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The Age of Empire, 1875-1914by Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 0394563190 (0-394-56319-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Age of Ironby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0394588592 (0-394-58859-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century Englandby Douglas HayISBN 0394471202 (0-394-47120-2)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century Englandby Edward P. ThompsonISBN 0394730852 (0-394-73085-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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As I Lay Dyingby William Faulkner, Noel PolkISBN 0394747453 (0-394-74745-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As I Lay Dying'Book summary:Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see. [via]
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The Big Sleepby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394758285 (0-394-75828-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Sleep'Book summary:"His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full." [via]
Blaming the Victimby William RyanISBN 0394722264 (0-394-72226-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens, George Ford, Sylvere MonodISBN 0394605209 (0-394-60520-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleak House'Book summary:Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]
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Caligula & Three Other Playsby Albert CamusISBN 0394702077 (0-394-70207-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Caligula and Three Other Playsby Albert CamusISBN 039440520X (0-394-40520-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Ben FowkesISBN 039472657X (0-394-72657-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Caucasian Chalk Circleby Bertolt BrechtISBN 039462372X (0-394-62372-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United Statesby Ira KatznelsonISBN 039450075X (0-394-50075-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Classby Jilly CooperISBN 0394514149 (0-394-51414-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Class'Book summary:Jilly Cooper challenges the assumption that England nowadays is a classless society, and sets out to show how snobbery is alive and well and at home in the English mind. She chronicles the social attitudes and lifestyles of Harry Stow-Crat and his peers, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, and Jen Teale and her husband Bryan, and makes characteristically wry observations on the courtship behaviour, choice of furnishings, appetites and ambitions of the "merry-tocracy", the "telly-stocracy", and many other inhabitants of castle, Victorian terrace and council flat. [via]
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0394718917 (0-394-71891-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald Dahl, Jill BennettISBN 0394831039 (0-394-83103-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danny the Champion of the World'Book summary:"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Danny's mother died when he was four months old. Life is peaceful and wonderful... until he turns 9 and discovers his father's one vice. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world. Danny is right up to Roald Dahl's impishly brilliant standards. An intense and beautiful father-son relationship is balanced with sublegal high jinks that will have even the most rigid law-abider rooting them on. Dahl's inimitable way with words leaves the reader simultaneously satisfied and itching for more. (Ages 9 to 13) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Democracy in Americaby Thomas Bender, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 039432675X (0-394-32675-X)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Classic analysis of america's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), a french aristocrat who visited the united states in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of america's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, i confess that in america i saw more than america; i sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress [via]
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prisonby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394499425 (0-394-49942-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Dogeatersby Jessica HagedornISBN 0394574982 (0-394-57498-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0394600312 (0-394-60031-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]Awareness of Dracula as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey to Transylvania, into the very heart of Count Draculas evil realm, is compelling, but it is perhaps the journey of the vampire to Englandand the dangers he poses to Jonathans beloved Minathat is more horrifying. 
Engels, Manchester, and the Working Classby Steven MarcusISBN 0394714067 (0-394-71406-7)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 039428013X (0-394-28013-X)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen.
A book that binds readers of great literature, The English Patient garnered the Booker Prize for author Ondaatje. The poet and novelist has also written In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; two collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family. [via]
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The Fallby Albert CamusISBN 0394424247 (0-394-42424-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall'Book summary:Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own complacency. [via]
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Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890by Richard SennettISBN 0394710894 (0-394-71089-4)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Famine, a Man-Made Disaster: A Report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issuesby Independent Commission on International Humanitarian IssuesISBN 0394742524 (0-394-74252-4)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Film Art: An Introductionby Kristin Thompson, David BordwellISBN 0394352378 (0-394-35237-8)
Softcover, Knopf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Film Art: An Introduction'Book summary:Film Art is often assigned to college students taking their first film class. Authors David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson do not follow the traditional method of teaching film art through a close analysis of individual films. Instead, they provide an overview of the major issues students confront when they watch movies. In clear, straightforward prose, the authors describe and dissect the complexities of filmmaking, film narrative, film form, and film technique. This book serves as a fine introduction not only to the field of film studies, but also to the theories and concerns of two of the most important scholars in that field. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0394554310 (0-394-55431-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Larry Weinberg, Ken BarrISBN 0394848276 (0-394-84827-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Victor Frankenstein learns the secret of producing life, and so, by putting together parts of various corpses, he creates the Frankenstein monster. The monster is huge and disformed, but he means no harm to anyone--until constant ill treatment drives him to murder and revenge. This easy-to-read version of Mary Shelley's long-standing masterpiece easily captures the sadness and horror of the original. [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0394605063 (0-394-60506-3)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Heart of a Dogby Mirra Ginsburg, Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0394623800 (0-394-62380-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of a Dog'Book summary:This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats.[via]More editions of Heart of a Dog:
The Hidden Injuries of Classby Richard Sennett, Jonathan CobbISBN 0394462122 (0-394-46212-2)
Hardcover, Knopf
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The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394417755 (0-394-41775-5)
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In Another Place, Not Hereby Dionne BrandISBN 0394281586 (0-394-28158-6)
Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
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In the Skin of a Lion: A Novelby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0394563638 (0-394-56363-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Skin of a Lion: A Novel'Book summary:In the Skin of a Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the 20s and 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politically powerful, the anarchists, bridge builders and tunnellers, a vanished millionaire and his mistress, a rescued nun and a thief who leads a charmed life. This is a haunting tale of passion, privilege and biting physical labour, of men and women moved by compassion and driven by the power of dreams -- sometimes even to murder. [via]
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Joseph Andrewsby Henry FieldingISBN 0394601173 (0-394-60117-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Presentby Jacqueline JonesISBN 0394745361 (0-394-74536-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Leave It to Psmithby P. G. WodehouseISBN 0394720261 (0-394-72026-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leave It to Psmith'Book summary:One of the most perennially popular of all the Wodehouse titles, Leave it to Psmith, according to Wilfrid Sheed, "helps to usher in the Wodehouse golden age" -- the age of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Blandings Castle and all the rest, among whom the ingenious Psmith ("The p is silent, as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan") is entirely worthy to be counted. A debonair young Englishman who has quit the fish business, "even though there is money in fish and decided to support himself by doing anything that he is hired to do by anyone, Psmith, wandering in and out of romantic, suspenseful and invariably hilarious situations, is in the great Wodehouse tradition. [via]
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0394329864 (0-394-32986-4)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Man's Fateby Andre MalrauxISBN 0394543793 (0-394-54379-3)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Fate'Book summary:Man's Fate was first published in 1933. As a fictional account of the early days of the Chinese Revolution, this novel remains a powerful expression of psychological insight into the spirit of political revolution. From the opening scene, in which Chinese terrorist Ch'en Ta Erh struggles internally over his task of assassinating a sleeping man, Malraux combines gritty action with an elaboration of the existential principle that social change is powered by the actions of individuals. [via]
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Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africaby Amy Jacques Garvey, John Henrik ClarkeISBN 0394460405 (0-394-46040-5)
Hardcover, Random House
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Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africaby John Henrik ClarkeISBN 0394718887 (0-394-71888-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa'Book summary:Among Black leaders, Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was unique. His popularity was universal, his program for the return of African people to their motherland shook the foundations of three empires, all subsequent Black Power movements have owed a debt to his example, and his prophecy has been fulfilled in the independence that brought into being more than thirty African nations.
This illuminating reader shows Garvey in all his dimensions. Among the many contributors are, in addition to Garvey himself, W. E. B. Du Bois, E. Franklin Frazier, William Z. Foster, Amy Jacques Garvey, and the editor, John Henrik Clarke. [via]More editions of Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa:
The New Class War : Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequencesby Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. ClowardISBN 0394706471 (0-394-70647-1)
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The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequencesby Richard A. Cloward, Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394523180 (0-394-52318-0)
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0394601769 (0-394-60176-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North, Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even Thereby Harriet E. WilsonISBN 0394532104 (0-394-53210-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Blackby Henry Louis Gates, H. E. WilsonISBN 0394715586 (0-394-71558-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Societyby Gareth Stedman JonesISBN 0394725476 (0-394-72547-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945by Saburo IenagaISBN 0394497627 (0-394-49762-7)
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Pacific War, Nineteen Thirty-One to Nineteen Forty-Five: A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War IIby Saburo IenagaISBN 0394734963 (0-394-73496-3)
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The Plagueby Albert CamusISBN 0394712587 (0-394-71258-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plague'Book summary:The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. [via]
The Players Come Againby Amanda CrossISBN 0394587855 (0-394-58785-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Planby Daniel P. MoynihanISBN 0394463544 (0-394-46354-4)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Politics of Rich and Poor : Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermathby Kevin P. PhillipsISBN 0394559541 (0-394-55954-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Failby Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394726979 (0-394-72697-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail'Book summary:Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America:
-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America
-- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO
-- The Southern Civil Rights Movement
-- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization. [via]More editions of Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail:
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Failby Richard A. Cloward, Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394488407 (0-394-48840-7)
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Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climateby Nancy MitfordISBN 0394708172 (0-394-70817-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate'Book summary:Few aristocratic English families of the 20th century have enjoyed quite the delicious notoriety that the Mitford sisters courted in the years bracketed by two world wars. For a start, two of the girls, Unity and Diana, were Fascists (the former was a friend of Hitler and Goebbels, and the latter married Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists). Two others took the writing route: Jessica ran away from home and became a famous muckraking journalist, and Nancy composed maliciously witty--and transparently autobiographical--novels as well as several biographies. The Pursuit of Love (1945), her greatest fictional success, and its companion, Love in a Cold Climate (1949), keep closely to the spirit (and details) of their youthful amusements and more grown-up adventures.
Seen through the adoring eyes of Fanny Logan, the self-effacing cousin who records their shenanigans with a wicked sincerity, the Radletts of Alconleigh shine with Gloucestershire glamour: apoplectic Uncle Matthew; Lord Alconleigh (modeled to a fine nuance after Mitford's father, Lord Redesdale, who like Uncle Matthew used to hunt his children with bloodhounds); his kind, rather vague wife, Aunt Sadie; as well as Fanny's favorite cousin Linda and the other six Radlett children. The Radlett daughters and Fanny wait impatiently for life to become interesting. Because of their station, however, nothing but marriage is expected of them, so they hurl themselves at love like crusaders, with varied and always fascinating results. At one point Fanny recounts:
A few minutes only after Linda had left me to go back to London, Christian and the comrades, I had another caller. This time it was Lord Merlin...."This is a bad business," he said, abruptly, and without preamble, though I had not seen him for several years. "I'm just back from Rome, and what do I find--Linda and Christian Talbot. It's an extraordinary thing that I can't ever leave England without Linda getting herself mixed up with some thoroughly undesirable character. This is a disaster--how far has it gone? Can nothing be done?"
The Pursuit of Love follows the romantic fortunes of Linda Radlett, while Love in a Cold Climate ventures further afield with the story of Polly Hampton's shocking love affair and its unexpectedly funny aftermath. Fanny's inexhaustible narration is a pleasant buffer for Mitford's deft teasing, which dances along just this side of mockery. The author of U and Non-U, a famous tongue-in-cheek treatise on the shibboleths of upper-class mores, Mitford often leaves the reader wondering just where she stands in the class wars, and much of her humor arises in the fine distinctions of aristocratic manners and speech. Still, there's an inimitable tart sweetness to these stories of true love and its pallid imitators, making them perfect snapshots of a vanished world. --Barrie Trinkle [via]More editions of Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate:
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Red and the Blackby StendhalISBN 0394601572 (0-394-60157-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red and the Black'Book summary:Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black), 1830, by Stendhal, is a historical psychological novel in two volumes, chronicling a provincial young mans attempts to socially rise beyond his plebeian upbringing with a combination of talent and hard work, deception and hypocrisy yet who ultimately allows his passions to betray him.
The novels composite full title, Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe siécle (The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century), indicates its two-fold literary purpose, a psychological portrait of the romantic protagonist, Julien Sorel, and an analytic, sociological satire of the French social order under the Bourbon Restoration (181430). In English, Le Rouge et le Noir is variously translated as Red and Black, Scarlet and Black, and The Red and the Black, without the sub-title.
André Gide said that The Red and the Black was a novel ahead of its time, that it was a novel for readers in the 20th century. In Stendhals time, prose novels included dialogue and omniscient narrator descriptions; his great contribution to literary technique was describing the psychologies (feelings, thoughts, inner monologues) of the characters, resultantly he is considered the creator of the psychological novel.
In Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (1948), the protagonist Hugo Barine suggests pseudonyms for himself, including Julien Sorel , whom he resembles.
Joyce Carol Oates stated in the Afterword to her novel them that she originally titled the manuscript Love and Money as a nod to classic 19th century novels, among them, The Red and The Black "whose class-conscious hero Julien Sorel is less idealistic, greedier, and crueler than Jules Wendell but is cleary his spiritual kinsman".
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The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830by Marie Henry Bey Stendhal, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 039460511X (0-394-60511-X)
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Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfareby Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394460383 (0-394-46038-3)
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The Republicby Plato, Benjamin E. JowettISBN 0394608135 (0-394-60813-5)
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The Sound and the Furyby William FaulknerISBN 0394747747 (0-394-74774-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound and the Fury'Book summary:The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three Compson brothers: first Benjy, the "idiot" man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the family's former pasture; next Quentin, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Caddy's lost virginity and his own failure to recover the family's honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally Jason, heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family.
If Benjy's section is the most daringly experimental, Jason's is the most harrowing. "Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say," he begins, lacing into Caddy's illegitimate daughter, and then proceeds to hurl mud at blacks, Jews, his sacred Compson ancestors, his glamorous, promiscuous sister, his doomed brother Quentin, his ailing mother, and the long-suffering black servant Dilsey who holds the family together by sheer force of character.
Notoriously "difficult," The Sound and the Fury is actually one of Faulkner's more accessible works once you get past the abrupt, unannounced time shifts--and certainly the most powerful emotionally. Everything is here: the complex equilibrium of pre-civil rights race relations; the conflict between Yankee capitalism and Southern agrarian values; a meditation on time, consciousness, and Western philosophy. And all of it is rendered in prose so gorgeous it can take your breath away. Here, for instance, Quentin recalls an autumnal encounter back home with the old black possum hunter Uncle Louis:
And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless October, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dogs and to the echo of Louis' voice dying away. He never raised it, yet on a still night we have heard it from our front porch. When he called the dogs in he sounded just like the horn he carried slung on his shoulder and never used, but clearer, mellower, as though his voice were a part of darkness and silence, coiling out of it, coiling into it again. WhoOoooo. WhoOoooo. WhoOooooooooooooooo.
What Faulkner has created is a modernist epic in which characters assume the stature of gods and the primal family events resonate like myths. It is The Sound and the Fury that secures his place in what Edmund Wilson called "the full-dressed post-Flaubert group of Conrad, Joyce, and Proust." --David Laskin [via]More editions of The Sound and the Fury:
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The Strangerby Albert Camus, Matthew WardISBN 0394533054 (0-394-53305-4)
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Subject Womenby Ann OakleyISBN 0394749049 (0-394-74904-9)
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 0394480449 (0-394-48044-9)
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The Swimming-Pool Libraryby Alan HollinghurstISBN 0394570251 (0-394-57025-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Swimming-Pool Library'Book summary:A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. "Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything" (Harpers & Queen), it focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand, searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.
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Thinking About Crimeby James WilsonISBN 039472917X (0-394-72917-X)
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0394701534 (0-394-70153-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:Consists of three character studies of women; "The Good Anna"--a kind but domineering German servingwoman; "Melanctha"--an uneducated but sensitive black girl; "The Gentle Lena"--a pathetically feebleminded young German maid. [via]
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0394847210 (0-394-84721-0)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0394743121 (0-394-74312-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Waiting for Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394172043 (0-394-17204-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for Godot'Book summary:Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and "Waiting for Godot" opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. 'Go and see "Waiting for Godot". At the worst you will discover a curiosity, a four-leaved clover, a black tulip; at the best something that will securely lodge in a corner of your mind for as long as you live' - Harold Hobson, 7 August 1955. 'I told him that if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot. This seemed to disappoint him greatly' - Samuel Beckett, 1955. [via]
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Whigs and Huntersby Edward P. ThompsonISBN 0394730860 (0-394-73086-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whigs and Hunters'Book summary:With Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plunged into the murky waters of the early eighteenth century to chart the violently conflicting currents that boiled beneath the apparent calm of the time. The subject is the Black Act, a law of unprecedented savagery passed by Parliament in 1723 to deal with 'wicked and evil-disposed men going armed in disguise'. These men were pillaging the royal forest of deer, conducting a running battle against the forest officers with blackmail, threats and violence. These 'Blacks', however, were men of some substance; their protest (for such it was) took issue with the equally wholsesale plunder of the forest by Whig nominees to the forest offices. And Robert Walpole, still consolidating his power, took an active part in the prosecution of the 'Blacks'. The episode is laden with political and social implications, affording us glimpses of considerable popular discontent, political chicanery, judicial inequity, corrupt ambition and crime. [via]
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Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Actby Great Britain, Edward Palmer ThompsonISBN 0394400119 (0-394-40011-9)
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White Mischiefby James FoxISBN 039472366X (0-394-72366-X)
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White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Errollby James FoxISBN 0394756878 (0-394-75687-8)
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0394604423 (0-394-60442-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:The erotic sequel to The Rainbow chronicles the lives, loves, obsessions, and struggles of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their lovers, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, as they search for fulfillment in post-World War I society. Reprint. [via]
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Women, Culture, and Politicsby Angela Y. DavisISBN 0394569768 (0-394-56976-8)
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Workingby Studs TerkelISBN 0394478843 (0-394-47884-3)
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Doby Studs TerkelISBN 0394729536 (0-394-72953-6)
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The Worst Years of Our Lives : Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greedby Barbara EhrenreichISBN 0394578473 (0-394-57847-3)
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis de Tocqueville, Phillips BradleyISBN 0394421868 (0-394-42186-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Volume 2 of the classic commentary on the influence of democracy on the intellect, feelings, and actions of Americans. With an introduction by Phillips Bradley.
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