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The Absenteeby Maria Edgeworth, Kim WalkerISBN 0140436456 (0-14-043645-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Absentee'Book summary:Lord and Lady Clonbrony are more concerned with fashionable London society than with their responsibilities to those who live and work on their Irish estates. Concerned by this negligence, their son, Lord Colambre, goes incognito to Ireland to observe the situation and to discover the truth about the origins of his beloved cousin Grace. Can he find a solution that will bring prosperity and contentment to every level of society, including his own family? Rich in atmosphere and local character, "The Absentee" (1812) helped establish the regional' novel form, which influenced such varied writers as Scott, Thackeray and Turgenev. In this sparkling satire on Anglo-Irish relations, Maria Edgeworth created a landmark work of morality and social realism. [via]
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Agnes Grey: Library Editionby Anne Bronte, Angeline GoreauISBN 0140432108 (0-14-043210-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agnes Grey: Library Edition'Book summary:When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes' enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family; the only kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober young curate. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte's first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society. [via]
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The Americanby Henry James, William SpengemannISBN 0140390820 (0-14-039082-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American'Book summary:Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James's masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.[via] -
The American Democratby James Fenimore Cooper, George Dekker, Larry JohnstonISBN 0140390685 (0-14-039068-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'THE AMERICAN DEMOCRAT'Book summary:In the 1830's, when reform was on everybody's lips, Cooper steered the course of a convinced Democrat who, however, was not an egalitarian. Family connexions and literary success introduced him to some of the leading politicians of France and England, as well as America, and his intellectual honesty allowed him to see that political deception was not peculiar to Europe. "The American Democrat" is essentially a condemnation of cant in American public life. Cooper is the author of "The Last of the Mohicans". [via]
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Armadaleby Wilkie Collins, John SutherlandISBN 0140434119 (0-14-043411-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Armadale'Book summary:An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins' "Armadale" was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the best of [his] romances'. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. Her malicious intrigues fuel the plot of this gripping melodrama: a tale of confused identities, inherited curses, romantic rivalries, espionage, money - and murder. The character of Lydia Gwilt horrified contemporary critics, with one reviewer describing her as 'One of the most hardened female villains whose devices and desires have ever blackened fiction'. She remains among the most enigmatic and fascinating women in nineteenth-century literature and the dark heart of this most sensational of Victorian 'sensation novels'. John Sutherland's introduction illustrated how Wilkie Collins drew on scandalous newspaper headlines and on new technology particularly the penny post and the telegraph - to lend extra pace and veracity to his tale. This edition also contains notes, further reading and an appendix on stage dramatisations of "Armadale". Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of the landscape painter William Collins. In 1846 he was entered to read for the bar at Lincoln's Inn, where he gained the knowledge that was to give him much of the material for his writing. From the early 1850s he was a friend of Charles Dickens, who produced and acted in two melodramas written by Collins, "The Lighthouse" and "The Frozen Deep". Of his novels, Collins is best remembered for "The Woman in White" (1859), "No Name" (1862), "Armadale" (1866) and "The Moonstone" (1868). If you enjoyed "Armadale", you might like Collins' "No Name", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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The Aspern Papers and the Turn of the Screwby Henry James, Anthony CurtisISBN 0140432248 (0-14-043224-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Aurora Leigh, and Other Poemsby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Julia Bolton Holloway, John Robert Glorney BoltonISBN 0140434127 (0-14-043412-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aurora Leigh, and Other Poems'Book summary:Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression.[via]The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the poems. What Edgar Allan Poe called 'her wild and magnificent genius' is abundantly in evidence. In addition to Aurora Leigh, this volume contains poetry from the several volumes of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's published poetry from 1826 to 1862, including Casa Guidi Windows (1851), Songs for the Ragged Schools of London (1854) and the British Library manuscript text of the 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1846) which records her courtship with Robert Browning.
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Autobiographyby John Stuart Mill, John RobsonISBN 0140433163 (0-14-043316-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography'Book summary:An autobiography of John Stuart Mill (1806-73). This title describes the pressures placed on him by his childhood, the mental breakdown he suffered as a young man, his struggle to understand a world of feelings and emotions far removed from his father's strict didacticism, and the later development of his own radical beliefs. [via]
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The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 0140390227 (0-14-039022-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories'Book summary:The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are the themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar, " "unhealthily introspective, " and "morbid, " the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. This edition also includes selected stories from Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, and an introduction and notes by Nina Baym. [via]
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles Dickens, John BowenISBN 0140437282 (0-14-043728-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'Book summary:A young man's innocent involvement in a mole revolt serves as the basis for Dickens' historical novel about the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780. [via]
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Billy Buddby Herman Melville, Harold BeaverISBN 0140430296 (0-14-043029-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd'Book summary:Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Tales such as Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Tartarus of Maids or I and My Chimney, show the timeless poetic power of Melville's writing as he consciously uses the disguise of allegory in various ways and to various ends. [via]
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Storiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 0140390537 (0-14-039053-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'Book summary:Stung by the difficult reception of Moby Dick, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sense of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor" is a classic confrontation between good and evil, and the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. The other stories also illuminate the way fictions are created and shared by society. [via]
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The Blithedale Romanceby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0140390286 (0-14-039028-6)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blithedale Romance'Book summary:Renowned 19th-century author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes fully in his own time, not haunting his characters with the American past as in his more famous works THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES and THE SCARLET LETTER. Published in 1852, THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE remains a captivating work about politics, love, the supernatural, and idealism, written with Hawthorne's sharp wit and deep intelligence. [via]
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Bostoniansby Henry James, Richard LansdownISBN 0140437665 (0-14-043766-5)
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Christmas Booksby Charles Dickens, Michael SlaterISBN 0140430687 (0-14-043068-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christmas Books'Book summary:Three stories by Charles Dickens: "The Cricket on the Hearth", "The Battle of Life" and "The Haunted Man". This follows on from "The Christmas Books Vol 1", also published in the Penguin Classics series. [via]
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The Complete Poemsby John KeatsISBN 0140422102 (0-14-042210-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems'Book summary:Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Complete Poems" of John Keats is edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard. Keats' first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immediate circle of friends and family immediately recognized his genius. In his short life he proved to be one of the greatest and most original thinkers of the second generation of Romantic poets, with such poems as "Ode to a Nightingale", "Bright Star", "The Eve of St Agnes" and "La Belle Dame sans Merci". While his writing is illuminated by his exaltation of the imagination and abounds with sensuous descriptions of nature's beauty, it also explores profound philosophical questions. John Barnard's acclaimed volume contains all the poems known to have been written by Keats, arranged by date of composition. The texts are lightly modernized and are complemented by extensive notes, a comprehensive introduction, an index of classical names, selected extracts from Keats' letters and a number of pieces not widely available, including his annotations to Milton's "Paradise Lost". John Keats 1795-1821 lost both his parents at an early age. His decision to commit himself to poetry, rather than follow a career in medicine, was a personal challenge, unfounded in any prior success. His first volume of poetry, published in 1817, was a critical and commercial failure. During his short life he received little recognition, and it was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that his place in English Romanticism began to be understood, and not until this century that it became fully appreciated. If you enjoyed Keats' "Complete Poems" you might enjoy John Clare's "Selected Poems", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Justin KaplanISBN 0140430644 (0-14-043064-4)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court'Book summary:When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot. Although confused at first and quickly imprisoned, he soon realises that his knowledge of the future can transform his fate. Correctly predicting a solar eclipse from inside his prison cell, Morgan terrifies the people of England into releasing him and swiftly establishes himself as the most powerful magician in the land, stronger than Merlin and greatly admired by Arthur himself. But the Connecticut Yankee wishes for more than simply a place at the Round Table. Soon, he begins a far greater struggle: to bring American democratic ideals to Old England. Complex and fascinating, "A Connecticut Yankee" is a darkly comic consideration of the nature of human nature and society. [via]
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Cranford ; Cousin Phillisby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0140431047 (0-14-043104-7)
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De Profundis and Other Writingsby Oscar WildeISBN 014043089X (0-14-043089-X)
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Don Juanby George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 0140422161 (0-14-042216-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Juan'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Don Juanby Lord Byron, T. G. Steffan, Willis Winslow Pratt, E. SteffanISBN 0140424520 (0-14-042452-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Juan'Book summary:[via]Byrons exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favorite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written in ottava rima stanza form, Byrons Don Juan blends high drama with earthy humor, outrageous satire of his contemporaries, and sharp mockery of Western societies, with England coming under particular attack.
- This authoritative edition now includes a completely new and substantially longer introduction that discusses the mythology of the Byronic hero
- Extensive annotation covers points of interest, selected variant readings, and the historical allusions Byron wove into his poem
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Dr. Wortle's Schoolby Anthony Trollope, Mick ImlahISBN 0140434046 (0-14-043404-6)
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The Duke's Childrenby Anthony Trollope, Dinah BirchISBN 0140433449 (0-14-043344-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Duke's Children'Book summary:Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires. Sent down from university in disgrace, his two sons quickly begin to run up gambling debts. His only daughter, meanwhile, longs passionately to marry the poor son of a county squire against her father's will. But while the Duke's dearest wishes for the three are thwarted one by one, he ultimately comes to understand that parents can learn from their own children. The final volume in the Palliser novels, "The Duke's Children" (1880) is a compelling exploration of wealth, pride and ultimately the strength of love. [via]
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The Eustace Diamondsby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0140430415 (0-14-043041-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eustace Diamonds'Book summary:The central plot of "The Eustace Diamonds" (1872) involves the theft and ultimate discovery of a diamond necklace - the Eustace family heirloom. A splendid sense of the absurd permeates the novel and allows Trollope to examine "truth" in may contexts and at many levels of seriousness. Lizzie's unscrupulous lies do not prevent her final exposure, and it is, as Stephen Gill says in his Introduction, "this honesty, this clarity of vision that places Trollope with the greatest social novelists of the nineteenth century, with Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot." [via]
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writingsby Edgar Allan Poe, David GallowayISBN 0140432914 (0-14-043291-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings'Book summary:Poe, unquestioned master of the 'Grotesque and Arabesque," is fully represented here, but the volume also includes generous selections from his poetry and critical writings. Together they amount to a portrait of a complex personality, that of a conscious aesthete, the most exotic of American writers, who had at the same time engaged in an astonishing variety of interests. Nor are the 'Grotesque' tales the simple manipulations of terror that they seem; David Galloway's introduction reveals their author as a profoundly serious writer, whose investigations of extreme states of consciousness have a particular relevance for our time. [via]
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The Figure in the Carpet and Other Storiesby Henry JamesISBN 0140432558 (0-14-043255-8)
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 014043531X (0-14-043531-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:"Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it & and you will have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen."[via]Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world-its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.
Written more than a century ago, Flatland conceals within its brilliant parody of Victorian society speculations about the universe that resonate in Einstein's theory of relativity as well as the current "string-theory" of nature.
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0140431683 (0-14-043168-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. [via]
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History of Englandby Thomas Babington MacAulay MacAulayISBN 0140431330 (0-14-043133-0)
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton R. SternISBN 0140390057 (0-14-039005-7)
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Playsby Oscar Wilde, Richard Allen CaveISBN 0140436065 (0-14-043606-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays'Book summary:Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired him to ponder the roles and masks donned in conventional society, and his acute and wry insights are wonderfully displayed in this collection of his essential plays. Known not only for his brilliant, epigrammatic language, but also for his sense of theatrical design, color, and staging, Wilde created an enduring body of finely crafted works, whose delights and ironies still speak to modern audiences. In addition to Lady Windermere's Fan, Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this edition contains an introduction, notes and commentaries, and an excised scene from The Importance of Being Earnest.[via]More editions of The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays:
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: With "a True Tale of Slavery"by Harriet Jacobs, John S. Jacobs, Nell Irvin PainterISBN 0140437959 (0-14-043795-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: With "a True Tale of Slavery"'Book summary:A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, which culminates in the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space in her grandmother's attic, Jacobs skillfully used the literary genres of her time, presenting a thoroughly feminist narrative that portrays the evils and traumas of slavery, particularly for women and children. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Elaine ShowalterISBN 0140390693 (0-14-039069-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:This "Penguin Classics" edition of Louisa May Alcott's inspiring tale of sisterhood, "Little Women", is edited with an introduction by Elaine Showalter. The charming story of four 'little women' - Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - and their wise and patient mother Marmee, was an instant success when first published in 1868. Enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England, the March sisters have been adored for generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death, and dreamed of travelling through Europe with old Aunt March and Amy. Future writers have found inspiration in Jo's devotion to her writing. In this simple, enthralling tale, both parts of which are included here, Louisa May Alcott has created four of American literature's most beloved women. In her enlightening, thoughtful introduction, Elaine Showalter discusses Louisa May Alcott's influences, and her aspirations for "Little Women", as well as the impact the novel has had on such women writers as Joyce Carol Oates and Cynthia Ozick. This edition also includes notes on the text by Siobhan Kilfeather and Vinca Showalter. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) grew up surrounded by American writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Drawing on her experience as a volunteer nurse in the Union Army during the American Civil War, she published "Hospital Sketches" in 1863, followed by gothic romances and lurid thrillers such as "A Modern Mephistopheles" and "A Long Fatal Love Chase". In 1868, she published "Little Women", which proved so popular that it was followed by two sequels. If you enjoyed "Little Women" you might like Elizabeth Gaskell's "Wives and Daughters", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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London Labour and the London Poorby Henry Mayhew, Victor NeuburgISBN 0140432418 (0-14-043241-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London Labour and the London Poor'Book summary:Unflinching reports of Londons poor from a prolific and influential English writer[via]London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles, later published in four volumes, written for the Morning Chronicle in 1849 and 1850 when journalist Henry Mayhew was at the height of his career. Mayhew aimed simply to report the realities of the poor from a compassionate and practical outlook. This penetrating selection shows how well he succeeded: the underprivileged of London become extraordinarily and often shockingly alive.
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward Bellamy, Cecelia TichiISBN 0140390189 (0-14-039018-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward, 2000-1887'Book summary:It is the year 2000 - and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere. This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions - electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, electronic broadcasting - ensured the mass popularity of this 1888 novel. But, however rich in fantasy and romance, "Looking Backward" is a passionate attach on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal. In her introduction, Cecelia Tichi discusses how the novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it embodies a sustaining myth of the American literary tradition - that man's perfectibility is attainable in the New World. [via]
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Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poemsby William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael SchmidtISBN 0140424628 (0-14-042462-8)
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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 versus the State: With Four Essays on Politics and Societyby Herbert Spencer, Donald Gunn MacraeISBN 0140400109 (0-14-040010-9)
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Mary Bartonby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0140430539 (0-14-043053-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England. [via]
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Mary Bartonby Macdonald Daly, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 014043464X (0-14-043464-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:[via]O Jem, her father wont listen to me, and its you must save Mary! Youre like a brother to her
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owners son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Marys dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the hungry forties as personal tragedy. In its social and political setting, it looks towards Elizabeth Gaskells great novels of the industrial revolution, in particular North and South.
In his introduction Maconald Daly discusses Elizabeth Gaskells first novel as a pioneering book that made public the great division between rich and poor a theme that inspired much of her finest work.
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The Mill on the Flossby George Eliot, A. S. ByattISBN 0140431209 (0-14-043120-9)
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie Collins, Sandra KempISBN 0140434089 (0-14-043408-9)
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The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles DickensISBN 014043092X (0-14-043092-X)
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A New View of Society and Other Writingsby Robert OwenISBN 0140433481 (0-14-043348-1)
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No Nameby Wilkie Collins, Mark FordISBN 014043397X (0-14-043397-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Name'Book summary:A witty, intricately-plotted exploration of a sudden fall from grace, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Wilkie Collins' "No Name" is edited with an introduction and notes by Mark Ford. Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs Vanstone, find themselves the victims of a catastrophic oversight. Their father has neglected to change his will, and when the girls are suddenly orphaned, their inheritance goes to their uncle. Now penniless, the conventional Norah takes up a position as a governess, but the defiant and tempestuous Magdalen cannot accept the loss of what is rightfully hers and decides to do whatever she can to win it back. With the help of cunning Captain Wragge, she concocts a scheme that involves disguise, deceit and astonishing self-transformation. In this compelling, labyrinthine story Wilkie Collins brilliantly demonstrates the gap between justice and the law, and in the subversive Magdalen he portrays one of the most exhilarating heroines of Victorian fiction. In his introduction Mark Ford examines themes of identity and illegitimacy within Victorian society and compares "No Name" to Collins' more 'sensational' fiction. This edition also includes notes and a bibliography. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of the landscape painter William Collins. In 1846 he was entered to read for the bar at Lincoln's Inn, where he gained the knowledge that was to give him much of the material for his writing. From the early 1850s he was a friend of Charles Dickens, who produced and acted in two melodramas written by Collins, "The Lighthouse" and "The Frozen Deep". Of his novels, Collins is best remembered for "The Woman in White" (1859), "No Name" (1862), "Armadale" (1866) and "The Moonstone" (1868). If you enjoyed "No Name", you might like Anthony Trollope's "Can You Forgive Her?", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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The Old Curiosity Shopby Charles Dickens, Norman Page, Charles DickenISBN 0140437428 (0-14-043742-8)
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Nell is on her way home to the dusty shop where she and her grandfather live a rather mysterious life. The old man disappears every night--visiting gambling dens with the naive hope of winning a fortune. Instead he sinks deeper and deeper into debt. Enter Daniel Quilp, moneylender, who becomes furious upon learning that the grandfather is a pauper and will never be able to repay his tremendous debt. Quilp seizes the curiosity shop and begins making lecherous overtures to Nell, so she and her grandfather steal away one morning to seek their fortunes elsewhere. But the demonic dwarf is never far behind.
Sound effects are employed judiciously and serve mainly as a springboard for the listener's imagination. The sound of a crying baby is enough to convey the image of crowded lodgings and genteel Victorian poverty, while raucous laughter and high-pitched squawks evoke the barely controlled chaos of an outdoor Punch and Judy show. The dramatization pares Dickens's weighty novel down to two and one-half hours, but does so skillfully, retaining Dickens's wit, marvelous dialogue, and delightful characterizations. (Running time: 155 minutes, 2 cassettes) --Elizabeth Laskey [via]
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On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxationby David Ricardo, R. M. HartwellISBN 0140400192 (0-14-040019-2)
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Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man/Candida/the Man of Destiny/You Never Can Tellby George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, W.J. Mc CormackISBN 0140437940 (0-14-043794-0)
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Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkinsby W.H. GardnerISBN 0140420150 (0-14-042015-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins'Book summary:Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The "Penguin Classics" edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Poems and Prose" is selected and edited with an introduction by W.H. Gardner. Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Jesuit order the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'. The poems, letters and journal entries selected for this edition were written in the following twenty years of his life, and published posthumously in 1918. His verse is wrought from the creative tensions and paradoxes of a poet-priest who wanted to evoke the spiritual essence of nature sensuously, and to communicate this revelation in natural language and speech-rhythms while using condensed, innovative diction and all the skills of poetic artifice. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was born in Essex, the eldest son of a prosperous middle-class family. He was educated at Highgate School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Classics and began his lifelong friendship with Robert Bridges. In 1866 he entered the Roman Catholic Church and two years later he became a member of the Society of Jesus. In 1877 he was ordained and was priest in a number of parishes including a slum district in Liverpool. From 1882 to 1884 he taught at Stonyhurst College and in 1884 he became Classics Professor at University College, Dublin. In his lifetime Hopkins was hardly known as a poet, except to one or two friends; his poems were not published until 1918, in a volume edited by Robert Bridges. If you enjoyed Hopkins' "Poems and Prose", you might like John Clare's "Selected Poems", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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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: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)by William Wordsworth, Jonathan WordsworthISBN 0140433694 (0-14-043369-4)
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The Prime Ministerby Anthony Trollope, David SkiltonISBN 014043349X (0-14-043349-X)
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The Princess Casamassimaby Henry JamesISBN 014043254X (0-14-043254-X)
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The Professorby Charlotte Bronte, Heather GlenISBN 0140433112 (0-14-043311-2)
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The Return of the Nativeby Thomas HardyISBN 0140435182 (0-14-043518-2)
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Rimbaudby Arthur Rimbaud, Oliver BernardISBN 0140420649 (0-14-042064-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rimbaud'Book summary:'The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses...' Rimbaud was sixteen when he made this famous declaration. By 1886, then thirty-two and an explorer, trader and slave-trader on the Red Sea, he had absolutely no interest in the fate or success of the poetry infused with mysticism, alchemy and magic that he had written in his teens. That same year, in Paris, "Les Illuminations" was being published as the work of 'the late' Arthur Rimbaud, first in a Symbolist periodical and then in book form, with an Introduction by his former lover, Verlaine. Seldom has a writer's vision of changing the world through words failed so spectacularly as did Rimbaud's. That failure turned him into an incomparable tragic poet: not only 'a wild undisciplined genius, a mystic philosopher and thinker, an inspired poet' but also, according to Enid Starkie, 'one of the most finished artists ...a supreme master of prosody and style'. This 'Penguin Classic' reproduces the text of "The Pleiade edition", 1954, with selected letters and prose translations that have been highly acclaimed. [via]
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The Ring and the Bookby Robert BrowningISBN 0140422943 (0-14-042294-3)
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Robert Burnsby Kotewall BeattieISBN 0140420037 (0-14-042003-7)
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Robert Burnsby Robert Burns, Carol McGuirkISBN 0140423826 (0-14-042382-6)
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Roughing Itby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne ClemensISBN 0140390103 (0-14-039010-3)
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Rural Ridesby William CobbettISBN 0140430237 (0-14-043023-7)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poemsby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Richard HolmesISBN 0140424296 (0-14-042429-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems'Book summary:[via]With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poets sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of Coleridge as "the metaphysical dreamer" and rediscovering him as a Romantic autobiographer of tremendous power and range.
At the heart of Selected Poetry are the Conversation Poems, a unified and beautifully crafted autobiographical sequence written over a period of twelve years. A series of little-known love poems to Asra, which combine understated passion and desperate directness, reflect the depths of Coleridge's feelings for Sara Hutchinson, his unattainable lifelong love. The volume also includes the robust Hill Walking Poems, and the secret agony of the Confessional Poems, as well as previously undervalued later poetry born of Coleridge's restless old age and his ironic reflection on his life.
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Scenes of Clerical Lifeby George Eliot, Jennifer GribbleISBN 0140436383 (0-14-043638-3)
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Secret Agentby Joseph Conrad, Martin Seymour-SmithISBN 0140432280 (0-14-043228-0)
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Selected Essaysby Larzer Ziff, Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0140390138 (0-14-039013-8)
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Selected Poemsby Robert Browning, Daniel KarlinISBN 0140437266 (0-14-043726-6)
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Selected Tales and Sketchesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michael J. ColacurcioISBN 014039057X (0-14-039057-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Tales and Sketches'Book summary:A collection of short fiction from a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Selected Tales and Sketches" is introduced by Michael J. Colacurcio in "Penguin Classics". With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Collected here are stories such as "Young Goodman Brown", in which a young Puritan man is haunted by a vision of satanic rituals, gradually losing his faith; "The Haunted Mind", which contemplates the surreal nature of dreams as a gateway to supernatural realms; "Ethan Brand", an eerie meditation on the nature of sin; and "The Minister's Black Veil", in which a small-town clergyman undergoes a frightening transformation. Written from the 1820s-to the 1850s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: "The Scarlet Letter", "The House of the Seven Gables" and "The Blithedale Romance". And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1825 he graduated from Bowdoin College, Maine, and returned to Salem determined to become a writer. He joined Brook Farm, a utopian experiment in communal living, before marrying in 1842. His writing had already secured some success with his "Twice-Told Tales", but it was the publication of "The Scarlet Letter in 1850" that brought him immediate recognition, followed a year later by "The House of the Seven Gables". If you enjoyed "Selected Tales" and "Sketches", you might like Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby David Carroll, George EliotISBN 0140434801 (0-14-043480-1)
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George EliotISBN 014043030X (0-14-043030-X)
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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.by Washington Irving, Haskell S. SpringerISBN 0140390324 (0-14-039032-4)
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day Peopleby Charles Dickens, Dennis Walder, George CruikshankISBN 0140433457 (0-14-043345-7)
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Proseby Oscar Wilde, Linda C. Dowling, Linda LowlingISBN 0140433872 (0-14-043387-2)
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The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Storiesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Jenni CalderISBN 0140431179 (0-14-043117-9)
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Sybilby Benjamin Disraeli, Thom Braun, Richard Austen Butler Butler of Saffron WaldenISBN 0140431349 (0-14-043134-9)
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But Disraeli, the man who was to become one of Britian's most famous prime ministers, did not produce in "Sybil" merely a political tract on behalf of Tory democracy as the answer to the Hungry Forties. This is a dramatic novel of romance, full of wit and irony; a love story which ranges through adventure, mystery and political intrigue while questioning many of the basic assumptions of the Victorian social structure. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, David SkiltonISBN 0140431357 (0-14-043135-7)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Tom DolinISBN 014043514X (0-14-043514-X)
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Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing of the Dog! & Three Men on the Bummelby Jerome K. Jerome, Jeremy LewisISBN 0140437509 (0-14-043750-9)
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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-haughby Victor Sage, Joseph Sheridan Le FanuISBN 0140437460 (0-14-043746-0)
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0140390510 (0-14-039051-0)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0140431993 (0-14-043199-3)
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researchesby Charles Darwin, Michael Neve, Janet Browne, E. J. BrowneISBN 014043268X (0-14-043268-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches'Book summary:"The Voyage of the Beagle" is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to "The Origin of Species". This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the "Victorian age: The Origin of Species". This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form. In their introduction Janet Brown and Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought and work, and this edition also includes notes, maps, appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin's friend and Captain of the Beagle. Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of "On the Origin of Species" by means of natural selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs. If you enjoyed "The Voyage of the Beagle", you might enjoy Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Michael MeyerISBN 0140390448 (0-14-039044-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Civil Disobedience'Book summary:'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.' Disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods by Walden Pond. Walden, the classic account of his stay there, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. But even as Thoreau disentangled himself from worldly matters, his solitary musings were often disturbed by his social conscience. 'Civil Disobedience', expressing his antislavery and antiwar sentiments, has influenced nonviolent resistance movements worldwide. Michael Meyer's introduction points out that Walden is not so much an autobiographical study as a 'shining example' of Transcendental individualism. So, too, 'Civil Disobedience' is less a call to political activism than a statement of Thoreau's insistence on living a life of principle. [via]
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Malcolm CowleyISBN 0140421998 (0-14-042199-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass'Book summary:This is the original and complete 1855 edition of one of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, including Whitman's own introduction to the work. [via]
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The Way We Live Nowby Anthony Trollope, Frank KermodeISBN 0140433929 (0-14-043392-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Live Now'Book summary:Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and his daughter's ill-use at the hands of a grasping lover (for whom she steals funds in order to elope) is a classic in the literature of money and a ripping good read as well. [via]
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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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William Hazlitt Selected Writingsby Ronald BlytheISBN 0140430504 (0-14-043050-4)
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William Wordsworthby William Wordsworth, John O. HaydenISBN 0140423753 (0-14-042375-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Wordsworth'Book summary:This selection of poetry concentrates on Wordsworth's greatest poems including "Lyrical Ballads", several tales from "The Excursion" and over half of "The Prelude". [via]
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William Wordsworth: Selected Poemsby William Wordsworth, Stephen GillISBN 0140424423 (0-14-042442-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Wordsworth: Selected Poems'Book summary:[via]One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and his belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworths lifefrom Tintern Abbey, an ode on the restorative powers of nature written during his intense friendship with Coleridge, to excerpts from his epic autobiographical poem, The Prelude. Also included are much-loved short works such as I wandered as lonely as a Cloud, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, and the poignant Lucy Gray. These poems demonstrate Wordsworths astonishing range, power, and inventiveness, and the sustained and captivating vision that informed his work.
- The inaugural volume in a new program of selected poetry especially commissioned for Penguin Classics
- Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, explanatory notes, and an index of titles and first lines
- In his introduction, Wordswort biographer Stephen Gill examines the personal and political events that shaped the poet's career and traces the major themes that run through his work
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry JamesISBN 0140432639 (0-14-043263-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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