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The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole

ISBN 0486434125 (0-486-43412-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The Castle of Otranto and Hieroglyphic Tales
by Horace Walpole, Robert L. MacK

ISBN 0460871986 (0-460-87198-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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Daniel Deronda
by George Eliot, Edmund White

ISBN 037576013X (0-375-76013-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Romola is a historical novel set in late 15th-century Florence and is the story of a high-minded girl who marries a self-indulgent and unscrupulous Greek, Tito Melma. [via]
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Daniel Deronda
by A. S. Byatt, George Eliot

ISBN 0375411232 (0-375-41123-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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George Eliots last and most unconventional novel is considered by many to be her greatest. First published in 1876, Daniel Deronda is a richly imagined epic with a mysterious hero at its heart.

Daniel Deronda, a high-minded young man searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a series of dramatic encounters into two contrasting worlds: the English country-house life of Gwendolen Harleth, a high-spirited beauty trapped in an oppressive marriage to a wealthy man, and the very different life of a poor Jewish girl, Mirah, who is searching for her family. After rescuing Mirah from an attempt to drown herself in the Thames, Deronda accompanies her on her quest into Londons Jewish community, which he finds unexpectedly appealing. Gwendolen, meanwhile, increasingly relies on his support as she suffers from the consequences of her mistakes and the terror that she has brought a curse upon herself. As Deronda uncovers the surprising secret of his own parentage, Eliots moving and suspenseful narrative opens up a world of Jewish experience previously unknown to the Victorian novel.
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Howards End
by E. M. Forster, Alistair M. Duckworth

ISBN 0312111827 (0-312-11182-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.
Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
by Wolfgang Iser

ISBN 0521328071 (0-521-32807-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne, Robert Folkenflik

ISBN 0375761195 (0-375-76119-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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A forerunner of psychological fiction, and considered a landmark work for its innovative use of narrative devices, Sterne's topsy-turvy novel was both celebrated and vilified when first published. Originally released in nine separate volumes, it is in effect an exercise about the difficulties of writing. Impossible to categorize, it remains a beguiling milestone in the history of literature.
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Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf

ISBN 0613174224 (0-613-17422-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores. [via]
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The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens, Fforde, Jasper (AFT)

ISBN 0451529383 (0-451-52938-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final part. In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular. [via]
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The Pickwick Papers : The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Charles Dickens, Steven Marcus

ISBN 0451517563 (0-451-51756-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Relates the various activities and adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club. [via]
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Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0375405488 (0-375-40548-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Charles Dickenss satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 183637. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also reveals Dickenss burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system, lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors prisons. As G. K. Chesterton noted, Before [Dickens] wrote a single real story, he had a kind of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns, thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns, strange and swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick. [via]
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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare, Roma Gill

ISBN 0198321511 (0-19-832151-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of ex-compatriots.
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0237522829 (0-237-52282-9)
Softcover, Evans Publishing Group

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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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Treasure Island
by Edwards, N. C. Wyeth

ISBN 0361027966 (0-361-02796-6)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Raintree

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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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Treasure Island : With Story of the Treasure of Normon Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0517618168 (0-517-61816-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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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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Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne, Howard Anderson

ISBN 0393950344 (0-393-95034-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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