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Adventures of Joseph Andrewsby Henry FieldingISBN 0192553232 (0-19-255323-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Joseph Andrews'Book summary:"The Adventures of Joseph Andrews" was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and one of the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742, Fielding defined it as a 'comic romance.' [via]
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The Autograph Man: A Novelby Zadie SmithISBN 037570387X (0-375-70387-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autograph Man: A Novel'Book summary:When Alex-Li Tandem is 12 years old, his father takes him and his friends Adam and Rubinfine to a wrestling match at the Albert Hall in London. By the end of the evening, the pivotal events of Alex-Li's youth have occurred: he has met Joseph Klein, a boy whose fascination with autographs proves infectious; his friendships with Adam and Rubinfine are cemented; and his father has dropped dead. This is enough action for an entire book, and in fact things slow down dramatically after page 35 of Zadie Smith's sophomore novel The Autograph Man. When we meet Alex again, he is a grown man, an autograph dealer and devoted slacker, suffering the physical and spiritual after-effects of a three-day romance with a drug called "Superstar." While under its malign influence, Alex has managed to wreck his sports car, alienate his girlfriend Esther, and--possibly--forge the rare autograph of his idol, the 1950s movie star Kitty Alexander. Will his friends save him from the embarrassment of trying to sell this suspect autograph? Will they pull him together in time to perform Kaddish on the 15th anniversary of his father's death? Although not as enthralling or politically resonant as White Teeth, Smith's hallowed debut, The Autograph Man amply demonstrates her ability to juggle several main characters, several themes, and a host of plots and subplots, with the occasional purely comic episode thrown up in the air beside them like a chainsaw or a cheesecake. Readers will want to step away to a safe distance during the chaotic final scenes. --Regina Marler [via]
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Birthday Lettersby Ted HughesISBN 0374525811 (0-374-52581-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birthday Letters'Book summary:Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters--88 tantalizing responses to Sylvia Plath and the furies she left behind--emerge from an echo chamber of art and memory, rage and representation. In the decades following his wife's 1963 suicide, Hughes kept silent, a stance many have seen as guilty, few as dignified. While an industry grew out of Plath's life and art, and even her afterlife, he continued to compose his own dark, unconfessional verses, and edited her Collected Poems, Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963, and Journals. But Hughes's conservancy (and his sister Olwyn's power as Plath's executrix) laid him open to yet more blame. Biographers and critics found his cuts to her letters self-interested, and decried his destruction of the journals of her final years--undertaken, he insisted, for the sake of their children.
In Birthday Letters we now have Hughes's response to Plath's white-hot mythologizing. Lost happiness intensifies present pain, but so does old despair: "Your ghost," he acknowledges, "inseparable from my shadow." Ranging from accessible short-story-like verses to tightly wound, allusive lyrics, the poems push forward from initial encounters to key moments long after Plath's death. In "Visit," he writes, "I look up--as if to meet your voice / With all its urgent future / that has burst in on me. Then look back / At the book of the printed words. / You are ten years dead. It is only a story. / Your story. My story." These poems are filled with conditionals and might-have-beens, Hughes never letting us forget forces in motion before their seven-year marriage and final separation. When he first sees Plath, she is both scarred (from her earlier suicide attempt) and radiant: "Your eyes / Squeezed in your face, a crush of diamonds, / Incredibly bright, bright as a crush of tears..." But Fate and Plath's father, Otto, will not let them be. In the very next poem, "The Shot," her trajectory is already plotted. Though Hughes is her victim, her real target is her dead father--"the god with the smoking gun."
Of course, "The Shot" and the accusatory "The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother" are an incitement to those who side (as if there is a side!) with Plath. Newsweek has already chalked up the reaction of poet and feminist Robin Morgan to the book: "My teeth began to grind uncontrollably." But Hughes makes it clear that his poems are written for his dead wife and living children, not her acolytes' bloodsport. He has also, of course, written them for himself and the reader. Pieces such as "Epiphany," "The 59th Bear," and "Life After Death" are masterful mixes of memory and image. In "Epiphany," for instance, the young Hughes, walking in London, suddenly spots a man carrying a fox inside his jacket. Offered the cub for a pound, he hesitates, knowing he and Plath couldn't handle the animal--not with a new baby, not in the city. But in an instant, his potent vision extends beyond the animal, perhaps to his and Plath's children:
Already past the kittenish
Other poems are more influenced by Plath's "terrible, hypersensitive fingers," including "The Bee God" and "Dreamers," which is apparently a record of Plath's one encounter with Hughes's mistress: "She fascinated you. Her eyes caressed you, / Melted a weeping glitter at you. / Her German the dark undercurrent / In her Kensington jeweller's elocution / Was your ancestral Black Forest whisper--" This exotic woman, "slightly filthy with erotic mystery," seems a close relation to Plath's own Lady Lazarus, and the poem would be equally powerful without any biographical information. This is the one paradoxical pity of this superb collection. These poems require no prior knowledge--but for better or worse, we possess it. [via]
But the eyes still small,
Round, orphaned-looking, woebegone
As if with weeping. Bereft
Of the blue milk, the toys of feather and fur,
The den life's happy dark. And the huge whisper
Of the constellations
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Black Mischiefby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316917338 (0-316-91733-8)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Mischief'Book summary:Treachery, cannibalism and civil war are among the evils at work in Azania. Against them are the forces of progress and the New Age, represented by the emperor Seth and his Minister of Modernization, Basil Seal. But it is a losing battle, and things are not much better back in Mayfair. [via]
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Collected Poems: Yeatsby W. B. YeatsISBN 0330316389 (0-330-31638-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Common Readerby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156198061 (0-15-619806-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Common Reader'Book summary:Woolfs first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as Modern Fiction and The Modern Essay. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.[via]More editions of The Common Reader:
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writingsby Thomas De Quincey, Grevel LindopISBN 0192836544 (0-19-283654-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings'Book summary:This unique selection includes a number of texts not available elsewhere. [via]
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Cranfordby Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Porges WatsonISBN 0192832093 (0-19-283209-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cranford'Book summary:Life in the small English town of Cranford seems very quiet and peaceful. The ladies of Cranford lead tidy, regular lives. They make their visits between the hours of twelve and three, give little evening parties, and worry about their maid-servants. But life is not always smooth - there are little arguments and jealousies, sudden deaths and unexpected marriages ...Mrs Gaskell's timeless picture of small-town life in the first half of the nineteenth century has delighted readers for nearly 150 years. [via]
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- Cranford: ISBN 0192815318 (0-19-281531-8)
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Cranford: ISBN 0192510096 (0-19-251009-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Cranford: ISBN 0192553518 (0-19-255351-8)
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Decline and Fallby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926078 (0-316-92607-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decline and Fall'Book summary:Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman. [via]
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The Devil's Dreamby Lee SmithISBN 0345382919 (0-345-38291-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Dream'Book summary:"She writes lyric, luminous prose; her craft is so strong it becomes transparent, and, like the best of storytellers, she knows how to get out of the way so that the story can tell itself."
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Moses Bailey, a preacher's son, forbade his fiddle-loving wife Kate Malone to play. But while he was gone on his travels, looking for God, Kate couldn't help herself, and began fiddling for her three children. For the love of music, Kate is willing to defy anyone who tries to stop her. From generation to generation, the gift and love of music cannot be stopped, and no Malone is immune from its spell. [via]More editions of The Devil's Dream:
Edmund Spenser, the Faerie Queeneby Edmund SpenserISBN 0300027060 (0-300-02706-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Egoistby George Meredith, Margaret HarrisISBN 0192818171 (0-19-281817-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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England, Englandby Julian BarnesISBN 0375705503 (0-375-70550-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'England, England'Book summary:Imagine being able to visit England--all of England--in a single weekend. Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall, Harrods, Manchester United Football Club, the Tower of London, and even the Royal Family all within easy distance of the each other, accessible, and, best of all, each one living up to an idealized version of itself. This fantasy Britain is the very real (and some would say very cynical) vision of Sir Jack Pitman, a monumentally egomaniacal mogul with a more than passing resemblance to modern-day buccaneers Sir Rupert Murdoch or Robert Maxwell: "'We are not talking theme park,' he began. 'We are not talking heritage centre. We are not talking Disneyland, World's Fair, Festival of Britain, Legoland or Parc Asterix.'" No indeed; Sir Jack proposes nothing less than to offer "the thing itself," a re-creation of everything that adds up to England in the hearts and minds of tourists looking for an "authentic" experience. But where to locate such an enterprise? As Sir Jack points out,
England, as the mighty William and many others have observed, is an island. Therefore, if we are serious, if we are seeking to offer the thing itself, we in turn must go in search of a precious whatsit set in a silver doodah.
Soon the perfect whatsit is found: the Isle of Wight; and a small army of Sir Jack's forces are sent to lay siege to it. Swept up in the mayhem are Martha Cochrane, a thirtysomething consultant teetering on the verge of embittered middle age, and Paul Harrison, a younger man looking for an anchor in the world. The two first find each other, then trip over a skeleton in Sir Jack's closet that might prove useful to their careers but disastrous to their relationship. In the course of constructing this mad package-tour dystopia, Julian Barnes has a terrific time skewering postmodernism, the British, the press, the government, celebrity, and big business. At the same time his very funny novel offers a provocative meditation on the nature of identity, both individual and national, as the lines between the replica and the thing itself begin to blur. Readers of Barnes have learned to expect the unexpected, and once again he more than lives up to the promise in England, England. But then, that was only to be expected. --Alix Wilber [via] -
Evelinaby Fanny Burney, Kristina StraubISBN 0312097298 (0-312-09729-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina'Book summary:Evelina, the first of Burney's novels, was published anonymously and brought her immediate fame. It tells the story of a young girl, fresh from the provinces, whose initiation into the ways of the world is frequently painful, though it leads to self-discovery, moral growth, and, finally, happiness. Hilarious comedy and moral gravity make the novel a fund of entertainment and wisdom. Out of the graceful shifts from the idyllic to the near-tragic and realistic, Evelina emerges as a fully realized character. And out of its treatment of contrasts - the peace of the countryside and the cultured and social excitement of London and Bristol, the crowd of life-like vulgarians and the elegant gentry - the novel reveals superbly the life and temper of eighteenth-century England, as seen through the curious eyes of its young heroine. Edward A. Bloom has edited the text from the rare first edition of 1778. [via]
Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Edward A. Bloom, Frances Burney, Vivien JonesISBN 0192840312 (0-19-284031-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Evelina : Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Fanny Burney, Elizabeth Kowaleski WallaceISBN 0375758054 (0-375-75805-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina : Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World'Book summary:A work by turns hilarious and grim, Evelina tells the story of a young womans education in the ways of the world, vividly rendering life in eighteenth-century England. Raised by a pastor after her mother died and her father abandoned her, Evelina leaves the seclusion of the country for her first season out, encounters all manner of peoplefrom prospective husbands to rakes to vulgar relativesand endures all manner of trials before she achieves her final triumph.
Before Evelina, W. D. Howells proclaimed, the heart of girlhood had never been so fully opened in literature. Samuel Johnson called Burney a real wonder and Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote, We owe to [Burney], not only Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla, but also Mansfield Park and The Absentee. [via]More editions of Evelina : Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World:
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Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Frances Burney, Edward A. BloomISBN 0192815962 (0-19-281596-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World'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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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 037582345X (0-375-82345-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Compass'Book summary:Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal daemon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Golden Compass: ISBN 0375838309 (0-375-83830-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - Golden Compass: ISBN 0375938303 (0-375-93830-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Golden Compass: ISBN 0345413350 (0-345-41335-0)
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- Golden Compass: ISBN 0375838309 (0-375-83830-9)
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The Heat of the Dayby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0224600559 (0-224-60055-9)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heat of the Day'Book summary:A novel which draws on a recollection of wartime London to depict the effect of war on the manners, morals and emotions of those not directly engaged in the fighting. By the author of TO THE NORTH, THE HOTEL and A WORLD OF LOVE. [via]
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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adamsby Henry Fielding, Douglas Brooks-Davies, Tom KeymerISBN 019283343X (0-19-283343-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A House for Mr. Biswasby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0375707166 (0-375-70716-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A House for Mr. Biswas'Book summary:The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipauls brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduousand endlessstruggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a mans quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas. [via]More editions of A House for Mr. Biswas:
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I Capture the Castleby Dodie SmithISBN 0312201656 (0-312-20165-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Capture the Castle'Book summary:Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain wants to become a writer. Trouble is, she's the daughter of a once-famous author with a severe case of writer's block. Her family--beautiful sister Rose, brooding father James, ethereal stepmother Topaz--is barely scraping by in a crumbling English castle they leased when times were good. Now there's very little furniture, hardly any food, and just a few pages of notebook paper left to write on. Bravely making the best of things, Cassandra gets hold of a journal and begins her literary apprenticeship by refusing to face the facts. She writes, "I have just remarked to Rose that our situation is really rather romantic, two girls in this strange and lonely house. She replied that she saw nothing romantic about being shut up in a crumbling ruin surrounded by a sea of mud."
Rose longs for suitors and new tea dresses while Cassandra scorns romance: "I know all about the facts of life. And I don't think much of them." But romantic isolation comes to an end both for the family and for Cassandra's heart when the wealthy, adventurous Cotton family takes over the nearby estate. Cassandra is a witty, pensive, observant heroine, just the right voice for chronicling the perilous cusp of adulthood. Some people have compared I Capture the Castle to the novels of Jane Austen, and it's just as well-plotted and witty. But the Mortmains are more bohemian--as much like the Addams Family as like any of Austen's characters. Dodie Smith, author of 101 Dalmations, wrote this novel in 1948. And though the story is set in the 1930s, it still feels fresh, and well deserves its reputation as a modern classic. --Maria Dolan [via]
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Softcover, St. Martin's Press - I Capture the Castle: ISBN 0312974175 (0-312-97417-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - I Capture the Castle: ISBN 0312181108 (0-312-18110-8)
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Playsby Oscar Wilde, Peter RabyISBN 0192834444 (0-19-283444-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays'Book summary:Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest. [via]
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The Invisible Manby H. G. Wells, David J. LakeISBN 019283195X (0-19-283195-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:Griffin, the Promethean hero of The Invisible Man (1897), is one of Wells's most striking and tragic conceptions--a scientist whose apparently omnipotent power of passing unseen among his fellow humans rebounds on him as a terrible curse. From its opening in a small village inn, the narrative moves inexorably towards a climax of terror as the whole of England unites to hunt down and destroy the invisible alien. The Introduction examines not only the many imitations, but also Wells's own skillful blending of contemporary scientific ideas and chilling Gothic effects. [via]
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Joseph Andrews; Introduction and Notes by James Gordonby Henry FieldingISBN 0330235338 (0-330-23533-8)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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Joseph Andrews and Shamelaby Henry FieldingISBN 0192815504 (0-19-281550-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Keatsby John Keats, H.W. GarrodISBN 0192810677 (0-19-281067-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, Peter RabyISBN 0192822462 (0-19-282246-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest. [via]
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Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, Ralph SteadmanISBN 0261633325 (0-261-63332-5)
Hardcover, MacGibbon & Kee
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The Madwoman in the Atticby Sandra GilbertISBN 0300025963 (0-300-02596-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Madwoman in the Attic'Book summary:This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual". [via]
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationby Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan GubarISBN 0300084587 (0-300-08458-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hellby William BlakeISBN 0192811673 (0-19-281167-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Melmoth the Wandererby Charles Robert MaturinISBN 0192835920 (0-19-283592-0)
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Melmoth the Wandererby Douglas Grant, Charles Robert MaturinISBN 0192821997 (0-19-282199-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Melmoth the Wanderer'Book summary:Written in 1820 by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, this work brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. Its tormented villain, a Faustian transgressor desperately seeking a victim to release him from his fatal bargain with the devil, was regarded by Balzac as one of the great outcasts of modern literature. Maturin's bizarre narrative structure of interlinked tales allows the action of the novel to range from rural Ireland to an idyllic Indian island. The text is that of the first edition of 1820, and includes a new introduction and explanatory notes. [via]
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The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.by William Makepeace Thackeray, Andrew SandersISBN 0192836285 (0-19-283628-5)
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph Conrad, Keith CarabineISBN 0192816241 (0-19-281624-1)
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Old Possums Book of Practical Catsby T. S. Eliot, Edward GoreyISBN 015668568X (0-15-668568-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Possums Book of Practical Cats'Book summary:An engaging collection of humorous poems. These verses, originally composed to amuse Eliots intimate friends, have proven irresistible to cat lovers, lovers of nonsense, and admirers of Eliot throughout the English-speaking world. Enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most...verses (Time). Drawings by Nicolas Bentley.[via]More editions of Old Possums Book of Practical Cats:
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfoldby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926221 (0-316-92622-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverelby George Meredith, John HalperinISBN 0192816373 (0-19-281637-3)
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Oscar Wildeby Richard EllmannISBN 0241123925 (0-241-12392-5)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar Wilde'Book summary:Richard Ellmann capped an illustrious career in biography (his James Joyce is considered one of the masterpieces of the 20th century) with this life of Oscar Wilde, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize on its original publication in 1988. Ellmann's account of Wilde's extravagantly operatic life as poet, playwright, aesthete, and martyr to sexual morality is notable not only for the full portrait it gives of Wilde, but also for Ellmann's assessment of his subject's literary greatness; both aims are served by a plethora of quotations from Wilde's own work and correspondence. Wilde straddled the line between the Victorian age and the modern world as he did everything in life ... with impeccable style. [via]
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The Oxford Companion to English Literatureby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0198614535 (0-19-861453-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to English Literature'Book summary:Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literaure, published in 1932, was the book that began Oxford's celebrated Companion series. In its various editions in the half-century since then, it has enjoyed an enormously faithful following and unflagging sales (over 400,000 to date). Now, for the Fifth Edition, the eminent novelist and biographer Margaret Drabble has put together the most substantial and significant revision in the book's distinguished history.
The Classic Guide to English Literary Culture
Here, thoroughly updated, is the standard reference work on English literature, both clasic and contemporary. The virtues established by Harvey are intact: the useful plot summaries, the separate entries on important fictional characters, the countless biographical articles on authors and other important figures in the world of letters, the lightness of touch that makes the book a pleasure to read. As ever, this is an essential book for libraries large and small, for students, for teachers, for everyone interested in English literature.
Revisions Deepen and Widen Book's Appeal
Drabble's revisions not only bring the volume up to date; they both deepen and widen its appeal. Topics once regarded as non-literary--detective stories, science fiction, children's literature, comic strips, for example--are now included, as are numerous foreign language authers who have become well-known in translation. There are also entries on composers who have adapted English texts to musical forms and articles on visual artists whose work has been touched by the English literary consciousness. The book covers all the important movements and critical theories (including the latest developments in Freudian and Marxist criticism and Saussurean linguistics and its successors). What is more, the entries on classic works--Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queen, and many others--now incorporate the findings of the latest scholarship. In still another innovation, the entries now offer the reader a guide to turther study and research by referring to the relevant biographies, memoirs, critical studies, and standard scholarly editions of many of the important works. Also, the book's appendices on censorship, copyright, and the calendar have been updated, and an exhaustive cross-referencing system in the manner of the more recent Companiions has been adopted.
About the Editor:
Margaret Drabble's many books include The Middle Ground, The Realms of Gold, The Ice Age, Thank You All Very Much, and A Writer's Britain.
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Among the many notable features distinguishing The Oxford Companion to English Literature are:
· Alphabetically arranged entries
· Entries on important individual works
· Author entries that include concise biographical information and cite their major works
· Many entries on historians, critics, philosophers, and booksellers
· Coverage of many American authors and of foreign language authors famous in translation
· Entries on non-literary figures famous in a literary context, from Penelope Rich to Ottoline Morrell
· Articles on literary societies, clubs, and coffee houses
· Definitions of literary and artistic movements, from Existentialism to the New Criticism, from Neo-classicism to Structuralism
· Entries on prizes, periodicals, newspapers, and literary agents
· Updated appendices on censorship, copyright, and the calendar
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The Oxford Companion to the English Languageby Tom McArthurISBN 019214183X (0-19-214183-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to the English Language'Book summary:Language is the life blood of a culture, and to be interested in culture is in some sense to be interested in language, in the shapes and sounds of words, in the history of reading, writing, and speech, in the endless variety of dialects and slangs, in the incessant creativity of the human mind as it reaches out to others. It is surprising then that until now there has been no major one-volume reference devoted to the most widely dispersed and influential language of our time: the English language.
A language-lover's dream, The Oxford Companion to the English Language is a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language as well as language in general. The range of topics is remarkable, offering a goldmine of information on writing and speech (including entries on grammar, literary terms, linguistics, rhetoric, and style) as well as on such wider issues as sexist language, bilingual education, child language acquisition, and the history of English. There are biographies of Shakespeare, Noah Webster, Noam Chomsky, James Joyce, and many others who have influenced the shape or study of the language; extended articles on everything from psycholinguistics to sign language to tragedy; coverage of every nation in which a significant part of the population speaks English as well as virtually every regional dialect and pidgin (from Gullah and Scouse to Cockney and Tok Pisin). In addition, the Companion provides bibliographies for the larger entries, generous cross-referencing, etymologies for headwords, a chronology of English from Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries or bibliographies. And like all Oxford Companions, this volume is packed with delightful surprises. We learn, for instance, that the first Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard later became President (John Quincy Adams); that "slogan" originally meant "war cry"; that the keyboard arrangement QWERTY became popular not because it was efficient but the opposite (it slows down the fingers and keeps them from jamming the keys); that "mbenzi" is Swahili for "rich person" (i.e., one who owns a Mercedes Benz); and that in Scotland, "to dree yir ain weird" means "to follow your own star."
From Scrabble to Websters to TESOL to Gibraltar, the thirty-five hundred entries here offer more information on a wider variety of topics than any other reference on the English language. Featuring the work of nearly a hundred scholars from around the world, this unique volume is the ideal shelf-mate to The Oxford Companion to English Literature. It will captivate everyone who loves language. [via]More editions of The Oxford Companion to the English Language:
Peter Duckby Arthur RansomeISBN 0224606336 (0-224-60633-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Textby William Langland, A.V.C. SchmidtISBN 0192836463 (0-19-283646-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Text'Book summary:This is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland's own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, its deeply imaginative religious vision, and its passionate concern to see justice and truth prevail in our world. [via]
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Poetical Works of John Keatsby John KeatsISBN 0198118155 (0-19-811815-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetical Works of John Keats'Book summary:Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored." Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.
There are now 65,000 titles available (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.
Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website. [via]
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Restaurant at the End of the Universeby Douglas AdamsISBN 0345391810 (0-345-39181-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restaurant at the End of the Universe'Book summary:Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.
Among Arthurs motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and expert contributer to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee whos gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food speaks for itself (literally).
Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that The Hitchhikers Guide deleted the term Future Perfect from its pages, since it was discovered not to be! [via]More editions of Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
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Robert Burton's the Anatomy of Melancholy: Commentary Up to Part. 1, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subs. 15, 'Misery of Schollers'by Martin Dodsworth, J. B. Bamborough, Robert BurtonISBN 0198123329 (0-19-812332-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Ruthby Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan ShelstonISBN 0192834762 (0-19-283476-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruth'Book summary:One of the less familiar of Mrs. Gaskell's novels, Ruth was in its own time a cause celebre which not only contributed substantially to its author's growing reputation but also won the approval of a number of her distinguished contemporaries. The text used for this edition is based upon that of the first edition published in 1853. [via]
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The Satanic Verses : A Novelby Salman RushdieISBN 0312270828 (0-312-27082-8)
Softcover, Picador
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Scenes of Clerical Lifeby George Eliot, Thomas A. NobleISBN 019283780X (0-19-283780-X)
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0312803745 (0-312-80374-5)
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0194227499 (0-19-422749-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Till We Have Facesby C. S. LewisISBN 0156904365 (0-15-690436-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjectsby Mary Wollstonecraft, Katha PollittISBN 0375757228 (0-375-75722-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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This classic work of early feminism remains as relevant and passionate today as it was for Wollstonecraft's contemporaries. This edition includes new explanatory notes.
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Vision of William Concerning Piersby LanglandISBN 0198113668 (0-19-811366-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vision of William Concerning Piers'Book summary:The title Piers Plowman or, as I prefer to write it, Piers CP lowman, is one which has been frequently misconstrued 1misunderstood by many authors, and concerning which many books have blundered inextricably. It is most important the reader should have a clear idea of what it means, and as is rather a difficult point to explain accurately, I must ask him give me his best attention; and I cannot refrain from adding hope that, if he succeeds in mastering the explanation of it, will refrain from using the phrase in future in the old slovenly The difficulty is three-fold, as originating in a three-fold error. three mistakes commonly made are these. First, Piers man is used as though it were the name of an author tndiy, two poems which are quite distinct, and the respective of which are familiarly expressed as The Vision of Piers )man and Pierce the Ploughmar CsC rede have been frequently founded together; and thirdly, the name of The Vision of Plowman is commonly given to what is really the Liber de :ro Plowman, of which the Vision forms only about a third I must ask the reader to bear in mind that, in what I am going to say, I make no reference whatever to the Crede, do not make any assertion about it till I again expressly tntion it by its full title. Unless this be remembered, our ice of arriving at the truth is much lessened. Just as Christian is not the author of Bunyans Pilgrim s Probut only the subject of it, so Piers the Plowman is not the lor of the Vision, but the subject of it; he is the personage T bif mistake occurs, for instance, in Chaucer s England, vol. ii. p. 230, Matthew Browne; who should have known better.
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The Waste Land and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 015694877X (0-15-694877-X)
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In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. EliotISBN 0375759344 (0-375-75934-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliots masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliots poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a potent new poetic language. As Kenneth Rexroth wrote, Eliot articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression. As commanding as his verse, Eliots criticism also transformed twentieth-century letters, and this Modern Library edition includes a selection of Eliots most important essays. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
The Way We Live Nowby Anthony Trollope, John SutherlandISBN 0192835610 (0-19-283561-0)
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