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Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell, Hough, Charlotte (Woodyatt)

ISBN 0140366849 (0-14-036684-9)
Softcover, Puffin

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A handsome and sweet-tempered horse, Black Beauty is strong and spirited. His mother warns him that there are bad, cruel men in the world, but Black Beauty sees none of it in his fine, happy home. Until the day when he is sold, when his life changes immeasurably and he finally sees the truth in his mother's words. As he moves from master to master, Beauty's adventures will captivate readers, and June Brigman's wonderful illustrations will capture their imaginations.

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Can You Forgive Her?
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 185326282X (1-85326-282-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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Alice Vavasour is the nominal heroine of this work. Central to the plot is her vacillation between two suitors, but this is overshadowed by the presence of the Pallisers. The book offers a clear-sighted view of the corrupt, shabby, hypocritical and sometimes noble sides of parliamentary life. [via]
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Chekhov, Five Major Plays
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley

ISBN 0195022505 (0-19-502250-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press

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Confidence Man
by Herman Melville

ISBN 0140445471 (0-14-044547-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the 'masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is 'the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most 'modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. [via]
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The D. Case
by Charles Dickens, Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini

ISBN 0156236001 (0-15-623600-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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The authors combine the text of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, literary scholarship, the detective genre, and their knowledge of Rome to produce a hilarious, offbeat satire. Translated by Gregory Dowling. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Daisy Miller and Other Stories
by Henry James

ISBN 0192835432 (0-19-283543-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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"Daisy Miller" is a fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome. First published in 1878, the novella brought American novelist Henry James(1843-1916), then living in London, his first international success. Like many of James's early works, it portrays a venturesome American girl in the treacherous waters of European society - a theme that would culminate in his 1881 masterpiece, "The Portrait of a Lady."
On the surface, "Daisy Miller" unfolds a simple story of a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. But throughout the narrative, James contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a tale rich in psychological and social insight. A vivid portrayal of Americans abroad and a telling encounter between the values of the Old and New Worlds, "Daisy Miller" is an ideal introduction to the work of one of America's greatest writers of fiction. [via]
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Dr. Thorne
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 1845882202 (1-84588-220-2)
Softcover, Nonsuch Publishing, Limited

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Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. [via]
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Effi Briest
by Theordor Fontane, Walter Schafarschik

ISBN 3150500117 (3-15-050011-7)
Hardcover, P. Reclam

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Estudio En Escarlata
by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 8497647025 (84-9764-702-5)
Softcover, Edimat Libros

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Estudio en escarlata de Doyle, Arthur Conan

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Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley

ISBN 0192834126 (0-19-283412-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative Oxford Chekhov, in Ronald Hingley's acclaimed translation. Hingley has also written an introduction specifically for this volume in which he provides a detailed history of Chekhov's involvement in the theater and an assessment of his accomplishment as a dramatist. [via]
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  Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Hero of Our Time
by Lermontov, Doris May Lessing, Hugh Aplin

ISBN 184391106X (1-84391-106-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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A Hero Of Our Time (1839) is the only novel written by one of Russia's greatest Romantic poets, Mikhail Lermontov -- considered by many to be the Russian counterpart of Lord Byron -- who died in a duel at the age of 26, leaving behind an unforgettable literary legacy.
This beloved classic has everything for the modern reader -- dangerous liaisons, elegant psychological complexity, dark passion, emotional tension, romantic duels and deception, fiery action in the Caucasus, beautiful and exotic women with flair . . .
And the sexiest Byronic anti-hero in all of Russian literature. [via]
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In a Glass Darkly
by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

ISBN 1598188356 (1-59818-835-6)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books

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Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. [via]
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- In a Glass Darkly: ISBN 185326265X (1-85326-265-X)
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Kim
by Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said

ISBN 0140183523 (0-14-018352-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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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La-Bas
by J.K. Huysmans, Keene Wallace

ISBN 1598189832 (1-59818-983-2)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books

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First published in 1891, this is the first new translation in 77 years. The enervated anti-hero, Durtal, is writing a book about Gilles de Rais, child-murderer and comrade in arms of Joan of Arc. When he's not studying alchemy, visiting Rais' ruined castle and fantasizing about a mystery woman, he is pondering Catholicism with his friends. His sexual adventures and historical studies mesh when he's invited to witness a black mass The follow-up to A Rebours, La Bas takes Huysmans' quest for the exotic and extreme sensations a stage further. [via]
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The Last Chronicle of Barset
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 1853262315 (1-85326-231-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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The Legend of She
by H. Rider Haggard

ISBN 0140052976 (0-14-005297-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.
Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." [via]
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The Long Winter
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

ISBN 0060522410 (0-06-052241-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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For the first time in the history of the Little House books, this new edition features Garth Williams interior art in vibrant, full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover.

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as Pa, Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie, and little Grace bravely face the hard winter of 1880-81 in their little house in the Dakota Territory. Blizzards cover the little town with snow, cutting off all supplies from the outside. Soon there is almost no food left, so young Almanzo Wilder and a friend make a dangerous trip across the prairie to find some wheat. Finally a joyous Christmas is celebrated in a very unusual way in this most exciting of all the Little House books.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Roden

ISBN 0192838113 (0-19-283811-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Stephen King started writing Storm of the Century as a novel, but it evolved into the teleplay of an ABC TV miniseries. Set in Maine's remote Little Tall Island, the tale is all about vivid small-town characters, feuds, infidelities, sordid secrets, kids in peril, and gory portents in scrambled letters. The calamitous snowstorm is nothing compared to the mysterious mind-reading stranger Linoge, who uses magic powers to turn people's guilt against them--when he's not simply braining them with his wolf-head-handled cane. Don't even glance at that cane--it can bring out the devil in you. Just as The Shining was concerned with marriage and alcoholism as much as it was with bad weather and worse spirits, Storm of the Century is more than a horror story. It's creepy because it's realistic.
But it's also unusually visual. Linoge's eyes ominously change color, wind and sea wreak havoc, a basketball leaves blood circles with each bounce. The 100-year storm no doubt hits harder onscreen than on the page, but the snow is a symbol of the more disturbing emotional maelstrom that words evoke perfectly. And the murders of folks we've gotten to know is entirely terrifying in print. The crisp discipline of the screenplay format makes this book better than lots of King's more sprawling novels--the end doesn't wander and the dialogue crackles. Here's the real test: It's impossible to read parts 1 and 2 and not read part 3, "The Reckoning." --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0140439269 (0-14-043926-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Dickens' marvelous tale of murder was left unfinished at his death in 1870. The novel has been all the more tantalizing for its lack of an ending to a mystifying puzzle that avid readers, over the years, have tried to solve. A gem for lovers of mysteries and the legions of Dickens fans.
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The Oxford Mark Twain
by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin

ISBN 0195090888 (0-19-509088-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium. [via]
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The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th
by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 0192123297 (0-19-212329-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Any fan of detective fiction knows that there is no substitute in all of literature for a few hours of reading pleasure at 221 B Baker Street. The tobacco in the persian slipper, the piles of monographs and newspaper clippings covering the floor and table, the unanswered correspondence affixed to the mantle with a dagger. What will the next visitor or urgent message bring? Perhaps a request from a mysterious stranger to help prevent "A Scandal in Bohemia." Perhaps Watson will tell us the story, discretely leaving out certain names, of how he and Holmes had to step outside the law to protect a certain royal personage from a blackmailer in "The Case of Charles Augustus Milverton." Or, for a very unusual treat, perhaps Holmes himself, in quiet retirement in Sussex, will tell a tale in his own words as in "The Lion's Mane."
In the more than a century since the publication of the first tale featuring Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and stories have inspired countless films, plays, pastiches, literary tributes, and tens of thousands of imitations. Now, Oxford is proud to announce The Oxford Sherlock Holmes, the complete works gathered together in nine handsomely bound, meticulously edited volumes. The books themselves are beautiful, and the entire set comes in an attractive display box, perfect for gift-giving.
Beautifully designed, boasting an introduction by a Doyle authority, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and notes, all carefully researched and assembled, this magnificent set will enhance the reading pleasure of readers new to Doyle's work and veterans of Holmsian arcana. A goldmine of reading pleasure, The Oxford Sherlock Holmes is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in crime fiction. [via]
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Pair of Blue Eyes
by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 1853262773 (1-85326-277-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy s novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic. With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely on Emma Gifford, who became Thomas Hardy s first wife. Elfride s vivacious nature attracts several lovers, but she is beset by sexual prejudice, and the ensuing ironies reveal the constraints of her times. A Pair of Blue Eyes provides an engaging and moving experience for today s readers. [via]
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Phineas Finn
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 1853262994 (1-85326-299-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. [via]
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg, Karl Miller

ISBN 0141441534 (0-14-144153-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing the stranger as Satan, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally deciding whether, for all his vividness and wit, he is more than a figment of the boy's imagination. This edition reprints the text of the unexpurgated first edition of 1824, later 'corrected' in an attempt to placate the Calvinists. [via]
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by John Carey, James Hogg

ISBN 0192553194 (0-19-255319-4)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P.

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THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS
AND CONFESSIONS
OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF

WITH A DETAIL OF CURIOUS TRADITIONARY FACTS, AND
OTHER EVIDENCE, BY THE EDITOR

By

James Hogg
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
by William Dean Howells

ISBN 3829008740 (3-8290-0874-0)
Hardcover, Konemann

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[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]

Howells' best-known work and a subtle classic of its time, The Rise of Silas Lapham is an elegant tale of Boston society and manners.

After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston in order to improve his social position, the consequences of which are both humorous and tragic.

The novel focuses on important themes in the American literary tradition--the efficacy of self-help and determination, the ambiguous benefits of social and economic progress, and the continual contradiction between urban and pastoral values--and provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age. [via]
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Rob Roy
by Walter Scott

ISBN 0140435549 (0-14-043554-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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This novel, first published in 1817, achieved a huge success and helped establish the historical novel as a literary form. In rich prose and vivid description, Rob Roy follows the adventures of a businessman's son, Frank Osbaldistone, who is sent to Scotland and finds himself drawn to the powerful, enigmatic figure of Rob Roy MacGregor, the romantic outlaw who fights for justice and dignity for the Scots. This is an incomparable portrait of the haunted Highlands and Scotland's glorious past. [via]
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- Rob Roy: ISBN 0192817639 (0-19-281763-9)
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Rose in Bloom
by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 0140374515 (0-14-037451-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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After two years travelling around the world, Rose Campbell has a lot of strong opinions. Before thoughts of marriage, she would like to be independent. However, even her closest friend seems to be acting differently. The author has also written "Little Women". [via]
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- Rose in Bloom: ISBN 0140351256 (0-14-035125-6)
  Softcover, Penguin USA
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Roughing It
by Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens

ISBN 0140390103 (0-14-039010-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Marking a crucial phase in the author's life and career, Roughing It recounts Twain's experiences in the Territory of Nevada, recalling the boisterous days on the frontier. [via]
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She
by H. Rider Haggard, Patrick Brantlinger

ISBN 0140437630 (0-14-043763-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.
Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." [via]
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories With Illustrations from the Strand Magazine
by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 1853268968 (1-85326-896-8)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals. [via]
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The Small House at Allington
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 1845882229 (1-84588-222-9)
Softcover, Nonsuch Pub

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Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. [via]
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A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 1846370698 (1-84637-069-8)
Softcover, Echo Library

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This classic large print title is printed in 16 point Tiresias font as recommended by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. [via]
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Kelley

ISBN 0151002347 (0-15-100234-7)
Hardcover, Creative Co

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Award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley writes, "I have selected three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories.... I chose 'The Fall of the House of Usher' for its classic Gothic images and its dark, melancholic central characters, including the house itself. 'The Black Cat' is ... appealing to me for its use of mystery and foreboding that takes us to a horrifying climax. 'The Cask of Amontillado' ... my personal favorite, [is] a simple narrative of revenge set in the contrasting worlds of carnival and catacomb." Click on the book's cover for a closer look, but the reproduction doesn't really do justice to the richness of color in Kelley's shadowy, atmospheric paintings. (The cat's eye is green, and its tongue is pink.) This gorgeous edition has 20 full- and double-page paintings, including a melancholy portrait of Poe; each page of text is surrounded by subtle decorative frames. The images of Roderick and Madeleine Usher are especially effective. [via]
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Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome, A. frederics

ISBN 1845881095 (1-84588-109-5)
Softcover, Nonsuch Pub

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Jerome K. Jerome was born in Staffordshire i n 1859. He left school at fourteen and, after a succession o f jobs, took up writing as a profession. Three Men in a Boat is his most famous work. ' [via]
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by Jerome Klapka Jerome

ISBN 1853260517 (1-85326-051-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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The famous journey made by the three intrepid explorers down the Thames is illustrated by Paul Cox, capturing the hilarious incidents of the three men and their dog together with numerous evocative images of the many historical monuments dotted along the riverside. [via]
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Three Men in a Boat
by Benny Green, Christopher Matthew, Jerome Klapka Jerome

ISBN 1851453571 (1-85145-357-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Typee
by Herman Melville, John Bryant

ISBN 0140434887 (0-14-043488-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Hindi thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Typee by Herman Melville was edited for three audiences. The first includes Hindi-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFLý or TOEICý preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Hindi speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Hindi in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placementý (APý) or similar examinations. By using the Webster's Hindi Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Hindi or English.
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The Woodlanders
by Thomas Hardy, Dale Kramer, Penny Boumelha

ISBN 0192840681 (0-19-284068-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The setting is gentler than in some of Hardy's novels, but the story is similar - thwarted love and ruined lives. [via]
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The Woodlanders
by Patricia Ingham

ISBN 0140435476 (0-14-043547-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The physiognomy of a deserted highway expresses solitude to a degree that is not reached by mere dales or downs and bespeaks a tomb-like stillness more emphatic than that of glades and pools. [via]
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The Works of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson

ISBN 1853264199 (1-85326-419-9)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert Shulman

ISBN 0192834800 (0-19-283480-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles. [via]
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LA Bas
by Joris K. Hysmans

ISBN 2070376818 (2-07-037681-8)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books

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La-Bas
by Joris-Karl Huysmans

ISBN 2877142027 (2-87714-202-7)
Softcover, Bookking International

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349pages. poche. Broché. [via]
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Theodor Fontane:Effi Briest: Effi Briest
by Walter Schafarschik

ISBN 315008119X (3-15-008119-X)
Hardcover, Reclam

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UN Granjero De Diez Anos
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Josefina Guerrero, Garth Williams

ISBN 8427932243 (84-279-3224-3)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns

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El sueno de Almanzo, el mas joven de la familia, seria poder cuidar de los caballos, y sobre todo, poder domar un potro y poderlo montar a su antojo. Para su padre esa es una tarea que necesita madurez, ya que los caballos son unos animales muy fragiles y nerviosos. Almanzo se esfuerza cada dia en obtener la confianza de su padre, hasta que este, cuando se acerca el aniversario de Almanzo, le estimula a tomar una decision por si mismo, una decision que sera fundamental para su futuro, ir a la ciudad o quedarse en el campo. [via]
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