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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0451528646 (0-451-52864-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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An American Tragedyby Theodore DreiserISBN 0451527704 (0-451-52770-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Tragedy'Book summary:Theodore Dreiser set out to create an epic character and, in the form of Clyde Griffiths in An American Tragedy, he succeeded. Griffiths is just a Midwest kid, the son of a preacher in Kansas City, who tastes a little sophistication and then hits the road seeking pleasure and success. He has his moments, conducting more than one romantic affair, until that ill-advised pursuit ensnares him. Then he reads about an "accident" of a young woman and ponders a dastardly deed ... Dreiser spins these scenes with the eye of a master in control of his form. An American Tragedy stands as an American masterpiece. [via]
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Anne Tyler: Three Complete Novelsby Anne TylerISBN 0517064596 (0-517-06459-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Annie Johnby Jamaica KincaidISBN 0452258170 (0-452-25817-0)
Softcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Annie John'Book summary:Jamaica Kincaid beautifully delineates hatred and fear, because she knows they are often a step away from love and obsession. At the start of Annie John, her 10-year-old heroine is engulfed in family happiness and safety. Though Annie loves her father, she is all eyes for her mother. When she is almost 12, however, the idyll ends and she falls into deep disfavor. This inexplicable loss mars both lives, as each grows adept at public falsity and silent betrayal. The pattern is set, and extended: "And now I started a new series of betrayals of people and things I would have sworn only minutes before to die for." In front of Annie's father and the world, "We were politeness and kindness and love and laughter." Alone they are linked in loathing. Annie tries to imagine herself as someone in a book--an orphan or a girl with a wicked stepmother. The trouble is, she finds, those characters' lives always end happily. Luckily for us, though not perhaps for her alter ego, Kincaid is too truthful a writer to provide such a finale. [via]
Another Roadside Attractionby Tom RobbinsISBN 049100804X (0-491-00804-X)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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The Autobiography and Other Writingsby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0451528107 (0-451-52810-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography and Other Writings'Book summary:One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance Man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat and politician. In his long life of eighty-four years, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure its survival.[via]Through the words of the elder statesman himself, The Autobiography and Other Writings presents a remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments and additional writings from Benjamin Franklins wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the husband and father who found himself a legend in his own time.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0486290735 (0-486-29073-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Bartleby and Benito Cerenoby Herman MelvilleISBN 0486264734 (0-486-26473-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Billy Bathgateby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452280028 (0-452-28002-8)
Softcover, Plume
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Storiesby Herman Melville, A. Robert LeeISBN 0460872052 (0-460-87205-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'Book summary:If Melville had never written "Moby Dick," his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor, " his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener, " his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic--and ultimately disastrous--extreme; and in "Benito Cereno, " his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados, " the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza, " and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower." [via]
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The Cat Who Tailed a Thiefby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515122408 (0-515-12240-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Tailed a Thief'Book summary:Lillian Jackson Braun never seems to run out of ideas for her popular series of mysteries featuring journalist Jim Qwilleran and his feline cohort, Koko. In this latest, The Cat Who Tailed A Thief, Koko again exhibits her preternatural intelligence by trying to tip off Qwilleran to important clues to a murder. That Qwilleran is not possessed of the same mental acuity as his cat is what makes this series work. Braun may not be noted for refined prose, perceptive characterizations, or stunningly original plots, but what she does do well is cats. Fans of felines in general and Koko in particular will find this book, the 19th in the Qwilleran series, almost as irresistible as, well, catnip. Some would even say it's purr-fect. [via]
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Cider House Rulesby John IrvingISBN 0517615592 (0-517-61559-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider House Rules'Book summary:First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [via]
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City of Godby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452282098 (0-452-28209-8)
Softcover, Plume
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The Complete Edgar Allan Poe Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517336340 (0-517-33634-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Complete Poems and Selected Essaysby Edgar Allan Poe, Richard GrayISBN 0460872613 (0-460-87261-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Criticism of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, Allen TateISBN 0452005485 (0-452-00548-5)
Softcover, New American Library
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Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Sixty-Seven Tales, One Complete Novel and Thirty-One Poemsby Edgar Allan Poe, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051745372X (0-517-45372-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne JewettISBN 0486281965 (0-486-28196-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Country of the Pointed Firs'Book summary:A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners, and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England character.[via]More editions of Country of the Pointed Firs:
Edgar Allan Poe : Selected Worksby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0517053586 (0-517-05358-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Eight Cousinsby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0486455599 (0-486-45559-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Cousins'Book summary:Rose, a shy orphan, blossoms in the company of her spirited relatives when she takes up residence at "The Aunt Hill." This captivating novel by the author of Little Women offers readers of all ages endearing, inspiring stories about growing up, making friends, and facing life with kindness and courage.[via] 
Essays and Poemsby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0460871447 (0-460-87144-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Fall of the House of Usher And Other Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, Marler, Regina (AFT), Stephen MarloweISBN 0451530314 (0-451-53031-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the House of Usher And Other Tales'Book summary:Master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe brings his nightmare visions to vivid, dramatic life in this definitive collection of 14 of his classic stories, including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, and his only full-length novel, Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.[via]More editions of The Fall of the House of Usher And Other Tales:
Four Playsby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451529146 (0-451-52914-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0451528832 (0-451-52883-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0486280241 (0-486-28024-1)
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0460051016 (0-460-05101-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0517221152 (0-517-22115-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 051763225X (0-517-63225-X)
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452282152 (0-452-28215-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl With a Pearl Earring:
The Golden Bowlby Henry JamesISBN 046011400X (0-460-11400-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Good Newsby Edward AbbeyISBN 0452265657 (0-452-26565-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good News'Book summary:In "Good News," Edward Abbey's acclaimed underground classic, the West is wild again. American civilization as the twentieth century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest, a new breed or settler, white and Indians together, is creating a new way of life in the wilderness - a pastoral economy - with skills and savvy resurrected from the pre-industrial past. Meanwhile, in a last surviving bastion of urban life, the remnats of the power elite are girding their armed forces to reimpose the old order. This is a land of horses and motorcycles, high-tech weaponry and primitive courage, and the struggle for the American future is mounting in intensity. No quarter is asked or given, and the outcome hangs in perilous balance against a background of magnificent nature and eternal human verities. [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.[via] -
The Illustrated of Delta of Venusby Anais Nin, Bob Carlos ClarkeISBN 0491027737 (0-491-02773-7)
Hardcover, W.H. Allen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated of Delta of Venus'Book summary:Contents: Artists and models. The veiled woman. Elena. Subjects: Erotic stories, American. [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet A. JacobsISBN 0486419312 (0-486-41931-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her eventual escape, in a tale of dauntless spirit and faith.[via]More editions of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:
The Innocents Abroadby Mark TwainISBN 048642832X (0-486-42832-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Jazzby Toni MorrisonISBN 0452269652 (0-452-26965-2)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz'Book summary:Jazz embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, Jazz sways with a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.
Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners hoping for better lives. Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of this migration; madly in love with each other and the idea of this urban mecca, they "traindanced into the city." But like so many of the marriages in Morrison's novels, this union crumbles, and the dreams for a better life fade away. Joe finds another, a love "that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going."
In Jazz, time ebbs and flows like human memory, traversing between recollections of the past and expectations for the future; likewise, jazz music is often wild and chaotic. Here Morrison once again exemplifies herself as both a superb writer and a masterful storyteller. [via]
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Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0486422267 (0-486-42226-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Set ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that ''wilderness of boys'' that once resided at Plumfield, the New England boarding school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo's boys -- including sailor Emil, promising musician Nat, and rebellious Dan -- are grown up and making their ways in the world with varying degrees of triumph and disaster. Jo herself remains at the center of this tale, holding her boys fast through shipwreck and storm, disappointment. . . and even murder. [via] -
L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Barry MoserISBN 0520058224 (0-520-05822-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0451529820 (0-451-52982-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Of The Mohicans'Book summary:A massacre at a colonial garrison, the kidnapping of 2 pioneer sisters by Iroquois tribesmen, the treachery of a renegade brave, and the ambush of innocent settlers create an unforgettable picture of American frontier life in this imaginative, innovative, and classic 18th-century adventure the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales."[via]More editions of The Last of the Mohicans:
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark Twain, Justin KaplanISBN 0451528174 (0-451-52817-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:The popular 19th-century humorist offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice steamboat pilot on one of the world's greatest rivers to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Engrossing and entertaining anecdotes by a peerless storyteller from a now-finished chapter of American history.[via]More editions of Life on the Mississippi:
The Love Letterby Cathleen SchineISBN 0452279488 (0-452-27948-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Main Streetby Sinclair LewisISBN 0486406555 (0-486-40655-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Martin Dressler : The Tale of an American Dreamerby Steven MillhauserISBN 051770319X (0-517-70319-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Marya : A Lifeby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452280206 (0-452-28020-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marya : A Life'Book summary:Successful author and famous intellectual Marya Knauer did not always occupy such a secure and comfortable position in life. Her memories of her childhood in Innisfail, New York are by turns romantic and traumatic. The early violent death of her father and abandonment by her mother have left her with a permanent sense of dislocation and loss. After decades apart, Marya becomes determined to find the mother who gave her away. In searching for her past, Marya changes her present life more than she could ever have imagined. Vividly evoking the natural beauty of rural upstate New York, and the complex emotions of a woman artist, Marya: A Life is one of Joyce Carol Oates's most deeply personal and fully-realized novels. [via]
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McTeagueby Frank Norris, Eric SolomonISBN 0451528913 (0-451-52891-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'McTeague'Book summary:The novelist Frank Norris is almost forgotten today, but in books like "McTeague," published in 1899, he paved the way for a whole generation of American writers--a generation that included Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis and, less directly, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. McTeague is a dentist saddled with a grasping wife, and the book chronicles his rise and fall in awkward but powerful prose. This type of social realism, so contrary to the uplifting entertainment of the day (and to Mark Twain's more fanciful, comic novels), provided turn-of-the-century America a disturbing mirror in which to view itself. [via]
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Storiesby Mark TwainISBN 0451529243 (0-451-52924-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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An Old-Fashioned Girlby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0517148080 (0-517-14808-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Portable Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy ParkerISBN 0517478552 (0-517-47855-2)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0460013203 (0-460-01320-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark TwainISBN 048640885X (0-486-40885-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'Nhead Wilson'Book summary:Switched at birth by a female slave who fears for her infant son's life, a light-skinned child changes places with the master's white son. This simple premise underlies Twain's engrossing 19th-century tale of reversed identities, an eccentric detective, a horrible crime, and a tense courtroom scene. [via]
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0486264653 (0-486-26465-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'Book summary:Young Civil War soldier Henry Fielding endures the nightmare of battle as he comes to grips with his fears and feelings of cowardice. Stephen Crane's powerful, imaginative, emotionally compelling description of war established him as a major American writer and propelled him to immediate international celebrity.[via]More editions of The Red Badge of Courage:
- The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0486434222 (0-486-43422-2)
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Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0460050907 (0-460-05090-7)
Hardcover, Dent - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0517436280 (0-517-43628-0)
Hardcover, Chatham River Press - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0517668440 (0-517-66844-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0486264653 (0-486-26465-3)
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- The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0486434222 (0-486-43422-2)
Roughing Itby Mark TwainISBN 0486427048 (0-486-42704-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roughing It'Book summary:There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain's Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared.
Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?
Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.
Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn't surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter. Roughing It is wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be--even its grimmer districts--when you're traveling with the right writer. [via]-
Secret Gardenby Random House Value Publishing Staff, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0517189607 (0-517-18960-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Storyby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Troy HowellISBN 0517200198 (0-517-20019-8)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Story'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Storiesby Mark Twain, Macomber, Debbie (AFT), Justin KaplanISBN 0451530160 (0-451-53016-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories'Book summary:[via]For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twains short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County to the richly imaginative fable Extract from Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven. Compiled by Pulitzer Prizewinning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twains wittiest and most insightful writing.
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 0486452387 (0-486-45238-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Three by Tennessee: Sweet Bird of Youth/the Rose Tatto/the Night of the Iguanaby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451529081 (0-451-52908-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0460871110 (0-460-87111-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) (often shortened to Huck Finn) by Mark Twain is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels ever written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [via]
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We Were the Mulvaneysby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452282829 (0-452-28282-9)
Softcover, Plume
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What Maisie Knewby Henry James, P. LivelyISBN 0460878506 (0-460-87850-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'Book summary:What Maisie Knew(1897) is written with humour and insight which belie the novel's generally muddled and unhappy state of affairs. Maisie is used as a pawn by her divorcing parents, and is an observer in their subsequent remarriages and divorces, becoming wise beyond her years and struggling to retain her innocence. [via]
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Christopher Bigsby, Cheryle B. TorsneyISBN 0460876171 (0-460-87617-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Robert BlaisdellISBN 0486285855 (0-486-28585-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In the 100 years since L. Frank Baum first published his Wonderful Wizard of Oz, countless authors and illustrators have adapted, interpreted, and retold this story of Dorothy and her unusual companions, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. But for sheer opulence and sumptuous color, award-winning artist Charles Santore's 100th anniversary edition takes the cake. Santore's large, fairy-tale style watercolors feature ominous, shadowy forests, magnificent but deadly poppies, the whimsical, green-tinted landscapes of Oz, and the golden gray fields of Kansas. Each page is awash in color; many of the two-page spreads have no text to distract readers from the illustrations' myriad details--not-yet-blooming poppy buds, the Tin Woodman's watering can head, and the radiant good witch, Glinda, posing on her ruby-encrusted throne. The text is condensed rather than adapted; so virtually every word is Baum's own. Although some scenes have been left out, Baum's classic story rings through, loud and clear. Sharing this lush edition with a favorite child would be the perfect way to celebrate a century of Oz. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Regina BarrecaISBN 0451530292 (0-451-53029-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: ISBN 0486422488 (0-486-42248-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: ISBN 0517122049 (0-517-12204-9)
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Works of Edgar Allan Poeby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517486555 (0-517-48655-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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El Jardin Secretoby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Aurora Ulsamer, Rafael Diaz Santander, Thea KlirosISBN 0486291995 (0-486-29199-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Jardin Secreto'Book summary:In this abridged adaptation of the classic novel, a lonely orphan discovers the wonders of a mysterious garden and befriends her invalid cousin. [via]
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