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1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongueby Captain GroseISBN 1419100076 (1-4191-0007-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: '1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue'Book summary:The knees. To bring any one down on his marrow bones; to make him beg pardon on his knees: some derive this from Mary's bones, i.e. the bones bent in honor of the Virgin Mary; but this seems rather far- fetched. Marrow bones and cleavers; principal instruments in the band of rough music: these are generally performed on by butchers, on marriages, elections, riding skimmington, and other public or joyous occasions. [via]
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The 39 Steps: Alfred Hitchcock Classicsby John BuchanISBN 1419151126 (1-4191-5112-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 39 Steps: Alfred Hitchcock Classics'Book summary:He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me - things that happened in the Balkan War, how one state suddenly came out on top, why alliances were made and broken, why certain men disappeared, and where the sinews of war came from. [via]
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Adam Bedeby George EliotISBN 1417906359 (1-4179-0635-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adam Bede'Book summary:1889. Eliot is the pen name for Mary Ann, later Marian, Evans, English novelist. Adam Bede is her first full-length novel and established her reputation as a leading writer. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Adam Bedeby Mary WaldronISBN 1551113643 (1-55111-364-3)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adam Bede'Book summary:The seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by one of the nineteenth century's great novelists. With sympathy, wit, and unflinching realism, Adam Bede tells a story that would have been familiar to Eliot's first readers: the seduction of a pretty farm girl by the young squire of the district. Eliot uses this story, with its tragic implications, to explore the dangers of reliance on religious and social norms to govern destructive desires. As this edition demonstrates, Adam Bede addresses profound questions of morality, religion, and the role of women in society, while at the same time seeking to establish a new aesthetic for fiction. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of appendices, including selections from Eliot's letters and journals, contemporary reviews of the novel, and accounts of the murder trial of Mary Voce, the woman whose story formed part of the inspiration for the novel. [via]
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The Adventures Of Robin Hoodby John Burrows, Howard Pyle, Lucy CorvinoISBN 140271257X (1-4027-1257-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures Of Robin Hood'Book summary:Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.[via]
He robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, and had escapades enough to please any adventure-loving child. Now even the youngest readers can have the chance to enter Sherwood Forest with Robin's band of merry men, and meet such unforgettable characters as Friar Tuck, Little John, Allan-a-Dale, the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham, and wicked King John. Every moment of the story is filled with action and excitement.More editions of The Adventures Of Robin Hood:
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Aliceby Lewis Carroll, Lela Dowling, CHRIS WEIMANISBN 0971633835 (0-9716338-3-5)
Softcover, About Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice'Book summary:A full graphic novel adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. An adventurous girl falls into a rabbit hole and finds herself transformed to a bizarre, zany, and fun world. [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 1419105523 (1-4191-0552-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 1554072034 (1-55407-203-4)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 1402725027 (1-4027-2502-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Alice's Adventure in Wonderland: ISBN 1421808420 (1-4218-0842-0)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 1402716524 (1-4027-1652-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 1552977544 (1-55297-754-4)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 1419105523 (1-4191-0552-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 1554072034 (1-55407-203-4)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Richard Kelly, Lewis CarrollISBN 155111223X (1-55111-223-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glassby Lewis CarrollISBN 1417739428 (1-4177-3942-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Basilby Wilkie CollinsISBN 1426418116 (1-4264-1811-6)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamiltonby Flora FraserISBN 1400075149 (1-4000-7514-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton'Book summary:From her humble beginnings as the daughter of a countryside blacksmith, Emy Lyon went on to claim the undying love of naval hero Admiral Nelson, Englands most famous native son. She served as model and muse to eighteenth-century Europes most renowned artists, and consorted with kings and queens at the royal court of Naples. Yet she would end her life in disgraced exile, penniless and alone. In this richly drawn portrait, Flora Fraser maps the spectacular rise and fall of legendary eighteenth-century beauty Emma, Lady Hamiltonas she came to be calleda woman of abundant affection and overwhelming charm, whose eye for opportunity was rivaled only by her propensity for overindulgence and scandal. Wonderfully intimate and lavishly detailed, Beloved Emma brings to life the incomparable Lady Hamilton and the politics, passions, and enchantments of her day. [via]
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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Rosesby Louis Robert StevensonISBN 142197519X (1-4219-7519-X)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Caxton: The Description of Britain/949by Marie Collins, William Caxton, Ranulf HigdenISBN 155584300X (1-55584-300-X)
Hardcover, Corner House Pub
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Coming Up for Airby George OrwellISBN 1421808315 (1-4218-0831-5)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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D.H. Lawrence's the Rainbowby Harold BloomISBN 1555460232 (1-55546-023-2)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Decline And Fallby Evelyn WaughISBN 1417920769 (1-4179-2076-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decline And Fall'Book summary:1928. English writer, regarded by many as the leading satirical novelist of his day. Among Waugh's most popular books is Brideshead Revisited. Waugh established his literary reputation with this novel, Decline and Fall, an episodic story of the hilarious misadventures of Paul Pennyfeather, whose feckless odyssey begins when he loses his trousers. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who became prime ministerby Christopher HibbertISBN 1403972702 (1-4039-7270-2)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Doctor Faustusby Christopher MarloweISBN 1551112108 (1-55111-210-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Faustus'Book summary:Doctor Faustus is a classic; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative? Michael Keefer's early work helped to establish the current consensus that the 1604 text was censored and revised; the first Broadview edition, praised for its lucid introduction and scholarship, was the first to restore two displaced scenes to their correct place. All competing editions presume that the 1604 text was printed from authorial manuscript, and that the 1616 text is of little substantive value. But in 2006 Keefer's fresh analysis of the evidence showed that the 1604 quarto's Marlovian scenes were printed from a corrupted manuscript, and that the 1616 quarto (though indeed censored and revised) preserves some readings earlier than those of the 1604 text. This revised and updated Broadview edition offers the best available text of Doctor Faustus. Keefer's critical introduction reconstructs the ideological contexts that shaped and deformed the play, and the text is accompanied by textual and explanatory notes and excerpts from sources. [via]
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Dr. Faustusby Christopher MarloweISBN 1419116681 (1-4191-1668-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Faustus'Book summary:"Dr. Faustus" is Christopher Marlowe's version of the famous legend of a doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Originally published in 1600 this drama is based on an earlier anonymous German work (c. 1587) which has influenced many subsequent works including Goethe's more comprehensive "Faust" (c. 1808) and the contemporary "Doktor Faustus" (c. 1947) by Thomas Mann. The legend of Faust, reportedly based on a true person, is the origin of one of the most prevalent themes in literary history, the selling of one's soul to the devil. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Anna Maria Hong, Cynthia Brantley JohnsonISBN 1416500219 (1-4165-0021-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Kaplan guarantees that readers will improve their SAT score using guidesor get their money back.
Vocabulary is a critical part of studying for the SATs. Memorizing words that are written on flashcards can be difficult because they are not put in the context of a sentence. Kaplans SAT Score-Raising Classics make learning SAT vocabulary words easier and more enjoyable for students. Classic novels that are taught throughout high school can now be read while learning vocabulary words that frequently appear on the SAT exam.
Designed for easy use, these books feature the actual text on one side of the page, with the word definitions on the opposite side. In addition, the vocabulary words are in easy-to-spot bold typeface throughout.
Each Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic features:
- The complete text of the classic novel
- Hundreds of vocabulary words tested on the SAT exam
- Definitions for each highlighted work on the facing page
- A pronunciation guide
- An index for easy reference
Kaplans SAT Score-Raising Classics series give readers get an invaluable learning tool and an enjoyable reading experience. [via]
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Dublinersby James Joyce, Del DoughtyISBN 1416500359 (1-4165-0035-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: "I am not long for this world," and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true. Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work. Old Cotter was sitting at the fire, smoking, when I came downstairs to supper. While my aunt was ladling out my stirabout he said, as if returning to some former remark of his: [via]
The Elements of Law Natural And Politicby Thomas HobbesISBN 1419160753 (1-4191-6075-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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English Fairy Talesby Joseph JacobsISBN 1421809702 (1-4218-0970-2)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandingby David HumeISBN 1419106317 (1-4191-0631-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'Book summary:Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish enlightenment. In "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" Hume discusses the weakness that humans have in their abilities to comprehend the world around them, what is referred to in the title as human understanding. This work, now commonly required reading in philosophy classes, exposed a broad audience to philosophy when it was first published. A great introduction to the philosophy of David Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" and the ideas within it are as intriguing today as when they were first written. [via]
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- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: ISBN 1420926993 (1-4209-2699-3)
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The Evolution of the British Welfare State: A History of Social Policy Since the Industrial Revolutionby Derek FraserISBN 1403904693 (1-4039-0469-3)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Forsyte Sagaby John GalsworthyISBN 1404350578 (1-4043-5057-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 1400052920 (1-4000-5292-0)
Hardcover, Harmony Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:Packed with an Astounding Amount of New and Never-Before-Collected Material.
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
No one but Douglas Adams could have pared lifes meaning down to these three questions, and they remain as inspired and head-scratchingly clever today as they did twenty-five years ago when they appeared in the first edition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Showcasing his quick wit, comic genius, and wide-ranging intelligence, Hitchhikers has become nothing less than a cult classic and cultural phenomenon.
To celebrate its quarter century and the extraordinary legacy of Adams, this gorgeously designed, mostly harmless deluxe edition gathers never-before-collected photographs, original artwork, memorabilia (from the strange to the sublime), and wisdom gleaned from a first read or first encounter as Douglass friends remember how the galaxy was forever changed a mere twenty-five years ago (not to mention the original text of the novel) into a one-of-a-kind Guide as stunning as two suns setting over Magrathea.
Whether you are well versed in the antics of Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered Earthman plucked from his planet seconds before its demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, and Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy posing as an out-of-work actor, or are hitching a ride for the first time, this is the book that has everything youll nee to know about anything.So please do not be alarmed. Definitely dont panic. Just be sure to grab a towel. [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsby Adam SmithISBN 1404309993 (1-4043-0999-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations'Book summary:First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith's Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing and the division of labor to monetary, tax, trade, and other government policies that affect economic behavior. Throughout he offers seminal arguments for free trade, free markets, and limited government.[via]
Criticizing mercantilists who sought to use the state to increase their nations' supply of precious metals, Smith points out that a nation's wealth should be measured by the well-being of its people. Prosperity in turn requires voluntary exchange of goods in a peaceful, well-ordered market. How to establish and maintain such markets? For Smith the answer lay in man's social instincts, which government may encourage by upholding social standards of decency, honesty, and virtue, but which government undermines when it unduly interferes with the intrinsically private functions of production and exchange.More editions of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:
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The Invisible Manby Robert WanlessISBN 097372823X (0-9737282-3-X)
Softcover, Coscom Entertainment
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:One wintry day, a stranger enters the town of Iping. He is clad from head to foot; no one sees his face. Soon after his arrival, bizarre events occur that cannot be explained. The violence and terror begins. "...stripping the work down to its bare bones...one will admit that the very concept itself is one of land marked proportions draped layer after compelling layer of ideology and vision which has been the subject of analysis and inspiration for the best of us ever since." - Nicholas Grabowsky, from his introduction [via]
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James Joyce's Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 1555460194 (1-55546-019-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas MaloryISBN 1401307809 (1-4013-0780-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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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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The Liarby Stephen FryISBN 0939149826 (0-939149-82-6)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Living and Working in Britainby David HampshireISBN 095165280X (0-9516528-0-X)
Softcover, Survival Books
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Living and Working in Britain: A Survival Handbookby David HampshireISBN 0951652885 (0-9516528-8-5)
Softcover, Survival Books
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Lolly Willowesby Sylvia Townsend Warner, Alison LurieISBN 0940322161 (0-940322-16-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Lolly Willowes Or The Loving Huntsmanby Sylvia Townsend WarnerISBN 1417921307 (1-4179-2130-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolly Willowes Or The Loving Huntsman'Book summary:Sylvia Townsend Warner began her literary career as a poet, and her first novel is as nimble and precise as poetry and reads as if it might have been composed to a meter. Like some of Jane Austen's fiction, Lolly Willowes is a comedy about the perils, pleasures, and consolations of spinsterhood, and the predicament of its heroine is at first deliberately and deceptively commonplace. "Aunt Lolly, a middle-aging lady, light-footed upon stairs, and indispensable for Christmas Eve and birthday preparations," is nevertheless troubled by vague, indefinable longings, a hankering after the solitude of woods and dark rural places. At last a revelation in a greengrocer's leads her to abandon her outraged London family and take rooms in an obscure hamlet, Great Mop.
Here her neighbors keep curiously late and noisy hours, but otherwise allow her to pass the time "in perfect idleness and contentment." She is eventually pursued into her idyll, however, by her nephew, and Titus's familiar small demands drive her to rage and despair: "No! You shan't get me. I won't go back. I won't.... Oh! Is there no help?" She is promptly visited by a mysterious black kitten, who fastens its claws upon her hand and draws blood. At once she understands. The kitten is her familiar, and has been sent by dark forces. "She, Laura Willowes, in England, in the year 1922, had entered into a compact with the Devil."
She has, in short, become a witch--or, rather, she has rediscovered her own slumbering diabolical potential, in the unlikely setting of a Buckinghamshire hamlet that--as she now realizes--is peopled entirely by witches. Laura soon attends a rollicking but ultimately rather disappointing midnight Sabbath; she is visited by Satan in the shape of a pleasant-faced man in a corduroy coat and gaiters who rids her of Titus and restores her to privacy and peace. She is left with a vision of the women "all over England, all over Europe ... as common as blackberries, and as unregarded" to whom he has offered the promise of adventure, "the dangerous black night to stretch your wings in." It is this vision that lends the novel its subversive edge, that ultimately allies it less with the work of Austen than with that of Virginia Woolf, and with later feminists. They "know they are dynamite," says Laura of Satan's women, "and long for the concussion that may justify them." --Sarah Waters [via]
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hoodby Howard PyleISBN 1421986868 (1-4219-8686-8)
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hoodby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714564 (1-4027-1456-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood'Book summary:He stole from the rich and gave to the poor, and in so doing became an undying symbol of virtue. But most important, Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men offer young readers more than enough adventure and thrills to keep them turning the pages. Who could resist the arrows flying, danger lurking, and medieval intrigue?[via]More editions of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood:
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Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardustby Neil Gaiman, Charles VessISBN 1401211909 (1-4012-1190-9)
Hardcover, Vertigo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust'Book summary:De Féerie, le pays magique, les habitants du petit village de Wall savent peu de choses. Il faut dire qu'un grand mur les en séparent. Un mur dans lequel est ouvert une brèche, une brèche bien gardée, par laquelle ils n'ont droit de passer qu'une fois l'an, le jour de la grande foire de Wall. C'est ce jour-là, justement, que le jeune Tristram Thorn, décidé à conquérir le cSur de sa belle, part pour le pays de fée afin de lui ramener une étoile filante. Mais dans un pays magique, rien n'est comme ailleurs. Les distances sont immenses, on y croise nains et licornes, des chasseurs d'éclairs naviguent sur des bateaux volants et l'on est jamais à l'abri d'un mauvais sort qui pourra vous transformer en arbre, en chèvre ou en rat. Un monde plein de dangers et de merveilles que Tristram est loin d'imaginer, comme il est loin d'imaginer que son étoile filante est une belle et pure jeune fille, dont la présence ici-bas va éveiller la concupiscence des sept seigneurs de Sromhold comme de quelques vilaines sorcières...
Neil Gaiman est aussi à l'aise dans la BD (Sandman), que dans le roman (Neverwhere). Un talent inépuisable qu'il confirme une fois de plus ici en revisitant avec bonheur l'univers des contes de fées. À la fois drôle, merveilleux et volontairement naïf, Stardust est une réussite. --Georges Louhans [via]
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News from Nowhereby William Morris, Stephen ArataISBN 1551112671 (1-55111-267-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'News from Nowhere'Book summary:Written in 1890, at the close of William Morriss most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of his mature views on art, work, community, family, and the nature and structure of the ideal society. A utopian narrative of a future society, it is also an immensely entertaining novel. This Broadview edition includes a wide variety of contextualizing documents, including portions of Morriss essays, lectures, and journalism; excerpts from precursor utopian texts; writings on Bloody Sunday, art, work, and revolution; and contemporary reviews. [via]
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Thomas HardyISBN 1421808692 (1-4218-0869-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pair of Blue Eyes'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had long combined in perfect harmony with the crude Gothic Art of the ecclesiastical buildings scattered along it, throwing into extraordinary discord all architectural attempts at newness there. To restore the grey carcases of a mediaevalism whose spirit had fled, seemed a not less incongruous act than to set about renovating the adjoining crags themselves. Hence it happened that an imaginary history of three human hearts, whose emotions were not without correspondence with these material circumstances, found in the ordinary incidents of such church-renovations a fitting frame for its presentation. [via]
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Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful With an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste: And Several Other Additionsby Edmund BurkeISBN 0935005285 (0-935005-28-5)
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A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautifulby Edmund BurkeISBN 1425467997 (1-4254-6799-7)
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The Plantagenet Chroniclesby Elizabeth HallamISBN 1555840183 (1-55584-018-3)
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Pygmalionby George Bernard Shaw, James HynesISBN 1416500405 (1-4165-0040-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion'Book summary:[via]A rousing success on the London and New York stages, a popular film, and a great musical hit ("My Fair Lady"), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language. Includes Shaw's Preface and "Sequel." -
The Rainbowby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1417927313 (1-4179-2731-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rainbow'Book summary:1915. Controversial English novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist, Lawrence is known for his frequently misunderstood, but basically idealistic theories about sexual relations and for his interest in primitive religions and nature mysticism. Lawrence regarded sex, the primitive subconscious, and nature as cures for what he considered modern man's maladjustment to industrial society. His philosophy, life history and prejudices are inextricably entwined in his writings. Lawrence's fourth novel, The Rainbow, was about two sisters growing up in the north of England. The book begins: The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Two miles away, a church-tower stood on a hill, the houses of the country town climbing assiduously up to it. Whenever one of the Brangwens in the fields lifted his head from his work, he saw the church-tower at Ilkeston in the empty sky. So that as he turned again to the horizontal land, he was aware of something standing above him and beyond him in the distance. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hoodby Howard PyleISBN 0945260202 (0-945260-20-2)
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The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914by Paul M. KennedyISBN 0948660066 (0-948660-06-6)
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Saturdayby Ian McEwanISBN 1400076196 (1-4000-7619-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saturday'Book summary:In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement, follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne-a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children-plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor traffic accident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must set aside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he had in order to preserve the life that is dear to him. [via]
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 1557481423 (1-55748-142-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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Sesame and Liliesby John RuskinISBN 1404331018 (1-4043-3101-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sesame and Lilies'Book summary:A collection of three lectures: SESAME. OF KING'S TREASURIES, LILIES OF QUEENS' GARDENS, and THE MYSTERY OF LIFE AND ITS ARTS. [via]
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 1417716908 (1-4177-1690-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via]More editions of Silmarillion:
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Sir Thomas More's Utopiaby Thomas MoreISBN 1406795216 (1-4067-9521-6)
Softcover, Read Books
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Songbookby Nick Hornby, Marcel DzamaISBN 0971904774 (0-9719047-7-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Songbook'Book summary:The personal essays in Nick Hornby's Songbook pop off the page with the immediacy and passion of an artfully arranged mix-tape. But then, who better to riff on 31 of his favorite songs than the author of that literary music-lover's delight, High Fidelity?
"And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do," writes Hornby. More than his humble disclaimer, he captures "the narcotic need" for repeat plays of Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird," and testifies that "you can hear God" in Rufus Wainwright's coy reinterpretation of his father Loudon's "One Man Guy" ("given a neat little twist by Wainwright Junior's sexual orientation..."). Especially poignant is his reaction to "A Minor Incident," a Badly Drawn Boy song written for the soundtrack of the film version of Hornby's book About a Boy. While Hornby was writing the book, his young son was diagnosed with autism--a fact that adds greater resonance to the seemingly unrelated song he hears much later: "I write a book that isn't about my kid, and then someone writes a beautiful song based on an episode in my book that turns out to mean something much more personal to me than my book ever did." Meandering asides and observations like this linger in your mind (just like a fantastic song) long after you've flipped past the final page.
The 11-song CD that accompanies the book is a great touch, but it's too bad it doesn't contain all of the featured songs--most likely the unfortunate result of licensing difficulties. Overall, Hornby's pitch-perfect prose, the quirky illustrations from Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, and a good cause--proceeds benefit TreeHouse, a U.K. charity for children with autism, and 826 Valencia, the nonprofit Bay Area learning center--add up to make Songbook a hit. Solid gold. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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SparkNotes Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, Sparknotes, John CrowtherISBN 1411401018 (1-4114-0101-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'SparkNotes Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Much Ado About Nothing 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 [via]
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SparkNotes The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Sparknotes, John CrowtherISBN 141140100X (1-4114-0100-X)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'SparkNotes The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:[via]No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Taming of the Shrew on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hydeby Kathleen Olmstead, Jamel AkibISBN 1402726678 (1-4027-2667-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde'Book summary:[via]A single personbut with two personalities: one thats noble and kind and another thats pure, repulsive evil. Robert Louis Stevensons engrossing masterpiece about the dual nature of manand a good doctor whose thirst for knowledge has tragic consequencesserves up all the suspense and satisfying chills one expects from the best horror and science fiction.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hydeby Martin A. Danahay, Martin DanahayISBN 1551116553 (1-55111-655-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr.jekyll And Mr Hydeby R. L. StevensonISBN 1421806665 (1-4218-0666-5)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr.jekyll And Mr Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 1417663391 (1-4176-6339-1)
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Anne BronteISBN 1419184970 (1-4191-8497-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'Book summary:This work is a sometimes violent and brutal tale of love and betrayal, separation and reconciliation, set in the familiar Bronte landscape of bleak houses in moorland settings. [via]
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The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4by John BuchanISBN 1425001254 (1-4250-0125-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4'Book summary:The Thirty-Nine Steps is a work by John Buchan now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic. [via]
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis CarrollISBN 1406724874 (1-4067-2487-4)
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A Treatise of Human Natureby David HumeISBN 1421923351 (1-4219-2335-1)
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Two Treatises of Governmentby John LockeISBN 1419191543 (1-4191-9154-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Treatises of Government'Book summary:Sec. 40. Nor is it so strange, as perhaps before consideration it may appear, that the property of labour should be able to over-balance the community of land: for it is labour indeed that puts the difference of value on every thing; and let any one consider what the difference is between an acre of land planted with tobacco or sugar, sown with wheat or barley, and an acre of the same land lying in common, without any husbandry upon it, and he will find, that the improvement of labour makes the far greater part of the value. [via]
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Utopiaby Thomas MoreISBN 1404337148 (1-4043-3714-8)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjectsby Mary Wollstonecraft, David Lorne Macdonald, Kathleen Dorothy ScherfISBN 1551110881 (1-55111-088-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects'Book summary:The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for girls, and included two novels. But her reputation is founded on A Vindication of the Rights of Woman of 1792. This treatise is the first great document of feminismand is now accepted as a core text in western tradition. It is not widely known that the germ of Wollstonecraft's great work came out of an earlier and much shorter vindicationA Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), written in the context of the issues raised by the French Revolution. This edition, which follows the model of other Broadview Editions in including a range of materials that help the reader to see the work in the context of its era out of which it emerged, is arranged chronologically, opening with Wollstonecraft's "other vindication." It also includes a wide range of other documents in appendices, as well as a comprehensive and authoritative introduction, chronology, and full index. [via]
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Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquestby G. A. HentyISBN 1414224559 (1-4142-2455-9)
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Yellow Dogby Martin AmisISBN 1400077273 (1-4000-7727-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yellow Dog'Book summary:Martin Amiss brilliant and controversial new novel, already hailed in the British press as "Dickens with a snarl" and a "great comic extravagance."
After Xan Meo is brutally attacked in the garden of a London pub and suffers a severe head trauma, his wife and daughters find they are living with a strangerunpredictable, violent, vengeful, lost: "His condition felt like the twenty-first century: it was something you wanted to wake up from."
While it may alarm his family, Xans new personality is a good match for the city and the age in which he lives. For this is the vicious London of tabloid journalist Clint Smoker, whose daily reports of illicit sex and outrageous scandal are every bit as fake (and artful) as the noose tattooed around his neck. This is a world where the King of England keeps a Chinese mistress in Paris and tries to suppress a video-taped, bathtub "intrusion" of his fifteen- year-old daughter from reaching the internet. A world of hit men, pornographers, tycoons, and displaced royalty. A world where brilliant people perform unspeakable acts and bodyguards provide no protection.
Yellow Dog is Martin Amis at his dazzling bestcomic, fierce, gritty, and profound. Amis explores what is changeless and perhaps unchangeable: patriarchy and the entire edifice of masculinity; the violence arising between man and man; the tortuous alliances between men and women; and the vanished dream that we can protect our future and our progeny. [via]
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