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The Big Bird Raceby Bill Oddie, David TomlinsonISBN 0002190532 (0-00-219053-2)
Softcover, Collins
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The Buddha of Suburbiaby Hanif KureishiISBN 014013168X (0-14-013168-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Buddha of Suburbia'Book summary:There's quite a bit of activity in Buddha of Suburbia. A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. All the while, Hanif Kureishi keeps the tone lively with wry wit. On the description of suburban life: "We were proud of never learning anything except the names of footballers, the personnel of rock groups and the lyrics to 'I Am the Walrus.'" He also bends cultures, classes and genders while blasting the racism of British life in this 1990 Whitbread Prize winner. [via]
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C. S. Lewis at the BBC : Messages of Hope in the Darkness of Warby Justin PhillipsISBN 0007104367 (0-00-710436-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Charles Dickensby John LucasISBN 0140772529 (0-14-077252-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Dickens'Book summary:This study of five major novels by Dickens looks at the tensions between the "private" and "public" aspect of his work. [via]
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The Fairly Incomplete & Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Songbookby Terry Gilliam, Gary Marsh, John HurstISBN 0060951168 (0-06-095116-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Gospel According to Matthew: Translation, Introduction, and Commentaryby Francis Wright BeareISBN 0060607319 (0-06-060731-9)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Gospel of St. Lukeby G. B. CairdISBN 0140137734 (0-14-013773-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The History Manby Malcolm BradburyISBN 0140076301 (0-14-007630-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Illustrated Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, DarcyISBN 0142005142 (0-14-200514-2)
Softcover, Studio
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A devoted readership will recognize Dame Darcy as the creator of highly original and off-kilter comic books. Here she uses her lavishly detailed illustrations to bring the best-loved Victorian novel Jane Eyre back into the spotlight. Darkly elegant illustrations draw back the novels curtain, revealing the depths of human depravity, despair, and ultimate redemption. Sure to impress traditional fans and newcomers alike, The Illustrated Jane Eyre updates the classic for a new era.
@ToEyreIsHuman Romance, romance, this poppa Rochester wants to get in my pants!
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Inside Storyby Greg DykeISBN 0007193645 (0-00-719364-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0140366784 (0-14-036678-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:A new edition of one of Penguin's top ten Classics-the novel that has been "teaching true strength of character for generations"[via]
(The Guardian)
A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom. This updated edition features a new introduction discussing the novel's political and magical dimensions.Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay with him whatever the consequences or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving her beloved?
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- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0141441143 (0-14-144114-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0030957648 (0-03-095764-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt School - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0140351310 (0-14-035131-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0140430113 (0-14-043011-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0140434003 (0-14-043400-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0141305371 (0-14-130537-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0142437204 (0-14-243720-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0140366784 (0-14-036678-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0141441143 (0-14-144114-3)
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King Learby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0140714766 (0-14-071476-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Late Great Planet Earth: Library Editionby Hal LindseyISBN 0061041904 (0-06-104190-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Letter from New York/Bbc Woman's Hour Broadcastsby Helene HanffISBN 0060975431 (0-06-097543-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Life on Earth: A Natural Historyby David AttenboroughISBN 0002190915 (0-00-219091-5)
Hardcover, Collins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on Earth: A Natural History'Book summary:In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more than 3,000 million years ago to apelike but upright man, equally well adapted to life in the rain forest of New Guinea and the glass canyons of a modern metropolis. Told through an examination of animal and plant life today - with occasional juxtapositions of extinct fossil forms to reveal the origin of living creatures - "Life on Earth" is an astonishing pageant of life, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of living animals the world over. Attenborough's perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of some four million species of living organisms that populate the planet is to trace the most significant thread in the history of each major group. He then proceeds to explain from the evidence of living representatives and fossil remains why certain animals adapted and survived, evolved to more complex and "higher" forms of life, while others, by some inherent limitation imposed by their physiology or structure, failed and became extinct. "Life on Earth" is a book of wonders. A model of clarity and ease as a guide, Attenborough takes the reader around the world with him into jungles where orchids have petals that "impersonate" wasps to attract pollenizing insects; to Australia, where honeypot ants forcefeed nectar to workers of a special caste, then hang them up by their forelegs like living storge jars; to remote mountains in Japan where little monkeys called macaques have learned to combat the winter snows by bathing in hot volcanic springs. [via]
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The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earthby David Attenborough, Reader's Digest Association (Great Britain), British Broadcasting CorporationISBN 0002191695 (0-00-219169-5)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association in conjunction with W. Collins and the British Broadcasting Corp
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The Making of Pride and Prejudiceby Sue Birtwistle, Susie ConklinISBN 014025157X (0-14-025157-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:The Making of Pride and Prejudice reveals in compelling detail how Jane Austen's classic novel was transformed into the stunning television drama starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. It vividly brings to life every stage of production of this sumptuous series.[via]More editions of The Making of Pride and Prejudice:
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Middlemarchby George Eliot, Rosemary AshtonISBN 0141439548 (0-14-143954-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:In a panoramic sweep of the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, George Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamund Vincy, beautiful and egoistic; Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar; Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally flawed physician; the passionate artist, Will Ladislaw; and Fred Vincy and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's comic vein. [via]
The Pelican New Testament Commentaries the Gospel of Saint Matthewby J. FentonISBN 0140204881 (0-14-020488-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Richard IIby William Shakespeare, Stanley WellsISBN 0140707190 (0-14-070719-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard II'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 Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4by Sue TownsendISBN 0060533994 (0-06-053399-4)
Softcover, Avon Tempest
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The Story of Englishby Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeilISBN 0140154051 (0-14-015405-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of English'Book summary:[via]Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written Englishfrom its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture with more than one billion English speakers around the world. From Cockney, Scouse, and Scots to Gulla, Singlish, Franglais, and the latest African American slang, this sweeping history of the English language is the essential introduction for anyone who wants to know more about our common tongue.
Ten Seconds from Now: A Broadcaster's Storyby Godfrey Walker TalbotISBN 0091141206 (0-09-114120-6)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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The Tragedy of King Richard the Secondby William Shakespeare, Matthew Wilson BlackISBN 0140714065 (0-14-071406-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of King Richard the Second'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 the Secondby William Shakespeare, Frances E. DolanISBN 0140714820 (0-14-071482-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Richard the Second'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 Tripods Trilogyby John ChristopherISBN 0020425716 (0-02-042571-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth Gaskell, Pam MorrisISBN 014043478X (0-14-043478-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wives and Daughters'Book summary:1865 novel from the English novelist and short story writer, whose writings can be seen as critiques of Victorian era attitudes, particularly those toward women, with complex narratives and dynamic women characters. [via]
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