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1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the Worldby Frank McLynnISBN 0802142281 (0-8021-4228-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World'Book summary:If not for the events of 1759, the entire history of the world would have been different. Called the "Year of Victories," 1759 was the fourth year of the Seven Years, or the French-and-Indian War and defeat of the French paved the way for the global hegemony of the English language. Guiding us through England's conquests (and often extremely narrow victories), Frank McLynn (Wagons West) brilliantly interweaves primary sources, ranging from material in the Vatican archives to oral histories of Native Americans. In a stunning chronicle of a pivotal year in world history, he controversially concludes that the birth of the great British Empire was more a result of luck than of rigorous planning.[via]More editions of 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World:
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46 Pages: Tom Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independenceby S. LiellISBN 0762418133 (0-7624-1813-3)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: '46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence'Book summary:Thomas Paine, a native of Thetford, England, arrived in America's coloines with little in the way of money, reputation, or prospects, though he did have a letter of recommendation in his pocket from Benjamin Franklin. Paine also had a passion for liberty in all its forms, and an abiding hatred of tyranny. His forceful, direct expression of those principles found voice in a pamphlet he wrote entitled Common Sense, which proved to be the most influential political work of the time. Ultimately, Paine's treatise provided inspiration to the second Continental Congress for the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. 46 Pages is a dramatic look at a pivotal moment in our country's formation, a scholar's meticulous recreation of the turbulent years leading up to the Revolutionary War, retold with excitement and new insight.[via]More editions of 46 Pages: Tom Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence:
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Age of Homespun : Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Mythby Laurel Thatcher UlrichISBN 0679766448 (0-679-76644-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth'Book summary:They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of Bancroft Award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial Americaranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sockrelinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history.
In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels illuminate the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history. [via]More editions of Age of Homespun : Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth:
Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century Englandby Douglas HayISBN 0713909757 (0-7139-0975-7)
Hardcover, A. Lane
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The American Revolution: A Historyby Gordon S. WoodISBN 0679640576 (0-679-64057-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Americans, the Colonial Experienceby Daniel J. Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0747401144 (0-7474-0114-4)
Hardcover, Cardinal
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americans, the Colonial Experience'Book summary:The first book in a trilogy--and in many respects the best of the bunch--The Colonial Experience is an essential interpretation of how the habits of people who lived more than two centuries ago shaped the lives of modern Americans. Boorstin shows how an undiscovered continent shattered long-standing traditions and utopian fantasies with the hard demands of everyday life far from the sophisticated centers of European civilization: "Old categories were shaken up, and new situations revealed unsuspected uses for old knowledge," writes Boorstin. He starts with a series of penetrating essays on the Puritans of Massachusetts, the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the philanthropists of Georgia, and the planters of Virginia, then tackles a set of diffuse topics that range from astronomy to language to medicine in fascinating vignettes.
The Colonial Experience is must reading for anybody interested in the development of the American character. --John J. Miller [via]
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Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolutionby Benson BobrickISBN 0684810603 (0-684-81060-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution'Book summary:George Washington at Valley Forge, Benedict Arnold's treason at West Point, Corwallis's defeat at Yorktown--these are the characters and events most Americans remember from their high-school history lessons about the Revolutionary War. Yet the war itself is so removed from us in time, its villains and heroes so remote, that it fails to grasp the place in popular imagination occupied by the Civil War, the two World Wars, or even Vietnam. Benson Bobrick's fresh account of the Revolutionary War, Angel in the Whirlwind, might just change all that. The secret to Bobrick's success lies in his entertaining, lively prose, and--more importantly--in his choice of focus: this account of the American Revolution weaves the fortunes of two of its more fascinating participants, George Washington and Benedict Arnold, into its larger story. Washington's fascination is rooted in his military genius and talent for leadership, Arnold's in his flawed character. At once a fearless soldier and a greedy opportunist, Arnold's perfidy makes an interesting counterpoint to Washington's heroism.
Bobrick does a fine job of covering the ins and outs of this extraordinary war, giving readers enough background to understand the complexities of the issues that led to the Declaration of Independence by taking them through the war years leading to Washington's inauguration. Better yet, he creates a sense of the times in which these stirring events occurred, limning the details of the common people's lives and attitudes to add a sense of immediacy. Angel in the Whirlwind is popular history at its best; George Washington would be proud. [via]
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Beau Brummell : The Ultimate Man of Styleby Ian KellyISBN 0743270894 (0-7432-7089-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Blake: Poemsby William BlakeISBN 0679436332 (0-679-43633-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blake: Poems'Book summary:These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Prophetic Books, and an index of first lines. [via]
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Bridge Of San Luis Reyby Thornton Wilder, Amy DrevenstedtISBN 076619440X (0-7661-9440-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridge Of San Luis Rey'Book summary:1928. Wilder's second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize. The book begins with the collapse of the finest bridge in all Peru and the deaths of five people. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan missionary, who witnesses the tragedy, asks Why did these five die? To explain Divine Providence, he sets out to interpret the lives of the five victims and to understand why they died. At the end, his writings are considered heretical and both Juniper and his work are burned by the Inquisition. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Chapman's Homer: The Iliadby Allardyce Nicoll, George ChapmanISBN 0691002363 (0-691-00236-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer: The Iliad'Book summary:George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language."
This volume presents the original (1611) text of Chapman's translation of the Iliad, making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction and a glossary. Garry Wills contributes a preface, in which he explains how Chapman tapped into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the Iliad's warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0679600264 (0-679-60026-4)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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The Crimes of Loveby Margaret Crosland, Marquis De SadeISBN 0720609577 (0-7206-0957-7)
Hardcover, Peter Owen Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimes of Love'Book summary:Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love.
This is the most complete selection from the Marquis de Sade's four-volume collection of short stories, The Crimes of Love. David Coward's vibrant new translation captures the verve of the original, and his introduction and notes describe Sade's notorious career. This new selection includes "An Essay on Novels," Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. It also contains the preface to the collection and an important statement of Sade's concept of fiction and one of the few literary manifestoes published during the Revolution. Appendices include the denunciatory review of the collection that it received on publication, and Diderot's vigorous response. A skilled and artful story-teller, Marquis de Sade's is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life. Psychologically astute and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade at his best.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via]More editions of The Crimes of Love:
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The Crimes Of Loveby Marquis De Sade, Margaret CroslandISBN 0720611830 (0-7206-1183-0)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimes Of Love'Book summary:[via]Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love, but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in these stories; tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love. Psychologically astute and defiantly unconventional, these tales show Sade at his best. A skilled and artful storyteller, he is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life, for which we have yet to find the answers.More editions of The Crimes Of Love:
The Crimes of Love: Heroic and tragic Tales, Preceeded by an Essay on Novelsby Marquis de SadeISBN 0720609860 (0-7206-0986-0)
Softcover, Owen Limited, Peter
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Dearest Friend : A Life of Abigail Adamsby Lynne WitheyISBN 074323443X (0-7432-3443-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dearest Friend : A Life of Abigail Adams'Book summary:"Dearest Friend" is the biography of Abigail Adams, the unschooled minister's daughter who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. Rich with excerpts from her incomparable letters and alive with the ferment of a new nation, "Dearest Friend" captures both the public and the private sides of this fascinating woman. She was a keen observer of the politics of her time and fully grasped the Revolution's implications for women and slaves. She was an advocate of black emancipation and urged her husband to "Remember the Ladies" as he framed the laws of their new country.
John and Abigail Adams married for love, and their passion for each other endured for the fifty-four years of their marriage. They lived apart for more than a decade while John traveled in America and abroad to help begin a new country. Abigail remained at home for most of that time, writing letters to her "Dearest Friend," raising four children, managing a farm and the family finances, and keeping John informed of the political mood at home. This book chronicles their remarkable marriage, her blossoming feminism, her battles with the loneliness of separation, and her friendships with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other giants of her time.
Intelligent, resourceful, and outspoken, Abigail Adams lived an uncommon life for a woman of her time. First published in 1981, "Dearest Friend" brings her legacy to our century. [via]
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 067943593X (0-679-43593-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:"It was Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind," recorded Edward Gibbon with characteristic exactitude. Over a period of some twenty years, the luminous eighteenth-century historian--a precise, dapper, idiosyncratic little gentleman famous for rapping his snuff-box--devoted his considerable genius to writing an epic chronicle of the entire Roman Empire's decline. His single flash of inspiration produced what is arguably the greatest historical work in any language--and surely the most magnificent narrative history ever written in English. "Gibbon is one of those few who hold as high a place in the history of literature as in the roll of great historians," noted Professor J.B. Bury, his most celebrated editor.
This three-volume Modern Library edition of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire--with Gibbon's notes--is edited with a general introduction and index by Bury, along with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin. The volumes are illustrated with reproductions of etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi.
The first volume contains chapters one through twenty-six of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 2 : The History of the Empire from A.D. 395 to 1185by Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury, Gian Battista PiranesiISBN 067960149X (0-679-60149-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 2 : The History of the Empire from A.D. 395 to 1185'Book summary:"Gibbon is a kind of bridge that connects the ancient with the modern ages," noted Thomas Carlyle. "And how gorgeously does it swing across the gloomy and tumultuous chasm of these barbarous centuries." Indeed, Gibbon, the supreme historian of the Enlightenment--the illustrious scholar who envisioned history as a branch of literature--seemed almost predestined to write his monumental account of the Roman Empire's terrible self-destruction. "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion," wrote the author in the famous epigram that summed up his towering achievement in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
"Gibbon is not merely a master of the pageant and the story; he is also the critic and the historian of the mind," said Virginia Woolf. "Without his satire, his irreverence, his mixture of sedateness and slyness, of majesty and mobility, and above all that belief in reason which pervades the whole book and gives it unity, an implicit if unspoken message, the Decline and Fall would be the work of another man....We seem as we read him raised above the tumult and the chaos into a clear and rational air."
The second volume contains chapters twenty-seven through forty-eight of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 2 : The History of the Empire from A.D. 395 to 1185:
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prisonby Michel Foucault, Alan SheridanISBN 0679752552 (0-679-75255-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison'Book summary:Discipline and Punish lays out Foucault's thoughts on how the elite in society dominate and control the rest of society. Foucault believed no societal advancements have occurred since the Renaissance, only technology has grown, further enslaving the human spirit. [via]
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Don Giovanniby Nicholas JohnISBN 0714538531 (0-7145-3853-1)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Giovanni'Book summary:[via]The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detailwith many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times. The complete libretto is included in both the original language and in a modern singing translationexcept where the opera was written in English. Each has a thematic guide to the most important musical themes in musical notation and each guide is lavishly illustrated. They also contain a bibliography and a discography which is updated at each reprint. The ENO guides are widely regarded as the best series of their kind and excellent value.More editions of Don Giovanni:
Don Giovanni: Opera Librettoby W. MozartISBN 0793526094 (0-7935-2609-4)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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The English Philosophers from Bacon to Millby Edwin A. BurttISBN 0679601317 (0-679-60131-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill'Book summary:The thirteen essays in this Modern Library edition comprise a complete survey of the golden age of English philosophy. The anthology begins in the early seventeenth century with Francis Bacon's comprehensive program for the total reorganization of all knowledge; it culminates, some two hundred and fifty years later, with John Stuart Mill. The thinkers represented here are the creators of the twentieth-century world. Indebted to them is a long line of economists, sociologists, and political leaders whose work has profoundly influenced the life and thought of our own time.
Included are the excerpts from Francis Bacon's The Great Instauration, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, and John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The complete texts are provided for Locke's second "Treatise of Government", George Berkeley's "Treatise Concerning the Principle's of Human Knowledge", David Hume's "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" and "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", John Gay's "Concerning the Fundamental Principle of Virtue or Morality", James Mill's "Government", and John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism" and "On Liberty". With an introduction as well as nine biographical prefaces by Edwin A. Burtt. [via]More editions of The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill:
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern Worldby Roy PorterISBN 0713991526 (0-7139-9152-6)
Hardcover, Allen Lane/Penguin Press
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An Eye of the Fleetby Richard WoodmanISBN 0719537886 (0-7195-3788-6)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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Fanny Burney: A Biographyby Claire HarmanISBN 0679446583 (0-679-44658-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Burney: A Biography'Book summary:Claire Harman's full-scale biography of Fanny Burney, the first literary woman novelist and a true child of eighteenth-century England and the Enlightenment, is rich with insights and pleasures as it brings us into the extraordinary life (1752-1840) of the woman Virginia Woolf called ìthe mother of English fiction.
We are present at Mrs. Thrale's dinner party when the twenty-six-year-old Fanny has the incomparable thrill of hearing Dr. Johnson himself admiringly acknowledge her authorship of Evelina, her first novel, anonymously published for fear of upsetting her adored father, and now the talk of the town. We see her growing up, daughter of the charming and gifted musician and teacher Dr. Charles Burney, who was the very embodiment of a new class: talented, energized, self-educated, self-made, self-conscious, socially ambitious and easily endearing himself to aristocratic patrons.
We see Fanny partly enjoying, partly rejecting the celebrity engendered by Evelina, and four years later by Cecilia ("If you will be an author and a wit," says Mrs. Thrale, "you must take the consequences"). And we see her mingling with the most famous men and women of the time, not only Dr. Johnson but Joshua Reynolds, Sheridan, David Garrick, Mrs. Siddons, Horace Walpole and, later, Chateaubriand and Madame de StaÎl.
For five years, during the time of George III's madness, Fanny Burney held a position in the Royal Household as Second Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte. For her father, Fanny's going to court was like going to heaven, but for Fanny it was more an incarceration. Her journals, published posthumously in 1842, gave her some solace. She saw herself as an eavesdropper. Dr. Johnson wryly called her "a spy." Her marriage at forty-one to a penniless Catholic exile, Alexandre d'Arblay, resulted in trans-Channel crossings that left her stranded for almost a decade in Napoleon's France, and then, after a dramatic flight from Paris, trapped in Brussels on the eve of Waterloo.
Claire Harman's biography of Fanny Burney is as lively as it is meticulously researched and authoritative. It gives us the woman, her world and the early-blooming artist whose acute grasp of social nuance, gift for satire, drama and skillful play among large casts of characters won her comparison with the best of Smollett, Richardson and Fielding, the admiration of Jane Austen and
Lord Byron and a secure place in the pantheon of the English novel. [via]More editions of Fanny Burney: A Biography:
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A Favored Childby Philippa GregoryISBN 0743249305 (0-7432-4930-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Favored Child'Book summary:The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But, in the Dower House, two children are being raised in protected innocence.
Equal claimants to the estate, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favored child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey's true heir.
Sensual, gripping, sometimes mystical, The Favored Child sweeps the reader irresistibly into the eighteenth century, a revolutionary period in English history. This rich and dramatic novel continues the saga of the Lacey family started in Philippa Gregory's bestselling and enduringly popular Wideacre.
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Gibbon's Autobiographyby Edward Gibbon, M. M. ReeseISBN 0710069235 (0-7100-6923-5)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750by Laurel Thatcher UlrichISBN 0679732578 (0-679-73257-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750'Book summary:This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising -- and, all too often, mourning -- her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best. [via]
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The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burkeby Conor Cruise O'BrienISBN 0749397217 (0-7493-9721-7)
Hardcover, Minerva
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Hanoverian London: 1714-1808by George RudeISBN 075093333X (0-7509-3333-X)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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The Hell Fire Clubby Daniel P. MannixISBN 0743413156 (0-7434-1315-6)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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History of My Lifeby Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. TraskISBN 0801856620 (0-8018-5662-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of My Life'Book summary:This translation of Giacomo Casanova's epic memoir was first published in a multi-volume set more than 25 years ago, but this new paperback edition makes Casanova's story accessible to the general reader. Thankfully, the great Venetian adventurer's memoirs can finally be read as they were written, without the bowdlerizing that plagued them for two centuries. While Casanova is most notorious for his womanizing, his memoirs are also remarkable as they give a top-to-bottom view of European life in the 18th century. Johns Hopkins University Press has done a handsome job, packaging the entire story in six double volumes. And, in keeping with the spirit of the author, it's worth mentioning that a 17th-century painting of lounging nude woman spans across the spines of the set when they're arranged on the shelf. [via]
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, David WomersleyISBN 0713991240 (0-7139-9124-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Homer's Iliadby Harold BloomISBN 0791082407 (0-7910-8240-7)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer's The Iliad'Book summary:In his introduction Harold Bloom states that, together with the Bible, the Iliad "represents the foundation of Western literature, thought, and spirituality." The piece is the focus of this title in our Bloom's Notes series. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on the work, this text includes a structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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The Iliadby Homer, A.T. Murray, William F. WyattISBN 0674995805 (0-674-99580-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our century by the distinguished poet and classicist Robert Fitzgerald, whose version of The Iliad does justice in every way to the fluent vigor and gravity of the Homeric original. [via] 
The Iliad/Books Xiii-Xxivby HomerISBN 0674991893 (0-674-99189-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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King of the Windby Marguerite HenryISBN 0689829906 (0-689-82990-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King of the Wind'Book summary:"The sixth horse shall be a bay -- not a dark bay, but a clear bay -- whose coal is touched with gold. When he flees under the sun he is the wind."
When the Sultan of Morocco selects six horses to send as a gift to the King of France, Agba, a young horseboy, is honored to have his stallion chosen. Sham, a beautiful golden bay named for the Arabian sun, is meant, along with the others, to sire a stronger race of horses throughout Europe. As his escort, Agba must protect Sham's pedigree and present him before the King. But when they arrive, poor Sham is seen as no more than a carthorse and is sent away. Bound by bonds of love and honor, Agba and Sham soon make their way from the streets of France to the racetracks of England and into the history books forever. Readers will be swept away by the riveting story of the world's most renowned Thoroughbred horse ever.
King of the Wind has captured the hearts of readers for more than fifty years. In this glorious, finely wrought gift book, readers will find a heartfelt introduction by Marguerite Henry's first publisher, manuscript notes from the author's private collection, and a painting of Sham, the Godolphin Arabian by Wesley Dennis. Lovingly written and beautifully illustrated, this keepsake volume details the creation of this remarkable story for a new generation of fans. [via]
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Les Trois Mousquetairesby Alexandre DumasISBN 0785917713 (0-7859-1771-3)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civilby Thomas Hobbes, Michael Joseph OakeshottISBN 0684842955 (0-684-84295-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800by Mary Beth NortonISBN 0801483476 (0-8014-8347-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Madame De Pompadour: Sex, Culture and Powerby Margaret CroslandISBN 0750929561 (0-7509-2956-1)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Matchlock Gunby Walter D. Edmonds, Paul LantzISBN 0698116801 (0-698-11680-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Meridian Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Plays by Womenby Katharine M. RogersISBN 0788157841 (0-7881-5784-1)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masqueradeby Gary KatesISBN 0801867312 (0-8018-6731-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The New Amplified Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Comeby John BunyanISBN 0768420512 (0-7684-2051-2)
Hardcover, Destiny Image Pubs
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Exciting new levels of love and joy, hope and humor are skillfully woven by master storyteller Jim Pappas, into this enchanting retelling of John Bunyan's immortal classic! Designed to return this spellbinding masterpiece of angels and giants, castles and dragon, to the fireside of the everyday reader. [via]
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Ninety-Threeby Victor Hugo, Frank Lee BenedictISBN 0786705906 (0-7867-0590-6)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 070120995X (0-7012-0995-X)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Paul & Virginiaby John Donovan, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierreISBN 0720612314 (0-7206-1231-4)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul & Virginia'Book summary:[via]First published in 1788, this is the classic of naive love that inspired the film The Blue Lagoon.Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's only novel is a classic of naïve love. First published in 1788 to wide acclaim, it subsequently appeared in hundreds of editions throughout the world and influenced a generation of French writers, from George Sand and Lamartine to Balzac and Flaubert. In modern times it has inspired major musicals, artworks, a hit song by Celine Dion, and even a chain of luxury hotels on Mauritius. Bernardin was inspired by his friend Rousseau to tell the story of two children who grow up entirely according to nature's laws on an idyllic island free from the corrupting influence of the world. They reach adolescence and fall in love, but tragedy strikes and both die untimely deaths. A key text in the development of the novel, this is a must for anyone interested in the history of European literature.More editions of Paul & Virginia:
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Period Costume for Stage and Screen: Patterns for Women's Dress 1500-1800by Jean HunnisettISBN 0713526602 (0-7135-2660-2)
Softcover, Quite Specific Media Group Ltd
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Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sadeby Peter Weiss, Peter BrookISBN 0689705689 (0-689-70568-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0800786092 (0-8007-8609-2)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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A Place of Greater Safetyby Hilary MantelISBN 0689121687 (0-689-12168-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Poems and Propheciesby William BlakeISBN 0679405526 (0-679-40552-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Poems of William Blake: Comprising Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Together With Poetical Sketchesby William Blake, W. B. YeatsISBN 0710001746 (0-7100-0174-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Red and the Blackby Stendhal, Burton Raffel, Diane JohnsonISBN 0679642846 (0-679-64284-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Red and the Black, Stendhals masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorels quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way, are delineated with an unprecedented psychological depth and realism. At the same time, Stendhal weaves together the social life and fraught political intrigues of postNapoleonic France, bringing that world to unforgettable, full-color life. His portrait of Julien and early-nineteenth-century France remains an unsurpassed creation, one that brilliantly anticipates modern literature.
Neglected during its time, The Red and the Black has assumed its rightful place as one of the worlds great books, and Burton Raffels extraordinary new translation, coupled with an enlightening Introduction by Diane Johnson, helps it shine more brightly than ever before. [via]More editions of The Red and the Black:
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The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830by Stendhal, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0679601627 (0-679-60162-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Red and the Black, Stendhals masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorels quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way, are delineated with an unprecedented psychological depth and realism. At the same time, Stendhal weaves together the social life and fraught political intrigues of postNapoleonic France, bringing that world to unforgettable, full-color life. His portrait of Julien and early-nineteenth-century France remains an unsurpassed creation, one that brilliantly anticipates modern literature.
Neglected during its time, The Red and the Black has assumed its rightful place as one of the worlds great books, and Burton Raffels extraordinary new translation, coupled with an enlightening Introduction by Diane Johnson, helps it shine more brightly than ever before. [via]More editions of The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830:
The Revolutionary Soldier, 1775-1783by C. Keith WilburISBN 0791045331 (0-7910-4533-1)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Rights of Manby Thomas PaineISBN 0760755019 (0-7607-5501-9)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000by Paul M. KennedyISBN 0679720197 (0-679-72019-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Robert Burns : Selected Poemsby Robert BurnsISBN 0753816636 (0-7538-1663-6)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Scarlet and Black : A Chronicle of 1830by Stendhal, Jonathan Keates, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0679405658 (0-679-40565-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scarlet and Black : A Chronicle of 1830'Book summary:Through the stifling society in which wealth and rank triumph over merit moves the impoverished tutor, Julien Sorel. Handsome, sensitive and proud, his shy manner belies a driving ambition to escape the provincial town of Verrieres and forge a way into the drawing-rooms of the Parisian nobility. [via]
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The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, And the Division of Knowledgeby Michael McKeonISBN 080188540X (0-8018-8540-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, And the Division of Knowledge'Book summary:Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity.
This narrative draws upon the entire spectrum of English people's experience. At the most "public" extreme are political developments like the formation of civil society over against the state, the rise of contractual thinking, and the devolution of absolutism from monarch to individual subject. The middle range of experience takes in the influence of Protestant and scientific thought, the printed publication of the private, the conceptualization of virtual publicssociety, public opinion, the marketand the capitalization of production, the decline of the domestic economy, and the increase in the sexual division of labor. The most "private" pole of experience involves the privatization of marriage, the family, and the household, and the complex entanglement of femininity, interiority, subjectivity, and sexuality.
McKeon accounts for how the relationship between public and private experience first became intelligible as a variable interaction of distinct modes of beingnot a static dichotomy, but a tool to think with. Richly illustrated with nearly 100 images, including paintings, engravings, woodcuts, and a representative selection of architectural floor plans for domestic interiors, this volume reads graphic forms to emphasize how susceptible the public-private relation was to concrete and spatial representation. McKeon is similarly attentive to how literary forms evoked a tangible sense of public-private relationsamong them figurative imagery, allegorical narration, parody, the author-character-reader dialectic, aesthetic distance, and free indirect discourse. He also finds a structural analogue for the emergence of the modern public-private relation in the conjunction of what contemporaries called the "secret history" and the domestic novel.
A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of literary interpretation and historical analysis can inform and enrich one another.
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The Selected Poetry of William Wordsworthby William Wordsworth, Mark Van Doren, David BromwichISBN 0679642242 (0-679-64224-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth'Book summary:The most inclusive single-volume cloth edition of his poetry available, Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth, edited by literary critic and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mark Van Doren, with a new Introduction by leading Romanticist David Bromwich, represents Wordsworth's prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late "Yarrow Revisited." Wordsworth's poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events.
"[Wordsworth] is loved, Bromwich writes in his Introduction, for a sense of radical sufficiency in the fact that life is the faith of many people who espouse a religion without a name. Wordsworth writes of a human nature that is not to be judged by the utility of some goods over others, the propriety of some behaviors, or the reasonableness of getting and spending as the market teaches getting and spending.
The life his poetry describes cannot be reduced to a series of preferable and less preferable options. We learn its deeper claim in the presence of suffering and joy, in suffering not less than in joy. [via]More editions of The Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth:
Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoeby Diana SouhamiISBN 0786242191 (0-7862-4219-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth Century Players and Sexual Ideologyby Kristina StraubISBN 0691015155 (0-691-01515-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Stability and Strife: England, 1714-1760by W. A. SpeckISBN 0713159758 (0-7131-5975-8)
Hardcover, E. Arnold
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A Struggle for Power: The American Revolutionby Theodore DraperISBN 0679776427 (0-679-77642-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Isby William H. RehnquistISBN 0688086683 (0-688-08668-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Three Musketeersby Alexandre Dumas, Deborah G. FelderISBN 0679860177 (0-679-86017-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, Jacques Le ClercqISBN 0679603328 (0-679-60332-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Under the Black Flag : The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Piratesby David CordinglyISBN 0679425608 (0-679-42560-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Vive La Revolutionby Mark SteelISBN 0743208056 (0-7432-0805-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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Wellingtonby Elizabeth LongfordISBN 0750942134 (0-7509-4213-4)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Wordsworthby William WordsworthISBN 067944369X (0-679-44369-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wordsworth'Book summary:Volume: 1 Publisher: London : Methuen Publication date: 1908 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. [via]
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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