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Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America Struggleby Robert R. PalmerISBN 0691005702 (0-691-00570-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800; The Challengeby R. R. PalmerISBN 0691005699 (0-691-00569-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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America's First Dynastyby Richard BrookhiserISBN 0684868644 (0-684-86864-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's First Dynasty'Book summary:In the spirit of his earlier books, Alexander Hamilton: American and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, Richard Brookhiser produces an elegant, concise volume drawing on previous scholarship but offering a fresh perspective on four prickly generations of Adamses. Until David McCullough's John Adams became a surprise bestseller, the United States' second president and his descendants seldom had good press. Acknowledging John's essential role in the American Revolution and his son John Quincy's principled fight against slavery, contemporaries and historians nonetheless judged both men poor presidents, characterized by haughty pride and stiff-necked dislike of compromise. Charles Francis Adams, John Quincy's son, lost an almost certain chance to run for president as a Republican in 1872 by disdainfully announcing "that he would reject any nomination that had to be negotiated for;" the most famous book by Charles's son, The Education of Henry Adams (1907), implicitly blames Henry's failure to achieve the prominence of his forefathers on the loss of meaning and coherence in the modern, fragmented world. Tracing the lives and careers of these four men, Brookhiser strikes a balance between their struggles with a daunting heritage and battles with the often unappreciative outer world, identifying "the constant companion of the Adamses" as "the idea of greatness. Am I as great as my ancestors? As great as my contemporaries? Why doesn't the world recognize my greatness?" This proves a sensible organizing principle for his graceful reappraisal of a well-known but not often well-understood family. --Wendy Smith [via]
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jeffersonby Joseph J. EllisISBN 0679764410 (0-679-76441-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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At Home with the Marquis de Sade : A Lifeby Francine Du Plessix GrayISBN 0684800071 (0-684-80007-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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It seems even a sadist can love, and in his own way, the Marquis de Sade loved his wife. Even more remarkable is that Pélagie apparently returned his affection devotedly for many years, despite frequent scandals, jailings, and even an affair with her own sister. Gray draws extensively on letters written by Sade, his wife, and his mother-in-law to paint a vibrant picture of an unorthodox marriage, a period of great political upheaval, and a complicated bond between mother and daughter. Gray also places the Marquis's writing in a context that, while forthrightly characterizing it as "the crudest, most repellent fictional dystopia ever limned, the creation of a borderline psychotic whose scatological fantasies have grown all the more deranged in the solitude and rage of his jail cell," also acknowledges its "recklessness and daring" as well as its influence on later writers from Swinburne and Baudelaire to Octavio Paz and Luis Buñuel. Sex, art, religion, and politics--At Home with the Marquis de Sade addresses them all with the intelligence and insight one has come to expect from Francine du Plessix Gray. [via]
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolutionby C. L. R. JamesISBN 0679724672 (0-679-72467-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Bonnie Prince Charlieby Fitzroy MacLeanISBN 0689120478 (0-689-12047-8)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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The Bostoniansby Henry James, Alison Lurie, Library of America StaffISBN 0679733817 (0-679-73381-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Burrby Gore VidalISBN 0679602852 (0-679-60285-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burr'Book summary:Charles Schuyler is a personal assistant to Aaron Burr, the former Revolutionary War hero, vice president under Jefferson, and infamous slayer of Alexander Hamilton. He's also been employed by a group of political operatives in New York journalism circles to dig up evidence that Burr is the "natural father," as the expression goes, of up-and-coming presidential candidate Martin van Buren. Schuyler's journal entries are a wondrous prose picture of Jacksonian society, while an imagined autobiographical account from Burr provides a similar depiction of the nation's origins. Like all of Vidal's historical fiction, Burr has little use for America's received iconography, and draws upon contemporary sources to puncture the legendary reputations of Washington and Jefferson. There are also marvelous cameo appearances from figures like Washington Irving and Davy Crockett, of whom Schuyler notes, "He is considered a delightful figure. I can't think why." (There's also a substantial subplot in which Schuyler falls in love with a prostitute named Helen Jewett; readers may be interested to learn that she is, in fact, a real historical figure). --Ron Hogan [via]
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Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fameby Benita EislerISBN 0679740856 (0-679-74085-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame'Book summary:"Obscured by the freedom fighter, fashion leader, fallen angel, and literary bad boy, Byron the great poet has tended to be forgotten," writes Benita Eisler in the closing chapter of her monumental biography, which goes a long way toward depicting George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) in a more balanced fashion. Even in his own era, when the first edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage sold out in three days, whispers of incest, homosexuality, and--far worse in Tory England--political radicalism grew so insistent that they drove Byron out of his homeland. Eisler's comprehensive narrative does ample justice to the impassioned love affairs that made him notorious, from his voluptuous half-sister, Augusta Leigh, to the erratic and vengeful Lady Caroline Lamb, who famously described him as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Let's face it, those juicy stories are half the reason we want to read about Byron, but Eisler gives us the other half, too, reminding her readers with lengthy quotes and intelligent exegesis that Don Juan is one of the greatest poems in English, and Byron one of the most influential and important poets. Her impeccably researched text is lucid about Byron's beliefs, candid about his faults, and persuasively ardent about his genius. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Catherine, Empress of All the Russiasby Vincent CroninISBN 0688033059 (0-688-03305-9)
Hardcover, Morrow
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The Charterhouse of Parmaby Richard Howard, Henri Stendhal, Robert Andrew ParkerISBN 0679783180 (0-679-78318-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Charterhouse of Parma'Book summary:Officer, diplomat, spy, journalist, and intermittent genius, Marie Henri Beyle employed more than 200 aliases in the course of his crowded career. His most famous moniker, however, was Stendhal, which he affixed to his greatest work, The Charterhouse of Parma. The author spent a mere seven weeks cranking out this marvel in 1838, setting the fictional equivalent of a land-speed record. To be honest, there are occasional signs of haste, during which he clearly bypassed le mot juste in favor of narrative zing. So what? Stendhal at his sloppiest is still wittier, and wiser about human behavior, than just about any writer you could name. No wonder so meticulous a stylist as Paul Valéry was happy to forgive his sins against French grammar: "We should never be finished with Stendhal. I can think of no greater praise than that."
The plot of The Charterhouse of Parma suggests a run-of-the-mill potboiler, complete with court intrigue, military derring-do, and more romance than you can shake a saber at. But Stendhal had an amazing, pre-Freudian grasp of psychology (at least the Gallic variant). More than most of his contemporaries, he understood the incessant jostling of love, sex, fear, and ambition, not to mention our endless capacity for self-deception. No wonder his hero, Fabrizio de Dongo, seems to know everything and nothing about himself. Even under fire at the Battle of Waterloo, the young Fabrizio has a tendency to lose himself in Napoleonic reverie:
Suddenly everyone galloped off. A few moments later Fabrizio saw, twenty paces ahead, a ploughed field that seemed to be strangely in motion; the furrows were filled with water, and the wet ground that formed their crests was exploding into tiny black fragments flung three or four feet into the air. Fabrizio noticed this odd effect as he passed; then his mind returned to daydreams of the Marshal's glory. He heard a sharp cry beside him: two hussars had fallen, riddled by bullets; and when he turned to look at them, they were already twenty paces behind the escort.
The quote above, a famous one, captures something of Stendhal's headlong style. Until now, most English-speaking readers have experienced it via C.K. Scott-Moncrieff's superb 1925 translation. But now Richard Howard has modernized his predecessor's period touches, streamlined some of the fussier locutions, and generally given Stendhal his high-velocity due. The result is a timely version of a timeless masterpiece, which shouldn't need to be updated again until, oh, 2050. Crammed with life, lust, and verbal fireworks, The Charterhouse of Parma demonstrates the real truth of its creator's self-composed epitaph: "He lived. He wrote. He loved." --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Charterhouse of Parma:
The Charterhouse of Parmaby Stendhal, Richard Howard, Robert A. ParkerISBN 0679602453 (0-679-60245-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Colonial New York: A Historyby Michael KammenISBN 0684143259 (0-684-14325-9)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Coming of the French Revolutionby Georges LefebvreISBN 0691007519 (0-691-00751-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0679600256 (0-679-60025-6)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Novels of Jane Austen'Book summary:"How Jane Austen can write!...She is a miniaturist, but never two-dimensional....All Jane Austen characters are ready for an extended life, for a life which the scheme of her books seldom requires them to lead, and that is why they lead their actual lives so satisfactorily." --E. M. Forster [via]
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The Complete Poems of John Keatsby John KeatsISBN 0679601082 (0-679-60108-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems of John Keats'Book summary:Illustrated with 10 unique illustrations.
Contents
Introduction
Keats? Poems
Epistles
Sonnets
Poems Published in 1820
Fragments
Poems Written At Teignmouth
Lamia
Isabella
Hyperion
Canto II
The Cap and Bells
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The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelleyby Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0679601112 (0-679-60111-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donneby John Donne, Charles M. CoffinISBN 0679601023 (0-679-60102-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne'Book summary:This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", "The Extasie", and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie", "His Parting From Her", and "To His Mistris Going to Bed". Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy sonnets, along with his most ambitious and important poems, the Anniversaries. In addition, there is a generous sampling of Donne's prose, including many of his private letters; B>Ignatius His Conclave, a satiric onslaught on the Jesuits; excerpts from Biathanatos, his celebrated defense of suicide; and his most famous sermons, concluding with the final "Death's Duell". "We have only to read [Donne]," wrote Virginia Woolf, "to submit to the sound of that passionate and penetrating voice, and his figure rises again across the waste of the years more erect, more imperious, more inscrutable than any of his time." [via]
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The Constitutionby Page SmithISBN 0688083498 (0-688-08349-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 0679601996 (0-679-60199-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam - The Story of America's Rise to Powerby Geoffrey PerretISBN 0679726985 (0-679-72698-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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David Bushnell and His Turtle: The Story of America's First Submarineby June Swanson, Michael EagleISBN 0689316283 (0-689-31628-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Devil in the Shape of a Womanby Carol F. KarlsenISBN 0679721843 (0-679-72184-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil in the Shape of a Woman'Book summary:Confessing to "Familiarity with the Devils." Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange Fits," and fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events in Salem took place. The witch-hunting hysteria that seized New England in the late seventeenth century still haunts us today. Why were these and other women likely witches? Why were certain people vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession? In this fascinating work, Professor Carol Karlsen of the University of Michigan draws a compelling, richly detailed portrait of the women who were persecuted as witches. And in what Kirkus Reviews calls "an enlightening contribution to U.S. historical studies." The Devil in the Shape of a Woman gives us an unforgettable look at a society in transition, where fears and witch hunts were manifestations of much deeper sexual, religious, and economic tensions. [via]
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The Early Illuminated Books: All Religions Are One/There Is No Natural Religion/the Book of Thel/the Marriage of Heaven and Hell/Visions of the Daughters of Albionby William Blake, Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph ViscomiISBN 0691001472 (0-691-00147-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Early Illuminated Books: All Religions Are One/There Is No Natural Religion/the Book of Thel/the Marriage of Heaven and Hell/Visions of the Daughters of Albion'Book summary: The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. Made possible by recent advances in printing and reproduction technology, the publication of new editions of Jerusalem and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1991 was a major publishing event. Now these two volumes are followed by The Early Illuminated Books and Milton, A Poem. The books in both volumes are reproduced from the best available copies of Blake's originals and in faithfulness and accuracy match the acclaimed standards set by Jerusalem and Songs. These two volumes are uniform in format and binding with the first two volumes.The Early Illuminated Books comprises All Religions Are One and There Is No Natural Religion; Thel; Marriage of Heaven and Hell; and Visions of the Daughters of Albion. Milton, A Poem, second only to Jerusalem in extent and ambition, is accompanied by Laocoön, The Ghost of Abel, and On Homer's Poetry. [via]More editions of The Early Illuminated Books: All Religions Are One/There Is No Natural Religion/the Book of Thel/the Marriage of Heaven and Hell/Visions of the Daughters of Albion:
The Elder Pitt, Earl of Chathamby Stanley Edward AylingISBN 0679507175 (0-679-50717-5)
Hardcover, D. McKay
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Ageby Simon SchamaISBN 0679781242 (0-679-78124-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age'Book summary:Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached whales, of the cult of hygiene and the plague of tobacco, of thrifty housewives and profligate tulip-speculators. He tells us how the Dutch celebrated themselves and how they were slandered by their enemies.
"History on the grand scale...An ambitious portrait of one of the most remarkable episodes in modern history."--New York Times
"Wonderfully inclusive; with wit and intense curiosity he teases out meaning from every aspect of Dutch seventeenth-century life."--Robert Hughes [via]More editions of The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age:
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blakeby Northrop FryeISBN 0691012911 (0-691-01291-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Feeding Your Baby: Breast, Bottle and Baby Foodsby Carolyn T. ChubetISBN 0681404531 (0-681-40453-1)
Softcover, Longmeadow Pr
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Feminism: The Essential Historical Writingsby Miriam SchneirISBN 0679753818 (0-679-75381-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fields of Battle: The Wars for North Americaby John KeeganISBN 0679746641 (0-679-74664-1)
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Five Points : The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slumby Tyler G. AnbinderISBN 0684859955 (0-684-85995-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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In his wide-ranging reconstruction of Five Points's few square blocks, historian Tyler Anbinder shows that that journalist was not far off the mark. "Dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of its residents lived in windowless, teeming apartments that were unfit for habitation," he writes. Alcoholism, violence, and prostitution were commonplace. Poverty was epidemic, and living conditions were so intolerable that the reforming sociologist Jacob Riis used the area as a case study for the wretched excesses of urban life. A corrupt city government kept the police at bay, making the neighborhood safe for a succession of crime lords but woefully dangerous for residents--most of whom, in time, would be newcomers from Ireland, Italy, Russia, and other faraway lands, as well as African Americans newly arrived from the South. "Locked into the lowest-paying occupations," as Anbinder writes, they labored, saved, and eventually moved on, making room for the next wave of immigrants.
Five Points is gone, though a few of its streets remain, marking the edge of Chinatown. Anbinder's careful study brings it back to life. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washingtonby Richard BrookhiserISBN 0684831422 (0-684-83142-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Jill BaumanISBN 0681102713 (0-681-10271-3)
Softcover, Longmeadow Pr
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Brothers GrimmISBN 0681403128 (0-681-40312-8)
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 067964217X (0-679-64217-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.
Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the exploitative force he believed was destroying human creativity and joy. This edition includes new notes to the text. [via]More editions of Hard Times:
Her Own Woman : The Life of Mary Wollstonecraftby Diane JacobsISBN 068481093X (0-684-81093-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fallby Christopher HibbertISBN 0688053394 (0-688-05339-4)
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679722556 (0-679-72255-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Interview with the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 067945084X (0-679-45084-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century Franceby Richard Rand, Juliette M. BiancoISBN 0691016623 (0-691-01662-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Ivanhoeby Scott, Walter, Sr.ISBN 0679602631 (0-679-60263-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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new television production.
In the twelfth century, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns home to England from the Third Crusade to claim his inheritance and the love of the lady Rowena. The heroic adventures of this noble Saxon knight involve him in the struggle between Richard the Lion-Hearted and his malignant brother John: a conflict that brings Ivanhoe into alliance with the
mysterious outlaw Robin Hood and his legendary fight for the forces of good.
"Scott's characters, like Shakespeare's and Jane Austen's, have the seed of life in them," observed Virginia Woolf. "The emotions in which Scott excels are not those of human beings pitted against other human beings, but of man pitted against
Nature, of man in relation to fate. His romance is the romance of hunted men hiding in woods at night; of brigs standing out to sea; of waves breaking in the moonlight; of solitary sands and distant horsemen; of violence and suspense." For Henry James, "Scott was a born
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Ivanhoeby Walter ScottISBN 0679642234 (0-679-64223-4)
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In the twelfth century, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns home to England from the Third Crusade to claim his inheritance and the love of the lady Rowena. The heroic adventures of this noble Saxon knight involve him in the struggle between Richard the Lion-Hearted and his malignant brother John: a conflict that brings Ivanhoe into alliance with the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood and his legendary fight for the forces of good.
'Scott's characters, like Shakespeare's and Jane Austen's, have the seed of life in them,' observed Virginia Woolf. 'The emotions in which Scott excels are not those of human beings pitted against other human beings, but of man pitted against Nature, of man in relation to fate. His romance is the romance of hunted men hiding in woods at night; of brigs standing out to sea; of waves breaking in the moonlight; of solitary sands and distant horsemen; of violence and suspense.' For Henry James, 'Scott was a born storyteller. . . . Since Shakespeare, no writer has created so immense a gallery of portraits.' [via]More editions of Ivanhoe:
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Jane Austenby Claire TomalinISBN 0679766766 (0-679-76676-6)
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While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that "My dear Sister's life was not a life of events," Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief life was fraught with upheaval. Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of Austen's ill-fated love for a young Irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, her brothers' naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village.More editions of Jane Austen:
Jane Austen: A Lifeby Claire TomalinISBN 0679446281 (0-679-44628-1)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0679783326 (0-679-78332-6)
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published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly
handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Brontë, a young woman from a bleak Yorkshire parsonage.
Time has served Jane Eyre well. Charlotte Brontë's social commentary still fascinates; the novel is still powerful, full of erotic tension, passion, and irony. It can be read as an astonishing paradigm of feminist writing. At its heart is the assertion that a woman has the right to be independent, and its insistence on that fact and on the equality of the sexes makes it a truly revolutionary work of art. Above all, Jane Eyre is a marvelous love story, as affecting as any in fiction.
Diane Johnson has provided a new Introduction to this Modern Library edition, which is the companion volume to the A&E television presentation. The Modern Library also publishes Charlotte Brontë's three other completed novels: The Professor, Shirley, and Villette.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via] 
Keats the Poetby Stuart M. SperryISBN 0691000891 (0-691-00089-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Kings and Queens of England: A Tourist Guideby Jane MurrayISBN 0684138891 (0-684-13889-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Les Fleurs Du Malby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0685374092 (0-685-37409-2)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0685113973 (0-685-11397-3)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jeffersonby Adrienne Koch, William PedenISBN 0679748946 (0-679-74894-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Mr. Jefferson, as he is still referred to at the University of Virginia, which he founded and designed, was a brilliant statesman, architect, scientist, naturalist, educator, and public servant.
Jefferson provided "the richest treasure house of historical information left to us by any single man" through journal entries, notes, addresses, and 70,000 letters. This first paperback edition of the Koch-Peden selection of his writings, published during the 250th anniversary of his birth, provides an engaging and timely representation of his thoughts.
Included in this volume are the autobiography (including the Declaration of Independence), travel journals, biographical sketches of some of his notable contemporaries, important public papers, Notes on Virginia -- his only published book -- and a generous selection of his letters on both public and private matters. The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson is a distinguished and important compilation. [via]More editions of The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson:
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The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jeffersonby Thomas JeffersonISBN 0679600620 (0-679-60062-0)
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reasonby Michel FoucaultISBN 067972110X (0-679-72110-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.by Sandra GullandISBN 0684856069 (0-684-85606-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Middlemarchby George Eliot, A. S. ByattISBN 0679783318 (0-679-78331-8)
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Middlemarch : A Study of Provincial Lifeby George EliotISBN 067960118X (0-679-60118-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Military Experience in the Age of Reasonby Christopher DuffyISBN 0689119933 (0-689-11993-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Military Life of Frederick the Greatby Christopher DuffyISBN 0689115482 (0-689-11548-2)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Montcalm and Wolfe: The French and Indian Warby Francis ParkmanISBN 068911527X (0-689-11527-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Morgan's Runby Colleen McCulloughISBN 0684853299 (0-684-85329-9)
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Myths and Realities Societies of the Colonial Southby C BridenbaughISBN 0689700237 (0-689-70023-7)
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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girlby Frederick Douglass, Harriet A. JacobsISBN 0679783288 (0-679-78328-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass's own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs's account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains crucial reading. These narratives illuminate and inform each other. This edition includes an incisive Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and extensive annotations. [via]More editions of Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl:
Nelson the Commanderby Geoffrey BennettISBN 0684128861 (0-684-12886-1)
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The Odysseyby Homer, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 0679728139 (0-679-72813-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitutionby Jack N. RakoveISBN 0679781218 (0-679-78121-8)
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The Passionby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679724370 (0-679-72437-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813by Simon SchamaISBN 0679729496 (0-679-72949-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Pimpernel and Rosemaryby OrczyISBN 0686474872 (0-686-47487-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James, Richard Poirier, Library of America StaffISBN 0679736352 (0-679-73635-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poemsby Louis PhillipsISBN 0679763155 (0-679-76315-5)
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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Citiesby Richard L. BushmanISBN 0679744142 (0-679-74414-2)
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The Rise and Fall of British Naval Masteryby Paul M. KennedyISBN 0684146096 (0-684-14609-6)
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The Rival Queens: A Novel of Artifice, Gunpowder and Murder in Eighteenth-Century Londonby Fidelis MorganISBN 0688176844 (0-688-17684-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar KhayyamISBN 0690713886 (0-690-71388-6)
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Samuel Johnson & the Impact of Printby Alvin KernanISBN 0691014752 (0-691-01475-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Sanditonby Jane Austen, Anne Telscombe, Another LadyISBN 0684843420 (0-684-84342-0)
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Sans-Culottes: The Popular Movement and Revolutionary Governmentby Albert SoboulISBN 0691007829 (0-691-00782-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Savage Wildernessby Harold CoyleISBN 0684834332 (0-684-83433-2)
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinsonby Camille PagliaISBN 0679735798 (0-679-73579-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Shaw's Fortuneby Edwin TunisISBN 0690010664 (0-690-01066-4)
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870by Hugh ThomasISBN 0684835657 (0-684-83565-7)
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolutionby R. R. PalmerISBN 0691007616 (0-691-00761-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American Westby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0684826976 (0-684-82697-6)
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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early Americaby John DemosISBN 0679759611 (0-679-75961-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Unwise Passions : A True Story of a Remarkable Woman and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth Century Americaby Alan Pell CrawfordISBN 068483474X (0-684-83474-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Voices of 1776by Richard WheelerISBN 0690864221 (0-690-86422-1)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Works of Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0681410566 (0-681-41056-6)
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The World We Have Lost: Further Exploredby Peter LaslettISBN 0684180790 (0-684-18079-0)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkersby Robert L. HeilbronerISBN 068486214X (0-684-86214-X)
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In a bold new concluding chapter entitled "The End of the Worldly Philosophy?" Heilbroner reminds us that the word "end" refers to both the purpose and limits of economics. This chapter conveys a concern that today's increasingly "scientific" economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics. Thus, unlike its predecessors, this new edition provides not just an indispensable illumination of our past but a call to action for our future. [via]
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The Year of Liberty: The History of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798by Thomas PakenhamISBN 0679748024 (0-679-74802-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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