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Aaron's Rodby D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins, Steven VineISBN 0140188142 (0-14-018814-2)
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Laura Dluzynski QuinnISBN 014018970X (0-14-018970-X)
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The Americanby Henry James, William SpengemannISBN 0140390820 (0-14-039082-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American'Book summary:Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James's masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.[via] 
Anthony Trollopeby Victoria GlendinningISBN 0140235124 (0-14-023512-4)
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Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britainby David CannadineISBN 0140249532 (0-14-024953-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Aunt Dimity's Good Deedby Nancy AthertonISBN 0140258817 (0-14-025881-7)
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The Case of the Missing Bronteby Robert BarnardISBN 0140237852 (0-14-023785-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Certain Ageby Rebbecca RayISBN 0140275592 (0-14-027559-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Chanceby Joseph Conrad, Jacques BerthoudISBN 0140182586 (0-14-018258-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chance'Book summary:It is a mighty force that of mere chance, absolutely irresistible yet manifesting itself often in delicate forms such for instance as the charm, true or illusory, of a human being. In "Flora de Barral", the slender, dreamy, morbidly charming daughter of a parvenu financier, Conrad creates his most complex heroine and one of his most unrelenting, but not unhopeful, novels of emotional isolation. Neglected by her bankrupt father and rejected by her governess, drifting into abstraction and despair, Flora takes refuge at sea on Captain Anthony's ship, where tragedy and her transformation begin. When published in 1913, "Chance" was an immediate success. Arnold Bennett wrote that 'this is a discouraging book for a writer because he damn well knows he can't write as well as this'; while an anonymous reviewer in Punch declared that 'the whole thing is much nearer wizardry than workmanship'. [via]
Cherry Blossom Corpseby Robert BarnardISBN 0140237895 (0-14-023789-5)
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Clayhangerby Arnold BennettISBN 0140182691 (0-14-018269-1)
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The Complete English Poemsby George Herbert, John TobinISBN 0140424555 (0-14-042455-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete English Poems'Book summary:George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century metaphysical poets and unusual imagery drawn from musical structures, the natural world, and domestic activity to explore a mosaic of Biblical themes. From the wit and wordplay of The Puley and the formal experimentation of Easter Wings and Paradise, to the intense, highly personal relationship between man and God portrayed in The Collar and Redemption, the works collected here show the transcendental power of divine love. This vast collection includes all Herberts English poems, selections from his Latin poetry with translations, his major prose work A Priest to the Temple, and Izaak Waltons Life of Herbert.[via]More editions of The Complete English Poems:
Confidential Agentby Graham GreeneISBN 0140185380 (0-14-018538-0)
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A Corpse in a Gilded Cageby Robert BarnardISBN 0140237887 (0-14-023788-7)
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Criminalsby Margot LiveseyISBN 0140262776 (0-14-026277-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Criminals'Book summary:Criminals is a tweaked gothic. Instead of a dark castle, there is an average Scottish farmhouse, Mill of Fortune. There is nothing supernatural, and the love story is all in one character's mind, nearly losing him his livelihood. Ewan is less a knight-at-arms than a London businessman, and his sister is the madwoman. Mollie, however, is not in the attic, but very much up and about after her novelist-lover has left her. Ewan knows he must check on her and heads for Scotland. During a bus layover, he hears a small whimper and is amazed to find a baby in a bathroom stall. Hearing his bus about to leave, he grabs the bundle and ends up taking it with him.
Unfortunately, Mollie's reaction is not one he had hoped for: instead of calling the police, she lays siege, and their criminal career begins. Margot Livesey is clearly interested in exploring one question: How much do you really know about your family? For six chapters, the narration goes back and forth between brother and sister, but the seventh is a surprise--devoted to the man who left the baby on the filthy floor. Kenneth's thought processes are sinister and idiotic, giving him a great deal of comic energy. Having followed Ewan to Mill of Fortune, he is determined to bilk him out of as much money as possible. "Ideas, he thought, I am an ideas man." As Kenneth does his brutal best and Ewan is caught up in insider-trading complications, Mollie--still hanging onto the child--grows increasingly paranoid: "She heard something. Had Ewan spoken? Had the table? She examined each in turn. The sleek wood had grown oddly smug and duplicitous ..." Livesey is an expert practitioner of the fiction of threat, the novel of isolation and misery in which the family is a nest of sorrows. [via]
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Death by Sheer Tortureby Robert BarnardISBN 0140237879 (0-14-023787-9)
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Down the Garden Path: A Pastoral Mysteryby Dorothy CannellISBN 0140266232 (0-14-026623-2)
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The Egoistby George Meredith, George WoodcockISBN 0140430342 (0-14-043034-2)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Eminent Victoriansby Lytton StracheyISBN 0140183507 (0-14-018350-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminent Victorians'Book summary:The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, some said, skewed) portraits. Rarely does Strachey explore the details of a subject's daily or family life unless they point directly to an issue of character. In short, he pioneered a deeply sardonic and often scathingly funny biographical style.
None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one." Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form." In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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England, My Englandby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140181989 (0-14-018198-9)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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English Fairy Talesby Joseph Jacobs, Margery GillISBN 0140304665 (0-14-030466-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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English Foodby Jane GrigsonISBN 0140273247 (0-14-027324-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Food'Book summary:"English Food" reveals the richness and surprising diversity of England's culinary heritage. Fully updated and revised by Jane Grigson before her death in 1990, this joyful celebration of our national cuisine is a pleasure to cook from and a delight to read. 'This is the perfect English companion' - "Guardian". '"English Food" is an anthology, all who follow her recipes will want to buy for themselves...enticing from page to page' - "Spectator". 'She restored pride to the subject of English food' - "Evening Standard". [via]
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Esio Trotby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0140360999 (0-14-036099-9)
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Felicia's Journeyby William TrevorISBN 0140253602 (0-14-025360-2)
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Felix in the Underworldby John MortimerISBN 0140274960 (0-14-027496-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Fox, the Captain'S, Doll the Ladybirdby D. H. Lawrence, Dieter MehlISBN 0140187790 (0-14-018779-0)
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The Garden Party and Other Storiesby Lorna Sage, Katherine MansfieldISBN 0140188800 (0-14-018880-0)
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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Meby Roald DahlISBN 0140370099 (0-14-037009-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me'Book summary:While Billy and the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company are cleaning the windows of the Duke of Hampshire's estate, they spot the Cobra, the most dangerous cat burglar in the world, stealing the Duchess's diamonds. Reissue. H. [via]
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Going Soloby Roald DahlISBN 014032528X (0-14-032528-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going Solo'Book summary:The second part of Roald Dahl's autobiography creates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any one will find in his fiction. An evocation of his wartime exploits, it tells of African safaris and deadly snakes; of fighter planes and air battles with the enemy during World War II. This is the sequel to "Boy". [via]
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Heroes and Villainsby Angela CarterISBN 0140234640 (0-14-023464-0)
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House in Parisby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0140183035 (0-14-018303-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House in Paris'Book summary:Two children, strangers, wait in a house in Paris: Leopold for his mother, whom he has never seen; Henrietta for a train. Upstairs an old woman lies dying and her sad unfulfilled daughter flutters hopelessly round her...
Slowly exposing the apprehensions of the children and the reasons for their presence in the house, Elizabeth Bowen releases all her psychological insight, her charmed prose and unerring feel for atmosphere into a masterpiece of delicacy and restraint. [via]
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Kangarooby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140182012 (0-14-018201-2)
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The Little Girlsby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0140183051 (0-14-018305-1)
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Liza of Lambethby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140185933 (0-14-018593-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Lord Byronby George Gordon Byron, Susan J. Wolfson, Peter J. ManningISBN 0140423818 (0-14-042381-8)
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The Lost Girlby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140182063 (0-14-018206-3)
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Love on the Doleby Walter GreenwoodISBN 0140183353 (0-14-018335-3)
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The Magic Fingerby Roald Dahl, Tony RossISBN 0140363033 (0-14-036303-3)
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The Magic Worldby E. NesbitISBN 0140367659 (0-14-036765-9)
Softcover, Puffin
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The Making of Pride and Prejudiceby Sue Birtwistle, Susie ConklinISBN 014025157X (0-14-025157-X)
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The Man Withinby Graham GreeneISBN 0140185305 (0-14-018530-5)
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Marianne Dreamsby StorrISBN 0140302093 (0-14-030209-3)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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The Metaphysical Poetsby Helen GardnerISBN 014042038X (0-14-042038-X)
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Moonfleetby John Meade FalknerISBN 0140301682 (0-14-030168-2)
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The Napoleon of Notting Hillby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0140183892 (0-14-018389-2)
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The New Pelican Guide to English Literatureby Boris FordISBN 0140222650 (0-14-022265-0)
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The Peacock Springby Rumer GoddenISBN 0140328831 (0-14-032883-1)
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetryby Jon SilkinISBN 0140183671 (0-14-018367-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry'Book summary:The recent PBS 8-part miniseries THE GREAT WAR sparked renewed interest in the First World War. More than photographs or eyewitness reports, the poetry written during the embedded the horror of the war in our consciousness. Now, supplemented with five new poems, the works of 38 British, European, and American writers collected here include some of the most outstanding and poignant poems of this century. [via]
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The Penguin Companion to Trollopeby Richard Mullen, James MunsonISBN 0140235582 (0-14-023558-2)
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A Personal Record the Mirror of the Seaby Joseph Conrad, Mara KalninsISBN 0140189661 (0-14-018966-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Personal Record the Mirror of the Sea'Book summary:Joseph Conrad is a largely enigmatic presence in his novels, but in A Personal Record he decided to introduce his readers to "the figure behind the veil". Almost equally revealing is The Mirror of the Sea, written in "tribute to the sea, its ships, and its men, to whom I remain indebted for so much which has gone to make me what I am". Both are full of Conrad's anecdotes and adventures about smuggling arms to Don Carlos, a claimant to the Spanish throne, and characters like the great-uncle who once had to eat a Lithuanian dog during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. They also let us see inside the young man who broke with his Polish background and was deeply inspired by the resilience and devotion to duty of his fellow British sailors. Every page is filled with a powerful moral intelligence and sense of history. [via]
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Plain Tales from the Hillsby Rudyard Kipling, David Trotter, H. R. WoudhuysenISBN 0140183124 (0-14-018312-4)
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Princess and Curdieby George MacDonald, Helen StrattonISBN 0140367624 (0-14-036762-4)
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The Rescueby Joseph ConradISBN 0140180346 (0-14-018034-6)
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Set in the nineteenth century, the novel opens in a troubled time when war is about to break out between Malay tribes in Africa. Out on a mission to keep the weapons from falling into the wrong hands, Captain Tom embarks on an unmarked journey. Packed with action and brimming with heart-stopping adventures, this is a captivating work!
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Rewards & Fairies.by Rudyard Kipling, Roger LewisISBN 0140184376 (0-14-018437-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rewards & Fairies.'Book summary:Continues the adventures of Dan and Una with Puck of Pook's Hill, the last surviving fairy in England. The author also wrote "The Jungle Book", "Just So Stories" and "Plain Tales from the Hills". [via]
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River of Darknessby Rennie AirthISBN 0140291962 (0-14-029196-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River of Darkness'Book summary:The main protagonist of River of Darkness is a Scotland Yard detective so damaged by his experiences during the First World War that his superiors worry about his ability to do his job. This may sound like Charles Todd's excellent series about Ian Rutledge, a shell-shocked cop from the same era. But Rennie Airth, a South African journalist who lives in Italy, has made his hero--Inspector John Madden--a somewhat different version of one of England's walking wounded. Madden is both gloomier (he lost his wife and young daughter to an influenza epidemic) and more pragmatic than the poetic, indecisive Rutledge.
Madden is sent to a town in Surrey where a local family has been massacred in what looks like a robbery gone wrong. He finds enough echoes of his recent battlefield experiences to conclude that the killer was just one man--most likely a former soldier using a bayonet. As for motive, it could well be perverse sexual passion, that "river of darkness" to which a psychologist introduces him. We meet the killer early on, watch him as he maintains a rigid control over every aspect of his life, then stare in horror as he periodically explodes into mad violence. Unlike Madden, this man has not been severely damaged or changed by the war; he has simply used it to channel and redirect his dark river. Airth's point--that survival comes in many shapes and sizes--gives a solid foundation to an impressive leap of imagination. --Dick Adler [via]
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Selected Poemsby Byron, Susan J. Wolfson, Peter J. ManningISBN 0140424504 (0-14-042450-4)
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Selected Short Storiesby H. G. WellsISBN 0140181881 (0-14-018188-1)
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Selected Lettersby D. H. Lawrence, Richard Aldington, Aldous HuxleyISBN 0140189505 (0-14-018950-5)
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Selected Poems of Thomas Hardyby Thomas Hardy, David WrightISBN 0140422544 (0-14-042254-4)
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Servants of the Peopleby Andrew RawnsleyISBN 0140278508 (0-14-027850-8)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Sharpe's Enemyby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140294341 (0-14-029434-1)
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Sharpe's Siegeby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140294376 (0-14-029437-6)
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Shortened History of Englandby G. M. TrevelyanISBN 0140233237 (0-14-023323-7)
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The Sin Within Her Smileby Jonathan GashISBN 0140238395 (0-14-023839-5)
Softcover, Southgate Publishers
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Sir Philip Sidneyby Philip Sidney, Catherine BatesISBN 0140423788 (0-14-042378-8)
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The Spellby Alan HollinghurstISBN 0140286373 (0-14-028637-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spell'Book summary:Alan Hollinghurst writes like a dream about the nightmare of unequal affection. In his third novel, The Spell, four men dance around one another, their emotions and actions ranging from casual cruelty to anxiety to adoration. Hollinghurst's painful but smiling roundelay alternates between Dorset--where 40ish architect Robin shares a house with the impossibly self-involved Justin--and London. When Justin's ex, Alex, arrives for a weekend in the country, the atmosphere is instantly rich with jealousy and power plays. And after the trio is joined by a younger gay man, Danny--who turns out to be Robin's son--the attractions and duplicities multiply exponentially. Alex, for instance, soon admits to Danny, "I've got a ruinous taste for takers," and they (and we) are off and running.
As ever, Hollinghurst's prose is musical and sensual but also deeply witty. Even the birds in this novel modulate their song from somnolent calls to outright chuckles--echoing the pleasures and absurdities of the humans they circle. And the author's feel for the easy intimacies and brutalities that his characters exchange is unmatched. As Justin (clad only in a tanga) escorts Alex around the cottage, he points out some vases: "These pots, darling, were made by potters of the greatest probity." Hollinghurst's descriptions are marvelous, whether of landscape or human frailty. After leaving a rather unrelaxed restaurant with Alex, "Danny recovered his air of bossiness and mystery, like a prefect in the school of pleasure." And when the two obtain some Ecstasy and hit one of Danny's haunts--a brilliantly realized club--the author reveals the rapture and idiocy in each moment:
The boys glistened and pawed at the ground. They looked like members of some dodgy brainwashing cult.... Alex saw that what he most wanted was happening and groped marvellingly between the different kinds of happiness, the chemicals and the sex. It seemed that happening and happiness were the same, he must remember that, to tell everyone.
But as amusing as Alan Hollinghurst is, his forte is loss. Again and again he reminds us that solitary sadness is a wink away from comedy and sexual possession. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Spell:
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Stopping for a Spellby Diana Wynne Jones, Joseph A. SmithISBN 0140379371 (0-14-037937-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stopping for a Spell'Book summary:A collection of three funny fantasy tales about weird happenings, magical mayhem, and twisting plots includes the story of an armchair that is transformed into a person, four grandmothers coming for a visit at once, and a friend of one's father who refuses to leave. Reprint. K. [via]
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Story of the Treasure Seekersby E. Nesbit, Cecil LeslieISBN 0140367063 (0-14-036706-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of the Treasure Seekers'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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The Summer Houseby Alice Thomas EllisISBN 014023876X (0-14-023876-X)
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Summerhillby Alexander Sutherland Neill, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0140209409 (0-14-020940-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summerhill'Book summary:Summerhill is Neill's story of the small experimental school he set up to prove Freedom Works. [via]
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Tarrby Wyndham LewisISBN 0140182640 (0-14-018264-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarr'Book summary:Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER 1 From his window in the neighbouring Boulevard, Kreisler's eye was fixed blankly on a spot thirty feet above the scene of the Hobson-Tarr dialogue. He was shaving himself, one eye fixed on Paris. It beat on this wall of Paris drearily. Had it been endowed with properties of illumination and been directed there earlier in the day, it would have served as a desolate halo for Tarr's ratiocination. For several days Kreisler's watch had been in the Mont de Piete. Until some clock struck he was in total ignorance of the time of day. The late spring sunshine flooded, like a bursted tepid star, the pink boulevard. The people beneath crawled like wounded insects of cloth. A two-storey house terminating the Boulevard Pfifer, covered the lower part of the Cafe de Berne. Kreisler's room looked like some funeral vault. Shallow, ill-lighted and extensive, it was placarded with nude and archaic images, painted on strips of canvas fixed to the wall with drawing pins. Imagining yourself in some Asiatic dwelling of the dead, with the portraits of the deceased covering the holes in which they had respectively been thrust, you would, following your fancy, have turned to Kreisler seeking to see in him some devout recluse who had taken up his quarters there. Kreisler was in a sense a recluse (although almost certainly the fancy would have gasped and fallen at his contact). But cafes were the luminous caverns where he could be said, most generally, to dwell; with, nevertheless, very little opening of the lips and much "recueillement" or meditation; therefore not unworthy of some rank among the inferior and less fervent solitudes. A bed like an overturned cupboard, dark, and with red billow of cloth and feathers covering it entirely; a tessellated floor of dark red tile; a little ... [via]
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925by Vera BrittainISBN 0140188444 (0-14-018844-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925'Book summary:When war broke out in August 1914, 21-year-old Vera Brittain was planning on enrolling at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father told her she wouldn't be able to go: "In a few months' time we should probably all find ourselves in the Workhouse!" he opined. Brittain had hoped to escape the Northern provinces, but the war seemingly dashed her plans. "It is not, perhaps, so very surprising that the War at first seemed to me an infuriating personal interruption rather than a world-wide catastrophe."
Her father eventually relented, however, and she was allowed to attend. By the end of her first year, she had fallen in love with a young soldier and resolved to become active in the war effort by volunteering as a nurse--turning her back on what she called her "provincial young-ladyhood." Brittain suffered through 12-hour days by reminding herself that nothing she endured was worse than what her fiancé, Roland, experienced in the trenches. Roland was expected home on leave for Christmas 1915; on December 26, Brittain received news that he had been killed at the front. Ten months later Brittain herself was sent to Malta and then to France to serve in the hospitals nearer the front, where she witnessed firsthand the horrors of battle. When peace finally came, Brittain had also lost her brother Edward and two close friends. As she walked the streets of London on November 11, 1918--Armistice Day--she felt alone in the crowds:
For the first time I realised, with all that full realisation meant, how completely everything that had hitherto made up my life had vanished with Edward and Roland, with Victor and Geoffrey. The War was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were dead and would never return.
First published in 1933, Testament of Youth established Brittain as one of the best-loved authors of her time. Her crisp, clear prose and searing honesty make this unsentimental memoir of a generation scarred by war a classic. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Third Manby Graham GreeneISBN 0140286829 (0-14-028682-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Man'Book summary:Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city." Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his own...[via]More editions of The Third Man:
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Three Comediesby B. JohnsonISBN 014043013X (0-14-043013-X)
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Three Gothic Novelsby Peter FaircloughISBN 0140430369 (0-14-043036-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Gothic Novels'Book summary:The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote. @NotoriousDOC Just did a bit-torrent-style grave robbery. My new 'man' will be an artful collage. Also, good conversation starter. It's alive! I'd better beat it over the head repeatedly with a fire extinguisher. So sometimes you build something, and it gets away. They're gonna can me at the university if they find out about this. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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To the Northby Elizabeth BowenISBN 014018306X (0-14-018306-X)
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The Travelling Hornplayerby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0140281908 (0-14-028190-8)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0140367217 (0-14-036721-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:A mission to rid the seas of a monstrous creature becomes a terrifying nightmare when Professor Arronax, Conseil and Ned Land are thrown overboard. The huge marine animal which has haunted the water is no living beast, but a spectacular man-made vessel, and the three men find themselves the helpless prisoners of Captain Nemo. Resigned to their fate, they begin a miraculous journey on the submarine ship which can travel through waters never before explored. For the Professor, at least, this voyage is one he would not have missed for the world. [via]
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Typhoon and Other Storiesby Joseph Conrad, Paul KirschnerISBN 0140182578 (0-14-018257-8)
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The Vanby Roddy DoyleISBN 0140260021 (0-14-026002-1)
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The War of the Roses: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Centuryby Desmond SewardISBN 0140234020 (0-14-023402-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Roses: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century'Book summary:Between 1455 and 1485 the dynastic struggle in England between the houses of York and Lancaster, known as the Wars of the Roses, devastated the country and decimated the ranks of the nobility. Medievalist Desmond Seward examines the history through the biographies of five individuals. His choice of subjects mixes nobility and common soldier, and includes two extraordinary women. The result is a vividly human picture of a distant time and place. The text is supplemented with useful illustrations and background information. [via]
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Whom the Gods Loveby Kate RossISBN 014024767X (0-14-024767-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whom the Gods Love'Book summary:Alexander Falkland hasn't an enemy in the world. Young, talented, charming, he shines in every field he enters: law, architecture, the investment market. But one night his luck runs out with a vengeance. In the midst of one of his famous parties, he is found in his study with his head smashed, a blood-stained poker beside him. No wonder the inscription on his gravestone reads: whom the gods love die young. When the Bow Street runners fail to solve the crime, Alexander's distraught father turns to Julian Kestrel, elegant dandy and intrepid amateur sleuth. Soon Kestrel is up to his ears in suspects. But the greatest enigma is Alexander himself. Who was he really? Social reformer or butterfly, devoted husband or rake? In this, his third murder case, Julian must peel off one mask after another, till at last he discovers an Alexander no one knew - except, perhaps, the killer. [via]
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The Wouldbegoodsby E. NesbitISBN 0140350594 (0-14-035059-4)
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