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The Absenteeby Maria Edgeworth, W.J. Mc Cormack, Kim WalkerISBN 019283830X (0-19-283830-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Absentee'Book summary:Lord Clonbrony and his ambitious, worldly wife lead an extravagant social life in London on the proceeds of their estates in Ireland. Their son, Lord Colambre, refusing to marry the heiress arranged for him by his mother, decides instead to investigate, incognito, the management of the family estates in Ireland. Appalled by the corruption, mismanagement, and poverty he discovers, he sets about finding a solution to his father's debts and the family's wilful indifference. Maria Edgeworth's classic novel combines a fast-miving depiction of national manners with a brilliantly witty expose of the pernicious system of absentee landownership. [via]
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Amadeus: A Playby Peter ShafferISBN 0233972722 (0-233-97272-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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The American Senatorby Anthony Trollope, John HalperinISBN 0192837141 (0-19-283714-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Senator'Book summary:Arabella Trefoil, the beautiful anti-heroine of this novel, inspired Trollope to write of her, "I wished to express the depth of my scorn for women who run down husbands." Arabella's determination to find a rich husband is at the heart of this story and her character, though often maligned, is one of Trollope's most famous and vivid creations. [via]
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Anglo-Saxon Englandby F. M. StentonISBN 0198217161 (0-19-821716-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anglo-Saxon England'Book summary:This classic history covers the period c. 550-1087 and traces the development of English society from the oldest Anglo-Saxon laws, the growth of royal power, and the extension of private lordship to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest. [via]
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The Annotated Innocence of Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0192821644 (0-19-282164-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0192837788 (0-19-283778-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Around the World in Eighty Days has been a bestseller for over a century, but it has never before appeared in a critical edition. While most translations misread or even abridge the original, this stylish new version is completely true to Verne's classic, moving as fast and as brilliantly as Phineas Fogg's own race against time. Around the World in Eighty Days offers a strong dose of post-romantic reality but not a shred of science fiction: its modernism lies instead in the experimental technique and Verne's unique twisting of space and time. [via]
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Aunts Aren't Gentlemenby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214200477 (0-214-20047-7)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunts Aren't Gentlemen'Book summary:A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster retires to the village of Maiden Eggesford for some rest and quiet, but the presence of Aunt Dahlia shatters the peace as a confused situation develops. From the author of JEEVES IN THE OFFING and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
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Ben Jonson Volponeby Ben JonsonISBN 0300001398 (0-300-00139-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ben Jonson Volpone'Book summary:Renaissance comedy, first performed in 1605. Includes complete text in modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition. [via]
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The Bertramsby Anthony Trollope, Geoffrey HarveyISBN 019282645X (0-19-282645-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bertrams'Book summary:Set in the Middle East, but informed by the ramifications of of the repeal of the Corn Laws and the rise of Tractarianism, The Bertrams is a tale of doomed love and a remarkable blend of psychological insight, trenchant satire, and deft social comedy. Published in the same year as Darwin's Origin of Species its story of the contrasting careers of three Oxford graduates echoes the idea of the survival of the fittest. This fully annotated edition of the novel Trollope hoped would secure him a reputation as a serious author uses the original 1859 text. This book is intended for trollope fans; students and teachers of nineteenth-century literature and history, general. [via]
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Peter HollindaleISBN 0192828126 (0-19-282812-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Bride of Lammermoorby Walter Scott, Fiona RobertsonISBN 0192835440 (0-19-283544-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bride of Lammermoor'Book summary:The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy's beautiful daughter Lucy. First published in 1819, this intricate and searching romantic tragedy offers challenging insights into emotional and sexual politics, and demonstrates the shrewd way in which Scott presented his work as historical document, entertainment, and work of art. [via]
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Brit-Think, Ameri-Think: A Transatlantic Survival Guideby Jane Walmsley, Gray JolliffeISBN 0245543376 (0-245-54337-6)
Hardcover, Harrap
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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837by Linda ColleyISBN 0300057377 (0-300-05737-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837'Book summary:In this book, Linda Colley recounts how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the Act of Union between England and Wales and Scotland in 1707. She describes how a succession of major wars with Catholic France, culminating in the conflict with Napoleon, served as both a threat and a tonic, forcing the diverse peoples of this Protestant culture into a closer union and reminding them of what they had in common. She also shows how their world-wide empire gave men and women from different ethnic and social backgrounds a powerful incentive to be British. In the process, she not only demonstrates how an over-arching British identity came to be superimposed onto much older regional and national identities but she also illuminates why it is that these same older identities - be it Scottishness or Welshness or Englishness or regionalism of one kind or another - have reemerged and become far more important in the late 20th century. The aspirations and ambitions of individual Britons form an integral part of Colley's story. She supplies vignettes of well-known heros and politicians such as Horatio Nelson and William Pit the Younger, patriots such as Thomas Coram and John Wilkes and artists and writers who helped forge our image of Britishness - William Hogarth, David Wilkie, J.M.W. Turner, Charlotte Bronte, Benjamin West and Walter Scott. Drawing on paintings, plays, cartoons, diaries, almanacs, sermons and songs she also brings to life an array of men and women who have previously been left out of the historical record, from the British army officers to working men and women. Throughout, she analyzes patriotism rather than assuming its existence and shows it to have been a diverse and often rational phenomenon. [via]
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes IIby Arthur Conan Doyle, W.W. RobsonISBN 0192839179 (0-19-283917-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII, 1547-1558by Alison WeirISBN 0224038338 (0-224-03833-8)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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The Complete Stalky & Co.by Rudyard Kipling, Isabel QuiglyISBN 0192838598 (0-19-283859-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Stalky & Co.'Book summary:First published in 1899, Stalky and Co. is a collection of school stories based on Kipling's own experiences at the United Services College. Kipling himself appears as the central character called Beetle and through him shows how school is a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. [via]
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Daisy Miller and Other Storiesby Henry JamesISBN 0192835432 (0-19-283543-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Miller and Other Stories'Book summary:The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a succès de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here--'Pandora,' 'The Patagonia,' and 'Four Meetings'-- it describes a confrontation between different values in a changing world. Is the new independent American girl enchanting in her spontaneity, alarming in her unpredictability, or merely vulnerable in her ignorance of social codes? Hung about with make admirers who seek, uncertainly, to grasp the new phenomenon, Daisy marches on undiscourageable, to her triumphant--or tragic--destiny.
This volume contains prefaces by Henry James, a chronology of his life, and editor's notes. [via]More editions of Daisy Miller and Other Stories:
Dance to the Music of Timeby Anthony PowellISBN 0226677184 (0-226-67718-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Deadkidsongsby Toby LittISBN 0241140706 (0-241-14070-6)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Dirty Beastsby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224022938 (0-224-02293-8)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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The Dream of Scipioby Iain PearsISBN 0224063138 (0-224-06313-8)
Softcover, Jonathan Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream of Scipio'Book summary:Like his elegant debut, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told from multiple viewpoints. But Pears has set himself an additional challenge by spreading his narrators over several centuries: there's the fifth century French nobleman and bishop, Manlius, a civilized man who has embraced the uncouth Christian faith in order to protect what he holds dear; an 11th-century scholar and troubadour named Olivier de Noyen, the famously ill-fated admirer of a married girl; and Julien Barneuve, an early 20th-century scholar of de Noyen who discovers, through him, a magnificent manuscript of Manlius's called "The Dream of Scipio." Though all three men come from the same small Provençal town, it is this manuscript, derived from the teachings of a wise woman, that links the three narrative threads of Pears's story. At the heart of The Dream of Scipio and, one suspects, at the heart of its author, is the conflict between a classical ideal of learning and the contemplation of beauty, and the noisy, uncivilized, democratizing impulses of the Christian era. A novel of ideas like its predecessor, The Dream of Scipio is neither chilly nor didactic and doesn't shy away from depicting the costs of its narrators' unpopular devotions. --Regina Marler [via]
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An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John Locke, Peter H. NidditchISBN 0198245955 (0-19-824595-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'Book summary:Published in 1689, John Locke's pioneering investigation into the origins, certainty, and extent of human knowledge set the groundwork for modern philosophy and influenced psychology, literature, political theory, and other areas of human thought and expression. [via]
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Ethel & Ernestby Raymond BriggsISBN 0224046624 (0-224-04662-4)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800by Lawrence StoneISBN 0297771337 (0-297-77133-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Felix Hold, the Radicalby George Eliot, Fred C. ThomsonISBN 0198125615 (0-19-812561-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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George's Marvellous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224019015 (0-224-01901-5)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Gerard Manley Hopkinsby Gerard Manley Hopkins, Catherine Phillips, Catherina PhillipsISBN 0192823035 (0-19-282303-5)
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Worksby Gerard Manley Hopkins, Catherine PhillipsISBN 0192840797 (0-19-284079-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works'Book summary:This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work and thinking.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth-century poets. During his tragically short life he strove to reconcile his religious and artistic vocations, and this edition demonstrates the range of his interests. It includes all his poetry, from best-known works such as "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and "The Windhover" to translations, foreign language poems, plays, and verse fragments, and the recently discovered poem "Consule Jones". In addition there are excerpts from Hopkins's journals, letters, and spiritual writings. The poems are printed in chronological order to show Hopkins's changing preoccupations, and all the texts have been established from original manuscripts. [via]More editions of Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works:
The Go-Betweenby L. P. HartleyISBN 0241902088 (0-241-90208-8)
Hardcover, Dufour Editions
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The Great War and Modern Memoryby Paul FussellISBN 0195133323 (0-19-513332-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great War and Modern Memory'Book summary:The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning.
For this special edition, the author has prepared a new afterword and a suggested further reading list. As this classic work draws upon several disciplines--among them literary studies, military history, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry--it will continue to appeal to students, scholars, and general readers of various backgrounds. [via]More editions of The Great War and Modern Memory:
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192826514 (0-19-282651-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and Other Tales'Book summary:'Heart of Darkness' is the finest of all Conrad's stories, showing him at the height of his powers as a writer of great vividness, intensity, and sophistication. Set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, it tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. 'An Outpost of Progress', 'Karain', and 'Youth', unavailable in any other edition, echo the theme of the folly of imperial adventure and display Conrad's audaciously brilliant insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. [via]
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High Riseby J.G. BallardISBN 0224011685 (0-224-01168-5)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.by William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0192827278 (0-19-282727-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.'Book summary:Orphaned in the England of the later Stuarts, Henry Esmonde is raised by his aristocratic, Jacobite relatives the Castlewoods. As a young man he falls in love with both Lady Castlewood and Beatrix, her beautiful, headstrong daughter, and is inspired to join the ultimately unsuccessful campaign to reinstate James Stuart to the throne. Thackeray valued Henry Esmonde more than any of his other novels and it displays many of his own memories and emotions. [via]
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John Caldigateby Anthony Trollope, N. John HallISBN 0192828177 (0-19-282817-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Caldigate'Book summary:John Caldigate (1879) possesses in abundance the virtues of Trollope's writing: an engrossing story told by a worldly-wise, kindly, fair-minded narrator, and a tale strong on what Trollope claimed as the leading feature of his novels, "real" characters. But John Caldigate has some striking and distinctive calls on the reader's attention: Australian gold-mining scenes, the prominence given to matters of law and a criminal trial, and the stronger than usual attack on religious fanaticism. Moreover, the main character is accused of and standing trial for bigamy on the testimony of his former mistress. [via]
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The Life and Death of King John/The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII: 2 in 1by William Shakespeare, A. R. BraunmullerISBN 0192836072 (0-19-283607-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural Historyby Mark GirouardISBN 0300022735 (0-300-02273-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History'Book summary:The English country house has flourished over the centuries because of its ability to adapt to the changes in English society. This book is an account of the ways in which the upper-class life style were reflected in the houses in which the wealthy and powerful lived. First published in 1978, this is a history of the English country house from the point of view of its owners and users. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the world of Evelyn Waugh, the author also discusses and illustrates how the life of the upper classes shaped their country hosues, how they entertained and were served, how they ran the country and their estates and how they reconciled personal privacy and public display. [via]
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The Lifted Veilby George Eliot, Helen SmallISBN 0192832956 (0-19-283295-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lifted Veil'Book summary:This classic story of the March family women and their lives in New England during the Civil War has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868. Poor, argumentative, loving, and optimistic, the March sisters struggle to supplement their family's meager income and realize their own dreams. This highly autobiographical novel shows us women who are strong-minded and independent in their determination to control their own destiny. The introduction to this edition provides a fascinating history of the Alcotts, and a biographical history of Louisa Alcott's own struggles as a writer. [via]
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Little Lord Fauntleroyby Dennis Butts, Frances H. BurnettISBN 0192829610 (0-19-282961-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Lord Fauntleroy'Book summary:Little Lord Fauntleroy, which sold one million copies on its first publication in 1886, is the engaging, amusing, and moving story of a boy living on the edge of poverty in New York who suddenly learns that he is the heir to an English lord with vast lands and wealth. The text includes significant variations from the first serialization of the story and the first American edition. [via]
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The Lodgerby Belloc LowndesISBN 019282371X (0-19-282371-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Lost Worldby Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian DuncanISBN 0192833529 (0-19-283352-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost World'Book summary:Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World. Writing not long after dinosaurs first invaded the popular imagination, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spins a yarn about an expedition of two scientists, a big-game hunter, and a journalist (the narrator) to a volcanic plateau high over the vast Amazon rain forest. The bickering of the professors (a type Doyle knew well from his medical training) serves as witty contrast to the wonders of flora and fauna they encounter, building toward a dramatic moonlit chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the character of Professor George E. Challenger is second only to Sherlock Holmes in the outrageous force of his personality: he's a big man with an even bigger ego, and if you can grit your teeth through his racist behavior toward Native Americans, he's a lot of fun. [via]
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The Lost Worldby Pauline FrancisISBN 023752404X (0-237-52404-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square Books
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Love for Lydiaby BatesISBN 019424153X (0-19-424153-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Love's Labour's Lostby William Shakespeare, G. R. HibbardISBN 0192838806 (0-19-283880-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Mabinogionby Alan Lee, Charlotte SchreiberISBN 0261103911 (0-261-10391-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mabinogion'Book summary:A major illustrated edition of the classic fantasy with over 50 full-colour paintings by the celebrated artist of The Lord of the Rings. Before The Lord of the Rings there was THE MABINOGION. Widely recognized as the finest arc of Celtic mythology, the eleven stories were preserved in two Welsh collections, The White Book of Rhydderch (c.1300-1325) and The Red Book of Hergest (1375-1425), though the stories themselves hail from an oral tradition dating back to the tenth century. At its core are tales of heroes and men, birth and death, gods and beasts, penance and vindication, kinship and kingship, battles and quests. THE MABINOGION embraces much of ancient and early British culture, combining the numinous world of Celtic mythology, Arthurian legend and feudal Europe's Age of Chivalry. Indeed, scholars have identified that it was out of THE MABINOGION that the Arthurian legends were born. This new edition contains the definitive translation of the work by Lady Charlotte Guest, undoubtably the most accessible of those published, and includes the tale of Taliesin, which has been missing from the collected tales of the Mabinogion for over twenty years. It also contains 50 colour paintings by Alan Lee, many appearing here for the first time. Best known for his work on the illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, it was always Alan Lee's ambition to illustrate THE MABINOGION, as it combines his main interests of folklore, legend and the supernatural. His style lends itself perfectly to the work and his interpretation will give enormous pleasure as the stories enter their third millennium. [via]
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The Mabinogionby Sioned DaviesISBN 0192832425 (0-19-283242-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history--these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of hanging a pregnant mouse and hunting a magical boar. Dragons, witches, and giants live alongside kings and heroes, and quests of honour, revenge, and love are set against the backdrop of a country struggling to retain its independence.
This new translation, the first for thirty years, recreates the storytelling world of medieval Wales and re-invests the tales with the power of performance. [via]More editions of The Mabinogion:
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Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulphby Frances Sheridan, Patricia Koster, Jeancoates ClearyISBN 0192823086 (0-19-282308-6)
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher RodenISBN 0192838113 (0-19-283811-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Penzler Pick, February 2000: What is there about the greatest series of short stories in the history of the world that hasn't already been said? This is the second (of five) story collections by Doyle about the greatest detective in literature--and a splendid volume it is, containing such superb puzzles as "The Greek Interpreter," in which readers are introduced to Mycroft Holmes; "The Musgrave Ritual"; "Silver Blaze"; and the earth-shattering "The Final Adventure," recounting the struggle between Holmes and the evil Professor Moriarty in which the two titans were apparently killed as they went over the edge of the Reichenbach Falls.
But every mystery reader already knows this. I'm pointing out this marvelous book because it has been extensively annotated by a fine Sherlockian scholar, Les Klinger, who has brought to all serious students of the Holmesian canon a level of erudition seldom encountered. In addition to the expected illustrations from The Strand magazine and meticulous scrutiny of chronological evidence of various events, there are references to primary sources and a staggering helping of information from the thousands of works about Sherlock Holmes by others.
More than 30 years ago, another great Sherlockian scholar, William S. Baring-Gould, produced a ground-breaking volume that enjoyed more than 35 printings in its original two-volume format and probably sold just as many copies in a slightly less elaborate one-volume size. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes became the single most essential volume in the library of any true Sherlockian, of which the world has far more than you think.
Les Klinger has acknowledged Baring-Gould in every way imaginable, and it was an act of extraordinary courage to attempt to supercede that monumental work. But that is exactly what he appears to be doing. The first volume, his annotated edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, was introduced by the same publisher last year. There are seven yet to come.
If you want to master just about everything there is to know about The Great Detective and The Good Doctor, to understand what Holmes meant when he referred to "a comet vintage" of wine, and to know what discrepancies there are between the English and American editions of the works, plus a thousand other things relating to Holmes, Watson, and the England of the Victorian era, you must have this volume, as well as all the others in the series as they become available over the next few years. --Otto Penzler [via]
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The Merry Wives of Windsorby William Shakespeare, T. W. CraikISBN 0192836080 (0-19-283608-0)
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The Midwich Cuckoosby Pauline Francis, John WyndhamISBN 0237526891 (0-237-52689-1)
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Missee Leeby Arthur RansomeISBN 0224606409 (0-224-60640-9)
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The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to Americaby Martin AmisISBN 0224023853 (0-224-02385-3)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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On the Black Hillby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0224019805 (0-224-01980-5)
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Other Peopleby Martin AmisISBN 0224017667 (0-224-01766-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other People'Book summary:UK hardback first impression. VG with a little spine roll in fine unclipped jacket. Jonathan Cape 1981. [via]
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Oxford Anthology of English Literature: 1800 To the Presentby Frank Kermode, John HollanderISBN 0195016580 (0-19-501658-0)
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The Oxford Book of Detective Storiesby Patricia CraigISBN 0192880675 (0-19-288067-5)
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The Oxford Book of English Detective Storiesby Patricia CraigISBN 0192829688 (0-19-282968-8)
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The Oxford Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195090888 (0-19-509088-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Mark Twain'Book summary:Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium. [via]
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Peter Duckby Arthur RansomeISBN 0224606336 (0-224-60633-6)
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Picts and Martyrsby Arthur RansomeISBN 0224606417 (0-224-60641-7)
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Poems of Alexander Popeby Alexander PopeISBN 0300000308 (0-300-00030-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book, Books I-IVby Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin, Tim BurnettISBN 0198123566 (0-19-812356-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book, Books I-IV'Book summary:This is an edition of the first third of Browning's 21,000-line masterpiece The Ring and the Book, a poem which Henry James called a "monstrous magnificence." The editors throw new light on how the poet wrote this Italian murder story and give all the background annotation needed to understand it. [via]
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Portrait of a Marriageby Nigel Nicolson, V. Sackville-WestISBN 0226583570 (0-226-58357-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark Twain, Lucy RollinISBN 0192824015 (0-19-282401-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper'Book summary:The Prince and the Pauper is one of Twain's best-known and best-loved books throughout the world. In this historical tale set in mid-nineteenth-century England, the Prince of Wales and a lookalike pauper exchange places by accident just days before Henry VIII's death. Each boy finds that his "father" believes him to be mad; each is befriended by his "sister;" and each wakes from sleep thinking that his trying experiences have been just a bad dream. Along the way each learns crucial lessons about manners, morals, justice, and compassion. Mark Twain immersed himself in English history to write this novel and passed on reference books to the artists so that their illustrations could be historically accurate. He was "enchanted" with the pictures they produced. His daughter Susy was convinced that The Prince and the Pauper, a book her father subtitled, "a tale for young people of all ages" was "the best book he has ever written." [via]
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Rachel Rayby Anthony Trollope, P. D. EdwardsISBN 0192837389 (0-19-283738-9)
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, L. G. MitchellISBN 0192839780 (0-19-283978-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'Book summary:This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that follow the mismanagement of change. Written for a generation presented with challenges of terrible proportions--the Industrial, American, and French Revolutions, to name the most obvious--Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France displays an acute awareness of how high political stakes can be, as well as a keen ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. [via]
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Restoration and the Eighteenth Centuryby Martin PriceISBN 0195016149 (0-19-501614-9)
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The Romance of the Forestby Ann Radcliffe, Chloe ChardISBN 0192837133 (0-19-283713-3)
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Samuel Johnson: The Major Worksby Donald GreeneISBN 0192840428 (0-19-284042-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samuel Johnson: The Major Works'Book summary:Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies.
This volume celebrates Johnson's astonishing talent by selecting widely across the full range of his work. It includes "London" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes" among other poems, and many of his essays for the Rambler and Idler. The prefaces to his edition of Shakespeare and his famous Dictionary, together with samples from the texts, are given, as well as selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, the Lives of the Poets, and Rasselas in its entirety. There is also a substantial representation of lesser-known prose, and of his poetry, letters, and journals. [via]More editions of Samuel Johnson: The Major Works:
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Secret Waterby Arthur RansomeISBN 0224606387 (0-224-60638-7)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Selected Lettersby Gerard Manley Hopkins, Catherine PhillipsISBN 0192828185 (0-19-282818-5)
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Selected Poetryby Gerard Manley HopkinsISBN 0192834924 (0-19-283492-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poetry'Book summary:Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality and is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling. This selection, chosen from the award-winning Oxford Authors critical edition, includes most of the larger fragments and all of his major English poems, such as "The Blessed Virgin," "No Worst," "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty" and "The Wreck of the Deutschland." The poems are illuminated further by extensive Notes and a useful Introduction to Hopkins's life and poetry. [via]
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Sidney: A Defense of Poetryby Jan Van DorstenISBN 0199110220 (0-19-911022-0)
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Some Tame Gazelleby Barbara PymISBN 0224016490 (0-224-01649-0)
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Talking It overby Julian BarnesISBN 0224031570 (0-224-03157-0)
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Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Playsby John Ford, Marion LomaxISBN 0192822535 (0-19-282253-5)
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Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover's Melancholy, the Broken Heart, Perkin Warbeckby John Ford, Marion LomaxISBN 0192834495 (0-19-283449-5)
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Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805by Alan SchomISBN 0195075188 (0-19-507518-8)
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The Vicar of Bullhamptonby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192821636 (0-19-282163-6)
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Wellington: A Personal Historyby Christopher HibbertISBN 0201632322 (0-201-63232-2)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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What Maisie Knewby Henry James, Adrian PooleISBN 0192835912 (0-19-283591-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'Book summary:What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue.
In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child's capacity for intelligent `wonder', James summons all the subtlety he devotes elsewhere to his most celebrated adult protagonists. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie inspires James to dwell with extraordinary acuteness on the things that may pass between adult and child. In addition to a new introduction, this edition of the novel offers particularly detailed notes, bibliography, and a list of variant readings. [via] -
William Wordsworthby William Wordsworth, Stephen Charles GillISBN 0192840444 (0-19-284044-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Wordsworth'Book summary:William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative.
This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included. [via]More editions of William Wordsworth:
Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, 1798by W. J. B. OwenISBN 0199110069 (0-19-911006-9)
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The World of Mr. Mullinerby Pelham Grenville WodehouseISBN 0214654044 (0-214-65404-4)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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Zofloya, Or, The Moorby Charlotte Dacre, Kim Ian MichasiwISBN 0192832395 (0-19-283239-5)
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