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The Adventures of Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0192545051 (0-19-254505-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, "The Pickwick Papers." Set against London's seedy back street slums, "Oliver Twist" is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of "Oliver Twist" firmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a champion." [via]
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Barchester Towers
by Robin Gilmour, Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0140432035 (0-14-043203-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN 0075535750 (0-07-553575-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College

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This novel was Dostoyevsky's last and finest work, telling the story of the four Karamazov brotherseach with his own distinct personality and desires. Driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, they all become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. Exploring the secret depths of humanity's struggles and sins, Dostoyevsky unfolds a grand epic which attempts to venture into mankind's darkest heart, and grasp the true meaning of existence.
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Can You Forgive Her
by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall

ISBN 0140430865 (0-14-043086-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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A novel in "The Penguin Trollope" series, which contains all of Trollope's novels, short stories and autobiography published in the order in which they were written. [via]
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The Complete Novels
by Jane Austen

ISBN 0143039504 (0-14-303950-4)
Softcover, Penguin Classics

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Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Complete Novels and Stories
by Kate Chopin, Sandra M. Gilbert

ISBN 1931082219 (1-931082-21-9)
Hardcover, Library of America

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From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women, culminating in her masterpiece The Awakening (1899), challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics, and today seem decades ahead of their time. Now, The Library of America collects all of Chopin's novels and stories as never before in one authoritative volume.

The explosive novel At Fault (1890) centers on a love triangle between a strong-willed young widow, a stiff St. Louis businessman, and the man's alcoholic wife. In the story collections Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), Chopin transforms the local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales of post-Civil War bayou culture. In The Awakening, the now-classic novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her writing career, Chopin tells the story of a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment.

The volume also includes all the stories not collected by Chopin, including those meant for "A Vocation and a Voice," a projected volume that her publisher canceled in 1900, and three stories that were found in 1992 in a long-lost cache of Chopin's papers. [via]
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Complete Novels of Jane Austen
by Jane Austen

ISBN 0140106499 (0-14-010649-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black Garnett, Ernest Joseph Simmons

ISBN 0075535742 (0-07-553574-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College

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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.
This vivid translation by David McDuff has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevskys great novel, rendering its dialogue with a unique force and naturalism. This edition also includes a new chronology of Dostoyevskys life and work.

@RobPeterPayPaul Its hard being a poor student lots of work, crappy room, and I have the ugliest hat this side of the Urals.

It is a bit of a rut being so miserably impoverished. I need something to lighten up my life, something exciting&

Ive got it. Rather than accept financial aid from my friend, Ill murder an elderly money-lender in cold blood. Why? Im not telling.

However, if youd like to guess at my psychological and ideological motivations for the next couple of hundred years, be my guest.

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Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts With Epilogue
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear

ISBN 0099981904 (0-09-998190-4)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd

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A troubled young man commits the perfect crime: the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but he convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins a tragic novel that illuminates the eternal struggle between human emotions and desire, and the harsh laws of ethics and justice. Part thriller and part philosophical meditation, this is a penetrating look at the core of human nature.
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker

ISBN 0140367179 (0-14-036717-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre. [via]
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Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 0020252706 (0-02-025270-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus With Connections
by Mary . Shelley

ISBN 0030564727 (0-03-056472-7)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston

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After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, Isucceding in disco- vering the cause of generation and life I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter... [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 0140351078 (0-14-035107-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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The Gossamer Webs Design Collection :Three Orenburg Shawls to Knit: Three Orenburg Shawls to Knit
by Galina Khmeleva

ISBN 188301087X (1-883010-87-X)
Hardcover, Interweave Press

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Presenting three classic Orenburg-style lace patterns in written form for the very first time. Created from a series of basic elements and patterns handed down from generation to generation from the Orenburg region of Russia, Galina Khmeleva has worked with these talented craftspeople to bring you these unique knitted masterpieces. Create your own heirloom shawl following step-by-step instructions and charts laid out for ease of knitting from bottom to top.
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens, Linda Jennings

ISBN 0140366814 (0-14-036681-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The orphan Pip's terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prelude to his "great expectations." How Pip comes into a fortune, what he does with it, and what he discovers through his secret benefactor are the ingredients of his struggle for moral redemption. @piMp The walk was a bad idea. I met a prisoner who demanded bread and a file. He looks like a pederast. And a murderer. Amber alert? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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Great Expectations
by James Riordan, Victor G. Ambrus

ISBN 019274190X (0-19-274190-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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"I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip." So begins James Riordan's lively retelling of Great Expectations, Charles Dickens's classic novel about a boy taken from poor beginnings, educated as a gentleman, and his ultimate discovery of the identity of his mysterious benefactor. This compelling and easy-to-read version of Great Expectations is vividly brought to life with the illustrations of Victor G. Ambrus, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England and the artist for numerous other classics in this popular series, including Moby Dick, Gulliver's Travels, The Wizard of Oz, and many others. [via]
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Great Expectations With Connections
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0030954983 (0-03-095498-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt School

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Great Expectations With Related Readings
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0028179617 (0-02-817961-7)
Hardcover, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co

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Like new. Minimal shelfwear. Student name and date inside front cover. May have stray pencil mark or two. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. [via]
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens, Kate Flint

ISBN 014143967X (0-14-143967-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby, Dickens stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers. [via]
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Hard Times. for These Times
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0192545159 (0-19-254515-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Illustrated Dracula
by Bram Stoker, Jae Lee

ISBN 0142005150 (0-14-200515-0)
Softcover, Studio

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In 1897, Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, launching a literary sensation. In this new illustrated edition, Jae Lee, one of the most talked-about artists for Marvel comics, reawakens

Count Dracula. Critics and fans alike praise Lee for his mastery of complex emotion and, in this book, forty illustrations present Dracula as never seen before. Jae Lees legions of fans will flock to this horror classic, and The Illustrated Dracula will also bring a new generation of young readers to the book.

@BleedingGums A damsel is bleeding from her ears and eyes! Shes afraid of the sun! Like a ginger!

We must sort this out. She may be a vampire, but I cant tell the father. He wonders if her lady times are just out of control.

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Les Miserables
by Norman Denny, Victor Hugo

ISBN 0140444300 (0-14-044430-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601

Victor Hugos tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Misérables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830.

Norman Dennys introduction to his lively English translation discusses Hugos political and artistic aims in writing Les Misérables.

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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott, Kevin McIntyre

ISBN 0020412401 (0-02-041240-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping, their souls into their father's; and to both parents ... they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

Pretty Meg, tomboy Jo, shy Beth, and vain Amy, the four March sisters, are as different as sisters can be, but more devoted and loyal sisters you'll never find. For though the March girls fight, tease, nag, and scold as all sisters do, they do so with the knowledge that nothing is as precious as a sister's love. Discover the magic of family in the first part of this classic novel cherished by young girls everywhere.
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert

ISBN 006095695X (0-06-095695-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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Translated, with an Introduction, by Francis Steegmuller [via]
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens, Philip Horne

ISBN 0140435220 (0-14-043522-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable charactersthe arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen
by Jane Austen, R.W. Chapman

ISBN 0192547011 (0-19-254701-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma.
Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage. [via]
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Penguin Complete Novels of Jane Austen
by Jane Austen

ISBN 0140090029 (0-14-009002-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books

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Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde, Robert Mighall

ISBN 0141439572 (0-14-143957-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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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Picture of Dorian Gray
by College Entrance Examination Board

ISBN 0140006168 (0-14-000616-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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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The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James

ISBN 3895084549 (3-89508-454-9)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft

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"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. [via]
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The Professor
by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 1934169439 (1-934169-43-9)
Softcover, Norilana Books

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The Professor (1857) was Charlotte Brontë's first and least regarded novel, rejected by all publishers during her lifetime and published posthumously by her widower A. B. Nicholls.
Charlotte herself defended the novel passionately. "I said to myself that my hero should work his way through life as I had seen real living men work theirs -- that he should never get a shilling he had not earned."
Indeed, William Crimsworth, the hero, is the self-made master of all his life's ambiguous fortune, including his career as a professor in Brussels, and his true love. Whatever the comparisons to Charlotte Brontë's other, more popular novels, The Professor deserves a closer examination and a new reader perspective. [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 3895080799 (3-89508-079-9)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft

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Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a "chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, "Jekyll And Hyde" is a brilliantly original study of man's dual nature -- as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror. Published in 1866, "Jekyll And Hyde" was an instant success and brought Stevenson his first taste of fame. Though sometimes dismissed as a mere mystery story, the book has evoked much literary admirations. Vladimir Nabokov likened it to "Madame Bovary" and "Dead Souls" as "a fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction." [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy, Tom Dolin

ISBN 0141439599 (0-14-143959-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In a novel full of poetry and mysterious settings, Hardy unfolds the story of his beautiful, suffering Tess with unforgettable tenderness and intensity. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Tom Dolin

ISBN 014043514X (0-14-043514-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. [via]
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Time Machine
by H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Steven Maclean, Marina Warner

ISBN 0141439971 (0-14-143997-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Very Interesting Book [via]
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The Warden
by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

ISBN 0192510053 (0-19-251005-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press

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The Warden
by Robin Gilmour, Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0140432140 (0-14-043214-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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new copy--mint--trade paperback--ships quick--eao39 [via]
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The Works of Jane Austen
by Jane Austin

ISBN 0192547062 (0-19-254706-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Alicia a traves del espejo/ Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 8420636258 (84-206-3625-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Segunda parte de «Alicia en el Pais de las Maravillas» (BT 8003), A TRAVeS DEL ESPEJO Y LO QUE ALICIA ENCONTRo AL OTRO LADO, relato planteado como una partida de ajedrez en la que Alicia, de peon, se convierte en reina±, lleva hasta sus ultimas posibilidades los juegos de palabras, las parodias cultas y los recursos literarios que LEWIS CARROLL utilizara ya en su antecesora. El presente volumen recoge un episodio adicional que se considero perdido hasta 1974 y constituye, por lo tanto, la primera edicion completa de esta obra en el ambito castellano. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde/ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Louis Stevenson

ISBN 9706665749 (970-666-574-9)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Tomo

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El Extrano caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr.Hyde/The strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 9685142963 (968-5142-96-3)
Hardcover, Uribe Y Ferrari Editores Sa De Cv

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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekill And Mrs Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 9583007668 (958-30-0766-8)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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