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1982, Janineby Alasdair GrayISBN 0670513873 (0-670-51387-3)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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An Accidental Manby Iris MurdochISBN 0670102083 (0-670-10208-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Alice in Wonderland and Other Favoritesby Lewis CarrollISBN 0671617052 (0-671-61705-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Arthur RackhamISBN 0670112771 (0-670-11277-1)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Brian Sibley, Lewis Carroll, Walt Disney Productions, David HallISBN 0671635654 (0-671-63565-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 067170608X (0-671-70608-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Arabian Nightmareby Robert IrwinISBN 0670816612 (0-670-81661-2)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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As You Like Itby William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul WestineISBN 0671722565 (0-671-72256-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As You Like It'Book summary:Putting readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare, this series used text based directly on what the editors consider the best early printed version of the play. This book contains full explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play and a helpful introduction to Shakespeare's language. At the conclusion is a full essay assessing the play in the light of today's interests and concerns. [via]
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, William GeldartISBN 0670894966 (0-670-89496-6)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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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]
Blindnessby Henry GreenISBN 0670174289 (0-670-17428-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Book and the Brotherhoodby Iris MurdochISBN 0670819123 (0-670-81912-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bram Stoker's Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0671009877 (0-671-00987-7)
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Brat Farrarby Josephine TeyISBN 0671509780 (0-671-50978-0)
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The Cement Gardenby Ian McEwanISBN 0671242881 (0-671-24288-1)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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A Child's Garden of Verses Vol. 2: A Collection of Scriptures, Prayers and Poemsby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0671065378 (0-671-06537-8)
Hardcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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Chocolatby Joanne HarrisISBN 0670881791 (0-670-88179-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chocolat'Book summary:Vianne Rocher and her 6-year-old daughter, Anouk, arrive in the small village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes--"a blip on the fast road between Toulouse and Bourdeaux"--in February, during the carnival. Three days later, Vianne opens a luxuriant chocolate shop crammed with the most tempting of confections and offering a mouth-watering variety of hot chocolate drinks. It's Lent, the shop is opposite the church and open on Sundays, and Francis Reynaud, the austere parish priest, is livid.
One by one the locals succumb to Vianne's concoctions. Joanne Harris weaves their secrets and troubles, their loves and desires, into her third novel, with the lightest touch. There's sad, polite Guillame and his dying dog; thieving, beaten-up Joséphine Muscat; schoolchildren who declare it "hypercool" when Vianne says they can help eat the window display--a gingerbread house complete with witch. And there's Armande, still vigorous in her 80s, who can see Anouk's "imaginary" rabbit, Pantoufle, and recognizes Vianne for who she really is. However, certain villagers--including Armande's snobby daughter and Joséphine's violent husband--side with Reynaud. So when Vianne announces a Grand Festival of Chocolate commencing Easter Sunday, it's all-out war: war between church and chocolate, between good and evil, between love and dogma.
Reminiscent of Herman Hesse's short story "Augustus," Chocolat is an utterly delicious novel, coated in the gentlest of magic, which proves--indisputably and without preaching--that soft centers are best. --Lisa Gee, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, William GeldartISBN 0670888796 (0-670-88879-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0671473697 (0-671-47369-7)
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Softcover, Pocket Books - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0671455990 (0-671-45599-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0671476467 (0-671-47646-7)
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- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0671473697 (0-671-47369-7)
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The Code of the Woostersby P.G. WodehouseISBN 067120307X (0-671-20307-X)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Code of the Woosters'Book summary:A Jeeves and Wooster novel When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there - nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie's tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd 'Stinker' Pinker and Stiffy Byng - and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts. It's a situation that only Jeeves can unravel. Writing at the very height of his powers, in The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse delivers what might be the most delightfully funny book ever committed to paper. [via]
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Collected Storiesby Graham GreeneISBN 0670229113 (0-670-22911-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Collected Storiesby William TrevorISBN 0670848972 (0-670-84897-2)
Hardcover, Viking in association with the Bodley Head
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The Comfort of Strangersby Ian McEwanISBN 0671449567 (0-671-44956-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Daughter of Timeby Josephine TeyISBN 0671413260 (0-671-41326-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Daughter of Time'Book summary:Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries. Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually touched upon by mystery writers, have earned her a vast and appreciative audience. In Daughter of Time, Tey focuses on the legend of Richard III, the evil hunchback of British history accused of murdering his young nephews. While at a London hospital recuperating from a fall, Inspector Alan Grant becomes fascinated by a portrait of King Richard. A student of human faces, Grant cannot believe that the man in the picture would kill his own nephews. With an American researcher's help, Grant delves into his country's history to discover just what kind of man Richard Plantagenet was and who really killed the little princes. [via]
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- The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671435221 (0-671-43522-1)
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Softcover, Pocket Books - The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671497596 (0-671-49759-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671413260 (0-671-41326-0)
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- The Daughter of Time: ISBN 0671435221 (0-671-43522-1)
The Devil's Modeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0671709909 (0-671-70990-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Disgraceby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0670887315 (0-670-88731-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disgrace'Book summary:David Lurie is hardly the hero of his own life, or anyone else's. At 52, the protagonist of Disgrace is at the end of his professional and romantic game, and seems to be deliberately courting disaster. Long a professor of modern languages at Cape Town University College, he has recently been relegated to adjunct professor of communications at the same institution, now pointedly renamed Cape Technical University:
Although he devotes hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: "Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other." His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
Twice married and twice divorced, his magnetic looks on the wane, David rather cruelly seduces one of his students, and his conduct unbecoming is soon uncovered. In his eighth novel, J.M. Coetzee might have been content to write a searching academic satire. But in Disgrace he is intent on much more, and his art is as uncompromising as his main character, though infinitely more complex. Refusing to play the public-repentance game, David gets himself fired--a final gesture of contempt. Now, he thinks, he will write something on Byron's last years. Not empty, unread criticism, "prose measured by the yard," but a libretto. To do so, he heads for the Eastern Cape and his daughter's farm. In her mid-20s, Lucy has turned her back on city sophistications: with five hectares, she makes her living by growing flowers and produce and boarding dogs. "Nothing," David thinks, "could be more simple." But nothing, in fact, is more complicated--or, in the new South Africa, more dangerous. Far from being the refuge he has sought, little is safe in Salem. Just as David has settled into his temporary role as farmworker and unenthusiastic animal-shelter volunteer, he and Lucy are attacked by three black men. Unable to protect his daughter, David's disgrace is complete. Hers, however, is far worse.There is much more to be explored in Coetzee's painful novel, and few consolations. It would be easy to pick up on his title and view Disgrace as a complicated working-out of personal and political shame and responsibility. But the author is concerned with his country's history, brutalities, and betrayals. Coetzee is also intent on what measure of soul and rights we allow animals. After the attack, David takes his role at the shelter more seriously, at last achieving an unlikely home and some measure of love. In Coetzee's recent Princeton lectures, The Lives of Animals, an aging novelist tells her audience that the question that occupies all lab and zoo creatures is, "Where is home, and how do I get there?" David, though still all-powerful compared to those he helps dispose of, is equally trapped, equally lost.
Disgrace is almost willfully plain. Yet it possesses its own lean, heartbreaking lyricism, most of all in its descriptions of unwanted animals. At the start of the novel, David tells his student that poetry either speaks instantly to the reader--"a flash of revelation and a flash of response"--or not at all. Coetzee's book speaks differently, its layers and sadnesses endlessly unfolding. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 0671015370 (0-671-01537-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:"When you remember that Dublin has been a capital for thousands of years," James Joyce once wrote to his brother, "that it is the 'second city' of the British Empire, that it is nearly three times as big as Venice, it seems strange that no artist has given it to the world."
Dubliners, completed when James Joyce was only twenty-five, is the first of his works to demonstrate the unique, innovative style that would make him one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Joyce turns his discerning eye to Dublin's lower middle class -- to the petit-bourgeois world of shopkeepers, tradesmen, functionaries, and clerks. The result is a portrait of Dublin life in the early 1900s, an undisputed masterpiece of human experience played out against a defeated city.
Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Dubliners has been prepared by Dr. Stephen Watt, a notable Joyce scholar and professor of English at Indiana University. It includes his introduction, a selection of critical excerpts, and a unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs. [via]
Earthly Powersby Anthony BurgessISBN 0671414909 (0-671-41490-9)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Enchanted Aprilby Elizabeth von Arnim, Donna NgISBN 0671536141 (0-671-53614-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enchanted April'Book summary:Eager to escape the dreary February rains of 1920s London, four women agree to rent the small medieval castle of San Salvatore for a much-needed vacation on the Italian Riviera, and each in turn is seduced and changed by the special place. Reprint. [via]
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A Fairly Honourable Defeatby Iris MurdochISBN 0670305332 (0-670-30533-2)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Foeby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0670813982 (0-670-81398-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Franchise Affairby Josephine TeyISBN 0671508121 (0-671-50812-1)
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The Friendly Jane Austenby Natalie TylerISBN 0670874256 (0-670-87425-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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G.by John BergerISBN 0670333417 (0-670-33341-7)
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The Good Apprenticeby Iris MurdochISBN 0670809403 (0-670-80940-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Green Knightby Iris MurdochISBN 0670852295 (0-670-85229-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Knight'Book summary:When an attempt by the sharp, feral, uncommonly intelligent Lucas to murder his brother, Clement, backfires and Lucas kills a stranger, the stranger reappears with specific demands for reparation. 35,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. [via]
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The Grotesqueby Patrick McGrathISBN 067166509X (0-671-66509-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Henry IVby William ShakespeareISBN 0671421948 (0-671-42194-8)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Henry James' the Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0671006797 (0-671-00679-7)
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Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journalby AckerleyISBN 0671707051 (0-671-70705-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan Doyle, NicolletISBN 0670036544 (0-670-03654-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his famous tale The Hound of the Baskervilles in response to popular demand for another Sherlock Holmes story. The legendary curse of the Hound of the Baskervilles warns of a devil-beast that haunts the moors near the Baskerville home on the English moors. But the new heir of the family is determined to disprove the legend and solve the mystery of his uncles recent death, so he calls on the expertise of Sherlock Holmes and his loyal assistant Dr. Watson.
This unique Whole Story edition combines a thrilling mystery with detailed captions and related factual information about Conan Doyle, late-nineteenth century England, and the enormous success of Sherlock Holmes. The background information, illustrations, and photographs all come together to put the story in the context of its era. [via]
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journeyby Salman RushdieISBN 0670817570 (0-670-81757-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey'Book summary:In this timeless, haunting portrait of the people and the politics of Nicaragua, Rushdie brings to life the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. [via]
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John Thomas and Lady Janeby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0670408123 (0-670-40812-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Thomas and Lady Jane'Book summary:The second version of "Lady Chatterley's Lover". It is in many ways quite different from the first and last: both in the personalities of Parkin, the gamekeeper (later called Mellors) and Connie Chatterley, and in the development of the love story. [via]
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Kane & Abelby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 067125121X (0-671-25121-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kane & Abel'Book summary:They had only one thing in common...William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant - two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. The marvellous story, spanning 60 years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save - and finally destroy - each other. [via]
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Life and Times of Michael Kby Michael CoetzeeISBN 0670427896 (0-670-42789-6)
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Janet Allison Brown, Graham RustISBN 0670899135 (0-670-89913-5)
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The Man in the Queueby Josephine TeyISBN 0671414933 (0-671-41493-3)
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Measure for Measureby William ShakespeareISBN 0671496123 (0-671-49612-3)
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The Message to the Planetby Iris MurdochISBN 0670829994 (0-670-82999-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message to the Planet'Book summary:For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. Luden's friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-preist, thinks he is evil. Patrick Fenman, poet is dying because he thinks Marcus has cursed him. Marcus has disappeared and must be found. But he is a genius, a hero struggling at the bounds of human knowledge. Is he seeking God, or is he just another victim of the Holocaust, which casts its shadow upon him and upon Ludens, both of them jewish? Can human thinking discover the foundations of human consciousness? Irish Murdoch's endlessly inventive imagination has touched a fundamental question of our time. [via]
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Mirror Crackedby Agatha ChristieISBN 0671557017 (0-671-55701-7)
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Miss Pym Disposesby Josephine TeyISBN 0671494139 (0-671-49413-9)
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Much Ado About Nothingby William ShakespeareISBN 0671508148 (0-671-50814-8)
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Murder Is Announcedby Agatha ChristieISBN 0671552678 (0-671-55267-8)
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Nights at the Circusby Angela CarterISBN 0670803758 (0-670-80375-8)
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Not That Sort of Girlby Mary WesleyISBN 0670821217 (0-670-82121-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Nuns and Soldiersby Iris MurdochISBN 0670518263 (0-670-51826-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Othelloby Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, William ShakespeareISBN 0671042890 (0-671-04289-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:The New Folger Library edition features brief and simple clarification of seventeenth-century language, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and explanatory notes illuminating obscure and obsolete expressions. [via]
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Peter Panby Edmund Caswell, Scott GustafsonISBN 0670841803 (0-670-84180-3)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Jan OrmerodISBN 0670808628 (0-670-80862-8)
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Peter Pan/Changing Picture and Lift-The-Flap Bookby J. M. Barrie, Edmund CaswellISBN 0670836087 (0-670-83608-7)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan/Changing Picture and Lift-The-Flap Book'Book summary:Four changing picture wheels, lift-the-flap illustrations, and an abridged version of Barrie's classic fantasy follow the adventures of Peter Pan, Wendy, the Lost Boys, and Captain Hook in Neverland. [via]
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Piano Playersby Anthony BurgessISBN 0671637924 (0-671-63792-4)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0671424602 (0-671-42460-2)
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0670871397 (0-670-87139-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:Alluring, high-spirited heiress Isabel is in Europe to seek her own destiny. Love, intrigue, and betrayal make this timeless American novel a profound and moving mirror of the human condition. Henry Jemes's masterpiece is captured afresh in this beautifully produced official tie-in edition to the fall 1996 movie starring Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich. [via]
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A Quiver Full of Arrowsby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0671426028 (0-671-42602-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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R. F. Delderfield's to Serve Them All My Daysby R. F. DelderfieldISBN 0671555227 (0-671-55522-7)
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Restorationby Rose TremainISBN 0670831093 (0-670-83109-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restoration'Book summary:The award-winning Restoration is one of Rose Tremains most popular works, and showcases her remarkable talent for capturing historical settings and personalities. Set during the English Restoration in the decadent court of King Charles II, the novel weaves a story of corrupted innocence, betrayal, love and hope against a fascinating historical backdrop. Written in the first person, the fortunes of the fallible but charismatic courtier Robert Merivel are utterly compelling. Restoration lyrically evokes the rich tapestry of seventeenth-century London life. [via]
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Romeo and Julietby Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, William ShakespeareISBN 0671042882 (0-671-04288-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Russian Girlby Kingsley AmisISBN 0670853291 (0-670-85329-1)
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machineby Iris MurdochISBN 0670614335 (0-670-61433-5)
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The Satanic Versesby Salman RushdieISBN 0670825379 (0-670-82537-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Satanic Verses'Book summary:No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner. [via]
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Seattleby H.M. GoushaISBN 0671553569 (0-671-55356-9)
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Shakespeare's the Winter's Taleby William ShakespeareISBN 0671006568 (0-671-00656-8)
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The Singing Sandsby Josephine TeyISBN 0671494562 (0-671-49456-2)
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Something Rottenby Jasper FfordeISBN 0670033596 (0-670-03359-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Rotten'Book summary:Detective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction, enough with Emperor Zharks pointlessly dramatic entrances, outbreaks of slapstick raging across pulp genres, and hacking her hair off to fill in for Joan of Arc. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. Caring for both is more than a full- time job and Thursday decides it is definitely time to get her husband Landen back, if only to babysit. Luckily, those responsible for Landens eradication, The Goliath Corporation formerly an oppressive multinational conglomerate, now an oppressive multinational religion have pledged to right the wrong.
But returning to SpecOps isnt a snap. When outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine seeks to get himself elected dictator, he whips up a frenzy of anti-Danish sentiment and demands mass book burnings. The return of Swindons patron saint bearing divine prophecies could spell the end of the world within five years, possibly faster if the laughably terrible Swindon Mallets dont win the Superhoop, the most important croquet tournament in the land. And if thats not bad enough, The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she prevent the world from plunging into war? Can she vanquish Kaine before he realizes his dream of absolute power? And, most important, will she ever find reliable child care? Find out in this totally original, action-packed romp, sure to be another escapist thrill for Jasper Ffordes growing legion of fans. [via]
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Survivingby Henry Green, Matthew YorkeISBN 0670804762 (0-670-80476-2)
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T S Eliot's Murder in the Cathedralby T. S. EliotISBN 0671007823 (0-671-00782-3)
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The Testament of Gideon Mackby James RobertsonISBN 067003844X (0-670-03844-X)
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Titus Andronicusby William Shakespeare, Louis B. Wright, Virginia A. LamarISBN 067166915X (0-671-66915-X)
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To Serve Them All My Daysby R. F. DelderfieldISBN 0671213717 (0-671-21371-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Serve Them All My Days'Book summary:Young David Powlett-Jones, a Welsh miner's son, is invalided home from France when he suffers severe shell shock on the Western Front. At a remote English public school in Devon the debilitated veteran, himself barely out of his teens, decides temporarily to try his hand at teaching while striving to awaken from the nightmare of World War I -- the national catastrophe that sweeps England out of the comfortable certainties of the Victorian Age into the moral perplexities and harsh economic realities of more modern times. [via]
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Tragedy of Coriolanusby William ShakespeareISBN 0671499661 (0-671-49966-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tragedy of 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.More editions of Tragedy of Coriolanus:
Tragedy of Dr Faustusby Christopher MarlowISBN 0671509772 (0-671-50977-2)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0670869201 (0-670-86920-1)
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A Twist In The Taleby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0671671480 (0-671-67148-0)
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671039547 (0-671-03954-7)
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We Think the World of Youby AckerleyISBN 0671678116 (0-671-67811-6)
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Whole Story Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, William GeldartISBN 0670888788 (0-670-88878-8)
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William Trevorby William TrevorISBN 0670841293 (0-670-84129-3)
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The Winter's Taleby William ShakespeareISBN 0671669176 (0-671-66917-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter's Tale'Book summary:John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and in a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theories that had evolved under the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by today's standards, although it took the best part of half a century to produce, the New Shakespeare involved only a small band of editors besides Dover Wilson himself. As the volumes took shape, many of Dover Wilson's textual methods acquired general acceptance and became an established part of later editorial practice, for example in the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares. [via]
Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0670825859 (0-670-82585-9)
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