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ISBN 9780194229760 (0-19-422976-9, 0194229769)

by Mark Twain, Tricia Hedge

ISBN 0194229769 (0-19-422976-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim ... [via]

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain, Peter Stoneley

ISBN 0192806823 (0-19-280682-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, first published in 1876, is Mark Twain's most popular novel. Its hero is a national icon, celebrated as a distinctively American figure both at home and abroad. As well as being a deft comedy and a powerful celebration of childhood, applauding Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life, it reflects how Twain was in the process of finding a distinctive voice with which he could express the conflicts he felt about coming of age in America. [via]

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ISBN 9780195114058 (0-19-511405-1, 0195114051)

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876

by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin

ISBN 0195114051 (0-19-511405-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Tom Sawyer: among America's undisputed contributions to the world's cast of unforgettable characters. [via]

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Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

ISBN 9780517530719 (0-517-53071-6, 0517530716)

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The Annotated Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf

ISBN 0517530716 (0-517-53071-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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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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The Annotated Frankenstein: ISBN 0517530716 (0-517-53071-6)
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ISBN 9780452269682 (0-452-26968-7, 0452269687)

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The Essential Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf, Christopher Bing

ISBN 0452269687 (0-452-26968-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Horror expert Wolf's sublime edition of this literary masterpiece features in-depth and extensive notes on all the novel's most interesting aspects, plus biographical information revealing how Mary Shelley's turbulent personal life influenced her work. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings. [via]

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The Essential Frankenstein

by Robert Jameson

ISBN 0517069741 (0-517-06974-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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ISBN 9780192834874 (0-19-283487-8, 0192834878)

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Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 0192834878 (0-19-283487-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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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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ISBN 9780312044695 (0-312-04469-0, 0312044690)

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Frankenstein Mary Shelley

by J. Smith

ISBN 0312044690 (0-312-04469-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelleys English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender, and cultural studies perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. In the second edition, 3 of the 6 essays are new. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

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ISBN 9780192833662 (0-19-283366-9, 0192833669)

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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Marilyn Butler

ISBN 0192833669 (0-19-283366-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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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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ISBN 9780451523631 (0-451-52363-6, 0451523636)

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Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker

ISBN 0451523636 (0-451-52363-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Three horror classicswith an introduction by Stephen King

Some of literatures most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome.

@NotoriousDOC Just did a bit-torrent-style grave robbery. My new man will be an artful collage. Also, good conversation starter.

Its alive! Id better beat it over the head repeatedly with a fire extinguisher.

So sometimes you build something, and it gets away. Theyre gonna can me at the university if they find out about this.

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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

ISBN 9780517118290 (0-517-11829-7, 0517118297)

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Jane Austen

by Jane Austen

ISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy

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Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]

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ISBN 9780399501487 (0-399-50148-7, 0399501487)

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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding, E. L. Epstein

ISBN 0399501487 (0-399-50148-7)
Softcover, Perigee

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William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]

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ISBN 9780192802644 (0-19-280264-X, 019280264X)

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Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Jane Stabler

ISBN 019280264X (0-19-280264-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.

Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]

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ISBN 9780231121934 (0-231-12193-8, 0231121938)

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Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

by Berthold Schoene-Harwood, Richard Beynon

ISBN 0231121938 (0-231-12193-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr

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Mary Shelley's first novel has established itself as one of modernity's most compelling and ominous myths. Frankenstein poignantly captures the spirit of the early 1800s as an age of transition tragically divided between scientific progress and religious conservatism, revolutionary reform and conformist reaction.

This "Guide" encapsulates the most important critical reactions to a novel that straddles the realms of both "high" literature and popular culture. The selections shed light on "Frankenstein"'s historical and socio-political relevance, its innovative representations of science, gender, and identity, as well as its problematic cultural location between academic critique and creative production. Ranging from the first reviews in 1818 to postmodern readings of the mid-1990s, the "Guide" illuminates one of British literature's most spectacular novels. [via]

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ISBN 9780312256937 (0-312-25693-0, 0312256930)

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ross C. Murfin

ISBN 0312256930 (0-312-25693-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an illustrated introduction to the contexts and major issues of the text in its time and ours; an annotated bibliography for further reading (contexts, criticism, and Internet resources); and a concise glossary of literary terms. This title is available in print or as a Bedford e-Book to Go.

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ISBN 9780194230438 (0-19-423043-0, 0194230430)

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The Scarlet Letter

by Not Available, Escott, John (RTL), Thomas Sperling

ISBN 0194230430 (0-19-423043-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover the father of her child? [via]

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ISBN 9780395051535 (0-395-05153-3, 0395051533)

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Scarlet Letter and Other Tales of the Puritans

by Hawthorne Levin

ISBN 0395051533 (0-395-05153-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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ISBN 9780393979534 (0-393-97953-9, 0393979539)

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The Scarlet Letter And Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leland S. Person

ISBN 0393979539 (0-393-97953-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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This Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most widely read novel appears during the bicentennial anniversary year of his birth.The text of The Scarlet Letter is based on the 1850 third edition, the first set in stereotype plates and the basis of subsequent printings in Hawthorne's lifetime. An invaluable selection of contextual material includes five Hawthorne stories that are closely related to The Scarlet Letter, along with relevant letters and notebook entries. A substantial excerpt from Hawthorne's campaign biography of Franklin Pierce offers a revealing glimpse at Hawthorne's political thought, especially regarding slavery and abolition. "Criticism" provides a comprehensive overview of early and modern commentary on The Scarlet Letter and the stories in this edition, including nineteenth-century reviews of the novel and critical essays by Robert S. Levine, Nina Baym, Larry J. Reynolds, and Jean Fagan Yellin. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]

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ISBN 9780486291567 (0-486-29156-1, 0486291561)

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Tom Sawyer: Library Edition

by Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John Green

ISBN 0486291561 (0-486-29156-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Specially abridged version of the beloved classic about a mischievous but well-meaning young lad who barely avoids calamity as he bounds along from one adventure to another. Memorable cast of characters includes Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, Huck Finn, Injun Joe, and others. 31 black-and-white illustrations. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

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ISBN 9780399506437 (0-399-50643-8, 0399506438)

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William Golding's Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

ISBN 0399506438 (0-399-50643-8)
Softcover, Perigee

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Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]

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William Golding's Lord of the Flies: ISBN 0399506438 (0-399-50643-8)
Softcover, Perigee

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