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The Adrian Mole Diariesby Sue TownsendISBN 0380730448 (0-380-73044-8)
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics and Several Cures of Itby Robert BurtonISBN 0394724224 (0-394-72422-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Any Human Heart : A Novelby William BoydISBN 0375414932 (0-375-41493-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Any Human Heart : A Novel'Book summary:Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointed autobiography, a massive tome chronicling "my personal rollercoaster"--or rather, "not so much a rollercoaster", but a yo-yo, "a jerking spinning toy in the hands of a maladroit child." From his early childhood in Montevideo, son of an English corned beef executive and his Uraguayan secretary, through his years at a Norfolk public school and Oxford, Mountstuart traces his haphazard development as a writer. Early and easy success is succeeded by a long half-century of mediocrity, disappointments and setbacks, both personal and professional, leading him to multiple failed marriages, internment, alcoholism and abject poverty.
Mountstuart's sorry tale is also the story of a British way of life in inexorable decline, as his journey takes in the Bloomsbury set, the General Strike, the Spanish Civil War, 1930s Americans in Paris, wartime espionage, New York avant garde art, even the Baader-Meinhof gang--all with a stellar supporting cast. The most sustained and best moment comes mid-book, as Mountstuart gets caught up in one of Britain's murkier wartime secrets, in the company of the here truly despicable Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Elsewhere author William Boyd occasionally misplaces his tongue too obviously in his cheek--the Wall Street Crash is trailed with truly crashing inelegance--but overall Any Human Heart is a witty, inventive and ultimately moving novel. Boyd succeeds in conjuring not only a compelling 20th century but also, in the hapless Logan Mountstuart, an anti-hero who achieves something approaching passive greatness. --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Armadilloby William BoydISBN 0375702164 (0-375-70216-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Art of Travelby Alain De BottonISBN 0375725342 (0-375-72534-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Travel'Book summary:Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so. In The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, explores what the point of travel might be and modestly suggets how we can learn to be a little happier in our travels. [via]
At the Back of the North Windby George MacDonald, Arthur HughesISBN 0375413359 (0-375-41335-9)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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Blast from the Pastby Ben EltonISBN 0385334524 (0-385-33452-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blast from the Past'Book summary:Ready to follow Nick Hornsby and Helen Fielding as the next big thing from Cool Britannia to hit America is Ben Elton. Already known to a wide public television audience as the funnyman behind Blackadder, The Young Ones, and The Thin Blue Line, Elton, author of Popcorn, lights up the literary sky with Blast from the Past.
Part noir thriller, part hilarious send-up of the politics of extremism, Blast from the Past is the new novel from English comedy phenomenon (stand-up, playwright, television writer, and author) Ben Elton--a name soon to be known in all circles once Joel Schumacher's film of his book Popcorn reaches the silver screen.
In the early 80s, when Polly was a seventeen-year-old ideological peace protestor and Jack was a U.S. Army captain stationed at England's Greenham Common, the two had a secret and very unlikely affair. No two people could have had more to argue about, save that they couldn't live without each other, yet one day Jack came to the conclusion that he loved soldiering more than Polly and sacrificed their love to be a career army man.
Now, sixteen years later, Polly is a lonely thirty-something social services employee and Jack is a four-star general who has returned to Britain to find her, his only true love. With only one night to resolve their differences, and a knife-wielding stalker lurking in the shadows, for everyone concerned this will be a night like no other. [via]
Blue at the Mizzenby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039332107X (0-393-32107-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue at the Mizzen'Book summary:Almost three decades after commencing his maritime epic with Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian is still at it. The 20th episode, Blue at the Mizzen, is another swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, complete with romantic escapades from smoggy London to Sierra Leone, diplomacy, espionage, the intricacies of warfare, and imperial brinksmanship. As always, these events are bound up in the ongoing friendship between two officers of the Royal Navy. Jack Aubrey is the naval captain, bold yet compassionate, innovative yet cautious, as fearless in war as he is bumbling in affairs of the heart and household. His boon companion Stephen Maturin is the ship's surgeon--and additionally a spy for the British government, a wealthy Catalonian aristocrat, a doting Irish father, and an avid naturalist.
That may sound like a lot to keep track of. However, it's not necessary to carry around a scorecard or ship's roster while reading Blue at the Mizzen. The ostensible issue is whether Jack will finally be promoted to Admiral of the Blue. But long before he hears any word from the Napoleonic era's equivalent of Personnel, he loses half his crew to desertion, his ship undergoes a disastrous collision, and the entire company comes close to perishing in the ice-choked seas off Cape Horn. Meanwhile, the widowed Maturin issues a surprising proposal of marriage to a beautiful, mud-bespattered fellow naturalist while trekking through an African mangrove swamp. (The two lovebirds happen to be searching for a rare variant of Caprimulgus longipennis, the long-tailed nightjar, which they hope to surprise in full mating plumage.)
Still, this is hardly a plot-driven novel. O'Brian takes time to get anywhere, and invariably enjoys the journey more than the arrival. So even as we get constant hints of the climax to come--Jack's spectacular naval action on behalf of the infant Republic of Chile--we don't mind hearing about the nuances of shipboard existence or the secret life of the white-faced tree duck. We're treated, for example, to this snippet about managed care, circa 1816:
Poll, Maggie and a horse-leech from the starboard watch have been administering enemas to the many, many cases of gross surfeit that have now replaced the frostbites, torsions, and debility of the recent past, the very recent past. Strong, fresh, seal-meat has not its equal for upsetting the seaman's metabolism: he is much better kept on biscuits, Essex cheese, and a very little well-seethed salt pork--kept on short commons.
And we're grateful! We can only hope that the elderly author will favor us with at least one more novel, so that his avid followers can avoid their own form of short commons. Life without Aubrey and Maturin would be a deprivation indeed. --Andrew Himes [via]
Canal Dreamsby Iain BanksISBN 0385418140 (0-385-41814-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Charioteer: A Novelby Mary RenaultISBN 0375714189 (0-375-71418-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Charioteer: A Novel'Book summary:After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one day, Ralph Lanyon, a mentor from Lauries schoolboy days, suddenly reappears in Lauries life, and draws him into a tight-knit social circle of world-weary gay men. Laurie is forced to choose between the sweet ideals of innocence and the distinct pleasures of experience.
Originally published in the United States in 1959, The Charioteer is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidals The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwoods Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature. [via]More editions of The Charioteer: A Novel:
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Charlotte Grayby Sebastian FaulksISBN 0375704558 (0-375-70455-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlotte Gray'Book summary:Faulks's first novel since the extraordinary success of Birdsong is written with the same passion, power and breadth of vision. Set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war.
It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the occupying Nazi forces encroach ever closer in a tense waiting game. Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south from Edinburgh. Working in London, she has a brief but intense love affair with an RAF pilot. When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him--but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life.
Faulks's novel is an examination of lost paradises, politics without belief, the limits of memory, the redemptive power of art and the existence of hope beyond reason. It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France and, more significantly, a revelation of the appalling price many Frenchmen paid to survive in unoccupied, so-called Free France. As the men, women and children of Charlotte's small town prepare to meet their terrible destiny, the truth of what took place in wartime France is finally exposed.
When private lives and public events fatally collide, the roots of the characters' lives are torn up and exposed. These harrowing scenes are presented with the passion and narrative force that readers will recall from Birdsong. Charlotte Gray will attract even more readers to Faulks's remarkable fiction. [via] 
The Closed Circleby Jonathan CoeISBN 0375713956 (0-375-71395-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowenby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0394752961 (0-394-75296-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Complicityby Iain BanksISBN 0385475403 (0-385-47540-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Dead Babiesby Martin AmisISBN 0394498259 (0-394-49825-9)
Hardcover, Knopf
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The Dress Lodgerby Sheri HolmanISBN 0345436911 (0-345-43691-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dress Lodger'Book summary:The Dress Lodger, a prostitute's passion for her vulnerable baby and the disgraced doctor who might save him, is engrossing historical fiction. As with all the best fictional history, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale of cholera-struck Sunderland in 1831 is based on fact. "Grave: A place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student": this epigraph casts the novel's thematic lodestone, steering the reader into a deathly plot pursued through streets emanating the sounds, insufferable smells, humour, adversities and disease of an early 19th-century industrial town.
Gustine--the dress lodger--is a potter's assistant by day, sex worker by night. Her overbearing pimp and landlord has her permanently shadowed by the indefatigable, mysterious old woman known only as Eye to guard his investment in the startling blue dress in which she rents herself, explaining that: "dress lodging works on this basic principle: a cheap whore is given a fancy dress as a higher class of prostitute, the higher the station of the clientèle; the higher the station, the higher the price." Gustine's dress beckons a high-class punter pursued by a dubious fallen past in the figure of Dr Henry Chiver, an ambitious young surgeon who has fled Edinburgh to escape the professional scandal attending on his implication in the convictions of infamous pioneer anatomists Burke and Hare for murder and graverobbing. The heart is the favourite organ, "the singular fascination of his life", for Henry Chiver, desperate to re-establish his tarnished reputation through medical discovery. For this, and his paying students restless for induction into the arts of the scalpel, Chiver requires dead bodies for dissection, to the horror of his naïve, philanthropic fiancée Audrey Place. But it is 1831: the Anatomy Act has yet to pass through parliament to enable medics to legally obtain the corpses so critical to their accurate practice, and a suspicious public is terrifying itself with stories of murderous "burkers".
Streetsmart Gustine, "a rented self", hostile pragmatist trapped in unrelenting poverty, is all heart for her nameless little son who wears--literally--his heart on the outside, a rare case of ectopia cordis; just the kind of anatomical anomaly whose study would make the name of the aspirant but stigmatised Henry. Amid the gathering momentum of cholera epidemic, the two strike up a fatal pact: life for Gustine's son in exchange for a fresh supply of dead bodies for Chiver's scientific dissection. With mordant Dickensian wit and Elizabeth Gaskell's deft touch for gutsy outcast women seizing control of their destiny, Holman carves out a richly imaginative adventure as incisive and gruesomely fascinating as a 19th-century operating theatre. --Rachel Holmes [via]
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Ecstasy a Novelby Irvine WelshISBN 0393315819 (0-393-31581-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Far Cry from Kensingtonby Muriel SparkISBN 0380707861 (0-380-70786-1)
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Filthby Irvine WelshISBN 0393318680 (0-393-31868-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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First Love, Last Ritesby Ian McEwanISBN 0394494229 (0-394-49422-9)
Hardcover, Random House
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Fredericaby Georgette HeyerISBN 0373834438 (0-373-83443-8)
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Good Morning, Midnightby Jean RhysISBN 0393303942 (0-393-30394-2)
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Good-Bye to All Thatby Robert GravesISBN 0385093306 (0-385-09330-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Bye to All That: An Autobiography'Book summary:The quintessential memoir of the generation of Englishmen who suffered in World War I is among the bitterest autobiographies ever written. Robert Graves's stripped-to-the-bone prose seethes with contempt for his class, his country, his military superiors, and the civilians who mindlessly cheered the carnage from the safety of home. His portrait of the stupidity and petty cruelties endemic in England's elite schools is almost as scathing as his depiction of trench warfare. Nothing could equal Graves's bone-chilling litany of meaningless death, horrific encounters with gruesomely decaying corpses, and even more appalling confrontations with the callousness and arrogance of the military command. Yet this scarifying book is consistently enthralling. Graves is a superb storyteller, and there's clearly something liberating about burning all your bridges at 34 (his age when Good-Bye to All That was first published in 1929). He conveys that feeling of exhilaration to his readers in a pell-mell rush of words that remains supremely lucid. Better known as a poet, historical novelist, and critic, Graves in this one work seems more like an English Hemingway, paring his prose to the minimum and eschewing all editorializing because it would bring him down to the level of the phrase- and war-mongers he despises. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Gyrth Chalice Mysteryby Margery AllinghamISBN 0380705729 (0-380-70572-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gyrth Chalice Mystery'Book summary:Some objects just cry out to be stolen, and an obliging ring of international thieves stands ready to heed the cry. Their current target is the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet that the Gyrth family has for centuries held in trust for the British Crown. Kept in a windowless chapel, and protected by a fearsome curse, the Chalice should be impervious to thievery. But this is 1930, and the crooks have all the advantages of the modern world. Chief among these is the craving for publicity, to which at least one member of the Gyrth clan has succumbed. Her careless chatter about the Chalice seems to have called up all manner of misfortunes - of which larceny is just the beginning - and the vague, bespectacled Albert Campion doesn't look like he'll be much help against them. But looks can be deceptive. [via]
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Here Be Dragonsby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0380701812 (0-380-70181-2)
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Honorary Consulby Graham GreeneISBN 0370014863 (0-370-01486-3)
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An Ideal Husbandby Oscar Wilde, Russell JacksonISBN 0393900681 (0-393-90068-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Ideal Husband'Book summary:New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
" The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
" Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings
" Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play
" Critical, contextual and staging notes
" Photographs of productions where applicable
" A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading.
Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike. [via]More editions of An Ideal Husband:
In Memoriam: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticismby Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Robert H. RossISBN 0393043657 (0-393-04365-7)
Softcover, Norton
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In Memoriam: Authoritative Text Criticismby Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Erik Irving GrayISBN 0393979261 (0-393-97926-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Memoriam: Authoritative Text Criticism'Book summary:Tennyson's central poem is presented with an extensive introduction that provides background information on the poet and poem as well as an overview of In Memoriam's formal and thematic peculiarities, including Tennyson's use of the stanza and the poem's rhyme scheme.The authoritative text is again that of the Eversley Edition of Tennyson's Works, published in 1901-8, which is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Criticism" contains thirteen essays--seven of which are new to the Second Edition-among them examples of formal Sarah Gates , contextual W. David Shaw , reader-response Timothy Peltason , queer Jeff Nunokawa , and genre Alan Sinfield criticism. A chapter from Christopher Ricks's influential biography, Tennyson, is included. A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index of First Lines are also included. [via]
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In Pursuit of the Proper Sinnerby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 037572799X (0-375-72799-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner'Book summary:The narrative talents of English stage actor Derek Jacobi are put to excellent use in this intriguing mystery of a double murder most foul. Author Elizabeth George presents her popular detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers with one of their most grisly and difficult cases ever as they search for clues to a bloody crime while struggling to repair their own strained partnership. George's mystery bobs, weaves, twists, and turns from a packed West End theater through the sumptuous halls of a country manor and into the desolate reaches of the high country moors before revealing its delightfully wicked and suspenseful conclusion. Jacobi tackles the complex plot and diverse cast of characters with relish, working his theatrical skills into an outstanding performance. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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Lady of Qualityby Georgette HeyerISBN 0370014790 (0-370-01479-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady of Quality'Book summary:A woman of independent means and spirit, stunning Annis Wynchwood has no yearning for wedlock, and has dashed the hopes of many lordly suitors. But never has she encountered such a rakish specimen as notorious Oliver Carleton. And when a femme comes face-to-face with a most incorrigible rogue, there ensues a tug-of-war that only love can overcome. [via]
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Last Chance Saloonby Marian KeyesISBN 0380820293 (0-380-82029-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Loitering With Intentby Muriel SparkISBN 0370309006 (0-370-30900-6)
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The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogyby Anthony BurgessISBN 0393309436 (0-393-30943-6)
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Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Marriedby Marian KeyesISBN 0380796104 (0-380-79610-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married'Book summary:Lucy Sullivan is getting married -- or is she? Lucy doesn't even have a boyfriend. (To be honest, she isn't that lucky in love.) But Mrs. Nolan -- a local psychic -- has read her tarot cards and predicted that Lucy will be walking down the aisle within the year.
Lucy's roommates, Karen and Charlotte, are appalled at the news. If Lucy leaves it could disrupt their wonderful lifestyle of eating take-out, drinking too much wine, bringing men home and never vacuumming. They might even have to -- God forbid-clean up the apartment to lure in a new roommate. Lucy reassures them that she's far too busy arguing with her mother and taking care of her irresponsible father to get married.
And there's the small matter of no boyfriend. But then Lucy meets Gus, gorgeous, unreliable Gus. And she starts to wonder if he could be the future Mr. Lucy Sullivan. Or could it be handsome Chuck? Or Daniel, the world's biggest flirt? Or even cute Jed, the new boy at work?
Maybe the idea of Lucy Sullivan getting married isn't so unlikely, after all.
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The Making of the English Working Classby E.P. ThompsonISBN 0394703227 (0-394-70322-7)
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"Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination and controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms and illusions of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of the English people should fail to read his book."--London Times Literary Supplement [via]More editions of The Making of the English Working Class:
Mariel of Redwallby Brian Jacques, Gary ChalkISBN 0380719223 (0-380-71922-3)
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Mary Queen of Scotsby Antonia FraserISBN 038531129X (0-385-31129-X)
Softcover, Delta
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She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head.
Instead, Mary Stuart became the victim of her own impulsive heart, scandalizing her world with a foolish passion that would lead to abduction, rape and even murder. Betrayed by those she most trusted, she would be lured into a deadly game of power, only to lose to her envious and unforgiving cousin, Elizabeth I.
Here is her story, a queen who lost a throne for love, a monarch pampered and adored even as she was led to her beheading, the unforgettable woman who became a legend for all time. [via]More editions of Mary Queen of Scots:
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Mattimeoby Brian JacquesISBN 0380715309 (0-380-71530-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mattimeo'Book summary:Preparations for the feast for the Summer of the Golden Rain are underway at Redwall Abbey, and young Mattimeo's mother sets him to work with the other inhabitants. His father, Matthius, is the guardian of Redwall Abbey and it is this fact that puts the young Mattimeo in danger, as the evil Slagar the Fox plots to kidnap him in a bid to shake the very foundations of the Abbey and its inhabitants.
Rip-roaring adventure at its very best, Mattimeo is one of the exquisitely executed and totally bewitching tales in the best-selling Redwall series. Brian Jacques, with his masterly use of language and enviable talent for descriptive prose that transports the reader to the very heart of Redwall, magically weaves an epic tale breathtaking in proportion and design. Utterly addictive, Mattimeo is packed with so much color, passion, fury, and love that it will leave readers desperate for more. --Susan Harrison [via]
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More Work for the Undertakerby Margery AllinghamISBN 0380705737 (0-380-70573-7)
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Number9dreamby David MitchellISBN 0375507264 (0-375-50726-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Oroonokoby Aphra Behn, Joanna LipkingISBN 0393312054 (0-393-31205-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Oroonoko; Or, the Royal Slaveby Aphra BehnISBN 0393007022 (0-393-00702-2)
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A Perfect Spy: A Novelby John Le CarréISBN 0394551419 (0-394-55141-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Pictures of Perfectionby Reginald HillISBN 0385312709 (0-385-31270-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pictures of Perfection'Book summary:Reginald Hill's ironic humor, polished prose, and keen insight have placed him squarely alongside such great mystery writers as P. D. James and Ruth Rendell. In his latest novel his much-appreciated team of detectives, the incomparable Dalziel and Pascoe, find themselves in the pretty village of Enscombe, which is steadfastly trying -- though somewhat in vain -- to repel the advances of both tourists and developers. When a policeman is discovered missing, Pascoe is immediately worried, but Dalziel thinks he's overreacting... until the normally phlegmatic Sergeant Wield also shows signs of changing his first impressions of picture-perfect village life. Over two eventful days a new pattern emerges: one of lust and lying, family feuds and ancient injuries, frustrated desires and unbalanced minds. Finally, inevitably, everything comes to a bloody climax at the Squire's Reckoning, where the villagers gather each Lady Day to feast and pay old debts. Not even the three lawmen's presence can change the course of history... though one of them is to find the course of his own personal history changed forever. [via]
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Piers Plowmanby William LanglandISBN 0393960110 (0-393-96011-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Piers Plowman'Book summary:A translation of the 14th century poem, which offers a picture of society in the late Middle Ages on the threshold of the early modern world.
The translator of this work was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James, Pierre A. Walker, Anita BrooknerISBN 0375759190 (0-375-75919-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:The text of this Second Edition of one of Henry James's most important novels is that of the New York Edition (1908).
In a sense, there are two distinctly separate Portraitsthe 1880-81 First Edition and the New York Edition, which James extensively revised. The editor has meticulously prepared a list of textual variants to facilitate comparative reading of the novel. Nina Baym, F. O. Matthiessen, and Anthony J. Mazzella provide differing interpretations of James's revision process.
Henry James and the Novel culls autobiographical excerpts from James's other writingshis Notebooks, the intentionally autobiographical A Small Boy and Others and Notes of a Son and Brother, and the travel books Italy Revisited, A Roman Holiday, and Roman Rides.
Contemporary Reviews and Criticism provides both chronological and critical perspective on The Portrait of a Lady. Four reviews from 1882 outline the novel's initial critical reception.
Seven important essays from the period 1954-1991 provide a wide range of critical responses by Dorothy Van Ghent, William H. Gass, Laurence B. Holland, Charles Feidelson, Louis Auchincloss, William Veeder, and Millicent Bell.
Bibliographical Aids includes judiciously selected secondary works on James from the wealth of material published yearly. [via]More editions of The Portrait of a Lady:
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Precious Baneby Mary WebbISBN 0385272162 (0-385-27216-2)
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Quarantine: A Novelby Jim CraceISBN 0374239622 (0-374-23962-2)
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Rachel's Holidayby Marian KeyesISBN 0380817683 (0-380-81768-3)
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The Radiant Wayby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0394561430 (0-394-56143-0)
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedyby Scott McMillinISBN 0393099970 (0-393-09997-0)
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of the Country Wife, the Man of Mode, the Rover, the Way of the World, the Conscious Lovers, the School for Scandal Contexts, crby Scott McMillinISBN 0393963349 (0-393-96334-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of the Country Wife, the Man of Mode, the Rover, the Way of the World, the Conscious Lovers, the School for Scandal Contexts, cr'Book summary:This Second Edition builds on its predecessors strengths by adding a sixth play, Aphra Behns The Rover, a comedy that has clearly come into prominence in recent years.
The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of Contexts. The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: On Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 16601775, The Collier Controversy: 1698, Steele and Dennis: On The Man of Mode and The Conscious Lovers, and Stages, Actors, and Audiences. Criticism has been revised to reflect approaches in scholarly interpretations. Two seminal essays from the First Edition have been retainedCharles Lambs appreciation of the periods comedy and L. C. Knightss condemnation of it. New essays by Jocelyn Powell, Harriet Hawkins, Elin Diamond, Martin Price, and Laura Brown have been added. Illustrated [via]More editions of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of the Country Wife, the Man of Mode, the Rover, the Way of the World, the Conscious Lovers, the School for Scandal Contexts, cr:
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of The Country Wife, The Man of Mode, The Way of the World, The Conscious Lovers, The School for Scandal; Backgrounds, Criticismby Scott McMillinISBN 0393043525 (0-393-04352-5)
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The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of Contexts. The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: On Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 16601775, The Collier Controversy: 1698, Steele and Dennis: On The Man of Mode and The Conscious Lovers, and Stages, Actors, and Audiences. Criticism has been revised to reflect approaches in scholarly interpretations. Two seminal essays from the First Edition have been retainedCharles Lambs appreciation of the periods comedy and L. C. Knightss condemnation of it. New essays by Jocelyn Powell, Harriet Hawkins, Elin Diamond, Martin Price, and Laura Brown have been added. Illustrated [via]More editions of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of The Country Wife, The Man of Mode, The Way of the World, The Conscious Lovers, The School for Scandal; Backgrounds, Criticism:
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0375406581 (0-375-40658-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:The first and most successful in the Baronesss series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, rewritten, and reinterpreted by each generation, is the mark of a plot that is timeless and universal, even though it happens to be set in England and France of 1792.
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The School for Scandalby Richard Brinsley Butler SheridanISBN 0393900436 (0-393-90043-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The School for Scandal'Book summary:New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
" The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
" Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings
" Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play
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" A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading.
Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike. [via]
The Secret Pilgrimby John Le CarréISBN 0394588428 (0-394-58842-8)
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Selected Poetry of William Wordsworthby William Wordsworth, Mark Van Doren, David BromwichISBN 0375759417 (0-375-75941-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth'Book summary:Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworths prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late Yarrow Revisited. Wordsworths poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events. As Matthew Arnold notes, [Wordsworths poetry] is great because of the extraordinary power with which [he] feels the joy offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple elementary affections and duties. [via]
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A Splash of Redby Antonia FraserISBN 0393316874 (0-393-31687-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Splash of Red'Book summary:Back in print -- Antonia Fraser's third Jemima Shore mystery, in which the intrepid and glamorous detective confronts sinister doings in a Bloomsbury penthouse.
Everyone loved Chloe Fontaine. Troy and exquisitely pretty, her fragile looks hid a considerable talent as a novelist. She had had a series of admirers, lovers, and husbands ever since her arrival in literary London. Her friends sometimes remarked on the odd contrast of her disorderly private life and the careful formality of her work, yet it hardly seemed to matter when even the critics doted on her. When Chloe strangely and suddenly disappears one hot summer day, Jemima Shore, who is left in charge of her flat, must find out why before it is too late.
-- "(The heroine) solves it all in a most satisfactory way. This is good reading, a fine story well told.' -- Chattanooga Times [via]-
Starter for Ten: A Novelby David NichollsISBN 0345498127 (0-345-49812-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Starter for Ten: A Novel'Book summary:Now a major motion picture
Utterly charming . . . a big-hearted, flawless coming-of-age tale, as scary and funny as your yearbook picture.
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The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first term at university. He has a dark secreta long-held, burning ambition to appear on the wildly popular British TV quiz show University Challengeand now, finally, it seems the dream is about to become reality. Hes made the school team, and theyve completed the qualifying rounds and are limbering up for their first televised match. (And, whats more, hes fallen head over heels for one of his teammates, the beautiful, brainy, and intimidatingly posh Alice Harbinson.) Life seems perfect and triumph inevitablebut as his world opens up, Brian learns that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
Fresh, edgy and very funny . . . [Nicholls] has a talent for droll dialogue and a wonderful sense of the ridiculous.
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Starter for Ten has that elusive Hornby-factor. . . . Its wincingly funny . . . a prospect to savour.
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Tales from Watership Downby Richard AdamsISBN 0380729342 (0-380-72934-2)
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The Towers of Trebizondby Rose MacaulayISBN 0374278547 (0-374-27854-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Towers of Trebizond'Book summary:This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst Laurie's only object is pleasure. [via]
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Troilus and Cressida in Modern English Verseby Geoffrey Chaucer, George P. KrappISBN 0394701429 (0-394-70142-9)
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Troilus and Criseydeby Geoffrey Chaucer, George Philip Krapp, Peter BeidlerISBN 0375757368 (0-375-75736-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troilus and Criseyde'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition of Chaucers masterpiece is based on Stephen Barneys acclaimed text and is accompanied by a translation of its major source, Boccaccios Filostrato.
The editors lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also included is Robert Henrysons Testament of Cresseid, the poignant "sequel" to Troilus and Criseyde from fifteenth-century Scotland.
"Criticism" includes ten essays by a diverse group of distinguished Chaucerians, among them C. S. Lewis, E. Talbot Donaldson, Karla Taylor, Lee Patterson, and Jill Mann, that illuminate the major scholarly issues raised by this complex and challenging poem.
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The Victoriansby A.N. WilsonISBN 0393325431 (0-393-32543-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Victorians'Book summary:The Nineteenth Century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized; in scientific knowledge; in nonreligious intellectual development; and in capital and its consequences. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were incomparably the richest, hence the most important, investors in the developing world. In this sense, England's position has strong resemblances to America's in the late twentieth century.
As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in these pages he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminate so grand and revolutionary a history: Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Christina Rossetti, Gordon, Cardinal Newman, George Eliot, Kipling. Wilson's accomplishment in this book is to explain through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasn't ended. [via]
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticismby Mary Wollstonecraft, Carol H. PostonISBN 0393044270 (0-393-04427-0)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: An Authoritative Text; Backgrounds; The Wollstonecraft Debate; Criticismby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0393955729 (0-393-95572-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: An Authoritative Text; Backgrounds; The Wollstonecraft Debate; Criticism'Book summary:The First Edition of this Norton Critical Edition was both an acclaimed classroom text and ahead of its time. This Second Edition offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976, providing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document written in English.
The text of the work remains that of Wollstonecraft's second edition of 1792, for scholarship has vindicated that choice. The annotations have been greatly expanded.
Backgrounds documents more fully the early concern for women's education, with important extracts from the relevant works of John Locke and Mary Astell, as well as three more of Catherine Macaulay's influential "Letters on Education."
A new section, The Wollstonecraft Debate, provides a wide spectrum of opinions about the woman herself, from the nastiness of Richard Polwhele to the adulation of William Blake, balanced by the cool intelligence of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.
Criticism contains essays by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough, Carolyn W. Korsmeyer, R. M. Janes, Elissa S. Guralnick, Moira Ferguson and Janet Todd, Mitzi Myers, and Mary Poovey.
A Chronology of Wollstonecraft's life and a Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: An Authoritative Text; Backgrounds; The Wollstonecraft Debate; Criticism:
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Vindication of the Rights of Womenby Mary Wollstonecraft, Katha PollittISBN 0375757228 (0-375-75722-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects'Book summary:First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends to women the Enlightenment principle of "the rights of man," its argument remains as relevant today as it was for Woll-stonecraft's contemporaries. "Mary Wollstonecraft was not the first writer to call for women to receive a real, challenging education," writes Katha Pollitt in the new Introduction. "But she was the first to connect the education of women to the transformation of women's social position, of relations between the sexes, and even of society itself. She was the first to argue that women's intellectual equality would and should have actual consequences. The winds of change sweep through her pages."
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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W. H. Auden Collected Poemsby Edward Mendelson, W. H. AudenISBN 0394408950 (0-394-40895-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'W. H. Auden Collected Poems'Book summary:This collection of the poems of W.H. Auden includes three poems referred to by Auden as "posthumous poems", and others that he omitted from the "Collected Shorter Poems" of 1966, printed here in revised versions found among his papers. [via]
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Watermelonby Marian KeyesISBN 0380796090 (0-380-79609-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watermelon'Book summary:At twenty-nine, fun-loving, good-natured Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to her first baby, James visits her in the recovery room to inform her that he's leaving her. And he hasn't even had the decency to leave her for someone glamorous; just the frumpy woman who lives in the apartment downstairs...
Claire is left with a beautiful newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a body that she can hardly bear to look at in the mirror. Until quite recently especially when wearing a green maternity jumper that was the only thing left that fit her--she felt she bore an uncomfortable resemblance to a popular summer fruit.)
So, in the absence of any better offers, Claire decides to go home to her family in Dublin. To her gorgeous man-eating sister Helen, her soap-watching mother, her bewildered father. And there, sheltered by the love of an (albeit quirky) family, she gets better.
A lot better.
In fact, so much better that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.
In this very funny, very fresh, very wise novel, Marian Keyes delivers an unforgettable debut--and a heroine so irresistible that she feels like a new best friend. [via]
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeareby Stephen GreenblattISBN 039332737X (0-393-32737-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare'Book summary:There's no shortage of good Shakespearean biographies. But Stephen Greenblatt, brilliant scholar and author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, reminds us that the "surviving traces" are "abundant but thin" as to known facts. He acknowledges the paradox of the many biographies spun out of conjecture but then produces a book so persuasive and breathtakingly enjoyable that one wonders what he could have done if the usual stuff of biographical inquiry--memoirs, interviews, manuscripts, and drafts--had been at his disposal. Greenblatt uses the "verbal traces" in Shakespeare's work to take us "back into the life he lived and into the world to which he was so open." Whenever possible, he also ushers us from the extraordinary life into the luminous work. The result is a marvelous blend of scholarship, insight, observation, and, yes, conjecture--but conjecture always based on the most convincing and inspired reasoning and evidence. Particularly compelling are Greenblatt's discussions of the playwright's relationship with the university wit Robert Greene (discussed as a chief source for the character of Falstaff) and of Hamlet in relation to the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet, his aging father, and the "world of damaged rituals" that England's Catholics were forced to endure.
Will in the World is not just the life story of the world's most revered writer. It is the story, too, of 16th- and 17th-century England writ large, the story of religious upheaval and political intrigue, of country festivals and brutal public executions, of the court and the theater, of Stratford and London, of martyrdom and recusancy, of witchcraft and magic, of love and death: in short, of the private but engaged William Shakespeare in his remarkable world. Throughout the book, Greenblatt's style is breezy and familiar. He often refers to the poet simply as Will. Yet for all his alacrity of style and the book's accessibility, Will in the World is profoundly erudite, an enormous contribution to the world of Shakespearean letters. --Silvana TropeaInterview with Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt shares his thoughts about what make Shakespeare Shakespeare and why the Bard continues to fascinate us endlessly.More editions of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare:
Will's Vision of Piers Plowmanby William Langland, Judith H. Anderson, E. Talbot Donaldson, Elizabeth D. KirkISBN 0393027724 (0-393-02772-4)
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