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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Beverly Lyon ClarkISBN 0393926036 (0-393-92603-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based, with typesetting errors corrected, on the first U.S. edition (1876), the most authoritative of the editions published in Twains lifetime.
Backgrounds and Contexts provides students with the standard source materials often cited by criticsTwains stories of Good and Bad Boys, his Boys Manuscript, his correspondence with William Dean Howells, and his 1870 letter to Will Bowen. This section also includes lesser-known but valuable contextual materials, among them Twains journalistic description of school exercise and the discussion of Perry Davis Pain Killer and other nineteenth-century nostrums.
Criticism includes interpretations by William Dean Howells, Hamlin L. Hill, Judith Fetterley, Alan Gribben, Glenn Hendler, Carter Revard, and Susan R. Gannon.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
Anton Chekhov's Selected Playsby Anton Chekhov, Laurence SenelickISBN 0393924653 (0-393-92465-3)
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Aurora Leighby Margaret Reynolds, Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN 0393962989 (0-393-96298-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aurora Leigh'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.
The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace Aurora Leighs inception, evolution, and publication.
Seven contemporary documentson the "woman question," prostitution, socialism, and poetic theoryplace the text historically.
"Criticism" collects twenty-five assessments of Aurora Leigh from the period 18991993.
A wide range of opinion is provided by George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ellen Moers, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Angela Leighton, Deirdre David, Dorothy Mermin, and Margaret Reynolds, among others.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Aurora Leigh:
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882by Charles Darwin, Nora BarlowISBN 0393310698 (0-393-31069-8)
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The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 0394326679 (0-394-32667-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories'Book summary:The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are themes of this now-classic novel.
The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar," "unhealthily introspective," and "morbid," the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. This edition also includes selected stories from Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, and an introduction and notes by Nina Baym. [via]More editions of The Awakening and Selected Stories:
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Blake's Poetry And Designsby William Blake, John Ernest GrantISBN 039392498X (0-393-92498-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blake's Poetry And Designs'Book summary:The Second Edition of this revered Norton Critical Edition is the most comprehensive introduction to Blakes poetry and thought available.
In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blakes verse. Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blakes notebook, letters, marginalia, and other writings. Criticism offers twenty wide-ranging commentaries by writers from Blakes contemporaries to present-day critics, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Northrop Frye, Allen Ginsberg, Morris Eaves, Harold Bloom, Alicia Ostriker, John Mee, Saree Makdisi, and Julia Wright. A section on Textual Technicalities, a Chronology of Blakes life and work, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are also included. [via]More editions of Blake's Poetry And Designs:
Blue at the Mizzenby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039332107X (0-393-32107-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue at the Mizzen'Book summary:Almost three decades after commencing his maritime epic with Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian is still at it. The 20th episode, Blue at the Mizzen, is another swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, complete with romantic escapades from smoggy London to Sierra Leone, diplomacy, espionage, the intricacies of warfare, and imperial brinksmanship. As always, these events are bound up in the ongoing friendship between two officers of the Royal Navy. Jack Aubrey is the naval captain, bold yet compassionate, innovative yet cautious, as fearless in war as he is bumbling in affairs of the heart and household. His boon companion Stephen Maturin is the ship's surgeon--and additionally a spy for the British government, a wealthy Catalonian aristocrat, a doting Irish father, and an avid naturalist.
That may sound like a lot to keep track of. However, it's not necessary to carry around a scorecard or ship's roster while reading Blue at the Mizzen. The ostensible issue is whether Jack will finally be promoted to Admiral of the Blue. But long before he hears any word from the Napoleonic era's equivalent of Personnel, he loses half his crew to desertion, his ship undergoes a disastrous collision, and the entire company comes close to perishing in the ice-choked seas off Cape Horn. Meanwhile, the widowed Maturin issues a surprising proposal of marriage to a beautiful, mud-bespattered fellow naturalist while trekking through an African mangrove swamp. (The two lovebirds happen to be searching for a rare variant of Caprimulgus longipennis, the long-tailed nightjar, which they hope to surprise in full mating plumage.)
Still, this is hardly a plot-driven novel. O'Brian takes time to get anywhere, and invariably enjoys the journey more than the arrival. So even as we get constant hints of the climax to come--Jack's spectacular naval action on behalf of the infant Republic of Chile--we don't mind hearing about the nuances of shipboard existence or the secret life of the white-faced tree duck. We're treated, for example, to this snippet about managed care, circa 1816:
Poll, Maggie and a horse-leech from the starboard watch have been administering enemas to the many, many cases of gross surfeit that have now replaced the frostbites, torsions, and debility of the recent past, the very recent past. Strong, fresh, seal-meat has not its equal for upsetting the seaman's metabolism: he is much better kept on biscuits, Essex cheese, and a very little well-seethed salt pork--kept on short commons.
And we're grateful! We can only hope that the elderly author will favor us with at least one more novel, so that his avid followers can avoid their own form of short commons. Life without Aubrey and Maturin would be a deprivation indeed. --Andrew Himes [via]More editions of Blue at the Mizzen:
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Ben FowkesISBN 039472657X (0-394-72657-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital. [via]
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The Captains Daughter and Other Storiesby Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0394707141 (0-394-70714-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Chymical Weddingby Lindsay ClarkeISBN 0394579372 (0-394-57937-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chymical Wedding'Book summary:It is the early 1980s. Alex Darken, devastated by a broken marriage, has retreated to a remote village in the bleak flatlands of eastern England. On the Easterness Estate he meets the volatile, aging poet Edward Nesbit and his vibrant, psychic, young American lover, Laura. Slowly, he is drawn into a strange relationship with them as they piece together the lost studies of two of the present lord's ancestors.
In 1849, Sir Henry Agnew and his elegant, brilliant daughter Louisa, were about to penetrate the last secrets of the mystical art of alchemy. They, like the researches a century and a half later, see in the "chemical wedding" of opposites -- sulphur and quicksilver, spirit and matter, male and female, reality and imagination -- a key to spiritual rebirth. As Edward, Laura, and Alex mirror the Agnew story, dreams and symbols, erotic ecstasy and philosophical argument, climax in a vision which, like those before them, they can grasp only as they skirt insanity and tragedy . . . .
"Engrossing . . . By the time we start wanting to resist, it is too late. The book already has drawn us too deeply into its six intriguing main characters and its rich gothic folds of plot." -- Chicago Tribune [via]More editions of The Chymical Wedding:
Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815by N. A. M. RodgerISBN 0393328473 (0-393-32847-3)
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The Commodoreby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393314596 (0-393-31459-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Commodore'Book summary:The seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as "the best historical novels ever written."
Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes.
Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent.
The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0394718917 (0-394-71891-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Novels of Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 039440324X (0-394-40324-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Compiled here are over 50 of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and tales in one giant Kindle book. This includes an active table of contents to make finding stories easy.
This edition includes the following stories:
The Angel of the Odd
The Assignation
The Balloon Hoax
Berenice
Bon-Bon
The Black Cat
The Business Man
The Cask of Amontillado
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
A Descent Into the Maelström
The Devil in the Belfry
Diddling
The Domain of Arnheim
Duc De L'Omelette
Eleonora
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of the Usher
Four Beasts in One
The Gold-Bug
Hop Frog
How to Write a Blackwood Article
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
King Pest
Landor's Cottage
Landscape Garden
Ligeia
Lionizing
Loss of Breath
Maelzel's Chess-Player
Man of the Crowd
Man that was Used Up
The Masque of the Red Death
Mellonta Tauta
Mesmeric Revelation
Metzengerstein
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Mystification
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Oblong Box
The Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
Predicament
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
Shadow -- A Parable
Silence -- A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
Spectacles
Sphinx
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
A Tale of Jerusalem
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Tell Tale Heart
Thou Art the Man
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Three Sundays in a Week
The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
William Wilson
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0394716787 (0-394-71678-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms. [via]
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Confidence Manby Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Mark NiemeyerISBN 039397927X (0-393-97927-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confidence Man'Book summary:The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected.
The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions.
"Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers.
A new section, "Biographical Overviews," embodies the transformation of knowledge about Melvilles life that has occurred over the last three decades. This section provides a wide range of readings of Melvilles life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others.
"Sources, Backgrounds, and Criticism" is thematically organized to inform readers about movements and social developments central to Melvilles America and to this novel, including utopias, cults, cure-alls, Transcendentalism, Indian hating, the Bible, and popular literature.
A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]More editions of Confidence Man:
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The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germanyby David BlackbournISBN 0393329992 (0-393-32999-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany'Book summary:"Brilliantly conceived....[A] tour de force in historical writing."Ian Kershaw
Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn begins his morality tale in the mid-1700s, with the epic story of Frederick the Great, who attemptedby importing the great scientific minds of the West and by harnessing the power of his armyto transform the uninhabitable marshlands of his scattered kingdom into a modern state. Chronicling the great engineering projects that reshaped the mighty Rhine, the emergence of an ambitious German navy, and the development of hydroelectric power to fuel Germany's convulsive industrial growth before World War I, Blackbourn goes on to show how Nazi racial policies rested on German ideas of mastery of the natural world. Filled with striking reproductions of paintings, maps, and photographs, this grand work of modern history links culture, politics, and the environment in an exploration of the perils faced by nations that attempt to conquer nature. 70 illustrations [via]More editions of The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany:
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The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Storiesby Sarah Orne JewettISBN 0393311376 (0-393-31137-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories'Book summary:With an Introduction by Marjorie Pryse This edition of The Country of the Pointed Firs makes an American classic available in the form in which it was originally published in 1896. An edition published after the author's death had incorporated three "Dunnett Landing" stories into the novel as additional chapters; these stories appear here in a seperate section, along with a fourth story belonging to this group and four more tales. The four Dunnett Landing stories are "A Dunnett Shepheress," "The Foreigner," "The Queen's Twin," and "William's Wedding"; the four additional tales are "A White Heron," "Miss Tempy's Watchers," "Martha's Lady," and "Aunt Cynthy Dallett." Here in the fictional town of Dunnett's Landing on the coast of Maine, Sarah Orne Jewett introduces people-now mostly women, as many of the town's men have been lost at sea or moved away in this era of whaling's decline-who have lived next to the sea for generations and seem to share its strength, silence and mystery. In prose of exquisite simplicity, Jewett draws a resonant portrait of people creating and tending bonds of relationship in a landscape buffetted by the forces of isolation as well as nature's severity. [via]
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Darwinby Philip ApplemanISBN 0393950093 (0-393-95009-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Darwin: Texts Commentaryby Charles Darwin, Philip ApplemanISBN 0393958493 (0-393-95849-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin: Texts Commentary'Book summary:"The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.
The impact of Charles Darwins work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as anyone in the modern era, he changed human thought, and his influence is still felt in virtually all aspects of our lives. This new edition, larger and more varied than the previous ones, includes more of Darwin's own work and also presents the most recent research and scholarship on all aspects of Darwins legacy. The biological sciences, as well as social thought, philosophy, ethics, religion, and literature, have all been shaped and reshaped by evolutionary concepts.
Excerpts from the most important books and articles of recent years confirm this Darwinian heritage. New work by Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, Kevin Padian, Eugene C. Scott, Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Michael Ruse, Frans de Waal, Noretta Koertge, George C. Williams, George Levine, Stephen Jay Gould, Gillian Beer, Ernst Mayr, and many others illuminates this exciting intellectual history. A wide-ranging new introduction by the editor provides context and coherence to this rich body of engaging material, much of which will be shaping human thought well into the new century.
This edition will be useful to scientists and historians alike: "The Norton Darwin explains Darwinian evolution and illustrates the social and intellectual conflicts of the past two centuries better than any other book that I am aware of." (Charles Taylor, Professor of Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles)
And it will be of great value to the humanities and social sciences as well: "The edition provides the sharpest and most exciting access to Darwin we have ever had. It shows all of us interested in the heart of our intellectual heritage how that heritage is sustained, manipulated, and honored." (James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California)
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0393952924 (0-393-95292-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogols enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.
This Norton Critical Edition reprints the text of the acclaimed George Reavey translation, which has been fully annotated for undergraduate readers.
"Backgrounds" contains not only Gogols correspondence relevant to the novel but also the four formal letters that set forth his views on the work.
The editor has also included a useful chronology of Gogols life and an invaluable table of ranks in czarist Russia.
A wide range of criticism includes Robert Maguires general overview of Gogols criticism; two nineteenth-century Russian appraisals; Donald Fangers brilliant essay; and a broad spectrum of twentieth-century Russian critical opinion.
It features, as well, essays by Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson.
The Russian essays have been translated specially for this Norton Critical Edition.
A Selected Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study. [via]More editions of Dead Souls:
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Democracy in Americaby Thomas Bender, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 039432675X (0-394-32675-X)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Classic analysis of america's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), a french aristocrat who visited the united states in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of america's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, i confess that in america i saw more than america; i sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress [via]
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prisonby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394499425 (0-394-49942-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison'Book summary:In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. [via]
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Don Juanby George Gordon Byron, Louis KronenbergerISBN 0394605101 (0-394-60510-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Don Juanby Leslie A. Marchand, George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 039505138X (0-395-05138-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Juan'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy, Robert C. SchweikISBN 0393954080 (0-393-95408-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1912 Wessex edition, emended to correct errors which have crept into the text from the manuscript onward.
It also incorporates revisions that Hardy made in his "study copy" of the novel and in his marked printers copy and page proofs for the Harper and Brothers "sixpenny edition" of 1901, whenever these revisions could be confidently judged to represent Hardys final deliberate intent.
The resulting text includes revisions by Hardy which have never appeared before in a modern edition.
The novel is fully annotated and is accompanied by Hardys map of Wessex and a simplified map of the landscape of Far from the Madding Crowd.
"Textual Notes" include a list of emendations, examples of variant readings from the manuscript to the Wessex edition, and a discussion of the choice of copy text.
The textual history of the novel is traced in extracts from studies by Richard Little Purdy and Simon Gatrell.
"Backgrounds" includes substantial extracts from Hardys correspondence with Leslie Stephen and is followed by a selection of contemporary reviews.
Twentieth-century "Criticism" is represented by Howard Babb, Roy Morrell, Alan Friedman, J. Hillis Miller, Michael Millgate, Penelope Vigar, Peter J. Casagrande, Ian Gregor, and Albert C. Schweik. [via]More editions of Far from the Madding Crowd:
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The Far Side of the Worldby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393324761 (0-393-32476-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Far Side of the World'Book summary:JACK AUBREY, a brilliant and fearless captain in Nelson's navy, accepts a mission that will test his abilities to the limit: he is to set sail immediately for Cape Horn, to intercept a powerful frigate intent on wreaking havoc among British whalers. Aubrey's beloved ship, HMS Surprise, is up to the task, but many of her sailors are untried. Aubrey's confidant, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, has orders of his own in the world of secret intelligence. As the Surprise and her crew draw closer to the enemy, their journey grows ever more dangerous: murder, shipwreck, and a desperate rescue attempt await them in the far reaches of the Pacific. [via]
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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Cultureby Carl E. SchorskeISBN 0394744780 (0-394-74478-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture'Book summary:A landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. [via]
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Flash for Freedom!by George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394479475 (0-394-47947-5)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Flashman and the Dragonby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394553578 (0-394-55357-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashman and the Dragon'Book summary:It is 1860, and while China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hack their way to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flash Harry hoodwinks them all. [via]
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Flashman and the Redskinsby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394528522 (0-394-52852-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Flashman at the Chargeby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394487567 (0-394-48756-7)
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Flashman in the Great Gameby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394498933 (0-394-49893-3)
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France in Modern Timesby Gordon WrightISBN 0393955826 (0-393-95582-6)
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France in Modern Times: From the Enlightenment to the Presentby Gordon WrightISBN 0393967050 (0-393-96705-0)
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamonby Jorge AmadoISBN 0394425979 (0-394-42597-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon'Book summary:Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...
No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in townleast of all Gabriela herselfwill be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular café and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his business. But what would people say if Nacib were to marry her?
Lusty, satirical and full of intrigue, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is a vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life. [via]More editions of Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon:
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Paul B. ArmstrongISBN 0393926362 (0-393-92636-2)
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An Ideal Husbandby Oscar Wilde, Russell JacksonISBN 0393900681 (0-393-90068-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Ideal Husband'Book summary:New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
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Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike. [via]More editions of An Ideal Husband:
Independence in Latin Americaby Richard GrahamISBN 039431641X (0-394-31641-X)
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K. PhillipsISBN 0393976149 (0-393-97614-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward BellamyISBN 0394329805 (0-394-32980-5)
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The Making of the English Working Classby E.P. ThompsonISBN 0394703227 (0-394-70322-7)
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"Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination and controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms and illusions of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of the English people should fail to read his book."--London Times Literary Supplement [via]More editions of The Making of the English Working Class:
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Master and Commanderby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393325172 (0-393-32517-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master and Commander'Book summary:An attractive movie-tie-in jacket for the release of the motion picture Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World starring Russell Crowe: "The best sea story I have ever read."--Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultless rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle. It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. When Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to captain, he inherits command of HMS Sophie , an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and gifted seaman, his thirst for adventure and victory immense. With the aid of his friend Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and secret intelligence agent, Aubrey and his crew engage in one thrilling battle after another, their journey culminating in a stunning clash with a mighty Spanish frigate against whose guns and manpower the tiny Sophie is hopelessly outmatched. [via]
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McTeagueby Frank Norris, Donald PizerISBN 0393970132 (0-393-97013-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'McTeague'Book summary:The text of this edition presents, fully annotated, the 1899 First Edition text of McTeague, a significant example of American literary naturalism and a commentary on turn-of-the-century American cultural values.
Contexts focuses on the novel's sources and composition. Included are newspaper accounts of a San Francisco murder; a description of Norris' Polk Street neighborhood, which figures prominently in McTeague; an examination of the relationship between the novel and naturalism; and a discussion of the book's genesis, from its origin as a Harvard assignment to Norris's revision of it upon his return to San Francisco. Criticism has been revised to include major recent assessments of the novel. Two seminal pieces from the previous edition have been retainedErnest Marchand's account of McTeague's 1899 reviews and Donald Pizer's essay on naturalism. Six essays and four stills from Erich von Stroheim's film version of McTeague are new. The new essays are by Don Graham, William E. Cain, Barbara Hochman, James L. Caron, Mary Lawlor, and Donna M. Campbell. A Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography are included. Illustrated [via]More editions of McTeague:
The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles DickensISBN 0394519183 (0-394-51918-3)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticismby James McIntoshISBN 0393954269 (0-393-95426-9)
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New Grub Streetby George R. GissingISBN 039460525X (0-394-60525-X)
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, the Major Authors: The Romantic Period Through the Twentieth Centuryby Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. AbramsISBN 0393973042 (0-393-97304-2)
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michael R. KatzISBN 0393976122 (0-393-97612-2)
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Nutmeg of Consolationby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393309061 (0-393-30906-1)
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert Darwin, Philip ApplemanISBN 0393978672 (0-393-97867-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:Here is the revised edition of Charles Dawrin's The Origin of Species, introduced and abridged by Philip Appleman, published by W. W. Norton.
As much as anyone in the modern era, Charles Darwin changed the course of human thought. The impact on Western civilization of his seminal work has been broad and deep: not only the biological sciences but also social thought, philosophy, ethics, religion, and literature have all been shaped and reshaped by evolutionary concepts. Here, in what Paul Moody (writing in Victorian Studies) has called "a masterly condensation," is a classic edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species . It retains all of the substance of the original book, but only the essential elements of its profuse detail. Philip Appleman, the editor of Darwin, a Norton Critical Edition ("the best Darwin anthology on the market," according to Stephen Jay Gould), has cut deftly to the essence of Darwin's classic, losing none of the continuity or flavor of the original and making available an edition that modern readers will not find overpowering. This revision includes a new introduction by Professor Appleman that perceptively traces Darwin's influence on the world of ideas as well as three additional chapters from Darwin's work. [via]More editions of The Origin of Species: Library Edition:
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorismby Geoffrey R. StoneISBN 0393327450 (0-393-32745-0)
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The Plays of Oscar Wildeby Edgar Saltus, Oscar Wilde, Edgar E. SaltusISBN 0394604903 (0-394-60490-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plays of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Plays of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0394757882 (0-394-75788-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plays of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.
Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an inaugurator and a master of modernism. In his best work, the subversive insights embedded in his wit continue to challenge our common assumptions. Wilde's ability to unsettle and startle us anew with his radical vision of the artifice inherent in the self's construction makes him our contemporary.
This edition is introduced by John Lahr, author of Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. The plays included are Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest. [via]More editions of The Plays of Oscar Wilde:
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James, Robert D. BambergISBN 0393966461 (0-393-96646-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. [via]
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0393319547 (0-393-31954-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'Book summary:First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by me under fire. Ernest Hemingway called the novel an American classic, and Crane's genius is as much apparent in his sharp, colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episode of war so intense, so immediate, so real that the terror of battle becomes our own ... in a masterpiece so unique that many believe modern American fiction began with Stephen Crane.
"The Red Badge Of Courage" has long been considered the first great 'modern' novel of war by an American--the first novel of literary distinction to present war without heroics and this in a spirit of total irony and skepticism." -- Alfred Kazin [via]
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The Reverse of the Medalby Patrick O'BrienISBN 0393309606 (0-393-30960-6)
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The Revolutionary Era: 1789-1850by Charles Breunig, Matthew LevingerISBN 0393978605 (0-393-97860-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Revolutionary Era: 1789-1850'Book summary:The Revolutionary Era, Third Edition, provides a vivid historical account of the forces that shaped early nineteenth-century Europe.
Thoroughly revised and updated in light of recent scholarship, the text introduces compelling perspectives on the French and Industrial Revolutions, integrates new discussions of cultural and social history, and expands coverage of southern and eastern Europe. While preserving the integrity of earlier editions, new coauthor Matthew Levinger broadens the analysis by exploring the everyday experiences of the working classes with those of the political and social elites. Illustrations, maps [via]More editions of The Revolutionary Era: 1789-1850:
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A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 0394743180 (0-394-74318-0)
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Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian Americaby Susan WilliamsISBN 0394545710 (0-394-54571-0)
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Selections from Ralph Waldo Emersonby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0395051126 (0-395-05112-6)
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Shelley's Poetry and Proseby Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil FraistatISBN 0393977528 (0-393-97752-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shelley's Poetry and Prose'Book summary:This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts chosen by the editors from their scholarly edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Each selection has been thoroughly reedited, and the order of the poems has been rearranged in light of redating or other reconsiderations. All headnotes are new or updated, and many footnotes have been added, replaced, or revised. "Criticism" reflects the recent renaissance in Shelley studies, the greatest renaissance since 1870-92. All twenty-three essays are new to the Second Edition; among them are the work of Harold Bloom, Stuart Curran, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, Michael Ferber, James Chandler, and Susan J. Wolfson. A Chronology, an updated Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are included. [via]
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The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novellaby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Louise Bogan, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth MayerISBN 0394470249 (0-394-47024-9)
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The Spanish American Revolution 1808-1826by John LynchISBN 0393955370 (0-393-95537-0)
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The Story Of My Lifeby Helen Keller, Shattuck, Roger (AFT), Herrmann, Dorothy (AFT), Roger ShattuckISBN 0393325687 (0-393-32568-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story Of My Life'Book summary:Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, where as a student she wrote The Story of My Life. That she accomplished all of this in an age when few women attended college and the disabled were often relegated to the background, spoken of only in hushed tones, is remarkable. But Keller's many other achievements are impressive by any standard: she authored 13 books, wrote countless articles, and devoted her life to social reform. An active and effective suffragist, pacifist, and socialist (the latter association earned her an FBI file), she lectured on behalf of disabled people everywhere. She also helped start several foundations that continue to improve the lives of the deaf and blind around the world.
As a young girl Keller was obstinate, prone to fits of violence, and seething with rage at her inability to express herself. But at the age of 7 this wild child was transformed when, at the urging of Alexander Graham Bell, Anne Sullivan became her teacher, an event she declares "the most important day I remember in all my life." (Sullivan herself had once been blind, but partially recovered her sight after a series of operations.) In a memorable passage, Keller writes of the day "Teacher" led her to a stream and repeatedly spelled out the letters w-a-t-e-r on one of her hands while pouring water over the other. This method proved a revelation: "That living world awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! There were barriers still, it is true, but barriers that could in time be swept away." And, indeed, most of them were.
In her lovingly crafted and deeply perceptive autobiography, Keller's joyous spirit is most vividly expressed in her connection to nature:
Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom, had a part in my education.... Few know what joy it is to feel the roses pressing softly into the hand, or the beautiful motion of the lilies as they sway in the morning breeze. Sometimes I caught an insect in the flower I was plucking, and I felt the faint noise of a pair of wings rubbed together in a sudden terror....
The idea of feeling rather than hearing a sound, or of admiring a flower's motion rather than its color, evokes a strong visceral sensation in the reader, giving The Story of My Life a subtle power and beauty. Keller's celebration of discovery becomes our own. In the end, this blind and deaf woman succeeds in sharpening our eyes and ears to the beauty of the world. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Thirteen Gun Saluteby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039330907X (0-393-30907-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirteen Gun Salute'Book summary:"In length the series is unique; in qualityand there is not a weak link in the chainit cannot but be ranked with the best of twentieth century historical novels."T. J. Binyon, Independent
Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturinhis friend, ship's surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agenton a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.
The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan's good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin. [via]More editions of The Thirteen Gun Salute:
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0394869168 (0-394-86916-8)
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0394847210 (0-394-84721-0)
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Treason's Harbourby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393310264 (0-393-31026-4)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0394847253 (0-394-84725-3)
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The Trueloveby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393310167 (0-393-31016-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truelove'Book summary:The fifteenth installment in Patrick O'Brian's widely claimed series of Aubrey/Maturin novels is in equal parts mystery, adventure, and psychological drama.
A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey's friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Clarissa's secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a highly placed English spy in the pay of Napoleon's intelligence service.
In a thrilling finale, Patrick O'Brian delivers all the excitement his many readers expect: Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise impose a brutal pax Britannica upon the islanders in a pitched battle against a band of headhunting cannibals. [via]More editions of The Truelove:
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Turn of the Screwby Henry James, Deborah Esch, Jonathan WarrenISBN 039395904X (0-393-95904-X)
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Contexts includes twenty-six selections, from James's letters, notebooks, and other writings during the period 1863-1908, centering on the ghost story, the supernatural and, in particular, "my little book," The Turn of the Screw. Also reproduced are four paintings by Charles Demuth. The essays in Criticism span one hundred years, providing a rich array of perspectives on James and his story. Representing contemporary reactions are pieces by Henry Harland, John D. Barry, Oliver Elton, William Lyon Phelps, and Virginia Woolf. The section also includes landmark criticism by Harold Goddard, Edna Kenton, Edmund Wilson, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert B. Heilman, R. P. Blackmur, Maurice Blanchot, and Leon Edel. Recent, fresh approaches to James's work are presented by Tzvetan Todorov, Shoshana Felman, Henry Sussman, Bruce Robbins, Ned Lukacher, Paul B. Armstrong, and T. J. Lustig. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. [via]More editions of Turn of the Screw:
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackery, Peter L. ShillingsburgISBN 0393965953 (0-393-96595-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:The text of this Norton Critical Edition of Thackeray's acclaimed 1848 novel is based on the Garland edition, the text approved by the Modern Language Association. The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by all of the author's original illustrations as well as a textual appendix.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" is arranged under three headings. "Composition and Publication History" combines modern scholarship with contemporary materials to elucidate the novel's composition and publication history and present different aspects of Thackeray's life and work. "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair's initial reception. "Contexts" includes materials relating to governesses, historical novels, the Battle of Waterloo and the military, bankruptcy, regency fashions, and the London landscape, all of which figure prominently in the novel.
"Criticism" is a collection of nine essays written between 1900 and 1990 that reveal the developing response to Vanity Fair. William C. Brownell, David Cecil, G. Armour Craig, John Loofbourow, Peter K. Garrett, Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, Myra Stark, Ina Ferris, Catherine Peters, and James Phelan provide varied perspectives.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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The Victoriansby A.N. WilsonISBN 0393325431 (0-393-32543-1)
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The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were incomparably the richest, most important investors in the developing world. In this sense, England's position has strong resemblances to America's in the late twentieth century.
As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminate so grand and revolutionary a history: Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Christina Rossetti, Gordon, Cardinal Newman, George Eliot, Kipling. Wilson's accomplishment in this book is to explain through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasn't ended. 65 illustrations [via]More editions of The Victorians:
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0395051134 (0-395-05113-4)
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau, Brooks Atkinson, Townsend ScudderISBN 0394604210 (0-394-60421-0)
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Walden and Resistance to Civil Governmentby Henry David Thoreau, Owen Thomas, William RossiISBN 0393959058 (0-393-95905-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Resistance to Civil Government'Book summary:On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a new edition of Walden, annotated by the distinguished Thoreau scholar Walter Harding and illustrated with Thoreau's own drawings. Even those who have read Walden many times will find much that is new in this edition, and those reading the book for the first time will discover why it has changed the lives of generations of readers. [via]
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Walt Whitman's America : A Cultural Biographyby David S. ReynoldsISBN 0394580230 (0-394-58023-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman's America : A Cultural Biography'Book summary:The greatest American poet is portrayed in this monumental biography as an essential American, not an isolated mystic but a man formed in large measure by his rapidly changing society. Drawing on his diligent research, and on his experience writing the monumental work Beneath the American Renaissance, noted scholar David S. Reynolds conclusively demonstrates the profound impact the popular culture of his day had on Whitman's awakening as an artist. The fascinating and compelling story of Whitman's life vigorously illuminates how a schoolteacher turned journalist became the robust and exuberant man who changed literature and single-handedly created modern poetry. This copious (nearly 700 page) volume tells the story of 19th-century America as well as the story of the Whitman himself. [via]
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The Wine Dark Seaby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393312445 (0-393-31244-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wine Dark Sea'Book summary:The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States.
At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination.
Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, J. Donald Crowley, Richard A. HocksISBN 0393978818 (0-393-97881-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The text of this 1902 novel is again that of the fully corrected and annotated reprint of the New York Edition (1909), together with Jamess preface and the two frontispieces he commissioned for the New York Edition of The Wings of the Dove.
The "Textual Appendix" includes notes on the novels textual history and lists all substantive revisions that James made to the novel, both in 1902 and in1909. "The Author and the Novel," introduced by editorial commentary and new to the Second Edition, includes selections from Jamess notebooks, letters, travel books, and autobiographical writings, which illuminate his conception and assessment of The Wings of the Dove. "Criticism" reflects the lively interpretive and theoretical writing that The Wings of the Dove has enjoyed since the previous edition was published in 1978. Eleven essays are included, seven of them new to the Second Edition, including Anthony J. Mazzellas piece on film adaptation. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. Illustrations, maps [via]More editions of The Wings of the Dove:
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0394806891 (0-394-80689-1)
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The Yellow Admiral: Library Editionby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393317048 (0-393-31704-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Admiral: Library Edition'Book summary:"There are those already planning this afternoon's trip to the bookstore. Their only reaction is: Thank god, Patrick O'Brian is still writing. To you, I say, not a moment to lose."John Balzar, Los Angeles Times
Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member of Parliament; he is feuding with his neighbor, a man with strong Navy connections who wants to enclose the common land between their estates; he is on even worse terms with his wife, Sophie, whose mother has ferreted out a most damaging trove of old personal letters. Even Jack's exploits at sea turn sour: in the storm waters off Brest he captures a French privateer laden with gold and ivory, but this at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out, and this feeds into Jack's private fears for his career.
Fortunately, Jack is not left to his own devices. Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with the news that the Chileans, to secure their independence, require a navy, and the service of English officers. Jack is savoring this apparent reprieve for his career, as well as Sophie's forgiveness, when he receives an urgent dispatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba. [via]More editions of The Yellow Admiral: Library Edition:
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis de Tocqueville, Phillips BradleyISBN 0394421868 (0-394-42186-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Volume 2 of the classic commentary on the influence of democracy on the intellect, feelings, and actions of Americans. With an introduction by Phillips Bradley.
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