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All's Well That Ends Wellby William Shakespeare, Claire Elizabeth McEachern, Claire McEachemISBN 014071460X (0-14-071460-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All's Well That Ends Well'Book summary:Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and offers a fully reconsidered, annotated text for both readers and actors. [via]
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American Notes and Pictures from Italyby Charles DickensISBN 0192545191 (0-19-254519-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Notes and Pictures from Italy'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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An Autobiographyby Anthony Trollope, Frederick Page, Michael Sadleir, Peter David EdwardsISBN 0192815091 (0-19-281509-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Barchester Chroniclesby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192816470 (0-19-281647-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Call for the Deadby John Le CarreISBN 0151768439 (0-15-176843-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call for the Dead'Book summary:Called by Time magazine, ''the premier spy novelist of his time and perhaps of all time,'' John le Carre has raised the spy novel to a new height. Call for the Dead is his first novel and the one in which we meet the world's most famous undercover operative, George Smiley.
The cast of characters includes a bright, twisted former hero of the German underground, a once beautiful woman with a terrifying secret, a high-ranking pompous fool of a bureaucrat, and a suspect British civil servant. The protagonist, George Smiley, is bitter, weary--he has seen too much and done too much--yet he cannot refuse one last desperate call for his services. [Call for the Dead was made into a 1966 film named The Deadly Affair.] [via]More editions of Call for the Dead:
Camillaby Fanny BurneyISBN 0192553275 (0-19-255327-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Camilla, Or, a Picture of Youthby Fanny Burney, Lillian D. Bloom, Edward Alan BloomISBN 0192816624 (0-19-281662-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Castle Rackrentby George Watson, Maria EdgeworthISBN 0192815393 (0-19-281539-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Published in 1800, Castle Rackrent is regarded as the first family saga and first regional novel in English. It chronicles the lives of four generations of 18th-century Irish landlords, and how their negligent behaviour towards life and money takes them to the edge of bankruptcy and ruin. A stimulating satire!
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The Comedy of Errorsby William Shakespeare, Frances E. DolanISBN 014071474X (0-14-071474-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Errors'Book summary:A Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's shortest play yet one of his most popular comedies. Here is a new modern-spelling edition, based on the 1623 Folio text with on-page commentary and notes that explain meaning, staging, language and allusions. A detailed and informative introduction describes the play's first performance at Gray's Inn in December 1594, its multiple sources and its uneven critical and theatrical history. Appendices include the complete text of the play's main source, Plautus' Menaechmi, and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible.
Illustrated with production photographs and related art, this edition vividly brings to life Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.
"Not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship."--Times Literary Supplement [via]More editions of The Comedy of Errors:
- The Comedy of Errors: ISBN 0192814613 (0-19-281461-3)
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Softcover, Thomson Learning - The Comedy of Errors: ISBN 014071474X (0-14-071474-X)
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The Complete Poemsby Andrew Marvell, Elizabeth Story DonnoISBN 0140806857 (0-14-080685-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Complete Short Storiesby Graham Greene, Pico IyerISBN 0143039105 (0-14-303910-5)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Short Stories'Book summary:[via]Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity, and violencethis magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Previously published in two volumesCollected Short Stories and The Last Word and Other Storiesthese forty-nine stories reveal Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each one confirms V. S. Pritchetts statement that Greene is a master of storytelling.
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The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolfby Susan DickISBN 0156212501 (0-15-621250-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Susan DickISBN 0151189838 (0-15-118983-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Coriolanusby William Shakespeare, Jonathan CreweISBN 0140714731 (0-14-071473-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Doctor Noby Ian FlemingISBN 0142002038 (0-14-200203-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor No'Book summary:James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service team. As he uncovers the astonishing truth about strange energy waves that are interfering with U.S. missile launches, he must battle deadly assassins, sexy femmes fatales, and even a poisonous tarantula. The search takes him to an exotic tropical island, where he meets a beautiful nature girl and discovers the hideout of Doctor No, a six-foot-six madman with a mania for torture, a lust to kill, and a fantastic secret to hide.[via]More editions of Doctor No:
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Edward Lear: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsenseby Edward Lear, Vivien NoakesISBN 0142002275 (0-14-200227-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The absurd and fanciful verses of Edward Lear-from "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" to "The Jumblies," from "The Scroobious Pip" to countless limericks-have enchanted generations of readers, children and adults alike. This delightful collection, the most comprehensive ever compiled of his work, presents all of Lear's verse and other nonsense writings, including stories, letters, and illustrated alphabets, as well as previously unpublished material. Featuring Lear's own line drawings throughout and an introduction by leading Lear authority Vivien Noakes, this captivating volume reveals a complex man of ample talents, achievements, and influence-and is teeming with timeless nonsense.More editions of Edward Lear: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense:
Fantastic Mr. Foxby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141301139 (0-14-130113-9)
Softcover, Puffin
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Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperamentsby Edmund GosseISBN 0192554018 (0-19-255401-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Five Playsby Ben Jonson, G.A. WilkesISBN 0192817825 (0-19-281782-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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From Russia With Loveby Ian FlemingISBN 0142002070 (0-14-200207-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Russia With Love'Book summary:[via]Name: Bond, James. Height: 183 cm, weight: 76 kg; slim build; eyes: blue; hair: black; scar down right cheek & on left shoulder; all-round athlete; expert pistol shot, boxer, knife-thrower; does not use disguises. Languages: French and German. Smokes heavily (NB: special cigarettes with three gold bands); vices: drink, but not to excess, and women.
Every major foreign government organization has a file on British secret agent James Bond. Now, Russia's lethal SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination. SMERSH has the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova, who lures 007 to Istanbul promising the top-secret Spektor cipher machine. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues, with Bond both the stakes and the prize.
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The Happy Princeby Oscar WildeISBN 0146000250 (0-14-600025-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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He Knew He Was Rightby Anthony Trollope, John SutherlandISBN 0192816926 (0-19-281692-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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 Scott, Claire LamontISBN 0192815830 (0-19-281583-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian'Book summary:This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. At the centre of the story is Edinburgh's forbidding Tolbooth prison, known by all as the Heart of Midlothian. [via]
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Hideous Kinkyby Esther FreudISBN 0151402167 (0-15-140216-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissiniaby Samuel JohnsonISBN 0192817787 (0-19-281778-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Editionby Adam Smith, Kathryn SunderlandISBN 0192817965 (0-19-281796-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Steve Maclean, Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 014144102X (0-14-144102-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of Dr Moreau'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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The Italianby Ann RadcliffeISBN 0192815725 (0-19-281572-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Italian'Book summary:This is Ann Radcliffe's most complete success in fiction, and a fine example of Gothic romance. In it, primarily through the character of its extraordinary hero, Schedoni, the book becomes more than just a thriller. The elements of tragedy are there and sustained so as to take it beyond the artifices of the Gothic. [via]
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King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Tableby Roger Lancelyn Green, Lotte ReinigerISBN 014250100X (0-14-250100-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table'Book summary:This work is based on "Morte d' Arthur" written by Sir Thomas Malory. This story, which has so deeply impressed itself upon the hearts and minds of men, centers on the shadowy but heroic figure of Arthur, king of the Britons in the 5th or 6th century. It has flowed over time by being told by various authors, and on this current it carried the elements of all the influences and ideals that were gradually determining the nature and standards of the English-speaking world. Handsomely illustrated. [via]
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Lady Annaby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192821342 (0-19-282134-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Lanarkby Alasdair GrayISBN 0156003619 (0-15-600361-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lanark'Book summary:Written under the influence of World War II, the British welfare state, the Scottish education system, Poe, Carroll, Joyce, Kafka, Pinocchio, and the Bible, this cult classic paints a surreal portrait of the modern world. "It should be widely read" (New York Times). Illustrated by the Author.[via]More editions of Lanark:
Lark Rise to Candlefordby Flora ThompsonISBN 0192117599 (0-19-211759-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Life of Timon of Athensby Thomas Middleton, John JowettISBN 0192814974 (0-19-281497-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Life of Timon of Athensby William Shakespeare, Frances E. DolanISBN 0140714871 (0-14-071487-1)
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Live and Let Dieby Ian FlemingISBN 0142003239 (0-14-200323-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Live and Let Die'Book summary:"Her hair was black and fell to her shoulders. She had high cheekbones and a sensual mouth, and wore a dress of white silk. Her eyes were blue, alight and disdainful, but, as they gazed into his with a touch of humour, Bond realized that they contained a message.[via]Solitaire watched his eyes on her and nonchalantly drew her forearms together so that the valley between her breasts deepened. The message was unmistakable."
Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Bigmaster of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstitionhe knows that this criminal heavy hitter is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Big is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced. And no-one, not even the mysterious Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end&
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hellby William BlakeISBN 0192811673 (0-19-281167-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'Book summary:These two collections of Blake's finest and best-loved poems--printed on vellum--offer the text of each poem in letterpress on the page facing a beautiful color reproduction of the design Blake created to illustrate the particular poem. [via]
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Mary Poppinsby Pamela L. TraversISBN 0152524088 (0-15-252408-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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Mary Poppins: Three Enchanting Classics Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, and Mary Poppins Opens the Doorby P. L. Travers, Mary ShepardISBN 0152017178 (0-15-201717-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Poppins: Three Enchanting Classics Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, and Mary Poppins Opens the Door'Book summary:For all her offended sniffs and humphs, Mary Poppins is likely the most exciting nanny England--and the world--has ever seen. Young Jane and Michael Banks have no idea what's in store for them when Mary Poppins blows in on the east wind one autumn evening. Soon, though, the children are having tea on the ceiling, flying around the world in a minute (visiting polar bears and hyacinth macaws on the way), and secretly watching as their unusual nanny pastes gold paper stars to the sky. Mary's stern and haughty exterior belies the delightful nonsense she harbors; her charges, as well as her literary fans, respect and adore her.
Grownups who have forgotten Mary Poppins's true charms will be tickled pink to rediscover this uniquely unsentimental fantasy. Younger readers will walk into Mary's world without batting an eye--of course the animals in the zoo exchange places with people on the night of the full moon. Certainly a falling star landing on a cow's horn will make her dance ceaselessly. Why wouldn't one be able to enter into a chalk picture? The only disappointing aspect of this classic is that it doesn't go on forever! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Ministry Of Fear: An Entertainmentby Graham Greene, Alan FurstISBN 0143039113 (0-14-303911-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ministry Of Fear: An Entertainment'Book summary:[via]For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the blitzand the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the war, until he happened to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quarry of malign and shadowy forces, from which he endeavors to escape with a mind that remains obstinately out of focus.
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Mossflowerby Brian Jacques, Gary ChalkISBN 0142302384 (0-14-230238-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mrs. Dalloway Readerby Francine ProseISBN 0151010447 (0-15-101044-7)
Hardcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. Dalloway Reader'Book summary:This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party, and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. This complete volume illuminates the creation of a beloved book and the genius of its author.[via]More editions of Mrs. Dalloway Reader:
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The Mrs. Dalloway Readerby Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose, Mark HusseyISBN 0156030152 (0-15-603015-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mrs. Dalloway Reader'Book summary:This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. Now with additional scholarly commentary by Mark Hussey, professor of English at Pace University, this complete volume illuminates the creation of a celebrated story and the genius of its author.[via]
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Michael Cunningham
E. M. Forster
Margo Jefferson
James Wood
Mary Gordon
Elaine Showalter
Daniel Mendelsohn
Sigrid Nunez
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0192553437 (0-19-255343-7)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Northanger Abbey and Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0192547054 (0-19-254705-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Orient Expressby Graham GreeneISBN 0142437913 (0-14-243791-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orient Express'Book summary:[via]As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, the driven lives of several of its passengers become bound together in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters include Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton Myatt, a rich Jewish businessman; Richard John, a mysterious and kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade; the spiteful journalist Mabel Warren; and Josef Grunlich, a cunning, murderous burglar.
What happens to these strangers as they put on and take off their masks of identity and passion, all the while confessing, prevaricating, and reaching out to one another in the "veracious air" of the onrushing train, makes for one of Graham Greene's most exciting and suspenseful stories. Originally published in 1933, Orient Express was Greene's first major success.
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Gillian Beer, Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0192817833 (0-19-281783-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by "natural selection." The Origin communicates the enthusiasm of original thinking in an open, descriptive style, and Darwin's emphasis on the value of diversity speaks more strongly now than ever. As well as a stimulating introduction and detailed notes, this edition offers a register of the many writers referred to by Darwin in the text. [via]
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Outcast of Redwallby Brian Jacques, Allan CurlessISBN 0142401420 (0-14-240142-0)
Softcover, Firebird
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Outcast of Redwall'Book summary:When ferret Swartt Sixclaw and his arch enemy Sunflash the Mace swear a pledge of death upon each other, a young creature is cruelly banished from the safety of Redwall. As he grows, he seeks revenge on the people of Redwall and finds himself embroiled in a hostile battle with far-reaching consequences.
An epic tale of Redwall from the pen of master storyteller Brian Jacques, Outcast of Redwall is a kaleidoscope of color, range, and emotions that culminates in a bitter contest between good and evil. None of the passion of the earlier Redwall titles is lost, as some of the most cherished landscapes and best-loved characters from previous books are revisited, with a wisdom and clarity that has developed and endured.
On a basic level, this is a marvelous fantasy adventure story. Look deeper and you will find that Outcast of Redwall, along with the other titles in the series, has a divine, enduring quality that ranks it among he best in children's literature. --Susan Harrison [via]
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The Peppered Mothby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0156007193 (0-15-600719-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Peppered Moth'Book summary:In The Peppered Moth, Margaret Drabble chronicles four generations in the life of a family, homing in on the female line and attempting to explain how genes, DNA, and environment can change or challenge an individual. The tale begins with Bessie Bawtry, a gifted young woman from a South Yorkshire mining town who fails to live up to her promise. It ends with her granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, "a bobby dazzler" radiant with opportunities and ideas, who nonetheless can't quite make the most of what she has. All of this would produce a fairly straightforward and enjoyable tale of family life--and inherited characteristics--but for Drabble's tone, which is, frankly, uneasy. It wavers from the clinical voice-over ("We must try to rediscover the long-ago infant in her vanished world") to the mawkish elegy ("O poor young girls in flower, you poor frail darlings, who will watch over you, who will guide and protect you?").
What happened? Drabble's afterword, in fact, explains a great deal of this waywardness. Bessie Bawtry, with her hard-won education, her relinquishing lapses into illness, and her life of deferred pleasures, is based on the author's mother. Consequently, there is the sense of filling in biographical gaps with fictional plots and characters, and then carefully plastering everything into place with a thin layer of scientific metaphor. Drabble, alas, is too personally involved with this material, and her prose suffers. It juts and jars at awkward angles, reducing The Peppered Moth to a gawky adolescent of a book instead of a mature, measured reflection on family history. --Eithne Farry [via]
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Peter Pan In Kensington Gardensby J. M. BarrieISBN 0146000773 (0-14-600077-3)
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautifulby Edmund BurkeISBN 0192818074 (0-19-281807-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful'Book summary:The "Philosophical Enquiry" is a study of the relationship between strong feelings and forms of art, that considers the inspired persuasiveness of certain kinds of writing alongside experience of the natural landscape, and is gradually being recognized as an important work of aesthetic theory. This eloquent and sometimes erotic book was long considered to be a piece of Burke's juvenilia, published when he was only 28. But it is a precursor of his later political writings, and clearly deals with a fashionable topic of intellectual preoccupation in the 18th-century. This work is also one of the first major works in European literature on the sublime, a subject that was later to fascinate thinkers from Kant and Coleridge in the 18th-century, to contemporary philosophers and literary critics. Adam Phillips has also edited Charles Lamb's "Selected Prose" and Walter Pater's "The Renaissance", as well as writing a study of his own entitled "Winnicott". [via]
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Poetical Worksby Edmund SpenserISBN 0192810707 (0-19-281070-7)
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Poor Thingsby Alasdair GrayISBN 0151730768 (0-15-173076-8)
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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officerby Alasdair GrayISBN 0156000687 (0-15-600068-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer'Book summary:The full title of this work, Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer, reflect a bit of wacky genius at work here. Someone named Alasdair Gray has found a memoir supposedly of a 19th-century public health officer in Glasgow. The truth of the memoir is suspect, nevertheless Gray manages to change it and then lose it. And that's just the backdrop. Inside the memoir is the story of McCandless, an acquaintance named Godwyn Bysshe Baxter who takes a suicide victim, gives her the brain of her unborn child to create a promiscuous and brutal girlfriend. The book, which won the 1992 Guardian Fiction Prize, takes off from there. [via]
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Redwall: The Graphic Novelby Brian Jacques, Gary ChalkISBN 0142302376 (0-14-230237-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Redwall: The Graphic Novel'Book summary:When Redwall was published in 1987 it catipulted author Brian Jacques to international stardom. And small wonder! This enthralling tale is jam-packed with the things we long for in a great adventure: danger, laughter, hairbreath excapes, tragedy, mystery, a touch of wonder, a truly despicable villain, and a hero we can take to heart. That hero is Matthias, a young mouse who must rise above his fears and failures to save his friends at Redwall Abbey. The villain is Cluny the Scourage, one of the most deliciously despicable rats of all time. The unforgettable cast of supporting characters includes the stalwart badger Constance, an irrepressible hare named Basil Stag Hare, and the elderly wisemouse Brother Methuselah. But most of all there is Matthias, seeking his true destiny in a journey that will lead through danger and despair to true wisdom. [via]
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Studentsby Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Lancelyn GreenISBN 0192123173 (0-19-212317-3)
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Revolting Rhymesby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0142302260 (0-14-230226-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolting Rhymes'Book summary:Do you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, and that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Premier storyteller Roald Dahl twists the fate of six favorite fairy tales, in this picture book edition with vibrant new cover art by Quentin Blake. Fairy tales have never been more revolting!
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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Serviceby Erskine ChildersISBN 0141181656 (0-14-118165-6)
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Romolaby George EliotISBN 019250178X (0-19-250178-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romola'Book summary:This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. [via]
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Salamandastronby Brian Jacques, Gary ChalkISBN 0142501522 (0-14-250152-2)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridgeby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H.J. JacksonISBN 0192813838 (0-19-281383-8)
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockhby Thomas Carlyle, Kerry McSweeney, Peter SaborISBN 0192817574 (0-19-281757-4)
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Scenes of Clerical Lifeby George EliotISBN 0192817868 (0-19-281786-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scenes of Clerical Life'Book summary:When Scenes of Clerical Life--Eliot's first work of fiction--first appeared in print anonymously in 1857, critics immediately hailed it for its humorous irony, the truthfulness of its presentation of the lives of ordinary men and women, and its compassionate acceptance of human weakness. The three stories that comprise the volume foreshadow Eliot's greatest work, and an acquaintance with them is essential to a full understanding of one of the greatest English novelists. [via]
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The Seven Sistersby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0156028751 (0-15-602875-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seven Sisters'Book summary:It's hard to get across just how flat-out thrilling, how readable, how absorbing is Margaret Drabble's novel The Seven Sisters. It sounds positively dull when you describe it: Candida Wilton, a faculty wife of late middle age, has been dumped by her allegedly do-gooder husband. Her three daughters aren't too impressed with her, either. The mousy Candida decamps to an inglorious flat in London, where she measures out her time in visits to the health club, trips to the grocery store, and her weekly evening class on Virgil. She tentatively makes a few new friends and rediscovers some old ones. This opening section of the book, told in diary form, is a marvel of tone. With very little action, Drabble makes Candida's forays into the world quietly electrifying. One of her new pleasures is recording in her diary her mounting dislike of her ex-husband. You sense a giddy freedom: "Andrew had come to seem to me to be the vainest, the most self-satisfied, the most self-serving hypocrite in England. That kindly twinkle in his eyes had driven me to the shores of madness."
Ah, but there's more life for Candida yet. A small, unexpected inheritance is left to her, and so she organizes her friends--all female, mostly aged, mostly unmarried--into a tour of Naples as Virgil describes it in The Aeneid. Their holiday is a fictional tour-de-force: by turns a hilarious send-up of group dynamics, a metafictional lark, a feminist rant, and a dark acknowledgement of Candida's mortality. In the end, Drabble's novel is a very serious one, and a very good one. --Claire Dederer [via]
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A Simple Storyby Elizabeth Inchbald, J. M. S. Tompkins, InchbaldISBN 019281849X (0-19-281849-X)
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The Spireby William Gerald GoldingISBN 0156027828 (0-15-602782-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spire'Book summary:The vision that drives Dean Jocelin to construct an immense new spire above his cathedral tests the limits of all who surround him. The foundationless stone pillars shriek and the earth beneath them heaves under the structures weight as the Deans will weighs down his collapsing faith.[via]-
Three Guineasby Virginia Woolf, Jane Marcus, Mark HusseyISBN 0156031639 (0-15-603163-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Guineas'Book summary:Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation.[via]
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Timon of Athensby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434766 (0-17-443476-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timon of Athens'Book summary:"The New Penguin Shakespeare" offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume has been newly prepared from the original texts and includes an introduction, a list of further reading, a commentary, and a short account of the textual problems of the play. [via]
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Tom Brown's Schooldaysby Thomas HughesISBN 0192821989 (0-19-282198-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'Book summary:A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown's Schooldays has long had an influence well beyond the middle-class, public school world that it describes. An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from other schoolboy adventures. This edition is the only one available, and comes with the outstanding 1869 illustrations by Arthur Hughes. This book is intended for general, students of Victorian and schoolboy fiction, and at Colleges of Further Education. [via]
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William Shakespeare, Mary Beth RoseISBN 0140714618 (0-14-071461-8)
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Under the Skinby Michel FaberISBN 0156011603 (0-15-601160-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Skin'Book summary:In the opening pages of Under the Skin, a lone female is scouting the Scottish Highlands in search of well-proportioned men: "Isserley always drove straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her." At this point, the reader might be forgiven for anticipating some run-of-the-mill psychosexual drama. But commonplace expectation is no help when it comes to Michel Faber's strange and unsettling first novel; small details, then major clues, suggest that something deeply bizarre is afoot. What are the reasons for Isserley's extensive surgical scarring, her thick glasses, her excruciating backache? Who are the solitary few who work on the farm where her cottage is located? And why are they all nervous about the arrival of someone called Amlis Vess?
The ensuing narrative is of such cumulative, compelling strangeness that it almost defies description. The one thing that can be said with certainty is that Under the Skin is unlike anything else you have ever read. Faber's control of his medium is nearly flawless. Applying the rules of psychological realism to a fictional world that is both terrifying and unearthly, he nonetheless compels the reader's absolute identification with Isserley. Not even the author's fine short-story collection, Some Rain Must Fall, prepared us for such mastery. Under the Skin is ultimately a reviewer's nightmare and a reader's dream: a book so distinctive, so elegantly written, and so original that one can only urge everybody in earshot to experience it, and soon. --Burhan Tufail [via]
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Waverlyby Walter Scott, Clair LamontISBN 0192817221 (0-19-281722-1)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Peter BrooksISBN 0192816314 (0-19-281631-4)
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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]
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Wordsworthby William WordsworthISBN 0192810529 (0-19-281052-9)
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The Works of Jane Austenby Jane AustinISBN 0192547062 (0-19-254706-2)
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A Writer's Diaryby Virginia Woolf, Leonard WoolfISBN 0156027917 (0-15-602791-7)
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A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Leonard WoolfISBN 015698380X (0-15-698380-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf'Book summary:An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf; Indices.[via]More editions of A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf:
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Youth, Heart of Darkness, the End of the Tetherby Joseph Conrad, Robert KimbroughISBN 0192816268 (0-19-281626-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Youth, Heart of Darkness, the End of the Tether'Book summary:"The three stories in this volume lay no claim to unity of artistic purpose. The only bond between them is that of the time in which they were written." Thus Conrad, in his Author's Note of 1917, qualifies his later statement that the stories represent the three ages of man--youth, maturity and age. Together on one volume we see that he did not set out to write about three separate periods of life, but rather that he wrote about life from three separate points of view. [via]
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