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1984by George Orwell, Mike DeanISBN 0582777313 (0-582-77731-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Orwell's classic novel tells the story of a world where thoughts and actions are controlled by the all-seeing Big Brother. When Winston Smith rebels and searches for the truth he learns a painful lesson about his world and the people in it. Also a powerful film directed by Michael Radford. [via]
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt, B. M. Mooyaart-DoubledayISBN 0553296981 (0-553-29698-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl'Book summary:A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Her marvelously detailed, engagingly personal entries chronicle 25 trying months of claustrophobic, quarrelsome intimacy with her parents, sister, a second family, and a middle-aged dentist who has little tolerance for Anne's vivacity. The diary's universal appeal stems from its riveting blend of the grubby particulars of life during wartime (scant, bad food; shabby, outgrown clothes that can't be replaced; constant fear of discovery) and candid discussion of emotions familiar to every adolescent (everyone criticizes me, no one sees my real nature, when will I be loved?). Yet Frank was no ordinary teen: the later entries reveal a sense of compassion and a spiritual depth remarkable in a girl barely 15. Her death epitomizes the madness of the Holocaust, but for the millions who meet Anne through her diary, it is also a very individual loss. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0582530334 (0-582-53033-4)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World'Book summary:"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. [via]
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Colour of Magicby Terry PratchettISBN 0552124753 (0-552-12475-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colour of Magic'Book summary:paperback, vg++ [via]
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Jacob Grimm, Lily OwensISBN 0517229250 (0-517-22925-0)
Hardcover, Gramercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:More than 200 tales by the Brothers Grimm. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Jack D. Zipes, Johnny Gruelle, Jacob W. GrimmISBN 0553212389 (0-553-21238-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Bothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. Volume II contains 142 unabridged tales, including such bedtime favorites as "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes," as well as 32 little-known tales that the Brothers Grimm omitted during the course of their many revisions. These wonderful tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not only to children--who unabashedly love them--but to readers of any age. [via]
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Jack David Zipes, John B. GruelleISBN 0553382160 (0-553-38216-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby John B. Gruelle, Jack ZipesISBN 0553371010 (0-553-37101-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of once upon a time, the fairly tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. [via]
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The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525457232 (0-525-45723-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh'Book summary:When Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he likes doing best in the world, Pooh says, after much thought, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing."
Happy readers for over 70 years couldn't agree more. Pooh's status as a "Bear of Very Little Brain" belies his profoundly eternal wisdom in the ways of the world. To many, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and the others are as familiar and important as their own family members. A.A. Milne's classics, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, are brought together in this beautiful edition, complete and unabridged, with recolored illustrations by Milne's creative counterpart, Ernest H. Shepard. Join Pooh and the gang as they meet a Heffalump, help get Pooh unstuck from Rabbit's doorway, (re)build a house for Eeyore, and try to unbounce Tigger. A childhood is simply not complete without full participation in all of Pooh's adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Dealing With Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0590457225 (0-590-45722-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Editionby Anne FrankISBN 0553577123 (0-553-57712-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition'Book summary:Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about and tried to cope with her own sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreements with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when she went into the Secret Annex with her family. [via]
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The Fires of Heavenby Robert JordanISBN 0606120785 (0-606-12078-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The First Quarto of Hamletby William Shakespeare, Kathleen O. Irace, A. R. Braunmuller, Brian GibbonsISBN 0521653908 (0-521-65390-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Quarto of Hamlet'Book summary:The first printed text of Shakespeare's Hamlet is about half the length of the more familiar second quarto and Folio versions. It reorders and combines key plot elements to present its own workable alternatives. This is the only modernized critical edition of the 1603 quarto in print. Kathleen Irace explains its possible origins, special features and surprisingly rich performance history, and while describing textual differences between it and other versions, offers alternatives that actors or directors might choose for specific productions. [via]
Greenwitchby Susan CooperISBN 0606007008 (0-606-00700-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Ralph Manheim, Jacob GrimmISBN 0575025077 (0-575-02507-7)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Guardians of the Westby David EddingsISBN 0606012451 (0-606-01245-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards, Philip EdwadsISBN 0521532523 (0-521-53252-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- Hamlet: ISBN 0521618746 (0-521-61874-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0553212923 (0-553-21292-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Hamlet: ISBN 0573691444 (0-573-69144-4)
Softcover, Bakers Plays - Hamlet: ISBN 0582527414 (0-582-52741-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - Hamlet: ISBN 0521094747 (0-521-09474-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521293669 (0-521-29366-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521434947 (0-521-43494-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521646359 (0-521-64635-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 052122151X (0-521-22151-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0582527422 (0-582-52742-2)
Hardcover, Longmans - Hamlet: ISBN 0521532523 (0-521-53252-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
- Hamlet: ISBN 0521618746 (0-521-61874-6)
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Hamletby Julia Markus, Paul JordanISBN 0582097207 (0-582-09720-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:* Includes an informative, detailed and practical introduction to Shakespeare's life, times and language. * Supports the texts with useful notes. * Provides activities for before, during and after study. [via]
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517542099 (0-517-54209-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:Don't panic! You're not timetripping! It's the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams's zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!
By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.
For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who've read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams's unique universe -- remember -- don't panic, don't forget to bring a towel, and don't forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe. [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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The Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Arthur Rackham, Wilhelm K. Grimm, Jacob W. GrimmISBN 0517285258 (0-517-28525-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:Sixty tales from the collections of the Grimm brothers. [via]
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The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517599244 (0-517-59924-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:State-of-the-art, digitally generated graphic images and tricky visual puns accompany the complete text of the cult classic story of one young man's zany adventures in outer space. 50,000 first printing. [via]
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0582421152 (0-582-42115-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Book'Book summary:One of the all-time favorite stories from Rudyard Kipling is back, featuring delightful full-color and black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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The Jungle Books and Just So Storiesby Kipling RudyardISBN 0553211994 (0-553-21199-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Books and Just So Stories'Book summary:First published in 1894 and 1895, The Jungle Books remain some of the most beloved tales of all time. Adored by readers of all ages, these classic stories in two volumes spin the unforgettable story of Mowglia boy raised by a pack of wolvesas he learns indelible lessons about the laws of the jungle as well as the needs of the heart. Through Mowglis journey, readers also meet the tiger Shere Khan, who stalks man and beast alike, the rock python Kaa, who dispenses wisdom, and the aging wolf Akela, who struggles as his leadership of the pack is challenged. Set in India, Kiplings great masterpiece is an allegory for Britains imperialism, filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters. The mythic tale of a boy looking for where he truly belongseither with the man-pack of the village or the wolf-pack of the wildThe Jungle Books touch both our intellect and our emotions, while Kiplings dazzling storytelling makes them the timeless archetype for popular tales to come. [via]
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King of the Murgosby David EddingsISBN 060601246X (0-606-01246-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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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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› Find signed collectible books: 'L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas. [via]
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Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0606001964 (0-606-00196-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0606215972 (0-606-21597-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Mostly Harmlessby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517577402 (0-517-57740-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mostly Harmless'Book summary:Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings. [via]
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Nightby Elie WieselISBN 0553208071 (0-553-20807-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night'Book summary:Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's wrenching attempt to find meaning in the horror of the Holocaust is technically a novel, but it's based so closely on his own experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald that it's generally--and not inaccurately--read as an autobiography. Like Wiesel himself, the protagonist of Night is a scholarly, pious teenager racked with guilt at having survived the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died. [via]
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0553211374 (0-553-21137-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey. [via]
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0553213105 (0-553-21310-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:Mrs Bennet wants all of her five daughters to marry and to marry well. When two rich young men come to the village, Mrs Bennet is sure that they will make wonderful husbands. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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- Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0582419352 (0-582-41935-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 059008576X (0-590-08576-X)
Softcover, Scholastic - Pride And Prejudice: ISBN 0521825148 (0-521-82514-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Pride And Prejudice: ISBN 0531169944 (0-531-16994-4)
Hardcover, Franklin Watts - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0563371900 (0-563-37190-0)
Hardcover, Bbc Pubns - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0521576547 (0-521-57654-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0517385899 (0-517-38589-9)
Hardcover, Greenwich House - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0525183817 (0-525-18381-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0606019332 (0-606-01933-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0553213105 (0-553-21310-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
- Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0582419352 (0-582-41935-2)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517415127 (0-517-41512-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Pride and Prejudice : Oxford World Classicsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517606097 (0-517-60609-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice : Oxford World Classics'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Prodigal Summerby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0571206484 (0-571-20648-4)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prodigal Summer'Book summary:There is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in daily life but are also on familiar terms with the eternal. With Prodigal Summer, she returns from the Congo to a "wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness." And there, in an isolated pocket of southern Appalachia, she recounts not one but three intricate stories.
Exuberant, lush, riotous--the summer of the novel is "the season of extravagant procreation" in which bullfrogs carelessly lay their jellied masses of eggs in the grass, "apparently confident that their tadpoles would be able to swim through the lawn like little sperms," and in which a woman may learn to "tell time with her skin." It is also the summer in which a family of coyotes moves into the mountains above Zebulon Valley:
The ghost of a creature long extinct was coming in on silent footprints, returning to the place it had once held in the complex anatomy of this forest like a beating heart returned to its body. This is what she believed she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration.
The "she" is Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist observing the coyotes from her isolated aerie--isolated, that is, until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more aware of the truth that humans are only an infinitesimal portion in the ecological balance. This truth forms the axis around which the other two narratives revolve: the story of a city girl, entomologist, and new widow and her efforts to find a place for herself; and the story of Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, who seem bent on thrashing out the countless intimate lessons of biology as only an irascible traditional farmer and a devotee of organic agriculture can. As Nannie lectures Garnett, "Everything alive is connected to every other by fine, invisible threads. Things you don't see can help you plenty, and things you try to control will often rear back and bite you, and that's the moral of the story."Structurally, that gossamer web is the story: images, phrases, and events link the narratives, and these echoes are rarely obvious, always serendipitous. Kingsolver is one of those authors for whom the terrifying elegance of nature is both aesthetic wonder and source of a fierce and abiding moral vision. She may have inherited Thoreau's mantle, but she piles up riches of her own making, blending her extravagant narrative gift with benevolent concise humor. She treads the line between the sentimental and the glorious like nobody else in American literature. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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The Ruby Knightby David EddingsISBN 0606012508 (0-606-01250-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Sabrielby Garth NixISBN 0606118144 (0-606-11814-4)
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Searching for Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0590457217 (0-590-45721-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Searching for Dragons'Book summary:Expected by his advisors to take a princess as his bride, young King Mendanbar declines, until he meets Princess Cimerone, a young woman who once ran off with dragons in order to avoid an unwanted betrothal. Reprint. K. SLJ. AB. [via]
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0553213342 (0-553-21334-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via] -
Sense And Sensibilityby Cherry Gilchrist, Jane AustenISBN 0582416892 (0-582-41689-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
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Shelters of Stoneby Jean M. AuelISBN 055328942X (0-553-28942-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shelters of Stone'Book summary:Jean Auel's fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, is the biggest comeback bestseller in Amazon.com history. In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar's mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancée? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can't quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn't just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed "abominations." What would Jondalar's tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel's first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It's an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George EliotISBN 055321229X (0-553-21229-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe'Book summary:Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear. [via]
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fishby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517554399 (0-517-55439-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'Book summary:Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. God only knows what it all means. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it's light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new? [via]
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A Song for Arbonneby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0517593122 (0-517-59312-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Song for Arbonne'Book summary:Facing conquest by the neighboring Gorhaut--ruled by a dour, crusading, misogynist lord--the men and women of Arbonne find that their fates lie in the hands of a rough-hewn mercenary captain. 25,000 first printing. [via]
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Tea With the Black Dragonby R.A. MacAvoyISBN 0553279920 (0-553-27992-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0553211684 (0-553-21168-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is edited by Rex Gibson, Director, Shakespeare and Schools Project. [via]
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Valley of Horsesby Jean M. AuelISBN 0553250531 (0-553-25053-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valley of Horses'Book summary:This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.
Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides to stay and prepare for the long glacial winter ahead. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals dont fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind. [via]More editions of Valley of Horses:
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Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Valley of Horses: ISBN 051754489X (0-517-54489-X)
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary EdmondsISBN 0517399938 (0-517-39993-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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When Spring Comesby Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, Stacey SchuettISBN 0525450084 (0-525-45008-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Why Shoot a Butler?by Georgette HeyerISBN 052523375X (0-525-23375-X)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, Nigel WilliamsISBN 0571160565 (0-571-16056-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Winnie-La-Puby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard, Ralph A. Lewin, Humphrey Tonkin, Ivy Kellerman ReedISBN 0525430105 (0-525-43010-5)
Hardcover, E.P. Dutton
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Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525444432 (0-525-44443-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winnie-The-Pooh'Book summary:Back by popular demand, the four full-color gift editions of the original Pooh classics are available again. These elegant books, larger in format than the classic editions, include all of Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations, each meticulously hand-painted in delicate watercolors.
Here are the two great storybooks chronicling the adventures of Christopher Robin and all the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood, as well as the two charming volumes of poems. Bright in color and true in spirit, these are books for giving--To Pooh fans of all ages. [via]
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Winnie-The-Pooh and the House at Pooh Cornerby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525468048 (0-525-46804-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winnie-The-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner'Book summary:Handsomely packaged in a wood-branded gift box, this unabridged collection marks the first time that all of Milne's 10 classic stories from Winnie-the-Pooh and 44 delightful verses from When We Were Very Young have been recorded. 4 cassettes. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0528871870 (0-528-87187-0)
Softcover, Rand McNally
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Wizard of Oz, the, Level 2, Penguin Young Readersby PenguinISBN 0582468612 (0-582-46861-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard of Oz, the, Level 2, Penguin Young Readers'Book summary:A tornado whisks Dorothy and her dog, Toto, to the land of Oz. To find the way back to Kansas they have to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City where the Wizard of Oz lives. [via]
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0553213849 (0-553-21384-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Winnie-Ille-Pu/Winnie the Poohby A. A. MilneISBN 0525242678 (0-525-24267-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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