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Aesop's Fablesby Aesop, Stanley Alexander Handford, Brian RobbISBN 0140369848 (0-14-036984-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:This title contains over two hundred familiar tales from 'The Dog in the Manger' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' to much less familiar tales, each with its own sharply pointed moral. [via]
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At the Back of the North Windby George MacDonaldISBN 0140350306 (0-14-035030-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At the Back of the North Wind'Book summary:This is a story of a poor stable boy living in Victorian London in which everyday lives are mysteriously enveloped by a power and a glory, personified here as a beautiful woman known as the North Wind. She visits the small boy, Diamond, and takes him with her on her journeys, teaching him about herself. Through the eyes of an innocent and yet perceptive child, MacDonald explores North Wind as a way of exploring the place of death in our lives. He looks squarely at social injustice--he knew poverty and the poor first hand--and yet also sees that the deepest need we have is for love and forgiveness, which are rooted in eternity.
This is a book for children--I've read it to my own daughter more than once--even though they may not understand just who North Wind is until years later. Adults on the other hand will learn that while they thought they knew something about death, there is much to relearn--and probably the most important part. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Bagthorpes Abroadby Helen CresswellISBN 0140319727 (0-14-031972-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bagthorpes Unlimitedby Helen CresswellISBN 0140311785 (0-14-031178-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bagthorpes Unlimited'Book summary:The competitive Bagthorpes join forces in a rare display of solidarity when Grandma organizes a family reunion. [via]
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Bagthorpes Vs the Worldby Helen CresswellISBN 0140313249 (0-14-031324-9)
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Hough, Charlotte (Woodyatt)ISBN 0140366849 (0-14-036684-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Brothers Lionheartby Astrid Lindgren, J. K. LambertISBN 0140319557 (0-14-031955-7)
Softcover, Viking Childrens Books
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Changeoverby Margaret MahyISBN 0140365990 (0-14-036599-0)
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A Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 014036692X (0-14-036692-X)
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Childhood, Boyhood and Youthby Leo TolstoyISBN 0140441395 (0-14-044139-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Childhood, Boyhood and Youth'Book summary:The artistic work of Leo Tolstoy has been described as 'nothing less than one tremendous diary kept for over fifty years'. This particular 'diary' begins with Tolstoy's first published work, "Childhood", which was written when he was only twenty-three. A semi-autobiographical work, it recounts two days in the childhood of ten-year-old Nikolai Irtenev, recreating vivid impressions of people, place and events with the exuberant perspective of a child enriched by the ironic retrospective understanding of an adult. "Boyhood and Youth" soon followed, and Tolstoy was launched on the literary career that would bring him immortality. [via]
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The Children of the New Forestby Captain MarryatISBN 0140350195 (0-14-035019-5)
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Christmas Booksby Charles Dickens, Michael SlaterISBN 0140430687 (0-14-043068-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christmas Books'Book summary:Three stories by Charles Dickens: "The Cricket on the Hearth", "The Battle of Life" and "The Haunted Man". This follows on from "The Christmas Books Vol 1", also published in the Penguin Classics series. [via]
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The Complete Fablesby Aesop, Robert Temple, Olivia TempleISBN 0140446494 (0-14-044649-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fables'Book summary:[via]'Many people are not in the least disturbed at the harm that befalls them, provided they can see their enemies downfall first
In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock him. Each jewel-like fable provides a warning about the consequences of wrong-doing, as well as offering a glimpse into the everyday lives of Ancient Greeks.
This definitive edition is the first translation into English of the entire corpus of 358 unbowdlerized fables. It is fully annotated, with an introduction that rescues the fables from a tradition of moralistic interpretation.
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuffISBN 0140449132 (0-14-044913-2)
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald DahlISBN 0140328734 (0-14-032873-4)
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Emile: Or Treatise on Educationby Jean Jaques RousseauISBN 0140445633 (0-14-044563-3)
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Episode of Sparrowsby Rumer GoddenISBN 0140340246 (0-14-034024-6)
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An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John Locke, R. S. WoolhouseISBN 0140434828 (0-14-043482-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'Book summary:This new, complete, and unabridged edition represents the very latest in critical thinking on Locke's pioneering work, which set the groundwork for modern philosophy.[via]More editions of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:
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The Fables of Aesopby AesopISBN 0140440437 (0-14-044043-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fables of Aesop'Book summary:A collection of more than three hundred classic children's fables includes ""The Lion and the Mouse,"" ""The Dog in the Manger,"" and ""The Tortoise and the Hare,"" and is accompanied by twenty-three paintings and line drawings. [via]
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0140441476 (0-14-044147-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:When arkady petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend accompanying him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young bazarov shocks arkady's father by criticizing the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away the traditional values of contemporary russian society. Turgenev's depiction of the conflict between generations and their ideals stunned readers when "fathers and sons" was first published in 1862. But many could sympathize with arkady's fascination with the nihilistic hero whose story vividly captures the hopes and regrets of a changing russia [via]
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Five Little Peppers and How They Grewby Margaret SidneyISBN 0140351272 (0-14-035127-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydainby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0140378251 (0-14-037825-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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George's Marvelous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0140346414 (0-14-034641-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George's Marvelous Medicine'Book summary:George is alone in the house with Grandma, the most horrid, grouchy old grandma ever. He has the brilliant idea to brew a special grandma medicine--a remedy to make the old bird sing with bright spirits. Grandma and George are in for a big surprise when they see the results of his marvelous mixture! [via]
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Going Soloby Roald DahlISBN 014032528X (0-14-032528-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going Solo'Book summary:The second part of Roald Dahl's autobiography creates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any one will find in his fiction. An evocation of his wartime exploits, it tells of African safaris and deadly snakes; of fighter planes and air battles with the enemy during World War II. This is the sequel to "Boy". [via]
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The Ha Ha Bonk Bookby Allan AhlbergISBN 0140314121 (0-14-031412-1)
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Happy Prince and Other Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 0140350500 (0-14-035050-0)
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Henry Reed's Journeyby Keith Robertson, Robert McCloskeyISBN 0140341455 (0-14-034145-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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I Was Thereby Hans Peter RichterISBN 014032206X (0-14-032206-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Was There'Book summary:A young German boy narrates his experiences in the Hitler youth movement during the early years of the Third Reich. [via]
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Journey to the Centre of the Earthby Robert Baldick, Jules VerneISBN 0140367152 (0-14-036715-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'Book summary:Once an ancient book is opened by the eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, his life - and the life of his nephew Axel - is changed forever. An old piece of paper has tumbled from the book, a priceless parchment that will lead them on the expedition to end all expeditions. So begins a voyage thousands of feet under the sea, as the pair embark on a terrifying journey to find what lies at the centre of the earth. [via]
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0140390316 (0-14-039031-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, this book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day. [via]
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0140367446 (0-14-036744-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Les Miserablesby Norman Denny, Victor HugoISBN 0140444300 (0-14-044430-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:[via]He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601
Victor Hugos tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Misérables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830.
Norman Dennys introduction to his lively English translation discusses Hugos political and artistic aims in writing Les Misérables.
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Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampson, Penguin Books, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Cedric Thomas WattsISBN 0140431691 (0-14-043169-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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The Magic Fingerby Roald Dahl, Tony RossISBN 0140363033 (0-14-036303-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Finger'Book summary:Enraged at the neighboring Gregg family's hunting practices, the little girl who lives next door to them turns her magic finger on them, and soon the entire Gregg family is the size of birds. Reissue. PW. [via]
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A Moose for Jessicaby Pat A. Wakefield, Larry CarraraISBN 0140361340 (0-14-036134-0)
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The Mouse and His Childby Russell Hoban, Margaret Meek, Claudio MunozISBN 0140364552 (0-14-036455-2)
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My Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0140348107 (0-14-034810-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Side of the Mountain'Book summary:Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. In a spellbinding, touching, funny account, Sam learns to live off the land, and grows up a little in the process. Blizzards, hunters, loneliness, and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life. But his desire for freedom, independence, and adventure is stronger. No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons.
Jean Craighead George, author of more than 80 children's books, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves, created another prizewinner with My Side of the Mountain--a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and a Hans Christian Andersen Award Honor Book. Astonishingly, she wrote its sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, 30 years later, and a decade after that penned the final book in the trilogy, Frightful's Mountain, told from the falcon's point of view. George has no doubt shaped generations of young readers with her outdoor adventures of the mind and spirit. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Nothing's Fair in Fifth Gradeby Barthe DeclementsISBN 0140344438 (0-14-034443-8)
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Oddballsby William SleatorISBN 0140374388 (0-14-037438-8)
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The Outsidersby S. E. HintonISBN 014038572X (0-14-038572-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outsiders'Book summary:According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser. This classic, written by S. E. Hinton when she was 16 years old, is as profound today as it was when it was first published in 1967. [via]
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Ozma Of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0140351191 (0-14-035119-1)
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The Phoenix and the Carpetby Edith Nesbit, H.R. MillarISBN 014036739X (0-14-036739-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phoenix and the Carpet'Book summary:It's startling enough to have a phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it talks and reveals that you have a magic carpet on the floor. The vain and ancient bird accompanies the children on a series of adventures through time and space which are rarely straightforward, but always exciting. This book is a sequel to "Five Children and It". [via]
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Pinocchio: Library Editionby Carlo Collodi, E. Harden, Gioia FiammenghiISBN 014036708X (0-14-036708-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pinocchio: Library Edition'Book summary:Geppetto's new puppet can not only dance and turn somersaults, but also talks and misbehaves--and longs to be a real boy. [via]
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Please Mrs Butlerby Allan AhlbergISBN 0140314946 (0-14-031494-6)
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The Prelude: A Parallel Textby William Wordsworth, J.C. MaxwellISBN 0140422145 (0-14-042214-5)
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The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)by William Wordsworth, Jonathan WordsworthISBN 0140433694 (0-14-043369-4)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0140373373 (0-14-037337-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark TwainISBN 0140367497 (0-14-036749-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper'Book summary:Tom Canty and Edward Tudor look alike, but their lives could hardly be more different. For Edward is Prince (and heir to the throne), whilst Tom is a miserable pauper. Until one day fate intervenes, and for a while each must see how the other lives. [via]
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The Prisoner of Zendaby Anthony HopeISBN 0140350322 (0-14-035032-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prisoner of Zenda'Book summary:Five times made into film versions since its original publication in 1894, The Prisoner of Zenda is a perennially popular adventure and romance story. Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-paced adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll must impersonate the rightful king in order to rescue him from the castle Zenda, all the while facing tests of honor with the beautiful Princess Flavia, and enduring tests of strength in his encounters with the villainous Black Michael and his handsome, debonair bodyguard, Rupert of Hentzau. [via]
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The Prisoner of Zenda/Rupert of Hentzauby Anthony HopeISBN 014043755X (0-14-043755-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prisoner of Zenda/Rupert of Hentzau'Book summary:Best known for his political fairy tale, The Prisoner of Zenda, which saw four major screen adaptations, including the acclaimed 1937 incarnation starring Ronald Colman, Anthony Hope was one of the few novelists to achieve wide popular and critical admiration during his lifetime.
Regarded by many critics as the finest adventure story ever written -- and certainly one of the most popular -- The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyl, a dashing English gentleman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the ruler of the fictional kingdom of Ruritania. Rassendyl masquerades as the king in order to save the country from a treacherous plot and secures the release of the wronged prisoner. In the process he wins the heart of the beautiful princess Flavia, but ultimately surrenders the crown and the hand of his beloved princess to the rightful ruler.
Rupert of Hentzau, which ends in tragedy rather than triumph, is the darker, more problematic sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda. Full of swash-buckling feats of heroism as well as witty irony, these adventure tales are also wonderfully executed satires on late nineteenth-century European politics. [via]
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Protecting Marieby Kevin HenkesISBN 0140383204 (0-14-038320-4)
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The Railway Childrenby E. Nesbit, C. E. BrockISBN 0140366717 (0-14-036671-7)
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Rascalby Sterling North, John SchoenherrISBN 0140344454 (0-14-034445-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rascal'Book summary:[via]Skunks, woodchucks, a crow named Poe, an absent-minded father, aneighteen foot, half-finished canoe in the living roomwelcome to the North home! Nothing's surprising at the North residence. Not even eleven-year-old Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when young Sterling brings him home to join his unusual family. The mischievous raccoon and Sterling are partners and best friends for a perfect year of adventureswimming, fishing, exploring the countryside togetheruntil the spring day when everything suddenly changes and Sterling realizes he must let Rascal go. This heartwarming and delightful memoir of a boy's friendship with a wild animal, and his growing awareness of the world around him, has become a treasured classic. Rascal has taken his place among literature's most captivating and endearing animals.
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The Read-Aloud Handbookby Jim TreleaseISBN 0140465340 (0-14-046534-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Rewards & Fairies.by Rudyard KiplingISBN 0140350810 (0-14-035081-0)
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The Road to Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0140351213 (0-14-035121-3)
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The Root Cellarby Janet LunnISBN 0140380361 (0-14-038036-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Root Cellar'Book summary:Winner of the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children, Janet Lunn's The Root Cellar is an exciting novel of magic and mystery, a fascinating time-travel adventure that takes 12-year-old Rose Larkin into the history of the very farmhouse on Hawthorn Bay where she's just come to live. Not that Rose Larkin wants to be in Hawthorn Bay in Aunt Nan and Uncle Bob's ramshackle old house. She'd much rather be living back in New York City with her grandmother, but her grandmother has died, and Rose has nowhere else to go. She is absolutely miserable at the farmhouse, at least until she goes exploring and discovers the root cellar. Not just a cold room for keeping root vegetables through the winter, the cellar is also a door into the past. Through the root cellar, Rose travels back in time to 1862, where she meets Will and Susan and makes friends for the very first time in her life. When Will goes off to Oswego to fight in the American Civil War, it's up to Rose and Susan to get him back. And in helping Will and Susan, Rose begins to wonder if perhaps she has found a place to belong after all.
The Root Cellar has attained the status of a Canadian classic, and it's little wonder, with its thrilling combination of ghost story, historical drama, and adventure tale. Readers will want to find out what else happened at Hawthorn Bay by reading the two books that follow in Lunn's Hawthorn Bay trilogy, Shadow in Hawthorn Bay and The Hollow Tree. (Ages 10 and older) --Jeffrey Canton [via]
The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 014037454X (0-14-037454-X)
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Seasons of Splendour: Tales, Myths, & Legends of Indiaby Madhur Jaffrey, Michael ForemanISBN 0140346996 (0-14-034699-6)
Softcover, Viking Childrens Books
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Sons and Loversby D. H. Lawrence, Keith SagarISBN 0140431543 (0-14-043154-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Story of the Amuletby E. Nesbit, H.R. MillarISBN 0140367527 (0-14-036752-7)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Linda JenningsISBN 0140373365 (0-14-037336-5)
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In his absorbing Introduction, Richard Maxwell discusses the novel's intricate design, in which Dickens magnificently interweaves epic drama with personal tragedy. Comparing it to Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Maxwell argues that A Tale of Two Cities "stands as Dickens's most memorable effort to see a world in a very small space; a work short by its nature ... yet curiously at its ease among giants". [via]
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Tales from the Thousand and One Nightsby N. J. DawoodISBN 0140442898 (0-14-044289-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from the Thousand and One Nights'Book summary:The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers" and the social criticism of "The Tale of the Hunchback", the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are anchored to everyday life by their realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Islam. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, David SkiltonISBN 0140431357 (0-14-043135-7)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Tom DolinISBN 014043514X (0-14-043514-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. [via]
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Thirteen Going on Sevenby Marilyn SachsISBN 0140374361 (0-14-037436-1)
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Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing of the Dog! & Three Men on the Bummelby Jerome K. Jerome, Jeremy LewisISBN 0140437509 (0-14-043750-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing of the Dog! & Three Men on the Bummel'Book summary:When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times. The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created a new mass readership, and Jerome's book was especially popular among the 'clerking classes' who longed to be 'free from that fretful haste, that vehement striving, that is every day becoming more and more the bane of nineteenth-century life.'[via]So popular did it prove that Jerome reunited his heroes for a bicycle tour of Germany. Despite some sharp, and with hindsight, prophetic observations of the country, Three Men on the Bummel describes an equally picaresque journey constrained only 'by the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started'.
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 0140367470 (0-14-036747-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel'Book summary:D'Artagnan, arriving in Paris from Gascony with no horse and few worldly goods wishes to join the King's Guards. He finds himself in the company of three musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the most renowned fighters of their day. The adventures they share, fighting for the honour of the Queen against the machinations of 'Milady', are rich in drama, colour and romance, which is why "The Three Musketeers" has remained so popular since its first serialisation in 1844. [via]
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Tom Brown's Schooldaysby Thomas HughesISBN 0140350225 (0-14-035022-5)
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The Truth about Mary Roseby Marilyn SachsISBN 0140370838 (0-14-037083-8)
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The Twenty-one Balloonsby William Pene DuboisISBN 0140320970 (0-14-032097-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twenty-one Balloons'Book summary:Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions. Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition. "William Pne du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific tastes, and brilliant artistry to tell a story that has no age limit." -- The Horn Book[via]More editions of The Twenty-one Balloons:
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Malcolm CowleyISBN 0140421998 (0-14-042199-8)
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What Katy Did at Schoolby Susan CoolidgeISBN 0140350438 (0-14-035043-8)
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What Katy Did Next: Easyread Large Editionby Susan CoolidgeISBN 0140350527 (0-14-035052-7)
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Moreby Roald DahlISBN 0140328742 (0-14-032874-2)
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The Worst Witchby Jill MurphyISBN 0140311084 (0-14-031108-4)
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You Tell Meby McGoughISBN 0140312862 (0-14-031286-2)
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Mi Rincon En LA Montana / My Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead George, Carmen Gomez De AgueroISBN 0140381813 (0-14-038181-3)
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