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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Emory ElliottISBN 0192824414 (0-19-282441-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic attack on racism American-style, Twain's story of what he once called a "sound heart" triumphing over a "deformed conscience" is poignant, powerful, and fresh. It is no wonder that this extraordinary book continues to captivate readers around the world. This handsome Oxford World's Classic edition uses the reliable 1885 text and includes in-depth, up-to-date editorial apparatus. [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Peter StoneleyISBN 0192806823 (0-19-280682-3)
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Anglo-Saxon Englandby F. M. StentonISBN 0192801392 (0-19-280139-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anglo-Saxon England'Book summary:This classic history covers the period c. 550-1087 and traces the development of English society from the oldest Anglo-Saxon laws, the growth of royal power, and the extension of private lordship to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest. [via]
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Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art and Thoughtby George SteinerISBN 0192819348 (0-19-281934-8)
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--ivby Aristotle, J. O. Urmson, J. L. Ackrill, W.D. Ross, David RossISBN 019283407X (0-19-283407-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--iv'Book summary:This revised translation of Aristotle's classic treatise contains all ten books of his vastly influential work of moral philosophy. Founded on the famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency, the book offers an illuminating discource on moral virtue, intellectual virtue, pleasure, friendship, happiness, and many other topics. [via]
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The Awakeningby Kate Chopin, Pamela KnightsISBN 0192823000 (0-19-282300-0)
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Beauty And Artby Elizabeth PrettejohnISBN 0192801600 (0-19-280160-0)
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Christian Art: A Very Short Introductionby Beth WilliamsonISBN 019280328X (0-19-280328-X)
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Classics: A Very Short Introductionby John Henderson, Mary BeardISBN 0192853856 (0-19-285385-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classics: A Very Short Introduction'Book summary:We are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality? This introduction to the classics begins with a visit to the British Museum to view the frieze which once decorated the Apollo Temple a Bassae. Through these sculptures John Henderson and Mary Beard prompt us to consider the significance of the study of Classics as a means of discovery and enquiry, its value in terms of literature, philosophy, and culture, its source of imagery, and the reasons for the continuation of these images into and beyond the twentieth century. Designed for the general reader and student alike, A Very Short Introduction to Classics challenges readers to adopt a fresh approach to the Classics as a major cultural influence, both in the ancient world and twentieth-century--emphasizing the continuing need to understand and investigate this enduring subject.
About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam. [via]More editions of Classics: A Very Short Introduction:
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Complete Worksby Thomas MaloryISBN 0192812173 (0-19-281217-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works'Book summary:This single-volume edition of the complete works of Sirhe Thomas Malory retains his 15th-century English while providing an introduction, glossary, and fifty pages of explanatory notes on each romance. [via]
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Early Art and Architecture of Africaby Peter GarlakeISBN 0192842617 (0-19-284261-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Art and Architecture of Africa'Book summary:This new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Garlake focuses on seven key regions--southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West Africa, Great Zimbabwe, and the East African coast--treating each in detail and setting them in their social and historical context. Garlake is long familiar with and has extensive practical experience of both the archaeology and the art history of Africa. Using the latest research and archaeological findings, he offers exciting new insights into the works native to these areas, and he also puts forth new interpretations of several key cultures and monuments.
Acknowledging the universal allure of the African art object, this stunning book helps us to understand more about the ways in which this art was produced, used, and received. [via]More editions of Early Art and Architecture of Africa:
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East European Art 1650-1950by Jeremy HowardISBN 0192842242 (0-19-284224-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'East European Art 1650-1950'Book summary:Written by leading scholars at the forefront of new thinking, many of whom are rising stars in their fields, the Oxford History of Art series offers substantial and innovative texts that clarify, illuminate, and debate the critical issues at the heart of art history today. This groundbreaking series makes use of new research and methodologies, as well as newly accessible and non-canonical works, to offer comprehensive coverage of the art world. Lavishly illustrated and superbly designed, the Oxford History of Art brings new substance and verve to the exciting and ubiquitous world of art.
The latest addition to the series is a pioneering overview of the visual cultures of Eastern Europe in the modern age. Here, art historian Jeremy Howard challenges traditional definitions of what constitutes "European" art and embraces the whole spectrum of art creation, including painting, sculpture, architecture, the applied arts, photography, and performance. Avoiding conventional art historical divisions, Howard focuses on the many hidden relationships between the different art forms and artistic cultures that flourished in the vast region known as Eastern Europe, and how these cultures inter-related with the wider world. In addition to the rise and fall of the two great art academies in Vienna and St. Petersburg, Howard examines the blending of migratory and sedentary cultures in the region, the role of women, and the political manipulation of the image. He brings to the fore many overlooked artists and concentrates on neglected elements of work by better-known figures. Throughout, he reveals how the Habsburg, Romanov, and Ottoman empires vied with one another through art and how individuals and nations strove to maintain and realize their voice through visual language.
Bringing light to a woefully neglected subject, Howard has produced a work that will prove essential reading for lovers of art history and Eastern European culture. [via]More editions of East European Art 1650-1950:
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Eroticism & Artby Alyce MahonISBN 0192801872 (0-19-280187-2)
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Eroticism and Artby Alyce MahonISBN 0192807331 (0-19-280733-1)
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Fashionby Christopher BrewardISBN 0192840304 (0-19-284030-4)
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Faust Part 1by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192835955 (0-19-283595-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Part 1'Book summary:This new translation, in rhymed verse, of goethe's faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of european literature--preserves the essence of goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the german ever achieved [via]
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Faust, Part Twoby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192826166 (0-19-282616-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust, Part Two'Book summary:This is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable and actable translation which includes an introduction, full notes, and an index of classical mythology. [via]
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First Men in the Moonby H. G. Wells, David LakeISBN 0192828282 (0-19-282828-2)
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The Flight to Italy: Dairy and Selected Lettersby T.J. Reed, Johann Wolfgang GoetheISBN 0192838865 (0-19-283886-5)
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The Flowers of Evilby Charles Baudelaire, James McGowanISBN 0192835459 (0-19-283545-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flowers of Evil'Book summary:This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection. This book is intended for general readers interested in Baudelaire, French poetry and 19th-century French culture. Students of Baudelaire, French literature. [via]
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Gorgiasby Plato, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0192836307 (0-19-283630-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gorgias'Book summary:One of Plato's most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosophy--and to everyone for its vividness, clarity, and occassional bitter humor--this new translation is accompanied by explanatory notes and an illuminating and accessible introduction. [via]
Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Margaret CardwellISBN 0192833596 (0-19-283359-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:With a new introduction and notes, this edition of Great Expectations offers new insights into one of Dickens's most fascinating and disturbing novels. Charting the progess of Pip from childhood to adulthood, Dickens shows the dangers of being driven by a desire for wealth and social status. As Pip moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering many extraordinary characters--from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, a woman locked up with her past--he is confronted with the challenge of establishing a sense of his own identity and values contrary to the plans others have for him. [via]
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Henry IVby William Shakespeare, Rene WeisISBN 0192831437 (0-19-283143-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of various critical approaches, offers a history of the play in performance from Shakespeare's time to ours, and provides useful information on its historical background. Readers will also find detailed commentary on individual words and phrases, and selections from Shakespeare's sources. [via]
The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alan MyersISBN 0192834118 (0-19-283411-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idiot'Book summary:The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accomodate his moral idealism. Meticulously faithful to the original, this new translation includes explanatory notes and a critical introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow. [via]
The Iliadby Homer, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 0192815946 (0-19-281594-6)
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Indian Artby Partha MitterISBN 0192842218 (0-19-284221-8)
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Helen Cooper, Thomas MaloryISBN 0192824201 (0-19-282420-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:The greatest English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte D'Arthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, "knight prisoner." This edition is the first designed for the general reader to be based on the "Winchester manuscript" which represents what Malory wrote more closely than the version printed by William Caxton. Extensively annotated, this edition is highly user-friendly. [via]
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Leonardo Da Vinciby Martin KempISBN 0192807250 (0-19-280725-0)
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Little Lord Fauntleroyby Dennis Butts, Frances H. BurnettISBN 0192829610 (0-19-282961-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Lord Fauntleroy'Book summary:Little Lord Fauntleroy, which sold one million copies on its first publication in 1886, is the engaging, amusing, and moving story of a boy living on the edge of poverty in New York who suddenly learns that he is the heir to an English lord with vast lands and wealth. The text includes significant variations from the first serialization of the story and the first American edition. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Valerie AldersonISBN 0192834347 (0-19-283434-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:This classic story of the March family women and their lives in New England during the Civil War has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868. Poor, argumentative, loving, and optimistic, the March sisters struggle to supplement their family's meager income and realize their own dreams. This highly autobiographical novel shows us women who are strong-minded and independent in their determination to control their own destiny. The introduction to this edition provides a fascinating history of the Alcotts, and a biographical history of Louisa Alcott's own struggles as a writer. [via]
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The Lost Stradivariusby John Meade Falkner, Edward WilsonISBN 0192828487 (0-19-282848-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Stradivarius'Book summary:Set in Oxford and Naples during the 1840s, The Lost Stradivarius is a tale of demonic possession and of the terrible price paid by "those who would exalt art at the expense of everything else." Though long recognized as a classic and gripping story of the occult, it is also a work which touches the "decadent" years of the nineteenth century at sensitive points--the psychical, the moral, and the aesthetic. This is the only annotated edition available and it contains extensive notes about the Aesthetic Movement, neoplatonism, and musical instruments. [via]
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The Mabinogionby Sioned DaviesISBN 0192832425 (0-19-283242-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history--these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of hanging a pregnant mouse and hunting a magical boar. Dragons, witches, and giants live alongside kings and heroes, and quests of honour, revenge, and love are set against the backdrop of a country struggling to retain its independence.
This new translation, the first for thirty years, recreates the storytelling world of medieval Wales and re-invests the tales with the power of performance. [via]More editions of The Mabinogion:
Marius the Epicureanby Walter Pater, Ian SmallISBN 0192817051 (0-19-281705-1)
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Measure for Measureby William Shakespeare, N. W. BawcuttISBN 019281446X (0-19-281446-X)
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Medieval Architectureby Nicola ColdstreamISBN 0192842765 (0-19-284276-5)
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The Medieval Idea of Marriageby Christopher N.L. BrookeISBN 0192852396 (0-19-285239-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medieval Idea of Marriage'Book summary:This book offers an in-depth look at the nature of medieval marriage in the period 1000 to 1500. Brooke surveys current approaches to the idea of marriage, exploring the practice and law of marriage, the cult of celibacy in the 11th and 12th centuries, and the relationship between marriage and architecture. He draws on a wide range of case studies and other sources, including the letters of Heloise and Abelard, the epics of Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Chaucer's poetry. [via]
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Jay L. HalioISBN 019283424X (0-19-283424-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:This edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introduction which addresses Shakespeare's attitude toward Semitism and establishes the cultural, historical, and literary context in which Shakespeare wrote the play. An interesting range of production photographs and drawings of Renaissance merchants and Jews, and a survey of the play's stage history ranging from discussions of its early staging to important twentieth-century productions and performances outside England, particularly Israel, makes this an ideal edition for students, actors, and the general reader. [via]
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Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetryby George Bull, Peter Porter, George Anthony Bull, Michelangelo Buonarroti Selections, Ascanio Vita Di Michelangelo Buonarroti CondiviISBN 0192816039 (0-19-281603-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry'Book summary:Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment. George Bull, a distinguished translator of many Italian classics, has brought his skill and experience to bear on translating this new selection of Michelangelo's letters and poetry, as well as the Life, the biography written by Michelangelo's pupil Ascanio Condivi. [via]
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Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetryby Peter Porter, George Anthony BullISBN 0192837702 (0-19-283770-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry'Book summary:Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment. George Bull, a distinguished translator of many Italian classics, has brought his skill and experience to bear on translating this new selection of Michelangelo's letters and poetry, as well as the Life, the biography written by Michelangelo's pupil Ascanio Condivi. [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Tony TannerISBN 0192833855 (0-19-283385-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discussed the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery. [via]
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Janet SharistanianISBN 019283200X (0-19-283200-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Nanaby Emile Zola, Douglas ParmeeISBN 0192836706 (0-19-283670-6)
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The Oregon Trailby Francis Parkman, Bernard RosenthalISBN 0192839128 (0-19-283912-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oregon Trail'Book summary:The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that would ultimately take him over two thousand miles. His detailed description of the journey, set against the vast majesty of the Great Plains, has emerged through the generations as a classic narrative of one man's exploration of the American Wilderness. [via]
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert Darwin, Gillian BeerISBN 019283438X (0-19-283438-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by "natural selection." The Origin communicates the enthusiasm of original thinking in an open, descriptive style, and Darwin's emphasis on the value of diversity speaks more strongly now than ever. As well as a stimulating introduction and detailed notes, this edition offers a register of the many writers referred to by Darwin in the text. [via]
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Gillian Beer, Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0192817833 (0-19-281783-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by "natural selection." The Origin communicates the enthusiasm of original thinking in an open, descriptive style, and Darwin's emphasis on the value of diversity speaks more strongly now than ever. As well as a stimulating introduction and detailed notes, this edition offers a register of the many writers referred to by Darwin in the text. [via]
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0192814516 (0-19-281451-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:If anything, Othello has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour. Othello is a "noble Moor", a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian state's most reliable soldiers. However, his ensign Iago harbours an obscure hatred against his general, and when Othello secretly marries the beautiful daughter of the Venetian senator Brabanzio, Iago begins his subtle campaign of vilification, which will inevitably lead to the deaths of more than just Othello and Desdemona.
An extraordinary play, both for its dramatic economy and power as well as its remarkable language, from Othello's bombastic "traveller's history" to Desdemona's elegiac "willow song", the play raises uncomfortable questions about ongoing questions of not only racial identity but also sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's sexual relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of Iago's attempt to destroy them. Particularly fascinated with the question of what it means to "see", Othello also contains one of the greatest tragic death scenes in all of Shakespeare, with Othello's final identification with "a malignant and a turbaned Turk". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Artsby Harold OsborneISBN 0192818635 (0-19-281863-5)
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The Oxford Dictionary Of Saintsby David Farmer, David Hugh FarmerISBN 0192800582 (0-19-280058-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Dictionary Of Saints'Book summary:More than 1,300 saints are profiled in this most readable, extensive, and enlightening of references. Curious about the saint you're named after? Attending a feast day for a saint you never heard of? Want an obscure saint to include in your historical novel? Or merely desirous of the kind of feet-up-by-the-fire perusal that only a well-written reference text can provide? David Farmer's compilation of saints includes all English saints; all saints of whom there is or was a notable cult; important saints from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the rest of Europe; and recently canonized saints. Arranged alphabetically, the dictionary starts with Abbo of Fleury, ends with Zosimus of Syracuse, and includes Pelagia of Antioch, Crispina of Tagora, Cunegund the empress, and a wide assortment of other martyrs, popes, spiritual seers, and those, such as Crispin of Viterbo, who were canonized simply for their humble lives and Christian faith. There's also a wonderful appendix of the principal patronages of saints--telling, for example, who's the patron saint of healthy dogs (Hubert) and mad dogs (Sithney), plus an index of the main iconographical emblems of saints, another of places, and a calendar of feast days. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Oxford History of Christianityby John McMannersISBN 0192803360 (0-19-280336-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of Christianity'Book summary:Spanning two thousand years of stirring religious, cultural and political events, this authoritative volume provides the most accessible history of Christianity ever published for the general reader.
The impact of Christianity on world civilization is almost incalculable, and in exploring this rich heritage, nineteen leading scholars range from the earliest origins to the present day to examine virtually every aspect of the faith. They discuss the apostle Peter and Roman Emperor Constantine, describe the role of Charlemagne in the expansion of the religion, and assess medieval scholasticism and the influence of Thomas Aquinas. The profound changes that occurred during both the Reformation and the Enlightenment are fully treated in chapters that offer revealing portraits of such key figures as Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Wesley, and Rousseau. The book explores the faith as practiced in Britain and Europe, North and South America, Africa, India, and the Far East--offering a compelling continuous narrative filled with insight into the enormously diverse Christian world.
Comprehensive, vividly narrated, and exquisitely produced, this magnificent book captures the richness and vitality of Christian thought and culture throughout the ages. [via]More editions of The Oxford History of Christianity:
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The Oxford History of the Classical World Vol. 2 : The Roman Worldby John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn MurrayISBN 0192821660 (0-19-282166-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of the Classical World Vol. 2 : The Roman World'Book summary:"The Oxford history of the classical world" aims to present the general reader with a view of the Graeco-Roman world, its history and achievements. This volume covers early Rome and Italy, the expansion of the Roman Republic, the foundation of the Roman Empire by Augustus and its consolidation in the first 2 centuries AD. The later Empire and its influence on western civilization is also discussed. Chapters, written by established historians, consider the political and social history and are interspersed with sections on literature, philosophy and the arts. The historical framework is reinforced by maps and chronological charts. The companion text is "The Oxford history of the classical world - Greece and the Hellenistic world". [via]
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The Oxford History of the Roman Worldby John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn MurrayISBN 0192802038 (0-19-280203-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of the Roman World'Book summary:In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire and its consolidation in the first two centuries AD, this book reproduces the text of the acclaimed Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome in a standard paperback form.
Written by a team of specialist scholars, it includes chapters on social and political history, the Emperors, art and architecture, and the works of the leading Roman poets, historians, and philosophers. Retaining the original line drawings and maps, this edition contains a new eight-page plate section, specially selected by John Boardman. [via]More editions of The Oxford History of the Roman World:
The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianityby John McMannersISBN 0192854399 (0-19-285439-9)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John Bunyan, W. R. OwensISBN 0192803611 (0-19-280361-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:One of the best-selling books of all time, The Pilgrim's Progress holds a unique place in the history of English literature. Bunyan captures the speech of ordinary people as accurately as he depicts their behavior and appearance and as firmly as he realizes their inner emotional and spiritual life. [via]
Portraitureby Shearer WestISBN 0192842587 (0-19-284258-7)
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella, Maurizio ViroliISBN 019280426X (0-19-280426-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:Described both as a practical rule-book containing timeless precepts for the diplomat and as a handbook of evil, this work of great originality--based on first-hand experience--provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power. [via]
Sculpture 1900-1945: After Rodinby Penelope CurtisISBN 0192842285 (0-19-284228-5)
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Selected Writingsby William Hazlitt, John CookISBN 0192838008 (0-19-283800-8)
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Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Ed by Irma Richter. a Galaxy Book.by Leonardo Da VinciISBN 0192812149 (0-19-281214-9)
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The Song of the Larkby Willa Cather, Janet SharistanianISBN 0192832018 (0-19-283201-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of the Lark'Book summary:The daughter of a Swedish minister growing up in Colorado, Thea Kronborg's adolescent ability on the piano is encouraged by her eccentric German music teacher, Professor Wuncsch, and by the kindly but unhappily married Dr. Howard Archie. Set apart from the townspeople by her talents, Thea's friends are far from conventional. At 17 she leaves them and her mother's influence to go to Chicago where she studies with the pianist Andor Harsanyi. Having overheard her singing in a church, he is the mentor who discovers the potential of Thea's singing voice and sends her to study with the chill and selfish Madison Bowers, whom she dislikes. Her story moves to Arizona when she and a wealthy young brewer, Fred Ottenburg fall in love. A tension between her relationship with him and the driving artistic impulse that has always ruled her develops and becomes the novel's compelling central theme.
Cather's lyrical, atmospheric and moving novel is a thinly veiled autobiography of a female artist in America at the turn of the century. A mature work filled with memorable characters all of whom influence Thea in different ways, The Song of the Lark deserves to be read alongside O Pioneers! and My Antonia and fully justifies Cather's status as one of America's greatest twentieth-century writers. [via]More editions of The Song of the Lark:
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Twentieth Century Designby Jonathan M. WoodhamISBN 0192842048 (0-19-284204-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twentieth Century Design'Book summary:The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald's logo are known the world over and may tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics. One of the world's foremost design historians, Jonathan Woodham takes a fresh look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and the Far East. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, he explores themes such as national identity, the "Americanization" of ideology and business methods, the rise of multi-nationals, Pop and Postmodernism, and contemporary ideas of nostalgia and heritage. Woodham sets the proliferation of everyday design against the writing of critics as diverse as Nikolaus Pevsner, the champion of Modernism, and Vance Packard, author of The Hidden Persuaders. The history which emerges is clearly seen for what it is: the powerful and complex expression of aesthetic, social, economic, political, and technological forces. [via]
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Twentieth-Century American Artby Erika Lee DossISBN 0192842390 (0-19-284239-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twentieth-Century American Art'Book summary:Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, a rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture and society, as well as America's position within the international art world.
This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships between American art, museums, and audiences in the century that came to be called the "American century." Extending beyond New York, it covers the emergence of Feminist art in Los Angeles in the 1970s; the Black art movement; the expansion of galleries and art schools; and the highly political public controversies surrounding arts funding. All the key movements are fully discussed, including early American Modernism, the New Negro movement, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Neo-Expressionism. [via]More editions of Twentieth-Century American Art:
Under Western Eyes: Library Editionby Joseph Conrad, Jeremy HawthornISBN 0192801716 (0-19-280171-6)
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, Stephen FenderISBN 0192839217 (0-19-283921-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and sense of history--social, economic, and natural. An ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which he gave close attention as he became acclimated to his life in the woods by Walden Pond. [via]
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, David Y. HughesISBN 0192828266 (0-19-282826-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth GrahameISBN 0192835157 (0-19-283515-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind in the Willows'Book summary:Inspired by correspondence from Wind in the Willow's author Kenneth Grahame to his young son, award-winning illustrator Michael Foreman took up paint and brush to follow Mole, Ratty, Mr. Badger, and Toad through another edition of this well-loved kids classic.
Grahame's time-honored story, an adventure-filled idyll that meanders across a lovingly described English countryside, cemented its status as a masterpiece generations ago. But this newest edition adds some noteworthy extras: the unabridged text includes two chapters that don't appear in some modern versions ("The Pipers at the Gates of Dawn" and "Wayfarers All"), and the book closes with reproductions of two of Grahame's actual letters to his son Alistair ("My darling Mouse") in 1907, written on ornate, old-timey stationery from two Cornwall hotels and recounting one of Toad's first adventures (which Toad fans will recognize as the train-assisted escape of a certain "washerwoman").
These inclusions alone might merit a new edition, but Foreman's illustrations stand shoulder to shoulder with those of previous Winds artists (among them Ernest Shepard, the original illustrator, and Arthur Rackham, both of whom Foreman modestly stands "in awe" of). The lively, full-color illustrations appear generously throughout the book, as they convincingly capture both the story's small moments (like the washerwoman's weeping, for one) and more explosive events (like the storming of Toad Hall). (All ages) --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. DenslowISBN 0192839306 (0-19-283930-6)
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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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The Wood Beyond the Worldby William MorrisISBN 0192813013 (0-19-281301-3)
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