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And Quiet Flows the Donby Mikhail Aleksandrovich SholokhovISBN 1589633431 (1-58963-343-1)
Softcover, Fredonia Books
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Anne of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1595401091 (1-59540-109-1)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Avonlea'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil. But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages. The Virgil soon slipped unheeded to the ground, and Anne, her chin propped on her clasped hands, and her eyes on the splendid mass of fluffy clouds that were heaping up just over Mr. J. A. Harrison's house like a great white mountain, was far away in a delicious world where a certain school-teacher was doing a wonderful work, shaping the destinies of future statesmen, and inspiring youthful minds and hearts with high and lofty ambitions. [via]
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Barry Lyndonby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 1592243746 (1-59224-374-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barry Lyndon'Book summary:BARRY LYNDON was to be hailed by competent critics as one of Thackeray's finest performances, though the author himself seems to have had no strong regard for the story. His daughter has recorded, "My father once said to me when I was a girl: 'You needn't read Barry Lyndon, you won't like it.' Indeed, it is scarcely a book to like, but one to admire and to wonder at for its consummate power and mastery." Another novelist, Anthony Trollope, has said of it: "In imagination, language, construction, and general literary capacity, Thackeray never did anything more remarkable than BARRY LYNDON." Mr. Leslie Stephen says: "All later critics have recognized in this book one of his most powerful performances. In directness and vigor he never surpassed it." [via]
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 1595400397 (1-59540-039-7)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. [via]
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The Call of the Wildby Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 1577595459 (1-57759-545-9)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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The Call of the Wild and White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 1593080026 (1-59308-002-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang'Book summary:[via]The Call of the Wild and White Fang, by Jack London, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Jack Londons two greatest novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fangoriginally intended as companionsare here compiled in one volume. The Call of the Wild centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within.
White Fang tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himhuman love.
Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated.Tina Gianquitto holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1578400481 (1-57840-048-1)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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The Cloister and the Hearthby Charles ReadeISBN 1592247318 (1-59224-731-8)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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The Cloister and the Hearthby Walter Besant, Charles ReadeISBN 1592249221 (1-59224-922-1)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 1570020000 (1-57002-000-0)
Hardcover, Univ Pub House
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Confidence Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 157392038X (1-57392-038-X)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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The Coral Islandby Robert M. BallantyneISBN 1592245064 (1-59224-506-4)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Edmond RostandISBN 1593080751 (1-59308-075-1)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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- Biographies of the authors
- Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
- Footnotes and endnotes
- Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
- Comments by other famous authors
- Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
- Bibliographies for further reading
- Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate
One of the most beloved heroes of the stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is a magnificent wit who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because of his enormous nose. He adores the beautiful Roxanne but, lacking courage, decides instead to help the tongue-tied but winsome Christian woo the fair lady by providing him with flowery sentiments and soulful poetry. Roxanne is smittenbut is it Christian she loves or Cyrano?
A triumph from the moment of its 1897 premiere, Cyrano de Bergerac has become one of the most frequently produced plays in the world. Its perennial popularity is a tribute to the universal appeal of its themes and characters.
Peter Connor is Associate Professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Sherwood Smith, Edmond Rostand, Ken Fitch, Alex BlumISBN 1578400309 (1-57840-030-9)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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Daisy Millerby Henry JamesISBN 1592243002 (1-59224-300-2)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Miller'Book summary:It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South less weighted with appeals and memories happened to mention -- which she might perfectly not have done -- some simple and uninformed American lady of the previous winter, whose young daughter, a child of nature and of freedom, accompanying her from hotel to hotel, had "picked up" by the wayside, with the best conscience in the world, a good-looking Roman, of vague identity, astonished at his luck, yet (so far as might be, by the pair) all innocently, all serenely exhibited and introduced: this at least till the occurrence of some small social check, some interrupting incident, of no great gravity or dignity, and which I forget I had never heard, save on this showing, of the amiable but not otherwise eminent ladies, who weren't in fact named, I think, and whose case had merely served to point a familiar moral; and it must have been just their want of salience that left a margin for the small pencil-mark inveterately signifying, in such connections, "Dramatize, dramatize!" The result of my recognizing a few months later the sense of my pencil-mark was the short chronicle of DAISY MILLER. -- Henry James [via]
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Daisy Miller And Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 1593081057 (1-59308-105-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Miller And Washington Square'Book summary:[via]Daisy Miller and Washington Square, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Strikingly modern in its psychological insight, social observation and stylistic innovation, Henry Jamess fiction continues to attract and intrigue readers a century after its initial appearance. This volume offers two of his most popular and critically admired novellas: Daisy Miller and Washington Square.
In Daisy Miller, James paints a vivid portrait of a vibrant young American girl visiting Europe for the first time. Lovely, flirtatious, eager for experience, Daisy meets a wealthy American, Mr. Winterbourne, and a penniless but passionate Italian. Her complex encounters with them and others allow James to explore one of his favorite themes, the effect of Americans and Europeans on each other.
Washington Squares Catherine Sloper is Daisy Millers opposite. Neither pretty nor charming, she lives with her wealthy, widowed, tyrannical father, Dr. Austin Sloper, who can barely conceal his disdain for his shy, awkward daughter. When a handsome suitor, Morris Townsend, comes calling, Catherines father refuses to believe he is anything other than a heartless fortune hunter and sets out to destroy her romance.Jennie A. Kassanoff is Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College. Her articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly and PMLA. Her book, Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
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Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 158715546X (1-58715-546-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill'Book summary:John Cleland's sexy classic -- available now after centuries of banning. Delightful, steamy, and enduring. [via]
Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 1596540427 (1-59654-042-7)
Softcover, Disruptive Pub
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Faustby Carl R. Mueller, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 1575253607 (1-57525-360-7)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:As much poem as it is play, Goethe's Faust is the spiritual quest of a soul determined to explore the very nature of Reality, a revolutionary work that refuses to accept limitations, but, like Romanticism itself, embraces all, the Natural World of everyday life, as well as the Great World of universal experience, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm. The Faust character, the Faustian soul, has become a universal concern. As multifarious as Hamlet and as mythic as Oedipus, he takes us on a journey to the depths and heights of experience and leaves us not the person we were before we met him. It is in Part One of Goethe's masterpiece that we discover Faust as the hero in whose being two contradictory forces collide. He is self-alienated man struggling to expand beyond the limitations of intellect and the known world, desperate to achieve a state, indeed mystical, where the opposites of Knowledge and Sensuality are One. Part One of Faust records that attempt in the context of earthly existence. Goethe's Faust has rightly been called the most audacious work in Western Civilization. [via]
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Debra Doyle, Norman NodelISBN 1578401860 (1-57840-186-0)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 1594130078 (1-59413-007-8)
Softcover, Large Print Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:Part one of The Lord of the Rings, now featuring film art on the cover. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in THE HOBBIT. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.[via]More editions of Fellowship of the Ring:
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Hans Brinkerby Mary Mapes Dodge, Malvina G. Vogel, Floris FreshmanISBN 1577658140 (1-57765-814-0)
Hardcover, Spotlight
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Brinker'Book summary:A Dutch brother and sister work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates. [via]
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Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skatesby Mary Mapes Dodge, Alice CarseyISBN 1596054158 (1-59605-415-8)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates'Book summary:Gretel looked at her [mother] in troubled silence, wondering whether it were very wicked to care more for one parent than for the other-and sure, yes, quite sure, that she dreaded her father, while she clung to her mother with a love that was almost idolatry. -from Hans Brinker A beloved childhood favorite for a century and a half-and a book that readers continue to enjoy and appreciate long into adulthood-Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates went through more than 100 editions during the author's lifetime alone. First published in 1865, this replica of the 1917 edition features the exquisite illustrations by Alice Carsey, whose sensitive eye and delicate pen-and-ink lines enliven the tale of the poor but virtuous Dutch boy in a way that few other artists have achieved. This replica edition brings the enchanting work of Dodge and Carsey to a new generation of children. Author and editor Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905) was born in New York City. She served as editor of the children's magazine St. Nicholas, to which she attracted such writers as Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Rudyard Kipling. She also authored the short-fiction collection Irvington Stories (1864). ON FRONT FLAP: Gretel looked at her [mother] in troubled silence, wondering whether it were very wicked to care more for one parent than for the other-and sure, yes, quite sure, that she dreaded her father, while she clung to her mother with a love that was almost idolatry. -from Hans Brinker A beloved childhood favorite for a century and a half-and a book that readers continue to enjoy and appreciate long into adulthood-Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates went through more than 100 editions during the author's lifetime alone. First published in 1865, this replica of the 1917 edition features the exquisite illustrations by Alice Carsey, whose sensitive eye and delicate pen-and-ink lines enliven the tale of the poor but virtuous Dutch boy in a way that few other artists have achieved. This replica edition brings the enchanting work of Dodge and Carsey to a new generation of children. ON BACK FLAP: COSIMO CLASSICS was inspired by Cosimo de Medici, the first of the de Medici dynasty, who ignited the most important cultural and artistic revolution in Western history - the Renaissance. This quest for enrichment is the foundation for COSIMO, an innovative publisher of books that inspire, inform, and engage readers worldwide. COSIMO brings to life unique, out-of-print classics, representing subjects as diverse as Alternative Health, Business & Economics, Eastern & Western Philosophy, Personal Growth, Mythology & Folklore, Science, and Sacred Texts & Spirituality, and much more! [via]
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gordon TapperISBN 1593082312 (1-59308-231-2)
Softcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:[via]The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Greed, treachery, mesmerism, and murder are just some of the bricks Hawthorne uses to build The House of the Seven Gables. Generations before the present story begins, wealthy Colonel Pyncheon covets Matthew Maules land. When Maule is hanged for witchcraft, he puts a curse on the Coloneland all his descendants. Now the menacing Judge Pyncheon continues the family tradition of hiding cruelty under a dazzling smile, while his scowling niece, Hepzibah, and half-mad nephew, Clifford, are reduced to poverty by his machinations. But the younger generation, embodied in their distant cousin, Phoebe, becomes a ray of hope penetrating the dark house.
Though Hawthorne openly discusses his books moral in its preface, The House of the Seven Gables is no dry sermon. In fact, a strong stream of poetic fantasy runs through it, which the author acknowledges by calling it a romance, rather than a novel. Like his other great works, The House of the Seven Gables reflects Hawthornes rich understanding of complex motives, of individuals caught in the unending struggle between our highest aspirations and our basest desires.Gordon Tapper, Associate Professor of English at DePauw University, is the author of The Machine That Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body. He also wrote the Introduction and Notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Willa Cathers My Ántonia.More editions of House of the Seven Gables:
The Italianby Ann RadcliffeISBN 1592249205 (1-59224-920-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules Verne, Rachel Perkins, Ursula K. Heise, Frederick Amadeus MallesonISBN 1593082525 (1-59308-252-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'Book summary:In this fully dramatized adaptation of Jules Verne's classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, and cast members from Star Trek feature films and all four TV series take you on an incredible journey.
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is the story of Professor Lindenbrock, his nephew Axel and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, Lindenbrock and Axel descend deeper into the planet than anyone has ever gone before... but will they make it back to the surface alive?
Featuring virtuoso performaces from the entire cast, riveting sound effects and original music, Alien Voices' production of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an adventure in sound. [via]
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Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation - A Journey to the Center of the Earth: ISBN 1578400341 (1-57840-034-1)
Softcover, Acclaim Books - Journey to the Center of the Earth: ISBN 1575665328 (1-57566-532-8)
Hardcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation - A Journey to the Center of the Earth: ISBN 1576465411 (1-57646-541-1)
Hardcover, Quiet Vision Pub - A Journey to the Center of the Earth: ISBN 157765689X (1-57765-689-X)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Journey to the Center of the Earth: ISBN 1593082525 (1-59308-252-5)
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LA Dame Aux Cameliasby Alexandre DumasISBN 1576468097 (1-57646-809-7)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Dame Aux Camelias'Book summary:As a young man, Alexandre Dumas met Marie Duplessis a young courtesan, who died of tuberculosis in 1847 and inspired Dumas' romantic novel, La Dame auf Camelias. The book has benn adapted as a play (Camille), a film (Camille) starinmg Greta Garbo, a ballet (Lady of the Camelias), and its greatest enduringg success as an opera (La Traviata, by Verdi). The film Moulin Rouge starring Nicole Kidman, is also loosely on the same story.
The stpry is narrated by the writer Armand Duval, a friend of Dumas. Marguerite Gaautier is a beautiful you courtesan suffering from tuberculosis. She is loved by Armand Duval, but their happiness ends abruptly, when M. Duval, Armand's father refuses to accept their relationship. He asserts that their romance will destroy his son's career and social Position, also it prevents the marriage of his younger sister. Marguerite leaves her lover, pretending to reutrn to a rich admirer. Armand follows her to Paris and wounds his rival in a duel and is forced to leave France. Can Armand and Marguerite's love overcome all?
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The Law and the Ladyby Wilkie CollinsISBN 1592244068 (1-59224-406-8)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Maggieby Stephen Crane, Robert TineISBN 1593082487 (1-59308-248-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maggie'Book summary:[via]Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings about New York, by Stephen Crane, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Written before but published after The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Cranes Maggie: A Girl of the Streets offers a stark image of the underbelly of urban American life at the end of the nineteenth century. Maggie Johnson, a lovely innocent too slight to carry the weight of poverty, dreams of escaping New Yorks Bowery and the casual cruelty of her alcoholic family. After her younger brother dies, she runs off with Pete, a bartender with pretensions to wealth and culture. But Pete himself is easily seduced by the seemingly sophisticated Nellie, and Maggie finds herself abandoned in the unforgiving metropolis.
Publishers feared that Cranes portrait of brutal fathers swilling away their lives in cheap bars, drunken mothers raging at terrified children, and ruined young women walking the streets, would be more than their readers could bear. But Cranes impressionistic style and thematic intensity won the day, and Maggiethe authors favorite among his workshelped to shape the writers that followed him and begin the era of literary naturalism.
This edition also includes the short novel Georges Mother, plus A Night at the Millionaires Club, Opiums Varied Dreams, When a Man Falls, a Crowd Gathers, and several other of Cranes masterful short stories.
Robert Tine is the author of six novels, including State of Grace and Black Market. He has written for a variety of periodicals and magazinesfrom the New York Times to Newsweek.
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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1582871590 (1-58287-159-0)
Hardcover, North Books
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, John CrowtherISBN 1586638483 (1-58663-848-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:When love and magic collide, the result is Shakespeare's lyrical fantasy of youth, love, and misunderstandings. These brilliantly recolored study guides for high school and college students feature essays on the author, background, theme, characters, and significance of the work. [via]
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Midsummer Night's Dreamby Harold BloomISBN 1594480095 (1-59448-009-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Not perhaps since Samuel Johnson in the mid eighteenth centruy has a critic explained to ta genera audience as ably as Mr. Bloom does how much Shakespeare matters to our sens of who we are [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Workbook for Studentsby Fredi Olster, Rick HamiltonISBN 157525042X (1-57525-042-X)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Workbook for Students'Book summary:Conceived and written by two classically trained American stage actors, these workbooks are a student's gateway to Shakespeare. The side-by-side presentation of the original language and a "translation" into the vernacular allows the student grades 7 and up to quickly understand and appreciate the play.
Includes extensive instruction about Shakespearean English and character analyses, stage directions and other performance information that will make these books indispensable to the teacher and beginning student of Shakespeare for either English or theater curricula. [via]
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Monkeyby David KherdianISBN 1590302583 (1-59030-258-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monkey'Book summary:Part historical epic, part social satire, and part spiritual allegory, the folk novel Journey to the West, which came to be known as Monkey, is probably the most popular book in all of East Asia. David Kherdian's retelling brings this classic of Chinese literature to life for the first time in a way that is true to the scope and depth of the original. [via]
Moon and Sixpenceby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 1570020167 (1-57002-016-7)
Softcover, Univ Pub House
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The Murder of Roger Ackroydby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126278 (1-57912-627-8)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'Book summary:Considered to be one of Agatha Christies most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. A widows suicide has stirred rumors of blackmail, and of a secret lover named Roger Ackroyd, who was found stabbed to death in his study. The case is so unconventional that not even crack detective Hercule Poirot has a clue as to how to solve it. [via]
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Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126235 (1-57912-623-5)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder on the Orient Express'Book summary:One of Agatha Christies most famous mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express was inspired by two real-life crimes and the authors own experience being stranded on the Orient Express during Christmas of 1931. While traveling to Paris, a wealthy American is stabbed to death in his cabin on the Orient Express. With the train stuck in a snowdrift, there is no easy escape for the killer. Fortunately, detective Hercule Poirot is aboard and launches a clever investigation into the curious assortment of passengers, of whom each seems to have a motive. [via]
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Odd Womenby George GissingISBN 1582872112 (1-58287-211-2)
Hardcover, North Books
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Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man And Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 159308031X (1-59308-031-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twinsby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne ClemensISBN 1592241549 (1-59224-154-9)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farmby Kate Douglas Wiggin, Eliza Gatewood Warren, Ed TadielloISBN 157765823X (1-57765-823-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'Book summary:Author Jack London wrote Kate Douglas Wiggin a letter about her classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm from the headquarters of the First Japanese Army in Manchuria in 1904: "May I thank you for Rebecca?... I would have quested the wide world over to make her mine, only I was born too long ago and she was born but yesterday.... Why could she not have been my daughter? Why couldn't it have been I who bought the three hundred cakes of soap? Why, O, why?" Mark Twain called Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm "beautiful and warm and satisfying."
Who is this beguiling creature? The irrepressible 10-year-old Rebecca Rowena Randall burst into the world of children's book characters (and her new life in Maine) in 1903 when storybook girls were gentle and proper. A "bird of a very different feather," she had "a small, plain face illuminated by a pair of eyes carrying such messages, such suggestions, such hints of sleeping power and insight, that one never tired of looking into their shining depths.... " Soon enough, she wins over her prim Aunt Miranda, the whole town, and thousands of readers everywhere with her energetic, indomitable spirit. This beautiful trade edition features the artwork of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm's original illustrator Helen Mason Grose, with 6 full- color plates and 32 pen-and-ink drawings. (Ages 9 and older) [via]
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 1593080107 (1-59308-010-7)
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Red Badge Of Courage And Selected Short Fictionby Stephen Crane, Richard FuscoISBN 1593081197 (1-59308-119-7)
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Resurrectionby Leo TolstoyISBN 1592243770 (1-59224-377-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resurrection'Book summary:Leo Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy 1828-1910, based his last major novel, RESURRECTION upon a real incident. It is the story of the prostitute Ekaterina Maslova, wrongly charged and sentenced for the murder of a client, and Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich Nekhliudov who had long ago abandoned her and their child in his youth and now serves on the jury that condemns her while suffering agonizing pangs of remorse. When Maslova is sentenced to serve four years in a penal colony in Siberia, the Prince follows her and eases her sentence from a criminal to a "political" one. A classic novel of conscience. [via]
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Rilla of Inglesideby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1594624275 (1-59462-427-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rilla of Ingleside'Book summary:This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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Roderick Hudsonby Henry JamesISBN 1582870993 (1-58287-099-3)
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Salammboby Gustave FlaubertISBN 1595690352 (1-59569-035-2)
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Scaramoucheby Rafael Sabatini, John CloyISBN 1593082428 (1-59308-242-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scaramouche'Book summary:When the aristocratic Lord of La Tour d?Azyr murders Andre-Louis?s best friend ? a young man who is politically active during the French Revolution ? Andre-Louis vows to take up his friend?s cause and avenge his death. He takes refuge as an actor in a traveling troupe, performing under the name Scaramouche. His adventures are pulse-pounding, his heroism is the stuff of legend ? but it is his destiny that we remember. Scaramouche?s fate is the destiny of a nation, the crusade of an age: this is the story of the events that made France a modern nation. The fate of Scaramouche is the fate we all still share. (Jacketless library hardcover.) [via]
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italyby Laurence SterneISBN 1596054689 (1-59605-468-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy'Book summary:The crimson window-curtains... were drawn close; the sun was setting, and reflected through them so warm a tint into the fair fille de chambre's face, I thought she blush'd-the idea of it made me blush myself. We were quite alone; and that super-induced a second blush before the first could get off. -from "The Temptation" Laurence Sterne's revolutionary novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767) plays with time, space, narrative conceits, and the very concept of the novel itself-it has dramatically affected the course of English-language fiction in the centuries since, with works from writers such as James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon showing his influence. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) is the thematic sequel, a tale of a minor character from Shandy that is its own frolic of experimental fiction. Though less well known than its celebrated predecessor, this is an equally startling and frantically imaginative work from a writer some consider a comic genius. This edition also features the collection The Journal to Eliza, Sterne's impishly coy diary of a separation from his mistress, as well as numerous letters Sterne wrote to a variety of correspondents, including his wife. Irish clergyman LAURENCE STERNE (1713¬-1768) also wrote the satire A Political Romance (1759) and published volumes of his sermons. [via]
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Sparknotes a Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 1586634046 (1-58663-404-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sparknotes a Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Get your "A" in gear!
They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1595404007 (1-59540-400-7)
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The Talismanby Walter ScottISBN 1592243630 (1-59224-363-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Talisman'Book summary:The Talisman is Sir Walter Scott's tale of the Crusades -- a tale of chivalry, of violence, of virtue, romance, and deceit. In Scott's own words: ". . . the warlike character of Richard I, wild and generous, a pattern of chivalry, with all its extravagant virtues, and its no less absurd errors, was opposed to that of Saladin, in which the Christian and English monarch showed all the cruelty and violence of an Eastern sultan, and Saladin, on the other hand, displayed the deep policy and prudence of a European sovereign, whilst each contended which should excel the other in the knightly qualities of bravery and generosity. This singular contrast afforded, as the author conceived, materials for a work of fiction possessing peculiar interest." [via]
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Tarzan Of The Apesby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Maura SpiegelISBN 1593082274 (1-59308-227-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative. [via]
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, Mervyn PeakeISBN 1582341753 (1-58234-175-3)
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Tom Brown's Schooldaysby Thomas Hughes, Louis RheadISBN 1592242847 (1-59224-284-7)
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 1592243118 (1-59224-311-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:THE TURN OF THE SCREW is the greatest and most subtle of all English-language ghost stories. H.P. Lovecraft praised its "truly potent air of sinister menace" and "mounting tide of fright" and subsequent critics have argued long and hard over the central "problem" of the story: if the motifs of the traditional ghost story, in the hands of a master, are used to probe the deepest depths of the human psyche, do the resultant terrors spring from the objective return of the spirits of the dead, or from the fears, memories, and guilt the expectation of such apparitions may evoke? Are there any ghosts in this story at all? James himself might have been puzzled by that question. His own remarks make it clear that what he had in mind was a "sinister romance," inspired by a ghostly story he had heard from an Archbishop of Canterbury. He wrote of the "portentous evil" of the "demon-spirits" in the story, but it was his genius to make them so profoundly mysterious that THE TURN OF THE SCREW will survive any number of interpretations, and go on to chill and delight readers for centuries to come. THE TURN OF THE SCREW was memorably filmed as THE INNOCENTS (1961), arguably the finest cinematic ghost story of all time. [via]
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Two Towersby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 159413006X (1-59413-006-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Towers'Book summary:Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest. They have lost the wizard Gandalf in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. Now Frodo and Sam continue the journey alone down the great river Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. [via]
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Ursula-ursule Mirouetby Honore De Balzac, Wormeley Katharine PrescottISBN 1595690530 (1-59569-053-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ursula-ursule Mirouet'Book summary:"Ursula" (original French title "Ursule Mirouet," 1842) forms one part of "Scenes from Provincial Life," a series of novels-whose other major work is "Eugenie Grandet"-examining manners and morals in the French provinces. --- Among all the novels of Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), none depicts so penetratingly the small-mindedness, avarice, and envy of the provincial lower middle classes. In "Ursula", no limitations based on morality or decency will hold these people back in their effort to acquire wealth and influence. --- Along with Stendhal, Balzac is the most important French novelist of the first half of the nineteenth century, and a founder of the realistic novel in Europe. His principal work is the unfinished cycle "The Human Comedy" (French: "La Comedie Humaine," which includes "Scenes from Provincial Life"), in which he attempted, in more than 80 volumes, to depict the society of his time in its entirety. [via]
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Virgin Soilby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 1592243924 (1-59224-392-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virgin Soil'Book summary:VIRGIN SOIL by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is his last and longest novel. In it he finally says everything yet unsaid on the subject of social change, idealism and yet futility of revolutions, serfs and peasants, and the upper classes. The hero, Nezhdanov -- the disillusioned young son of a nobleman -- and the Populist movement are young idealists working to bridge the gap between the common people and the nobility, and through them Turgenev works out his own troubled thoughts about social reform and tradition, vitality and stagnation. The ideas of gradual reform shown here are eventually to be supplanted by the extremism of the Russian Revolution -- but that is yet to come. [via]
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The Voyage Outby Virginia Woolf, Pagan HarlemanISBN 1593082290 (1-59308-229-0)
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woodsby Henry David Thoreau, Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 1590300882 (1-59030-088-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden; Or, Life in the Woods'Book summary:In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, his most important work, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. Since its first publication on August 9, 1854, by Ticknor and Fields, the work has become a classic, beloved for its message of living simply and in harmony with nature.
This special 150th anniversary edition of Walden features exquisite wood engravings by Michael McCurdy, one of America's leading engravers and woodblock artists. McCurdy's engravings bring the text to lifeand illuminate the spirit of Thoreau's prose. Also included is a foreword by noted author, environmentalist, and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams, who reflects upon Thoreau's message that as we explore our world and ourselves, we draw ever closer to the truth of our connectedness. [via]More editions of Walden; Or, Life in the Woods:
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 1593080859 (1-59308-085-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment. [via]
The War Of The Worldsby Edward Gorey, H. G. WellsISBN 1590171586 (1-59017-158-6)
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 1568522258 (1-56852-225-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Enrique Fernandez, David ChauvelISBN 1582407150 (1-58240-715-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:[via]The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Liontheyre now as beloved a part of American folklore as Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan. Since its first publication in 1900, L. Frank Baums story of a little girl carried away by a tornado to the strange and beautiful Land of Oz has had an extraordinary emotional impact on wide-eyed readers young and old.
As Dorothy journeys down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, hoping the Great and Terrible Wizard who lives there will help her return home, she shares adventures with the famous trio of characters, defeats a wicked witch, and learns about the power of friendship, loyalty, and self-confidence. While scholars have debated for decades over possible political meanings hidden within the tale, Baum himself claimed he simply wanted to write a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. As it has done for generations past, this classic of fantasy adventure speaks movingly about what every child needs: the Woodmans compassion, the Lions courage, and the Scarecrows wisdom.
With original illustrations by William Wallace Denslow.J. T. Barbarese teaches at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey, where he is a member of the Rutgers Center for Children and Childhood Studies. He is the author of four books of poetry and a translation of Euripides.More editions of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
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