896 (0-14-043189-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:British parliamentarian and soldier Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) conceived of his plan for Decline and Fall while "musing amid the ruins of the Capitol" on a visit to Rome. For the next 10 years he worked away at his great history, which traces the decadence of the late empire from the time of the Antonines and the rise of Western Christianity. "The confusion of the times, and the scarcity of authentic memorials, pose equal difficulties to the historian, who attempts to preserve a clear and unbroken thread of narration," he writes. Despite these obstacles, Decline and Fall remains a model of historical exposition, and required reading for students of European history. [via]
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religionby David Hume, Martin Bell, J. M. BellISBN 0140445366 (0-14-044536-6)
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The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridanby Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Cecil John Layton PriceISBN 0198118562 (0-19-811856-2)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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Eighteenth-Century English Literatureby Geoffrey TillotsonISBN 0155209574 (0-15-520957-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Elective Affinitiesby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 0140442421 (0-14-044242-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elective Affinities'Book summary:Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of repressing what little "real life" they have in themselves, a life so far removed from their natural states that it appears to them as something terrible and destructive. [via]
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Emile: Or Treatise on Educationby Jean Jaques RousseauISBN 0140445633 (0-14-044563-3)
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, A. S. Byatt, David ConstantineISBN 0140449019 (0-14-044901-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of "Faust" is included with Goethe's classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil. [via]
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Faust Part 1by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192835955 (0-19-283595-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Part 1'Book summary:This new translation, in rhymed verse, of goethe's faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of european literature--preserves the essence of goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the german ever achieved [via]
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Hermsprong; Or, Man As He Is Notby Peter Faulkner, Robert BageISBN 0192816888 (0-19-281688-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, David WomersleyISBN 0140433937 (0-14-043393-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the events that led to its disastrous collapse. Here, in volumes three and four, Gibbon vividly recounts the waves of barbarian invaders under commanders such as Alaric and Attila, who overran and eventually destroyed the West. He then turns his gaze to events in the East, where even the achievements of the Byzantine emperor Justinian and the campaigns of the brilliant military leader Belisarius could not conceal the fundamental weaknesses of their empire. [via]
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Imperial Spain 1469-1716by J.H. ElliottISBN 0141007036 (0-14-100703-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imperial Spain 1469-1716'Book summary:Outstandingly good. Here is not a scholar writing for other scholars, but a most readable writer, who brings the political, social, religious, and intellectual movements of his chosen period as close to the modern reader as the ethics and limits of well tempered scholarship permit. [via]
Kantby Roger ScrutonISBN 0192875779 (0-19-287577-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Kant: A Very Short Introductionby Roger ScrutonISBN 0192801996 (0-19-280199-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kant: A Very Short Introduction'Book summary:Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton--a well-known and controversial philosopher in his own right--tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring.
About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam. [via]More editions of Kant: A Very Short Introduction:
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Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Margaret Drabble, Jane AustenISBN 0140431020 (0-14-043102-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon'Book summary:Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's "Lady Susan", "The Watsons" and "Sanditon" is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in "Penguin Classics". These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel "Lady Susan" depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with the affections of several men. In contrast, "The Watsons" is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine Emma Watson finds her marriage opportunities limited by poverty and pride. Written in the last months of Austen's life, the uncompleted novel "Sanditon", set in a newly established seaside resort, offers a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators, and shows an author contemplating a the great social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution with a mixture of scepticism and amusement. Margaret Drabble's introduction examines these three works in the context of Jane Austen's major novels and her life, and discusses the social background of her fiction. This edition features a new chronology. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, "Pride and Prejudice", at the age of 22. She was also the author of "Sense and Sensibility", "Persuasion", "Northanger Abbey" and "Mansfield Park". If you enjoyed "Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon", you may like Charlotte Bronte's "Tales of Angria", also available in "Penguin Classics". "In ["Sanditon"] she exploits her greatest gifts, her management of dialogue and her skill with monologue. The book feels open and modern ...as vigorous and inventive as her earlier work". (Carol Shields). [via]
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Lord Chesterfield's Lettersby ChesterfieldISBN 019283715X (0-19-283715-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Chesterfield's Letters'Book summary:Not originally intended for publication, the celebrated and controversial correspondences between Lord Chesterfield and his son Philip, dating from 1737, were praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching "the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master." Reflecting the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift, Lord Chesterfield's Letters reveal the author's political cynicism, his views on good breeding, and instruction to his son in etiquette and the worldly arts. The only annotated selection of this breadth available in paperback, these entertaining letters illuminate the fascinating aspects of eighteenth-century life and manners. [via]
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Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poemsby William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael SchmidtISBN 0140424628 (0-14-042462-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems'Book summary:Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry[via]Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Ballads allows modern readers to recapture the books original impact. In these poemsincluding Wordsworths Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey and Coleridges The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere the two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes.
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The Man of Feelingby Henry MacKenzieISBN 0192817760 (0-19-281776-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Man of Feelingby Brian Vickers, Henry MacKenzie, Stephen Bygrave, Stephen BendingISBN 0192840320 (0-19-284032-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man of Feeling'Book summary:Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series of episodes demonstrating his benevolence in an uncaring world: he assists the down-trodden, loses his love, and fails to achieve worldly success. The novel asks a series of vital questions: what morality is possible in a complex commercial world? Does trying to maintain it make you a saint or a fool? Is sentiment merely a luxury for the leisured classes? [via]
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Memoirs of a Cavalier, Or, a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany and the Wars in England from the Year 1632 to the Year 1648by Daniel Defoe, James T. BoultonISBN 0192827103 (0-19-282710-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verseby Roger LonsdaleISBN 0192820540 (0-19-282054-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse'Book summary:Anthologies of eighteenth-century verse have tended to confirm traditional notions of the period as one of untroubled elegance, urbanity, and decorum. Offering over 550 poems and extracts by more than 250 poets, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse presents a truer picture of this age as a much less stable and decorous time.
This extraordinarily comprehensive volume includes not only a generous selection of verse by such renowned poets as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Blake, and Burns, but also a large number of poems by lesser-known and previously ignored poets. Intermixing the familiar styles and preoccupations of "polite" taste with much less familiar verse from all social levels, it reveals the willingness of the century's poets to respond graphically, humorously, or unconventionally to all aspects of rural and urban life. Topics range from golf and hypnotism to amorous adventure and marital discord, from growing sensitivity to natural beauty to fear of the effects of the Industrial Revolution, and from the anguish of poverty and unemployment to animated political exchanges in the wake of the French Revolution. Taken together, these poems reveal that both unpredictability and familiarity played as significant a role as Augustan reason played in the world of eighteenth-century poetry. The anthology also includes a helpful introduction, notes, and a glossary. [via]More editions of The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse:
New Science: Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nationsby Giambattista Vico, Anthony GraftonISBN 0140435697 (0-14-043569-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verseby Roger LonsdaleISBN 019280491X (0-19-280491-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford History of the French Revolutionby William DoyleISBN 019925298X (0-19-925298-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of the French Revolution'Book summary:Opening with the accession of Louis XVI, it traces the history of France through revolution, terror, and counter-terror, to the triumph of napoleon in 1802, and analyses the impact of events in France upon the rest of Europe, William Doyle shows how a movement which began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy, not oonly for the ruling orders, but for the millions of ordianry people all over Europe [via]
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Philosophical Dictionaryby Voltaire, Theodore BestermanISBN 014044257X (0-14-044257-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophical Dictionary'Book summary:"Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary", first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of sardonic wit - more a collection of essays arranged alphabetically, than a conventional dictionary - considers such diverse subjects as Abraham and Atheism, Faith and Freedom of Thought, Miracles and Moses. Repeatedly condemned by civil and religious authorities, Voltaire's work argues passionately for the cause of reason and justice, and criticizes Christian theology and contemporary attitudes towards war and society - and claims, as he regards the world around him: 'common sense is not so common'. [via]
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Playsby Richard Brinsley Butler SheridanISBN 0192541692 (0-19-254169-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays'Book summary:This edition of the complete plays of Sheridan, English dramatist, theatre manager, and politician, includes The Rivals and The School for Scandal, as well as six lesser-known works: St. Patrick's Day, The Duenna, A Trip to Scarborough, The Camp, The Critic, and Pizarro. the only one available in paperback B [via]
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The Portable Blakeby Alfred Kazin, William BlakeISBN 0140150269 (0-14-015026-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Portable Gibbonby Edward GibbonISBN 0140150609 (0-14-015060-9)
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Preludeby William Wordsworth, J.C. MaxwellISBN 0140801057 (0-14-080105-7)
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The Prelude: A Parallel Textby William Wordsworth, J.C. MaxwellISBN 0140422145 (0-14-042214-5)
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The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mindby William Wordsworth, Ernest De SelincourtISBN 019281074X (0-19-281074-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)by William Wordsworth, Jonathan WordsworthISBN 0140433694 (0-14-043369-4)
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Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750by Jonathan Irvine IsraelISBN 0199254567 (0-19-925456-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Robert Bage's Hermsprong ; Or, Man As He Is Notby Stuart TaveISBN 0271002980 (0-271-00298-0)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Selected Poetryby Alexander Pope, Douglas Grant, Angus RossISBN 0140585087 (0-14-058508-7)
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Selected Writingsby Samuel Johnson, Patrick CruttwellISBN 0140430334 (0-14-043033-4)
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Sharpe's Tigerby Bernard CornwellISBN 0061012696 (0-06-101269-6)
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Sheridan's Playsby Cecil PriceISBN 0192811584 (0-19-281158-4)
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The Smart: The True Story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the Unfortunate Perreau Brothersby Sarah BlakewellISBN 0099286637 (0-09-928663-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Songs of Innocence and of Experienceby William BlakeISBN 0192810898 (0-19-281089-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Story of My Lifeby Stephen Sartarelli, Sophie Hawkes, Giacomo Casanova, Gilberto PizzamiglioISBN 0140439153 (0-14-043915-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of My Life'Book summary:Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, Good Samaritan, spy, swashbuckler, self-made gentleman, entrepreneur, wit, poet, translator, philosopher, and general bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover the Western world has known, but also a storyteller of the first order. Since he lived a life richer and stranger than most fictions, the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, but his memoir remained-at twelve volumes-unfinished at the time of his death. In these selections culled from authoritative French texts are all the highlights of Casanova's life: his youth in Venice as a precocious ecclesiastic; carousing and dabbling in the occult; imprisonment and thrilling escape; travels and encounters with major literary figures and world leaders; and, of course, many amorous conquests, ranging from noblewomen to nuns to cobblers' daughters, all of them willing partners in the adventures of his life.[via]
The first new translation since the 1960s, this Penguin Classics edition will provide readers with the most famous episodes as well as the overall shape of a monumental work in one beautiful, unique volume.
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Story of the Stoneby Cao Xuequin, David HawkesISBN 0140443266 (0-14-044326-6)
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The Story of the Stoneby Xueqin Cao, David Hawkes, E Gao, John Minford, O Kao, Cao Xuequin, Hsueh-Chin TsaoISBN 0140442936 (0-14-044293-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of the Stone'Book summary:"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beauty Dai-yu. Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family, this rich, magical work sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries, political intrigues, even murder - within the context of the Buddhist understanding that earthly existence is an illusion and karma determines the shape of our lives. [via]
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A Tale of a Tub and Other Worksby Jonathan Swift, Angus Ross, David WoolleyISBN 0192835939 (0-19-283593-9)
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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britainby Daniel Defoe, Pat RogersISBN 0140430660 (0-14-043066-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0140366725 (0-14-036672-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" is edited with an introduction by John Seelye in "Penguin Classics". When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map among the dead man's possessions. But Jim soon becomes only too aware that he is not the only one who knows of the map's existence, and his bravery and cunning are tested to the full when, with his friends Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey, he sets sail in the Hispaniola to track down the treasure. With its swift-moving plot and memorably drawn characters - Blind Pew and Black Dog, the castaway Ben Gunn and the charming but dangerous Long John Silver - Stevenson's tale of pirates, treachery and heroism was an immediate success when it was first published in 1883 and has retained its place as one of the greatest of all adventure stories. In his introduction John Seelye examines Stevenson's life and influences and the novel's place within adventure fiction. This edition also includes Stevenson's essay on the composition of "Treasure Island". Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a prosperous civil engineer. Although he began his career as an essayist and travel writer, the success of "Treasure Island" (1883) and "Kidnapped" (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action and adventure. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination and a fascination with the presence of evil, themes he explored in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886), and "The Master of Ballantrae" (1893). If you enjoyed "Treasure Island", you might like Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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- Treasure Island: ISBN 0140437681 (0-14-043768-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Treasure Island: ISBN 0192833804 (0-19-283380-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Treasure Island: ISBN 0237522829 (0-237-52282-9)
Softcover, Evans Publishing Group - Treasure Island: ISBN 0141305452 (0-14-130545-2)
Softcover, Puffin - Treasure Island: ISBN 0142500917 (0-14-250091-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Treasure Island: ISBN 0192816810 (0-19-281681-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Treasure Island: ISBN 0245542663 (0-245-54266-3)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0141439831 (0-14-143983-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the social ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of English society in the early 1800s, battles-military and domestic-are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honorable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin, devoted to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to William Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure. [via]
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Vanity Fairby John Carey, William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0140437533 (0-14-043753-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:This is Thackeray's rich and gloriously chaotic sketch of English society during the Napoleonic wars. At the centre of this picture is the scheming and disreputable Becky Sharp, one of Thackeray's greatest creations. The style here is fast-paced and comic, but the character of Dobbin and his unrequited love for Amelia bring depth and pathos to the novel. Dobbin, the unheroic hero, is Thackeray's realistic answer to the hero-worship of high romanticism. The novel stands as a landmark in the development of European Realism. [via]
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Vanity Fairby John Sutherland, William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 019281642X (0-19-281642-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Vindicationby Frances SherwoodISBN 0140236686 (0-14-023668-6)
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The Wanderer; Or, Female Difficultiesby Frances Burney, Robert L. MacK, Margaret Anne Doody, Peter SaborISBN 0192821334 (0-19-282133-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wanderer; Or, Female Difficulties'Book summary:The Wanderer or Female Difficulties is the tale of a penniless emigree from Revolutionary France trying to earn her living in England while guarding her own secrets. Combining the best elements of the Gothic and historical novels, this newly appreciated work is an extraordinary piece of Romantic fiction. Burney's tough comedy offers a satiric view of complacent middle-class insularity that echoes Godwin and Wollstonecraft's attacks on the English social structure. The problems of the new feminism and of the old anti-feminism are explored in the relationship between the heroine and her English patroness and rival, the Wollstonecraftian Elinor Joddrel, and the racism inherent within both the French and British empires is exposed when the emigree disguises herself as a black woman. This edition is fully annotated with appendices on the French Revolution, race relations, amusements, and geography and a previously unpublished manuscript revealing the connection between The Wanderer and Camilla. [via]
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The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolutionby Thomas SlaughterISBN 0195051912 (0-19-505191-2)
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Wielandby Charles Brockden BrownISBN 0156966808 (0-15-696680-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquistby Charles Brockden Brown, Jay FliegelmanISBN 0140390790 (0-14-039079-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist'Book summary:Set in rural Pennyslvania in the 1760s, this tale of horror and mystery is based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family. The author employs Gothic devices and sensational features such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. Fiendish Carwin uses his influence over Clara Wieland and her family, destroying the order and authority of the small community in which they live. The novel examines some fundamental issues crucial to the survival of democracy in the new American republic. The unfinished sequel, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, traces Carwin's career as a follower of the utopist Ludloe. [via]
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Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquistby Charles Brockden Brown, Emory ElliottISBN 0192836803 (0-19-283680-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist'Book summary:One of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the novel employs Gothic devices and sensational elements such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. Also included is Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, the unfinished sequel to Wieland, in which Brown considers power and manipulation while tracing Carwin's career as a disciple of the utopist Ludloe. [via]
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Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquistby Emory Elliott, Charles Brockden BrownISBN 0192828762 (0-19-282876-2)
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Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, 1798by W. J. B. OwenISBN 0199110069 (0-19-911006-9)
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