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ISBN 9781402712173 (1-4027-1217-0, 1402712170)

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chris Sasaki, Lucy Corvino

ISBN 1402712170 (1-4027-1217-0)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Includes three Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures: "The Red-headed League," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." [via]

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 158827960X (1-58827-960-X)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 1577656784 (1-57765-678-4)
Hardcover, Spotlight
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0812504240 (0-8125-0424-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0891040234 (0-89104-023-4)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0893754021 (0-89375-402-1)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0938819623 (0-938819-62-3)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0866119760 (0-86611-976-0)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0895772779 (0-89577-277-9)
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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 1402712170 (1-4027-1217-0)
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ISBN 9780861129720 (0-86112-972-5, 0861129725)

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Eric Kincaid

ISBN 0861129725 (0-86112-972-5)
Hardcover, Byeway Books

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(Please note that all Timeless Classic Books have been carefully formatted manually with full annotation and proper photo and/or illustration placement since our start in 2010/2011. Each cover is designed with paid or public domain artwork that is pertinent to the title. Each and ever cover is unique. None have ever been used twice.)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-92) brings together the first twelve short stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. These follow Holmes's introduction in the first two novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. [via]

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The Age of Revolution

by Winston Churchill

ISBN 1568495064 (1-56849-506-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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ISBN 9781585790098 (1-58579-009-5, 1585790095)

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Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

by Ronald Blythe

ISBN 1585790095 (1-58579-009-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared. [via]

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ISBN 9781400063796 (1-4000-6379-5, 1400063795)

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Black Swan Green

by David Mitchell

ISBN 1400063795 (1-4000-6379-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys games on a frozen lake; of nightcreeping through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jasons search to replace his dead grandfathers irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran Lps, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatchers recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons.
Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchells subtlest and most effective achievement to date. [via]

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Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions

by Dorothy L. Sayers

ISBN 0816130418 (0-8161-3041-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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ISBN 9780812825909 (0-8128-2590-X, 081282590X)

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Desolation Island

by Patrick O'Brian

ISBN 081282590X (0-8128-2590-X)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub

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Captain Bligh (yes, the guy from the Bounty) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, Aubrey sets off for Australia. Several factors, including an attractive spy and a small-scale epidemic, conspire to change his plans, and before long his frigate is being pursued into Antarctic waters by a Dutch man-of-war. Five installments into the series, the Aubrey-Maturin story remains (to quote The Observer) "the best thing afloat since Horatio Hornblower." [via]

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ISBN 9781557834171 (1-55783-417-2, 1557834172)

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The First Part of Henry the Fourth, With the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed Hot-spurre

by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman

ISBN 1557834172 (1-55783-417-2)
Softcover, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.

The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]

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Gaudy Night

by Dorothy Leigh Sayers

ISBN 081613040X (0-8161-3040-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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ISBN 9781402207761 (1-4022-0776-X, 140220776X)

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, David M. Bevington

ISBN 140220776X (1-4022-0776-X)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc

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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

Each No Fear Shakespeare contains

The complete text of the original play
A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language
A complete list of characters with descriptions
Plenty of helpful commentary

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ISBN 9780822000181 (0-8220-0018-0, 0822000180)

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Hamlet

by J. K. Lowers

ISBN 0822000180 (0-8220-0018-0)
Softcover, Cliff Notes

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ISBN 9780822014157 (0-8220-1415-7, 0822014157)

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Hamlet/Complete Study Edition

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0822014157 (0-8220-1415-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Stapled book contains Commentary, Complete Text, and Glossary plus a number of pen & ink drawings. Originally published under the title of "Hamlet: Complete Study Guide" [via]

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ISBN 9781420926293 (1-4209-2629-2, 1420926292)

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Henry IV

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1420926292 (1-4209-2629-2)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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William Shakespeare's "King Henry IV, Part I" is one the playwright's classic historical English dramas. The narrative revolves around the rebellion against King Henry IV led by the Welshman Glendower and the Percies. "King Henry IV, Part I" is a play with excellent courtly drama and battlefield action, with a riotous comedic subplot. [via]

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Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 1417937114 (1-4179-3711-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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When Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude's sexual relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian hypocrisy, its depiction of the "New Woman," and its attacks on "holy wedlock" and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called the book "Jude the Obscene." Others saw it as brilliantly progressive in its ideas and techniques. Vivid and complex, satiric and harrowing, this novel marked the culmination of Hardy's development as a leading novelist of the cultural transition from the Victorian to the Modernist era. The Broadview edition restores the original, controversial 1895 text. [via]

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ISBN 9781404368361 (1-4043-6836-1, 1404368361)

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Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 1404368361 (1-4043-6836-1)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

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1901. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Kim is his picaresque novel of India and is considered to be a masterpiece. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]

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ISBN 9781551115214 (1-55111-521-2, 1551115212)

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Kim

by Maire Fhlathuin, Marie Ni Fhlathuin

ISBN 1551115212 (1-55111-521-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:

Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.

From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"

In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]

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London A Z: Street Atlas

ISBN 0850391954 (0-85039-195-4)
Softcover, Hunter Pub Inc

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Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Hunter Publishing (NJ) (April 1988) Language: English [via]

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Lonely Planet Britain

by Pat Yale, Tom Smallman, Bryn Thomas

ISBN 0864425783 (0-86442-578-3)
Softcover, Lonely Planet

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Love's Labour's Lost, the Winter's Tale, Othello, King Henry

by William Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse

ISBN 0819139289 (0-8191-3928-9)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

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ISBN 9780812971514 (0-8129-7151-5, 0812971515)

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Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley

by Alison Weir

ISBN 0812971515 (0-8129-7151-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Handsome, accomplished and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, staked his claim to the English throne my marrying Mary Staurt, who herself claimed to be the Queen of England. It wa snot long beofre Mary discovered that her new husband was interested only in securing soverign power for himself. Then, on February 10, 1567, an explosion at his lodgings left Darnley dead; the intrigue thickened after it was discovered that he had apparently been suffocated before the blast. Afetr an exhaustive re-evaluation of the source material, Alison Weir has come up with a soultion to this enduring mystery. Employing her gift for vidid characterization and gripping storytelling, Weir has written one of her most engaging excursions yet into Braitain's bloodstained, power-obsessed past....... [via]

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The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

ISBN 0816130361 (0-8161-3036-1)
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On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

ISBN 142092513X (1-4209-2513-X)
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The Origin of Liberalism. Influenced by the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, Mill adopted a modified laissez-faire position, believing in the efficiency of free enterprise, but aware of the frequent failure of the market to maximize utility. Later refining this stance, he argued that the promotion of happiness is a moral duty (though he made a clear distinction between desirable and undesirable forms of pleasure). These ideas had a decisive influence on Mill's classic 1859 essay, perhaps the most celebrated defense of individual freedom and self-protection based on utilitarian values rather than natural right to appear in English. [via]

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On Liberty

by Edward Alexander, John Stuart Mill

ISBN 1551111993 (1-55111-199-3)
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Mill predicted that "[t]he Liberty is likely to survive longer than anything else that I have written...because the conjunction of [Harriet Taylors] mind with mine has rendered it a kind of philosophic text-book of a single truth, which the changes progressively taking place in modern society tend to bring out in ever greater relief." Indeed, On Liberty is one of the most influential books ever written, and remains a foundational document for the understanding of vital political, philosophical and social issues. In addition to its many useful appendices, this new edition includes a chronology, bibliography, and a substantial introduction which outlines Mills life and works, and sets this central work of 1859 in the context of both his own intellectual development and of the play of ideas and political forces in Victorian society. [via]

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Pagan Celtic Britain

by Anne Ross

ISBN 0897334353 (0-89733-435-3)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub

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For a people that at one time dominated much of Europe, very little is known of the Celts and their religion, yet many flimsy theories and fanciful relationships have grown up over the years based on the scant evidence available. In a scholarly and systematic study, Anne Ross draws on all of the available evidence--archaeological sites in Europe and the British Isles, ancient Greek and Roman writers and early British vernacular literature--to separate the grain of what we know from the chaff of accreted misinformation and loose interpretation. [via]

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A Passage to India: Library Edition

by E. M. Forster

ISBN 0841904693 (0-8419-0469-3)
Hardcover, Holmes & Meier Pub

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What really happened in the Marabar caves? This is the mystery at the heart of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, the puzzle that sets in motion events highlighting an even larger question: Can an Englishman and an Indian be friends?

"It is impossible here," an Indian character tells his friend, Dr. Aziz, early in the novel.

"They come out intending to be gentlemen, and are told it will not do.... Why, I remember when Turton came out first. It was in another part of the Province. You fellows will not believe me, but I have driven with Turton in his carriage--Turton! Oh yes, we were once quite intimate. He has shown me his stamp collection.
"He would expect you to steal it now. Turton! But red-nosed boy will be far worse than Turton!
"I do not think so. They all become exactly the same, not worse, not better. I give any Englishman two years, be he Turton or Burton. It is only the difference of a letter. And I give any Englishwoman six months. All are exactly alike."

Written while England was still firmly in control of India, Forster's novel follows the fortunes of three English newcomers to India--Miss Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Cyril Fielding--and the Indian, Dr. Aziz, with whom they cross destinies. The idea of true friendship between the races was a radical one in Forster's time, and he makes it abundantly clear that it was not one that either side welcomed. If Aziz's friend, Hamidullah, believed it impossible, the British representatives of the Raj were equally discouraging.

"Why, the kindest thing one can do to a native is to let him die," said Mrs. Callendar.
"How if he went to heaven?" asked Mrs. Moore, with a gentle but crooked smile.
"He can go where he likes as long as he doesn't come near me. They give me the creeps."

Despite their countrymen's disapproval, Miss Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Mr. Fielding are all eager to meet Indians, and in Dr. Aziz they find a perfect companion: educated, westernized, and open-minded. Slowly, the friendships ripen, especially between Aziz and Fielding. Having created the possibility of esteem based on trust and mutual affection, Forster then subjects it to the crucible of racial hatred: during a visit to the famed Marabar caves, Miss Quested accuses Dr. Aziz of sexually assaulting her, then later recants during the frenzied trial that follows. Under such circumstances, affection proves to be a very fragile commodity indeed.

Arguably Forster's greatest novel, A Passage to India limns a troubling portrait of colonialism at its worst, and is remarkable for the complexity of its characters. Here the personal becomes the political and in the breach between Aziz and his English "friends," Forster foreshadows the eventual end of the Raj. --Alix Wilber [via]

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The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1421926261 (1-4219-2626-1)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com

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Charles Dickenss satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 183637. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also reveals Dickenss burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system, lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors prisons. As G. K. Chesterton noted, Before [Dickens] wrote a single real story, he had a kind of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns, thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns, strange and swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick. [via]

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 1406502472 (1-4065-0247-2)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]

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Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1417917334 (1-4179-1733-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This new high-quality, hardcover series of timeless classics features the finest works of world literature. This standard edition has an attractive jacket design. Each title chosen for it's literary quality and for the untold pleasure it will give readers of all ages. [via]

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Reflections on the Revolution in France

by Edmund Burke

ISBN 1420924974 (1-4209-2497-4)
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John Pocock's edition of "Burke's Reflections" is two classics in one: "Burke's Reflections" and "Pocock's Reflections on Burke and the Eighteenth Century". [via]

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The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery

by Paul M. Kennedy

ISBN 1591023742 (1-59102-374-2)
Softcover, Prometheus Books

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Analyzes the reasons for the rise and fall of Great Britain as a predominant maritime nation in the period from the Tudors to the present day. [via]

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Select Works of Edmund Burke: A New Imprint of the Payne Edition Thoughts on the Present Discontents ; The Two Speeches on America

by Edmund Burke, Francis Canavan, Edward John Payne

ISBN 086597165X (0-86597-165-X)
Softcover, Liberty Fund

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Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed three-volume Payne edition of Select Works is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne's notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords.

Volume 2 consists of Burke's most renowned work, Reflections on the Revolution in France. In it, he excoriates French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France's venerable institutions and way of life. He attempts not only to explain the events of the new revolution to his readers but also to persuade them that the revolution menaces the civilization of Europe in general and that of Britain in particular. In addition, he articulates a coherent political countertheory that organizes his own beliefs about God, humanity, and society.

This is Burke's most famous work, for over two centuries read, discussed, and pondered by thousands of students and general readers as well as by professional scholars.

Francis Canavan (1917-2009) was Professor of Political Science at Fordham University from 1966 until his retirement in 1988.

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The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library

by Leslie S. Klinger

ISBN 0938501267 (0-938501-26-7)
Softcover, Wessex Pr

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the first volume of short stories in Edgar Award winner Leslie S. Klinger's original landmark series. In Adventures Sherlock Holmes tackles some of the most famous cases of his career, including: crossing swords with the beautiful Irene Adler, a Christmas-time jewel theft, and an encounter with The Speckled Band. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is one volume of The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, an exhaustively annotated, nine-volume edition of the Sherlock Holmes tales. It's the most complete collection of Sherlockian scholarship and commentary ever assembled. No Sherlockian bookshelf is complete without it. Each illustrated volume is bursting with scholarly annotations and features a sturdy, smythe-sewn soft cover binding. [via]

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Silver on the Tree: -the Dark Is Rising Sequence-

by Susan Cooper

ISBN 1416949682 (1-4169-4968-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &

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"And Where the Midsummer Tree Grows Tall by Pendragon's Sword the Dark Shall Fall."

The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. Six individuals have come together to drive it back for good: Will, the Sign seeker; Bran, the raven boy; Jane, Simon, and Barney, the grail seekers; and Merriman, the wise mentor who unites them all. Together they stand ready to face the Rider and the full force of the Dark.

But the last object of power must first be found. A sword of legend magically forged of pure crystal remains hidden in the Welsh hills. Without it, the Light has no hope against the Dark. Will and his companions must travel through time and space in an epic clash of magical powers that will decide the fate of us all.

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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1421813459 (1-4218-1345-9)
Softcover, 1st World Library

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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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V for Vendetta

by Alan Moore, David Lloyd

ISBN 1401207928 (1-4012-0792-8)
Hardcover, DC Comics

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V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a landmark in comic-book writing. Alan Moore has led the field in intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid), complex adult comic-book writing since the early 1980s. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first attempts (along with the criminally neglected but equally superb Miracleman) at writing an ongoing series. It is 1998 (which was the future back then!) and a Fascist government has taken over the UK. The only blot on its particular landscape is a lone terrorist who is systematically killing all the government personnel associated with a now destroyed secret concentration camp. Codename V is out for vengeance ... and an awful lot more. V feels slightly dated like all past premonitions do. The original series was black and white and that added to the grittiness of the feel while the colouring here in the graphic novel sometimes blurs David Lloyd's fine drawing. But these are small concerns. Skilfully plotted, V is an essential read for all those who love comics and the freedom, as a medium, they allow a writer as skilled as Moore. The graphic novel contains all the V series plus two additional stories concerning V that were originally considered "interludes". This edition also contains an essay from Moore dating from 1983 explaining the creation process. For any comic fan it's a must-have. --Mark Thwaite [via]

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ISBN 9781576468111 (1-57646-811-9, 1576468119)

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Vindication of the Rights of Women

by Mary Wollstonecraft

ISBN 1576468119 (1-57646-811-9)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub

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The social revolution for women's rights has made great progress in recent years. But how many casual observers - or advocates, for that matter - are aware that the roots of this movement extend deep into Western history?

Even before launching the great campaign to attain universal suffrage, strong female voices spoke in favor of the social, political, educational, and economic rights of women. A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in the late eighteenth century, is truly a classic in this venerable tradition. Railing against the stubborn social forces that confined women to an inferior station in the community, Mary Wollstonecraft declares war on the prevailing attitudes and customs that prevent women from realizing their individual potential. [via]

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ISBN 9780901720313 (0-901720-31-3, 0901720313)

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Watership Down

by Richard George Adams

ISBN 0901720313 (0-901720-31-3)
Hardcover, Rex Collings Ltd

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Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.

The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes [via]

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The Wicked Day

by Mary Stewart

ISBN 081613684X (0-8161-3684-X)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall

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A-Z London

ISBN 0850395682 (0-85039-568-2)
Softcover, Hunter Pub Inc

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A-Z London: London's Best Selling Street Atlas

ISBN 0850397529 (0-85039-752-9)
Softcover, Hunter Pub Inc

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Unlike streets in the US, London's roads do not follow a logical numbering system (or even a logical system, for that matter!), so navigating you and your family around the maze of dead-ends and one-way streets can be a nightmare! Knowing the quickest routes from A to B is a learning process, and is largely a matter of time. But here is your escape route. This pocket-sized street atlas has been the London cabby's bible for years. It is by far the best-selling, all-color street atlas of the city, covering every street, lane, highway, mew, garden, close, glen, river, bridge and motorway. In addition, it shows the tube and mainline train stations, gardens, parks, schools and major points of interest, making it your best friend on a trip to this historic city. A complete index lists every entry, so you can get from Baker Street to the Tate Gallery and back to Leicester Square in the evening without getting frustrated and spending hours going round in circles. With this book in hand, you'll be able to direct you and your family without any hesitation, and you'll also know when the cabby is taken you the "long way home" (haven't I seen that street corner before?). [via]

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