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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton, Carol J. Singley

ISBN 0395980798 (0-395-98079-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0679405879 (0-679-40587-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]
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- Barchester Towers: ISBN 0451518810 (0-451-51881-0)
  Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
- Barchester Towers: ISBN 0679405879 (0-679-40587-9)
  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Barchester Towers
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 051762639X (0-517-62639-X)
Hardcover, Octopus Publishing Group

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This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]
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- Barchester Towers: ISBN 051762639X (0-517-62639-X)
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Barnaby Rudge
by Charles Dickens, Donald Hawes

ISBN 0460877151 (0-460-87715-1)
Softcover, Everyman

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Published in 1841 as part of MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK,the journal founded by Dickens,BARNABY RUDGE is the earlier of Dickens's two historical novels(the other being A TALE OF TWO CITIES).It is set in the period of the Gordon anti-popery riotof 1780 and contains powerful evocations of mob violence,culminating in the sackof Newgate.The main story is a romantic one about the troubled love affair of Emma Haredale,whose father has been mysteriously murdered,and Edward Chester,sonof Sir John Chester,a villain who helps to instigate the riots. [via]
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- Barnaby Rudge: ISBN 0749307641 (0-7493-0764-1)
  Softcover, Mandarin
- Barnaby Rudge: ISBN 0460877151 (0-460-87715-1)
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0460000764 (0-460-00076-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mindless violence of the mob. Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices is interwoven with the murder mystery surrounding the father of the simple-minded Barnaby. The discovery of the murderer and his involvement in the riots put Barnaby's life in jeopardy. Culminating in the terrifying destruction of Newgate prison by the rampaging hordes, the brilliant descriptions of the riots are among Dickens's most powerful. Barnaby Rudge looks forward to the dark complexities of Dickens's later novels, whose characters also seek refuge from a chaotic and unstable world. This edition includes all the original illustrations, plus an illuminating Introduction and notes.
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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Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak, John O. Bayley, Manya Harari

ISBN 0679407596 (0-679-40759-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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This new trade paperback edition of Pasternak's classic evokes the life and loves of the poet-physician Zhivago during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. This edition features a thorough introduction by Oxford University scholar John Bayley. [via]
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- Doctor Zhivago: ISBN 0679731237 (0-679-73123-7)
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Dr. Zhivago
by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

ISBN 0394607864 (0-394-60786-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. [via]
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- Dr. Zhivago: ISBN 0394607864 (0-394-60786-4)
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El Doctor Zhivago / The Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Max Hayward, Manya Harari

ISBN 0679774386 (0-679-77438-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. [via]
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- El Doctor Zhivago / The Doctor Zhivago: ISBN 0472717960 (0-472-71796-0)
  Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
- El Doctor Zhivago / The Doctor Zhivago: ISBN 0679774386 (0-679-77438-6)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe

ISBN 046001837X (0-460-01837-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

ISBN 0446365386 (0-446-36538-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing

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A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga. [via]
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In Search of Lost Time Vol. 3: The Guermantes Way
by Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, D. J. Enright

ISBN 0679600280 (0-679-60028-0)
Hardcover, Random House, Incorporated

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The Guermantes Way, in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantess château near Combray. It also represents the narrators passage into the rarefied social kaleidoscope of the Guermantess Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantess drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.

For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 048645648X (0-486-45648-X)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Little Dorrit: Library Edition
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0460876821 (0-460-87682-1)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning example of how thoroughly Dickens could put his flair for the theatrical and his comic genius the service of his passion for justice. [via]
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Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 0395051215 (0-395-05121-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe

ISBN 0395051290 (0-395-05129-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane, Malcolm Bradbury, Christopher Bigsby

ISBN 0460873814 (0-460-87381-4)
Softcover, Everyman

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Small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. Amid the nightmarish chaos of a Civil War battle, a young soldier discovers courage, humility, and, perhaps, wisdom. Widely praised for uncanny re-creation of the sights, sounds, and sense of actual combat. An enduring landmark of American fiction.
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The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Stories
by Stephen Crane

ISBN 0451515927 (0-451-51592-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Stephen Crane's classic work [via]
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- The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Stories: ISBN 0451515927 (0-451-51592-7)
  Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Stephen Cranes the Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane

ISBN 0671006606 (0-671-00660-6)
Softcover, Monarch Notes

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Sterne: "Tristram Shandy"
by Wolfgang Iser, David Henry Wilson

ISBN 0521328071 (0-521-32807-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press

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Tender Is The Night, 1934
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN 068480154X (0-684-80154-X)
Softcover, Scribner

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In the wake of World War I, a community of expatriate American writers established itself in the salons and cafes of 1920s Paris. They congregated at Gertrude Stein's select soirees, drank too much, married none too wisely, and wrote volumes--about the war, about the Jazz Age, and often about each other. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were part of this gang of literary Young Turks, and it was while living in France that Fitzgerald began writing Tender Is the Night. Begun in 1925, the novel was not actually published until 1934. By then, Fitzgerald was back in the States and his marriage was on the rocks, destroyed by Zelda's mental illness and alcoholism. Despite the modernist mandate to keep authors and their creations strictly segregated, it's difficult not to look for parallels between Fitzgerald's private life and the lives of his characters, psychiatrist Dick Diver and his former patient turned wife, Nicole. Certainly the hospital in Switzerland where Zelda was committed in 1929 provided the inspiration for the clinic where Diver meets, treats, and then marries the wealthy Nicole Warren. And Fitzgerald drew both the European locale and many of the characters from places and people he knew from abroad.
In the novel, Dick is eventually ruined--professionally, emotionally, and spiritually--by his union with Nicole. Fitzgerald's fate was not quite so novelistically neat: after Zelda was diagnosed as a schizophrenic and committed, Fitzgerald went to work as a Hollywood screenwriter in 1937 to pay her hospital bills. He died three years later--not melodramatically, like poor Jay Gatsby in his swimming pool, but prosaically, while eating a chocolate bar and reading a newspaper. Of all his novels, Tender Is the Night is arguably the one closest to his heart. As he himself wrote, "Gatsby was a tour de force, but this is a confession of faith." [via]
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Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome

ISBN 046002504X (0-460-02504-X)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.

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Describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. [via]
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- Three Men in a Boat: ISBN 0460870289 (0-460-87028-9)
  Softcover, Everyman
- Three Men in a Boat: ISBN 046002504X (0-460-02504-X)
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Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome Klapka Jerome

ISBN 0765341611 (0-7653-4161-1)
Softcover, Tor Books

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The famous journey made by the three intrepid explorers down the Thames is illustrated by Paul Cox, capturing the hilarious incidents of the three men and their dog together, with numerous evocative images of the many historical monuments dotted along the riverside. [via]
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- Three Men in a Boat: ISBN 0460001183 (0-460-00118-3)
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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Jerome K. Jerome

ISBN 0486451100 (0-486-45110-0)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated

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Jerome's comic masterpiece and one of the best-known classics of English humor follows the misadventures of 3 bungling, Victorian-era bachelors who take off on a rowing excursion up the Thames. Their disastrous struggles with camping equipment, meal preparation, and rampant hypochondria trumpet simple truths that still resonate today.
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- Three Men in a Boat: (to Say Nothing of the Dog): ISBN 0760757569 (0-7607-5756-9)
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- Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog: ISBN 0486451100 (0-486-45110-0)
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Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 0460016172 (0-460-01617-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Western Writings of Stephen Crane
by Frank Bergon, Stephen Crane

ISBN 0451511891 (0-451-51189-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The World's Great Classics

ISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books

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Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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