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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0595014682 (0-595-01468-2)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:This classic selection brings together twelve of the original stories serialized in the Strand Magazine in the early 1890s. Thrilling adventures such as "A Scandal in Bohemia" catapulted the keen-witted Holmes to fame and continue to make him the most beloved sleuth of all time. [via]
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The Aeneid of Virgilby VirgilISBN 0553210416 (0-553-21041-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people. [via]
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The Aeneid of Virgilby Allen MandlebaumISBN 0520045505 (0-520-04550-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains a new preface by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.[via]More editions of The Aeneid of Virgil:
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Anne of Windy Poplarsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553213164 (0-553-21316-4)
Softcover, Skylark
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Windy Poplars'Book summary:A Principal with Principles
Anne Shirley left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faced a new challenge: dealing head-on with the proud Pringle family.
But Anne found great allies in the two widows everyone called Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty, and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. Soon Anne would learn Summerside's strangest secrets . . . secrets that would make winning the support of the prickly Pringles only the first of her delicious triumphs.
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Anne's House of Dreamsby Lucy Maud Montgomery, Caroline ParryISBN 0553213180 (0-553-21318-0)
Softcover, Skylark
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne's House of Dreams'Book summary:The newlyweds, Anne and Gilbert, move into their house of dreams where they share joys and sorrows with special neighbors Captain Jim, Leslie Moore and Cornelia. The births of the first children a moving part of the story. Five 90-minute cassettes. [via]
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Anne's House of Dreamsby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 051714820X (0-517-14820-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne's House of Dreams'Book summary:Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor.
A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises. Anne and Gilbert will make new friends and meet their neighbors: Captain Jim, the lighthouse attendant, with his sad stories of the sea; Miss Cornelia Bryant, the lady who speaks from the heart -- and speaks her mind; and the tragically beautiful Leslie Moore, into whose dark life Anne shines a brilliant light.
The original, unabridged text
A specially commissioned biography of L. M. Montgomery
A map of Prince Edward Island
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The Annotated Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, William Stuart Baring-GouldISBN 0517564556 (0-517-56455-6)
Hardcover, C.N. Potter
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:The complete texts of the four novels and fifty-six short stories that made the legendary detective famous are accompanied by an introduction, notes, maps, diagrams, photographs, and drawings in this oversized edition--an indispensable possession for all mystery fans. [via]
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The Annotated Sherlock Holmes : The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Completeby Arthur Conan Doyle, William S. Baring-GouldISBN 0517481022 (0-517-48102-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Sherlock Holmes : The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete'Book summary:Chapter titles are: Two Doctors and A Detective, 2. The Early Holmes, 3. The Partnership to Dr. Watson's First Marriage, 4.From Dr. Watson's First Marriage to the Death of the First Mrs. Watson, 5. From Dr. Watson's Return to Baker Street to His Marriage to Mary Morstan.two volume set. good condition [via]
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The Arabian Nightsby Rene BullISBN 0517619342 (0-517-61934-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Babbittby Sinclair LewisISBN 0486431673 (0-486-43167-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babbitt'Book summary:When Babbitt was first published in 1922, fans gleefully hailed its scathing portrait of a crass, materialistic nation; critics denounced it as an unfair skewering of the American businessman. Sparking heated literary debate, Babbitt became a controversial classic, securing Sinclair Lewis's place as one of America's preeminent social commentators.
Businessman George F. Babbitt loves the latest appliances, brand names, and the Republican Party. In fact, he loves being a solid citizen even more than he loves his wife. But Babbitt comes to resent the middle-class trappings he has worked so hard to acquire. Realizing that his life is devoid of meaning, he grows determined to transcend his trivial existence and search for greater purpose. Raising thought-provoking questions while yielding hilarious consequences, and just as relevant today as ever, Babbitt's quest for meaning forces us to confront the Babbitt in ourselves-and ponder what it truly means to be an American. [via] -
The Beautiful and Damnedby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0486421325 (0-486-42132-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beautiful and Damned'Book summary:Following the great critical and financial success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922. An immediate success upon its first publication, Fitzgerald's second novel is a dazzling portrait of love and life among the beautiful people. Through the story of two newlyweds, Anthony Patch of New York and Gloria Gilbert of Kansas City, Fitzgerald flawlessly captures the heady atmosphere and jaded values of the Jazz Age. Patch, expecting to become the sole heir to his grandfather's millions, embraces a life of endless parties and intellectual pretensions. In Gloria, he finds an exquisite ornament and a passionate lover. The couple whirls through days that mirror Fitzgerald's own--a fast life amid a smart set for which there is never enough cash. Beginning with wit and clever repartee, The Beautiful and the Damned quickly becomes a scathing chronicle of a dying marriage and a hedonistic society where beauty is all too fleeting. Through the character of Richard Caramel, a successful hack writer whose talent fails as he prospers, Fitzgerald caricatures himself. But today's readers will find an even more poignant self-portrait of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda in Anthony and Gloria, a couple whose days of wine and roses fade quickly toward a tragic end. [via]
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Beowulfby Edwin MorganISBN 0520008812 (0-520-00881-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same. [via]
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Beowulf and Other Old English Poemsby Constance R. HieattISBN 0553213474 (0-553-21347-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf and Other Old English Poems'Book summary:Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic worldsomber, vast, and magnificent. [via]
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Black Beautyby Anna SewellISBN 0486407888 (0-486-40788-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:"A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12)" [via]
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- Black Beauty: ISBN 0517189585 (0-517-18958-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Black Beauty: ISBN 0531169812 (0-531-16981-2)
Hardcover, Franklin Watts - Black Beauty: ISBN 0590423541 (0-590-42354-1)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Black Beauty: ISBN 0590486101 (0-590-48610-1)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Black Beauty: ISBN 0517221101 (0-517-22110-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Black Beauty: ISBN 0517618842 (0-517-61884-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Black Beauty: ISBN 0486407888 (0-486-40788-8)
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- Black Beauty: ISBN 0517189585 (0-517-18958-5)
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Black Beauty/Book and Necklaceby Anna Sewell, John Speirs, M.J. CarrISBN 0590486187 (0-590-48618-7)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty/Book and Necklace'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Bostoniansby Henry JamesISBN 0553211536 (0-553-21153-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'Book summary:From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women." She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, a veteran of the Civil War who holds rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil.The exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy. When it was first published in 1886, The Bostonians was not welcomed by Henry James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit. But over a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction and perhaps his comic masterpiece.[via]More editions of Bostonians:
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Roald DahlISBN 0553154540 (0-553-15454-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'Book summary:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, along with Roald Dahl's other tales for younger readers, make him a true star of children's literature. Dahl seems to know just how far to go with his oddball fantasies; in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for example, nasty Violet Beauregarde blows up into a blueberry from sneaking forbidden chewing gum, and bratty Augustus Gloop is carried away on the river of chocolate he wouldn't resist. In fact, all manner of disasters can happen to the most obnoxiously deserving of children because Dahl portrays each incident with such resourcefulness and humor.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a singular delight, crammed with mad fantasy, childhood justice and revenge, and as much candy as you can eat. The book is also available in Spanish (Charlie y la Fabrica de Chocolate). (The suggested age range for this book is 9-12, but nobody this reviewer has met can resist it, including New York City bellhops, flight attendants, and grumpy teenagers.) [via]
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The Charterhouse of Parmaby StendhalISBN 055321389X (0-553-21389-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Cheriby Colette, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486415996 (0-486-41599-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cheri'Book summary:Widely considered the author's best work, this story of a love affair between Lea, a still-beautiful 49-year-old, and Cheri, selfish young man 30 years her junior, is a superb study of age and sexuality. While the theme of a young man who deserts his older mistress is a familiar one, Colette makes it her own.[via]More editions of Cheri:
Cheri and the Last of Cheriby Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteISBN 051712260X (0-517-12260-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Complete Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553609416 (0-553-60941-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Jacob Grimm, Lily OwensISBN 0517229250 (0-517-22925-0)
Hardcover, Gramercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:More than 200 tales by the Brothers Grimm. [via]
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Lily OwensISBN 051709293X (0-517-09293-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:L. Owens, ed. Presents all 215 stories recorded by the Brothers Grimm, many not available elsewhere, illustrated by renowned artists. Includes such timeless favorites as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Frog Prince. A delight for young and old alike. 100 b&w illustrations. 704 pages. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Jack D. Zipes, Johnny Gruelle, Jacob W. GrimmISBN 0553212389 (0-553-21238-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Bothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. Volume II contains 142 unabridged tales, including such bedtime favorites as "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes," as well as 32 little-known tales that the Brothers Grimm omitted during the course of their many revisions. These wonderful tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not only to children--who unabashedly love them--but to readers of any age. [via]
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Jack David Zipes, John B. GruelleISBN 0553382160 (0-553-38216-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby John B. Gruelle, Jack ZipesISBN 0553371010 (0-553-37101-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of once upon a time, the fairly tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. [via]
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The Complete Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0517120739 (0-517-12073-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Oscar Wilde'Book summary:An all-encompassing collection of the author's plays, stories, poems, and children's works offers The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Lady Windomere's Fan, and Salome. [via]
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The Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0553328255 (0-553-32825-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Over one hundred years have passed since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle intoduced his inimitable sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, to the world--and his popularity has never waned. This oversized commemorative volume contains the entire canon of Holmes adventures, both before and after his creator's attempt to dispatch him in print. Just as the character, Holmes, prevails and defies even death, these detective stories featuring him and Dr. Watson have withstood more than the test of time: they defined and changed the way modern crime writers approached detective fiction. [via]
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A Confederacy of Dunces : A Novelby John Kennedy Toole, Walker PercyISBN 0517122707 (0-517-12270-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Confederacy of Dunces : A Novel'Book summary:"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 0553064169 (0-553-06416-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Decameronby Giovanni BoccaccioISBN 0520058720 (0-520-05872-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0520045165 (0-520-04516-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Emily Climbsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553262149 (0-553-26214-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Climbs'Book summary:Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if she promises to stop writng! All the same, this is the first step in Emily's climb to success. Once in town, Emily's activities set the Shrewsbury gossips buzzing. But Emily and her friends are confident -- Ilse's a born actress, Teddy's set to be a great artist, and roguish Perry has the makings of a brilliant lawyer. When Emily has her poems published and writes for the town newspaper, success seems to be on its way -- and with it the first whispers of romance. Then Emily is offered a fabulous opportunity, and she must decide if she wants to change her life forever. [via]
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Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainmentsby Richard F. BurtonISBN 0486419177 (0-486-41917-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments'Book summary:Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;" "The Fisherman and the Jinni;" "Judar and His Brethren;" and "Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad."[via]More editions of Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments:
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Go BetweenISBN 0582419204 (0-582-41920-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
Find This BookBook summary:In the summer of 1900, Leo stays with his friend, Marcus. He finds himself falling in love with Marcus's beautiful older sister and, in consequence, agrees to become the "go-between" for her and the local farmer - a relationship that her parents know nothing about. This secret leads to trouble and by the end of the holiday Leo's childhood is over. [via]
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Ralph Manheim, Jacob GrimmISBN 0575025077 (0-575-02507-7)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullersISBN 0553239112 (0-553-23911-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter'Book summary:When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some -- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty. [via]
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The Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Arthur Rackham, Wilhelm K. Grimm, Jacob W. GrimmISBN 0517285258 (0-517-28525-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:Sixty tales from the collections of the Grimm brothers. [via]
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The Inheritanceby Louisa May Alcott, Joel Myerson, Daniel ShealyISBN 0525457569 (0-525-45756-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0486419231 (0-486-41923-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Exposing conditions of the meat-packing industry where many immigrants found themselves slaving away during the early 20th century, THE JUNGLE offered social and political insight that instigated the approval of additional rights for women as well as industry regulations. [via]
Little Lord Fauntleroyby Frances H. BurnettISBN 0486423689 (0-486-42368-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum, Franz KaftaISBN 0486290301 (0-486-29030-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis and Other Stories'Book summary:"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man." [via]
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The Metamorphosis: Including Selections from Kafka's Letters and Diaries and Critical Essaysby Franz Kafka, Stanley CorngoldISBN 055321196X (0-553-21196-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis: Including Selections from Kafka's Letters and Diaries and Critical Essays'Book summary:Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis is one of the great novellas of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. This story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking up to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect-like creature. [via]
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More Utopiaby Thomas More, Robert M. Adams, George M. LoganISBN 0521525403 (0-521-52540-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Utopia'Book summary:This revision incorporates the many refinements to the translation of Utopia undertaken in 1995. George Logan has also updated the editorial commentary and introduction to take into account the scholarship published since the first Cambridge Texts edition of Utopia appeared in 1989. This edition is the most accessible and student-friendly version of Utopia currently available. [via]
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The Paradisoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0553212044 (0-553-21204-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary. [via]
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Pere Goriotby Honore De Balzac, Ellen MarriageISBN 0486436985 (0-486-43698-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pere Goriot'Book summary:A kind-hearted and idealistic youth enters the grasping Parisian society of the 1820s, where his education in the realities and costs of city life begin among the residents of a shabby but respectable boardinghouse. Acclaimed by Leslie Stephen as "the modern King Lear," it offers a timeless view of the tragedies behind the prosaic details of everyday life.[via]More editions of Pere Goriot:
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486293831 (0-486-29383-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper'Book summary:Treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socio-economic worlds of 16th-century England, focuses on two young look-alikes Edward, the Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a street beggar. When both youngsters decide to trade clothes and roles, they find their lives drastically altered. This timeless tale of transposed identities remains one of Twain's best-loved novels.[via]More editions of The Prince and the Pauper:
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Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Prince and the Pauper: ISBN 0520036220 (0-520-03622-0)
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The Purgatorioby Dante AlighieriISBN 055321344X (0-553-21344-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purgatorio'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition. [via]
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The Secret AgentISBN 0582417694 (0-582-41769-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
Find This BookBook summary:Mr Verloc is an anarchist and wants to see a revolution in Britain, but he also wants to live a quiet life looking after his shop. Then Mr Vladimir orders him to bomb the Greenwich Observatory in London. Will Mr Verloc do the job, and what happens if it all goes wrong? "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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Secret Agentby Joseph ConradISBN 0486419185 (0-486-41918-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Agent'Book summary:A group of revolutionaries in the backstreets of 19th-century London plot the destruction of the Greenwich Observatory in this 1907 masterpiece of suspense. Rich in atmosphere and psychological realism, the tale centers on a shopkeeper whose double life encompasses a quiet family circle, active friendships with anarchists, and allegiance to a foreign government.[via]More editions of Secret Agent:
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The Secret Agent and Almayer's Follyby Joseph ConradISBN 055321134X (0-553-21134-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Agent and Almayer's Folly'Book summary:In The Secret Agent, Verloc's plans to blow up an English market explode in his face. In Almayer's Folly, a sea trader schemes to amass a fortune in gold before the dark jungle can penetrate his soul. Reprint. [via]
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0553212419 (0-553-21241-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen'Book summary:Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Novels and Stories
Volume I
Since his first appearance in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyles classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmess adventures in crime!
Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmess famous seven percent solution and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.
Also included are Holmess feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling The Adventure of the Speckled Band, the baffling riddle of The Musgrave Ritual, and the ingeniously plotted The Five Orange Pips, tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time. [via]More editions of Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen:
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Siddharthaby Hermann Hesse, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486404374 (0-486-40437-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. Steeped in the tenets of both psychoanalysis and Eastern mysticism, Siddhartha presents an original view of man and culture, and the arduous process of self-discovery that leads to reconciliation, harmony, and peace. [via]
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Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Nightby David Shumaker, Richard Francis BurtonISBN 0517261847 (0-517-26184-7)
Hardcover, Avenel Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night'Book summary:This retelling of the magnificent tales told by Scheherazade to the King of India in order to save her life includes such magical classics as ""Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,"" ""Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp,"" and many other favorites. [via]
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A Treasury of American Poetryby Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. RichardsonISBN 0517221535 (0-517-22153-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Treasury of American Poetry'Book summary:A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as significant works of lesser-known American poets.
From the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the Romantic Era and the Gilded and Modern Ages, this unrivaled anthology also presents a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols that echo through our nation's history. Highlights include Native American poems, African American writings, and the works of Quakers, colonists, Huguenots, transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians, journalists, and clergymen.
These discerning selections demonstrate that the American canon of poetry is as diverse as the nation itself, and constantly evolving as we pass through time. Most important, this collection strongly reflects the peerless stylings that mark the American poetic experience as unique. Here, in one distinguished volume, are the many voices of the New World. [via]More editions of A Treasury of American Poetry:
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The Unbearable Lightness of Beingby Milan KunderaISBN 057113209X (0-571-13209-X)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'Book summary:A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'. [via]
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Utopiaby Thomas MoreISBN 0486295834 (0-486-29583-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:Thomas More's Utopia is one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. His complex and ironic account of an imaginary communist society has not only given rise to the genre of utopian fiction but has been an inspiration to generations of political reformers. The present edition differs from other English-language editions in that it includes all the ancillary materials that were included, at More's behest, in the early editions (encompassing letters and poems on Utopia by More and several of his humanist associates), in that it presents a new version of the highly-regarded translation by Robert M. Adams, and in that its introductory materials and annotations assimilate important recent scholarship. [via]
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The Way of All Fleshby Samuel ButlerISBN 0486434664 (0-486-43466-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way of All Flesh'Book summary:Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement," Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood satirizes Victorian hypocrisy in its chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex. Along the way, it offers a powerful indictment of 19th-century England's major institutions.[via]More editions of The Way of All Flesh:
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 055321439X (0-553-21439-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Published in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a work in which he achieved the goal to which he believed all true writers should aspire: to see and feel "all of life within." In a perfectly imagined world, an archetypal small American town, he reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into unforgettable ones. Unified by the recurring presence of young George Willard, and played out against the backdrop of Winesburg, Anderson's loosely connected chapters, or stories, coalesce into a powerful novel.In such tales as "Hands," the portrayal of a rural berry picker still haunted by the accusations of homosexuality that ended his teaching career, Anderson's vision is as acute today as it was over eighty-five years ago. His intuitive ability to home in on examples of timeless, human conflicts-a workingman deciding if he should marry the woman who is to bear his child, an unhappy housewife who seeks love from the town's doctor, an unmarried high school teacher sexually attracted to a pupil-makes this book not only immensely readable but also deeply meaningful. An important influence on Faulkner, Hemingway, and others who were drawn to Anderson's innovative format and psychological insights, Winesburg, Ohio deserves a place among the front ranks of our nation's finest literary achievements. [via]
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The Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0600393720 (0-600-39372-0)
Hardcover, Spring Books
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486298574 (0-486-29857-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writingsby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 055321375X (0-553-21375-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings'Book summary:Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work.
In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startling vision to suggest how women's "place" in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman's The Man-Made World: Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, Women And Economics, which was translated into seven languages and established her international reputation as a theorist.
Also included in a delightful excerpt from Gilman's utopian novel, Herland, an acidly funny tale about three American male explorers who stumble into an all-female society and begin their odyssey by insisting, "This is a civilized country . . . there must be men." Gilman's analyses of economic and women's issues are as incisive and relevant today as they were upon their original publication. This volume is an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover a powerful American writer. [via]More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings:
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