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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0141305444 (0-14-130544-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Au Bonheur Des Damesby Emile Zola, Robin BussISBN 0140447830 (0-14-044783-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Au Bonheur Des Dames'Book summary:Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, Au Bonheur des Dames. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society, Zola captures in lavish detail the greedy customers and gossiping staff, and the obsession with image, fashion, and gratification that was a phenomenon of nineteenth-century French consumer society. Of all Zola's novels, this may be the one with the most relevance for our own time.[via]More editions of Au Bonheur Des Dames:
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The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate Chopin, Sandra M. GilbertISBN 0142437328 (0-14-243732-8)
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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. [via]
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles Dickens, John BowenISBN 0140437282 (0-14-043728-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'Book summary:[via]The title character of Barnaby Rudge, a feeble minded individual, is a passive actor who is swept along by events. Based on Gordon Riots of June 1780, the riots reach a climax in the storming and destruction of the Newgate Prison. This work is famous for its descriptions of mob violence which shows Dickens' descriptive abilities. First published in 1841.
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Bel Amiby Guy De MaupassantISBN 0140443150 (0-14-044315-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bel Ami'Book summary:Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses and wily financiers - and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer, blackmailer and social climber in a world where love is only a means to an end. Written when Maupassant was at the height of his powers, "Bel-Ami" is a novel of great frankness and cynicism, but it is also infused with the sheer joy of life - depicting the scenes and characters of Paris in the belle epoque with wit, sensitivity and humanity. Douglas Parmee's translation captures all the vigour and vitality of Maupassant's novel. His introduction explores the similarities between Bel-Ami and Maupassant himself and demonstrates the skill with which the author depicts his large cast of characters and the French society of the Third Republic. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was born in Normandy. By the late 1870s, the first signs of syphilis had appeared, and Maupassant had become Flaubert's pupil in the art of prose. He led a hectic social life, and in 1891, having tried to commit suicide, he was committed to an asylum in Paris, where he died two years later. If you enjoyed "Bel-Ami", you might like William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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The Betrothedby Alessandro Manzoni, Bruce PenmanISBN 014044274X (0-14-044274-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Betrothed'Book summary:Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister Unnamed' in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed's exploration of love, power and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels. [via]
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Bouvard and Pecuchetby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0140443207 (0-14-044320-7)
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Ben FowkesISBN 0140445684 (0-14-044568-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories. [via]
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Captain Swingby E. J. Hobsbawm, George F.E. RudeISBN 0140600132 (0-14-060013-2)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captain Swing'Book summary:Nice and simple mazes for the youngest solvers! Big and loopy, with wide-open paths that small children (with uncertain penmanship) can easily navigate with their crayon or colored pencil, these are "starter mazes" kids will find fun to follow. Each design has friendly, familiar objects, like flowers and cars and a shining sun-perfect for coloring in after the child finishes the maze.[via]More editions of Captain Swing:
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A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, Mark PeppeISBN 0142300551 (0-14-230055-1)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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Complete Plays, Lenz & Other Writingsby Georg Buchner, John ReddickISBN 0140445862 (0-14-044586-2)
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Condition of the Working Class in Englandby Friedrich Engels, Victor KiernanISBN 0140444866 (0-14-044486-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Condition of the Working Class in England'Book summary:This forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workers in a savage indictment of the greed of the bourgeoisie. His later preface, written for the first English edition of 1892 and included here, brought the story up-to-date in the light of forty years' further reflection. [via]
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterby Thomas De Quincey, Barry MilliganISBN 0140439013 (0-14-043901-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'Book summary:[via]In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through Londonand the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became preyunder the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.
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Confidence Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 0140445471 (0-14-044547-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confidence Man'Book summary:Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a cosmopolitan' gentleman, who simply swindles a barber out of the price of a shave. Making very little from his hoaxes, the pleasure of trickery seems an end in itself for this slippery conman. Is he the Devil? Is his chicanery merely intended to expose the mercenary concerns of those around him? Set on April Fool's Day, The Confidence-Man (1857) is an engaging comedy of masquerades, digressions and shifting identity, and a devastating satire on the American dream. [via]
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Cousin Betteby Honore De Balzac, Marion Ayton CrawfordISBN 0140441603 (0-14-044160-3)
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, David MagarshackISBN 0140441131 (0-14-044113-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendixes that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of Dead Souls. [via]
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Dead Soulsby Robert A Maguire, Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0140448071 (0-14-044807-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:[via]Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these souls as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov.
- In his introduction, translator and Gogol scholar Robert Maguire discusses the protracted and troubled story of the novel's composition, Gogol's narrative technique, and his place in the Russian and European literary traditions
- Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, appendices, glossary, map, and notes
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick, Gerald E. BevanISBN 0140447601 (0-14-044760-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:[via]In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America and an indispensable authority on democracy.
This new edition is the only one that contains all Tocqueville's writings on America, including the rarely-translated Two Weeks in the Wilderness, an account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois, and Excursion to Lake Oneida.More editions of Democracy in America:
Doctor Thorneby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0140438068 (0-14-043806-8)
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Don Juanby George Gordon Byron Byron, T. G. Steffan, Willis Winslow Pratt, E. SteffanISBN 0140802827 (0-14-080282-7)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Areby R. J. Hollingdale, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0140445153 (0-14-044515-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are'Book summary:In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, nietzsche (1844 1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and ecce homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome schopenhauer, wagner, socrates, christ and predicts the cataclysmic impact of his forthcoming revelation of all values'. Both self-celebrating and self-mocking, penetrating and strange, ecce homo gives the final, definitive expression to nietzsche's main beliefs and is in every way his last testament [via]
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Either/orby Soren Kierkegaard, Victor EremitaISBN 0140445773 (0-14-044577-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Either/or'Book summary:In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A masterpiece of duality, Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical - both meditating ironically and seductively upon Epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expounding the noble virtues of a morally upstanding life. [via]
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Elective Affinitiesby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 0140442421 (0-14-044242-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elective Affinities'Book summary:Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors - Eduard's friend the Captain and Charlotte's passionate young ward Ottilie - provoke unexpected attraction and forbidden love. Taking its title from the principle of elective affinities - the theory that certain chemicals are naturally drawn to one another - this is a penetrating study of marriage and adultery. Inspired by Goethe's own conflicting loyalties as he battled to maintain his relationship with his wife and control his feelings for a younger woman, "Elective Affinities" is one of the greatest works of the romance era: a rich exploration of love, conflict, and the inescapable force of fate. [via]
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The Eustace Diamondsby Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland, Stephen GillISBN 0141441208 (0-14-144120-8)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eustace Diamonds'Book summary:[via]The third novel in Trollopes Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds bears all the hallmarks of his later works, blending dark cynicism with humor and a keen perception of human nature. Following the death of her husband, Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift from her husband, but the Eustace lawyers insist she give it up, and while her cousin Frank takes her side, her new lover, Lord Fawn, declares that he will only marry her if the necklace is surrendered. As gossip and scandal intensify, Lizzies truthfulness is thrown into doubt, and, in her desire to keep the jewels, she is driven to increasingly desperate acts.
- Revised edition of Trollope's third Palliser novel
- Updated Introduction explores Trollope's depiction of a society that worships money and highlights his concerns with truth, honesty, and honor
- Includes new suggestions for further reading and explanatory notes
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Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyonsby John Wesley PowellISBN 0142437522 (0-14-243752-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons'Book summary:[via]One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1874.
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, recently ranked number four on Adventure magazines list of top 100 classics, is legendary pioneer John Wesley Powells first-person account of his crews unprecedented odyssey along the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon. A bold foray into the heart of the American Wests final frontier, the expedition was achieved without benefit of modern river-running equipment, supplies, or a firm sense of the regions perilous topography and the attitudes of the native inhabitants towards whites.
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The Fall of the House of Usherby Edgar Allen Poe, David GallowayISBN 0141439815 (0-14-143981-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the House of Usher'Book summary:This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. "The Fall of the House of Usher" describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In "The Tell Tale Heart", a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Cask of Amontillado" explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate. [via]
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy, Rosemarie Morgan, Shannon Lee RussellISBN 0141439653 (0-14-143965-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'Book summary:Set in his fictional wessex countryside in southwest england, far from the madding crowd was thomas hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of far from the madding crowd persuaded hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing fiction. The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful bathsheba everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with an energy and charm not customarily associated with hardy [via]
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, A. S. Byatt, David ConstantineISBN 0140449019 (0-14-044901-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of "Faust" is included with Goethe's classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil. [via]
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Faust Part 2by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0140440933 (0-14-044093-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Part 2'Book summary:The second part of goethe's masterpiece opens with faust struggling to recover from the death of his beloved gretchen. The quick-witted demon mephistopheles soon persuades him to look beyond his sorrow and enter the world of politics and power, but the great scholar is still eager for new sensations, and asks mephistopheles to reveal helen of troy to him in a vision. Overwhelmed by her beauty, faust demands she be brought back from the underworld - but even this fails to bring him contentment, and his appetite for knowledge remains unsated. Completed a few months before goethe's death, this rich and allusive work weaves together a wealth of diverse philosophical ideas and influences, reworking the medieval myth of dr. Faustus and speculating upon the search for truth in the age of enlightenment [via]
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Fear and Tremblingby Soren KierkegaardISBN 0140444491 (0-14-044449-1)
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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. Regarded as the father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal "leap of faith."More editions of Fear and Trembling:
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First Loveby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0140443355 (0-14-044335-5)
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Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost.
Isaiah Berlin's translation reproduces in finely wrought English the original story's simplicity, lyricism, and sensitivity.
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Gambler Bobok: A Nasty Storyby Fyodor DostoeyevskyISBN 0140441794 (0-14-044179-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gambler Bobok: A Nasty Story'Book summary:The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. "The Gambler" is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense and futile obsession. Based on Dostoyevsky's own experience of financial desperation and the compulsive desire to win money, it focuses on the characters that take their places at the gaming tables of 'Roulettenburg': the outspoken, aristocratic 'Grandmamma', the mercenary Mademoiselle Blanche, the cool, mysterious Polina and Alex, the author's self-portrait; a man gripped by exhilaration and hopelessness. "Bobok" is a blackly comic satire in which a desolate writer becomes drawn into the conversations of the dead, and "A Nasty Story" is a humorous look at the disparity between a man's exaggerated ideal of himself and the sad reality. [via]
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Gladstone: A Biographyby Philip MagnusISBN 0141390786 (0-14-139078-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Gothic Talesby Elizabeth Gaskell, Laura KranzlerISBN 014043741X (0-14-043741-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gothic Tales'Book summary:[via]'"The cursethe curse!" I looked up in terror. In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked, fearful self'
An encounter with the supernatural in an everyday setting accentuates its strangeness; a truth used to eerie effect in Gaskell's Gothic tales. A portrait turned to the wall, a hidden manuscript, a mysterious child that lives on the freezing moors, a doppelganger formed by a woman's bitter curse: all of these things hint at male tyranny and woman as avenging angelor devil.
Gaskell was fascinated by the dualities in women's lives and the way in which fact and fiction merge. 'Disappearances', a mix of gossip, legend and fact, relates stories of mysterious vanishings, 'Lois the Witch', based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to communal hysteria and persecution, while 'The Grey Woman' explores a common Gothic theme, the way in which the ghosts of the past always return to haunt us.
This edition includes an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and an appendix giving a reader's response to 'Disappearances'.
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A Harlot High and Lowby Honore De BalzacISBN 0140442324 (0-14-044232-4)
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Playsby Oscar Wilde, Richard Allen CaveISBN 0140436065 (0-14-043606-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays'Book summary:Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired him to ponder the roles and masks donned in conventional society, and his acute and wry insights are wonderfully displayed in this collection of his essential plays. Known not only for his brilliant, epigrammatic language, but also for his sense of theatrical design, color, and staging, Wilde created an enduring body of finely crafted works, whose delights and ironies still speak to modern audiences. In addition to Lady Windermere's Fan, Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this edition contains an introduction, notes and commentaries, and an excised scene from The Importance of Being Earnest.[via]More editions of The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays:
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Italian Journey {1786-1788}by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth MayerISBN 0140442332 (0-14-044233-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Italian Journey {1786-1788}'Book summary:In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on a journey to Italy to fulfil a personal and artistic quest and to find relief from his responsibilities and the agonies of unrequited love. As he travelled to Venice, Rome, Naples and Sicily he wrote many letters, which he later used as the basis for the Italian Journey. A journal full of fascinating observations on art and history, and the plants, landscape and the character of the local people he encountered, this is also a moving account of the psychological crisis from which Goethe emerged newly inspired to write the great works of his mature years. [via]
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The Ladies of Llangollenby Elizabeth MavorISBN 0141390689 (0-14-139068-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ladies of Llangollen'Book summary:Lady Eleanor Butler, a handsome, unconventional woman, was 29 when she met Sarah Ponsonby, a sensitive, retiring girl of 13. They developed an intensely close friendship, and ten years later in 1778, to the horror of their families, the two ladies eloped. After their dramatic escape across the Irish Sea, they settled together in an idyllc cottage in Llangollen in Wales. There, amid scandal and innuendo, their unorthodox relationship blossomed, and their generous civilized and romantic way of living eventually became a legend. Their fame travelled widely: Lady Caroline Lamb and Josiah Wedgwood visited them, Wordsworth and Southey wrote poetry under their roof, and other celebrities of the day, such as the Duke of Wellington, became cherished friends. Depicting a relationship that lasted over 50 years, Elizabeth Mavor's beautifully detailed biography gives us a fascinating glimpse into the life and times of two remarkable women. [via]
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Lady Annaby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0140438343 (0-14-043834-3)
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales, Or, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentby William L. Hedges, Haskell S. Springer, Washington IrvingISBN 014043769X (0-14-043769-X)
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When Washington Irving first published this collection of essays, sketches, and tales--originally entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.--readers greeted it with enthusiasm, and Irving emerged as America's first successful professional author.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," two of America's most recognizable and loved works of fiction, display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture so vividly that readers feel themselves a part of them. And it is on the basis of these two classic tales that Irving is generally credited with inventing the short story as a distinct literary genre. This volume also contains gently ironic pieces about life in England that reflect the author's interest in the traditions of the Old World and his longings for his home in the New.
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Little Dorrit: Library Editionby Charles Dickens, Stephen Wall, Helen SmallISBN 0141439963 (0-14-143996-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Dorrit: Library Edition'Book summary:[via]When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mothers seamstress, and in the affairs of Amys father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickenss maturity.
- This revised edition includes expanded notes and updated suggestions for further reading
- Includes a chronology of Dickens's life and works, original illustrations, and an Introduction by Stephen Wall examining Dickens's own memories of his father's incarceration in Marshalsea
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Janet Allison Brown, Dinah DryhurstISBN 0141312025 (0-14-131202-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:The March girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, are growing up in New England during the Civil War. Times are difficult, but the bond between the four sisters is strong and their courage and love help them overcome adversity. [via]
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Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Companyby MultatuliISBN 0140445161 (0-14-044516-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company'Book summary:When Max Havelaar was first published in Holland in 1860, it ignited a major political and social brouhaha. The novel, written by a former official of the Dutch East Indian Civil Service under the pen name Multatuli, exposed the massive corruption and cruelty rife in the Dutch colony of Java. Max Havelaar is an undeniably autobiographical novel; like his hero, Multatuli--the pseudonym for Eduard Douwes Dekker--was an Assistant Resident of Lebak in Java; like Havelaar in the novel, he resigned his position when his accusations of corruption and abuse were disregarded by higher authorities, resulting in years of poverty for both author and fictional hero. Max Havelaar is told from several different perspectives; the reader first meets an Amsterdam coffee dealer named Droogstoppel, a man so obsessed with coffee that his every thought and action is governed by it. Droogstoppel has come by a manuscript from an old schoolmate who, down on his luck, has asked him to get it published. The schoolmate is Havelaar, and the manuscript relates his experiences as an idealistic and generous young civil servant who tries to protect the poor and bring justice to the powerless.
The central part of the novel details conditions in Java, particularly Havelaar's efforts to correct injustices in the face of a corrupt government system. That his efforts will prove futile soon becomes apparent, and there is something almost Greek in the inevitability of Havelaar's declining fortunes. Despite its tragic themes, Max Havelaar is savagely funny, particularly the chapters narrated by Droogstoppel, a character unmatched for his veniality, narrow-mindedness, or singular lack of understanding or imagination. Though Multatuli's masterpiece is nearly 150 years old, it wears its age well, and Roy Edwards's excellent translation offers English-speaking readers a wonderful opportunity to experience one of the Netherlands's great literary classics. [via]
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Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyaltyby Gary Scharnhorst, John W. De ForestISBN 0140437576 (0-14-043757-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty'Book summary:More panoramic in scope and more realistic in its details than Crane's Red Badge of Courage, this is one of the first and best novels ever written about the American Civil War.
Drawing on his own combat experience with the Union forces, John W. De Forest crafted a war novel like nothing before it in the annals of American literature. His first-hand knowledge of "the wilderness of death" made its way on to the pages of his riveting novel with devastating effect. Whether depicting the tedium before combat, the unspoken horror of battle, or the grisly butchery of the field hospital, De Forest broke new ground, anticipating the realistic war writings of Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, and Tim O'Brien.
A commercial failure in its own day, De Forest's story was praised by Henry James and William Dean Howells, who, comparing it favorably to War and Peace, acclaimed the book "one of the best American novels ever written."
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Mozart's Journey to Prague and a Selection of Poemsby David Luke, Eduard Morike, Gilbert McKayISBN 0140447377 (0-14-044737-7)
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The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles DickensISBN 0140439269 (0-14-043926-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'Book summary:Edwin Drood is contracted to marry Orphan Rosa, but they break the engagement off-and soon afterwards Edwin disappears. Is it murder? And is his jealous uncle-a sinister choirmaster with a double life and designs on Rosa-the killer? Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective. In addition to its tantalizing crime, the novel also offers a characteristically Dickensian mix of the fantastical world of the imagination and a vibrantly journalistic depiction of gritty reality.[via]
This edition features a new critical introduction that assesses the evidence to show whether the mystery can truly be solved, as well as a chronology, illustrations, appendixes (including one on opium use in the nineteenth century).
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucketby Edgar Allan Poe, Richard KopleyISBN 0140437487 (0-14-043748-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'Book summary:Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into "Arthur Gordon Pym" in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys repeatedly find themselves on the brink of death or discovery and witness many terrifying events, including mutiny, cannibalism, and frantic pursuits. Poe imbued this deliberately popular tale with such allegorical richness, biblical imagery, and psychological insights that the tale has come to influence writers as various as Melville, James, Verne and Nabokov. [via]
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Notes from Underground the Doubleby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0140442529 (0-14-044252-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground the Double'Book summary:'It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!' Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'ant-hill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him - his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly study of human consciousness. Jessie Coulson's introduction discusses the stories' critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy's great novels. @TweetsFromUndegrnd An officer pushed me at a bar. I will find this pizda son of a bitch and maybe murder him slowly. I'm a bit of a sociopath, aren't I? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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Oblomovby David Magarshack, Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov, Milton EhreISBN 0140449876 (0-14-044987-6)
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Oblomovby Ivan Aleksandrovich GoncharovISBN 0140440402 (0-14-044040-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oblomov'Book summary:Oblomov was considered a satirical portrait of the Russian aristocracy, who no longer had a useful role in society. Oblomov is a nineteenth century Russian landowner brought up to do nothing for himself. He, like his parents, only eats and sleeps. He barely graduates from college and cannot force himself to do any kind of work, feeling that work is too much trouble for a gentleman. His indolence results finally in his living in filth and being cheated consistently. Even love cannot stir him. Though he realizes his trouble and dubs it 'Oblomovism,' he can do nothing about it. Eventually his indolence kills him, as his doctors tell him it will. [via]
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The Old Curiosity Shopby Charles Dickens, Norman Page, Charles DickenISBN 0140437428 (0-14-043742-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Curiosity Shop'Book summary:The sound of Little Nell clattering hurriedly over cobblestones immediately sets the stage by bringing to mind the narrow and dangerous streets of Victorian London. No fewer than 20 performers are called upon to conjure up the Dickensian world of wanderers, ne'er-do-wells, con artists, and kind Samaritans--and each performance is excellent. Tom Courtenay plays the sadistic Quilp, "the ugliest dwarf that could be seen anywhere for a penny" with magnificent sarcastic glee, and Teresa Gallagher's silvery, childlike voice is ideally suited for the role of the angelic Little Nell.
Nell is on her way home to the dusty shop where she and her grandfather live a rather mysterious life. The old man disappears every night--visiting gambling dens with the naive hope of winning a fortune. Instead he sinks deeper and deeper into debt. Enter Daniel Quilp, moneylender, who becomes furious upon learning that the grandfather is a pauper and will never be able to repay his tremendous debt. Quilp seizes the curiosity shop and begins making lecherous overtures to Nell, so she and her grandfather steal away one morning to seek their fortunes elsewhere. But the demonic dwarf is never far behind.
Sound effects are employed judiciously and serve mainly as a springboard for the listener's imagination. The sound of a crying baby is enough to convey the image of crowded lodgings and genteel Victorian poverty, while raucous laughter and high-pitched squawks evoke the barely controlled chaos of an outdoor Punch and Judy show. The dramatization pares Dickens's weighty novel down to two and one-half hours, but does so skillfully, retaining Dickens's wit, marvelous dialogue, and delightful characterizations. (Running time: 155 minutes, 2 cassettes) --Elizabeth Laskey [via]
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On Suicideby Emile Durkheim, Alexander Riley, Robin Buss, Richard SennettISBN 0140449671 (0-14-044967-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Suicide'Book summary:The landmark investigation into suicide and society?now in a new translation[via]
Émile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was the first to suggest that suicide might be as much a response to society as an act of individual despair. When he looked at social, religious, or racial groups that had high incidences of suicide, he discovered that abnormally high or low levels of social integration increase the likelihood of suicide. More than a century after its initial publication, Durkheim?s groundbreaking work continues to fascinate and challenge those seeking to understand one of the least understandable of human acts.More editions of On Suicide:
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Phineas Finnby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0140438254 (0-14-043825-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phineas Finn'Book summary:Second in the series of six Palliser novels, this book charts the progress of Trollope's talented and ambitious hero from his first steps on the ladder of a career in British politics. Success brings choices and temptations for Phineas. [via]
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Phineas Reduxby Anthony Trollope, Gregg A. HecimovichISBN 0140437622 (0-14-043762-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phineas Redux'Book summary:'since the day on which he had accepted place and retired from London, his very soul had sighed for the lost glories of Westminster and Douning Street'
After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons. But though drawn back apparently irresistibly, he never approaches politics with the zest of earlier days. What Trollope describes, in some of his most powerful writing, is a sad, at times almost sombre, progress towards maturity and self-wisdom.
Although Phineas survives an attempt on his life by the half-crazed and jealous Robert Kennedy, his involvement in this ugly scandal irreversibly damages his reputation. Not even the influential Duchess of Omnium can conjure an appointment for him. His trial for the murder of the hated Mr. Bonteen provides the final disenchantment and, through choice, he never again enters the charmed inner circle of power.
"Phineas Redux" (1874) is the fourth of the six Palliser novels, pubished between 1864 and 1880. As a group they provide us with the most extensive and telling expose' of British life during the period of its greatest prestige. [via]
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The Pickwick Papersby Charles DickensISBN 0140436111 (0-14-043611-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pickwick Papers'Book summary:[via]Rising rage and extreme bewilderment had swelled the noble breast of Mr Pickwick, almost to the bursting of his waistcoat
Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle and, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, and his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtors prison, characters and incidents sprang to life from Dickenss pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention.
This edition is based on the first volume edition of 1837, and includes the original illustrations. In his introduction, Mark Wormald discusses the genesis of The Pickwick Papers and the emergence of its central characters.
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Pierre and Jeanby Guy De MaupassantISBN 0140443584 (0-14-044358-4)
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Playsby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Peter Carson, Richard GilmanISBN 0140447334 (0-14-044733-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays'Book summary:The dramatic works of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) present the actions of ordinary people. He avoids any explicit political treatment, but the depth and subtlety of his art has generated a wealth of interpretation. His representation of human relationships is infinitely sympathetic, and each play contains at least one character who expresses Chekhov's hopes for a brighter future. "The Cherry Orchard" and "Three Sisters" was first published in this translation in 1951. "The Seagull", "Uncle Vania", "The Bear", "The Proposal" and "The Jubilee" were first published in this translation in 1954. [via]
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Playsby Oscar WildeISBN 0140480161 (0-14-048016-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays'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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Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man/Candida/the Man of Destiny/You Never Can Tellby George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, W.J. Mc CormackISBN 0140437940 (0-14-043794-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man/Candida/the Man of Destiny/You Never Can Tell'Book summary:Plays Pleasant (1898) comprises four comedies intended to amuse audiences but also to provoke them. Arms and the Man, set in the Balkan mountains, satirizes the romantic view of war and military heroism. Candida presents the complicated relationship between a vicar, his wife, and her young admirer. You Never Can Tell is a light, witty look at an aging suffragette and her family. The Man of Destiny features Napoleon Bonaparte at odds with English mores.[via]More editions of Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man/Candida/the Man of Destiny/You Never Can Tell:
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James, Geoffrey MooreISBN 0141439637 (0-14-143963-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences.[via]More editions of The Portrait of a Lady:
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Pragmatism and Other Writingsby William James, Giles B. GunnISBN 0140437355 (0-14-043735-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pragmatism and Other Writings'Book summary:The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. "Pragmatism" grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with "The Meaning of Truth", "Psychology", "The Will to Believe", and "Talks to Teachers on Psychology". [via]
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The Prime Ministerby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0140438378 (0-14-043837-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prime Minister'Book summary:The story of the unscrupulous Ferdinand Lopez, who succeeds in being selected as a parliamentary candidate for the Palliser pocket borough. A blackmail scandal involving Lady Glencora involves the Prime Minister in making a payment to Lopez, an affair which then appears in the gutter press. [via]
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, Karl MillerISBN 0141441534 (0-14-144153-4)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0142500941 (0-14-250094-1)
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Robert Browningby Robert Browning, Daniel KarlinISBN 0140586156 (0-14-058615-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robert Browning'Book summary:A selection of Browning's poetry containing complete poems including examples from the early "Dramatic Lyrics" and "Dramatic Romances and Lyrics", "Men and Women", "Dramatis Personae" and from later less familiar works. [via]
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A Room With a Viewby Malcolm Bradbury, E. M. ForsterISBN 0141183292 (0-14-118329-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Room With a View'Book summary:This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor, and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. The enduring delight of this tale of romantic intrigue is rooted in Forster's colorful characters, including outrageous spinsters, pompous clergymen and outspoken patriots. Written in 1908, A Room With A View is one of E.M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works. [via]
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Salammboby Gustave Flaubert, A.J. KrailsheimerISBN 0140443282 (0-14-044328-2)
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Selected Short Storiesby Honore De Balzac, Sylvia RaphaelISBN 0140443258 (0-14-044325-8)
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Selected Poemsby Robert Browning, Daniel KarlinISBN 0140437266 (0-14-043726-6)
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Selected Poemsby Thomas Hardy, Robert MezeyISBN 0140436995 (0-14-043699-5)
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Selected Journalism 1850-1870by Charles Dickens, David PascoeISBN 0140435808 (0-14-043580-8)
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Selected Proseby Heinrich Heine, Ritchie RobertsonISBN 0140445552 (0-14-044555-2)
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The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Edification and Awakeningby Soren Kierkegaard, Anti-Climacus, Alastair HannayISBN 0140445331 (0-14-044533-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Edification and Awakening'Book summary:One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, "The Sickness Unto Death" is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of bleak abandonment - including some that may seem just the opposite - and offering a much-discussed formula for the eradication of despair. With its penetrating account of the self, this late work by Kierkegaard was hugely influential upon twentieth-century philosophers including Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. "The Sickness unto Death" can be regarded as one of the key works of theistic existentialist thought - a brilliant and revelatory answer to one man's struggle to fill the spiritual void. [via]
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The Sorrows of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 014044503X (0-14-044503-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'Book summary:Be on your guard & and take care not to fall in love![via]
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion for her and his infatuation torments him to the point of absolute despair. The first great confessional novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethes own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem. The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numerous imitations as well as violent criticism and even suppression for its apparent recommendation of suicide. Goethes sensitive exploration of the mind of a young artist at odds with society and ill-equipped to cope with life is now considered the first great tragic novel of European literature.
This edition includes notes and an introduction by Michael Hulse who explores the origins of the novel in the authors life and examines its impact on European culture.
@SourKraut Met a new girl today! Need to avoid being trapped in the friend zone this time.
She is engaged to some dweeb named Albert. What kind of a name is Al?
Truly, I am so sad. I am overcome with despair. I feel nothing but sorrow.
Have I noted how upset I am? I am very upset. #pain #angst #suffering #sexdep
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The Time Machineby H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Steven Maclean, Marina WarnerISBN 0141439971 (0-14-143997-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Machine'Book summary:[via]When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culturenow weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanitythe sinister Morlocks. And when the scientists time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.
- Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes
- Marina Warners introduction considers Wellss development of the scientific romance and places the novel in the context of its time
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, John D. SeelyeISBN 0140437681 (0-14-043768-1)
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The Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0140620613 (0-14-062061-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turn of the Screw'Book summary:The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she suspects that the previous governess and her lover are controlling the two orphaned children (a girl and a boy) for some evil purpose. The household staff don't know what she's talking about, the children are evasive when questioned, and the master of the house (the children's uncle) is absent. Why does the young girl claim not to see a perfectly visible woman standing on the far side of the lake? Are the children being deceptive, or is the governess being paranoid? By leaving the questions unanswered, The Turn of Screw generates spine-tingling anxiety in its mesmerized readers. [via]
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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-haughby Victor Sage, Joseph Sheridan Le FanuISBN 0140437460 (0-14-043746-0)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0141439831 (0-14-143983-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the social ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of English society in the early 1800s, battles-military and domestic-are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honorable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin, devoted to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to William Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure. [via]
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Vanity Fairby John Carey, William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0140437533 (0-14-043753-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:This is Thackeray's rich and gloriously chaotic sketch of English society during the Napoleonic wars. At the centre of this picture is the scheming and disreputable Becky Sharp, one of Thackeray's greatest creations. The style here is fast-paced and comic, but the character of Dobbin and his unrequited love for Amelia bring depth and pathos to the novel. Dobbin, the unheroic hero, is Thackeray's realistic answer to the hero-worship of high romanticism. The novel stands as a landmark in the development of European Realism. [via]
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The War Of The Worldsby H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Andy Sawyer, Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0141441038 (0-14-144103-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War Of The Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 014243700X (0-14-243700-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wives and Daughters'Book summary:1865 novel from the English novelist and short story writer, whose writings can be seen as critiques of Victorian era attitudes, particularly those toward women, with complex narratives and dynamic women characters. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Michael CavallaroISBN 0142404713 (0-14-240471-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie. [via]
The Wonderful World of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Jack David ZipesISBN 0141180854 (0-14-118085-4)
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