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Adeline Mowbrayby Amelia Alderson OpieISBN 1854771884 (1-85477-188-4)
Hardcover, Woodstock Books
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Alice's Adventure Under Groundby Lewis Carroll, Kim Deitch, Mark BursteinISBN 1892847000 (1-892847-00-0)
Hardcover, Word Play Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventure Under Ground'Book summary:Previously only available in facsimile form this edition of Lewis Carroll's predecessor to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the very first to be set in type as a single volume and the first to be published with drawings other than those by Carroll himself.
All new artwork by noted illustrator and former underground cartoonist, Kim Deitch, perfectly matches the spontaniety of Carroll's original. Using the image of the real Alice Liddell as a model is just one of the ingenious innovations Dietch brings to this lively edition of Alice's Adventure's under Ground.
Mark Burstein, vice-president to the Lewis Carroll Society of North America and curator of one of the largest collections of Carroll books and memorabilia in the world, relates the historic importance of this books revolutionary impact in expanding the horizons of children's literature. [via]
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Iassen GhiuselevISBN 1894965000 (1-894965-00-0)
Hardcover, Simply Read Books
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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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As You Like Itby William ShakespeareISBN 1903436044 (1-903436-04-4)
Softcover, Thomson Learning EMEA, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As You Like It'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of As You Like It provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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The Atrocity Exhibitionby J.G. BallardISBN 1889307033 (1-889307-03-3)
Softcover, Re-Search Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Atrocity Exhibition'Book summary:Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, JG Ballard still lives far ahead of his time. Called his "prophetic masterpiece" by many, The Atrocity Exhibition practically lies outside of any literary tradition. Part science fiction, part eerie historical fiction, part pornography, its characters adhere to no rules of linearity or stability. This reissued edition features an introduction by William S Burroughs, extensive text commentary by Ballard and four additional stories. Of specific interest are the illustrations by underground cartoonist and professional medical illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner. Her ultra-realistic images of eroticism and destruction add an important dimension to Ballard's text. --Joaquim della Mirandella [via]
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Barchester Towersby Anthony Trollope, Ruth RendellISBN 1870587464 (1-870587-46-4)
Hardcover, Ashgate Pub Co
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Blue Heartby Caryl ChurchillISBN 1854593277 (1-85459-327-7)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Capitalby Karl MarxISBN 187776776X (1-877767-76-X)
Hardcover, Univ Pub House
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Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, Gustave DoreISBN 188895700X (1-888957-00-X)
Hardcover, McE Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carol'Book summary:Dust jacket notes: "This is the first book edition of a remarkable set of 45 lost wood engravings from 1861 by Gustave Dore, the great French illustrator. Recently discovered in an obscure old French magazine, they somehow eluded the grasp of scholars for the last 135 years. Apparently, even Charles Dickens did not know of their existence. They are by far the largest set of Victorian engravings for the story, and they include the first drawing ever made of Tiny Tim! But this beautiful Christmas gift book is much more than that. It also contains the full text of A Christmas Carol, plus all the other early sets of illustrations for the story (by Leech, Phiz, Abbey, Barnard, etc.) making a total of nearly 200 Victorian engravings! The dust jacket front cover features several of the lost engravings, colorized by artist Mike Nicastre. A scholarly introduction by Dan Malan, who discovered this set of lost engravings while writing a major reference work on Dore, explores the significance of the lost engravings and the relationship between Dickens and Dore, with lists of their illustrated editions...." [via]
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsby W. B. YeatsISBN 1853264547 (1-85326-454-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats'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 Collected Poems of William Wordsworthby William WordsworthISBN 1853264016 (1-85326-401-6)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth'Book summary:(His remarkable autobiographical poem 'The Prelude' was completed in 1805, but was not published until after his death, and it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth's poetry) [via]
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Collected Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1853263974 (1-85326-397-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century. [via]
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The Comedy of Errorsby William ShakespeareISBN 1853262439 (1-85326-243-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Complete Austenby Jane AustenISBN 1854714066 (1-85471-406-6)
Hardcover, E P Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Complete English Poemsby John DonneISBN 1857150058 (1-85715-005-8)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete English Poems'Book summary:This text contains the complete English poems of John Donne. The detailed notes explain unfamiliar words, clarify obscure references, and refine grammatical complexities; they also give the most important variant reading from selected manuscripts. Avoided are any paraphrases, personal interpretation and unauthorized textual emendations. The book begins with an introduction to the poet and his times, including a bibliography of over 750 items. To complete the volume, Alexander Pope's versions of Donne Satyres II and IV, which are often called into comparison with the originals, have been included in an appendix. C.A. Patrides was the author of over 20 works on the literature of the Renaissance, including "The English Poems of George Herbert". [via]
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The Complete Poems of John Keatsby John KeatsISBN 1853264040 (1-85326-404-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems of John Keats'Book summary:'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the Odes and the two versions of the uncompleted epic Hyperion, and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and comic verse. It all demonstrates the extent to which he tested his own dictum throughout his short creative life. That life spanned one of the most remarkable periods in English history in the aftermath of the French Revolution and this collection, with its detailed introductions and notes, aims to place the poems very much in their context. The collection is ample proof that Keats deservedly achieved his wish to 'be among the English Poets after my death' [via]
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Coriolanusby William ShakespeareISBN 1853262854 (1-85326-285-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coriolanus'Book summary:Philip Brockbank was Director of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham in England from 1979-1988, and General Editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare from 1984-1990. He wrote On Shakespeare: Jesus, Shakespeare and Karl Marx, and Other Essays and edited Players of Shakespeare 1: Essays in Shakespearean Performance. His other publications include The Creativity of Perception: Essays in the Genesis of Literature and Art and Urban Mysteries of the Renaissance: Shakespeare and Carpaccio.The Arden Shakespeare edition of Coriolanus includes a detailed introduction to the text of the play, including the original printing, language and grammar, lineation, act and scene structure, stage-directions, and anomalies of the text, some of which are thought to indicate editorial intervention in the printing process. Further analysis of the play's content covers the accepted date of composition and historical context for that time, sources, a discussion of tragedy, language, and a description of the play as it was produced on Shakespeare's stage and has been produced in the theater in its afterlife. Two appendices follow The Tragedy of Coriolanus: "The Life of Caius Martius Coriolanus" from Plutarch's Lives, and an extract from Camden's Remaines.[via]The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader. -
The Diary of a Nobodyby George Grossmith, Weedon GrossmithISBN 1853753645 (1-85375-364-5)
Hardcover, Prion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Nobody'Book summary:[via]"Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see, because I do not happen to be a "Somebody," why my diary should not be interesting." So wrote the anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter, who has come to be seen as the epitome of English suburban life. His diary chronicles encounters with difficult tradesmen, the delights of home improvements, small parties, minor embarrassments, and problems with his troublesome son. The suburban world he inhabits is hilariously and painfully familiar in its small-mindedness and its essential decency. Wonderfully illustrated with Grossmith's line drawings, this very amusing Victorian comedy created in Charles Pooter a cultual icon and English archetype. Both celebration and critique, Diary of a Nobody has often been imitated, but never duplicated.More editions of The Diary of a Nobody:
Doctor Faustusby Christopher MarloweISBN 1854593358 (1-85459-335-8)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Dotingby Henry GreenISBN 1860464440 (1-86046-444-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Sean Simmans, Nancy KilpatrickISBN 1897217420 (1-897217-42-0)
Softcover, Coscom Entertainment
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:What starts as a simple errand to Transylvania to bring information to the mysterious Count Dracula about his new estate in London, Jonathan Harker soon learns there is more to the Count than he first expects. Back in England, Harker's wife-to-be, Mina, is visiting her friend Lucy. When Dracula makes his way to England in search of fresh blood, Lucy becomes his next victim, and when Dr. Seward cannot save her, he enlists the aid of his mentor, Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Van Helsing quickly realizes Lucy's fate and what she has become, and so brings together Jonathan, Mina, Dr. Seward and others to hunt down the Count and destroy him forever. If they can catch him. [via]
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Dusty Answerby Rosamond LehmannISBN 1860497845 (1-86049-784-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dusty Answer'Book summary:'Mamma was fast asleep at home, her spirit lapped in unconsciousness. Her dreams would not divine that her daughter had stolen out to meet a lover. And next door also they slept unawares, while one of them broke from the circle and came alone to clasp a stranger ...' Judith Earle, over-earnest and inexperienced, has always been a little in love with each of the four cousins who come to stay next door and, on her return from Cambridge, becomes madly in love with one of them - Roddy, a 'sensation-hunter'. "Dusty Answer" traces with delicate nostalgia childhood friendships and the pangs of thwarted young love. "Dusty Answer", Lehmann's first novel, was published to sensational acclaim in 1927, and became a landmark book of the inter-war period, shocking in its time, capturing the voice of the younger generation. [via]
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The Dyke and the Dybbukby Ellen GalfordISBN 1878067516 (1-878067-51-6)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Elizabeth Barrett Browningby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, K. E. SullivanISBN 186019303X (1-86019-303-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Fanny Hillby John Cleland, Erich Von GothaISBN 1898998604 (1-898998-60-4)
Hardcover, Erotic Print Society
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill'Book summary:This work is an unexpurgated version of a text first published in 1748/9. It is a tale of raw erotic power and sensuality, chronicling in detail the charms of a lady of pleasure in the atmosphere of unrestrained bawdiness which characterized 18th-century London. [via]
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The Golden Bowlby Henry JamesISBN 1853262498 (1-85326-249-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bowl'Book summary:This work is Henry James's last novel and is a symbolically complex story of two flawed marriages. The gilded crystal bowl with its largely concealed flaw, "the Golden Bowl", is the symbolic vehicle used to reveal past misdemeanours and make the characters face the flaws in their lives. [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney PagetISBN 1879582155 (1-879582-15-5)
Hardcover, Platinum Pr
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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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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, Dan RebellatoISBN 1854592203 (1-85459-220-3)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Julius Caesarby David DanielISBN 1904271049 (1-904271-04-9)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:This edition of one of ShakespeareÂ's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice, combining fast action and immediacy with compelling rhetorical language, and finding a clear context for its study of tyranny in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth 1. The richly experimental verse and the complex structure of the play are analysed in depth, and a strong case is made for this to be the first play to be performed at ShakespeareÂ's Globe Theatre. 'Daniell's edition is a hefty piece of serious scholarship that makes a genuine contribution.' Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey 'This is a stimulating new look at a play which is too often exhibited in a critical museum.' Paul Dean, English Studies [via]
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King Henry VIby William Shakespeare, Eric Rasmusse N, John D. CoxISBN 1903436311 (1-903436-31-1)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry VI'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of King Henry IV Part II provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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King Richard IIIby William Shakespeare, Nick De SomogyiISBN 1854596462 (1-85459-646-2)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Richard III: The Tragedy of'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of King Richard III provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
The Knight on the Bridgeby William WatsonISBN 1860461409 (1-86046-140-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. BraddonISBN 1853267260 (1-85326-726-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Audley's Secret'Book summary:With an Introduction by Catherine Wells-Cole The flaxen-haired beauty of the child-like Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines. Combining elements of the detective novel, the psychological thriller and the romance of upper class life, Lady Audley's Secret was one of the most popular and successful novels of the nineteenth century. [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence SterneISBN 1853262919 (1-85326-291-9)
Hardcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary:With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex Laurence Sterne s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre, Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne the most liberated spirit of all time . [via]
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Life of Samuel Johnson L.L.dby James BoswellISBN 185326797X (1-85326-797-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Samuel Johnson L.L.d'Book summary:James Boswell is for some the ideal scribe, for others a sycophantic toady. Edmund Wilson, for example, memorably labeled him "a vain and pushing diarist." Boswell can even be seen as someone unconsciously intent on undermining his idol in sonorous, balanced sentences. Early on in his massive Life, he puts all manner of ideas into our heads with his boobish attempts to clear the youthful Johnson of potential impropriety: "His juvenile attachments to the fair sex were, however, very transient; and it is certain that he formed no criminal connection whatsoever." And while it's often tempting to ignore Boswell's more personal intrusions and delight solely in the melancholic master's words and deeds, there are suchdelightful admissions as, "I was at this time so occupied, shall I call it? or so dissipated, by the amusements of London that our next meeting was not till Saturday, June 25..."
Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. On April 20, 1764, for example, he declared, "I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits." Many of the quotes Boswell includes are a sort of greatest hits: Johnson's definitions of oats and lexicographer, his love for his cat Hodge, as well as thousands of bon, and mal, mots. ("Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"; "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.") But there are also many unfamiliar pleasures--Boswell's accounts of Johnson's literary industry, including the Dictionary, The Rambler, and Lives of the Poets; Johnson's singular loathing for Scotland and France; and the surprising hints of revelry. Awakened at 3 AM by friends, he greets them with, "What, is it you, you dogs! I'll have a frisk with you." This at age 42. Johnson's final years were marked by pain and loneliness but certainly no loss of wit. [via]
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Love's Labour's Lostby William ShakespeareISBN 1853262595 (1-85326-259-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Love's Labours Lostby H. R. WoudhuysenISBN 1903436192 (1-903436-19-2)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love's Labours Lost'Book summary:Another example of Shakespeare's comic fascination with the battle between and misunderstanding of the sexes, Love's Labour's Lost is a difficult play to read, but one which is extremely effective on stage. The Play opens with King Ferdinand of Navarre and his courtiers taking a vow of study and sexual abstinence for a period of three years. However, their vows are soon placed under strain with the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies in waiting. The inevitable happens, and the different couples attempt to surreptitiously communicate, causing much hilarious confusion and embarrassment in the process. Shakespeare deploys every farcical element in the book, including impersonation, wrongly delivered letters, outrageous puns and word play, fights, drunkenness and masquerades, as Ferdinand's entourage soon learn that rather than running from women to books, it is in fact the opposite sex that "are the books, the arts, the academes/That show, contain, and nourish all the world". However, one of the most interesting aspects of the play is that it does not end with everyone marrying and living happily ever after. The women give as good as they get from the men, and in the end turn the tables in extremely interesting ways. One of Shakespeare's most linguistically challenging, but also intelligent comedies. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Loves Labours LostISBN 1904271103 (1-904271-10-3)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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The Man Who Was Thursdayby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1853262366 (1-85326-236-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday:
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Mary Bartonby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 1854599518 (1-85459-951-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:[via]Set in Manchester between 1837 and 1842, Elizabeth Gaskells first novel paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England. It concerns Mary Barton, a mill workers daughter eager to rise through the ranks, and her father, who shoots dead the mill owners son. This adaptation offers a stirring narrative with real insight into the lives of the Victorian working classes.
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Mary Bartonby Macdonald Daly, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 1853310204 (1-85331-020-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:A touching story of love, death, and forgiveness, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton vividly dramatizes the suffering and successes, conflicts and plights of the poverty-stricken Manchester of the 1840s.
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Measure for Measureby William ShakespeareISBN 185326251X (1-85326-251-X)
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney PagetISBN 1879582147 (1-879582-14-7)
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Mother's Milk: A Novelby Edward St. AubynISBN 1890447420 (1-890447-42-0)
Softcover, Open City Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother's Milk: A Novel'Book summary:Writing with the scathing wit and bright perceptiveness for which he has become known, celebrated English author Edward St. Aubyn creates a complex family portrait that examines the shifting allegiances between mothers, sons, and husbands. The novels perspective ricochets among all members of the Melrose family -- the family featured in St. Aubyns widely praised trilogy, Some Hope -- starting with Robert, who provides an exceptionally droll and convincing account of being born; to Patrick, a hilariously churlish husband who has been sexually abandoned by his wife in favor of his sons; to Mary, whos consumed by her children and overwhelming desire not to repeat the mistakes of her own mother. All the while, St. Aubyn examines the web of false promises that entangle this once illustrious family -- whose last vestige of wealth, an old house in the south of France -- is about to be donated by Patricks mother to a New Age foundation. An up-to-the-minute dissection of the mores of child-rearing, marriage, adultery, and assisted suicide, Mothers Milk showcases St. Aubyns luminous and acidic prose -- and his masterful ability to combine the most excruciating emotional pain with the driest comedy.[via]More editions of Mother's Milk: A Novel:
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Much Ado About Nothingby William ShakespeareISBN 1853262544 (1-85326-254-4)
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Nicholas Nickleby: Library Editionby Charles DickensISBN 1853262641 (1-85326-264-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nicholas Nickleby: Library Edition'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B. Cook Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs and many more. Combining these with typically Dickensian elements of burlesque and farce, the novel is eminently suited to dramatic adaptation. So great was the impact as it left Dickens' pen that many pirated versions appeared in print before the original was even finished. Often neglected by critics, Nicholas Nickleby has never ceased to delight readers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic masterpieces of nineteenth-centure literature. [via]
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A Numberby Caryl ChurchillISBN 1854597094 (1-85459-709-4)
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 1853267805 (1-85326-780-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task. Yet 'The Origin of the Species' (1859) is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological interrelatedness, revealing the complex mutual interdependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment, and - by implication - within the human world. Written for the general reader, in a style which combines the rigour of science with the subtlety of literature, 'The Origin of the Species' remains one of the founding documents of the modern age. [via]
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 1903436451 (1-903436-45-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:[via]In a period of ten years, Shakespeare wrote a series of tragedies that established him, by universal consent, in the front rank of the world's dramatists. Critics have praised either Hamlet or King Lear as the greatest of these; Ernst Honigmann, in the most significant edition of the play for a generation, asks: why not Othello? The third of the mature tragedies, it contains, as Honigmann persuasively demonstrates, perhaps the best plot, two of Shakespeare's most original characters, the most powerful scene in any of the plays, and poetry second to none. Honigmann's cogent and closely argued introduction outlines the reasons both for a reluctance to recognize the greatness of Othello and for the case against the play.This edition sheds new light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. Honigmann examines the thematic portrayal of feminism, morality, and otherness. He provides a general character criticism, but delves more deeply into Othello, Iago, Desdemona, and Emilia in individual sections. He discusses the play in performance and the relationship between reading it and seeing it. He also explores topics such as its date, sources, and the conundrum of "double time".Appendices cover date, details about and possible explanations for the textual inconsistencies, the principal and minor sources for the play, Edward Pudsey's extracts, and musical settings, reproduced from F.W. Sternfeld's Music in Shakespearean Tragedy. Finally, a reference section provides a list of abbreviations and references, a catalog of Shakespeares works and works partly by Shakespeare, and citations for the modern productions mentioned in the text, other collated editions of his work, and other related reading.The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.More editions of Othello:
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 1853264687 (1-85326-468-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:The great religious allegory of Christian's journey, through the Slough of Despond to the Celestial City, in search of the truth. [via]
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Playboy of the Western Worldby J. M. SyngeISBN 1854592106 (1-85459-210-6)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Plays, Prose Writings & Poemsby Oscar WildeISBN 1857150422 (1-85715-042-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays, Prose Writings & Poems'Book summary:Famed as a wit and bon viveur, Oscar Wilde lived up to his reputation. This selection of plays, poems and prose writings, introduced by Terry Eagleton, includes "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Critic as an Artist", Apologia", "The Soul of a Man Under Socialism", "Letter to Robert Ross", "Requiescat" and "The Ballad of Reading Goal". Terry Eagleton is the author of "Criticism and Ideology", "Marxism and Literary Criticsm" and "Literary Theory: An Introduction". [via]
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 1857150392 (1-85715-039-2)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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The Rainbowby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1853262501 (1-85326-250-1)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rainbow'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century. The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this framework Lawrence s essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the rainbow of the title is his unifying motif. His primary focus is on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations. Young Ursula Brangwen, whose story is continued in Women in Love, is finally the central figure in Lawrence's anatomy of the confining structures of English social life and the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the human psyche. [via]
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Studentsby Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney PagetISBN 1879582139 (1-879582-13-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Students'Book summary:This collection of Sherlock Holmes stories will have you leaving lights on and checking behind doors. These tales, first published in the Strand magazine between 1903 and 1905, include: "The Adventure of the Empty House," "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder," "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist," "The Adventure of the Priory School," "The Adventure of Black Peter," "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton," "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez," "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter," "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange," and "The Adventure of the Second Stain." "Properly suspenseful, Covell re-creates the awestruck Doctor Watson and the scientific Sherlock Holmes in another of the sleuth's escapades. Covell gives Watson a baronial English accent and renders the unerring Sherlock Holmes in a fittingly aloof, confident tone. To be led through a criminal quagmire by so expert a voice will please any...listener who likes a good mystery." (ALA Booklist) [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 1903436419 (1-903436-41-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:[via]This major new edition of Shakespeares greatest tragedy of love argues that the play is ultimately Juliets. Its richly illustrated introduction looks at the plays exceptionally beautiful and complex language and focuses on the figure of Juliet as being at its center. Rene Weis also discusses the plays critical, stage, and film history, including West Side Story and Baz Lurhmanns seminal film adaptation. This authoritative edition from a leading scholar gives the reader a penetrating and wide-ranging insight into this ever-popular play. Like every Arden edition, it includes expertly edited play text and on-page commentary notes discussing issues of staging, theme, meaning, and Shakespeares use of his sources to give the reader deep and engaging insights into the play. -
The Roverby Aphra BehnISBN 1854591789 (1-85459-178-9)
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Selective Poems of Christina Rossettiby Christina Rossetti, Martin CornerISBN 1853264296 (1-85326-429-6)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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A Sentimental Journey: Through France and Italyby L. SterneISBN 185326279X (1-85326-279-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sentimental Journey: Through France and Italy'Book summary:Narrated by Parson Yorick, this is a novel without a plot and a travel book that is oddly lacking in descriptions of fine buildings or splendid scenery. It illuminates the emotions of the assortment of characters Yorick encounters along the way. [via]
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Slammerkinby Emma DonoghueISBN 1860498280 (1-86049-828-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Three Men in a Boatby Jerome K. Jerome, Paul CoxISBN 1862052212 (1-86205-221-2)
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Titus Andronicusby William ShakespeareISBN 1853262900 (1-85326-290-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Titus Andronicus'Book summary:Shakespeare's most violent and gory play, Titus Andronicus was written in 1592, and represents the dramatist's first foray into the popular genre of revenge tragedy (many editors argue with at least one other collaborator). The result was spectacular, including scenes of murder, human sacrifice, rape, bodily mutilation and cannibalism. Set in late-imperial Rome, the action begins with the Roman general Titus Andronicus and his triumphant return from wars with the Goths. Leading Queen Tamora and her sons as prisoners, Titus stumbles into a power struggle between Saturninus and his brother Bassianus. Titus fatally backs Saturninus, who rapidly turns on the old general and marries Tamora. The implications for the Andronicus family are disastrous. More of Titus' sons are killed, his daughter Lavinia is brutally raped by Tamora's sons, and as Titus begins his descent into madness and despair he even has his own hand cut off in an act of awful trickery. As Titus plots his bloody revenge, he reflects that "Rome is but a wilderness of tigers". The ending is one of the most gruesome conclusions to any dramatic tragedy, and leaves Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs looking quite restrained. Although the play has put audiences off for centuries due to its apparently gratuitous violence, more recently critics have discerned something more to it than pure shock, but that might say more about us than the Elizabethans. .--Jerry Brotton [via]
Titus Andronicusby Jonathan BateISBN 1904271146 (1-904271-14-6)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, David DaniellISBN 1903436214 (1-903436-21-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Jonnie Patricia MobleyISBN 1885564112 (1-885564-11-2)
Softcover, Lorenz Educational Pub
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald FraserISBN 1860467067 (1-86046-706-7)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Trilogyby Samuel BeckettISBN 1857152360 (1-85715-236-0)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William S. CarrollISBN 1903436958 (1-903436-95-8)
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William ShakespeareISBN 1853262986 (1-85326-298-6)
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Victoryby Joseph ConradISBN 1853262560 (1-85326-256-0)
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The Wardenby ChadwickISBN 1870587405 (1-870587-40-5)
Hardcover, Pickering & Chatto Publishers, Limited
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When I Lived in Modern Timesby Linda GrantISBN 1862074046 (1-86207-404-6)
Softcover, Granta Books
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The Winter's Taleby William ShakespeareISBN 1853262358 (1-85326-235-8)
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The Works of Edmund Spenserby Edmund SpenserISBN 1853264423 (1-85326-442-3)
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The Works of John Donneby John DonneISBN 1853264008 (1-85326-400-8)
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The Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1853264253 (1-85326-425-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL. Every evening the young Fisherman went out upon the sea, and threw his nets into the water. When the wind blew from the land he caught nothing, or but little at best, for it was a bitter and black-winged wind, and rough waves ross up to meet it. But when the wind blew to the shore, the fish came in from the deep, and swam into the meshes of his nets, and he took them to the market-place and sold them. Every evening he went out upon the sea, and one evening the net was so heavy that hardly could he draw it into the boat. And he laughed, and said to himself, "Surely I have caught all the fish that swim, or snared some dull monster that will be a marvel to men, or some thing of horror that the great Queen will desire," and putting forth all his strength, he tugged at the coarse ropes till, like lines of blue enamel round a vase of bronze, the long veins rose up on his arms. He tugged at the thin ropes, and nearer and nearer came the circle of flat corks, and the net rose at last to the top of the water. But no fish at all was in it, nor any monster or thing of horror, but only a little Mermaid lying fast asleep. Her hair was as a wet fleece of gold, and each separate hair as a thread of fine gold in a cup of glass. Her body was as white ivory, and her tail was of silver and pearl. Silver and pearl was her tail, and the green weeds of the sea coiled round it; and like sea-shells were her ears, and her lips were like sea-coral. The cold waves dashed over her cold breasts, and the salt glistened upon her eyelids. So beautiful was she that when the young Fisherman saw her he was filled with wonder, and he put out his hand and drew the net close to him, and leaning over the side he clasped her in his arms. And when he touched her, she gave a ... [via]
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The Works of Thomas Hardy: With an Introduction and Bibliographyby Thomas HardyISBN 1853264024 (1-85326-402-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Works of Thomas Hardy: With an Introduction and Bibliography'Book summary:Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet, but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness, humanity and humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike. [via]
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