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Charles Dickens' Christmas Tales

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0517474689 (0-517-47468-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Christmas Stories

by Charles Dickens, Ruth Glancy

ISBN 0460877127 (0-460-87712-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel. [via]

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ISBN 9780192817907 (0-19-281790-6, 0192817906)

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Christmas Books

by Charles Dickens, Ruth Glancy

ISBN 0192817906 (0-19-281790-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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These five short novels, written for Christmas 1843 to 1848, demonstrate Dickens' most characteristic writing. The volume includes A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Haunted Man, The Cricket on the Hearth, and The Battle of Life. [via]

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Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens : A Cricket on the Hearth, a Christmas Carol, the Chimes and Other Tales

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0517180871 (0-517-18087-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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ISBN 9780831712969 (0-8317-1296-1, 0831712961)

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Christmas Tales

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0831712961 (0-8317-1296-1)
Hardcover, Gallery Books

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ISBN 9780785802051 (0-7858-0205-3, 0785802053)

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Christmas Tales from Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0785802053 (0-7858-0205-3)
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Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

by John Tenniel

ISBN 0831715510 (0-8317-1551-0)
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ISBN 9780517385661 (0-517-38566-X, 051738566X)

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Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll

by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Edward Guiliano

ISBN 051738566X (0-517-38566-X)
Hardcover, Avenel Books

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Complete Illustrated Works Of Lewis Carroll ASIN: 051738566X [via]

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Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll

by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517371553 (0-517-37155-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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ISBN 9780316184137 (0-316-18413-6, 0316184136)

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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

ISBN 0316184136 (0-316-18413-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed."

The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent:

My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets. [via]

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ISBN 9780394716619 (0-394-71661-2, 0394716612)

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Complete Works

by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Alexander Woollcott

ISBN 0394716612 (0-394-71661-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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This is a carefully edited text of the writer's chief work and selections from his lesser writings and letters without which it would be impossible to form a picture of his life's work and genius. [via]

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Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

by John Tenniel

ISBN 0370005074 (0-370-00507-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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ISBN 9780394604855 (0-394-60485-7, 0394604857)

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The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

ISBN 0394604857 (0-394-60485-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books

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This is a carefully edited text of the writer's chief work and selections from his lesser writings and letters without which it would be impossible to form a picture of his life's work and genius. [via]

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ISBN 9780156028776 (0-15-602877-8, 0156028778)

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The Crimson Petal and the White

by Michel Faber

ISBN 0156028778 (0-15-602877-8)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Although it's billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century," The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It's the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men. Michel Faber's dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favour, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself.

When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar's life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor's wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber's emphasis on class and sexual politics.

In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber's own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages, The Crimson Petal and the White turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down. --Regina Marler, Amazon.com [via]

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ISBN 9780192837028 (0-19-283702-8, 0192837028)

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Germinal

by Emile Zola, Peter Collier, Robert Lethbridge

ISBN 0192837028 (0-19-283702-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted "Germinal! Germinal!"
While it is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, Germinal is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigor and power in this new translation. It is also the thirteenth book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, which celebrates its centenary in October 1993 with a new film version of Germinal starring Gerard Depardieu. [via]

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ISBN 9780486422268 (0-486-42226-7, 0486422267)

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Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 0486422267 (0-486-42226-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Best known for the novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jos Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jos Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo remains at the center of the tale, surrounded by her boysincluding rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician Natas they experience shipwreck and storm, disappointment and even murder.

Popular for over a century, Alcotts series still holds universal appeal with its powerful and affectionate depiction of familythe haven where the prodigal can always return, adversity is shared, and our dreams of being cherished, despite our flaws, come true. In this edition of Jos Boys, readers once again experience a treasured classic by one of Americas best-loved writers. [via]

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ISBN 9780316031035 (0-316-03103-8, 0316031038)

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Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out

by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 0316031038 (0-316-03103-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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Better known for her novels "Little Women" and "Little Men," Louisa May Alcott continued the story of her feisty protagonist Jo in this final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family. Entertaining, surprising, and overall a joy to read, "Jo's Boys" is nevertheless shaded by a bittersweet tone, for with it Alcott brought her wonderful series to an end.

Beginning ten years after "Little Men," "Jo's Boys" revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo's boys -- including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musicain Nat -- are grown; Jo herself remains at the center of this tale, holding her boys fast through shipwreck and storm, disappointment... and even murder.

Popular for more than a century, the series that began with "Little Women" continues to hold universal appeal with its powerful and affectionate depiction of family -- the safe haven where the prodigal can always return, adversity is never met alone, and our dreams of being cherished, no matter what our flaws, come true. With this new edition of "Jo's Boys," readers once again have access to a treasured classic by one of America's best-loved writers. [via]

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ISBN 9780375757259 (0-375-75725-2, 0375757252)

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Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Barry Menikoff

ISBN 0375757252 (0-375-75725-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Stevenson's famous novel of seafaring adventure, with an introduction by TK

Shipwreck. Murder. Flight. Intrigue. And, of course, kidnapping. David Balfour's adventures on the high seas are among the most evocative in classic literature.

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The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper, John P. McWilliams

ISBN 019283505X (0-19-283505-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian war to vivid life. Featuring the classic character Natty Bumppo, it is a moving, memorable depiction of courage, passion, and forbearance, and a precursor to the Western genre. [via]

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ISBN 9780679847069 (0-679-84706-5, 0679847065)

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The Last of the Mohicans

by Les Martin, James Fenimore Cooper, Shanno Stirnweis

ISBN 0679847065 (0-679-84706-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Illus. in black-and-white. This action-packed edition of James Fenimore Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French and Indian War to vivid life. [via]

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ISBN 9780764170485 (0-7641-7048-1, 0764170481)

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The Last of the Mohicans/ Book With Kit

by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 0764170481 (0-7641-7048-1)
Hardcover, Barrons Juveniles

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The Last of the Mohicans/ Book With Kit (Living Classics Series) [via]

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ISBN 9780517147818 (0-517-14781-5, 0517147815)

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Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snark

by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0517147815 (0-517-14781-5)
Hardcover, Grammercy

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This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.

Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.

Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection. [via]

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ISBN 9780671009489 (0-671-00948-6, 0671009486)

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Monarch Notes on Zola's Germinal

by Carolyn Welch

ISBN 0671009486 (0-671-00948-6)
Hardcover, Peterson's

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ISBN 9780679735908 (0-679-73590-9, 0679735909)

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Possession

by A. S. Byatt

ISBN 0679735909 (0-679-73590-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". [via]

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ISBN 9780783885001 (0-7838-8500-8, 0783885008)

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Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester

ISBN 0783885008 (0-7838-8500-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, 70 years in the making, was an intellectually heroic feat with a twist worthy of the greatest mystery fiction: one of its most valuable contributors was a criminally insane American physician, locked up in an English asylum for murder. British stage actor Simon Jones leads us through this uncommon meeting of minds (the other belonging to self-educated dictionary editor James Murray) at full gallop. Ultimately, it's hard to say which is more remarkable: the facts of this amazingly well-researched story, or the sound of author Simon Winchester's erudite prose. Jones's reading smoothly transports listeners to the 19th century, reminding us why so many brilliant people obsessively set out to catalogue the English language. This unabridged version contains an interview between Winchester and John Simpson, editor of the Oxford dictionary. (Running time: 6.5 hours, 6 cassettes) --Lou Schuler [via]

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Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert, Douglas Parmee

ISBN 0192836226 (0-19-283622-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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ISBN 9780395980774 (0-395-98077-1, 0395980771)

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Walden And Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau, Paul Lauter

ISBN 0395980771 (0-395-98077-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musingsas well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil libertyhave inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.

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Walden and Resistance to Civil Government

by Henry David Thoreau, Owen Thomas, William Rossi

ISBN 0393959058 (0-393-95905-8)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

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On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a new edition of Walden, annotated by the distinguished Thoreau scholar Walter Harding and illustrated with Thoreau's own drawings. Even those who have read Walden many times will find much that is new in this edition, and those reading the book for the first time will discover why it has changed the lives of generations of readers. [via]

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ISBN 9780451527073 (0-451-52707-0, 0451527070)

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"

by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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A philosophy of life and observations on government included in these famous books. [via]

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