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ISBN 9780812550924 (0-8125-5092-7, 0812550927)

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0812550927 (0-8125-5092-7)
Softcover, Tor Books

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Discover the classics! Beautifully designed and carefully abridged, Troll Illustrated Classics are the perfect introductions to the worlds best-loved literature. [via]

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 0766607135 (0-7666-0713-5)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
20,000 Leagues under the Sea: ISBN 0816718806 (0-8167-1880-6)
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 0812550927 (0-8125-5092-7)
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ISBN 9780866119696 (0-86611-969-8, 0866119698)

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

by Malvina G. Vogel

ISBN 0866119698 (0-86611-969-8)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co

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Library Binding: 240 pages Publisher: Abdo Pub Co; First Edition edition (June 1992) Language: English [via]

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ISBN 9780789434289 (0-7894-3428-8, 0789434288)

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

by Ron Miller, Jules Verne, Paul Wright

ISBN 0789434288 (0-7894-3428-8)
Hardcover, Dk Pub

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The adventure begins when Professor Aronnax accidentally becomes a prisoner of the very monster he is seeking to destroy -- the submarine Nautilus, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Invited to experience the marvels of the Nautilus' magnificent undersea world, Arronnax struggles to piece together Nemo's tragic past. This exciting retelling captures the essence of Verne's visionary and unforgettable story, while also explaining the fascinating facts and fantasies of Captain Nemo's marvelous ocean realm. A unique cross-section of the Nautilus, color photographs, diagrams, and narrative illustrations explore Verne's unique vision and knowledge of the deep. [via]

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Alice in Wonderland

ISBN 0831702389 (0-8317-0238-9)
Hardcover, Gallery Books

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Alice in Wonderland: ISBN 0831702389 (0-8317-0238-9)
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ISBN 9780831766948 (0-8317-6694-8, 0831766948)

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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0831766948 (0-8317-6694-8)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, 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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ISBN 9780763620493 (0-7636-2049-1, 0763620491)

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll, Helen Oxenbury

ISBN 0763620491 (0-7636-2049-1)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr

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Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.

For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]

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ISBN 9780763608040 (0-7636-0804-1, 0763608041)

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Helen Oxenbury, Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0763608041 (0-7636-0804-1)
Hardcover, Candlewick Press

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Lewis Carroll's timeless classic brought to life by one of the most revered children's book illustrators of our time!

Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!"

Lewis Carroll's masterpiece, an exuberant mix of fun and fantasy, logic and lunacy, silliness and droll splendor, revolutionized children's literature. Its influence has been immeasurable, and the story's cast of characters, including Alice herself, the Mad Hatter, and the Cheshire Cat, hold a beloved place in our culture.

Now Helen Oxenbury, one of the world's most acclaimed illustratorswhose many books for children include the award-winning FARMER DUCK, by Martin Waddell, as well as her Tom and Pippo bookshas brought her own special brand of magic to Lewis Carroll's classic.

And ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND is Helen Oxenbury at her very best. Her vision of Alice is unique and modern. Her Wonderland is fresh, whimsical, and lovingly created. With more illustrations than any other edition, this beautiful volume has all the warmth, depth of emotion, humor, and acute observations of people and animals for which Helen Oxenbury's work is so highly regarded. Join us in celebrating a major artistic achievement! And welcome backto a Wonderland that is as astonishingly new as it is joyously familiar. [via]

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ISBN 9780794512392 (0-7945-1239-9, 0794512399)

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lesley Sims, Lewis Carroll, Mauro Evangelista

ISBN 0794512399 (0-7945-1239-9)
Hardcover, Edc Pub

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Beloved classic describes a little girl's adventures in a topsy-turvy land underground and her encounters with such improbable characters as the White Rabbit, March Hare and Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse, grinning Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, and the dreadful Queen of Hearts. Includes all 42 of Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

ISBN 0805205942 (0-8052-0594-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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ISBN 9780760705902 (0-7607-0590-9, 0760705909)

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The Awakening

by Kate Chopin, John Collier

ISBN 0760705909 (0-7607-0590-9)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books

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This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor.

The text is that of the first edition of the novel, published by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. It has been annotated by the editor and includes translations of French phrases and information about New Orleans locales, customs, and lore, the Bayou region, and Creole culture. "Bibliographical and Historical Contexts", expanded and introduced by a new Editors Note, presents biographical, historical, and cultural documents contemporary with the novels publication. Included are a biographical essay by the acclaimed Chopin biographer Emily Toth, "An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler" with selections from the conduct books of the period in which Chopin lived and wrote, and period fashion plates from Harpers Bazar. A comprehensive "Criticism" section, introduced by a new Editors Note, contains expanded selections from hard-to-find contemporary reviews of the novel; two letters of mysterious origin written in response to the novel; and Chopins "Retraction," which followed The Awakenings negative reception. These are followed by twenty-seven interpretive essays, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, that provide a variety of perspectives on The Awakening, including essays by Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Nancy Walker, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Paula A. Treichler, Sandra M. Gilbert, Lee R. Edwards, Patricia S. Yaeger, Elizabeth Ammons, and Elaine Showalter. A Chronology of Chopins life and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]

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ISBN 9780743487672 (0-7434-8767-2, 0743487672)

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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

by Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Alyssa Harad

ISBN 0743487672 (0-7434-8767-2)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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I used this book for a college class... But read it again because it was SOOOO good! [via]

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ISBN 9780764587283 (0-7645-8728-5, 0764587285)

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Cliffscomplete Chopin's the Awakening

by Sheri Metzger

ISBN 0764587285 (0-7645-8728-5)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.

CliffsComplete The Awakening offers insight and information into a work considered scandalous when it arrived from the turn-of-the-20th-century presses. Every generation since has been able to identify with some social or thematic aspect of the novel.

Discover what happens to this heroine who found her husband dull, married life dreary and confining, and motherhood to be bondage and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of The Awakening with these additional features:

A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter
Bibliography and historical background on the author, Kate Chopin
A look at late-19th-century intellect, religion, politics, and society
Coverage of Chopin's career and reaction to the novel
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain, Lucy M. Fitzpatrick

ISBN 0804900299 (0-8049-0029-9)
Softcover, Airmont Publishing Company, Incorporated

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A 19th-century New Englander wakes up in King Arthur's Age of Chivalry for a hilarious tale of anachronisms, romantic history, and biting social satire. [via]

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The Diary of a Nobody

by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

ISBN 0862999278 (0-86299-927-8)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd

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The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody" - Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age. [via]

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Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton, Cynthia Brantley Johnson, Lynn Miller

ISBN 0743487702 (0-7434-8770-2)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
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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The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy, Jojn Galsworthy

ISBN 0743245024 (0-7432-4502-4)
Softcover, Scribner

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The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. This is the only critical edition of the work available, with Notes that explain contemporary artistic and literary allusions and define the slang of the time. [via]

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Homer's The Odyssey: A Play with Music

by Elliot Sokolov, Amie Brockway-Henson, Richard Henson

ISBN 0871298619 (0-87129-861-9)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub

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ISBN 9780812522976 (0-8125-2297-4, 0812522974)

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The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 0812522974 (0-8125-2297-4)
Softcover, Tor Books

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a wonderful children's book filled with great illustrations [via]

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ISBN 9780764170485 (0-7641-7048-1, 0764170481)

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The Last of the Mohicans/ Book With Kit

by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 0764170481 (0-7641-7048-1)
Hardcover, Barrons Juveniles

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The Last of the Mohicans/ Book With Kit (Living Classics Series) [via]

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The Man of Property

by John Galsworthy

ISBN 0786286016 (0-7862-8601-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

ISBN 075090013X (0-7509-0013-X)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd

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ISBN 9780743487696 (0-7434-8769-9, 0743487699)

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My Antonia

by Willa Cather, Alyssa Harad

ISBN 0743487699 (0-7434-8769-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.

Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.

As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]

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Oblomov

by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

ISBN 0837604516 (0-8376-0451-6)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub

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ISBN 9780801882678 (0-8018-8267-2, 0801882672)

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The Odyssey

by Homer, Richard P. Martin, Edward McCrorie

ISBN 0801882672 (0-8018-8267-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. From the translation: "And when the wine had begun to work on his mind, I spoke these sweet words to him: 'Cyclops You ask me my name, my glorious name, And I will tell it to you. Remember now, To give me the gift just as you promised. Noman is my name. They call me Noman- My mother, my father, and all my friends too.' He answered from his pitiless heart: 'Noman I will eat last after his friends. Friends first, him last. That's my gift to you.'" [via]

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ISBN 9780801868542 (0-8018-6854-8, 0801868548)

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The Odyssey

by Richard P. Martin, Homer

ISBN 0801868548 (0-8018-6854-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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"Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place:

when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom

and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea,

only this man longed for his wife and a way home."

Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary tradition. From ancient Greece to the present day its influence on later literature has been unsurpassed, and for centuries translators have approached the meter, tone, and pace of Homer's poetry with a variety of strategies. Chapman and Pope paid keen attention to color, drama, and vivacity of style, rendering the Greek verse loosely and inventively. In the twentieth century, translators such as Lattimore kept rigorously close to the sense of each word in the original; others, including Fitzgerald and Fagles, have departed further from the language of the original, employing their own inventive modern style.

Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this striking rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines, rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation dramatically evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century.

To accompany this innovative translation, noted classical scholar Richard Martin has written an accessible and wide-ranging introduction explaining the historical and literary context of the Odyssey, its theological and cultural underpinnings, Homer's poetic strategies and narrative techniques, and his cast of characters. In addition, Martin provides detailed notesfar more extensive than those in other editionsaddressing key themes and concepts; the histories of persons, gods, events, and myths; literary motifs and devices; and plot development. Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.

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ISBN 9780835902328 (0-8359-0232-3, 0835902323)

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The Odyssey of Homer

by Homer

ISBN 0835902323 (0-8359-0232-3)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]

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The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0749307544 (0-7493-0754-4)
Softcover, Heinemann

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ISBN 9780808519843 (0-8085-1984-0, 0808519840)

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The Plague

by Albert Camus

ISBN 0808519840 (0-8085-1984-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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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]

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ISBN 9780809589876 (0-8095-8987-7, 0809589877)

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The Professor

by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 0809589877 (0-8095-8987-7)
Softcover, Wildside Pr

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This little book was written before either _Jane Eyre_ or _Shirley,_ and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt. A first attempt it certainly was not, as the pen which wrote it had been previously worn a good deal in a practice of some years. I had not indeed published anything before I commenced _The Professor,_ but in many a crude effort, destroyed almost as soon as composed, I had got over any such taste as I might once have had for ornamented and redundant composition, and come to prefer what was plain and homely. At the same time I had adopted a set of principles on the subject of incident, &c., such as would be generally approved in theory, but the result of which, when carried out into practice, often procures for an author more surprise than pleasure. [via]

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ISBN 9780737701807 (0-7377-0180-3, 0737701803)

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Readings on My Antonia

by Willa Cather, Christopher Smith

ISBN 0737701803 (0-7377-0180-3)
Softcover, Greenhaven Pr

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ISBN 9780809589869 (0-8095-8986-9, 0809589869)

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Shirley

by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 0809589869 (0-8095-8986-9)
Softcover, Wildside Pr

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Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of them; they are young enough to be very active, and ought to be doing a great deal of good. But not of late years are we about to speak; we are going back to the beginning of this century: late years -- present years are dusty, sunburned, hot, arid; we will evade the noon, forget it in siesta, pass the midday in slumber, and dream of dawn. If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard. Something real, cool and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. It is not positively affirmed that you shall not have a taste of the exciting. . . . [via]

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Sister Carrie

by Theodore Dreiser

ISBN 083760401X (0-8376-0401-X)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub

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Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.

Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]

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ISBN 9780821924129 (0-8219-2412-5, 0821924125)

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Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

ISBN 0821924125 (0-8219-2412-5)
Hardcover, Emc Pub

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One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as a kind of Eden. Instead, Achebe sketches a world in which violence, war, and suffering exist, but are balanced by a strong sense of tradition, ritual, and social coherence. His Ibo protagonist, Okonkwo, is a self-made man. The son of a charming ne'er-do-well, he has worked all his life to overcome his father's weakness and has arrived, finally, at great prosperity and even greater reputation among his fellows in the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo is a champion wrestler, a prosperous farmer, husband to three wives and father to several children. He is also a man who exhibits flaws well-known in Greek tragedy:

Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children. Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father.

And yet Achebe manages to make this cruel man deeply sympathetic. He is fond of his eldest daughter, and also of Ikemefuna, a young boy sent from another village as compensation for the wrongful death of a young woman from Umuofia. He even begins to feel pride in his eldest son, in whom he has too often seen his own father. Unfortunately, a series of tragic events tests the mettle of this strong man, and it is his fear of weakness that ultimately undoes him.

Achebe does not introduce the theme of colonialism until the last 50 pages or so. By then, Okonkwo has lost everything and been driven into exile. And yet, within the traditions of his culture, he still has hope of redemption. The arrival of missionaries in Umuofia, however, followed by representatives of the colonial government, completely disrupts Ibo culture, and in the chasm between old ways and new, Okonkwo is lost forever. Deceptively simple in its prose, Things Fall Apart packs a powerful punch as Achebe holds up the ruin of one proud man to stand for the destruction of an entire culture. --Alix Wilber [via]

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ISBN 9780804900126 (0-8049-0012-4, 0804900124)

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0804900124 (0-8049-0012-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co

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Science FictionLarge Print EditionAn American frigate, tracking down a ship-sinking monster, faces not a living creature but an incredible invention a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Suddenly a devastating explosion leaves just three survivors who find themselves prisoners in Nemos death ship on an underwater odyssey around the world, as Captain Nemo one of the most horrible villains ever created takes his revenge out on society.This novel, written in 1870, foretells with uncanny accuracy the inventions and advanced technology of the 20th century, and has become a literary stepping-stone for generations of science-fiction writers. [via]

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ISBN 9780870216787 (0-87021-678-3, 0870216783)

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea/Completely Restored and Annotated

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0870216783 (0-87021-678-3)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr

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This edition is based solely on the original French text of this classic work. This edition contains the the lost 20% of Verne's original manuscript and corrects hundreds of errors and mistranslations. Contains 45 woodcut illutrations.Translated by Water James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter [via]

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ISBN 9780804900522 (0-8049-0052-3, 0804900523)

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Vicar of Wakefield

by Oliver Goldsmith

ISBN 0804900523 (0-8049-0052-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co

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Rich with wisdom and gentle irony, Goldsmith's only novel tells of an unworldly and generous vicar who lives contentedly with his large family until disaster strikes. But bankruptcy, his daughter's abduction, and the vicar's imprisonment fail to dampen his spirit. Considered the author's finest work, this book is a delightful lampoon of 18th-century literary conventions.

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ISBN 9780812967043 (0-8129-6704-6, 0812967046)

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The Warden

by Anthony Trollope, Andrew Maunder, Louis Auchincloss

ISBN 0812967046 (0-8129-6704-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The first of Trollopes popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollopes most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays bare the complexities of the Victorian world and of nineteenth-century provincial life. And, as Louis Auchincloss observes in his Introduction, The theme of The Warden presents the kind of social problem that always fascinated Trollope: the inevitable clash of ancient privilege with modern social awareness. [via]

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ISBN 9780812973655 (0-8129-7365-8, 0812973658)

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The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame, Paul Bransom, J. Moussaieff Masson

ISBN 0812973658 (0-8129-7365-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Magnificent, full-color illustrations that were created especially for this edition bring the celebrated characters of The Wind in the Willows to vivid life.

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ISBN 9780805002133 (0-8050-0213-8, 0805002138)

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The Wind in the Willows

by Michael Hague, Kenneth Grahame

ISBN 0805002138 (0-8050-0213-8)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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"[Mole] thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before--this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again." Such is the cautious, agreeable Mole's first introduction to the river and the Life Adventurous. Emerging from his home at Mole End one spring, his whole world changes when he hooks up with the good-natured, boat-loving Water Rat, the boastful Toad of Toad Hall, the society- hating Badger who lives in the frightening Wild Wood, and countless other mostly well-meaning creatures. Michael Hague's exquisitely detailed, breathtaking color illustrations on almost every generous spread--along with Kenneth Grahame's elegant, delightfully old-fashioned characterizations of the animals--make this book a wonderful read-aloud. Grahame's The Wind in the Willows has enchanted readers for four generations, and this lavishly illustrated gift edition is perhaps the finest around. (All ages, or 9 to 12) [via]

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ISBN 9780717200016 (0-7172-0001-9, 0717200019)

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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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