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Agricola and Germanyby Cornelius Tacitus, Anthony Richard BirleyISBN 0192833006 (0-19-283300-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agricola and Germany'Book summary:Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years of enforced silence. Much of Agricola, which is the biography of Tacitus' late father-in-law Julius Agricola, is devoted to Britain and its people, since Agricola's claim to fame was that as governor for seven years he had completed the conquest of Britain, begun four decades earlier. Germany provides an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans, and is the only surviving example of an ethnographic study from the ancient world. Each book in its way has had immense influence on our perception of Rome and the northern barbarians. This edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history and includes newly discovered evidence on Tacitus' early career. [via]
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The Agricola and the Germania: And the Germaniaby Cornelius TacitusISBN 0140442413 (0-14-044241-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Agricola and the Germania: And the Germania'Book summary:"The Agricola" is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and a succinct account of the early stages of the Roman occupation, nearly fatally undermined by Boudicca's revolt in AD 61 but consolidated by campaigns that took Agricola as far as Anglesey and northern Scotland. The warlike German tribes are the focus of Tacitus' attention in the "Germania", which, like the "Agricola", often compares the behaviour of 'barbarian' peoples favourably with the decadence and corruption of Imperial Rome. [via]
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicleby G.N. GarmonswayISBN 0460106244 (0-460-10624-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Anglo-saxon Chronicleby Darryl HesterISBN 0976072637 (0-9760726-3-7)
Softcover, El Paso Norte Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anglo-saxon Chronicle'Book summary:The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is an account of the early history of Britain. It was originally compiled on the orders of King Alfred the Great, approximately A.D. 890, and subsequently maintained and added to by generations of anonymous scribes until the middle of the 12th Century. The original language is Anglo-Saxon (Old English), but later entries are essentially Middle English in tone.
This edition is a translation from the Old English to a more readable Modern English by the Reverend James Ingram. His scholarly view is amply demonstrated in his introduction that traces the early fusion of The Doomsday Book and the Saxon Chronicle into this work that has come to be known as The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
It consists of 9 differing manuscripts that collectively trace the outlines of British history. Together, even with their inconsistencies, they comprise the best source of factual information from an era shrouded in myth. For a millennium or so, historians have been reading this landmark reference to distinguish between fact and fantasy in the complex history of Britain. It has established the standard time-line from pre-history into the middle ages. [via]
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Anglo-Saxon Chroniclesby Anne SavageISBN 1858334780 (1-85833-478-0)
Hardcover, Whitecap Books, Limited
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: The Monks of the Monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon and Worcesterby Michael WantonISBN 1842120034 (1-84212-003-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Arthur's Britainby Leslie AlcockISBN 0141390697 (0-14-139069-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur's Britain'Book summary:We are all familiar with the heroic deeds and enchantments of the legendary tales surrounding King Arthur. But what evidence is there for a real figure beneath the myth and romance?[via]
Arthur's Britain assembles a wealth of information about the history of Arthur by delving into the shadowy period in which he lived. Drawing on evidence from written and archaeological sources, Leslie Alcock, who directed the famous excavation at Cadbury Castle in Somerset, England, sifts history from fiction to take us back to life between the fourth and seventh centuries. He also provides fascinating detail on how the Britons actually lived, worshipped, dressed, and fought to uncover the real world and people behind the Arthurian legends.More editions of Arthur's Britain:
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Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology, Ad 367-634by Leslie AlcockISBN 0140136053 (0-14-013605-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens, Tatiana M. HolwayISBN 1593083114 (1-59308-311-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleak House'Book summary:Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]
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- Bleak House: ISBN 1853260827 (1-85326-082-7)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited - Bleak House: ISBN 0451528697 (0-451-52869-7)
Softcover, Signet - Bleak House: ISBN 0553212230 (0-553-21223-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Bleak House: ISBN 0679405682 (0-679-40568-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Bleak House: ISBN 0451524020 (0-451-52402-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Bleak House: ISBN 0460874233 (0-460-87423-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Bleak House: ISBN 0808577301 (0-8085-7730-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Bleak House: ISBN 1593083114 (1-59308-311-4)
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- Bleak House: ISBN 1853260827 (1-85326-082-7)
Bleak Houseby Peter AckroydISBN 074930765X (0-7493-0765-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Bridget Jonesby Helen FieldingISBN 0140298479 (0-14-029847-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridget Jones'Book summary:Fans of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary will recall that at the end of that sly and funny version of Pride and Prejudice, singleton heroine Bridget landed her Mr. Darcy at last--Mark Darcy, that is. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks later, and already the honeymoon is over. In addition to discovering that the man of her dreams votes conservative, left-leaning Bridget is also feeling just a mite uncomfortable with the realities of sharing bed and board with another person:
V. complicated actually having man in house as cannot freely spend requisite amount of time in bathroom or turn into gas chamber as conscious of other person late for work, desperate for pee etc.; also disturbed by Mark folding up underpants at night, rendering it strangely embarrassing now simply to keep all own clothes in pile on floor.
But all of these problems pale to insignificance with the arrival on the scene of Rebecca, a beautiful, man-hunting arch-nemesis with "thighs like a baby giraffe" and absolutely no girlfriend code of ethics when it comes to poaching another woman's man. Before long, Rebecca's manipulations, Bridget's own insecurities, and a string of misunderstandings (starting with a naked Filipino boy in Mark Darcy's bed and ending with a suggestive valentine from Bridget's dry cleaner) result in "128 lbs. (good), alcohol units 0 (excellent), cigarettes 5 (a pleasant, healthy number), no. times driven past Mark Darcy's house 2 (v.g.), no. of times looked up Mark Darcy's name in phone book to prove still exists 18 (v.g.), 1471 calls 12 (better), no. of phone calls from Mark 0 (tragic).Fortunately, Bridget has plenty of other problems to distract her. Her mother has returned from a trip to Kenya with a young Masai in tow--to her father's consternation; her best friends Jude, Shazzer, and Tom are all trapped in dating hell themselves; her apartment is in shambles thanks to a dotty carpenter; an unreliable ex-boyfriend has just reentered her life; and now someone is sending Bridget death threats--could it be Mark Darcy? If Bridget Jones's Diary was a modern riff on Pride and Prejudice, its sequel borrows several themes and devices (not to mention a section heading) from another Austen novel, Persuasion. And as in Austen's fiction, here the journey is the destination. A happy ending for Bridget and her pals is a foregone conclusion; how they get there, however, will have you on the edge of your chair--if you haven't already fallen off of it laughing. --Alix Wilber [via]
Britain Yesterday and Todayby Smith, ArnsteinISBN 0669244600 (0-669-24460-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Presentby Walter L. ArnsteinISBN 0618001042 (0-618-00104-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present'Book summary:This text, which is the fourth volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. This is the only comprehensive text available for the History of England survey course that has been revised and updated to include coverage of the entire 20th century. [via]
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- Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present: ISBN 066904380X (0-669-04380-X)
Softcover, D.C. Heath - Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present: ISBN 0669397199 (0-669-39719-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present: ISBN 0669134244 (0-669-13424-4)
Hardcover, D.C. Health - Britain Yesterday and Today 1830 to the Present: ISBN 0669979643 (0-669-97964-3)
Hardcover, Heath - Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present: ISBN 0618001042 (0-618-00104-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
- Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present: ISBN 066904380X (0-669-04380-X)
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Complete Worksby Thomas MaloryISBN 0192812173 (0-19-281217-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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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The Death of King Arthurby Janet Cowen, Thomas MaloryISBN 0146001427 (0-14-600142-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of King Arthur'Book summary:One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles. [via]
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Eagle Of The Ninthby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 0613718593 (0-613-71859-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eagle Of The Ninth'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nationby Bede the Venerable, John StevensISBN 0460004794 (0-460-00479-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation'Book summary:The venerable Bede (AD 672-735) was not the first historian of the British Isles, but he was the first to to list and master his documentary and oral sources. For a man who travelled little, he showed a great depth of understanding about the outside world, informing himself by commissioning others to copy documents in the Papal Regista and various episcopal and monastic archives. This new edition has been carefully revised by Gerrish Gray and is beautifully typeset in Bembo type. [via]
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Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation 1723by BedeISBN 0766169448 (0-7661-6944-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation 1723'Book summary:This work presents the ecclesiastical history of the English nation from the coming of Julius Caesar into the island in the 60th year before the incarnation of Christ, until the year of our Lord 731, to which is prefixed a life of Bede. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English. [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0020252706 (0-02-025270-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0140367128 (0-14-036712-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frankenstein: ISBN 0141439475 (0-14-143947-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frankenstein: ISBN 014043237X (0-14-043237-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0140772596 (0-14-077259-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frankenstein: ISBN 014130541X (0-14-130541-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192815326 (0-19-281532-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0099079208 (0-09-907920-8)
Hardcover, Arrow Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 019251010X (0-19-251010-X)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192553259 (0-19-255325-9)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P. - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192811169 (0-19-281116-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Frankenstein: ISBN 0020252706 (0-02-025270-6)
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0140367128 (0-14-036712-8)
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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus With Connectionsby Mary . ShelleyISBN 0030564727 (0-03-056472-7)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus With Connections'Book summary:After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, Isucceding in disco- vering the cause of generation and life I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter... [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0140351078 (0-14-035107-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0140433627 (0-14-043362-7)
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Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0192822837 (0-19-282283-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0140351078 (0-14-035107-8)
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- Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0140433627 (0-14-043362-7)
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progressby Jan MorrisISBN 0156027747 (0-15-602774-7)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress'Book summary:The opening volume of Morriss Pax Britannica Trilogy, this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress:
History of the English Church and Peopleby BedeISBN 0760765510 (0-7607-6551-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the English Church and People'Book summary:Christianity History [via]
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LA Senora Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 8420655287 (84-206-5528-7)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas MaloryISBN 0140430431 (0-14-043043-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Helen Cooper, Thomas MaloryISBN 0192824201 (0-19-282420-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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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Le Morte D'Arthurby Janet Cowen, Thomas MaloryISBN 014043044X (0-14-043044-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death. Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend. Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenever, the quest for the Holy Grail; all the elements are there woven into a wonderful completeness by the magic of his prose style. The result is not only one of the most readable accounts of the knights of the Round Table but also one of the most moving. As the story advances towards the inevitable tragedy of Arthur's death the effect is cumulative, rising with an impending sense of doom and tragedy towards its shattering finale. [via]
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, Kathryn SutherlandISBN 0141439807 (0-14-143980-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Mansfield Park: ISBN 019280264X (0-19-280264-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0140430164 (0-14-043016-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0140434143 (0-14-043414-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Mansfield Park: ISBN 014077162X (0-14-077162-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0192815261 (0-19-281526-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 019282757X (0-19-282757-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0192510215 (0-19-251021-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0192553364 (0-19-255336-4)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P. - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0141439807 (0-14-143980-7)
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- Mansfield Park: ISBN 019280264X (0-19-280264-X)
Master and Commanderby Patrick O'BrianISBN 075402248X (0-7540-2248-X)
Hardcover, Chivers
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 155111397X (1-55111-397-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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- Mrs Dalloway: ISBN 1853261912 (1-85326-191-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Mrs. Dolloway: ISBN 0788191578 (0-7881-9157-8)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co - Mrs Dalloway: ISBN 0613706226 (0-613-70622-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Mrs Dalloway: ISBN 0679420428 (0-679-42042-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Mrs Dalloway: ISBN 060621562X (0-606-21562-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Mrs Dalloway: ISBN 0701209933 (0-7012-0993-3)
Hardcover, The Hogarth Press - Mrs Dalloway: ISBN 3596140021 (3-596-14002-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Mrs Dalloway: ISBN 155111397X (1-55111-397-X)
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- Mrs Dalloway: ISBN 1853261912 (1-85326-191-2)
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane Austen, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192547038 (0-19-254703-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Sir Thomas Malory's Tales of King Arthurby Michael Senior, Thomas MaloryISBN 0002223732 (0-00-222373-2)
Hardcover, Collins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Thomas Malory's Tales of King Arthur'Book summary:For more than 500 years the adventures of King Arthur and his knights have been a source for British mythology, known after William Caxton's edition as the "motre d'Arthur". The aim of this edition is to make a version of the tales which can be read by a contemporary reader purely for pleasure with no sense of duty or effort. The editor also writes plays, poetry and has written "Greece and its Myths, "Portrait of North Wales", "Portrait of South Wales" and "Myths of Britain". [via]
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackery, Nicholas Dames, William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 1593080719 (1-59308-071-9)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world. [via]
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Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Vanity Fair : A Novel Without a Hero: ISBN 0679603212 (0-679-60321-2)
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Vanity Fair: Bringing Thackeray's Timeless Novel to the Screenby Julian Fellowes, Mira Nair, Matthew Faulk, Mark SkeetISBN 1557046379 (1-55704-637-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair: Bringing Thackeray's Timeless Novel to the Screen'Book summary:The full-color companion to the new film version of the Thackeray novel starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!).
Reese Witherspoon stars as Becky Sharp, one of the greatest female characters ever created. Born into the lower class, Becky can rely only on her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes her way up through London society circa 1820, alongside her best friend Amelia. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battlesmilitary and domesticare fought, fortunes made and lost.
In addition to the complete screenplay by Oscar®-winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and Matthew Faulk & Mark Skeet (NBC's Jason and the Argonauts), this Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook features over 150 full-color illustrations, extracts from Thackeray's novel, interviews with the cast and crew, notes by director Mira Nair, and sidebars on the film's costume, set, and production design. 150 color photos.
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Works [of] Maloryby Thomas Malory, Eugene VinaverISBN 0192541633 (0-19-254163-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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La Feria De Las Vanidades / Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackeray, Alfonso NadalISBN 8497937848 (84-9793-784-8)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Feria De Las Vanidades / Vanity Fair'Book summary:«Un sentimiento de honda melancolía invade al director de escena que, sentado frente al telón, observa la bulliciosa animación de la Feria. En ella se come y se bebe en exceso, se ama y se coquetea, se ríe y se llora...». Acompañados por estas palabras, que inauguran La feria de las vanidades, los lectores nos trasladamos a otro lugar y otra época para entrar en el recinto de la Feria y disfrutar, nosotros también, de uno de los mejores retratos de la sociedad inglesa de principios del siglo XIX.
La mirada desencantada e irónica del director de escena no es otra que la de William M. Thackeray, maestro en el arte de crear personajes femeninos. Así, pronto veremos pisar el escenario a dos mujeres inolvidables: Amelia Sedley, dulce y sensible pero apocada, deseosa de entregar su vida al hombre que ama, y Becky Sharp, inteligente y ambiciosa, dispuesta a usar y abusar de sus encantos para ascender en la escala social. Estas figuras tópicas cobran vida en manos de Thackeray, y lo que podría ser la trama de un culebrón de sobremesa se convierte en un juego fascinante, lleno de trampas y de emoción, en una obra magistral de la literatura de todos los tiempos. [via]More editions of La Feria De Las Vanidades / Vanity Fair:
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LA Senora Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 8481301477 (84-8130-147-7)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Senora Dalloway'Book summary:Nuestra editorial se especializa en publicar libros en español. Para encontrar otros títulos busque Editorial Medí .
Contamos con mas volúmenes en español que cualquier otra editorial para el kindle y continuamos creciendo. [via]More editions of LA Senora Dalloway:
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