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ISBN 9780812550924 (0-8125-5092-7, 0812550927)

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0812550927 (0-8125-5092-7)
Softcover, Tor Books

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Discover the classics! Beautifully designed and carefully abridged, Troll Illustrated Classics are the perfect introductions to the worlds best-loved literature. [via]

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20,000 Leagues under the Sea: ISBN 0816718806 (0-8167-1880-6)
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 0883011042 (0-88301-104-2)
Softcover, Ags Pub
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 0812550927 (0-8125-5092-7)
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ISBN 9780866119696 (0-86611-969-8, 0866119698)

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

by Malvina G. Vogel

ISBN 0866119698 (0-86611-969-8)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co

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Library Binding: 240 pages Publisher: Abdo Pub Co; First Edition edition (June 1992) Language: English [via]

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20,000 Leagues Under the Seas

by Ron Miller, Jules Verne

ISBN 0881010855 (0-88101-085-5)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House

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ISBN 9780844669922 (0-8446-6992-X, 084466992X)

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The Age of Revolution

by Eric Hobsbawm

ISBN 084466992X (0-8446-6992-X)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This enthralling and original account highlights the significant sixty years when industrial capitalism established itself in Western Europe and when Europe established the domination over the rest of the world it was to hold for half a century. [via]

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ISBN 9780850671056 (0-85067-105-1, 0850671051)

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Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0850671051 (0-85067-105-1)
Hardcover, Folio Society

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This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]

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ISBN 9780812504286 (0-8125-0428-3, 0812504283)

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Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

ISBN 0812504283 (0-8125-0428-3)
Softcover, Tor Books

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A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.

Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]

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ISBN 9780822009580 (0-8220-0958-7, 0822009587)

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Cliffsnotes Oliver Twist

by Harry Kaste

ISBN 0822009587 (0-8220-0958-7)
Softcover, Cliff Notes

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

In CliffsNotes on Oliver Twist, youll meet a dear, grateful, gentle orphan who, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much. The CliffsNotes commentaries, summaries, and character analysis will show you why this sweet, sad, and moving story is considered to be one of Dickens' greatest works (and one of his more politically-charged ones). Youll also find

Life and background of the author, Charles Dickens
A short introduction to the novel
A list of characters
Essays about symbolism, style, setting, and more
A review section that tests your knowledge

Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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ISBN 9780810103252 (0-8101-0325-7, 0810103257)

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Confidence Man

by Herman Melville

ISBN 0810103257 (0-8101-0325-7)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr

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Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and, winning over his not-quite-innocent victims with his charms, urges each to trust in the cosmos, in nature, and even in human nature--with predictable results. In Melville's time the book was such a failure he abandoned fiction writing for twenty years; only in the twentieth century did critics celebrate its technical virtuosity, wit, comprehensive social vision, and wry skepticism.

This scholarly edition includes a Historical Note offering a detailed account of the novel's composition, publication, reception, and subsequent critical history. In addition the editors present the twenty-six surviving manuscript leaves and scraps with full transcriptions and analytical commentary.

This scholarly edition aims to present a text as close to the author's intention as surviving evidence permits. Based on collations of both editions publishing during Melville's lifetime, it incorporates 138 emendations made by the present editors. It is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

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ISBN 9780812504361 (0-8125-0436-4, 0812504364)

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

ISBN 0812504364 (0-8125-0436-4)
Softcover, Tor Books

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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

This edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R. L. Fisher.

It was one heck of a punch. Knocked me clear from New England to Olde England, from Connecticut--to Camelot. Suddenly, there I was--with King Arthur, Launcelot, Morgan le Fay, and that faker, Merlin. I was trapped in the sixth century, surrounded by jousts and chivalry and idiots in armor bashing other idiots in armor!

But I'm resourceful; I looked for opportunities. And King Arthur's court needed a few improvements. Like soap. Toothpaste. Baseball. Electricity, factories, newspapers, telephones, trains, bicycles...free elections. in short, these folks need a double dose of good ole American know-how.

They needed a Boss. They needed--Me.

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ISBN 9780812544046 (0-8125-4404-8, 0812544048)

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0812544048 (0-8125-4404-8)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom

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Death of Ivan Iiyich

by Leo Tolstoy

ISBN 0848803434 (0-8488-0343-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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Death of Ivan Ilych

by Tolstoy

ISBN 088238547X (0-88238-547-X)
Softcover, Center for Thanatology Research &

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ISBN 9780812504484 (0-8125-0448-8, 0812504488)

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0812504488 (0-8125-0448-8)
Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc

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The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.

This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.

This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]

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ISBN 9780812523010 (0-8125-2301-6, 0812523016)

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Dracula

by Bram Stoker

ISBN 0812523016 (0-8125-2301-6)
Softcover, Tor Books

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Awareness of Dracula as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey to Transylvania, into the very heart of Count Draculas evil realm, is compelling, but it is perhaps the journey of the vampire to Englandand the dangers he poses to Jonathans beloved Minathat is more horrifying.

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ISBN 9780861366002 (0-86136-600-X, 086136600X)

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Far from the Madding Crowd/the Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 086136600X (0-86136-600-X)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

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ISBN 9780877207245 (0-87720-724-0, 0877207240)

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Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

ISBN 0877207240 (0-87720-724-0)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

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When first published in 1862, this novel of a divided Russia, with peasants set against masters and fathers set against sons, caused great outrage. But its enduring legacy of social insight and conscience mixed with drama has given it universal appeal. Features an introduction by Anna Tolstoy in an exciting new Bantam Classics' package. [via]

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German Novellas of Realism I

by Jeffrey L. Sammons

ISBN 0826403174 (0-8264-0317-4)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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ISBN 9780812504590 (0-8125-0459-3, 0812504593)

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House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 0812504593 (0-8125-0459-3)
Softcover, Tor Books

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCRd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]

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ISBN 9780821204719 (0-8212-0471-8, 0821204718)

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Ivanhoe

by Walter Scott, Robin S. Wright

ISBN 0821204718 (0-8212-0471-8)
Hardcover, New York Graphic Society

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More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign warlords. The dissolute Prince John plots to seize his brother's crown, his barons terrorize the country, and the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood haunts the ancient greenwood. The secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight, Ivanhoe, heralds the start of a splendid and tumultuous romance, featuring the tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, the siege of Torquilstone, and the clash of wills
between the wicked Templar Bois-Guilbert and the sublime Jewess Rebecca.

In Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at the end of 1819. The most famous of Scottish novelists drew on the conventions of Gothic fiction, including its risky sexual and racial themes, to explore the violent origins and limits of English nationality.

This edition uses the 1830 Magnum Opus text, corrected against the Interleaved Set, and incorporates readings from Scott's manuscript. The introduction examines the originality and cultural importance of Ivanhoe, and draws on current work by historians and cultural critics. [via]

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ISBN 9780812565652 (0-8125-6565-7, 0812565657)

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Ivanhoe

by Scott, Walter, Sr.

ISBN 0812565657 (0-8125-6565-7)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom

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As knights battle to the death, the fate of England hangs in the balance.

England is in turmoil--torn by fierce and bitter hatreds between Norman and Saxon. Rival claimants to the throne have plunged into bloody civil war. Price John--taking advantage of Richard's absence while fighting in the Crusades--plots to make himself crowned king. Richard returns and vows to take his revenge on John.

But he will need a courageous and able warrior on his side--a warrior like Wilfred of Ivanhoe.

Disinherited by his father, disowned and dishonored, Wilfred allies himself with Richard. In many adventures he will battle knights in deadly tournaments, scale castle walls, be wounded, captured, and rescued by the infamous Robin Hood, and find true love with the fiery Rowena.

In what has become Sir Walter Scott's most beloved and rousing adventure, Wilfred helps Richard I foil John's plot. More importantly, Wilfred of Ivenhoe reclaims his good name.

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ISBN 9780812504712 (0-8125-0471-2, 0812504712)

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A Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0812504712 (0-8125-0471-2)
Softcover, Tor Books

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The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earths very core. In his quest to penetrate the planets primordial secrets, the geologisttogether with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hansdiscovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Vernes imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction adventure and a reflection on the perfectibility of human understanding and the psychology of the questor. As David Brin notes in his Introduction, though Verne never knew the term science fiction, Journey to the Centre of the Earth is inarguably one of the wellsprings from which it all began. [via]

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ISBN 9780816728916 (0-8167-2891-7, 0816728917)

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Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 0816728917 (0-8167-2891-7)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc

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Kipling began these stories in Vermont, to amuse his daughter when they were living in his wife's home town. The comic explanations, such as "how the camel got his hump" and "how the whale got his throat", are complemented by the author's illustrations, with their extensive and ridiculous captions. [via]

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ISBN 9780831752965 (0-8317-5296-3, 0831752963)

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Just So Stories for Little Children

by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 0831752963 (0-8317-5296-3)
Hardcover, Mayflower Books

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Twelve stories which tell how many things came to be, such as the alphabet, camel's hump, leopard's spots, and rhinoceros' skin. [via]

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ISBN 9780812504736 (0-8125-0473-9, 0812504739)

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Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0812504739 (0-8125-0473-9)
Softcover, Tor Books

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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

This edition of Kidnapped includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R.L. Fisher.

Young, innocent David Balfour leaves his father's gravesite to claim an inhertitance--and finds himself in a nightmare war for his very life. Betrayed by his own family. Beaten unconscious. Stuffed into the hold of a ship manned by drunken murderers. Doomed to slavery or death.

But then Balfour's captors try to kill a renegade swordsman named Alan Breck--a lethal mistake. With blood-dripping swords, Alan and David battle their way to shore...but not to safety. Breck is a rebel fighting for a cause already lost; and David is falsely charge with assassination.

Wanted by kidnappers, terrorists and an army; trapped in a land of enemies; Alan and David are locked together in a desperate race across and entire nation, toward a slim chance for freedom, safety...

And David Balfour's revenge.

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ISBN 9780812523331 (0-8125-2333-4, 0812523334)

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Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 0812523334 (0-8125-2333-4)
Softcover, Tor Books

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Book Details:

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 6/1/2003
Pages: 217
Reading Level: Age 9 and Up

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ISBN 9780812966428 (0-8129-6642-2, 0812966422)

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The Mysterious Island

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0812966422 (0-8129-6642-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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At a time when Verne is making a comeback in the US as a mainstream literary figure, Wesleyan is pleased to publish a new translation of one of his best-known novels, The Mysterious Island. Although several editions under the same title are in print, most reproduce a bowdlerized nineteenth-century translation which changes the names of the characters, omits several important scenes, and ideologically censors Verne's original text.

The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has secretly been helping the settlers. A marvelous adventure story, The Mysterious Island is also notable for its modern retelling of the utopian deserted-island myth, with repeated echoes of Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar William Butcher, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition. [via]

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ISBN 9780812580037 (0-8125-8003-6, 0812580036)

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Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0812580036 (0-8125-8003-6)
Softcover, Tor Books

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Thanks to its colorful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens' Oliver Twist has captured readers' hearts for more than 150 years. Today's children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets led by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can destroy his purity...and through his goodness, he finds salvation. Beautifully illustrated by Eric Kincaid. [via]

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ISBN 9780866851381 (0-86685-138-0, 0866851380)

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Oliver Twist / Arabic

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0866851380 (0-86685-138-0)
Softcover, Intl Book Centre

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ISBN 9780879753368 (0-87975-336-6, 0879753366)

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On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

ISBN 0879753366 (0-87975-336-6)
Softcover, Prometheus Books

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This volume includes the complete essay in five chapters: Introductory; Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion; Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-being; Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual; and Applications. With a fine introduction by editor Alburey Castell, this edition also includes line numbers for easy reference, a list of principal dates in the life of John Stuart Mill, and a bibliography. [via]

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ISBN 9780812967272 (0-8129-6727-5, 0812967275)

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The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0812967275 (0-8129-6727-5)
Softcover, Modern Library

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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

This edition of The Pickwick Papers includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Nancy Springer.

The Pickwick Club was founded by the most learned minds in London for the purpose of making a scientific tour of the world. Its distinguished members include Mr. Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.PC., presiding; Augustus Snodgrass; Nathaniel Winkle; and Tracy Tupman, Esq. Yet no sooner have these gentlemen begun their historic journey than they are set upon by a charming but notorious con man, Alfred Jingle. So begins a series of hilarious misadventures that takes the incorrigibly innocent Pickwicks wandering around England, coming in contact with some of the most colorful and comical characters in all fiction, including Dr. Slammer, Dismal Jemmy Hutley, Job Trotter, Wilkins Flasher, and Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz.

This was Dickens' first novel--and remains his funniest and most loved.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

ISBN 0866119981 (0-86611-998-1)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]

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ISBN 9780812567113 (0-8125-6711-0, 0812567110)

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0812567110 (0-8125-6711-0)
Softcover, Tor Books

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]

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Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped or the Lad With the Silver Button

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Barry Menikoff

ISBN 0873281772 (0-87328-177-2)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

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ISBN 9780812504835 (0-8125-0483-6, 0812504836)

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 0812504836 (0-8125-0483-6)
Softcover, Tor Books

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth B. Browning

ISBN 0880880600 (0-88088-060-0)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Pr

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ISBN 9780880014519 (0-88001-451-2, 0880014512)

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Julia Markus, William S. Peterson

ISBN 0880014512 (0-88001-451-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers

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"I love your verse with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett . . . and I love you too," Robert Browning wrote in January 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the nineteenth century. During their courtship, Elizabeth privately wrote a series of forty-four sonnets to Robert, which she disclosed to no one -- not even to him -- until three years after their marriage. The poems were later collected in a volume entitled Sonnets form the Portuguese. In this elegant new edition, the poems are accompanied by relevant excerpts from Elizabeth and Robert's love letters. With an introduction by biographer Julia Markus, this volume will be a valued resource for the poetry scholar and those wanting wise and lyrical guidance in matters of love. [via]

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

by William S. Peterson, Julia Markus, Elizabeth B. Browning

ISBN 0880015101 (0-88001-510-1)
Softcover, Ecco Pr

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0862411211 (0-86241-121-1)
Hardcover

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You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll? [via]

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 0877209154 (0-87720-915-4)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: With Readers Guide (Amsco Literature Series) [Hardcover] Thomas Hardy (Author) Hardcover Publisher: Amsco School Pubns Inc (April 2002) Language: English ISBN-10: 0877208255 ISBN-13: 978-0877208259 [via]

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ISBN 9780816714612 (0-8167-1461-4, 0816714614)

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Tom Brown's Schooldays

by Thomas Hughes

ISBN 0816714614 (0-8167-1461-4)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc

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The life of a British schoolboy at Rugby in the early 1900s is vividly drawn with humor, compassion and strong religious overtones. Seven 90-minute cassettes. [via]

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne, Raymond James, Wayne Geehan

ISBN 0816718792 (0-8167-1879-2)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc

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The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. [via]

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ISBN 9780870216787 (0-87021-678-3, 0870216783)

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea/Completely Restored and Annotated

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0870216783 (0-87021-678-3)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr

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This edition is based solely on the original French text of this classic work. This edition contains the the lost 20% of Verne's original manuscript and corrects hundreds of errors and mistranslations. Contains 45 woodcut illutrations.Translated by Water James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter [via]

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Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 081520115X (0-8152-0115-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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The enduring, classic, and greatly-loved account of the celebrated poet-naturalist's reflections from his vantage point on the shores of Walden pond. [via]

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ISBN 9780877736851 (0-87773-685-5, 0877736855)

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Walden, or Life in the Woods : Selections from the American Classic

by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 0877736855 (0-87773-685-5)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated

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A beautifully distilled version of Thoreau's most important work, Walden, that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. The royalties from each sale will be donated to the Walden Woods Project, a public land trust working to preserve the land around Walden Pond. Two-color interior. [via]

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