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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0804115710 (0-8041-1571-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0804900973 (0-8049-0097-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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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 TwainISBN 080490006X (0-8049-0006-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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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:
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lesley Sims, Lewis Carroll, Mauro EvangelistaISBN 0794512399 (0-7945-1239-9)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Beloved classic describes a little girl's adventures in a topsy-turvy land underground and her encounters with such improbable characters as the White Rabbit, March Hare and Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse, grinning Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, and the dreadful Queen of Hearts. Includes all 42 of Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 0804900957 (0-8049-0095-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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Around the World in 80 Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0804900248 (0-8049-0024-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Around The World In Eighty Daysby Jane Bingham, Adam StowerISBN 079450826X (0-7945-0826-X)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules Verne, Jane Bingham, Adam StowerISBN 0794507417 (0-7945-0741-7)
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The Black Arrowby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0804900205 (0-8049-0020-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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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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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyreby Harold BloomISBN 0791040925 (0-7910-4092-5)
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Christmas Tales from Charles Dickensby Charles DickensISBN 0785802053 (0-7858-0205-3)
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Confidence Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 080490121X (0-8049-0121-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Lucy M. FitzpatrickISBN 0804900299 (0-8049-0029-9)
Softcover, Airmont Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0785795227 (0-7857-9522-7)
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The Damnation of Theron Ware; Or, Illuminationby Harold Frederic, Charlyne Dodge, Stanton GarnerISBN 0803219679 (0-8032-1967-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa Cather, John J. Murphy, Charles W. MignonISBN 0803214294 (0-8032-1429-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Comes for the Archbishop'Book summary:Death Comes for the Archbishop sprang from Willa Cathers love for the land and cultures of the American Southwest. Published in 1927 to both praise and perplexity, it has since claimed for itself a major place in twentieth-century literature.When Cather first visited the American Southwest in 1912, she found a new world to imagine and soon came to feel that "the story of the Catholic Church in [the Southwest] was the most interesting of all its stories." The narrative follows Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, friends since their childhood in France, as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of Santa Fe subsequent to the Mexican War. While seeking to revive the church and build a cathedral in the desert, the clerics, like their historical prototypes, Bishop Jean Lamy and Father Joseph Machebeuf, face religious corruption, natural adversity, and the loneliness of living in a strange and unforgiving land.The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition presents groundbreaking research, establishing a new text that reflects Cathers long and deep involvement with her story. The historical essay traces the artistic and spiritual development that led to its writing. The broad-ranging explanatory notes illuminate the elements of French, Mexican, Hispanic, and Native American cultures that meet in the course of the narrative; they also explain the part played by the land and its peopletheir history, religion, art, and languages. The textual essay and apparatus reveal Cathers creative process and enable the reader to follow the complex history of the text.[via]More editions of Death Comes for the Archbishop:
Democracy: An American Novelby Henry AdamsISBN 0804901643 (0-8049-0164-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0785814531 (0-7858-1453-1)
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Find This BookBook summary:The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide, filmmaker D.W. Griffith and modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg.[via]
Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, and rarely missed transporting the reader to his own supernatural realm. He has also been hailed posthumously as one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century.
In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia and Ms. In a Bottle. His complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are here also, including The Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, Tamerlane, as well as select reviews and narratives.More editions of Edgar Allan Poe:
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Edgar Allen Poeby Edgar Allen PoeISBN 0785813500 (0-7858-1350-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edgar Allen Poe'Book summary:This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and Murders in the Rue Morgue. [via]
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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skatesby Mary Mapes DodgeISBN 080490099X (0-8049-0099-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian AndersenISBN 0804901694 (0-8049-0169-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0804901120 (0-8049-0112-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Hedda Gablerby Henrik Ibsen, Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey, Susan Faludi, Jon Robin BaitzISBN 0802138063 (0-8021-3806-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hedda Gabler'Book summary:In 1890, Henrik Ibsen premiered Hedda Gabler, a play questioning the role of women in Victorian society. Some audiences have viewed Gabler as a woman driven to desperation simply because her world has turned out to be less charmed than she hoped. For others, she is a victim of her times, unwilling to devote herself, as was expected of her, to the duties of home. Jon Robin Baitz has brushed away the cobwebs, and he serves as an ambassador from Ibsen's age to our own, preserving the intensity of the original but translating it into a spare, contemporary idiom. His adaptation provides an opportunity to understand the play through a lens shaped by feminism and a theatrical tradition beginning with Beckett. Trapped by the conventions of her age, Gabler is both a martyr and a female incarnation of Vladimir and Estragon, longing for a salvation that will likely never arrive.[via]More editions of Hedda Gabler:
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Henry James's the Portrait of a Ladyby Harold BloomISBN 0791045145 (0-7910-4514-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry James's the Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:In his introduction Harold Bloom calls Henry James "an endlessly fecund novelist and short-story writer." He goes on to suggest that character-portraiture was one of his superb skills. This superb collection of essays touches on topics such as character delineation in the novel, narrative method, imagery, diction, and method. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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Herman Melville's Moby-Dickby Harold BloomISBN 0791040674 (0-7910-4067-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herman Melville's Moby-Dick'Book summary:In his introduction Harold Bloom suggests that the tragic protagonist of Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab, has only a few peers among American literary characters--though none wholly of his eminence. This text includes a brief biography of Melville, thematic and structural analysis of the work, and numerous essays by the best critics of the novel.
This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundlingby Henry FieldingISBN 080490135X (0-8049-0135-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling'Book summary:Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0804900167 (0-8049-0016-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive old Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living, while musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation - or its downfall. [via]
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor HugoISBN 0804901627 (0-8049-0162-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:Timed to coincide with the release of Disney's film adaptation coming in June, a classic novel with its original translation comes to life as Quasimodo saves Esmeralda once again, in an edition highlighted by artwork from the animated feature. [via]
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The Invisible Manby H. G. Wells, Leon StoverISBN 0786404108 (0-7864-0410-8)
Hardcover, McFarland & Co Inc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:Kindle edition of Wells' classic novel. The story tells the tale of Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. This edition includes an active table of contents. [via]
Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0783880391 (0-7838-8039-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0791094375 (0-7910-9437-5)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Anna Claybourne, Bob HarveyISBN 0794506585 (0-7945-0658-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Charlotte Brontë's first novel, published in 1847, was a bestseller in its day and remains popular today. Jane is a plain, impoverished orphan who becomes governess to the ward of Mr. Rochester, the Byronic and enigmatic employer with whom she falls in love. This quintessential coming-of-age story is a stirring and satisfying tale that still has resonance for young women who are struggling to find the balance between romantic love and personal freedom. [via]
Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Safaya SalterISBN 0805004394 (0-8050-0439-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0785407200 (0-7854-0720-0)
Softcover, Pearson Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:SOFTBOUND - GLUED BINDING [via]
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The Last Manby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Hugh J. LukeISBN 080329350X (0-8032-9350-X)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Man'Book summary:The Last Man ends in 2100, "the last year of the world." A devastating plague has wiped out humanity, except for one man. This novel of horror, originally published in 1826, was rejected in its time and out of print from 1833 to 1963, when the first Bison Books edition appeared. Some critics now rate The Last Man more highly than Frankenstein, by the same author. This Bison Books edition offers a new introduction by Anne K. Mellor, who writes, "In our era of AIDS and biological warfare, Shelley's apocalyptic vision of an incurable plague that gradually destroys the entire human species resonates with mythic power."[via] 
The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0804900051 (0-8049-0005-1)
Softcover, Alex m Yudkin Assoc
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Lilithby George MacDonaldISBN 0802860613 (0-8028-6061-3)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lilith'Book summary:"Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe," the great 20th-century poet W.H. Auden said of this novel, but the comparison only begins to touch on the richness, density, and wonder of this late 19th-century adult fantasy novel. First published in 1895 (inhabiting a universe with the early Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde--not to mention Thomas Hardy), this is the story of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him.
Meeting up with one mystery after another, including Adam and Eve themselves, he slowly but surely explores the mystery of the human fall from grace, and of our redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the reader and Mr. Vane both sense that MacDonald writes from his own deep experience of radiance, from a bliss so profound that death's darkness itself is utterly eclipsed in its light. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Little Menby Louisa May Alcott, Ann M. Magagna, Louis JambourISBN 0804901945 (0-8049-0194-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 078625842X (0-7862-5842-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:This retelling of the well-known classic is both charming and accessible to younger readers. "I do sometimes pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like a proper one." When wealthy Sara Crewe first arrives at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, she is treated like a princess. But when Sara descends into poverty and is forced to work as a lowly servant, she needs all her courage and imagination to remain a princess at heart. This Young Classics edition explores the real world behind A Little Princess. Photography sets the scene without intruding on the story, and brings A Little Princess to life for a new generation of children. [via]
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A Little Princessby Susanna Davidson, Kate AldousISBN 0794511236 (0-7945-1123-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Rich little Sara Crewe loves to imagine things. At her English boarding school, surrounded by luxury, she sees herself as a princess. But then disaster strikes as Sara is forced to work as a servant. Only her imagination can make life bearable, until something truly incredible happens. Ages 5+. [via]
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0804901317 (0-8049-0131-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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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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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 080490104X (0-8049-0104-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Marquise of O--, and Other Storiesby Heinrich Von KleistISBN 0804463654 (0-8044-6365-4)
Softcover, Ungar
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The Master of Ballantraeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0804900477 (0-8049-0047-7)
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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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Medieval Structure: The Gothic Vaultby James H. AclandISBN 0802018866 (0-8020-1886-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Alex NinoISBN 0791091066 (0-7910-9106-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman MelvilleISBN 0785788867 (0-7857-8886-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick Or, the Whale'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Ninety-Threeby Victor Hugo, Frank Lee BenedictISBN 0786705906 (0-7867-0590-6)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 3by Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 078581325X (0-7858-1325-X)
Hardcover, Book Sales, Incorporated
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Original Illustrated Strand Sherlockby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0792454154 (0-7924-5415-4)
Hardcover, World Pubns
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Persuasion: Theory and Researchby Daniel J. O'KeefeISBN 0803933681 (0-8039-3368-1)
Hardcover, Sage Pubns
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Pride and Prejudiceby Harold BloomISBN 0791081699 (0-7910-8169-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0804900019 (0-8049-0001-9)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark TwainISBN 0804900329 (0-8049-0032-9)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark TwainISBN 0804901244 (0-8049-0124-4)
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Quentin Durwardby Walter ScottISBN 0804901325 (0-8049-0132-5)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0804900221 (0-8049-0022-1)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:Recreations of two of the world's most unforgettable and enthralling adventure stories: one about storm and shipwreck, pirates and mutiny, the other a tale of a fantastical underwater world of mythical monsters and a mysterious sea captain. The action-packed storylines retain all the impact of the authors' own words; photos and narrative illustrations help readers to absorb the full flavor of the original novels. Fact-filled boxes examine the books' themes, characters, and each author's life and times. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea includes a map of the journey and explores marine life and oceanography in Jules Verne's time. A specially researched map of Crusoe's exotic island gives facts on its flora and fauna. [via]
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Rose in Bloomby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0786272945 (0-7862-7294-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0804900582 (0-8049-0058-2)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories With Illustrations from the Strand Magazineby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 078819173X (0-7881-9173-X)
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The Sleeper Awakesby H. G. Wells, J. Gregory KeyesISBN 0803298188 (0-8032-9818-8)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan Poe, Tony Allan, Barry Jones, Anthony MarksISBN 0794501869 (0-7945-0186-9)
Softcover, Usborne Pub Ltd
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The Torrents of Springby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Ivy Litvinov, Tatiana LitvinovISBN 0802115942 (0-8021-1594-2)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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This is a story of love, found and lost, narrated beautifully by Ivan Turgenev. Partially autobiographical, the novel is about Dimitry Sanin who falls in love with a girl. As the story depicts author's own emotional turmoil, the characters stand out for their authenticity. Poignant!
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Brook, Ian McNeeISBN 0794512305 (0-7945-1230-5)
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Treasure Islandby Angela Wilkes, Sam Taplin, Peter DennisISBN 0794504116 (0-7945-0411-6)
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0804901554 (0-8049-0155-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she suspects that the previous governess and her lover are controlling the two orphaned children (a girl and a boy) for some evil purpose. The household staff don't know what she's talking about, the children are evasive when questioned, and the master of the house (the children's uncle) is absent. Why does the young girl claim not to see a perfectly visible woman standing on the far side of the lake? Are the children being deceptive, or is the governess being paranoid? By leaving the questions unanswered, The Turn of Screw generates spine-tingling anxiety in its mesmerized readers. [via]
Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0804901384 (0-8049-0138-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:This is Thackeray's rich and gloriously chaotic sketch of English society during the Napoleonic wars. At the centre of this picture is the scheming and disreputable Becky Sharp, one of Thackeray's greatest creations. The style here is fast-paced and comic, but the character of Dobbin and his unrequited love for Amelia bring depth and pathos to the novel. Dobbin, the unheroic hero, is Thackeray's realistic answer to the hero-worship of high romanticism. The novel stands as a landmark in the development of European Realism. [via]
The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitantsby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat AvseyISBN 0801420512 (0-8014-2051-2)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants: From the Notes of an Unknownby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0801494575 (0-8014-9457-5)
Softcover, Cornell University Press
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A Voyage To Arcturusby David LindsayISBN 0803280041 (0-8032-8004-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Voyage To Arcturus'Book summary:A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into the metaphysical heart of the universe, and a shockingly intimate excursion into what makes us human and unique.After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. As he journeys northward, guided by a drumbeat, he encounters a world and its inhabitants like no other, where gender is a victory won at dear cost; where landscape and emotion are drawn into an accursed dance; where heroes are killed, reborn, and renamed; and where the cosmological lures of Shaping, who may be God, torment Maskull in his astonishing pilgrimage. At the end of his arduous and increasingly mystical quest waits a dark secret and an unforgettable revelation.A Voyage to Arcturus was the first novel by writer David Lindsay (18781945), and it remains one of the most revered classics of science fiction. This commemorative edition features an introduction by noted scholar and writer of speculative fiction John Clute and a famous essay by Loren Eiseley.[via]More editions of A Voyage To Arcturus:
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Leon E. StoverISBN 0786407808 (0-7864-0780-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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When the Sleeper Wakesby H. G. Wells, Leon E. StoverISBN 0786406666 (0-7864-0666-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When the Sleeper Wakes'Book summary:Critics rightly view When the Sleeper Wakes as a prototype of the anti-utopian novel, a genre developed by Zamyatin, Huxley, and Orwell into nightmare futures associated with the totalitarian age and the moral horrors of fascism and communism. Suppose, however, that Wells actually intended to present a more positive depiction of political authority misused for ideological ends, a dream rather than a nightmare. This is the possibility explored in the apparatus to the present edition. Annotated by the world's leading Wellsian scholar, in Sleeper is found a greater measure of artistry and characterization than is usually accorded to it. As a complex work combining technological with social speculation, Sleeper is unmatched for canniness in the history of futuristic literature. Indeed, its aeronautical details influenced the Wright Brothers in the design of their flyer, and the novel predicts the promotion of airplanes as a weapon, a prophecy dramatically fulfilled in the twentieth century. This exhaustive critical edition follows other influential titles in the series and features a lengthy introduction, appendices, bibliography and index, and a frontispiece taken from the original 1899 edition. [via]
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