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The Alexandria Quartetby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140153179 (0-14-015317-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alexandria Quartet'Book summary:Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine (1957) Balthazar (1958) Mountolive (1958) Clea (1960). Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events in Alexandria before World War II. In Clea, the story continues into the years during the war. One L.G. Darley is the primary observer of the events, which include events in the lives of those he loves and those he knows. In Justine, Darley attempts to recover from and put into perspective his recently ended affair with a woman. Balthazar reinterprets the romantic perspective he placed on the affair and its aftermath in Justine, in more philosophical and intellectual terms. Mountolive tells a story minus interpretation, and Clea reveals Darley's healing, and coming to love another woman. [via]
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 014036675X (0-14-036675-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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The Anglo-Saxonsby James Campbell, Patrick Wormald, Eric JohnISBN 0140143955 (0-14-014395-5)
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Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britainby David CannadineISBN 0140249532 (0-14-024953-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Aunt Dimity's Christmasby Nancy AthertonISBN 0140296301 (0-14-029630-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Aunt Dimity's Deathby Nancy AthertonISBN 0140178406 (0-14-017840-6)
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Beginnings of English Societyby D. WhitelockISBN 0140137645 (0-14-013764-5)
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The BFGby Roald DahlISBN 0140315977 (0-14-031597-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The BFG'Book summary:Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh ... Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows. What kind of way is that for a G to behave?
The BFG is one of Dahl's most lovable character creations. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
Biography of Isaiah Berlinby M. IgnatevISBN 0099577313 (0-09-957731-3)
Hardcover, Vintage Uk
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Black Shirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascismby Stephen DorrilISBN 0140258213 (0-14-025821-3)
Softcover, Penguin Global
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Shirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism'Book summary:Hated and adored, trusted and feared, respected and scorned - public opinion has never been indifferent to Sir Oswald Mosley. A brilliant politician, Mosley turned his back on conventional party politics to found, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. Over the intervening years until now, many have worked hard to guard Mosley's reputation but Blackshirt casts new light on the man. The author reveals the true nature of Mosley's relationship with the Nazis, and challenges the prevailing view of Mosley's descent into anti-Semitism. With ground-breaking research and extensive use of archive material, Dorril uncovers a bizarre set of characters and behind-the-scenes friends and colleagues who supported Mosley - the crooks, swindlers, political and royal figures, secret agents, Nazi spies, lovers and 'crackpots'. "Blackshirt" is an important and controversial new biography that overturns many of the accepted ideas about Oswald Mosley and British Fascism. [via]
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British Society 1914-45by John StevensonISBN 0140138188 (0-14-013818-8)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'British Society 1914-45'Book summary:John Stevenson's social history opens with the Great War and ends with a chapter on the effects of World War II. In between, he analyses the trends and changes. [via]
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British Society Since 1945by Arthur MarwickISBN 0140249397 (0-14-024939-7)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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British Society Since 1945by John StevensonISBN 014013817X (0-14-013817-X)
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British Society Since Nineteen Forty-Fiveby Arthur MarwickISBN 0140219064 (0-14-021906-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'British Society Since Nineteen Forty-Five'Book summary:High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are thoroughly explored in this new edition of a classic text. 'Something of a tour de force...Without serious distortion or omission he moves dexterously through a wide variety of sources, ranging from poetry through film and novels to opinion polls. it is astonishing how much he gets in' - "Times Educational Supplement". 'An enjoyable, readable, usable achievement which leads the field' - John Vincent, "Sunday Times". [via]
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The Buddha of Suburbiaby Hanif KureishiISBN 014013168X (0-14-013168-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Buddha of Suburbia'Book summary:There's quite a bit of activity in Buddha of Suburbia. A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. All the while, Hanif Kureishi keeps the tone lively with wry wit. On the description of suburban life: "We were proud of never learning anything except the names of footballers, the personnel of rock groups and the lyrics to 'I Am the Walrus.'" He also bends cultures, classes and genders while blasting the racism of British life in this 1990 Whitbread Prize winner. [via]
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The Comfort of Strangersby Ian McEwanISBN 0140112839 (0-14-011283-9)
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The Complete Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 014009766X (0-14-009766-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Father Brown'Book summary:Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. [via]
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald DahlISBN 0140328734 (0-14-032873-4)
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Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 0140186476 (0-14-018647-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience [via]
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The Early Churchillsby A. L. RowseISBN 0140030476 (0-14-003047-6)
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Eleanor of Aquitaineby Marion MeadeISBN 0140153381 (0-14-015338-1)
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England in the Seventeenth Centuryby Maurice AshleyISBN 0140202684 (0-14-020268-4)
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England's Thousand Best Churchesby Simon JenkinsISBN 0140297952 (0-14-029795-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'England's Thousand Best Churches'Book summary:Explores the length and breadth of England to select thousand best churches. This work is organised by county, and each church is described - often with asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. It includes county sections that is prefaced by a map locating each church. [via]
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English Fairy Talesby Joseph Jacobs, Margery GillISBN 0140304665 (0-14-030466-5)
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The Forsyte Sagaby John GalsworthyISBN 014018399X (0-14-018399-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forsyte Saga'Book summary:The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy's narrative examines not only the family's fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Galsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property and the humane instincts of love, beauty, and art. [via]
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Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britainby Jeremy PaxmanISBN 0140156003 (0-14-015600-3)
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Frommer's London 1991by Darwin PorterISBN 0133267520 (0-13-326752-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Granta 65by Ian JackISBN 0140141588 (0-14-014158-8)
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The Great Mutiny: India 1857by Christopher HibbertISBN 0140047522 (0-14-004752-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Mutiny: India 1857'Book summary:'By far the best single-volume description of the mutiny yet written' - "Economist". A beautifully written and meticulously researched narrative history of the great Indian uprising of 1857 by one of our most acclaimed living historians. First published in 1978 and re-issued with a handsome new cover for the 2002 paperback edition. [via]
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Guide to the British Economyby Peter DonaldsonISBN 0140207554 (0-14-020755-4)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Highland Clearancesby John PrebbleISBN 0140028374 (0-14-002837-4)
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A History of England: 1688 To the Presentby David Roberts, Clayton RobertsISBN 0133904105 (0-13-390410-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of England: 1688 To the Present'Book summary:A History of England: 1688 to present, volume II, incorporates recent scholarship into a narrative that encompasses England's social, economic, cultural, and political history. This traces how and why critical events occurred. Other notable features: Discusses events in Scotland, Wales and Ireland as they affect developments in England, in-depth documentation of England's involvement in World War I and II, explains in terms of the society they served, institutions, the nineteenth century economy, Victorian morality, and twentieth-century popular culture. Offers section heading, genealogical charts, and maps designed to help clarify the course of events. [via]
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A History of England Vol. II : 1688 to the Present (Chapters 16-31)by Clayton Roberts, David Roberts, Douglas R. BissonISBN 0132064839 (0-13-206483-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of England Vol. II : 1688 to the Present (Chapters 16-31)'Book summary:For two-semester, junior/senior-level courses in the History of England. Volume II may be used for a one-semester course in Modern England. This two-volume broad, narrative account of English history--from the first settlers in the Paleolithic Age to the present day--draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research to illuminate the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past, and focuses on how and why events occurred. [via]
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A History of Scotlandby J.D. MacKie, Geoffrey Parker, Bruce LenmanISBN 0140136495 (0-14-013649-5)
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Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990by P. F. ClarkeISBN 0140148302 (0-14-014830-2)
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I, Claudiusby Robert GravesISBN 0140003185 (0-14-000318-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Claudius'Book summary:Having never seen the famous 1970s television series based on Graves' historical novel of ancient Rome and being generally uneducated about matters both ancient and Roman, I wasn't prepared for such an engaging book. But it's a ripping good read, this fictional autobiography set in the Roman Empire's days of glory and decadence. As a history lesson, it's fabulous; as a novel it's also wonderful. Best is Claudius himself, the stutterer who let everyone think he was an idiot (to avoid getting poisoned) but who reveals himself in the narrative to be a wry and likable observer. His story continues in Claudius the God. [via]
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Justineby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140153195 (0-14-015319-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justine'Book summary:[via]The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed characters in this mesmerizing novel, their pursuits lead only to bedrooms in which each seeks to knowand possessthe other. Since its publication in 1957, Justine has inspired an almost religious devotion among readers and critics alike.
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Life in the English Country Houseby Mark GirourardISBN 0140054065 (0-14-005406-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in the English Country House'Book summary:The English country house has flourished over the centuries because of its ability to adapt to the changes in English society. This book is an account of the ways in which the upper-class life style were reflected in the houses in which the wealthy and powerful lived. First published in 1978, this is a history of the English country house from the point of view of its owners and users. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the world of Evelyn Waugh, the author also discusses and illustrates how the life of the upper classes shaped their country hosues, how they entertained and were served, how they ran the country and their estates and how they reconciled personal privacy and public display. [via]
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Lord Nelson: The Immortal Memoryby David Howarth, Stephen HowarthISBN 0140101462 (0-14-010146-2)
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Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire Among Working-Class Men and Women in 19Th-Century Londonby Francoise Barret-DucrocqISBN 0140173269 (0-14-017326-9)
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Lucky Jimby Kingsley AmisISBN 0140186301 (0-14-018630-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucky Jim'Book summary:Although Kingsley Amis's acid satire of postwar British academic life has lost some of its bite in the four decades since it was published, it's still a rewarding read. And there's no denying how big an impact it had back then--Lucky Jim could be considered the first shot in the Oxbridge salvo that brought us Beyond the Fringe, That Was the Week That Was, and so much more.
In Lucky Jim, Amis introduces us to Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer at a British college who spends his days fending off the legions of malevolent twits that populate the school. His job is in constant danger, often for good reason. Lucky Jim hits the heights whenever Dixon tries to keep a preposterous situation from spinning out of control, which is every three pages or so. The final example of this--a lecture spewed by a hideously pickled Dixon--is a chapter's worth of comic nirvana. The book is not politically correct (Amis wasn't either), but take it for what it is, and you won't be disappointed. [via]
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Geniusby Ray MonkISBN 0140159959 (0-14-015995-9)
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Midnight's Childrenby Salman RushdieISBN 0140132708 (0-14-013270-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight's Children'Book summary:Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.
In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India's, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India's independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem's gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another's place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem's dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.We've seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Nice Workby David LodgeISBN 0140133968 (0-14-013396-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nice Work'Book summary:"A funny, intelligent, superbly paced social comedy." -- The New York Times Vic Wilcox, a self-made man and managing director of an engineering firm. has little regard for academics, and even less for feminists. So when Robyn Penrose, a trendy leftist teacher, is assigned to "shadow" Vic under a goverment program created to foster mutual understanding between town and gown, the hilarious collusion of lifestyles and ideologies that ensues seems unlikely to foster anything besides mutual antipathy. But in the course of a bumpy year, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds--and about themselves. [via]
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Our Man in Havanaby Graham GreeneISBN 0140184937 (0-14-018493-7)
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The Penguin Economic History of Britain: Reformation to Industrial Revolution 1530-1780by Christopherl HillISBN 0140137483 (0-14-013748-3)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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The Perilous Gardby Elizabeth M. Pope, Richard CuffariISBN 014034912X (0-14-034912-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perilous Gard'Book summary:In Tudor England a young lady-in-waiting is exiled to an isolated castle. There she encounters the legendary Fairy Folk, who have chosen a strange and silent young man as a sacrifice. Is it her destiny to save him? A Newbery Honor Book. [via]
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The Portable Coleridgeby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ivor A. RichardsISBN 014015048X (0-14-015048-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Coleridge'Book summary:[via]Chronically impoverished, tormented by self-doubt and a crippling addiction to opium, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) still managed to become one of the most versatile and influential forces of English romanticism.
The Portable Coleridge faithfully represents all facets of this complex, haunted genius, including his poems, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Christabel," "Kubla Khan," and "Dejection"; letters to friends and colleagues such as Robert Southey and William Godwin; selections from Notebooks and Table Talk; political and philisophical writings; literary criticism; and extensive excerpts from Biographia Literaria, in which Coleridge interweaves aesthetics, metaphysics, and disarmingly candid autobiography. Edited and with an introduction by the critic I.A. Richards, this voulme vastly expands our understanding of a writer of visionary insight and protean range.
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Post-War Britain: A Political Historyby Chris Cook, Alan SkedISBN 0140179127 (0-14-017912-7)
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Books IV and Vby John Stuart Mill, Donald WinchISBN 0140400176 (0-14-040017-6)
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The Quiet Americanby Graham Greene, John Clark PrattISBN 014024350X (0-14-024350-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quiet American'Book summary:Against the intrigue and violence of Vietnam during the French war with the Vietminh, Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to promote democracy, as his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on. Fowlers mistress, a beautiful native girl creates a catalyst for jealousy and competition between the men and a cultural clash resulting in bloodshed and deep misgivings. Written in 1955 prior to the Vietnam conflict, The Quiet American foreshadows the events leading up to the Vietnam conflict. Questions surrounding the moral ambiguity of the involvement of the United States in foreign countries are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago. [via]
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The Railway Childrenby E. Nesbit, C. E. BrockISBN 0140366717 (0-14-036671-7)
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The Rainbowby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140006923 (0-14-000692-3)
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The novel covers the life-span of three generations. Lawrence delves deep into the psychology of his characters and comments on the qualities and their descent through generations. He discusses sexual dynamics and relations between characters of different generations. The book created ripples due to its bold topic when it was published, and is still widely-read.
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Reformation to Industrial Revolutionby Christopher HillISBN 0140208976 (0-14-020897-6)
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Restorationby Rose TremainISBN 0140244883 (0-14-024488-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restoration'Book summary:Restoration is a dazzling romp through 17th-century England. The main character Robert Merivel not only embodies the contradictions of his era, but ours as well. He is trapped between the longing for wealth and power and the realization that the pursuit of these trappings can leave one's life rather empty. [via]
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Richard III: England's Black Legendby Desmond SewardISBN 0140266348 (0-14-026634-8)
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Secret Agentby Joseph Conrad, Martin Seymour-SmithISBN 0140180966 (0-14-018096-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Agent'Book summary:One one of the great detective novels of all time, "The Secret Conrad", written in 1903, is a magisterial thriller of terrorists and police in London in the early years of the 20th century. [via]
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby J.A. BurrowISBN 0140422951 (0-14-042295-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:Although the date of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is uncertain, and we know nothing about the author, its composition is roughly contemporary with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in the latter part of the fourteenth century.[via]It is a remarkably subtle and accomplished poem, in which the hero's knightly virtues of courage, courtesy and fidelity are put to the test in a strange adventure involving a huge green knight on a green horse, a winter journey, a lady in a mysterious castle and a challenge answered. It ranks as one of the greatest works of the English Middle Ages and perhaps the greatest triumph of the English alliterative tradition.
Unlike The Canterbury Tales, however, Sir Gawain is written in a dialect belonging to Cheshire, Lancashire or Staffordshire, and this seems more remote to the modern reader than Chaucer's London language. The aim of this edition has been to remove unnecessary impediments while retaining the integrity of the original. Notes and a glossary have been provided to assist an informed, critical reading of the text.
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The deal is I cut off his head now, and he cuts off mine a year later. What a jester, doesnt he know hell be dead?
This goblin fellow is totally dead.
All seemed fine until Ichabod Crane here fell to the floor, stood up, and picked up his head. His head, in his hands. In HIS HANDS!
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Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Parisby John KeeganISBN 0140235426 (0-14-023542-6)
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Stonehengeby R. J. C. AtkinsonISBN 0140136460 (0-14-013646-0)
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Stuart Englandby J. P. KenyonISBN 0140137688 (0-14-013768-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stuart England'Book summary:Stuart England is the subject of continual and active research, and Professor Kenyon's survey presents a unified picture of this contentious century, as well as featuring a full and up to date critical bibliography. [via]
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Tales from Shakespeareby Charles Lamb, Mary LambISBN 0140366776 (0-14-036677-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from Shakespeare'Book summary:This work gives a perfect introduction to Shakespeare's greatest plays. Charles and Mary Lamb bring vividly alive all the power of "Hamlet" and "Othello", the fun of "As You Like It", and the drama of "Pericles". Conveying all of Shakespeare's wit, wisdom and humanity, and never losing the feel of his beautiful language, these tales are classic literature in their own right. [via]
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Textiles & Clothingby E. CrowfootISBN 0112904459 (0-11-290445-9)
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The Thirty-Nine Stepsby John BuchanISBN 0140011307 (0-14-001130-7)
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0140367098 (0-14-036709-8)
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Time Out Londonby Penguin Books StaffISBN 0140274499 (0-14-027449-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Out London'Book summary:A London-based team of writers and researchers has revised the information-packed annual London Guide for the seventh time. This edition includes information on London millennium events; new maps of Greenwich (for the Millennium Dome) and Hampstead; more detailed information on London by area, with coverage extending into the more interesting suburbs; and more information on accommodations for visitors on all budgets. The guide also offers more details on the arts and entertainment, more restaurants and pubs, and more on London sites -- from the Wren churches in the City to Hindu temples in Neasden. [via]
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Time Out Londonby Time OutISBN 014029404X (0-14-029404-X)
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Time Out Guide: Londonby Peter Fiennes, Philip HarrissISBN 0140230300 (0-14-023030-0)
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The Titanicby Wyn Craig WadeISBN 0140055622 (0-14-005562-2)
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The Titanic : End of a Dreamby Wyn C. WadeISBN 0140166912 (0-14-016691-2)
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To Sir, With Loveby Edward Ricardo BraithwaiteISBN 0139230378 (0-13-923037-8)
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A Treatise of Human Natureby David HumeISBN 0140400079 (0-14-040007-9)
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W. B. Yeats: Collected Poemsby W. B. YeatsISBN 0099723506 (0-09-972350-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'W. B. Yeats: Collected Poems'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Wealth of Nations/Books I-IIIby Adam SmithISBN 0140400125 (0-14-040012-5)
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By pin-pointing the 'division of labour' as a major explanation of economic growth, Adam Smith laid the foundations of economic theory in general and of 'classical' economics in particular. But Andrew Skinner shows in his introduction to this edition that the real sophistication of The Wealth of Nations lies less in its overall picture of a vast analytical system - a capitalist economy - in which all the parts can be seen simultaneously interacting with each other. Moreover, he stresses that Smith's view of society was mot a merely economic one, and that The Wealth of Nations is for from being an apologia for unregulated business enterprise: Smith was at pains to show that economic advance can have undesirable social consequences, and that labour which is economically unproductive can be beneficial to society at large. [via]More editions of The Wealth of Nations/Books I-III:
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