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The A.b.c. Murdersby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126243 (1-57912-624-3)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The A.b.c. Murders'Book summary:Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to strike again. It is one of Poirots most challenging cases yet. [via]
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Adrian Mole, the Lost Yearsby Sue TownsendISBN 1569470553 (1-56947-055-3)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adrian Mole, the Lost Years'Book summary:The popular European author of the Queen and I presents the latest diaries of the hilarious young Master Mole, whose private musings represent the reflections of a misunderstood and muddled soul. [via]
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- Adrian Mole, the Lost Years: ISBN 1569472475 (1-56947-247-5)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc - Adrian Mole, the Lost Years: ISBN 1569470146 (1-56947-014-6)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc - Adrian Mole, the Lost Years: ISBN 1569472041 (1-56947-204-1)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc - Adrian Mole, the Lost Years: ISBN 1569470553 (1-56947-055-3)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
- Adrian Mole, the Lost Years: ISBN 1569472475 (1-56947-247-5)
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Alice's Adventure in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, Will SelfISBN 1582341745 (1-58234-174-5)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventure in Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventure in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glassby Lewis CarrollISBN 1582342229 (1-58234-222-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventure in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass'Book summary:Carroll's classic stories reunited with Peake's celebrated illustrations, restored for the first time to their original glory.[via]
In the 1940s, Gormenghast trilogy author Mervyn Peake was commissioned to produce a series of seventy pen-and-ink drawings to accompany Lewis Carroll's two classics, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Previously admired for his illustrations of Treasure Island and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Peake set to work, producing such luminous, eccentric images that Graham Greene would later refer to him as 'the first artist since Tenniel to recast Alice in a contemporary mould.'
In these editions, Peake's marvelous illustrations, many of them originally drawn on poor quality wartime paper, have been meticulously reproduced as they were meant to be seen. Thanks to a combination of old-fashioned craft and cutting-edge computer technology, the delightful images shine for the first time in over two decades alongside Carroll's fantastically eccentric text. With introductions by modern literary masters Will Self and Zadie Smith, these beautifully designed and printed books are the perfect gift for adults and children alike.More editions of Alice's Adventure in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass:
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 1577595505 (1-57759-550-5)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Lewis Carroll Dalamatian Press Adapted Classic [via]
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The Anatomy of Melancholyby Robert BurtonISBN 1564590038 (1-56459-003-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'Book summary:Partial Contents: Definition of Melancholy; Causes of Melancholy; Bad Diet; Passions and Perturbations of the Mind; Symptoms or Signs of Melancholy in the body; Prognosticks of Melancholy; Unlawful Cures Rejected; Lawful Cures; Diet Rectified; Deformity of Body, Sickness, Baseness of Birth; Against Poverty and Want and other Adversities; Against: Servitude, Loss of Liberty, Imprisonment, Sorrow for death of Friends, Vain Fear, Envy, Emulation, Hatred, Ambition, Self-love, and all other Affections; Against: Repulse, Abuses, Injuries, Disgraces, Slanders; Cure of Melancholy all over the Body; Love-Melancholy; Symptoms or Signs of Love-Melancholy; Symptoms of Jealously, fear, sorrow, suspicion; Cure of Jealously; Religious Melancholy. An outstanding analysis of what melancholy is, its kinds, causes, symptoms, prognosticks, and several cures for it; Philosophically, Medicinally, and Historically. [via]
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 1568497369 (1-56849-736-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And Then There Were None'Book summary:Considered the best mystery novel ever written by many readers, And Then There Were None is the story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die. [via]
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Appointment With Deathby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126928 (1-57912-692-8)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Appointment With Death'Book summary:Among the towering red cliffs and the ancient ruins of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton, the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalls a remark he overheard back in Jerusalem: "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he had ever met. [via]
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Asylumby Patrick McGrathISBN 1568954395 (1-56895-439-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Beachby Alex GarlandISBN 1573226521 (1-57322-652-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beach'Book summary:In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land--forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveler rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travelers set out on a journey to find this paradise.
What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek [via]
Billy and Girlby Deborah LevyISBN 1564782026 (1-56478-202-6)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Carol HeyerISBN 1571021140 (1-57102-114-0)
Hardcover, Ideals Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Black Beautyby Dalmatian Press Staff, Anna SewellISBN 1577595440 (1-57759-544-0)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:Black Beauty is a horse with a timeless story to tell. [via]
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Blindnessby Henry GreenISBN 1564782654 (1-56478-265-4)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blindness'Book summary:"Blindness is a major novel . . . Every character and every scene is shot through with significance after significance."The Times [London]
Blinded in an accident on his way home from boarding school, John Haye must reevaluate his life and the possibilities for his future. His stepmotherworried that, blind and dependent, he'll spend his life with herwants to marry him off to anyone who will take him, provided she's of the "right" social class. Contrary to her hopes, John falls in love with the daughter of the town drunk (who is also the town parson). She whisks John off to London, where in this strange city he is confined to a room above a major thoroughfare while she gets on with her life.
Blindness was first published when Henry Green was an undergraduate at Oxford. Highly praised as a master of high-modernism, Green went on to write eight other novels, including Concluding and Doting. [via]More editions of Blindness:
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The Blue Flowerby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 1568956703 (1-56895-670-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Flower'Book summary:Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel 20 years ago, at the age of 59. Since then, she's written eight more, three of which have been short-listed for England's prestigious Booker Prize, and one of which, Offshore, won. Now she's back with her tenth and best book so far, The Blue Flower. This is the story of Friedrich von Hardenberg--Fritz, to his intimates--a young man of the late 18th century who is destined to become one of Germany's great romantic poets. In just over 200 pages, Fitzgerald creates a complete world of family, friends and lovers, but also an exhilarating evocation of the romantic era in all its political turmoil, intellectual voracity, and moral ambiguity. A profound exploration of genius, The Blue Flower is also a charming, wry, and witty look at domestic life. Fritz's family--his eccentric father and high-strung mother; his loving sister, Sidonie; and brothers Erasmus, Karl, and the preternaturally intelligent baby of the family, referred to always as the Bernhard--are limned in deft, sure strokes, and it is in his interactions with them that the ephemeral quality of genius becomes most tangible. Even his unlikely love affair with young Sophie von Kühn makes perfect sense as Penelope Fitzgerald imagines it.
The Blue Flower is a magical book--funny, sad, and deeply moving. In Fritz Fitzgerald has discovered a perfect character through whom to explore the meaning of love, poetry, life, and loss. In The Blue Flower readers will find a work of fine prose, fierce intelligence, and perceptive characterization. [via]
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A Body in the Library: A Miss Marple Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 157912626X (1-57912-626-X)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Body in the Library: A Miss Marple Mystery'Book summary:A young, blond woman is found dead on the floor of Colonel and Mrs. Bantrys library. Nobody seems to know who the woman is, let alone how she wound up murdered in the Bantrys home. Jane Marple is called in and the chase is on. [via]
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A Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1562933515 (1-56293-351-5)
Softcover, Learning Horizons
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A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, Roberto InnocentiISBN 1568461828 (1-56846-182-8)
Hardcover, Creative Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:Uniquely designed, this 6 X 9 deluxe edition of Signature Classics features a padded leatherette casing enhanced by gold guilding on all three sides. Highlighted by a full color picture insert on the cover surrounded by gold foil stamping, this series is sure to becomea collectable. A standard Jacketed Edition is also available. [via]
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- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 1582790841 (1-58279-084-1)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 1582790914 (1-58279-091-4)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 1561797464 (1-56179-746-4)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 1580495796 (1-58049-579-6)
Softcover, Prestwick House Inc - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 1561795569 (1-56179-556-9)
Hardcover, Tyndale House Pub - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 1564022048 (1-56402-204-8)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 1568461828 (1-56846-182-8)
Hardcover, Creative Co
- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 1582790841 (1-58279-084-1)
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The Collected Poemsby Ted Hughes, Sylvia PlathISBN 1568497032 (1-56849-703-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems'Book summary:Sylvia Plath died in 1963, and even now her outsize persona threatens to bury her poetry--the numerous biographies and studies often drawing the reader toward anecdote and away from the work. It's a relief to turn to the poems themselves and once more be jolted by their strange beauty, hard-wrought originality, and acetylene anger. "It is a heart, / This holocaust I walk in, / O golden child the world will kill and eat." While the juvenilia and poems written before 1960 that Ted Hughes has included here prefigure Plath's later obsessions, they also enable us to witness her turn from thesaurus-heavy verse to stripped-down art as they gather power through raw simplicity. "The blood jet is poetry. / There is no stopping it," she declares in "Kindness." [via]
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The Complete Plays, Poems, Novels and Stories of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1572151323 (1-57215-132-3)
Softcover, World Pubns
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Complete Works of Oscar WildeISBN 1566195624 (1-56619-562-4)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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Dotingby Henry GreenISBN 1564782662 (1-56478-266-2)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doting'Book summary:-- When Arthur Middleton falls for Annabel, a young woman of his son's generation, he sets into motion an intertwining of affairs between five close friends. As relationships are uncovered and jealous plots hatched, Green exposes the deceptive difference between those who love and those who "dote" in this biting comedy of manners. [via]
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Leigh Hope Wood, Ned ButterfieldISBN 1561563730 (1-56156-373-0)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks
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The Dyke and the Dybbukby Ellen GalfordISBN 1580050123 (1-58005-012-3)
Softcover, Seal Press
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Evil Under the Sun: A Hercule Poirot Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126286 (1-57912-628-6)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evil Under the Sun: A Hercule Poirot Mystery'Book summary:Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christies most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud each of the guests and unravel the macabre mystery at this playground by the sea. [via]
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Fingersmithby Sarah WatersISBN 1573229725 (1-57322-972-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fingersmith'Book summary:From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves.
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, a somewhat elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud's vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be left to live out her days in a mental hospital. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways. . . . But no one and nothing is as it seems in this > Dickensian novel of thrills and surprises.
The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of "consummate skill" and The Seattle Times has praised her work as "gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses." Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career. [via] 
Hamletby Harold BloomISBN 1573223778 (1-57322-377-8)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Hamlet : Poem Unlimitedby Harold BloomISBN 157322233X (1-57322-233-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet : Poem Unlimited'Book summary:In his New York Times bestseller Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom showed us how Shakespeare shaped human consciousness and addressed the question of authorship in Hamlet. In Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, our most celebrated critic turns his attention to a reading of the play itself and to Shakespeare's most enigmatic and memorable character.
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited is Bloom's attempt to uncover the mystery of both Prince Hamlet and the play itself, how both prince and drama are able to break through the conventions of theatrical mimesis and the representation of character, making us question the very nature of theatrical illusion. In twenty-five brief chapters, Bloom takes us through the major soliloquies, scenes, characters, and action of the play, to explore the enigma at the heart of the drama, that is central to its universal appeal.
Every reader of Shakespeare will delight in this step-by-step analysis by our most beloved critic. [via]More editions of Hamlet : Poem Unlimited:
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. RowlingISBN 1581306571 (1-58130-657-1)
Softcover, Novel Units
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'Book summary:This student packet features multiple-level reproducibles that offer solutions based on the latest reading strategies. The packet includes content-rich activity sheets, quizzes, and a final exam for direct student use. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 1566194903 (1-56619-490-3)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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The History of England: From the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1stby Jane AustenISBN 1565120558 (1-56512-055-8)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of England: From the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1st'Book summary:Introduction by A. S. Byatt. The first-ever full-color facsimile edition of one of Jane Austen's early works, with delightful portraits painted by her sister Cassandra, followed by a transcribed version of the text. Sixteen-year-old Jane describes herself as "a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant historian," and her gleeful parody hints at the humor she would later bring to her novels. "Treats royalty with less respect (and more wit) than a British tabloid."--Cleveland Plain Dealer. [via]
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Hopeful Monstersby Nicholas Mosley, Sven BirkertsISBN 1564782425 (1-56478-242-5)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Hound of the Baskervillesby Alexander DumasISBN 1562542893 (1-56254-289-3)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:Written at a point of crisis in his life, A Tale of Two Cities is the embodiment of Dickens' own passions and fears: the revolution which engulfs the characters symbolizes his own psychological revolution, and the three main characters become projections of Dickens himself. [via]
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Imago Birdby Nicholas MosleyISBN 1564782433 (1-56478-243-3)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 1576466507 (1-57646-650-7)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers' entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.
Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gewndolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend, the rivals to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the Ernests to claim their beloved's pandemonium breaks loose.
Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day! [via]
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An Instance of the Fingerpostby Iain PearsISBN 1573227951 (1-57322-795-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'Book summary:An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt.
The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr. Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all the signs point to poison. Rashomon-like, the narrative circles around Grove's murder as four different characters give their version of events: Marco da Cola, a visiting Italian physician--or so he would like the reader to believe; Jack Prestcott, the son of a traitor who fled the country to avoid execution; Dr. John Wallis, a mathematician and cryptographer with a predilection for conspiracy theories; and Anthony Wood, a mild-mannered Oxford antiquarian whose tale proves to be the book's "instance of the fingerpost." (The quote comes from the philosopher Bacon, who, while asserting that all evidence is ultimately fallible, allows for "one instance of a fingerpost that points in one direction only, and allows of no other possibility.")
Like The Name of the Rose, this is one whodunit in which the principal mystery is the nature of truth itself. Along the way, Pears displays a keen eye for period details as diverse as the early days of medicine, the convoluted politics of the English Civil War, and the newfangled fashion for wigs. Yet Pears never loses sight of his characters, who manage to be both utterly authentic denizens of the 17th century and utterly authentic human beings. As a mystery, An Instance of the Fingerpost is entertainment of the most intelligent sort; as a novel of ideas, it proves equally satisfying. [via]
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 1581180772 (1-58118-077-2)
Hardcover, Library Reproduction Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone. [via]
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Ivanhoeby Walter Scott, Susan Shwartz, Norman NodelISBN 1578400635 (1-57840-063-5)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ivanhoe'Book summary:In 1194 the Saxon knight Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to a chaotic England ruled by the enemies of the absent King Richard the Lion-Hearted and finds himself disowned and dishonored, forced to fight for his name and the people he loves. [via]
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A James Bond Omnibusby Ian FlemingISBN 156731161X (1-56731-161-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A James Bond Omnibus'Book summary:Thunderball James Bond is in disgrace. His medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off to a health farm to be tuned up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness. Bond expects a trying two weeks. The last thing he expects is an adversary more deadly, more ruthless even than SMERSH. On Her Majesty's Secret Service High in the air of the Swiss Alps a set-up is planned. A man is hunting respectability with all the cunning that made him Europe's most ruthless criminal. Nothing is to stand in his way. Especially not 007. And Bond, too, has a lot on his mind. . . she is so beautiful, so sensual, that the charms of bachelorhood seem oddly tarnished. Bond is skating on very thin ice. You Only Live Twice In this sequel to the tragic "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", Bond is depressed and adrift. M decides to send him on an impossible mission to revive his spirits: he must go to Japan to acquire a new ciphering method from "Tiger" Tanaka, head of the Japanese Secret Service. Tanaka finally agrees, but asks in return that Bond assassinate an infamous recluse who owns a garden filled with deadly animals and poisonous plants, where people have been going to commit suicide - The Garden of Evil [via]
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrellby Susanna ClarkeISBN 1582346038 (1-58234-603-8)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'Book summary:English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.
But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman from the dead. Soon he is lending his help to the government in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte, creating ghostly fleets of rain-ships to confuse and alarm the French.
All goes well until a rival magician appears. Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming, and talkative-the very opposite of Mr Norrell. Strange thinks nothing of enduring the rigors of campaigning with Wellington's army and doing magic on battlefields. Astonished to find another practicing magician, Mr Norrell accepts Strange as a pupil. But it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what English magic ought to be are very different. For Mr Norrell, their power is something to be cautiously controlled, while Jonathan Strange will always be attracted to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic. He becomes fascinated by the ancient, shadowy figure of the Raven King, a child taken by fairies who became king of both England and Faerie, and the most legendary magician of all. Eventually Strange's heedless pursuit of long-forgotten magic threatens to destroy not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything that he holds dear.[via]
Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing for more.More editions of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell:
Julius Caesar: Side by Sidesby William Shakespeare, James ScottISBN 1580495060 (1-58049-506-0)
Softcover, Prestwick House Inc
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A Little Princessby Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 1577595599 (1-57759-559-9)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett, Louise Colln, Jon Sayer, Publisher: Dalmatian Pr Keywords: children, classics, press, dalmatian, princess, little Pages: 182 Published: 2003-01 Language: English Category: Short Stories, Literature & Fiction, ISBN-10: 1577595599 ISBN-13: 9781577595595 Binding: Hardcover [via]
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Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad, John Barnes, George EvansISBN 157840066X (1-57840-066-X)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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The Love Poems of Elizabeth And Robert Browningby Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN 1566196884 (1-56619-688-4)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Love Poems of Elizabeth And Robert Browning'Book summary:Fine hardcover w/nf dj w/ fold vertically on rear of dj, 1994 Barnes& Noble Books, number line is 9-6. Foreword by Louis Untermeyer. 268 pages. Cover painting courtesy of Art Resource, J.M.W. Turner Eton, from the River. [via]
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1582791902 (1-58279-190-2)
Hardcover, Trident Press International
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:From "A Scandal in Bohemia," in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, to "The Five Orange Pips," in which the master detective is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan, to "The Final Problem," in which Holmes and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, face each other in a showdown at the Reichenbach Falls, the stories that appear in The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes bear witness to the flowering of author Arthur Conan Doyle's genius. "The plain fact," the celebrated mystery writer Vincent Starrett asserted, "is that Sherlock Holmes is still a more commanding figure in the world than most of the warriors and statesmen in whose present existence we are invited to believe. [via]
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Moon and Sixpenceby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 1570020167 (1-57002-016-7)
Softcover, Univ Pub House
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Murder in Mesopotamiaby Agatha ChristieISBN 157912691X (1-57912-691-X)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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Murder Is Announcedby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126294 (1-57912-629-4)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder Is Announced'Book summary:You are cordially invited to a murder. A personal ad in the newspaper inviting strangers to participate in an evening of murder mystery fun and games at the home of Letitia Blacklock is an invitation that Miss Jane Marple cannot pass up. A good thing, too, because when the lights are dimmed real gunshots ring out, killing a young boy. Now its time for a new, much more serious game of whodunit. [via]
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Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126235 (1-57912-623-5)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder on the Orient Express'Book summary:One of Agatha Christies most famous mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express was inspired by two real-life crimes and the authors own experience being stranded on the Orient Express during Christmas of 1931. While traveling to Paris, a wealthy American is stabbed to death in his cabin on the Orient Express. With the train stuck in a snowdrift, there is no easy escape for the killer. Fortunately, detective Hercule Poirot is aboard and launches a clever investigation into the curious assortment of passengers, of whom each seems to have a motive. [via]
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The Mysterious Affair at Stylesby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126227 (1-57912-622-7)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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The Mystery of the Sardineby Stefan ThemersonISBN 156478455X (1-56478-455-X)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Nicholas Nickleby: Library Editionby Charles DickensISBN 1576468321 (1-57646-832-1)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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Peter Panby J. M. BarrieISBN 1561563056 (1-56156-305-6)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 156563134X (1-56563-134-X)
Hardcover, Hendrickson Pub
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The Queen and Iby Sue TownsendISBN 1569470154 (1-56947-015-4)
Softcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Queen and I'Book summary:A runaway #1 British bestseller, Sue Townsend's very, very (extremely) funny satire offers welcome relief from the very real-life peccadillos of the House of Windsor as England's royals are given sack and are forced to go on the dole. A delightfully impudent, brilliant and possibly prophetic work. [via]
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Rebuilding Coventryby Sue TownsendISBN 1569470901 (1-56947-090-1)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rebuilding Coventry'Book summary:From its title on, Sue Townsend's short, utterly entertaining novel is full of jokes both sly and slapstick. The Coventry of the title is one Coventry Dakin, the novel's narrator, and a devoted, intelligent, but intensely bored wife and mother maintaining her dull husband and two nearly-grown children in suburban Midlands. Coventry also just killed her neighbor, a jerk named Gerald Fox who's been spreading nasty (and false) rumors about her. Now she's on the lam, and Townsend, author of the well-loved Adrian Mole series of books, takes us down and out on a comic excursion into London, where Coventry, now a penniless fugitive, seeks protection with both the lowest and highest levels of British society. [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Susan Shwartz, George EvansISBN 1578400023 (1-57840-002-3)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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Sad Cypress: A Hercule Poirot Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 157912688X (1-57912-688-X)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 1576469239 (1-57646-923-9)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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Shakespeare: Inventionby Harold BloomISBN 1573221201 (1-57322-120-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare: Invention'Book summary:"Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention, and is not only Shakespeare's greatest originality but also the authentic cause of his perpetual pervasiveness." So Harold Bloom opines in his outrageously ambitious Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. This is a titanic claim. But then this is a titanic book, wrought by a latter-day critical colossus--and before Bloom is done with us, he has made us wonder whether his vision of Shakespeare's influence on the whole of our lives might not be simply the sober truth. Shakespeare is a feast of arguments and insights, written with engaging frankness and affecting immediacy. Bloom ranges through the Bard's plays in the probable order of their composition, relating play to play and character to character, maintaining all the while a shrewd grasp of Shakespeare's own burgeoning sensibility.
It is a long and fascinating itinerary, and one littered with thousands of sharp insights. Listen to Bloom on Romeo and Juliet: "The Nurse and Mercutio, both of them audience favorites, are nevertheless bad news, in different but complementary ways." On The Merchant of Venice: "To reduce him to contemporary theatrical terms, Shylock would be an Arthur Miller protagonist displaced into a Cole Porter musical, Willy Loman wandering about in Kiss Me Kate." On As You Like It: "Rosalind is unique in Shakespeare, perhaps indeed in Western drama, because it is so difficult to achieve a perspective upon her that she herself does not anticipate and share." Bloom even offers some belated vocational counseling to Falstaff, identifying him as an Elizabethan Mr. Chips: "Falstaff is more than skeptical, but he is too much of a teacher (his true vocation, more than highwayman) to follow skepticism out to its nihilistic borders, as Hamlet does."
In the end, it doesn't matter very much whether we agree with all or any of these ideas. What does matter is that Bloom's capacious book sends us hurrying back to some of the central texts of our civilization. "The ultimate use of Shakespeare," the author asserts, "is to let him teach you to think too well, to whatever truth you can sustain without perishing." Bloom himself has made excellent use of his hero's instruction, and now he teaches us all to do the same. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Humanby Harold BloomISBN 157322751X (1-57322-751-X)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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It is a long and fascinating itinerary, and one littered with thousands of sharp insights. Listen to Bloom on Romeo and Juliet: "The Nurse and Mercutio, both of them audience favorites, are nevertheless bad news, in different but complementary ways." On The Merchant of Venice: "To reduce him to contemporary theatrical terms, Shylock would be an Arthur Miller protagonist displaced into a Cole Porter musical, Willy Loman wandering about in Kiss Me Kate." On As You Like It: "Rosalind is unique in Shakespeare, perhaps indeed in Western drama, because it is so difficult to achieve a perspective upon her that she herself does not anticipate and share." Bloom even offers some belated vocational counseling to Falstaff, identifying him as an Elizabethan Mr. Chips: "Falstaff is more than skeptical, but he is too much of a teacher (his true vocation, more than highwayman) to follow skepticism out to its nihilistic borders, as Hamlet does."
In the end, it doesn't matter very much whether we agree with all or any of these ideas. What does matter is that Bloom's capacious book sends us hurrying back to some of the central texts of our civilization. "The ultimate use of Shakespeare," the author asserts, "is to let him teach you to think too well, to whatever truth you can sustain without perishing." Bloom himself has made excellent use of his hero's instruction, and now he teaches us all to do the same. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
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Speaking With the Angelby Nick HornbyISBN 1573228583 (1-57322-858-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speaking With the Angel'Book summary:There are lots of reasons to buy Speaking with the Angel, an anthology of first-person narratives by bright, young, mostly British literati: these are smart and original stories, none of them previously published elsewhere. What's more, it's for a good cause. Nick Hornby, editor of the collection and author of one of the pieces, has an autistic son, and in a raw and wrenching introduction he stresses the importance of educational institutions to serve such children, who "have no language, and no particular compulsion to acquire it, who are born without the need to explore the world." Accordingly, a portion of each sale benefits autism charities around the world.
Still, this is a collection that stands on its own merits, and requires no act of charity to purchase. In Roddy Doyle's "The Slave," for example, a 42-year-old family man discovers a dead rat on his kitchen floor, and this unwelcome incursion from the natural world plunges him into a midlife crisis. In "Last Requests," Giles Smith introduces us to a prison cook who specializes in, well, last suppers. It's both hilarious and shocking to encounter this egomaniacal chef on the job:
They can have what they like, within reason, up to a maximum of three courses, with coffee or tea and a piece of confectionary or a biscuit if they want it. No alcohol, for obvious reasons. Obviously, you'll get the jokers, like the one who said he wanted a whole roast pig with an apple in its mouth. Or the governor's head, one of them said he wanted.
Elsewhere, in Hornby's own "NippleJesus," a skinhead bouncer becomes a museum guard and falls for the painting he's charged to protect, a crucifixion collage made up of thousands of tiny breasts cut out of porn magazines. The stories in Speaking with the Angel all feel up to the minute, abounding with references to politics and popular culture. Yet the obscenity and slang ultimately amount to a form of bluster, an acknowledgement of the intrinsic fragility that all 12 of these narrators share. --Victoria Jenkins [via]More editions of Speaking With the Angel:
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Temple Wilderness: A Collection of Thoughts and Images on Our Spiritual Bond With the Earthby Tom Petrie, Greg Linder, Kim LeightonISBN 1572230517 (1-57223-051-7)
Hardcover, Willow Creek Pr
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Threeby Ann QuinISBN 1564782727 (1-56478-272-7)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Thunderballby Ian FlemingISBN 1567310486 (1-56731-048-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Tom Harrisby Stefan Themerson, Nick WadleyISBN 1564783715 (1-56478-371-5)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Julie Bleha, Henry C. KieferISBN 1578400384 (1-57840-038-4)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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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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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1577595572 (1-57759-557-2)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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The Tuesday Club Murdersby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126901 (1-57912-690-1)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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You Only Live Twiceby Ian FlemingISBN 156731080X (1-56731-080-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Ancient Greek Editionby J. K. RowlingISBN 158234826X (1-58234-826-X)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Ancient Greek Edition'Book summary:The Greek translation of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in which Harry Potter, a normal eleven-year-old boy, discovers that he is a wizard. Long ago, Harry's parents were killed in a battle with the evil Lord Voldemort. When we first meet Harry, he is living miserably with his repulsive and nonmagical (or Muggle) Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon Dursley, and their even more revolting son, Dudley. Following a bizarre but hilarious chain of events, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with an outrageous cast of characters, including super smart Hermione Granger, vile Draco Malfoy, sinister Professor Snape, and wise Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Adventures galore ensue.[via]More editions of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Ancient Greek Edition:
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