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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne, Jacqueline Rogers

ISBN 0451525450 (0-451-52545-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompaned by his hot-blooded manservant Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard -- who believes that Fogg has robbed the Bank of England -- to win the extraordinary wager. Around the World in 80 Days gripped audiences on its publication and remains hugely popular, combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time.

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Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady: Abridged Edition
by Samuel Richardson, Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Sheila Ortiz-Taylor

ISBN 0451529790 (0-451-52979-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Written entirely in letters, this novel conveys the nuances and tensions only present in personal epistolary form. The virtuous but self-deceiving Clarissa and the charming villain Lovelace haunt the imagination as fully as Romeo and Juliet or Tristan and Isolde.

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A Concise History of Scotland
by Fitzroy MacLean

ISBN 0500272247 (0-500-27224-7)
Softcover, Thames and Hudson

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Softcover 7 x 9 inches, 239 pages. History of Scotland, many illustrations. Index. [via]
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The Diary of a Nobody
by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

ISBN 0460019635 (0-460-01963-5)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody" - Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age. [via]
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The Dirty Duck
by Martha Grimes

ISBN 0451411390 (0-451-41139-0)
Softcover, Onyx Books

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Superintendent Richard Jury has been wrong before. But when stating that "nothing ever happens in Stratford," he never imagined just how wrong he could be. Besides the stage murders committed nightly at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, a real one has been performed not far from a popular pub known as The Dirty Duck. [via]
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Eminent Victorians
by Lytton Strachey

ISBN 0486451364 (0-486-45136-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain
by Diane Purkiss

ISBN 0465067565 (0-465-06756-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group

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Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe

ISBN 046001837X (0-460-01837-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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The Grave Maurice
by Martha Grimes

ISBN 0451411013 (0-451-41101-3)
Softcover, Onyx Books

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Henry IV
by William Shakespeare, Norman Norwood Holland

ISBN 0451528530 (0-451-52853-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of Part One., Part Two is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that "I will turn diseases to commodity".
The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of Part One, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of Part Two. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of Part One. "I know thee not, old man" he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, Henry V. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Henry IV. Part 2
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0451517229 (0-451-51722-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0486264785 (0-486-26478-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This book includes "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", which appears in full with the 'Grigsby' scene which originally made up the fourth act. [via]
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Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson, John Seelye

ISBN 0451527682 (0-451-52768-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Classic adventure novel, set in the year 1751, centers around David Balfour, a young Scotsman orphaned by the death of his father. Betrayed by his uncle, the young hero is shanghaied and headed for bondage in the New World, until a swashbuckling highlander comes to his rescue. Stirring, suspenseful; considered by Stevenson his best fiction.
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King Richard III: The Tragedy of
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0486287475 (0-486-28747-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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King Solomon's Mines
by Henry Rider Haggard

ISBN 0486447820 (0-486-44782-0)
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Praised as "the most amazing story ever written," this 1885 story tells the tale in which Allan Quatermain, a gentleman adventurer, is hired to locate a man who has disappeared into the heart of Africa while hunting for the legendary lost diamond mines of King Solomon.
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King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa
by William Minter

ISBN 0465037232 (0-465-03723-2)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group

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"A superb book. I recommend it highly. Thorough research, erudite writing, and startling insights. Must reading." Randall Robinson, Founding Executive Director, TransAfrica
"Splendid... An invaluable work, elegantly organized and written. Nadine Gordimer
"A must for scholars and analysts of South Africa and the U.S. stance toward that country. Foreign Affairs
"This is the history of southern Africa that anti-apartheid militants have been waiting for. Its critics will be hard-pressed to match its cogency and depth of documentation. Geroge M. Fredrickson
"Impressive work. Lucid scholarship. Coherently presents the last hundred years as they directly lead to the unfolding cataclysm of South Africa. June Jordan
"The clearest comprehensive account of the political history of southern Africa I know. Committed, sober, and intelligent." Immanuel Wallerstein [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 048645648X (0-486-45648-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell

ISBN 0460000012 (0-460-00001-2)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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London Labour and the London Poor
by Henry Mayhew

ISBN 0486219348 (0-486-21934-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist s eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possÂessed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. To pass from one to the other, writes one authority, is to cross sides of the same street. [via]
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Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors Of Avalon
by Diana L. Paxson

ISBN 0451461142 (0-451-46114-2)
Softcover, Roc

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Marion Zimmer Bradley's beloved Avalon saga continues with the dramatic story of the ancestors of Avalon, from their life on the doomed island of Atlantis to their escape to the mist-shrouded isle of Britain. Woven into this extraordinary tale are the journeys of two powerful women whose destinies will shape the fate of the new line of descendants. [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Clemen

ISBN 0451526961 (0-451-52696-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe

ISBN 0451529855 (0-451-52985-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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Moll Flanders/the Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous
by Daniel Defoe

ISBN 0451524594 (0-451-52459-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0486296954 (0-486-29695-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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An aging heiress, fatally poisoned; the door to her room locked from the inside; and the charred remains of a will in her fireplace are some of the ingredients in this absorbing tale of murder, jealousy, and greed. Agatha Christie's classic introduced Hercule Poirot, the brilliant and amazing Belgian detective.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Charles Dickens, G. K. Chesterton

ISBN 0486444996 (0-486-44499-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Dickens' marvelous tale of murder was left unfinished at his death in 1870. The novel has been all the more tantalizing for its lack of an ending to a mystifying puzzle that avid readers, over the years, have tried to solve. A gem for lovers of mysteries and the legions of Dickens fans.
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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN 0451525566 (0-451-52556-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.

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Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie

ISBN 0451520882 (0-451-52088-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Popular fantasy about Peter, the boy who won't grow up, and his companion Tinker Bell, transports young readers to Never-Never Land where together with Wendy and the other Darling children they meet Princess Tiger Lily, the Lost Boys, and the nasty Captain Hook. Inexpensive, completely unabridged edition promises to enchant new generations.
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Robin Hood
by James Clarke Holt

ISBN 0500250812 (0-500-25081-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0486275574 (0-486-27557-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Selected Poems
by Gordon, George, Byron

ISBN 0486277844 (0-486-27784-4)
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Richly varied in mood and content, 31 poems include convivial song-like poems, love poems, travel poems, humorous and satiric poems. Included are "She Walks in Beauty," "The Prisoner of Chillon," "The Vision of Judgment," many more, plus excerpts from Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Manfred. Explanatory footnotes.
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Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream
by Arthur Rackham

ISBN 0486428338 (0-486-42833-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Shakespeare's romantic comedy takes on a new and vivid life with these brilliant images by one of the 20th century's leading illustrators. This faithful reprint rivals the limited and first editions of 1908. Includes the complete text of the play, along with 40 full-color and numerous black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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Stonehenge Complete
by Christopher Chippindale

ISBN 0500050430 (0-500-05043-0)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson

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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet, Robert Langbaum

ISBN 0451527127 (0-451-52712-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Time Machine
by H. G. Wells, Greg Bear

ISBN 0451528557 (0-451-52855-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Illus. in black-and-white. When a turn-of-the-century scientist travels
into the distant future in his time machine, he expects to find progress and
superior people. But instead he discovers a world in decay. Reading level: 2.4. [via]
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The Tragedy of Richard Third
by William Shakespeare, Mark Eccles

ISBN 0451526953 (0-451-52695-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Featuring a new overview of Shakespeare's works by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, this Signet classic also includes a comprehensive stage and screen history, dramatic criticism from the past and present, and sources from which Shakespeare derived this great work.
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare, J.A. Bryant

ISBN 0451526864 (0-451-52686-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0451527046 (0-451-52704-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 0460016172 (0-460-01617-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Ulysses
by James Joyce

ISBN 0486424448 (0-486-42444-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Regarded today as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Ulysses remained banned in the United States until 1933. Drawing upon a complex network of symbolic parallels from mythology, history, and literature, the novel employs experimental narrative techniques to chronicle an ordinary day in the lives of three Dubliners. [via]
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Victoria: An Intimate Biography
by Stanley Weintraub

ISBN 0452269792 (0-452-26979-2)
Softcover, Plume

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A major biography of Queen Victoria--the first complete life of her in over twenty years--and the first to be written by an American. Illustrated. [via]
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Villette: Library Edition
by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 0451529227 (0-451-52922-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet. [via]
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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, Alex Taso, Luanne Rice

ISBN 0451530144 (0-451-53014-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Beloved classic of children's literature recounts the antic adventures of an engaging assembly of animals who are its central characters: the shy but curious Mole, the extremely personable Water Rat; Badger, a philosophical recluse; and pleasure-seeking Toad of Toad Hall. Newly abridged, with 31 illustrations.
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Wives and Daughters
by Elizabeth Gaskell

ISBN 0460011103 (0-460-01110-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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1865 novel from the English novelist and short story writer, whose writings can be seen as critiques of Victorian era attitudes, particularly those toward women, with complex narratives and dynamic women characters. [via]
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Wives and Daughters
by Pam Morris, Elizabeth Gaskell, Graham Handley

ISBN 0460876511 (0-460-87651-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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Molly seems fated to suffer, firstly from her father's ill-conceived remarriage, and then from seeing her friend Roger Hamley infatuated with Molly's stepsister Cynthia. Everyone relies on Molly, but when will she have a fulfilling life of her own? This study edition contains commentary. [via]
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The World of the Celts
by Simon James

ISBN 0500050678 (0-500-05067-8)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson

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  Hardcover, Thames & Hudson

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