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An Accidental Family
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Freeborn

ISBN 0192828363 (0-19-282836-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Set in the 1870s, a time of social disorder in Russia, An Accidental Family is the story of Arkady Dolgoruky, an awkward, illegitimate twenty-year-old on a desperate search for his family. This new translation of Dostoevsky's last completed novel fully captures the raciness and youthful vigor of the original text, and expresses "the innermost spiritual world of someone on the eve of manhood at that tumultuous time." [via]
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 0140057242 (0-14-005724-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Complete in nine handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definitive collection of the famous detective's adventures. No home library is complete without it.
Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were first published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes is at the height of his powers in many of his most famous cases, including "The Red-Headed League," "The Speckled Band," and "The Blue Carbuncle." [via]
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Alice in Wonderland Classic Library
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0307171116 (0-307-17111-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

ISBN 014036675X (0-14-036675-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

ISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Asi Hablaba Zaratustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN 9583000086 (958-30-0008-6)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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This Book Is In Spanish. [via]
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Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale

ISBN 014044923X (0-14-044923-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women's emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a lucid introduction by one of the most eminent of Nietzsche scholars, Robert C. Holub. [via]
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Beyond Good and Evil:Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

ISBN 0140442677 (0-14-044267-7)
Hardcover, Penguin

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This work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a "slave morality." With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own "will to power" upon the world.
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Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN 0075535750 (0-07-553575-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College

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This novel was Dostoyevsky's last and finest work, telling the story of the four Karamazov brotherseach with his own distinct personality and desires. Driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, they all become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. Exploring the secret depths of humanity's struggles and sins, Dostoyevsky unfolds a grand epic which attempts to venture into mankind's darkest heart, and grasp the true meaning of existence.
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The Communist Manifesto
by Friedrich Engels, Gareth Stedman Jones, K. Marx

ISBN 0140447571 (0-14-044757-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.

The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism today.

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The Communist Manifesto
by David McLellan, Friedrich Engels, Samuel Moore, K. Marx

ISBN 0192829548 (0-19-282954-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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The Communist Manifesto
by K. Marx

ISBN 0140444785 (0-14-044478-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell, Patricia Ingham

ISBN 0141439882 (0-14-143988-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In this witty and poignant comedy of early-Victorian life in a country town, Elizabeth Gaskell describes the uneventful lives of the lady-like inhabitants so as to offer an ironic commentary on the diverse experiences of men and women. This edition has detailed notes and a new introduction which discusses the originality and subtlety of the book's angle on women's experience. Also included in this edition is the sequel to Cranford, The Cage at Cranford, and a unique appendix of related writing. [via]
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Cranford
by Patricia Ingham, Elizabeth Gaskell

ISBN 0143039415 (0-14-303941-5)
Softcover, Penguin Classics

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A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Rich with humor and filled with vividly memorable charactersincluding the dignified Lady Glenmire and the duplicitous showman Signor BrunoniCranford is a portrait of kindness, compassion, and hope. [via]
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Cranford ; Cousin Phillis
by Elizabeth Gaskell

ISBN 0140431047 (0-14-043104-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Effi Briest
by Helen Chambers, Hugh Rorrison, Theordor Fontane

ISBN 0140447660 (0-14-044766-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In 1919 thomas mann hailed effi briest (1895) as one of "the six most significant novels ever written." set in bismarck's germany, fontane's luminous tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match between the enchanting seventeen-year-old effi and an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age, is at once touching and unsettling. Fontane's taut, ironic narrative depicts a world where sexuality and the enjoyment of life are stifled by narrow-mindedness and circumstance. Considered by many to be the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century german novel, effi briest is a tale of adultery that ranks with madame bovary and anna karenina and brilliantly demonstrates the truth of the author's comment and "women's stories are generally far more interesting [via]
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Effi Briest
by Theordor Fontane

ISBN 0140441905 (0-14-044190-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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The story of a woman's adultery. The story of Effi and the chinaman's ghost, the forest and dunes that are its setting, the stern Prussian code that makes the climax both terrible and absurd, are unique to Fontane and to German literature. [via]
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Emma
by Jane Austen

ISBN 0060956933 (0-06-095693-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Emma
by David Lodge, Jane Austen, James Kinsley

ISBN 0192815040 (0-19-281504-0)
Softcover, Oxford University Press

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Hegel's Philosophy of Right
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

ISBN 0195002768 (0-19-500276-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Karamazov Brothers
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey

ISBN 0192835092 (0-19-283509-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work. [via]
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, Barry Moser

ISBN 0151042306 (0-15-104230-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt

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North and South
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Patricia Ingham

ISBN 0140434240 (0-14-043424-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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This novel is a study of the contrast between the values and habits of rural southern England and industrial northern England. The heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a parson whose religious doubts force him to resign his Hampshire living and to move with his family to a northern city. [via]
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North and South
by Angus Easson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sally Shuttleworth

ISBN 0192831941 (0-19-283194-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Mary Gaskell's North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skillfully explores issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers conflicts with her growing attraction to the mill owner, John Thornton. This new and revised expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate. [via]
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen
by Jane Austen, R.W. Chapman

ISBN 0192547011 (0-19-254701-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma.
Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage. [via]
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The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th
by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 0192123297 (0-19-212329-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Any fan of detective fiction knows that there is no substitute in all of literature for a few hours of reading pleasure at 221 B Baker Street. The tobacco in the persian slipper, the piles of monographs and newspaper clippings covering the floor and table, the unanswered correspondence affixed to the mantle with a dagger. What will the next visitor or urgent message bring? Perhaps a request from a mysterious stranger to help prevent "A Scandal in Bohemia." Perhaps Watson will tell us the story, discretely leaving out certain names, of how he and Holmes had to step outside the law to protect a certain royal personage from a blackmailer in "The Case of Charles Augustus Milverton." Or, for a very unusual treat, perhaps Holmes himself, in quiet retirement in Sussex, will tell a tale in his own words as in "The Lion's Mane."
In the more than a century since the publication of the first tale featuring Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and stories have inspired countless films, plays, pastiches, literary tributes, and tens of thousands of imitations. Now, Oxford is proud to announce The Oxford Sherlock Holmes, the complete works gathered together in nine handsomely bound, meticulously edited volumes. The books themselves are beautiful, and the entire set comes in an attractive display box, perfect for gift-giving.
Beautifully designed, boasting an introduction by a Doyle authority, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and notes, all carefully researched and assembled, this magnificent set will enhance the reading pleasure of readers new to Doyle's work and veterans of Holmsian arcana. A goldmine of reading pleasure, The Oxford Sherlock Holmes is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in crime fiction. [via]
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Pere Goriot
by Honore De Balzac

ISBN 8742976200 (87-429-7620-0)
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'Pere Goriot' is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, come to Paris from the provinces to make his fortune, who befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters. The story is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for money. [via]
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Sense And Sensibility
by Jane Austen, Linda Jennings

ISBN 0140378502 (0-14-037850-2)
Softcover, Puffin

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Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Shirley
by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 0141439866 (0-14-143986-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of
a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life
symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention. [via]
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Shirley
by Margaret Smith, Charlotte Bronte, Herbert Rosengarten

ISBN 0192833782 (0-19-283378-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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With an introduction and notes by: Smith, Margaret; [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy, Tom Dolin

ISBN 0141439599 (0-14-143959-9)
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This critical edition of Thomas Hardys widely taught 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with critical essays that approach the work from 5 contemporary critical perspectives and highly praised editorial apparatus that introduces students to the novel and the perspectives.
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Tess Of The d'Urbervilles
by Simon Gatrell, Penny Boumelha, Juliet Grindle, Thomas Hardy

ISBN 019284069X (0-19-284069-X)
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Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.
Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Tom Dolin

ISBN 014043514X (0-14-043514-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. [via]
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: Stage 6 2,500 Headwords
by Thomas Hardy, Jennifer Bassett

ISBN 0194230945 (0-19-423094-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy
by Peter Widdowson

ISBN 0312090927 (0-312-09092-7)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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Under the Greenwood Tree
by Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell

ISBN 0192835173 (0-19-283517-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work. [via]
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Anticristo-Bolsillo
by Nietzche

ISBN 968890273X (968-890-273-X)
Hardcover, Giron Spanish Books Distributors

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Crimen y castigo/ Crime and Punishment
by Fi=dor Dostoievski

ISBN 8497644727 (84-9764-472-7)
Softcover, Edimat Libros

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The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced, newly updated books will enhance any library.

Las reconocidas obras de literatura de esta serie constituyen el más valioso tesoro de la literatura universal. Estos libros de cubierta imitación cuero, a un precio muy conveniente, halagan cualquier biblioteca.
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Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde/ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Louis Stevenson

ISBN 9706665749 (970-666-574-9)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Tomo

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El Extrano caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr.Hyde/The strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 9685142963 (968-5142-96-3)
Hardcover, Uribe Y Ferrari Editores Sa De Cv

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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekill And Mrs Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 9583007668 (958-30-0766-8)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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