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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn GreenISBN 0192553410 (0-19-255341-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0192816209 (0-19-281620-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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The Ambassadorsby Henry James, Christopher ButlerISBN 0192817035 (0-19-281703-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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As You Like Itby William Shakespeare, Alan BrissendenISBN 0192819550 (0-19-281955-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Barchester Towersby Anthony Trollope, Frederick Page, Michael SadleirISBN 0192815075 (0-19-281507-5)
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Camillaby Fanny BurneyISBN 0192553275 (0-19-255327-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Camilla, Or, a Picture of Youthby Fanny Burney, Lillian D. Bloom, Edward Alan BloomISBN 0192816624 (0-19-281662-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Castle Rackrentby George Watson, Maria EdgeworthISBN 0192815393 (0-19-281539-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Published in 1800, Castle Rackrent is regarded as the first family saga and first regional novel in English. It chronicles the lives of four generations of 18th-century Irish landlords, and how their negligent behaviour towards life and money takes them to the edge of bankruptcy and ruin. A stimulating satire!
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Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiressby Fanny Burney, Peter SaborISBN 0192817426 (0-19-281742-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress'Book summary:First published in 1782, this novel interweaves comedy, humanity and social analysis. In its satirical picture of the heroine's dismaying encounter with the gilded fashionable world, while also enjoying the attractions of an unusual love story, it caused controversy in its time. Cecilia is an "heiress" who can keep her estate if her husband will consent to take her surname. In playing upon the issue of the name, Burney makes us see the high cost of the patrilinear and the patriarchal. This edition presents the novel as it first appeared in 1782, while indicating changes Burney made to later editions. An introduction, bibliography and notes are provided, as well as several appendices. [via]
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A Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0192760653 (0-19-276065-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Child's Garden of Verses'Book summary:"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
With this "Happy Thought," Robert Louis Stevenson speaks for all the delights of childhood. But he doesn't stop there. A Child's Garden of Verses, written over a century ago, is filled to the brim with what are usually considered to be the first real poems written for children. This classic volume is an old friend to the generations of readers who were brought up on "I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me/ And what can be the use of him is more than I can see." In this perfectly lovely edition, the gossamer art of Jessie Willcox Smith (who first illustrated Stevenson's poems in the early years of the 20th century) is reproduced in all its charming glory. Black and white drawings throughout and eight full-page, warmly colorful paintings show beautiful, yet pleasantly imperfect children, busy at their daily activities--climbing trees, watching their reflections in a river, or sick in bed with an army of toy soldiers on guard. Place this on the shelf next to Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, and Peter Rabbit. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Comedy of Errorsby William Shakespeare, Charles WhitworthISBN 0192814613 (0-19-281461-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Errors'Book summary:A Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's shortest play yet one of his most popular comedies. Here is a new modern-spelling edition, based on the 1623 Folio text with on-page commentary and notes that explain meaning, staging, language and allusions. A detailed and informative introduction describes the play's first performance at Gray's Inn in December 1594, its multiple sources and its uneven critical and theatrical history. Appendices include the complete text of the play's main source, Plautus' Menaechmi, and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible.
Illustrated with production photographs and related art, this edition vividly brings to life Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.
"Not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship."--Times Literary Supplement [via]More editions of The Comedy of Errors:
The Complete Stalky & Co.by Rudyard Kipling, Isabel QuiglyISBN 0192816608 (0-19-281660-8)
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Coriolanusby William Shakespeare, R.B. ParkerISBN 0192814524 (0-19-281452-4)
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, A. N. WilsonISBN 0192815989 (0-19-281598-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:The dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by stoker. He aims to terrify and succeeds, portraying the awesome power of evil to corrupt even the virtuous heroine, lucy. Only the old magic--a crucifix, garlic, a wooden stake--can provide effective weapons against the count's appalling strength [via]
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The Female Quixoteby Charlotte LennoxISBN 0192553305 (0-19-255330-5)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P.
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The Female Quixote or the Adventures of Arabellaby Charlotte LennoxISBN 0192817655 (0-19-281765-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Female Quixote or the Adventures of Arabella'Book summary:"The Female Quixote" (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her into all manner of misunderstandings. Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an introduction and full explanatory notes, this edition should be of particular interest to students of women's literature, and of the 18th-century novel. [via]
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The Golden Bowlby Henry James, Virginia Llewellyn SmithISBN 0192816535 (0-19-281653-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bowl'Book summary:'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'
A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Prince's marriage they had discovered, in a Bloomsbury antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw. The superstitious Amerigo, fearing for his gilded future, refuses to accept it as a wedding gift from Charlotte. 'Don't you think too much of "cracks,"' she is later to say to him, 'aren't you too afraid of them? I risk the cracks...' When the golden bowl is broken, Maggie must leave the security of her childhood and try to reassemble the pieces of her shattered happiness.
In this, the last of his three great poetic masterpieces, James combined with a dazzling virtuosity elements of social comedy, of mystery, terror, and myth. "The Golden Bowl" is the most controversial, ambiguous, and sophisticated of James's novels.
The text of this World's Classics paperback is that of the first English edition (1905). James's Preface is included, and a new introduction, notes, and selected variant readings. [via]
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His Last Bowby Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley EdwardsISBN 0192123157 (0-19-212315-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan Doyle, W.W. RobsonISBN 0192123106 (0-19-212310-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Italianby Ann RadcliffeISBN 0192815725 (0-19-281572-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Italian'Book summary:This is Ann Radcliffe's most complete success in fiction, and a fine example of Gothic romance. In it, primarily through the character of its extraordinary hero, Schedoni, the book becomes more than just a thriller. The elements of tragedy are there and sustained so as to take it beyond the artifices of the Gothic. [via]
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0192822845 (0-19-282284-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:With scenes from English life and her diversity of light-hearted, witty, wise, or patient heroines, Jane Austen has delighted generations of readers while exploring the social and moral values of the early nineteenth century with elegantly barbed perception. This edition includes all six of Austen's completed novels--Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Predjudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Also included are Catherine, a key work of her youth; Lady Susan, which was unpublished in her lifetime; and the unfinished novels The Watsons and Sanditon. All demonstrate the irony, wit, and skill in characterization, as well as faultless control of tone and narrative, which mark them as timeless classics of provincial romance and intrigue. [via]
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Julius Caesarby Arthur HumphreysISBN 0192814451 (0-19-281445-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:The most famous of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Julius Caesar was written and first performed in 1599, and was apparently one the plays his contemporaries enjoyed most. Recounting the death of Caesar on the steps of the Senate house, the play offers some of Shakespeare's finest scenes: Antony's skillful speech at Caesar's funeral, and the quarrel and reconciliation between Brutus and Cassius with the news of Portia's death. This edition includes a fresh consideration of the play's date and its place in the Shakespeare canon and examines how Shakespeare reshaped his sources (primarily North's translation of Plutarch's Lives). [via]
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Keatsby John Keats, H.W. GarrodISBN 0192810677 (0-19-281067-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Lady Audley's Secretby David Skilton, Mary E. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth BraddonISBN 0192817418 (0-19-281741-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Audley's Secret'Book summary:This novel, with its most untypically forceful heroine, can be seen as an anticipation of Ibsen's great dramas, and as an unabashed bid for freedom from the constraints of Victorian womanhood. [via]
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyby Charles DickensISBN 0192545086 (0-19-254508-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'Book summary:Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creator's energy and earnestness as he faces the pressing issues of early Victorian society. [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence Sterne, Ian Campbell RossISBN 0192815660 (0-19-281566-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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A Life of Johnsonby James Boswell, J. D. Fleeman, Robert William ChapmanISBN 0192815377 (0-19-281537-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Life of Johnson'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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Little Dorrit: Library Editionby Charles Dickens, Harvey Peter SucksmithISBN 019281592X (0-19-281592-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Dorrit: Library Edition'Book summary:Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as Dickens' "masterpiece among many masterpieces," Little Dorrit offers a somber and complex portrait of debtors' prisons and government bureaucracy. [via]
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Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad, John BatchelorISBN 019281625X (0-19-281625-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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Love's Labour's Lostby William Shakespeare, G. R. HibbardISBN 0192819402 (0-19-281940-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love's Labour's 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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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Louis L. CornellISBN 0192816748 (0-19-281674-8)
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Mary Bartonby Edgar Wright, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192817507 (0-19-281750-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England. [via]
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Mary Bartonby Shirley Foster, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192805622 (0-19-280562-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:Set in Manchester in the 1840s, Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself--a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, who becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances.
This new edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Gaskell. The introduction provides historical and biographical context to the novel, a survey of critical responses to Mary Barton, and argues that Gaskell was chiefly concerned with the importance of communication as a means of healing breaches between people. In addition, the book contains an up-to-date critical biography, revised notes and appendixes that include Gaskell's rough draft and outline of the novel's conclusion. [via]More editions of Mary Barton:
Measure for Measureby William Shakespeare, N. W. BawcuttISBN 019281446X (0-19-281446-X)
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John Cleland, Peter SaborISBN 0192816349 (0-19-281634-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill. [via]
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher RodenISBN 0192123092 (0-19-212309-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Stephen King started writing Storm of the Century as a novel, but it evolved into the teleplay of an ABC TV miniseries. Set in Maine's remote Little Tall Island, the tale is all about vivid small-town characters, feuds, infidelities, sordid secrets, kids in peril, and gory portents in scrambled letters. The calamitous snowstorm is nothing compared to the mysterious mind-reading stranger Linoge, who uses magic powers to turn people's guilt against them--when he's not simply braining them with his wolf-head-handled cane. Don't even glance at that cane--it can bring out the devil in you. Just as The Shining was concerned with marriage and alcoholism as much as it was with bad weather and worse spirits, Storm of the Century is more than a horror story. It's creepy because it's realistic.
But it's also unusually visual. Linoge's eyes ominously change color, wind and sea wreak havoc, a basketball leaves blood circles with each bounce. The 100-year storm no doubt hits harder onscreen than on the page, but the snow is a symbol of the more disturbing emotional maelstrom that words evoke perfectly. And the murders of folks we've gotten to know is entirely terrifying in print. The crisp discipline of the screenplay format makes this book better than lots of King's more sprawling novels--the end doesn't wander and the dialogue crackles. Here's the real test: It's impossible to read parts 1 and 2 and not read part 3, "The Reckoning." --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Monk: A Longman Cultural Editionby Matthew LewisISBN 0192815245 (0-19-281524-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monk: A Longman Cultural Edition'Book summary:"The Monk" is Matthew G. Lewis's 1796 novel which is the tale of a monk who is tempted by carnal desire and led down a ruinous path of ungodliness. Ambrosio, a pious, well-respected monk in Spain, is lustfully tempted by his pupil, Matilda, a woman who has disguised herself as a monk. Having satisfied himself with her, he is overcome with carnal desire for the innocent Antonia. With the help of Matilda, who is actually Satan in disguise, Ambrosio seduces Antonia, a seduction that would ultimately lead to his downfall. Recognized as one of the first novels of the gothic genre, "The Monk" is a classic tale of the tragic ruin that may befall one tempted by desire. [via]
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie Collins, Anthea TroddISBN 0192815792 (0-19-281579-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moonstone'Book summary:P. D. James provides an introduction to one of the greatest mystery novels in English literature, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone. [via]
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Nicholas Nickleby: Library Editionby Charles Dickens, Paul SchlickeISBN 0192817949 (0-19-281794-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nicholas Nickleby: Library Edition'Book summary:This edition of the celebrated novel by Dickens comes with extensive notes and an appendix reproducing the Nickleby "Proclamation" - a pre-publication advertisement for the novel signed by "Boz". [via]
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North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN 0192815954 (0-19-281595-4)
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph Conrad, Keith CarabineISBN 0192816241 (0-19-281624-1)
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Gillian Beer, Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0192817833 (0-19-281783-3)
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0192814516 (0-19-281451-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:If anything, Othello has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour. Othello is a "noble Moor", a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian state's most reliable soldiers. However, his ensign Iago harbours an obscure hatred against his general, and when Othello secretly marries the beautiful daughter of the Venetian senator Brabanzio, Iago begins his subtle campaign of vilification, which will inevitably lead to the deaths of more than just Othello and Desdemona.
An extraordinary play, both for its dramatic economy and power as well as its remarkable language, from Othello's bombastic "traveller's history" to Desdemona's elegiac "willow song", the play raises uncomfortable questions about ongoing questions of not only racial identity but also sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's sexual relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of Iago's attempt to destroy them. Particularly fascinated with the question of what it means to "see", Othello also contains one of the greatest tragic death scenes in all of Shakespeare, with Othello's final identification with "a malignant and a turbaned Turk". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane Austen, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192547011 (0-19-254701-1)
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Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage. [via]
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The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of thby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0192123297 (0-19-212329-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th'Book summary:Any fan of detective fiction knows that there is no substitute in all of literature for a few hours of reading pleasure at 221 B Baker Street. The tobacco in the persian slipper, the piles of monographs and newspaper clippings covering the floor and table, the unanswered correspondence affixed to the mantle with a dagger. What will the next visitor or urgent message bring? Perhaps a request from a mysterious stranger to help prevent "A Scandal in Bohemia." Perhaps Watson will tell us the story, discretely leaving out certain names, of how he and Holmes had to step outside the law to protect a certain royal personage from a blackmailer in "The Case of Charles Augustus Milverton." Or, for a very unusual treat, perhaps Holmes himself, in quiet retirement in Sussex, will tell a tale in his own words as in "The Lion's Mane."
In the more than a century since the publication of the first tale featuring Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and stories have inspired countless films, plays, pastiches, literary tributes, and tens of thousands of imitations. Now, Oxford is proud to announce The Oxford Sherlock Holmes, the complete works gathered together in nine handsomely bound, meticulously edited volumes. The books themselves are beautiful, and the entire set comes in an attractive display box, perfect for gift-giving.
Beautifully designed, boasting an introduction by a Doyle authority, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and notes, all carefully researched and assembled, this magnificent set will enhance the reading pleasure of readers new to Doyle's work and veterans of Holmsian arcana. A goldmine of reading pleasure, The Oxford Sherlock Holmes is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in crime fiction. [via]More editions of The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th:
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John Bunyan, W. R. OwensISBN 0192803611 (0-19-280361-1)
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The Plays of Christopher Marloweby Christopher MarloweISBN 0192504789 (0-19-250478-9)
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Poetical Worksby Edmund SpenserISBN 0192810707 (0-19-281070-7)
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Poetical Works of Shelleyby Percy Bysshe Shelley, G.M. Matthews, Thomas HutchinsonISBN 0192810693 (0-19-281069-3)
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0192815148 (0-19-281514-8)
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The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mindby William Wordsworth, Ernest De SelincourtISBN 019281074X (0-19-281074-X)
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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, Richard Lancelyn GreenISBN 0192123173 (0-19-212317-3)
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The Romance of the Forestby Ann Radcliffe, Chloe ChardISBN 0192817124 (0-19-281712-4)
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Jill L LevensonISBN 0192814966 (0-19-281496-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This innovative edition of one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays offers modernized texts not only of the 1599 quarto but also of the short, or "bad" quarto of 1597, regarding each as witness to a "mobile text" which changed in composition as Shakespeare wrote it and which has continued to evolve throughout its richly varied history, both in the theatre and in film, television, opera, and ballet. The more familiar 1599 text is accompanied by a detailed explanatory commentary. The Introduction traces the Romeo and Juliet narrative from its origins in myth through its adaptation in the novella, and shows how Shakespeare's transmutation of the story reflects contemporary concerns with love, death, adolescence, and patriarchism. [via]
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Romolaby George EliotISBN 019250178X (0-19-250178-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romola'Book summary:This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. [via]
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The Root and the Flowerby L.H. MyersISBN 0192819119 (0-19-281911-9)
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The Rover and Other Playsby Jane Spencer, Aphra Behn, Michael CordnerISBN 0192822489 (0-19-282248-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rover and Other Plays'Book summary:Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edtion brings together her most important comedies in a single volume: The Rover, her best-known play; The Feigned Courtesans, a lively comedy of intrigue; The Lucky Chance, a comedy with a bitter edge, which takes a satirical look at marriage customs; and the dazzling and popular farce, The Emperor of the Moon. All the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. [via]
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Roxanaby Daniel DefoeISBN 0192815636 (0-19-281563-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roxana'Book summary:The Fortunate Mistress, or a History of the Life and Vast Varieties of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards called the Countess of Wintelsheim in Germany, Being the person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana in the time of Charles II. Edited with an introduction by Jane Jack. [via]
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Roxana the Fortunate Mistressby Defoe DISBN 0192553046 (0-19-255304-6)
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Secret Agentby Joseph Conrad, John LyonISBN 0192801694 (0-19-280169-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Agent'Book summary:Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.
Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques. [via] 
Sentimental Journey Through France and Italyby Laurence Sterne, Ian Robert James JackISBN 0192816853 (0-19-281685-3)
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Shirleyby Charlotte BronteISBN 0192815628 (0-19-281562-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shirley'Book summary:Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of
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symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention. [via]More editions of Shirley:
A Sicilian Romanceby Ann Ward Radcliffe, Alison MilbankISBN 0192822128 (0-19-282212-8)
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher RodenISBN 0192123165 (0-19-212316-5)
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley EdwardsISBN 0192123130 (0-19-212313-0)
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Titus Andronicusby William Shakespeare, Eugene M. WaithISBN 0192814427 (0-19-281442-7)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: With Related Readingsby Dom Saliani, Chris Ferguson, Tim ScottISBN 0176066152 (0-17-606615-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: With Related Readings'Book summary:In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March"--and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead. [via]
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 0192816810 (0-19-281681-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Turbott Wolfeby William PlomerISBN 0192818902 (0-19-281890-2)
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The Valley of Fear: Library Editionby Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley EdwardsISBN 0192123149 (0-19-212314-9)
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Victoryby Joseph Conrad, Mara KalninsISBN 0192801759 (0-19-280175-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victory'Book summary:Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. It tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island of Samburan. But Heyst's solitary existence ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious patron and brings her back to the island. She in turn recalls him to love and life, until the world breaks in on them once more with tragic consequences. In this love story Conrad created two of his psychologically most complex and compelling characters in a narrative of great erotic power.
This new edition uses the first edition text and includes a new chronology and bibliography. [via] 
Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0192818368 (0-19-281836-8)
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Virginia Woolf, a Writer's Lifeby Lyndall GordonISBN 0192819070 (0-19-281907-0)
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The Voyage Outby Virginia Woolf, Lorna SageISBN 0192818341 (0-19-281834-1)
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The Wanderer; Or, Female Difficultiesby Frances Burney, Robert L. MacK, Margaret Anne Doody, Peter SaborISBN 0192821334 (0-19-282133-4)
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The Wardenby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192815067 (0-19-281506-7)
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Waverlyby Walter Scott, Clair LamontISBN 0192817221 (0-19-281722-1)
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What Maisie Knewby Henry JamesISBN 0192815334 (0-19-281533-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Mrs. Wix's, during these hours, Sir Claude was--and most of all through long pauses--the perpetual, the insurmountable theme. It all took them back to the first flush of his marriage and to the place he held in the schoolroom at that crisis of love and pain; only he had himself blown to a much bigger balloon the large consciousness he then filled out. They went through it all again, and indeed while the interval dragged by the very weight of its charm they went, in spite of defences and suspicions, through everything. Their intensified clutch of the future throbbed like a clock ticking seconds; but this was a timepiece that inevitably, as well, at the best, rang occasionally a portentous hour. Oh there were several of these, and two or three of the worst on the old city-wall where everything else so made for peace. There was nothing in the world Maisie more wanted than to be as nice to Mrs. Wix as Sir Claude had desired; but it was exactly because this fell in with her inveterate instinct of keeping the peace that the instinct itself was quickened. From the moment it was quickened, however, it found other work, and that was how, to begin with, she produced the very complication she most sought to avert. What she had essentially done, these days, had been to read the unspoken into the spoken; so that thus, with accumulations, it had become more definite to her that the unspoken was, unspeakably, the completeness of the sacrifice of Mrs. Beale. There were times when every minute that Sir Claude stayed away was like a nail in Mrs. Beale's coffin. That brought back to Maisie--it was a roundabout way--the beauty and antiquity of her connexion with the flower of the Overmores as well as that lady's own grace and charm, her peculiar prettiness and... [via]
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Peter BrooksISBN 0192816314 (0-19-281631-4)
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The Winter's Taleby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0192819569 (0-19-281956-9)
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Wives and Daughtersby Angus Easson, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192817027 (0-19-281702-7)
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The Works of Jane Austenby Jane AustinISBN 0192547062 (0-19-254706-2)
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