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The Adventures of Roderick Randomby Paul-Gabriel Bouce, Tobias George SmollettISBN 0192812610 (0-19-281261-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Almayer's Follyby Joseph Conrad, Jacques BerthoudISBN 0192816977 (0-19-281697-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthologyby Kevin Crossley-HollandISBN 0192816322 (0-19-281632-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology'Book summary:Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety. [via]
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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, Michael NeillISBN 0192814478 (0-19-281447-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:Now available in beautiful World's Classics editions--with handsome, four-color covers and new low prices--The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and authoritative edions of Shakespeare's plays. In each volume, an introductory essay provides all relevant background information together with an appraisal of critical views and the play's performance history. In addition, the detailed commentaries pay particular attention to the language and staging. These editions are perfect for all readers, whether actors needing stage directions, students desiring comprehensive (yet inobtrusive) notes, or the reader of classic literature returning to the Bard's timeless writings.
The most formally ambitious and poetically brilliant of Shakespeare's tragedies, Anthony and Cleopatra is also one of his most critically contentious plays in terms of the degree and nature of its success. Always alert to the play's theatricality and boldly experimental design, the wide-ranging introduction offers a fresh critical account of the play, exploring its paradoxical treatment of gender and identity as well as the rich complexity and tensions of its much-loved poetic language. With a generous appendix of Shakespeare's source materials, this edition also offers a full stage history. [via]More editions of Antony and Cleopatra:
Ayala's Angelby Anthony Trollope, Julian Thompson-FurnivalISBN 0192817477 (0-19-281747-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Beowulfby Kevin Crossley-Holland, Charles KeepingISBN 0192723693 (0-19-272369-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:This is the story of a young man who travelled far across the sea to fight two terrifying monsters-one who could rip a man apart and drink his blood, the other who lived like a sea-wolf at the bottom of a dark, blood-stained lake. The young hero's name was Beowulf, and his story, first written in Anglo-Saxon in the eighth century, has become one of the world's most famous epics. Kevin Crossley-Holland retells the story for children in quick-paced, rhythmical prose accompanied by Charles Keeping's striking illustrations. Together they bring to life the beauty and power of one of the first great English poems. [via]
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Bostoniansby Henry James, R. D. GooderISBN 019281639X (0-19-281639-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'Book summary:The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870's. F.R. Leavis called it one of "the 2 most brilliant novels in the language. "The novel's many allusions to the historical and social background of Boston society are explained in the editorial material. [via]
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Can You Forgive Herby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192546112 (0-19-254611-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Can You Forgive Her'Book summary:As a scandalized Victorian society looks on, Alice Vavasor, Lady Glencora, and the Widow Greenow continue their romantic entanglements with disreputable suitors. [via]
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0192741810 (0-19-274181-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canterbury Tales'Book summary:They set off on an April morning with the rain dripping from the branches. Even with the rain, they were glad to be on their way--priests, nuns, tradesmen, men from the city, all pilgrims on the road to Canterbury.
To pass the long journey they told each other stories: of magic and trickery, of animals with blazing eyes, of people with their pants on fire, of two thousand men battling before smoking walls, stories of love and death and the devil. There were written down by Geoffrey Chaucer, and he called them The Canterbury Tales.
Geraldine McCaughrean retells The Canterbury Tales for children in a lively and humorous style which captures the original flair of Chaucer himself. She introduces us to the characters who told these tales: the shy, battle-hardened Knight, the Summoner whose breath smells of onions, the angry Miller with his read beard, and the Widow of Bath who likes a happy ending.
The stories and the characters are vividly brought to life by Victor Ambrus, with pictures of wild chases, exciting battles, and the April countryside through which the pilgrims travel. [via]More editions of Canterbury Tales:
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The Canterbury Talesby Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 019278109X (0-19-278109-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Castle Rackrentby George Watson, Maria EdgeworthISBN 0192815393 (0-19-281539-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Published in 1800, Castle Rackrent is regarded as the first family saga and first regional novel in English. It chronicles the lives of four generations of 18th-century Irish landlords, and how their negligent behaviour towards life and money takes them to the edge of bankruptcy and ruin. A stimulating satire!
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Chanceby Joseph Conrad, Martin RayISBN 0192801740 (0-19-280174-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chance'Book summary:Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl who is "like a beggar, without a right to anything but compassion." After her bankrupt father is imprisoned, she learns the harsh fact that a woman in her position "has no resources but in herself." Her only means of action is to be what she is. Flora's long struggle to achieve some dignity and happiness makes her Conrad's most moving female character.
Reflecting the contemporary interest in the New Woman and the Suffragette question, Chance also marks the final appearance of Marlow, Conrad's most effective and wise narrator. This revised edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography. [via] -
The Claveringsby Anthony Trollope, David SkiltonISBN 0192817272 (0-19-281727-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claverings'Book summary:Since its first appearance in 1867, this novel has been acclaimed as one of Trollope's most successful protrayals of mid-Victorian life. The Claverings is filled with contemporary detail and shows, as Trollope often does, the weakness of men and the emotional strength of women. [via]
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Complete Shorter Fictionby Oscar Wilde, Isobel MurrayISBN 0192815008 (0-19-281500-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Shorter Fiction'Book summary:For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known fairy tales as "The Happy Prince," "The Young King," and "The Fisherman and his Soul;" an imaginary portrait of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets entitled "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.;" and the parables Wilde referred to as "Poems in Prose," including "The Artist," "The House of Judgment," and "The Teacher of Wisdom." [via]
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The Complete Stalky & Co.by Rudyard Kipling, Isabel QuiglyISBN 0192816608 (0-19-281660-8)
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Daisy Miller and Other Storiesby Henry James, Jean GooderISBN 0192816187 (0-19-281618-7)
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Daniel Derondaby George Eliot, Graham HandleyISBN 0192817876 (0-19-281787-6)
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Desirable Residences and Other Storiesby Edward Frederic Benson, Jack AdrianISBN 0192123041 (0-19-212304-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, A. N. WilsonISBN 0192815989 (0-19-281598-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:The dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by stoker. He aims to terrify and succeeds, portraying the awesome power of evil to corrupt even the virtuous heroine, lucy. Only the old magic--a crucifix, garlic, a wooden stake--can provide effective weapons against the count's appalling strength [via]
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The Duke's Childrenby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192546163 (0-19-254616-3)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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The Eustace Diamondsby Anthony Trollope, W.J. Mc CormackISBN 0192815881 (0-19-281588-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinkerby Tobias SmollettISBN 0192816640 (0-19-281664-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker'Book summary:1929. Smollett was a man of letters in the fullest sense. Trained as a physician, he was not only a novelist but also a playwright, poet, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, and editor. A novel in epistolary form about a group of travelers who visit places in England and Scotland and provide through their satirical and witty letters a vivid and detailed picture of the contemporary social and political scene. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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The Fortunes of Casanovaby Jack Adrian, Rafael SabatiniISBN 019212319X (0-19-212319-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortunes of Casanova'Book summary:Rafael Sabatini was one of the greatest writers of historical adventure fiction who ever lived. The master of the swashbuckling tale, he penned such runaway bestsellers as Scaramouche and Captain Blood. Indeed, Scaramouche was made into one of the most successful adventure films of that era, surpassed only by another Sabatini novel, The Sea Hawk, which sold over a million copies and led to a celebrated film starring Errol Flynn.
Sabatini was also a prolific author of short stories, and this volume contains 20 of his best. Full of pace, incident, and plot, these tales range in time from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and they conjure up a wonderful cast of rogues, vagabonds, shyster lawyers, cutpurses, quacks, and conmen. The heart of the book is a series of stories featuring Casanova, the libertine, swordsman, and wit. Sabatini takes nine colorful exploits from Casanova's notorious Memoirs and retells them with his characteristic gusto. And in addition to the stories, Jack Adrian provides an informative introduction that outlines Sabatini's life and offers an enlightening discussion of the genre of historical fiction.
"No writer, not Scott nor Dumas nor Stevenson, has brought the past to life more vividly," observes George MacDonald Fraser in the foreword. Whether set in Italy during the Renaissance or France during the Terror, these tales do indeed bring the past to glorious life, paying meticulous attention to historical detail even as they abound in surprising turns, witty dialogue, and breathtaking adventure. [via]More editions of The Fortunes of Casanova:
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The Four Men: A Farragoby Hilaire BellocISBN 0192814346 (0-19-281434-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Four Men: A Farrago'Book summary:Four men--Myself, Grizzlebeard, The Sailor, and The Poet--wander through the Sussex of 1902. Their comical adventures and perceptions celebrate the vanishing landscape of unspoilt rural England and a lifestyle soon to become obsolete. The four characters are all personifications of aspects of Belloc's own nature. [via]
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Framley Parsonageby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192815458 (0-19-281545-8)
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Hamletby JenkinsISBN 0174434693 (0-17-443469-3)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This edition offers a detailed insight into the work of Shakespeare expanding the individual's knowledge and appreciation of his work. [via]
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, G. R. HibbardISBN 0192814486 (0-19-281448-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play, this new edition turns to the First Folio of 1623--Shakespeare's "fair copy"--that has been preserved for us in the Second Quarto. Introducing fresh theatrical momentum, this revision provides, as Shakespeare intended, a better, more practical acting script. [via]
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The Heart of Mid-Lothianby Walter Scott, Claire LamontISBN 0192815830 (0-19-281583-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian'Book summary:This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. At the centre of the story is Edinburgh's forbidding Tolbooth prison, known by all as the Heart of Midlothian. [via]
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His Last Bowby Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley EdwardsISBN 0192123157 (0-19-212315-7)
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan Doyle, W.W. RobsonISBN 0192123106 (0-19-212310-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0192745220 (0-19-274522-0)
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King Richard IIby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434723 (0-17-443472-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Richard III'Book summary:King Richard exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, the son of the powerful but ailing nobleman, John of Gaunt. When Gaunt dies and the king seizes his lands, the son returns to his homeland. But Bolingbroke's ambitions extend beyond his family's property. He seeks nothing less than Richard's crown and all of England. In this production Richard is played by Rupert Graves, and Bolingbroke, by Julian Glover. The role of Queen Isabel falls to Saira Todd. [via]
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Lady Audley's Secretby David Skilton, Mary E. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth BraddonISBN 0192817418 (0-19-281741-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Audley's Secret'Book summary:This novel, with its most untypically forceful heroine, can be seen as an anticipation of Ibsen's great dramas, and as an unabashed bid for freedom from the constraints of Victorian womanhood. [via]
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The Lantern Bearersby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 0192720309 (0-19-272030-9)
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence Sterne, Ian Campbell RossISBN 0192815660 (0-19-281566-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Louis L. CornellISBN 0192816748 (0-19-281674-8)
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Master Humphrey's Clock and a Child's History of Englandby Charles DickensISBN 0192545205 (0-19-254520-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master Humphrey's Clock and a Child's History of England'Book summary:This volume combines two titles of great biographical interest. The weekly miscellany, "Master Humphrey's Clock, " besides providing the original setting for "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge, " was the scene of Dickens's revival of Mr. Pickwick and the Wellers. "A Child's History of England" is not representative of Victorian schoolroom history: filled with distrust for the 'good old days, ' writes Derek Hudson in the Introduction, it gives 'an unsparing picture of prolongued wickedness in high places, exposed with lurid detail and much rough sarcasm.' [via]
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The Master of Ballantraeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 0192816357 (0-19-281635-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master of Ballantrae'Book summary:Set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, the story has as its hero one of the most compelling yet horrifying studies of evil in nineteenth-century fiction - James Durie, Master of Ballantrae. [via]
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The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.by William Makepeace Thackeray, Andrew SandersISBN 0192816675 (0-19-281667-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.'Book summary:First published in 1844, this is Thackeray's earliest substantial work of fiction and perhaps his most original. The text is that of Saintbury's 1908 Oxford edition which incorporates Thackeray's revisions. [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 0174436068 (0-17-443606-8)
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The Mirror of the Sea and a Personal Recordby Joseph Conrad, Zdzislaw NajderISBN 0192817299 (0-19-281729-9)
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Mrs. Miniverby Jan StrutherISBN 0156631407 (0-15-663140-7)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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My Father and Myselfby J. R. AckerleyISBN 0156623250 (0-15-662325-0)
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Nigger of the Narcissusby Joseph Conrad, Jacques A. BerthoudISBN 0192816233 (0-19-281623-3)
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0192553437 (0-19-255343-7)
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Northanger Abbey and Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0192547054 (0-19-254705-4)
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The Old Curiosity Shopby Charles DickensISBN 019254506X (0-19-254506-X)
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Orley Farmby Anthony Trollope, David SkiltonISBN 0192817132 (0-19-281713-2)
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Our Mutual Friendby Marcus Stone, E. Salter Davies, Charles DickensISBN 0192545108 (0-19-254510-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Mutual Friend'Book summary:Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basic plot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, a rocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host of unforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing the author's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, and the story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The mood is set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, and his daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned men whose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to the authorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that is later identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning from abroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered and thrown into the river.
Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happens in the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on the condition that he marry a girl he'd never met, Bella Wilfer. His death, however, brings a new heir onto the scene, Nicodemus Boffin, the kind-hearted but low-born assistant to Harmon's father. Boffin and his wife adopt young Bella, who is determined to marry money, and also hire a mysterious young secretary, John Rokesmith, who takes an uncommon interest in their ward. Not content with just one plot, Dickens throws in a secondary love story featuring the riverman's daughter, Lizzie Hexam; a dissolute young upper-class lawyer, Eugene Wrayburn; and his rival, the headmaster Bradley Headstone. Dark as the novel is, Dickens is careful to leaven it with secondary characters who are as funny as they are menacing--blackmailing Silas Wegg and his accomplice Mr. Venus, the avaricious Lammles, and self-centered Charlie Hexam. Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most satisfying novels, and a fitting denouement to his prolific career. --Alix Wilber [via]
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Thomas Hardy, Alan ManfordISBN 0192816845 (0-19-281684-5)
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Phineas Finnby Anthony Trollope, Jacques BerthoudISBN 0192815873 (0-19-281587-3)
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Phineas Reduxby Anthony Trollope, John C. Whale, F. S. L. LyonsISBN 019281589X (0-19-281589-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Prime Ministerby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192546155 (0-19-254615-5)
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The Prime Ministerby John McCormick, Anthony Trollope, Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0192815903 (0-19-281590-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prime Minister'Book summary:This book is intended for wide general and gift market; the legion of Trollope fans; students of English literature at all levels wanting to read Trollope in hardback. [via]
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The Pyramidby William G. GoldingISBN 0156747030 (0-15-674703-0)
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Roderick Hudsonby Henry JamesISBN 0192815474 (0-19-281547-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roderick Hudson'Book summary:In James's first novel an awkward, innocent, and eager young sculptor from Massachusetts travels to Rome, where his creative impulse is frustrated by the conflict between his puritan conscience and the artistic freedom and cultural sophistication of the Eternal City. [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Jill L LevensonISBN 0192814966 (0-19-281496-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This innovative edition of one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays offers modernized texts not only of the 1599 quarto but also of the short, or "bad" quarto of 1597, regarding each as witness to a "mobile text" which changed in composition as Shakespeare wrote it and which has continued to evolve throughout its richly varied history, both in the theatre and in film, television, opera, and ballet. The more familiar 1599 text is accompanied by a detailed explanatory commentary. The Introduction traces the Romeo and Juliet narrative from its origins in myth through its adaptation in the novella, and shows how Shakespeare's transmutation of the story reflects contemporary concerns with love, death, adolescence, and patriarchism. [via]
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156787334 (0-15-678733-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister-a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create. [via]
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The Second Jungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling, W.W. RobsonISBN 0192816551 (0-19-281655-1)
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The Shadow Lineby Joseph Conrad, Jeremy HawthornISBN 0192801708 (0-19-280170-8)
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Katherine Duncan-JonesISBN 017443474X (0-17-443474-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets'Book summary:This Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates, this text was authorized by Shakespeare himself, and may be based on an authorial manuscript. The whole carefully-ordered sequence, including "A Lover's Complaint", is read in the context of Shakespeare's career and of the poems' historical setting within early Jacobean culture. A clear-eyed analysis of homoerotic elements in the sonnets puts an end to the century of homophobic readings initiated by Sir Sidney Lee in 1897. Succinct and accessible notes guide the reader through complex vocabulary and syntax, as well as the poems' literary and cultural background. For ease of reference, these are printed on the same page-opening as the text. [via]
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Shirleyby Charlotte BronteISBN 0192815628 (0-19-281562-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shirley'Book summary:Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of
a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life
symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention. [via]More editions of Shirley:
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The Small House at Allingtonby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192815520 (0-19-281552-0)
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The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434731 (0-17-443473-1)
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermistonby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 019281740X (0-19-281740-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston'Book summary:This volume includes Stevenson's famous spine-chilling thriller Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as Weir of Hermiston, a brilliant autobiographical portrayal of a father-son relationship. [via]
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley EdwardsISBN 0192123130 (0-19-212313-0)
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Sybilby Benjamin Disraeli, Sheila M. SmithISBN 0192815512 (0-19-281551-2)
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The Tempestby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434782 (0-17-443478-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
The Tempestby Alden T. Vaughan, Virginia Mason VaughanISBN 0174435355 (0-17-443535-5)
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Typhoon and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801732 (0-19-280173-2)
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Uncommercial Traveller Reprinted Pieces, Etc.by Charles DickensISBN 0192545213 (0-19-254521-3)
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Under Western Eyes: Library Editionby Joseph Conrad, Jeremy HawthornISBN 0192801716 (0-19-280171-6)
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Victoryby Joseph Conrad, Mara KalninsISBN 0192801759 (0-19-280175-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victory'Book summary:Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. It tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island of Samburan. But Heyst's solitary existence ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious patron and brings her back to the island. She in turn recalls him to love and life, until the world breaks in on them once more with tragic consequences. In this love story Conrad created two of his psychologically most complex and compelling characters in a narrative of great erotic power.
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Wavesby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156949601 (0-15-694960-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waves'Book summary:One of Woolfs most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.[via]More editions of Waves:
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Peter BrooksISBN 0192816314 (0-19-281631-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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The Yearsby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156997010 (0-15-699701-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Years'Book summary:The principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet, talk, think, dream, grow older, in a continuous ritual of life that eludes meaning.[via]More editions of The Years:
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