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All's Well That Ends Wellby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451530012 (0-451-53001-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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American Notes and Pictures from Italy: For General Circulationby Charles Dickens, Leonee Ormond, Marcus Stone, Samuel PalmerISBN 0460876856 (0-460-87685-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Notes and Pictures from Italy: For General Circulation'Book summary:"American Notes" was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as 'honest and true' was regarded in America as 'a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism', the product of 'the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial' writer ever to visit the country.
"Pictures from Italy" is a colourful account of a tour made in 1844.
This collectable series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings, many of which appeared in the first editons of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition, revised by the author in the 1860s. [via]
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The Anodyne Necklaceby Martha GrimesISBN 0451410890 (0-451-41089-0)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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Better Than Lifeby Grant NaylorISBN 0451452313 (0-451-45231-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Black Sheepby Georgette HeyerISBN 0451172590 (0-451-17259-0)
Softcover, Signet
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Boltby Dick FrancisISBN 0449212394 (0-449-21239-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Case Has Alteredby Martha GrimesISBN 0451408683 (0-451-40868-3)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case Has Altered'Book summary:Richard Jury, the brooding Scotland Yard detective-hero of many of Martha Grimes's mysteries, is back in The Case Has Altered, but--as usual--his sidekick Melrose Plant steals the show. Set in the fens of Lincolnshire, Jury must investigate two murders in which his true love, Jenny Kennington, is a suspect. But while Jury deals with the evidence, Melrose uncovers the local color, interviewing everyone from uncommunicative pub owners to chatty cooks. Even murder seems a little less grim with Melrose Plant around. [via]
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Collected Poems, 1934-1953by Walford Davies, Dylan Thomas, Ralph MaudISBN 0460047477 (0-460-04747-7)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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The Comedy of Errorsby William Shakespeare, Harry LevinISBN 0451528395 (0-451-52839-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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The Comedy of Errorsby Harry T. LevinISBN 0451521633 (0-451-52163-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Complete Nonsense of Edward Learby Holbrook JacksonISBN 0486201678 (0-486-20167-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Complete Poetryby George LordISBN 0460013580 (0-460-01358-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Coriolanusby William Shakespeare, Reuben Arthur BrowerISBN 0451528433 (0-451-52843-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coriolanus'Book summary:Our Signet Classic Shakespeare Series was extensively revised in 1998. We offer the best of everything -- unforgettable works edited by eminent Shakespeare scholars, comprehensive notes on the text, an essay on Shakespeare's life and times, source material, critical commentaries, extensive bibliographies, and footnotes. And there's more
-- Grow with the times by including both historical and thoroughly contemporary critical commentary on such issues as feminist, political, and theatrical interpretations of the plays -- with recent full-length essays by such respected scholars as Frank Kermode, Carolyn Heilbrun, Michael Goldman, Linda Bamber, and many others.
-- Provide more bibliographic listings and more up-to-date and relevant listings of pertinent books and articles in the Suggested Reference Section than the competition offers.
-- Feature essays on the Performance or Stage History of each play, written by Sylvan Barnet. [via] -
Crampton Hodnetby Barbara PymISBN 0452258162 (0-452-25816-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Dead Secretby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0486237753 (0-486-23775-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0460004344 (0-460-00434-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Ebony Towerby John FowlesISBN 0451156919 (0-451-15691-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Enquiryby Dick FrancisISBN 0449212688 (0-449-21268-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Everyman and Medieval Miracle Playsby A.C. CawleyISBN 046087280X (0-460-87280-X)
Softcover, Everyman
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- Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays: ISBN 0460103814 (0-460-10381-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays: ISBN 046011381X (0-460-11381-X)
Hardcover, J. M. Dent - Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays: ISBN 0460870327 (0-460-87032-7)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent - Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays: ISBN 046087280X (0-460-87280-X)
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- Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays: ISBN 0460103814 (0-460-10381-4)
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False Coloursby Georgette HeyerISBN 0449231690 (0-449-23169-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Five Bells and Bladeboneby Martha GrimesISBN 0451410386 (0-451-41038-6)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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Flashman and the Mountain of Lightby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0452267854 (0-452-26785-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashman and the Mountain of Light'Book summary:This ninth volume of The Flashman Papers, faithfully edited and transcribed by Fraser, finds that Sir Harry Flashman is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty's Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India's Northwest Frontier. Flashy's most challenging exploit yet is as politically shrewd and thoroughly lewd as ever.[via]More editions of Flashman and the Mountain of Light:
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Flying Finishby Dick FrancisISBN 0449212653 (0-449-21265-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flying Finish'Book summary:Henry Grey was considered hard to get along with. But he knew a change of job was all he needed. No more part-time office work/amateur jockey races for him. So he took a new job, air- transporting racehorses to change his luck and see the world. But he saw something quite unexpected in the cargo hold....
"The best thriller writer going."
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George III: A Personal Historyby Christopher HibbertISBN 0465027245 (0-465-02724-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George III: A Personal History'Book summary:Poor George III. Americans think of him as a tyrant whose unjust taxes provoked their revolution. Moviegoers envision a nightshirt-clad lunatic running through the palace halls in The Madness of King George. The handsome, gracious, conscientious young man of 22 who mounted the throne in 1760 may well be a revelation to many readers of Christopher Hibbert's elegant new biography. At 75, Hibbert is the dean of popular British historians and the author of more than 30 books spanning five centuries of European life; his experience enables him to convey prodigious research with the lightest of touches in his intimate account, which focuses on the king's personal character. Though Hibbert capably covers the period's political events and shows George to be a hardworking constitutional monarch, he prefers to direct our attention to the loving husband, devoted (though sometimes domineering) father, hearty appreciator of (very conventional) fine art, knowledgeable patron of literature, and avid all-around reader whose interests ranged from architecture to agriculture. This affectionate portrait makes it all the more distressing when George's bouts of madness (the result of a hereditary metabolic disease) begin in 1788 and permanently incapacitate him long before his death in 1820. Old-fashioned narrative biography doesn't get much better than this. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452282152 (0-452-28215-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'Book summary:The Dutch painter Vermeer has remained one of the great enigmas of 17th-century Dutch art. Whilst little is known of his personal life, his extraordinary paintings of natural and domestic life, with their subtle play of light and colour, have come to define the Dutch Golden Age. The mysterious portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has fascinated art historians for centuries, and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1660s. The appointment of the quiet, perceptive heroine of the novel, the servant Griet, gradually throws the household into turmoil as Vermeer and Griet become increasingly intimate, an increasingly tense situation that culminates in her working for Vermeer as his assistant, and ultimately sitting for him as a model. Chevalier deliberately cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style in homage to Vermeer, and the complex domestic tensions of the Vermeer household are vividly evoked, from the jealous, vain, young wife to the wise, taciturn mother in law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic, but Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist in its tail. Chevalier acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study of the Dutch Golden Age, The Embarrassment of Riches, and the novel comes hard on the heels of Deborah Moggach's similar tale of domestic intrigue behind the easel of 17th-century Dutch painting, Tulip Fever.
Girl with a Pearl Earring is a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, but how much more can novelists extract from the Dutch Golden Age? --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Talesby Oscar Wilde, Harriet GoldenISBN 0486270912 (0-486-27091-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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He Knew He Was Rightby Anthony Trollope, David SkiltonISBN 0460872494 (0-460-87249-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'He Knew He Was Right'Book summary:The central theme of the novel is the sexual jealousy of Louis Trevelyan who unjustly accuses his wife Emily of a liaison with a friend of her father's. As his suspicion deepens into madness, Trollope gives us a profound psychological study in which Louis' obsessive delirium is comparable to the tormented figure of Othello, tragically flawed by self-deception. Against the disintegration of the Trevelyans' marriage, a lively cast of characters explore the ideas of female emancipation and how to distinguish between obedience and subjection. Although himself no supporter of women's rights, in this novel some of Trollope's most spirited characters are single women.[via]Published in 1869, the same year as John Stuart Mills' The Subjection of Women and while the Divorce Act was a relative novelty, He Knew He Was Right was a timely novel, drawing a fine line between the obedience of women within marriage and their total possession by men.
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The Heart of Mid-Lothianby Walter ScottISBN 0460870904 (0-460-87090-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia/Dinarbas; A Taleby Samuel Johnson, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lynne MeloccarroISBN 0460873083 (0-460-87308-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Hollow Hillsby Mary StewartISBN 044991173X (0-449-91173-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hollow Hills'Book summary:A magnificent tale realized by premier novelist, Mary Stewart, here is the spellbinding, suspenseful story of how Merlin, the Enchanter, helped Arthur become king of all Britain, in an extraordinary story that brings the legend Merlin and his protege Arthur to glowing life.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Editionby H. G. Wells, Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0460872583 (0-460-87258-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0451529898 (0-451-52989-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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John Donneby Dennis EnrightISBN 0460879014 (0-460-87901-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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A Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules VerneISBN 0451528964 (0-451-52896-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth'Book summary:In this fully dramatized adaptation of Jules Verne's classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, and cast members from Star Trek feature films and all four TV series take you on an incredible journey.
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is the story of Professor Lindenbrock, his nephew Axel and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, Lindenbrock and Axel descend deeper into the planet than anyone has ever gone before... but will they make it back to the surface alive?
Featuring virtuoso performaces from the entire cast, riveting sound effects and original music, Alien Voices' production of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an adventure in sound. [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library - Journey to the Center of the Earth: ISBN 0451524500 (0-451-52450-0)
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Lady Annaby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0486246698 (0-486-24669-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Lamorna Winkby Martha GrimesISBN 0451409361 (0-451-40936-1)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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The Last Enchantmentby Mary StewartISBN 0449911764 (0-449-91176-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Enchantment'Book summary:With the great sword Caliburn in his hand and Merlin the enchanter at his side, Arthur comes out of hiding to claim the crown he was born to wear. Merlin, Arthur's protector, sees the glories and horrors that await the new king...and to save him Merlin musters all his power to weave one last enchantment. He is showing signs of age and he gradually realises he is losing his powers of prophecy and clairvoyance to a younger generation. But he is able to accept this because he knows that they will be at the service of his beloved monarch whose fabled victories, marriage and the building of Camelot shine through these pages. [via]
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Nerveby Dick FrancisISBN 0449212661 (0-449-21266-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert Darwin, Julian HuxleyISBN 0451529065 (0-451-52906-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.
Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Pentecost Alleyby Anne PerryISBN 0449225666 (0-449-22566-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Prisoner of Zendaby Anthony HopeISBN 0451511379 (0-451-51137-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prisoner of Zenda'Book summary:Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to the throne, Black Michael of Strelsau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability. Rassendyll endures a trial of strength in his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia. Five times filmed, The Prisoner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894. [via]
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Quartet in Autumnby Barbara PymISBN 0452269342 (0-452-26934-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quartet in Autumn'Book summary:Quartet in Autumn is one of the books Pym wrote during the 15 years when no one would publish her, and perhaps the same kind of balance between hopelessness and inner strength helped shape this novel's story about four friends in an office nearing the age of retirement. They are people who have lived unspectacularly, but who have conjured a sense of themselves from the quartet's unity. Things start to change when two of them retire. Pym maps this ordinary strangeness of life with her particular genius for brilliant psychological insight and quiet humor that never strains for effect. [via]
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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Serviceby Erskine ChildersISBN 0486232808 (0-486-23280-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Rime of the Ancient Marinerby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0486223051 (0-486-22305-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'Book summary:Doré's engravings for The Rime are considered by many to be his greatest work. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the hot equatorial seas swarming with monsters, the ice of Antarctica, more are all rendered in a powerful manner. Full text and 38 plates.[via]More editions of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
Riskby Dick FrancisISBN 044922239X (0-449-22239-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Romolaby George EliotISBN 0460875639 (0-460-87563-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romola'Book summary:Set in the late 15th-century Italy, in the Renaissance Florence of Macchiavelli and the Medicis, this story reconstructs a turning-point in the intellectual history of Europe by charting the career and martyrdom of the charismatic religious leader Savanarola. This is a study edition. [via]
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Samuel Taylor Coelridgeby John BeerISBN 0460878263 (0-460-87826-3)
Softcover, Everyman
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Sartor Resartus and on Heroes and Hero Wby Thomas CarlyleISBN 0460002783 (0-460-00278-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Scenes of Clerical Lifeby George Eliot, Graham HandleyISBN 0460874632 (0-460-87463-2)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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Sharpe's Eagleby Bernard CornwellISBN 0451212576 (0-451-21257-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sharpe's Eagle'Book summary:[via]After the cowardly incompetence of two officers besmirches their name, Captain Richard Sharpe must redeem the regiment by capturing the most valued prize in the French Armya golden Imperial Eagle, the standard touched by the hand of Napoleon himself.
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Sharpe's Swordby Bernard CornwellISBN 0451213432 (0-451-21343-2)
Softcover, Signet
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A Shropshire Ladby A. E. HousmanISBN 0486264688 (0-486-26468-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Shropshire Lad'Book summary:Authoritative edition of one of the enduring classics of English poetry 63 poems on the nature of friendship, the passing of youth, the vanity of dreams, other human concerns. Long prized by literary scholars for their perfection of form and feeling, and loved by generations of readers for simplicity, sensitivity, direct emotional appeal.[via]More editions of A Shropshire Lad:
Simply Divineby Wendy HoldenISBN 0452281679 (0-452-28167-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby Burton RaffelISBN 0451528182 (0-451-52818-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:The epic poem of honor and bravery[via]
Written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is recognized as an equal to Chaucers masterworks and to the great Old English poems, Beowulf included. A green-skinned knight offers the Knights of the Round Table a simple but deadly challengea challenge taken on by the brave Sir Gawain. A challenge that will force him to choose between his honor and his life...
@GawainsWorld So listen here, some green man came to the hall and wants someone to cut his head off. Some sort of dare? Could be fun, right?
The deal is I cut off his head now, and he cuts off mine a year later. What a jester, doesnt he know hell be dead?
This goblin fellow is totally dead.
All seemed fine until Ichabod Crane here fell to the floor, stood up, and picked up his head. His head, in his hands. In HIS HANDS!
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Smokescreenby Dick FrancisISBN 0449221113 (0-449-22111-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poemsby Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN 0486270521 (0-486-27052-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems'Book summary:Famed series of 44 love poems written to the poet's husband, Robert Browning, plus a selection of poems dealing with religion, art, social problems and political events. These include "Consolation," "The Cry of the Human," "A Curse for a Nation," "The Forced Recruit," "To Flush, My Dog," and others. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.[via]More editions of Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems:
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The Time Machine and the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0449300439 (0-449-30043-9)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Machine and the War of the Worlds'Book summary:H. G. Wells
Scientific visionary. Social prophet. Master storyteller. Few novelists have captivated generations of readers like H. G. Wells. In enduring, electrifying detail, he takes us to dimensions of time and space that have haunted our dreams for centuries -- and shows us ourselves as we really are.
The time machine
In the heart of Victorian England, an inquisitve gentleman known only as the Time Traveler constructs an elaborate invention that hurtles him hundreds of thousands of years into the future. There he finds himself in the violent center of the ultimate conflict between beings of light and creatures of darkness.
The war of the worlds
Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-century London. This tale of conquest by superior beings with superadvanced technology is so nightmarishly real that an adaptation by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater sent hundreds of impressionable radio listeners into panicked flight forty years after the story's original publication. [via]More editions of The Time Machine and the War of the Worlds:
Tom Brown's Schooldaysby Thomas HughesISBN 0460050036 (0-460-05003-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Trial Runby Dick FrancisISBN 0449212734 (0-449-21273-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0451526066 (0-451-52606-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:For lucidity and compactness of style, James's short novels, or novelles, are shining examples of his genius. Few other writings of the century have so captured the American imagination. When "Daisy Miller," the tale of the girl from Schenectady, first appeared in 1878, it was an extraordinary success. James had discovered nothing less than "the American girl"--free spirited, flirtatious, an innocent abroad determined to defy European convention even if it meant scandal . . . or tragedy. But the subtle danger lurking beneath the surface in "Daisy Miller" evolves into a classic tale of terror and obsession in "The Turn Of The Screw." "The imagination, " Henry James said to Bernard Shaw, "has a life if its own." In this blood-curdling story, that imagination weaves the lives of two children, a governess in love with her employer, and a sprawling country house into a flawless story, still unsurpassed as the prototype of modern horror fiction.
" "The Turn Of The Screw" seems to have proved more fascinating to the general reading public than anything else of James's except "Daisy Miller.""--Edmund Wilson [via]
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Softcover, Everyman - Turn of the Screw: ISBN 0486266842 (0-486-26684-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Turn of the Screw: ISBN 0451516699 (0-451-51669-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Turn of the Screw: ISBN 0460870343 (0-460-87034-3)
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The Two Gentleman of Veronaby William Shakespeare, Bertrand Evans, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451530632 (0-451-53063-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Mostly set in Milan, this comedy is the story of two newly-arrived Veronese friends, Valentine and Proteus. Both vie for the Duke's daughter's hand, with lots of laughter ensuing.More editions of The Two Gentleman of Verona:
Two on a Towerby Thomas HardyISBN 0460877844 (0-460-87784-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Waverleyby Walter ScottISBN 0460010751 (0-460-01075-1)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Wicked Dayby Mary StewartISBN 0449911853 (0-449-91185-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wicked Day'Book summary:Now, the spellbinding, final chapter of King Arthur's reign, where Mordred, sired by incest and reared in secrecy, ingratiates himself at court, and sets in motion the Fates and the end of Arthur....
"Gripping....A superior adventure tale."
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Brenda WineappleISBN 0451527283 (0-451-52728-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
Youthby Joseph ConradISBN 0460870467 (0-460-87046-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Youth, a Narrative ; Heart of Darkness ; The End of the Tetherby Joseph ConradISBN 0460016946 (0-460-01694-6)
Hardcover, Dent
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