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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indiesby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289418 (0-316-28941-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies'Book summary:Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As admiral in charge of His Britannic Majesty's West Indies Station he is as gallant, daring, implosive as ever. In this tense time after Napoleon's defeat, all kinds of vagabonds, revolutionaries, Imperial Guards. and pirates come sailing into the waters where Hornblower is working his small contingent of naval vessels to preserve the peace and eliminate piracy. With intrepid daring and brilliant strategies, Hornblower wins his victories. With this series of adventures, Volume 11, Hornblower's professional life as a British naval officer reaches its climax, not in a battle against men, but against nature. Here the inner Hornblower shows his colors. [via]
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Alice in Wonderland Classic Libraryby Lewis CarrollISBN 0307171116 (0-307-17111-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0312018215 (0-312-01821-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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American Notes.by Charles DickensISBN 0312028881 (0-312-02888-1)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Awakeningby Kate Chopin, Walker, Nancy, A.ISBN 0312195753 (0-312-19575-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor.
The text is that of the first edition of the novel, published by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. It has been annotated by the editor and includes translations of French phrases and information about New Orleans locales, customs, and lore, the Bayou region, and Creole culture. "Bibliographical and Historical Contexts", expanded and introduced by a new Editors Note, presents biographical, historical, and cultural documents contemporary with the novels publication. Included are a biographical essay by the acclaimed Chopin biographer Emily Toth, "An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler" with selections from the conduct books of the period in which Chopin lived and wrote, and period fashion plates from Harpers Bazar. A comprehensive "Criticism" section, introduced by a new Editors Note, contains expanded selections from hard-to-find contemporary reviews of the novel; two letters of mysterious origin written in response to the novel; and Chopins "Retraction," which followed The Awakenings negative reception. These are followed by twenty-seven interpretive essays, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, that provide a variety of perspectives on The Awakening, including essays by Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Nancy Walker, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Paula A. Treichler, Sandra M. Gilbert, Lee R. Edwards, Patricia S. Yaeger, Elizabeth Ammons, and Elaine Showalter. A Chronology of Chopins life and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included. [via] -
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles Dickens, George Cattermole, Hablot Knight BrowneISBN 0307262901 (0-307-26290-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Charles Dickenss first historical novelset during the anti-Catholic riots of 1780is an unparalleled portrayal of the terror of a rampaging mob, seen through the eyes of the individuals swept up in the chaos.
Those individuals include Emma, a Catholic, and Edward, a Protestant, whose forbidden love weaves through the heart of the story; and the simpleminded Barnaby, one of the riot leaders, whose fate is tied to a mysterious murder and whose beloved pet raven, Grip, embodies the mystical power of innocence. The story encompasses both the rarified aristocratic world and the volatile streets and nightmarish underbelly of London, which Dickens characteristically portrays in vivid, pulsating detail. But the real focus of the book is on the riots themselves, depicted with an extraordinary energy and redolent of the dangers, the mindlessness, and the possibilitiesboth beneficial and brutalof the mob.
One of the lesser-known novels, Barnaby Rudge is nonetheless among the most brilliantand most terrifyingin Dickenss oeuvre. [via]More editions of Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty:
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Beat to Quartersby C. S. ForesterISBN 0316289329 (0-316-28932-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beat to Quarters'Book summary:June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley. [via]
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Bethlehem Roadby Anne PerryISBN 0312042663 (0-312-04266-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bethlehem Road'Book summary:The gentleman tied to the lamppost on Westminster Bridge is most elegantly attiredfresh boutonniere, silk hat, white evening scarfand he is quite, quite dead, as a result of his thoroughly cut throat. Why should anyone kill Sir Lockwood Hamilton, the kindest of family men and most conscientious member of Parliament? Before Inspector Thomas Pitt can even speculate on the reasons, a colleague of Sir Lockwoods meets the same fate in the same spot. Public indignation is boundless, and clever Charlotte Pitt, Thomass wellborn wife, cant resist helping her hard-pressed husband, scouting societys drawing rooms for clues to these appalling crimes. Meanwhile, the Westminster Bridge Cutthroat stalks another victim.
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Beyond the Reefby Alexander KentISBN 0330319574 (0-330-31957-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Bluegate Fieldsby Anne PerryISBN 0312087187 (0-312-08718-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluegate Fields'Book summary:[via]Thomas and Charlotte Pitt must discover the truth of a young gentlemans sordid murderor an innocent man will hangThe naked body of an aristocratic youth turns up in the sewers beneath Bluegate Fields, one of Londons most notorious slums. But Arthur Waybourne had been drowned in his bath, not in the Thames. More shocking still was that the boy had been sexually violated and infected with syphilis before he was murdered. Despite Inspector Thomas Pitts efforts to fully investigate the crime, the family closes ranks, stonewalling Pitt, leaving him to wonder what they are hiding. All evidence points to Arthurs tutor, Jerome, as the murderer. The courts agree and Jerome is sentenced to hang. Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, dont believe the answer is so simple. But if not Jerome, then who molested and infected the boy?To learn the truth, Charlotte uses her familiarity with the upper classes to draw aside the curtain of lies, while Pitt defies his superior and the boys family to follow a trail that leads him into the foulest streets of London through a web of deceit involving male prostitution and pedophilia. In a race against time, Thomas and Charlotte must find the real killer to save Jerome from the hangmans noose.More editions of Bluegate Fields:
Brontesby Juliet BarkerISBN 0312145551 (0-312-14555-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Captain's Vengeanceby Dewey LambdinISBN 0312315473 (0-312-31547-3)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Captain's Vengeance: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventureby Dewey LambdinISBN 0312315503 (0-312-31550-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Cardington Crescentby Anne PerryISBN 0312001134 (0-312-00113-4)
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The Cater Street Hangmanby Anne PerryISBN 031212385X (0-312-12385-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Clotel, Or, the President's Daughterby William W. Brown, Robert S. LevineISBN 0312152655 (0-312-15265-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clotel, Or, the President's Daughter'Book summary:William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853), the first novel written by an African American, was published in London while Brown was still legally regarded as "property" within the borders of the United States. The documents in this edition include excerpts from Brown's sources for the novel--fiction, political essays, sermons, and presidential proclamations; selections that illuminate the range of contemporary attitudes concerning race, slavery, and prejudice; and pieces that advocate various methods of resistance and reform.[via]More editions of Clotel, Or, the President's Daughter:
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Commodore Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289388 (0-316-28938-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Commodore Hornblower'Book summary:These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.
-- The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Hornblower books sold in the first six months of 1999.
-- The A&E television network's series of original movies based on Hornblower's adventures have been tremendously successful -- praised by critics, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of viewers, and winner of the Emmy Award for best miniseries.
-- Two new movies will be premiering in the spring on A&E.
-- Readers and booksellers who admire Patrick O'Brian's novels delight in discovering this "new" series of nautical adventure stories. [via] -
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0316184136 (0-316-18413-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed."
The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent:
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets. [via]
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The Darkening Seaby Alexander KentISBN 0330329170 (0-330-32917-0)
Softcover, Britnell Books
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Death in the Devil's Acreby Anne PerryISBN 0312188692 (0-312-18869-2)
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Economic Change in East Malaysia: Sabah and Sarawak Since 1850by Amarjit KaurISBN 0312211597 (0-312-21159-7)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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England's Mission: The Imperial Idea in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli, 1868-1880by C. C. EldridgeISBN 0333147979 (0-333-14797-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Europe and the Third World: From Colonisation to Decolonisation, C. 1500-1998by Bernard BaitesISBN 0312222084 (0-312-22208-4)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Far Pavilionsby M. M. KayeISBN 031215125X (0-312-15125-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Far Pavilions'Book summary:When The Far Pavilions was first published nineteen years ago, it moved the critic Edmund Fuller to write this: "Were Miss Kaye to produce no other book, The Far Pavilions might stand as a lasting accomplishment in a single work comparable to Margaret Mitchell's achievement in Gond With the Wind."[via]
From its beginning in the foothills of the towering Himalayas, M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that ranks with the greatest panoramic sagas of modern fiction.
The Far Pavilions is itself a Himalayan achievement, a book we hate to see come to an end. it is a passionate, triumphant story that excites us, fills us with joy, move us to tears, satisfies us deeply, and helps us remember just what it is we want most from a novel.
Flying Coloursby C. S. ForesterISBN 0316289396 (0-316-28939-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Great Trials in American History: Civil War to the Presentby Lee ArbetmanISBN 0314804617 (0-314-80461-7)
Softcover, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
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Guerra Y Pazby Leo N. Tolstoy, Gala Arias RubioISBN 0307273911 (0-307-27391-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guerra Y Paz'Book summary:The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced imitation leather bound books enhance any library, putting the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy within everyone's reach.[via]More editions of Guerra Y Paz:
The Hand Of Ethelbertaby Thomas HardyISBN 0312357362 (0-312-35736-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Havoc's Swordby Dewey LambdinISBN 0312315481 (0-312-31548-1)
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Havoc's Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventureby Dewey LambdinISBN 0312286880 (0-312-28688-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Havoc's Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure'Book summary:Dewey Lambdin's lovable but incorrigible rogue, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is back to cut a wide and wicked swatch through the war-torn Caribbean in an entirely new high seas adventure.[via]
It's 1798, and Lewrie and his crew of the Proteus frigate have their work cut out for them. First, he has rashly vowed to uphold a friend's honour in a duel to the death. Second, he faces the horridly unwelcome arrival of HM Government's Foreign Office agents (out to use him as their cat's-paw in impossibly vaunting schemes against the French). And last, he must engineer the showdown with his arch foe and nemesis, the hideous ogre of the French Revolution's Terror, that clever fiend Guillaume Choundas!
We know Lewrie can fight, but can he be a diplomat, too? He must deal with the newly reborn United States Navy, that uneasy, unofficial "ally", and the stunning, life-altering surprise they bring. For good or ill, Lewrie's in the "quag" up to his neck, this time. Can sword, pistol, and broadsides avail, or will words, low cunning, and Lewrie's irrepressible wit be the key to his victory and survival, as even the seas cry "Havoc"?More editions of Havoc's Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure:
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Henry Esmondby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0330239341 (0-330-23934-1)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry Esmond'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Hija De La Fortuna / Daughter of Fortuneby Isabel AllendeISBN 0320066509 (0-320-06650-9)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Honour This Dayby Alexander KentISBN 0330304577 (0-330-30457-7)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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Hornblower and the Atroposby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289299 (0-316-28929-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hornblower and the Atropos'Book summary:In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and boldly challenging a Spanish frigate several times her size. At the center of each adventure is Hornblower, Forester's most inspired creation, whose blend of cautious preparation and spirited execution dazzles friend and foe alike. [via]
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Hornblower and the Hotspurby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316290467 (0-316-29046-7)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hornblower and the Hotspur'Book summary:April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower-who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy-commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament"-matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs. [via]
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Hornblower During the Crisis and Two Storiesby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289159 (0-316-28915-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hornblower During the Crisis and Two Stories'Book summary:This last-written adventure of Horatio Hornblower finds him still a captain; the Napoleonic Wars rage on. Though the tale was incomplete at Forester's death, it offers a full measure of action at sea. [via]
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Hornblower During the Crisis and Two Stories Hornblowers Temptation and the Last Encounterby C. S. ForesterISBN 0316289442 (0-316-28944-2)
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Hospital Sketchesby Alice FahsISBN 0312260288 (0-312-26028-8)
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Simon GoodenoughISBN 0316320021 (0-316-32002-1)
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How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815by Alistair HorneISBN 0312187246 (0-312-18724-6)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815'Book summary:In How Far from Austerlitz? accomplished military historian Alistair Horne covers the pivotal decade of Napoleon's career. Starting with the victories at Ulm and Austerlitz and concluding with the defeat at Waterloo, Horne treats his subject like the hero of a Greek tragedy, full of the hubris that ultimately will cause his downfall. He shows, for instance, that once the conquering begins, it can rarely stop. One victory demands a second to protect the gains of the first, and so on. Before long, resources are spread thin and the empire topples. That's essentially what happened to Napoleon, and Horne tells the tale well. In addition, he draws interesting parallels between the French emperor and Hitler: both were more or less confined to the European continent by British naval power, both launched a doomed invasion of Russia, and both had an fatal thirst for conquest. [via]
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New Yorkby Jacob A. Riis, David LeviatinISBN 0312117000 (0-312-11700-0)
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Howards Endby E. M. Forster, Alistair M. DuckworthISBN 0312111827 (0-312-11182-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
Imperial Frontier in the Tropics Eighteen and Sixty-Five Thru Eighteen and Seventy-Fiveby W. David McIntyreISBN 0312409850 (0-312-40985-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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In Distant Watersby Richard WoodmanISBN 0312025866 (0-312-02586-6)
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Kimby Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said, Veronica CanalesISBN 030739123X (0-307-39123-X)
Hardcover, Random House Espanol
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Kim es sin duda la gran novela del Premio Nobel Rudyard Kipling. Publicada en 1901. Cuenta la historia de un chico, huérfano de un soldado del regimiento irlandés. Su nombre completo es Kimball OHara, pero se le conoce como Kim. La novela tiene lugar en la India, cuando era aún una colonia británica. Kim pasa su infancia en Lahore donde se encuentra a un lama tibetano que se propone encontrar un río místico. Kim le acompañará en su viaje, durante el que se encontrará al regimiento de su padre, que le adoptará y le enviará a la escuela, aunque en sus vacaciones continuará con su búsqueda. Con el tiempo, Kim será seleccionado por el Coronel Creighton como joven promesa para los servicios secretos. Bajo las órdenes del indio Huree Babu se convierte en un distinguido miembro del los servicios secretos, obteniendo unos papeles de espías rusos en el Himalaya. La novela es una maravillosa evocación de la vida en la India bajo el dominio británico y en última instancia el retrato de un alma dividida entre Oriente y Occidente.More editions of Kim:
King's Captainby Dewey LambdinISBN 0312305087 (0-312-30508-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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King's Captain : An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventureby Dewey LambdinISBN 0312268858 (0-312-26885-8)
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A King's Trade: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventureby Dewey LambdinISBN 031231549X (0-312-31549-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Lieutenant Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316290637 (0-316-29063-7)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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Looking Backwardby Edward Bellamy, Daniel H. BorusISBN 0312122446 (0-312-12244-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward Bellamy, Daniel H. BorusISBN 0312105916 (0-312-10591-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward, 2000-1887'Book summary:First published in 1888 and a phenomenal best-seller, Looking Backward is Edward Bellamy's utopian novel about ninteenth-century Bostonian who awakes after a sleep for more than one hundred years to find himself in the year 2000 in a world of near-perfect cooperation, harmony, and prosperity. More than just a fanciful novel, Looking Backward was, in effect, Bellamy's blueprint for a socialist-type state, conceived in response to problems of the Gilded Age brought on in part by the pace of the late-nineteenth-century industrialization. The novel had an enormous impact at the time of its publication, setting in motion a wave of reform activity and creating a vogue for utopian novels that continued over the next three decades. In addition to an extensive introduction, Daniel Borus's new edition of Looking Backward contains a chronology of Bellamy's life, a bibliography, questions to consider when reading the novel, and an index. [via]
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Lord Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289434 (0-316-28943-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Hornblower'Book summary:The Hornblower Novels of C. S. Forester Mr. Midshipman Hornblower Lieutenant Hornblower Hornblower and the Hotspur Hornblower During the Crisis Hornblower and the Atropos Beat to Quarters Ship of the Line Flying Colours Commodore Hornblower Lord Hornblower Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies Weary of the war that he has waged nearly his entire life, Hornblower finds himself assigned an especially dangerous and dubious new task: to rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew in the Bay of the Seine. This risky adventure, coinciding with reports that the tide of war may be turning-as Wellington has swept over the Pyrenees and the Russians have reached the Rhine-propels Hornblower toward the heart of the French Empire, toward a fateful reunion with old friends, and toward the harrowing but glorious conclusion of his own battle with Napoleon. [via]
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Manet by Himselfby Juliet BareauISBN 0316876364 (0-316-87636-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Masterby Colm ToibinISBN 0330485652 (0-330-48565-2)
Hardcover, Picador
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McAuslan in the Rough, and Other Storiesby George MacDonald FraserISBN 033024633X (0-330-24633-X)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289124 (0-316-28912-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Forester's genius was not tidy, and so this story, which sets Hornblower on course at age 17, is Forester's sixth book about him, though it should have been the first. LIEUTENANT HORNBLOWER, which follows it, carries the intrepid young man another step forward in his career. [via]
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The National Army Museum Book of the Boer Warby Michael Carver, Field Marshal Lord CarverISBN 033036944X (0-330-36944-X)
Softcover, Picador
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The National Army Museum Book Of The Zulu Warby Ian KnightISBN 0330486292 (0-330-48629-2)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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The Only Victorby Alexander KentISBN 0330318403 (0-330-31840-3)
Softcover, McMillin Pub Llc
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Thomas HardyISBN 0312594666 (0-312-59466-6)
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Paragon Walkby Anne PerryISBN 0312595980 (0-312-59598-0)
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Paris Between Empires : Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852by Philip ManselISBN 0312308574 (0-312-30857-4)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814-1914by C.J. BartlettISBN 0312161387 (0-312-16138-7)
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hallby William L. Riordon, Terrence J. McDonaldISBN 0312096666 (0-312-09666-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politicsby Terrence J. McDonald, William L. RiordonISBN 0312084447 (0-312-08444-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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A Private Revengeby Richard WoodmanISBN 0312044054 (0-312-04405-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Private Revenge'Book summary:The ninth Nathaniel Drinkwater novel set in 1808 in which Drinkwater is ordered to protect a convoy to Penang. After a mishap which delays him he pilots the remaining ships through the uncharted waters of northern Borneo in search of the missing ships and their cargo. [via]
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Raj, a Scrapbook of British India, 1877-1947by Charles AllenISBN 0312663072 (0-312-66307-2)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0307122263 (0-307-12226-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Rutland Placeby Anne PerryISBN 0312696213 (0-312-69621-3)
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Sea of Greyby Dewey LambdinISBN 0312320167 (0-312-32016-7)
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Sea of Grey : An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventureby Dewey LambdinISBN 0312286856 (0-312-28685-6)
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Ship of the Lineby C. S. ForesterISBN 0316289361 (0-316-28936-1)
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0316320099 (0-316-32009-9)
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Silence in Hanover Closeby Anne PerryISBN 031201824X (0-312-01824-X)
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Sitting Bull And the Paradox of Lakota Nationhoodby Gary C. AndersonISBN 0321421922 (0-321-42192-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Trumpet-majorby Thomas HardyISBN 0330344722 (0-330-34472-2)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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Up from Slaveryby Booker T. Washington, W. Fitzhugh BrundageISBN 0312394489 (0-312-39448-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up from Slavery'Book summary:Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. [via]
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War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870by Geoffrey BestISBN 0312855516 (0-312-85551-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Wessex Tales: The Three Strangers; a Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; the Melancholy Hussar; the Withered Armby Thomas HardyISBN 0312862768 (0-312-86276-8)
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The Woodlandersby Thomas HardyISBN 0312889011 (0-312-88901-1)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0312132921 (0-312-13292-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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