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1984by George Orwell, Fromm, Erich (AFT)ISBN 0451524934 (0-451-52493-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
Absolution by Murderby Peter TremayneISBN 0451192990 (0-451-19299-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0451526503 (0-451-52650-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451519124 (0-451-51912-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451523733 (0-451-52373-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451526503 (0-451-52650-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451519124 (0-451-51912-4)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0451526538 (0-451-52653-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via] -
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, James DickeyISBN 0451522729 (0-451-52272-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Aeneidby Virgil, Patric DickinsonISBN 0451528638 (0-451-52863-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.[via] 
All's Well That Ends Wellby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451530012 (0-451-53001-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Anne of the Islandby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0451525345 (0-451-52534-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of the Island'Book summary:This volume contains "Anne of The Island" and "Anne of Windy Willows". Anne is older now, and her friends are beginning to get married and move away; meanwhile her romance with Gilbert Blythe begins to blossom, and there are developments in her career as a schoolteacher. [via]
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China Boyby Gus LeeISBN 0451174348 (0-451-17434-8)
Softcover, Signet
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The Comedy of Errorsby William Shakespeare, Harry LevinISBN 0451528395 (0-451-52839-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Errors'Book summary:Hilarious fun, this early comedy is filled with the merry violence of slapstick and farce. When two sets of twins, separated and apparently lost to each other, all end up in the rowdy, rollicking city of Ephesus, the stage is set for mix-ups, mayhem, and mistaken identity--plus the timeless puns, jokes, gags, and suspense that makes this play a wonderful theatrical frolic and a brilliant tour de force of language and laughter. [via]
The Comedy of Errorsby Harry T. LevinISBN 0451521633 (0-451-52163-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Confessions of Saint Augustineby Martin E. Marty, Rex Warner, AugustineISBN 0451527801 (0-451-52780-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of Saint Augustine'Book summary:Harvard Classics, Vol. 7, Part 1
The origin of the autobiographical tradition, the Confessions of one of the great Fathers of the Church traces a dialogue with his God and a journey toward rising above one's self.
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Confessions of St. Augustineby Rex WarnerISBN 0451624742 (0-451-62474-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of St. Augustine'Book summary:Acknowledged in every age and every nation of the Western World for nearly 1,500 years as one of mankind's great literary treasures, this is the classic autobiography of a man who journeyed from sin to sainthood, from heresy to the heights of theological insight, and from the darkness of worldly ambition to the changeless light of grace. (Literature/Classics) [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sidney Monas, James D. Hardy, Leonard J. StantonISBN 0451527232 (0-451-52723-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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Death Of Ivan Ilych And Other Storiesby Leo Tolstoy, J. D. Duff, Aylmer MaudeISBN 0451528808 (0-451-52880-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories: ISBN 0451516761 (0-451-51676-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Death Of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories: ISBN 0451525086 (0-451-52508-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Death Of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories: ISBN 0451528808 (0-451-52880-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories: ISBN 0451516761 (0-451-51676-1)
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The Divine Comedyby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451208633 (0-451-20863-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:[via]
Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradisethe sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.
10 illustrations
@HolyHaha I have to climb a mountain now? You got to be kidding me. Is this a joke? Who the hell came up with story? VIIIRRRGGGILLLLLLLLLLL!
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Equal Ritesby Terry PratchettISBN 0451450922 (0-451-45092-2)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equal Rites'Book summary:On Discworld, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late. The town witch insists on turning the baby into a perfectly normal witch, thus mending the magical damage of the wizard's mistake. But now the young girl will be forced to penetrate the inner sanctum of the Unseen University--and attempt to save the world with one well-placed kick in some enchanted shins!. [via]
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Forest Houseby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0451454243 (0-451-45424-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forest House'Book summary:The Forest Houseprequel to The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradleys beloved and enduring classicis a mesmerizing epic of one womans mythic role at a turning point in history.[via]In a Britain struggling to survive Roman invasion, Eilan is the daughter of a Druidic warleader, gifted with visions and marked by fate to become a priestess of the Forest House.
But fate also led Eilan to Gaius, a soldier of mixed blood, son of the Romans sent to subdue the native British. For Gaius, Eilan felt forbidden love, and her terrible secret will haunt her even as she is anointed as the new High Priestess. With mighty enemies poised to destroy the magic the Forest House shelters, Eilan must trust in the power of the great Goddess to lead her through the treacherous labyrinth of her destiny.
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Walter James MillerISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0451523369 (0-451-52336-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0451523636 (0-451-52363-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Three horror classicswith an introduction by Stephen King[via]
Some of literatures most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome.
@NotoriousDOC Just did a bit-torrent-style grave robbery. My new man will be an artful collage. Also, good conversation starter.
Its alive! Id better beat it over the head repeatedly with a fire extinguisher.
So sometimes you build something, and it gets away. Theyre gonna can me at the university if they find out about this.
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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- Great Expectations: ISBN 0451517598 (0-451-51759-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451525248 (0-451-52524-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451523598 (0-451-52359-8)
Hardcover, New Amer Library - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
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- Great Expectations: ISBN 0451517598 (0-451-51759-8)
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451526929 (0-451-52692-9)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0451526724 (0-451-52672-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Novel depicting Victorian industrial society. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Featuring a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, the author's two best-known stories tell of encounters with moral depravity in the wilds of the Congo and second selves on a voyage into the Gulf of Siam. Reprint." [via]
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The Living U.S. Constitutionby Jacob W. Landynski, Saul K. Padover, United States ConstitutionISBN 0451621743 (0-451-62174-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Love's Labor's Lostby William Shakespeare, John ArthosISBN 0451529502 (0-451-52950-2)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love's Labor's Lost'Book summary:Love's Labor's Lost, one of Shakespeare's earliest works, features, in addition to a general discussion of Shakespeare's life, world and theater: a new stage history, an extensive note on sources Shakespeare used, and dramatic criticism from past and present. [via]
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Measure for Measureby William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet, S. NagarajanISBN 0451527151 (0-451-52715-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Measure for Measure'Book summary:A dark and difficult play, Measure for Measure has been a popular play since the latter half of the 20th century for its prescient dramatisation of the issues of sexual and political hypocrisy, and the ways in which the state interferes in the private lives of its citizens. Set in Duke Vincentio's Vienna, where poverty, disease and prostitution are rife, Claudio and his fiancée Juliet are arrested for having sex before marriage, and Claudio is sentenced to death. Angelo, the Duke's deputy, who stands in for the Duke whilst he ostensibly goes off on a pilgrimage, enthusiastically endorses the sentence. In fact the Duke remains behind the scenes, watching Angelo as he falls for Claudio's sister Isabella, who comes to beg for her brother's life. Angelo is a wonderful creation, loathsome yet fascinating as he struggles with the double standards of his enforcement of draconian laws whilst lusting after the sister of the man he is prepared to execute, debating "The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?".
No one is spared Shakespeare's withering look at the mores of early 17th-century life, not even the pimps and madams who try to get by in the midst of the Duke's bizarre and coercive disguises and performances. The deeply ambiguous ending of Measure for Measure confirms it as one of Shakespeare's most ambivalent and arguably despairing plays. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Merry Wives of Windsorby William Shakespeare, William GreenISBN 0451529960 (0-451-52996-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'Book summary:Falstaff: drunkard, sloth, and...paramour? This farce follows Sir John Falstaff-of the Henry IV plays-as he tries to woo two wealthy married women. [via]
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert Darwin, Julian HuxleyISBN 0451529065 (0-451-52906-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:One of the most controversial books ever written... The classic that changed the way we look at the world-- and ourselves.
In the words of Ashley Montagu, "Next to the Bible no work has been quite as influential, in virtually every aspect of human thought, as The Origin of Species."
With an introduction by Sir Julian Huxley, this edition reminds us why Darwin's work exploded into public controversy and revolutionized the course of science--and continues to transform our views of the world as a new millennium dawns.
"Next to the Bible no work has beenquite as influential."--Ashley Montagu
* Includes an introduction by Sir Julian Huxley [via]More editions of The Origin of Species: Library Edition:
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Paradise Lost and Other Poemsby John B. Milloni, Edward Le Comte, John MiltonISBN 0451628268 (0-451-62826-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost and Other Poems'Book summary:With the three works included in this volume-- Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Lycidas --Milton placed himself next to Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer as one of the greatest literary genius in history. [via]
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Paradisoby Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, John FrecceroISBN 0451627008 (0-451-62700-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradiso'Book summary:In The Inferno Dante journeyed to the depths of evil and the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he explored the renunciation of sin. Now, in The Paradiso, the final canticle in The Divine Comedy, Dante shares the ultimate goal of human strivingthe merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of sublime truth is a work of almost mystical intensityan immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and, above all, the Love that moves the Sun and other stars. [via]
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The Paradisoby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451528050 (0-451-52805-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:In The Inferno Dante journeyed to the depths of evil and the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he explored the renunciation of sin. Now, in The Paradiso, the final canticle in The Divine Comedy, Dante shares the ultimate goal of human strivingthe merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of sublime truth is a work of almost mystical intensityan immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and, above all, the Love that moves the Sun and other stars. [via]
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Cymbeline / the Two Noble Kinsmenby William Shakespeare, Ernest Schanzer, Richard Hosley, John Fletcher, Clifford LeechISBN 0451530357 (0-451-53035-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Cymbeline / the Two Noble Kinsmen'Book summary:The plays collected here follow: the journeys of Pericles, Prince of Tyre; the political and romantic betrayals of Cymbeline - a chieftain of ancient times; and a work based on Chaucer's The Knight's Tale.[via]More editions of Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Cymbeline / the Two Noble Kinsmen:
Pericles, Prince of Tyre ; Cymbeline ; The Two Noble Kinsmen (with John Fletcher)by William ShakespeareISBN 0451520424 (0-451-52042-4)
Hardcover, New American Library
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0451527461 (0-451-52746-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:A new edition of the classic THE PRINCE. A political treatise by the Florentine political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. [via]
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Reaper Manby Terry PratchettISBN 0451451686 (0-451-45168-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reaper Man'Book summary:When the mortals come up with the perfect strategy for destroying the immortals, and soon all that stands between the immortals and a certain doom is the last surviving truthspeaker. [via]
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Richard IIby Kenneth MuirISBN 0451522176 (0-451-52217-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Richard IIby William Shakespeare, Kenneth MuirISBN 0451522680 (0-451-52268-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard II'Book summary:The New Penguin Shakespeare offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume has been prepared from the original texts and includes an introduction, a list of further reading, a full and helpful commentary, and a short account of the textual problems of the play. [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 0451516354 (0-451-51635-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby Burton RaffelISBN 0451528182 (0-451-52818-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:The epic poem of honor and bravery[via]
Written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is recognized as an equal to Chaucers masterworks and to the great Old English poems, Beowulf included. A green-skinned knight offers the Knights of the Round Table a simple but deadly challengea challenge taken on by the brave Sir Gawain. A challenge that will force him to choose between his honor and his life...
@GawainsWorld So listen here, some green man came to the hall and wants someone to cut his head off. Some sort of dare? Could be fun, right?
The deal is I cut off his head now, and he cuts off mine a year later. What a jester, doesnt he know hell be dead?
This goblin fellow is totally dead.
All seemed fine until Ichabod Crane here fell to the floor, stood up, and picked up his head. His head, in his hands. In HIS HANDS!
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The Song of Rolandby Robert HarrisonISBN 0451528573 (0-451-52857-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of Roland'Book summary:It is a timeless story of war and vengeance, of Good versus Evil. And at the center of this heroic epic stands Roland-the supreme embodiment of chivalry and honor. [via]
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The Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, William BurtoISBN 0451527275 (0-451-52727-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sonnets'Book summary:Together with A Lover's Complaint' and little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. Edited with an introduction by Stanley Wells. ...the most beautifully printed text available.' The Times . [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Robert Bechtold HeilmanISBN 0451526791 (0-451-52679-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet, Robert LangbaumISBN 0451527127 (0-451-52712-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0451627415 (0-451-62741-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theory of the Leisure Class'Book summary:The Theory of the Leisure Class is a work by Thorstein Veblen now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic. [via]
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They Do It With Mirrorsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451199901 (0-451-19990-1)
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, Edward HublerISBN 0451521285 (0-451-52128-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tragedy of King Richard the Second: With New and Updated Critical Essays and a Revised Bibliographyby William ShakespeareISBN 0451527194 (0-451-52719-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of King Richard the Second: With New and Updated Critical Essays and a Revised Bibliography'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's finest history plays, Richard II deals with one of the most sensitive and politically explosive issues of its day--the rights and wrongs of deposing a legitimately appointed king. Forerunner to the two parts of Henry IV, the play deals with the abdication of King Richard II in 1399, the subsequent succession of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, and Richard's death in the spring of 1400. But the play has been celebrated above and beyond its stature as historical drama. Richard II begins with a portrait of Richard as a pompous, arrogant and self-regarding sovereign, with little sense of his people or his political responsibilities. As he consistently miscalculates in his attempts to destroy Bolingbroke, and watches his own power wane, he becomes a far more appealing, Hamlet-like figure, more interested in "talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs", and "sad stories of the death of kings". Richard's speeches become increasingly lyrical and poetic as his supporters desert him, until he finally takes on the stature of the pilloried Christ in the climax of the play, the deposition scene, one of the most politically risky scenes in all of Shakespeare. The play remains most famous for John of Gaunt's "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle" speech, but historians believe that the play was also performed in the streets of London in 1601 in support of the Earl of Essex's attempt to depose Elizabeth I. Whilst the plot failed, it showed the power of the theatre of the time, and the politically controversial nature of Shakespeare's play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tragedy of Richard Thirdby William Shakespeare, Mark EcclesISBN 0451526953 (0-451-52695-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Richard the Third'Book summary:[via]Featuring a new overview of Shakespeare's works by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, this Signet classic also includes a comprehensive stage and screen history, dramatic criticism from the past and present, and sources from which Shakespeare derived this great work.
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, J.A. BryantISBN 0451526864 (0-451-52686-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Twelfth Night; Or, What You Willby William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet, Herschel BakerISBN 0451526767 (0-451-52676-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's finest comedies, Twelfth Night was written at the same time as Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida, and whilst it shares their fascination with sex, death and confused identities, its exuberant comedy and linguistic inventiveness rises above the introspection of these plays. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are separated in a storm, which washes them both up at different points on the shores of Illyria. Believing each other to be dead, both attempt to survive by using their wits. Viola cross-dresses and enters the service of the lovesick Orsino, in love with Olivia, an heiress in mourning for the loss of her brother. Orsino's saucy young page Cesario (Viola) soon falls in love with "his" master, who tells "him", "all is semblative a woman's part". Unfortunately, whilst Viola falls in love with Orsino, Olivia falls in love with her alter ego, Cesario, whilst also being pursued at the same time by her pompous servant Malvolio. Olivia's house is also turned upside down by the antics of her drunken uncle, Sir Toby Belch, and the whole crazy situation reaches boiling point when Sebastian reappears.
Despite the madcap plot, Twelfth Night remains one of Shakespeare's most complex and inventive comedies, fascinated with questions of cross-dressing, gender confusion, language and inversion, as well as retaining a darker edge to some of its laughter. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Two Gentleman of Veronaby William Shakespeare, Bertrand Evans, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451530632 (0-451-53063-2)
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Mostly set in Milan, this comedy is the story of two newly-arrived Veronese friends, Valentine and Proteus. Both vie for the Duke's daughter's hand, with lots of laughter ensuing.More editions of The Two Gentleman of Verona:
Two Treatises of Governmentby John LockeISBN 0451625862 (0-451-62586-2)
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The Underdogsby Mariano Azuela, E. MunguiaISBN 0451526252 (0-451-52625-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Underdogs'Book summary:To save his family, Demetrio Maci+a7as, a peace-loving, naive Indian, becomes swept up in the mounting revolution against the tyranny of dictator Porfirio Diaz, as he rises to become a general in the army of Pancho Villa. Reissue. [via]
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Understanding Media: The Extension of Manby Herbert Marshall McLuhanISBN 0451627652 (0-451-62765-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media: The Extension of Man'Book summary:When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society. He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known. In 1964, this looked like the paranoid babblings of a madman. In our twenty-first century digital world, the madman looks quite sane. Understanding Media: the most important book ever written on communication. Ignore its message at your peril. [via]
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The Upanishadsby Frederick Manchester, PrabhavanandaISBN 0451528484 (0-451-52848-4)
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The principal texts selected and translated from the original Sanskrit, Upanishad means "sitting near devotedly", which conjures images of the contemplating student listening with rapt attention to the teachings of a spiritual master. These are widely considered to be philosophical and spiritual meditations of the highest order.More editions of The Upanishads:
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The Upanishadsby PrabhavanandaISBN 0451626079 (0-451-62607-9)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Alice HoffmanISBN 0451529251 (0-451-52925-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:"Wuthering Heights" seems bafflingly unlike other novels yet constantly speaks to popular imagination. This edition for students and teachers engages with some of the key issues in contemporary critical theory. [via]
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Softcover, Signet - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0451521196 (0-451-52119-6)
Softcover, Signet - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0451523385 (0-451-52338-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0451525833 (0-451-52583-3)
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