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Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian AndersenISBN 1853261009 (1-85326-100-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes and The Little Match Girl. [via]
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The Aspern Papers and the Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 185326069X (1-85326-069-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aspern Papers and the Turn of the Screw'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, cleverly evoking the drama of comedie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace. [via]
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American Westby Dee Alexander BrownISBN 0899669751 (0-89966-975-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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The Classic Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Talesby Sheila Black, H.C. AndersenISBN 0894719815 (0-89471-981-5)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1844287327 (1-84428-732-7)
Hardcover, Walker Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories'Book summary:How did the rhinoceros get his wrinkly skin? Why won't cats come when they're called? How did one curious elephant with a nose for trouble change the lives of all elephants everywhere? These eight best-loved stories give inspired answers to these and other intriguing questions. Each story is illustrated by a different major contemporary picture-book artist. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Talesby H.C. AndersenISBN 1853268992 (1-85326-899-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales'Book summary:Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults and children. Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever. Here are all of Andersen's 168 tales, and among the favourites are 'The Red Shoes', 'The Mermaid', 'The Real Princess', 'The Emperor's New Clothes', The Tinder Box' and of course 'The Ugly Duckling'. [via]
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The Complete Poems of John Keatsby John KeatsISBN 1853264040 (1-85326-404-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems of John Keats'Book summary:'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the Odes and the two versions of the uncompleted epic Hyperion, and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and comic verse. It all demonstrates the extent to which he tested his own dictum throughout his short creative life. That life spanned one of the most remarkable periods in English history in the aftermath of the French Revolution and this collection, with its detailed introductions and notes, aims to place the poems very much in their context. The collection is ample proof that Keats deservedly achieved his wish to 'be among the English Poets after my death' [via]
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Daughter of Fortuneby Isabel AllendeISBN 1417755946 (1-4177-5594-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughter of Fortune'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprising such heavy hitters as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa. But the Chilean Allende shouldered her way in with her magical realist multi-generational tale of the Trueba family, followed it up with four more novels and a spate of nonfiction, and has remained in a place of honor ever since. Her sixth work of fiction, Daughter of Fortune, shares some characteristics with her earlier works: the canvas is wide, the characters are multi-generational and multi-ethnic, and the protagonist is an unconventional woman who overcomes enormous obstacles to make her way in the world. Yet one cannot accuse Allende of telling the same story twice; set in the mid-1800s, this novel follows the fortunes of Eliza Sommers, Chilean by birth but adopted by a British spinster, Rose Sommers, and her bachelor brother, Jeremy, after she is abandoned on their doorstep.
"You have English blood, like us," Miss Rose assured Eliza when she was old enough to understand. "Only someone from the British colony would have thought to leave you in a basket on the doorstep of the British Import and Export Company, Limited. I am sure they knew how good-hearted my brother Jeremy is, and felt sure he would take you in. In those days I was longing to have a child, and you fell into my arms, sent by God to be brought up in the solid principles of the Protestant faith and the English language."
The family servant, Mama Fresia, has a different point of view, however: "You, English? Don't get any ideas, child. You have Indian hair, like mine." And certainly Eliza's almost mystical ability to recall all the events of her life would seem to stem more from the Indian than the Protestant side.As Eliza grows up, she becomes less tractable, and when she falls in love with Joachin Andieta, a clerk in Jeremy's firm, her adoptive family is horrified. They are even more so when a now-pregnant Eliza follows her lover to California where he has gone to make his fortune in the 1849 gold rush. Along the way Eliza meets Tao Chi'en, a Chinese doctor who saves her life and becomes her closest friend. What starts out as a search for a lost love becomes, over time, the discovery of self; and by the time Eliza finally catches up with the elusive Joachin, she is no longer sure she still wants what she once wished for. Allende peoples her novel with a host of colorful secondary characters. She even takes the narrative as far afield as China, providing an intimate portrait of Tao Chi'en's past before returning to 19th-century San Francisco, where he and Eliza eventually fetch up. Readers with a taste for the epic, the picaresque, and romance that is satisfyingly complex will find them all in Daughter of Fortune. --Margaret Prior [via]
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The Diary of a Nobodyby George Grossmith, Weedon GrossmithISBN 1419159259 (1-4191-5925-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Nobody'Book summary:The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody" - Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age. [via]
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- The Diary of a Nobody: ISBN 1853262013 (1-85326-201-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - The Diary of a Nobody: ISBN 1421904586 (1-4219-0458-6)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com - The Diary of a Nobody: ISBN 1850890404 (1-85089-040-4)
Hardcover, Abc-Clio Inc - The Diary of a Nobody: ISBN 1419159259 (1-4191-5925-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
- The Diary of a Nobody: ISBN 1853262013 (1-85326-201-3)
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The Diary of a Nobodyby Weedon Grossmith, George GrossmithISBN 1404348093 (1-4043-4809-3)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Nobody'Book summary:The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody" - Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Storiesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, G. K. ChestertonISBN 1561384747 (1-56138-474-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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Fairy Talesby H.C. Andersen, Marte Hvam Hult, Jack David ZipesISBN 1593082606 (1-59308-260-6)
Softcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:[via]Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Who has not laughed at the emperors new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear, Hans Christian Andersens Fairy Tales have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike.
Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Andersons tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things.
Here are all of Andersens collected tales, manysuch as The Little Mermaid, The Red Shoes, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including The Flying Trunk and The Most Incredible Thing, well worth rediscovering.Jack Zipes is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in folklore and fairy tales, he has authored numerous books of criticism over the last thirty years and edited several major anthologies, including the Norton Anthology of Childrens Literature (2005).Marte Hvam Hult holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and a forthcoming translation of Asbjørnsens Huldreeventyr.More editions of Fairy Tales:
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Storiesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 156000536X (1-56000-536-X)
Hardcover, Transaction Pub Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales'Book summary:Collected in these two volumes are roe's legendary tales of terror that attest to his stylistic brilliance in evoking an atmosphere of gloom and obsession. Creatures, eyes, coffins, walls-all are symbols in roe's efforts to create an aura of evil. What reader would not share the anxiety of the traveler in The Fall of the House of Usher, who upon his first glimpse of the house, finds an "insufferable gloom pervading my spirit... an utter depression of the soul... an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart"? In volume 2 his nightmarish visions take us down untraveled paths revealing the dark side of the human experience.
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- The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories: ISBN 1582791899 (1-58279-189-9)
Hardcover, Trident Press International - The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories: ISBN 0886390230 (0-88639-023-0)
Hardcover, New Trend Pub - Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales: ISBN 156000536X (1-56000-536-X)
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- The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories: ISBN 1582791899 (1-58279-189-9)
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Anna SwanwickISBN 1420926640 (1-4209-2664-0)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:The Faustian legend has captured the imagination of readers and writers for centuries and in Goethe's "Faust" we find one of the greatest tellings of this old German tale. It is the story of man who makes a deal with the devil and pays with his soul. The influence of this theme on literature cannot be understated. In Goethe's "Faust" we find what is probably the most famous version of the story and one of the greatest works of literature ever written. [via]
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Faust Parts I and IIby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 1575253453 (1-57525-345-3)
Hardcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Parts I and II'Book summary:As much poem as it is play, Goethes Faust is the spiritual quest of a soul determined to explore the very nature of Reality, a revolutionary work that refuses to accept limitations, but, like Romanticism itself, embraces all, the Natural World of everyday life, as well as the Great World of universal experience, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm. The Faust character, the Faustian soul, has become a universal concern. As multifarious as Hamlet and as mythic as Oedipus, he takes us on a journey to the depths and heights of experience and leaves us not the person we were before we met him. It is in Part One of Goethes masterpiece that we discover Faust as the hero in whose being two contradictory forces collide. He is self-alienated man struggling to expand beyond the limitations of intellect and the known world, desperate to achieve a state, indeed mystical, where the opposites of Knowledge and Sensuality are One. Part One of Faust records that attempt in the context of earthly existence. Goethes Faust has rightly been called the most audacious work in Western Civilization. [via]
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Faust, 1833by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, B. Q. Morgan, Bayard TaylorISBN 088295038X (0-88295-038-X)
Softcover, Davidson Incorporated, Harlan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust, 1833'Book summary:Edited by B. Q. Morgan, this edition uses the Bayard Taylor translation in the original meters--essential to the character of the play and dramatically indispensable. This edition, with line numbers for easy reference, is complete and includes "Dedication," "Prelude on the Stage," and the "Prologue in Heaven." Also included are an introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Goethe, and a selected bibliography. [via]
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First Loveby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0974607894 (0-9746078-9-4)
Softcover, Melville Pub House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Love'Book summary:"The great thing is to lead a normal life, and not be the slave of your passions. What do you get if not?"
One of Russian literature's most renowned love storiesa vivid and sensitive account of adolescent love, wherein the sixteen year old protagonist falls in love with a beautiful but older woman living next door, thereby plunging into a whirlwind of changing emotions that are heightened by her capriciousness, and leading to a truly heart-rending revelation.
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Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time. [via]More editions of First Love:
Framley Parsonageby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1417903902 (1-4179-0390-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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God's Promises for Your Financesby Joseph BartlingISBN 0926557041 (0-926557-04-1)
Softcover, Dove Christian Books
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Hans Christian Andersen: Cuentos Fantasticos y De Animales, Cuentos Humoristicos y Sentimentales, La Sirenita, El Traje Nuevo Del Emperador / Fantastic and Animal Stories, Homby H. C. AndersenISBN 158567737X (1-58567-737-X)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Christian Andersen: Cuentos Fantasticos y De Animales, Cuentos Humoristicos y Sentimentales, La Sirenita, El Traje Nuevo Del Emperador / Fantastic and Animal Stories, Hom'Book summary:On the 200th anniversary of his birth, a new biography of the much-loved children's author, Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper cut-out artist, a neurotic hypochondriac, and a man with intense but frustrated sexual desires. This startling and immensely readable, definitive new biography by Danish scholar Jens Andersen is essential to a full understanding of the man whose writing has influenced the lives of readers young and old for centuries. Jens Andersen sheds brilliant new light on Hans Christian Andersen's writings and on the writer whose own life had many aspects of the fairytale. Like some of the memorable characters he created, Andersen grew up in miserable and impoverished circumstances. He later propagated myths about his life and family, but this new biography uncovers much about this man that has never been revealed before. [via]
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, William King, Leon BaxterISBN 1561387657 (1-56138-765-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 159224646X (1-59224-646-X)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only learned as an adult. Despite this, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise. His outsider's eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires. The book you hold in your hands -- Conrad's immortal HEART OF DARKNESS -- was the basis for the renowned film, APOCALYPSE NOW. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 1566194903 (1-56619-490-3)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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Heidiby Johanna SpyriISBN 1853261254 (1-85326-125-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:[via]What happens when a little orphan girl is forced to live with her cold and frightening grandfather? The heartwarming answer has engaged children for more than a century, both on the page and on the screen. Johanna Spyris beloved story offers youngsters an endearing and intelligent heroine, a cast of unique and memorable characters, and a fascinatingportrait of a small Alpine village.More editions of Heidi:
- Heidi: ISBN 1402726015 (1-4027-2601-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Heidi: ISBN 1404306706 (1-4043-0670-6)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - Heidi: ISBN 1561564559 (1-56156-455-9)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks - Heidi: ISBN 1569873917 (1-56987-391-7)
Hardcover, School Specialty Childrens Pub - Heidi: ISBN 1577656881 (1-57765-688-1)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Heidi: ISBN 0881010596 (0-88101-059-6)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House - Heidi: ISBN 0881010790 (0-88101-079-0)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House - Heidi: ISBN 1853261254 (1-85326-125-4)
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- Heidi: ISBN 1402726015 (1-4027-2601-5)
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Heidiby Dalmatian Press Staff, Johanna SpyriISBN 1577595467 (1-57759-546-7)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Orphaned at an early age and taken in by her young aunt Dete, Heidi--short for Adelheid--is soon in the way. Dete has a new and better job where Heidi is not welcome, so the child must live with her curmudgeon of a grandfather high on the Alm Mountain in the Swiss Alps.
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Heidiby Donna PacinelliISBN 0881011126 (0-88101-112-6)
Hardcover, Cambridgeshire Libraries Publications
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 142645547X (1-4264-5547-X)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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- The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 1840224002 (1-84022-400-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 1404309721 (1-4043-0972-1)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 1417619627 (1-4176-1962-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 1555045154 (1-55504-515-4)
Softcover, J. Curley - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 088301727X (0-88301-727-X)
Softcover, Xs Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0977769429 (0-9777694-2-9)
Softcover, Neptune Media Group - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0899662293 (0-89966-229-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0883012642 (0-88301-264-2)
Softcover, Ags Pub - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0893754102 (0-89375-410-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0964878836 (0-9648788-3-6)
Hardcover, Baker Street Irregulars in cooperation with the New York Public Libaray-Berg Collection - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 142645547X (1-4264-5547-X)
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- The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 1840224002 (1-84022-400-2)
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Hound of the Baskervillesby Alexander DumasISBN 1562542893 (1-56254-289-3)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:Written at a point of crisis in his life, A Tale of Two Cities is the embodiment of Dickens' own passions and fears: the revolution which engulfs the characters symbolizes his own psychological revolution, and the three main characters become projections of Dickens himself. [via]
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The Hound Of The Baskervillesby Arthur Doyle ConanISBN 0974607878 (0-9746078-7-8)
Softcover, Melville Pub House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound Of The Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes With, the Adventure of the Speckled Bandby Arthur Conan Doyle, Francis O'GormanISBN 1551117223 (1-55111-722-3)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes With, the Adventure of the Speckled Band'Book summary:The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-02) is Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes adventure. At the end of the yew tree path of his ancestral home, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead. Close by are the footprints of a gigantic hound. Called to investigate, Holmes seems to face a supernatural foe. In the tense narration of the detective's efforts to solve the crime, Conan Doyle meditates on late Victorian and early twentieth-century ideas of ancestry and atavism, the possible biological determination of criminals, the stability of the British landed classes, and the place of the supernatural. Historical documents included with this fully-annotated Broadview edition help contextualize the novel's debates and reveal its cultural and literary significance as a supreme instance of early detective fiction. Also included is the Conan Doyle short story The Adventure of the Speckled Band. [via]
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Hunters Sketchesby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black GarnettISBN 1592246567 (1-59224-656-7)
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Idylls of the Kingby Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 1404309519 (1-4043-0951-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Idylls of the King'Book summary:[via]Tennyson interprets the Arthurian myth as an epic poem, and his tales of Camelot soar to remarkable imaginative heights to trace the birth of a king; the founding, fellowship, and decline of the Round Table; and the king's inevitable departure. Encompassing romance, heroism, duty, and conflict, Tennyson's poetry charts the rise and fall of a legendary society. -
The Joyful Wisdomby F. NietzscheISBN 1410204820 (1-4102-0482-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of the Pacific
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joyful Wisdom'Book summary:CONTENTS Jest, Ruse and Revenge: A Prelude in Rhyme Book First Book Second Book Third Book Fourth: Sanctus Januarius Book Fifth: We Fearless Ones Appendix: Songs of Prince Free-as-a-Bird [via]
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1853261025 (1-85326-102-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:These wonderful and fanciful stories delight adult and child alike with their amusing and clever responses to such questions as how the leopard got his spots or why an elephant has a trunk. Kipling was born in India of English parents, and the impressions that exotic and fascinating country left on him in his early years would influence his writing in later years. Even in the deceptively simple Just So Stories, the reader recognizes Kipling's gifted ear for language and his vivid imagery.
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Just So Stories Set: For Little Childrenby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1404311653 (1-4043-1165-3)
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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1404316795 (1-4043-1679-5)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Collected Novelsby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Millicent BellISBN 0940450089 (0-940450-08-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nathaniel Hawthorne Collected Novels'Book summary:Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. Written in a richly suggestive style that seems remarkably contemporary, they are permeated by America's and Hawthorne's own history. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale Romance" explores the perils, which Hawthorne knew at first hand, of living in a utopian community, and the inextricability of political, personal, and sexual desires. "Fanshawe" is an engrossing apprentice work which Hawthorne published anonymously and later sought to suppress. "The Marble Faun," his last finished novel, involves mystery, murder, and romance among American artists in Rome. [via]
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Odd Womenby George GissingISBN 1419175890 (1-4191-7589-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odd Women'Book summary:George Gissing's The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of 'odd' or 'redundant' women, the cultural impact of 'the new woman,' and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be 'odd' or 'redundant,' and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing's text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written. In Gissing's story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century. [via]
Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writingsby Oscar WildeISBN 1416500278 (1-4165-0027-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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Plain Tales from the Hillsby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1421979756 (1-4219-7975-6)
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Romolaby George EliotISBN 1551117576 (1-55111-757-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romola'Book summary:The most exotic of George Eliot's works, Romola recounts the story of the famous religious leader Savonarola in Florence at the time of Machiavelli and the Medicis. Of all her novels, this was the author's favourite. No other Eliot novel was illustrated in its first edition. Romola, however, was sought by George Smith for serialization in the prestigious illustrated Cornhill Magazine. Smith commissioned illustrations for the novel from the rising young artist Frederick Leighton, who had studied in Florence in the 1840s and had frequently painted Florentine Renaissance subjects. Romola was serialised with the Leighton illustrations in the magazine from July 1862 to August 1863. It was first published in book form in 1863; the first edition was published by Smith, Elder in three volumes, and a one-volume edition in two-column format with all but one of the Leighton illustrations was published later that year by Harper & Brothers in the United States. This facsimile reprint is of the one-volume 1863 Harper & Brothers edition, and includes 8 pages of original advertisements from the back of the book. This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editionseditions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them. [via]
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Salammboby Gustave FlaubertISBN 1595690352 (1-59569-035-2)
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1555045383 (1-55504-538-3)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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Sherlock Holmes and the case of the hound Of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Malvina G. Vogel, Pablo MarcosISBN 1596792507 (1-59679-250-7)
Hardcover, Spotlight
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 1417934743 (1-4179-3474-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Menby Theodore Dreiser, Richard LehanISBN 0940450410 (0-940450-41-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men'Book summary:A master of naturalism, Theodore Dreiser brought the American novel into the twentieth century. Fascinated by the city street, its parade of fashion and its threat of poverty and degradation, his journalistic eye lets us see as they were first seen the now familiar realities of modern living. "Sister Carrie" traces the fate of a small-town girl drawn into the brutal metropolitan worlds of Chicago and New York, and Sinclair Lewis called it "the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman." "Jennie Gerhardt"'s vital but naive heroine emerges superior to the succession of men who exploit her. With honest emotion and respect for unvarnished truth, "Twelve Men" muses on the exemplary lives of ordinary men in search of lasting values with which to face the new century. Together, these three works exemplify the energy, originality, and genius of one of the great modern American writers. [via]
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Sonnets from the Portugueseby Elizabeth B. BrowningISBN 1567230253 (1-56723-025-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Sonnets from the Portugueseby William S. Peterson, Julia Markus, Elizabeth B. BrowningISBN 0880015101 (0-88001-510-1)
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A Sportsman's Sketchesby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 1414200854 (1-4142-0085-4)
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The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Storiesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Jenny DavidsonISBN 1593080549 (1-59308-054-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories'Book summary:[via]The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Idealistic young scientist Henry Jekyll struggles to unlock the secrets of the soul. Testing chemicals in his lab, he drinks a mixture he hopes will isolateand eliminatehuman evil. Instead it unleashes the dark forces within him, transforming him into the hideous and murderous Mr. Hyde.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde dramatically brings to life a science-fiction case study of the nature of good and evil and the duality that can exist within one person. Resonant with psychological perception and ethical insight, the book has literary roots in Dostoevskys The Double and Crime and Punishment. Today Stevensons novella is recognized as an incisive study of Victorian morality and sexual repression, as well as a great thriller.
This collection also includes some of the authors grimmest short fiction: Lodging for the Night, The Suicide Club, Thrawn Janet, The Body Snatcher, and Markheim.Jenny Davidson is Assistant Professor of eighteenth-century literature and culture in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her novel Heredity appeared from Soft Skull Press in 2003.
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The Strange Case of Dr.jekyll And Mr Hydeby R. L. StevensonISBN 1421806665 (1-4218-0666-5)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr.jekyll And Mr Hyde'Book summary:Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theater, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. "I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way." In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour. [via]
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Tales and Sketchesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Roy Harvey PearceISBN 0940450038 (0-940450-03-8)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales and Sketches'Book summary:"Tales and Sketches" offers what no reader has ever been able to find--an authoritative edition of Hawthorne's complete stories in a single comprehensive volume. Here is everything from his three collections, "Twice-told Tales," "Mosses from an Old Manse," "The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-told Tales," his two books of stories for children based on classical myths, "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" and "Tanglewood Tales," and sixteen uncollected stories. The unique arrangement by order of publication charts Hawthorne's evolution into one of the most powerful and experimental writers of American fiction. From familiar but always surprising works like "Young Goodman Brown," to masterly fables like "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," to lesser known gems like "The Wives of the Dead," these haunting stories of love and guilt, of duty and licence, of the fateful ties of family and nation, show why Hawthorne is a great artist, and an astonishingly contemporary one. [via]
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 1853260118 (1-85326-011-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Tomi Ungerer's "Heidi": The Classic Novelby Tomi Ungerer, Johanna SpyriISBN 1570981620 (1-57098-162-0)
Hardcover, Rinehart Publishers, Roberts
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tomi Ungerer's "Heidi": The Classic Novel'Book summary:The dramatic story of Heidi has enthralled generations of children. Tom Ungerer's Heidi evokes all the charm and imaginative power of the original--here in its complete text. 150 illustrations, 30 in full-color. [via]
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What Maisie Knewby Henry JamesISBN 1421994240 (1-4219-9424-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Mrs. Wix's, during these hours, Sir Claude was--and most of all through long pauses--the perpetual, the insurmountable theme. It all took them back to the first flush of his marriage and to the place he held in the schoolroom at that crisis of love and pain; only he had himself blown to a much bigger balloon the large consciousness he then filled out. They went through it all again, and indeed while the interval dragged by the very weight of its charm they went, in spite of defences and suspicions, through everything. Their intensified clutch of the future throbbed like a clock ticking seconds; but this was a timepiece that inevitably, as well, at the best, rang occasionally a portentous hour. Oh there were several of these, and two or three of the worst on the old city-wall where everything else so made for peace. There was nothing in the world Maisie more wanted than to be as nice to Mrs. Wix as Sir Claude had desired; but it was exactly because this fell in with her inveterate instinct of keeping the peace that the instinct itself was quickened. From the moment it was quickened, however, it found other work, and that was how, to begin with, she produced the very complication she most sought to avert. What she had essentially done, these days, had been to read the unspoken into the spoken; so that thus, with accumulations, it had become more definite to her that the unspoken was, unspeakably, the completeness of the sacrifice of Mrs. Beale. There were times when every minute that Sir Claude stayed away was like a nail in Mrs. Beale's coffin. That brought back to Maisie--it was a roundabout way--the beauty and antiquity of her connexion with the flower of the Overmores as well as that lady's own grace and charm, her peculiar prettiness and... [via]
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