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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll, Kathy Mitchell

ISBN 0307671119 (0-307-67111-9)
Hardcover, Golden Books Publishing Company, Incorporated

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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Carroll L

ISBN 044805454X (0-448-05454-X)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan

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Alice in Wonderland Classic Library
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0307171116 (0-307-17111-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

ISBN 0375761381 (0-375-76138-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0440407435 (0-440-40743-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll, Jenny Thorne

ISBN 0361028008 (0-361-02800-8)
Hardcover, Purnell, Alice Kelly

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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snark
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0370109279 (0-370-10927-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd

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, 292 pages including Prefatory Notes at rear, illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations within the text [via]
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The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates, Hollis Robbins, Karen C.C. Dalton

ISBN 0393059464 (0-393-05946-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel.
Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949, Uncle Tom's Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Now, in a ringing refutation of Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852, galvanized the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done. The editors animate pre-Civil War life with rich insights into the lives of slaves, abolitionists, and the American reading public. Examining the lingering effects of the novel, they provide new insights into emerging race-relation, women's, gay, and gender issues. With reproductions of rare prints, posters, and photographs, this book is also one of the most thorough anthologies of Uncle Tom images up to the present day. [via]
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Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, V.A. Kolve, Glending Olson

ISBN 0393925870 (0-393-92587-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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David Wright's prose version of Chaucer's classic. [via]
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The Canterbury Tales : A Selection
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Donald R. Howard, James M. Dean

ISBN 0451524004 (0-451-52400-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Here are tales told by members from all parts of English society of the 14th century, reflecting on life as they travel the road from Southwark to Canterbury. [via]
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Canterbury Tales and Related Readings
by Geoffery Chaucer

ISBN 0395893283 (0-395-89328-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School

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NEW...NEW...NEW...Did I say New? Very New [via]
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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt

ISBN 0404015506 (0-404-01550-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc

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Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer

ISBN 0385098693 (0-385-09869-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0448170159 (0-448-17015-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

ISBN 0451523938 (0-451-52393-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Leonard Wolf

ISBN 0452269695 (0-452-26969-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature has given voice to our own fears of the depravity within all of us. Wolf's extensive annotations throughout the text reveal the psychological depths of the Jekyll and Hyde story and bring the tale's intricate details to light. [via]
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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.

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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.

From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
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Ivanhoe
by Scott, Walter, Sr., Compton Mackenzie

ISBN 0451521943 (0-451-52194-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Ivanhoe, Rowena, and Robin Hood march through unforgettable scenes. [via]
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Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott

ISBN 0451527992 (0-451-52799-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Barry Menikoff

ISBN 0375757252 (0-375-75725-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Stevenson's famous novel of seafaring adventure, with an introduction by TK

Shipwreck. Murder. Flight. Intrigue. And, of course, kidnapping. David Balfour's adventures on the high seas are among the most evocative in classic literature.
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L Etranger
by Albert Camus, Germaine Bree, Carlos Lynes

ISBN 0423846108 (0-423-84610-8)
Hardcover, Methuen Educational

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LÉtranger est un roman dAlbert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la trilogie que Camus nommera « cycle de labsurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : labsurde. Cette trilogie comprend également lessai philosophique intitulé Le Mythe de Sisyphe ainsi que les deux pièces de théâtre Caligula et Le Malentendu. Le roman a été traduit en quarante langues et une adaptation cinématographique a été réalisée par Luchino Visconti en 1967.

En 1999. La revue Le Monde classa ce roman premier parmi les 100 romans du siècle.

Meursault, le narrateur, employé de bureau algérois, apprend la mort de sa mère. Il prend l'autobus pour se rendre à l'asile où elle a fini ses jours et assiste avec indifférence à la veillée et à l'enterrement. Le lendemain, samedi, il rencontre Marie dans un établissement de bains, l'emmène au cinéma et passe la nuit avec elle. Le dimanche s'étire dans l'ennui et le désoeuvrement. Meursault retrouve son bureau et ses voisins: Céleste le restaurateur, le vieux Salamano qui bat son chien, et Raymond Sintès, dont on dit dans le quartier qu'il «vit des femmes». Celui-ci demande à Meursault de rédiger une lettre destinée à une femme qui l'a trompé. Le samedi suivant, Meursault se rend à la plage avec Marie. Au retour, ils assistent à une scène violente au cours de laquelle Raymond frappe sa maîtresse. La police étant intervenue, Meursault accepte de témoigner en faveur de Raymond ... Meursault et Marie vont passer le dimanche à la plage, avec Raymond. Deux Arabes les ont suivis. L'un est le frère de la femme que Raymond a maltraitée. Une dispute éclate: Raymond est blessé d'un coup de couteau. Un peu plus tard, par une chaleur accablante, il revient provoquer son agresseur. Meursault, qui lui, a pris son revolver par précaution, se retrouve seul face à l'Arabe. Aveuglé par le soleil et l'éclat du couteau que celui-ci a sorti de sa poche, il tire sur lui...
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0451516338 (0-451-51633-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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  Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
Lorna Doone
by R. D. Blackmore, David Penn, Tricia Hedge, Jenny Bidgood

ISBN 0194230384 (0-19-423038-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Nicholas Nickleby: Library Edition
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 046001238X (0-460-01238-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 0330344692 (0-330-34469-2)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd

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One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiancé, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life. As Alexander Theroux asserts in his Introduction, Hardy was "committed to the deep expression of [nature's] ironic chaos and strange apathy, even hostility, toward man." [via]
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The Riverside Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson

ISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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This peerless new edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study, and replaces Robinson's famous edition, long regarded as the standard text. Freshly edited and annotated, the "Riverside Chaucer" is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer. [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0450018431 (0-450-01843-1)
Hardcover, New English Library

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The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Strange Cases of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Katherine Linehan, Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0393974650 (0-393-97465-0)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

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The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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- The Strange Cases of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: ISBN 0393974650 (0-393-97465-0)
  Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus, Matthew Ward

ISBN 0394533054 (0-394-53305-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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  Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Stranger
by Chris Van Allsburg

ISBN 0395423317 (0-395-42331-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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The Stranger [Hardcover] by Van Allsburg, Chris [via]
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The Tales of Canterbury: Complete
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert A. Pratt

ISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Tales of Canterbury, The: Complete by Chaucer, Geoffrey; ed. by Robert A. Pratt. 8vo. [via]
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Herbert Rosengarten, Anne Bronte

ISBN 0198125968 (0-19-812596-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

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Published in June 1848, less than a year before her death, Anne Brontë's second (and last) novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, is the somber account of the breakdown of a marriage in the face of alcoholism and infidelity. The novel enjoyed a modest success that led its publisher, the unscrupulous T.C. Newby, to issue a "Second Edition" less than two months later. The present edition, which completes the Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontës, offers a text based on the collation of the first edition with the second. The introduction details the work's composition and early printing history, including its first publication in America; and the text is fully annotated. Appendices record the substantive variants in the first English and American editions, and discuss the author's belief in the doctrine of universal salvation. [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe

ISBN 0312446519 (0-312-44651-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment and portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances enlightened hundreds of thousands by revealing the human costs of slavery, which had until then been cloaked and justified by the racist misperceptions of the time. Langston Hughes called it "a moral battle cry," noting that "the love and warmth and humanity that went into its writing keep it alive a century later," and Tolstoy described it as "flowing from love of God and man." [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabin : Or, Life among the Lowly
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Darryl Pinckney

ISBN 0451526708 (0-451-52670-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Arguably the most influential novel in American history, Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the embers of the struggle between free states and slave states into the fire of the Civil War-and is as powerful and relevant today as when it was first published a century and a half ago. [via]
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Villette: Library Edition
by Charlotte Bronte, Deborah Lutz, A. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre

ISBN 037575850X (0-375-75850-X)
Softcover, Modern Library

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Brontë's romantic heroine Lucy Snowe, a penniless governess attempting to begin life anew in France, is an exceptional example of a great writer transforming her life into art.

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Villette: Charlotte Bronte
by Pauline Nestor

ISBN 0312079095 (0-312-07909-5)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins, Anne Perry

ISBN 0375759069 (0-375-75906-9)
Softcover, Princeton Review

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The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest "Sensation Novel." Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. This new critical edition is the first to use the original manuscript of the novel. John Sutherland examines Collins's contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, and provides a chronology of the novel's complicated events.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via]
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Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence, Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN 0375754881 (0-375-75488-1)
Softcover, Modern Library

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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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L Etranger
by Albert Camus, Ray Davison

ISBN 0415025869 (0-415-02586-9)
Softcover, Routledge

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Condamné à mort, Meursault. Sur une plage algérienne, il a tué un Arabe. À cause du soleil, dira-t-il, parce qu'il faisait chaud. On n'en tirera rien d'autre. Rien ne le fera plus réagir : ni l'annonce de sa condamnation, ni la mort de sa mère, ni les paroles du prêtre avant la fin. Comme si, sur cette plage, il avait soudain eu la révélation de l'universelle équivalence du tout et du rien. La conscience de n'être sur la terre qu'en sursis, d'une mort qui, quoi qu'il arrive, arrivera, sans espoir de salut. Et comment être autre chose qu'indifférent à tout après ça ?
Étranger sur la terre, étranger à lui-même, Meursault le bien nommé pose les questions qui deviendront un leitmotiv dans l'oeuvre de Camus. De La Peste à La Chute, mais aussi dans ses pièces et dans ses essais, celui qui allait devenir Prix Nobel de littérature en 1957 ne cessera de s'interroger sur le sens de l'existence. Sa mort violente en 1960 contribua quelque peu à rendre mythique ce maître à penser de toute une génération. --Karla Manuele [via]
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