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Annotated Aliceby Martin Gardner, Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0393048470 (0-393-04847-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Annotated Alice'Book summary:"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations!"
Readers who share Alice's taste in books will be more than satisfied with The Annotated Alice, a volume that includes not only pictures and conversations, but a thorough gloss on the text as well. There may be some, like G.K. Chesterton, who abhor the notion of putting Lewis Carroll's masterpiece under a microscope and analyzing it within an inch of its whimsical life. But as Martin Gardner points out in his introduction, so much of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is composed of private jokes and details of Victorian manners and mores that modern audiences are not likely to catch. Yes, Alice can be enjoyed on its own merits, but The Annotated Alice appeals to the nosy parker in all of us. Thus we learn, for example, that the source of the mouse's tale may have been Alfred Lord Tennyson who "once told Carroll that he had dreamed a lengthy poem about fairies, which began with very long lines, then the lines got shorter and shorter until the poem ended with fifty or sixty lines of two syllables each." And that, contrary to popular belief, the Mad Hatter character was not a parody of then Prime Minister Gladstone, but rather was based on an Oxford furniture dealer named Theophilus Carter.
Gardner's annotations run the gamut from the factual and historical to the speculative and are, in their own way, quite as fascinating as the text they refer to. Occasionally, he even comments on himself, as when he quotes a fellow annotator of Alice, James Kincaid: "The historical context does not call for a gloss but the passage provides an opportunity to point out the ambivalence that may attend the central figure and her desire to grow up." And then follows with a charming riposte: "I thank Mr. Kincaid for supporting my own rambling." There's a lot of information in the margins (indeed, the page is pretty evenly divided between Carroll's text and Gardner's), but the ramblings turn out to be well worth the time. So hand over your old copy of Lewis Carroll's classic to the kids--this Alice in Wonderland is intended entirely for adults. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Arden Shakespeare Twelfth Nightby T. W. Craik, J. M. LothianISBN 0174436254 (0-17-443625-4)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arden Shakespeare Twelfth Night'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Twelfth Night provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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Catharine and Other Writingsby Jane Austen, Douglas Murray, Margaret Anne DoodyISBN 0192835211 (0-19-283521-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catharine and Other Writings'Book summary:This new collection of Austen's brilliant short fiction is the first annotated edition of her short writings. The texts have been compared with the manuscripts to give a number of new readings. In addition to prose fiction and prayers, this collection contains many of her poems written to amuse and console her friends, and are unavailable in any other single volume. [via]
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Cold Comfort Farmby Stella GibbonsISBN 0140274146 (0-14-027414-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Comfort Farm'Book summary:[via]Stella Gibbons' novel is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm.
- A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps, rough front, and luxurious packaging
- Features an introduction from Lynne Truss and cover illustrations by Roz Chast
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The Complete Novelsby Jane AustenISBN 0143039504 (0-14-303950-4)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Novels'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0394604369 (0-394-60436-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Novels of Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Complete Sonnets and Poemsby William Shakespeare, Colin BurrowISBN 019281933X (0-19-281933-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Sonnets and Poems'Book summary:This is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to the plays, and detailed notes explain the language and allusions. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism. [via]
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Complete Worksby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0192541196 (0-19-254119-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works'Book summary:This book is a replica of the original from the collections of The New York Public Library; it was produced from digital images created by The New York Public Library and its partners as part of their preservation efforts. To enhance your reading pleasure, the aging and scanning artifacts have been removed using patented page cleaning technology. We hope you enjoy the result. [via]
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A Critical Edition of the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0253328535 (0-253-32853-5)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flandersby Juliet Mitchell, Daniel DefoeISBN 0140431071 (0-14-043107-1)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders'Book summary:The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c ..by Daniel Defoe, George A. StarrISBN 0192834037 (0-19-283403-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c ..'Book summary:The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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Henry Esmondby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0330239341 (0-330-23934-1)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry Esmond'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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The History of Henry Esmondby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0140430490 (0-14-043049-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Henry Esmond'Book summary:'What spectacle is more August than that of a great king in exile? Who is more worthy of respect than a brave man in misfortune'? When "Henry Esmond" appeared in 1852, noted writers and critics of the time acclaimed it as the best historical novel ever written. Set in the reign of Queen Anne, the story follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army, as he painfully wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the Whiggish-Protestant future. This change also entails a very uncomfortable switch in his affections. The love story of Henry Esmond is charged with sombre, unconscious emotions, yet is skilfully embedded into historical events which are convincing but never too prominent. [via]
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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.by William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0192827278 (0-19-282727-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.'Book summary:Orphaned in the England of the later Stuarts, Henry Esmonde is raised by his aristocratic, Jacobite relatives the Castlewoods. As a young man he falls in love with both Lady Castlewood and Beatrix, her beautiful, headstrong daughter, and is inspired to join the ultimately unsuccessful campaign to reinstate James Stuart to the throne. Thackeray valued Henry Esmonde more than any of his other novels and it displays many of his own memories and emotions. [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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The Loved Oneby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926086 (0-316-92608-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Loved One'Book summary:The prolific Waugh--an English novelist and satirist perhaps best known for Brideshead Revisited--described this slim, vicious comedy as "a little nightmare produced by the unaccustomed high living of a brief visit to Hollywood." The setting is the L.A. funeral industry, where Whispering Glades provides deluxe service to deceased stars and their families, and the Happier Hunting Ground does the same for dead pets. (At Whispering Glades, staff must refer to the corpses only as "Loved Ones.") The industry provides a perfect foil for Waugh's deadpan wit--and an apt metaphor for the movie business. [via]
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Lucky Jimby Kingsley Amis, David LodgeISBN 0142180149 (0-14-218014-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Mary Bartonby Edgar Wright, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192817507 (0-19-281750-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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 Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0140430539 (0-14-043053-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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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 Macdonald Daly, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 014043464X (0-14-043464-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:[via]O Jem, her father wont listen to me, and its you must save Mary! Youre like a brother to her
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owners son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Marys dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the hungry forties as personal tragedy. In its social and political setting, it looks towards Elizabeth Gaskells great novels of the industrial revolution, in particular North and South.
In his introduction Maconald Daly discusses Elizabeth Gaskells first novel as a pioneering book that made public the great division between rich and poor a theme that inspired much of her finest work.
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Mary Bartonby Shirley Foster, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192805622 (0-19-280562-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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:
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 0140433139 (0-14-043313-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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- Moll Flanders: ISBN 0375760105 (0-375-76010-5)
Softcover, Modern Library - Moll Flanders: ISBN 0393978621 (0-393-97862-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Moll Flanders: ISBN 0192815709 (0-19-281570-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Moll Flanders: ISBN 039309412X (0-393-09412-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Moll Flanders: ISBN 0394605306 (0-394-60530-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Moll Flanders: ISBN 0140433139 (0-14-043313-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Moll Flanders: ISBN 0375760105 (0-375-76010-5)
Moll Flanders, an Authoritative Text: Backgrounds and Sources; Criticismby Daniel Defoe, Edward KellyISBN 039304291X (0-393-04291-X)
Softcover, Norton
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, Josephine Waters BennettISBN 014071412X (0-14-071412-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado about Nothing'Book summary:"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts [via]
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- Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0140714804 (0-14-071480-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0192834185 (0-19-283418-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0198321473 (0-19-832147-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0140707093 (0-14-070709-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0174434820 (0-17-443482-0)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0192826204 (0-19-282620-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0198320078 (0-19-832007-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0198320566 (0-19-832056-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0195217977 (0-19-521797-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado about Nothing: ISBN 014071412X (0-14-071412-X)
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- Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0140714804 (0-14-071480-4)
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Much Ado about Nothing: The Making of the Movieby Kenneth BranaghISBN 0393311112 (0-393-31111-2)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado about Nothing: The Making of the Movie'Book summary:Movie, Making, Kenneth Branaugh, Shakespeare, Much ado about nothing [via]
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On Beautyby Zadie SmithISBN 0143037749 (0-14-303774-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Beauty'Book summary:Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction and from the celebrated author of White Teeth comes another bestselling masterwork Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle , this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars-on both sides of the Atlantic-serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent. Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, Time , and Publishers Weekly A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post , and Publishers Weekly bestseller A Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Christian Science Monitor , and Minneapolis Star Tribune Best Book of the Year Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize BACKCOVER: Praise for On Beauty : "A thoroughly original tale . . . wonderfully engaging, wonderfully observed . . . That rare thing: a novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining, as provocative as it is humane." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A thing of beauty. Oh happy day when a writer as gifted as Zadie Smith fulfills her early promise with a novel as accomplished, substantive and penetrating as On Beauty ." - Los Angeles Times "Smith's specialty is her ability to render the new world, in its vibrant multiculturalism, with a kind of dancing, daring joy. . . . Her plots and people sing with life. . . . One of the best of the year, a splendid treat. [via]
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane Austen, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192547011 (0-19-254701-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen'Book summary:"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma.
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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Power and the Gloryby Graham GreeneISBN 0142437301 (0-14-243730-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power and the Glory'Book summary:How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest. On the run, and in a blur of alcohol and fear, this outlaw meets a dentist, a banana farmer, and a village woman he knew six years earlier. For a while, he is accompanied by a toothless man--whom he refers to as his Judas and does his best to ditch. Always, an adamant lieutenant is only a few hours behind, determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church.
On the verge of reaching a safer region, the whisky priest is repeatedly held back by his vocation, even though he no longer feels fit to perform his rites: "When he was gone it would be as if God in all this space between the sea and the mountains ceased to exist. Wasn't it his duty to stay, even if they despised him, even if they were murdered for his sake? even if they were corrupted by his example?"
As his sins and dangers increase, the broken priest comes to confront the nature of piety and love. Still, when he is granted a reprieve, he feels himself sliding into the old arrogance, slipping it on like the black gloves he used to wear. Greene has drawn this man--and all he encounters--vividly and viscerally. He may have said The Power and the Glory was "written to a thesis," but this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries--and troubling ideals--than certainties. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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Secret Agentby Joseph Conrad, John LyonISBN 0192801694 (0-19-280169-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Agent'Book summary:The Secret Agent is an astonishing book," said Ford Madox Ford. "It is one of the best--and certainly the most significant--
detective stories ever written."
Set in late-nineteenth-century London, Joseph Conrad's intense political thriller anticipates the espionage novels of such writers as Graham Greene and John le Carré. It concerns a double agent who is charged with provoking the radical group he has infiltrated into an act of sabotage that will bring about its own destruction. In a marvelously drawn underworld of political and criminal intrigue, Conrad brilliantly explores the confused motives that lie at the heart of terrorism. Extraor-dinarily modern in the ironic view it takes of human affairs, this masterly tale of conspiracy builds to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis called "one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction."
"The Secret Agent is an altogether thrilling 'crime story' . . . a
political novel of a foreign embassy intrigue and its tragic human out-come," said Thomas Mann. And F. R. Leavis deemed it "one of Conrad's supreme masterpieces . . . one of the unquestioned classics of the first order that he added to the English novel." [via]More editions of Secret Agent:
- Secret Agent: ISBN 0375752528 (0-375-75252-8)
Softcover, Modern Library - Secret Agent: ISBN 0140432280 (0-14-043228-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Secret Agent: ISBN 0192816276 (0-19-281627-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Secret Agent: ISBN 0192834770 (0-19-283477-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Secret Agent: ISBN 0192801694 (0-19-280169-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- Secret Agent: ISBN 0375752528 (0-375-75252-8)
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, Stephen BoothISBN 0300024959 (0-300-02495-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets'Book summary:The bard's sonnets read by a leading actor of stage and screen Simon Callow.
Savor the most celebrated love poems in the English language. Written almost 400 years ago, the sonnets of William Shakespeare are passionate and exalted, rich in imagery and alliteration, and full of mystery and intrigue.
This selection presents all 154 sonnets composed from 1593-1601. In words and rhyme, he reveals his infatuation with the "Dark Lady," his relationship with a rival poet, and his private thoughts on love, death, beauty, and truth: timeless themes that span the centuries to touch our hearts today. [via]
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Katherine Duncan-JonesISBN 017443474X (0-17-443474-X)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets'Book summary:This Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates, this text was authorized by Shakespeare himself, and may be based on an authorial manuscript. The whole carefully-ordered sequence, including "A Lover's Complaint", is read in the context of Shakespeare's career and of the poems' historical setting within early Jacobean culture. A clear-eyed analysis of homoerotic elements in the sonnets puts an end to the century of homophobic readings initiated by Sir Sidney Lee in 1897. Succinct and accessible notes guide the reader through complex vocabulary and syntax, as well as the poems' literary and cultural background. For ease of reference, these are printed on the same page-opening as the text. [via]
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Stephen BoothISBN 0300085060 (0-300-08506-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets'Book summary:This prize-winning work provides a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, as well as commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial critical essays. Stephen Booth's notes help a modern reader toward the kind of understanding that Renaissance readers brought to the works. [via]
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Shakespeare's Sonnets - the Problems Solved: A Modern Edition with Prose Versions, Introduction and Notesby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0333147332 (0-333-14733-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaintby Stanley WellsISBN 0192820265 (0-19-282026-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint'Book summary:The most famous collection of love poems in the English language, Shakespeare's Sonnets have spoken to generations of readers who have turned to them again and again when searching for supreme examples of expressions of love. Covering the whole range of emotions from joy to anguish, these sonnets reveal the beauty, power, inventiveness, and originality of Shakespeare's verse.
The collection depicts in beautiful, poignant, and intriguing language the poet's celebration of his passionate friendship with a young man, his grief over a friend's seduction by his own mistress, his chagrin at the friend's relationship with a rival poet, and, in the final group of poems, his own humiliating infatuation with "a woman colored ill"--the Dark Lady who has tempted his "better angel" from him.
Lyrically beautiful and psychologically fascinating, the sonnets both appeal as individual poems, and as an intricately related sequence. This volume presents all the sonnets in a freshly edited text, along with Shakespeare's wry, touching portrait of a forsaken maiden in A Lover's Complaint, a poem first printed with the sonnets in 1609. It also includes little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. [via]More editions of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint:
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaintby William Shakespeare, Stanley WellsISBN 0198129467 (0-19-812946-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint'Book summary:Shakespeare's sonnets are the most famous collection of love poems in the English language. Here Shakespeare celebrated his passionate friendship with a young man, deplored his friend's seduction by Shakespeare's own mistress, expressed his chagrin at the friend's relationship with a rival poet, and in the final group of poems explored his own humiliated infatuation with "a woman colored ill"--the Dark Lady who has tempted his "better angel" from him.
Lyrically beautiful and psychologically fascinating, the sonnets exert a double appeal: as individual poems, and as a complexly interrelated sequence. All 154 poems are presented here in a freshly edited text, along with Shakespeare's wry, touching portrait of a forsaken maiden in A Lover's Complaint, a poem first printed with the sonnets in 1609. This volume also includes little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets.
The text of this edition is that prepared for the forthcoming Complete Oxford Shakespeare.
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Stanley Wells is General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and Senior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. [via]More editions of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint:
The Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, Douglas Bush, Alfred HarbageISBN 0140714235 (0-14-071423-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sonnets'Book summary:"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)[via]
The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.
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* Authoritative, reliable texts
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* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of textsMore editions of The Sonnets:
- The Sonnets: ISBN 0140714537 (0-14-071453-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Sonnets: ISBN 0312744994 (0-312-74499-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - The Sonnets: ISBN 0174434731 (0-17-443473-1)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - The Sonnets: ISBN 0140714235 (0-14-071423-5)
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- The Sonnets: ISBN 0140714537 (0-14-071453-7)
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The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaintby William Shakespeare, John KerriganISBN 0140707328 (0-14-070732-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint'Book summary:When a volume of poetry entitled Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had seen several performances. Some of the sonnets, speaking of the begetting of children, mortality and memory, art, desire and jealousy, are addressed to a beloved youth; others are addressed to a treacherous mistress, a "dark lady." Appended to the sonnets is "A Lover's Complaint, " a beautiful poem in rhyme-royal in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.
While Shakespeare's biographers continue their investigations, readers may find the "secret" of the sonnets in the poetry itself. In this spirit John Kerrigan provides an illuminating Introduction to the volume as a whole, together with 258 pages of commentaries on the poems, a textual history, and suggestions for further reading. [via]
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Herbert Rosengarten, Anne Bronte, Stevie DaviesISBN 0140434747 (0-14-043474-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'Book summary:Published in June 1848, less than a year before her death, Anne Brontë's second (and last) novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, is the somber account of the breakdown of a marriage in the face of alcoholism and infidelity. The novel enjoyed a modest success that led its publisher, the unscrupulous T.C. Newby, to issue a "Second Edition" less than two months later. The present edition, which completes the Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontës, offers a text based on the collation of the first edition with the second. The introduction details the work's composition and early printing history, including its first publication in America; and the text is fully annotated. Appendices record the substantive variants in the first English and American editions, and discuss the author's belief in the doctrine of universal salvation. [via]
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Anne Bronte, Herbert Rosengarten, Margaret SmithISBN 0192834622 (0-19-283462-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'Book summary:First published in 1848, a novel in which a woman flees from a disastrous marriage with her child to a desolate moorland mansion. It portrays one woman's struggle for independence at a time when law and society defined a married woman as her husband's property. [via]
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Twelfth Nightby William Shakespeare, Jonathan CreweISBN 0140714898 (0-14-071489-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will'Book summary:Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. It also contains dramatic criticism from the past and present, and a special introduction to the play by the editor, Herschel Baker, Harvard University. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Twelfth Night: ISBN 0198320191 (0-19-832019-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Twelfth Night: ISBN 039392579X (0-393-92579-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Twelveth Night: ISBN 0140707115 (0-14-070711-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr - Twelfth Night: ISBN 0140714111 (0-14-071411-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will: ISBN 0192831402 (0-19-283140-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - 12th Night: ISBN 0198320183 (0-19-832018-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Twelfth Night: ISBN 0382096959 (0-382-09695-9)
Softcover, Silver Burdett Pr - Twelfth Night: ISBN 0333038290 (0-333-03829-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will: ISBN 0140714898 (0-14-071489-8)
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Twelfth Nightby Roma GillISBN 0198319746 (0-19-831974-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's finest comedies, Twelfth Night was written at the same time as Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida, and whilst it shares their fascination with sex, death and confused identities, its exuberant comedy and linguistic inventiveness rises above the introspection of these plays. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are separated in a storm, which washes them both up at different points on the shores of Illyria. Believing each other to be dead, both attempt to survive by using their wits. Viola cross-dresses and enters the service of the lovesick Orsino, in love with Olivia, an heiress in mourning for the loss of her brother. Orsino's saucy young page Cesario (Viola) soon falls in love with "his" master, who tells "him", "all is semblative a woman's part". Unfortunately, whilst Viola falls in love with Orsino, Olivia falls in love with her alter ego, Cesario, whilst also being pursued at the same time by her pompous servant Malvolio. Olivia's house is also turned upside down by the antics of her drunken uncle, Sir Toby Belch, and the whole crazy situation reaches boiling point when Sebastian reappears.
Despite the madcap plot, Twelfth Night remains one of Shakespeare's most complex and inventive comedies, fascinated with questions of cross-dressing, gender confusion, language and inversion, as well as retaining a darker edge to some of its laughter. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Twelfth Night, Or, What You Willby Bruce R. SmithISBN 0312202199 (0-312-20219-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will'Book summary:This edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night reprints the Bevington edition of the play along with 7 sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, maps, woodcuts, descriptions of the popular customs associated with Twelfth Night, anti-theatrical tracts, royal proclamations concerning dress, laws prohibiting certain sexual acts, poems fantasizing those very acts, early modern texts on household economies, passages from Puritan conduct books, excerpts from Ovid and Montaigne, a representative range of early modern opinions about boy actors, and theories of laughter. Besides contextualizing the audience for Shakespeare's play and shedding light on some of his sources, the documents explore the range of sexual desires articulated in the play, competing ideas about music in early modern culture, religious controversy, the regulation of early modern society according to hierarchies, and the controversial place of laughter in early modern culture.Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an engaging general introduction, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.[via]More editions of Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will:
Ulyssesby James Joyce, Lawrence RaineyISBN 0300108184 (0-300-10818-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Ulysses: ISBN 033035230X (0-330-35230-X)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns - Ulysses: ISBN 0330352296 (0-330-35229-6)
Hardcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns - Ulysses: ISBN 0370307372 (0-370-30737-2)
Hardcover, Bodley Head - Ulysses: ISBN 0375507949 (0-375-50794-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Ulysses: ISBN 0394450051 (0-394-45005-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Ulysses: ISBN 039455373X (0-394-55373-X)
Hardcover, Random House - Ulysses: ISBN 0394604865 (0-394-60486-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Ulysses: ISBN 0300108184 (0-300-10818-4)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Andy Sawyer, Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0141441038 (0-14-144103-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War Of The Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Works of Geoffrey Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, F. N. RobinsonISBN 0192811576 (0-19-281157-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Works of Geoffrey Chaucer'Book summary:This complete critical edition of Chaucer's poetry and prose has, as the Cambridge Review prophesied when it first appeared, become the standard edition of Chaucer for all who are seriously interested in his writings. [via]
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The Works of Jane Austenby Jane AustinISBN 0192547062 (0-19-254706-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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