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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0938819003 (0-938819-00-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0895980126 (0-89598-012-6)
Softcover, Andor Pub Co - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0894718800 (0-89471-880-0)
Hardcover, Courage Books - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0895772523 (0-89577-252-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0971075603 (0-9710756-0-3)
Hardcover, Everbind Anthologies - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0938819003 (0-938819-00-3)
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0895980126 (0-89598-012-6)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Chris Sasaki, Lucy CorvinoISBN 1402712170 (1-4027-1217-0)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:(Please note that all Timeless Classic Books have been carefully formatted manually with full annotation and proper photo and/or illustration placement since our start in 2010/2011. Each cover is designed with paid or public domain artwork that is pertinent to the title. Each and ever cover is unique. None have ever been used twice.)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-92) brings together the first twelve short stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. These follow Holmes's introduction in the first two novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Martin Woodside, Lucy CorvinoISBN 1402712162 (1-4027-1216-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0895980150 (0-89598-015-0)
Softcover, Perfection Learning - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0895772175 (0-89577-217-5)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0894715410 (0-89471-541-0)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0894341278 (0-89434-127-8)
Hardcover, J.G. Ferguson Pub Co - The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 1402712162 (1-4027-1216-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0895980150 (0-89598-015-0)
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Aliceby Lewis Carroll, Lela Dowling, CHRIS WEIMANISBN 0971633835 (0-9716338-3-5)
Softcover, About Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice'Book summary:A full graphic novel adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. An adventurous girl falls into a rabbit hole and finds herself transformed to a bizarre, zany, and fun world. [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Caroll, Gwynedd M. HudsonISBN 0907785727 (0-907785-72-7)
Hardcover, Penton Overseas Inc
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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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Around the World in 80 Daysby Jules Verne, Jack Sullivan, Joseph CiardielloISBN 0895772949 (0-89577-294-9)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER,
THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN
Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byronat least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.
Phileas Fogg was a member of the Reform, and that was all.
The way in which he got admission to this exclusive club was simple enough.
He was recommended by the Barings, with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush.
Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information. He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously. He was, in short, the least communicative of men. He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.
Had he travelled? It was likely, for no one seemed to know the world more familiarly; there was no spot so secluded that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance with it. He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard-of travellers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions. He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else. His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 1400307511 (1-4003-0751-1)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Best Loved ClassicsISBN 0895772884 (0-89577-288-4)
Softcover, Reader's Digest Association
Find This BookBook summary:Box set contains 10 paperback books as follows: [1] The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain -- [2] Oliver Twist / by Charles Dickens -- [3] Little women / by Louisa May Alcott -- [4] Treasure Island / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- [5] The red badge of courage / by Stephen Crane -- [6] The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain -- [7] The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- [8] David Copperfield / by Charles Dickens -- [9] The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe / by Daniel Defoe -- [10] Jane Eyre / by Charlotte Bronte?. [via]
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The Black Arrowby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0893757810 (0-89375-781-0)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Arrow'Book summary:The Black Arrow is a book written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Black Arrow is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Robert Louis Stevenson is highly recommended. Published by Quill Pen Classics and beautifully produced, The Black Arrow would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0931334667 (0-931334-66-7)
Softcover, Edcon Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captains Courageous'Book summary:"Captains Courageous" is the story of Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of a millionaire, who while aboard a luxury liner falls overboard. When Harvey is rescued by a passing fishing schooner Harvey asks the captain to return him to port. The captain refuses Harvey's request and instead puts him to work as a member of the crew. Captains Courageous is the story of an arrogant young man, who through hard work learns the value of a job well done, and the honor, bravery and loyalty among men. Kipling's tale is an exciting sea adventure with an important moral lesson. [via]
The Classic Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Talesby Sheila Black, H.C. AndersenISBN 0894719815 (0-89471-981-5)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The Complete Short Storiesby Mark TwainISBN 0899682723 (0-89968-272-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Joseph CiardielloISBN 0895771853 (0-89577-185-3)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:Twain, Mark "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" in the revolutionary Bed Book Landscape Reading Format - a new approach to reading in bed as well as other places people enjoy reading while lying down, such as the beach, or on a grassy lawn in the park. Bed Books provide the freedom to lie in any comfortable position without being obligated to sit up in order to read. They can be an essential aid for readers who may be prone to back and neck strain when assuming the contorted body positions normally required for reading while lying down, and for those who have previously found it difficult or impossible to read books in bed, such as the elderly and the disabled. Bed Books can also be read sitting up as easily as with a conventional book. See the current Bed Book Catalog at: www.bedbooks.NET www.readinginbed.com [via]
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Constance Ringby Amalie Skram, Judith Messick, Katherine HansonISBN 0931188601 (0-931188-60-1)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0899663974 (0-89966-397-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 0896215067 (0-89621-506-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Du Cote De Chez Swannby Marcel Proust, Christina TumminelloISBN 0977716139 (0-9777161-3-9)
Softcover, Chatterley Pr Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Du Cote De Chez Swann'Book summary:L'expression roman fleuve devrait, sans connotation péjorative, désigner une Suvre qui prend le temps de charrier mille petites particules d'impression pour les infuser dans l'esprit d'un lecteur captivé. En somme, elle devrait avoir été créée pour désigner La Recherche proustienne, qui s'ouvre Du côté de chez Swann et s'achève une fois Le Temps retrouvé.
Dans le premier tome de ce superbe travail sur la mémoire et la métaphore, Suvre à part entière mais aussi amorce dramatique d'un joyau de la langue française, le narrateur s'aperçoit fortuitement, à l'occasion d'un goûter composé d'une tasse de thé et d'une madeleine désormais célèbre, que les sens ont la faculté de faire ressurgir le souvenir. Grâce aux senteurs d'un buisson d'aubépines, il prend confusément conscience de la distinction entre le souvenir et la réminiscence, pour ensuite s'exercer à manier les mots comme de petits papiers japonais qui, touchés par la grâce de l'eau, se déploient en corolle pour faire place à tout un univers. Tout comme se déploie un roman fleuve à partir de cette toute petite phrase légendaire : "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure". --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Grass on the Waysideby Soseki Natsume, Edwin McClellanISBN 0939512459 (0-939512-45-9)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Center for
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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skatesby Mary Mapes DodgeISBN 0893757098 (0-89375-709-8)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates'Book summary:The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Conduct of life; Brothers and sisters; Skating races; Netherlands; Juvenile Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Boys [via]
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The History of Henry Esmondby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0898759331 (0-89875-933-1)
Softcover, Univ Pr of the Pacific
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0895772191 (0-89577-219-1)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary: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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The Idiotby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0899666272 (0-89966-627-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idiot'Book summary:An introduction by Agnes Cardinal, Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot. [via]
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The Invisible Manby Robert WanlessISBN 097372823X (0-9737282-3-X)
Softcover, Coscom Entertainment
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0893757799 (0-89375-779-9)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Journey to the Orientby Gerard De NervalISBN 0918825091 (0-918825-09-1)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0895310708 (0-89531-070-8)
Softcover, Sharon Pubns
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank GodwinISBN 0895772329 (0-89577-232-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0895773430 (0-89577-343-0)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The King in Yellowby Robert William ChambersISBN 0971830509 (0-9718305-0-9)
Softcover, Sattre Pr
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LA Bas/Lower Depthsby J.K. HuysmansISBN 0946626197 (0-946626-19-7)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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Last Days of Pompeiiby E.G. Bulwer-LyttonISBN 0899663095 (0-89966-309-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0895771993 (0-89577-199-3)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn
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Little Menby Louisa May Alcott, Ann M. Magagna, Louis JambourISBN 0899664091 (0-89966-409-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0899662447 (0-89966-244-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideasby Walter PaterISBN 0948166029 (0-948166-02-9)
Softcover, Soho Book Company
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Mark Twainby Mark TwainISBN 0940450070 (0-940450-07-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mark Twain'Book summary:Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain's works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation's life: the place where civilization's comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain's youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in "Tom Sawyer"--"simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air," said Twain--and the richly anecdotal memoir of his days as a riverboat pilot in "Life on the Mississippi" give way to the realism and often dark comedy of "Huckleberry Finn" and the troubled exploration of slavery in his mystery, "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Together, these four books trace the central trajectory of his life and career, and they can be read as a single masterpiece. [via]
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The Master of Ballantraeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0895776294 (0-89577-629-4)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master of Ballantrae'Book summary:Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English crown, to inherit the title of Lord Durrisdeer. But he is to return years later, embittered by battles and a savage life of piracy on the high seas, to demand his inheritance. Turning the people against the Lord, he begins a savage feud with his brother that will lead the pair from the Scottish Highlands to the American Wilderness. Satanic and seductive, the Master was regarded by Stevenson as 'all I know of the devil'; his darkly manipulative schemes dominate this subtle and compelling tragedy.This edition takes as its text the Edinburgh Edition of the novel, the last approved by the author. The introduction considers the novel's inspiration and its place as one of Stevenson's greatest studies in cruelty. [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0971203709 (0-9712037-0-9)
Softcover, Spinner Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for many years after the whale bit off his leg, the crazed Captain Ahab is obsessed with his quarry. Together with his extraordinary crew, Ahab braves the oceans of the world to hunt the fearsome Moby Dick. Geraldine McCaughrean is one of the most distinguished living children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award (twice), and The Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Geraldine's most recent best-selling novel "The Kite Rider" was published to universal acclaim in March 2001. [via]
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The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles Dickens, Peter Ackroyd, Luke Fildes, Charles CollinsISBN 140004328X (1-4000-4328-X)
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Charles Dickenss final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, The Mystery of Edwin Drood foreshadows both the detective stories of Conan Doyle and the nightmarish novels of Kafka.
As in many of Dickenss greatest novels, the gulf between appearance and reality drives the action. Set in the seemingly innocuous cathedral town of Cloisterham, the story rapidly darkens with a sense of impending evil. Central to the plot is John Jasper: in public he is a man of integrity and benevolence; in private he is an opium addict. And while seeming to smile on the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, he is, in fact, consumed by jealousy, driven to terrify the boys fiancée and to plot the murder of Edwin himself. Though The Mystery of Edwin Drood is one of its authors darkest books, it also bustles with a vast roster of memorableand delightfully namedminor characters: Mrs. Billikins, the landlady; the foolish Mr. Sapsea; the domineering philanthropist, Mr. Honeythunder; and the mysterious Datchery. Several attempts have been made over the years to complete the novel and solve the mystery, but even in its unfinished state it is a gripping and haunting masterpiece. [via]More editions of The Mystery of Edwin Drood:
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Nanaby Emile Zola, Christina TumminelloISBN 0971336350 (0-9713363-5-0)
Softcover, Chatterley Pr Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nana'Book summary:From "La Collection Francaise" of Chatterley Press International, this classic French novel, shaped in the tradition of the legendary "Gallimard," is now made available in the United States. [via]
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Niels Lyhneby Jens Pater Jacobsen, Tiina NunnallyISBN 0940242656 (0-940242-65-6)
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Niels Lyhneby Tiina Nunnally, Jens Pater JacobsenISBN 094024229X (0-940242-29-X)
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Northhanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0899665349 (0-89966-534-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Notes from the Underground & the Doubleby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0939495155 (0-939495-15-5)
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Novels: The House of Mirth; The Reef; The Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, R. W. B. LewisISBN 0940450313 (0-940450-31-3)
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Pair of Blue Eyesby Thomas HardyISBN 0907746063 (0-907746-06-3)
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0899665381 (0-89966-538-1)
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The Possessedby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0899666280 (0-89966-628-0)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0895771985 (0-89577-198-5)
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark TwainISBN 0895772957 (0-89577-295-7)
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Readers Digest Best Loved Book for Young Readers: The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0945260261 (0-945260-26-1)
Hardcover, Choice Pub
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Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readersby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0945260237 (0-945260-23-7)
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Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: The Adventures of Tom Swayerby Mark TwainISBN 0945260199 (0-945260-19-9)
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Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 094526027X (0-945260-27-X)
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farmby Kate Douglas WigginISBN 0899670288 (0-89967-028-8)
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Robinson CrusoeISBN 0907785743 (0-907785-74-3)
Hardcover, Sai Publications
Find This BookBook summary:Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure. And find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for thirty-five years. After scavenging his broken ship for useful items, he had only his skills and ingenuity to keep him alive as there was to be no one else on the island for the next twenty-four years. In the middle of that twenty-fourth year he rescued a native about to be eaten by cannibals who were using his island for a place of feasting. Crusoe named this man Friday, after the day of his rescue. Friday became his faithful servant and friend, even returning with him to England after their deliverance by an English ship. Listeners will enjoy Crusoe's determination for survival against all odds and admire the spirituality that gave him the strength to survive. A hero through the ages, he richly deserves the admiration that has endured over three centuries. [via]
Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0939495899 (0-939495-89-9)
Hardcover, North Books
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The Sherlock Holmes Reference Libraryby Leslie S. KlingerISBN 0938501267 (0-938501-26-7)
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 0915864231 (0-915864-23-1)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Storiesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0895773848 (0-89577-384-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories'Book summary: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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Things Seenby Victor HugoISBN 0898756057 (0-89875-605-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of the Pacific
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Three Men in a Boatby Benny Green, Christopher Matthew, Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0907516084 (0-907516-08-4)
Hardcover, Pavilion
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0907785735 (0-907785-73-5)
Hardcover, Sai Publications
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The Unabridged Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Lawrence TeacherISBN 0914294547 (0-914294-54-7)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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The Unknown Masterpieceby Honore De Balzac, Richard Howard, Arthur C. DantoISBN 0940322749 (0-940322-74-9)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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The Village of Stepanchikovoby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0946162069 (0-946162-06-9)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Nicholas Grabowsky, Sean SimmansISBN 0973728213 (0-9737282-1-3)
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Wife or Spinsterby Charles G. Waugh, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Isabelle D. WaughISBN 0899093388 (0-89909-338-8)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 091406116X (0-914061-16-X)
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