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Adventures of the Monkey Godby Arthur Waley, AlisonISBN 0893468940 (0-89346-894-0)
Softcover, Heian Intl Pub Co
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, David PriceISBN 0831712112 (0-8317-1211-2)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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Alice Through The Looking-Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0856702161 (0-85670-216-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Anne of Inglesideby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0848811011 (0-8488-1101-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Still, Mrs. Doctor can't think of any place she'd rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn't love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she's still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead--the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. She's ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again! [via]More editions of Anne of Ingleside:
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The Bell Jarby Cliffs Notes Staff, Jeanne InnessISBN 0822002264 (0-8220-0226-4)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0833522019 (0-8335-2201-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0883017016 (0-88301-701-6)
Softcover, Academic Industries
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Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 0893753440 (0-89375-344-0)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 0816728801 (0-8167-2880-1)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 086611954X (0-86611-954-X)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 0870300156 (0-87030-015-6)
Hardcover, Capricorn Pr - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 088301095X (0-88301-095-X)
Hardcover, Ags Pub - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 0895772116 (0-89577-211-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 0883017016 (0-88301-701-6)
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Captains CourageousISBN 0866119809 (0-86611-980-9)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
Find This BookBook summary:First published in 1897, Captains Courageous tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is rescued by the raucous crew of the fishing ship Were Here. Obstinate and spoiled at first, Harvey in due course learns diligence and responsibility and earns the camaraderie of the seamen, who treat him as one of their own. A true test of character, Harveys months aboard the Were Here provide a delightful glimpse of life at sea and well-told morals of discipline, empathy, and self- reliance.
My first genuine out and out American story ... Its a corker... Im sinfully proud of it. -Rudyard Kipling [via]
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The Captains Daughter and Other Storiesby Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0891902317 (0-89190-231-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Catrionaby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0862412331 (0-86241-233-1)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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Childhoodby Maxim GorkyISBN 0846402424 (0-8464-0242-4)
Hardcover, Beekman Books Inc
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Complete Stories and Parablesby Franz KafkaISBN 0848808215 (0-8488-0821-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0890099278 (0-89009-927-8)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Confidence Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 0891908900 (0-89190-890-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Death of Ivan Ilychby TolstoyISBN 088238547X (0-88238-547-X)
Softcover, Center for Thanatology Research &
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Epic of Gilgameshby GilgameshISBN 0848805011 (0-8488-0501-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Eugene Oneginby Walter W. Arndt, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0875011063 (0-87501-106-3)
Softcover, Ardis
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An Eye for an Eyeby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0824035054 (0-8240-3505-4)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 0881846023 (0-88184-602-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Flowers for Algernonby Daniel KeyesISBN 0877207518 (0-87720-751-8)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flowers for Algernon'Book summary:Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic, Flowers for Algernon. As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation Charly (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.
Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:
I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.
I dint know mice were so smart.
Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: "Punctuation, is? fun!" But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry "friends" at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he's as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate...
Flowers for Algernon is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact. --David Langford [via]
The Ghost Stories of M.R. Jamesby Montague R. JamesISBN 0850670608 (0-85067-060-8)
Hardcover, Folio Society
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The Giverby Lois LowryISBN 0821924060 (0-8219-2406-0)
Hardcover, Emc Pub
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Hans Brinkerby Kathryn Lindskoog, Mary Mapes Dodge, Patrick WynneISBN 0880705280 (0-88070-528-0)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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Hans Brinker, the Silver Skatesby Mary Mapes DodgeISBN 0893757098 (0-89375-709-8)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates'Book summary:The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Conduct of life; Brothers and sisters; Skating races; Netherlands; Juvenile Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Boys [via]
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Hesterby OliphantISBN 0860685152 (0-86068-515-2)
Softcover, Virago
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The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissiniaby Samuel Johnson, Gwin J. KolbISBN 0882950479 (0-88295-047-9)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0895772191 (0-89577-219-1)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn
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Hardcover, P. Smith - House of the Seven Gables: ISBN 0883012650 (0-88301-265-0)
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Hungerby Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad, Duncan McLeanISBN 0862416256 (0-86241-625-6)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hunger'Book summary:First published in 1890, this is a new edition of the major modernist novel from the Nobel prize winner. A compelling trip into the mind of a young writer driven by starvation to the extremes of madness and despair. Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett and James Kelman are just some of the writers obviously influenced by and indebted to Hamsun. [via]
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Parts 1 and 2by Victor LangeISBN 0826407250 (0-8264-0725-0)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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A Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules VerneISBN 089375417X (0-89375-417-X)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A 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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Journey to the Eastby Hermann HesseISBN 084881049X (0-8488-1049-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Lady of the Camelliasby Alexandre DumasISBN 0862992648 (0-86299-264-8)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0831712120 (0-8317-1212-0)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., Written by Himselfby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0860070336 (0-86007-033-6)
Hardcover, Futura Publications
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Monkeyby David KherdianISBN 0877736529 (0-87773-652-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Murder of Roger Ackroydby Agatha ChristieISBN 0824023609 (0-8240-2360-9)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
Village rumor hints that Mrs. Ferrars poisoned her husband, but no one is sure. Then there's another victim in a chain of death. Unfortunately for the killer, master sleuth Hercule Poirot takes over the investigation.
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Nauseaby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0837604435 (0-8376-0443-5)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub
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The Nunby Denis DiderotISBN 0850670543 (0-85067-054-3)
Hardcover, Folio Society
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Odd Womenby George GissingISBN 0860681408 (0-86068-140-8)
Softcover, Virago
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Puck of Pooks Hillby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0848801733 (0-8488-0173-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farmby Kate Douglas WigginISBN 0874066557 (0-87406-655-7)
Softcover, Lerner Pub Group
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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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A Reboursby HuysmansISBN 0828860769 (0-8288-6076-9)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Rewards & Fairies.by Rudyard KiplingISBN 0848810708 (0-8488-1070-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Roman Fever and Other Storiesby Edith WhartonISBN 0860683737 (0-86068-373-7)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Rome Alive: A Source-Guide Tothe Ancient Cityby Danny P. Jackson, Thom Kapheim, Robert D. BiggsISBN 0865163529 (0-86516-352-9)
Softcover, Bolchazy Carducci Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rome Alive: A Source-Guide Tothe Ancient City'Book summary:The longing stretch toward the infinite...the reluctant embrace of the temporal. This is the eternal lot of mankind. This is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Our revised 2nd edition of mankind's first epic features a lucid historical and cultural introduction by Dr. Biggs, a new interpretive essay on the themes of Gilgamesh by James G. Keenan and their echoes in other literature, and ancient world and original illustrations.
Though The Epic of Gilgamesh exists in several editions, this version has been undertaken with a very specific intent -- to remain faithful to the source material while attempting to convey the poetic scope of a work that is both lusty and tender and that retains the ability to arouse compassion and empathy in all who follow Gilgamesh on his journey. This edition aims to reanimate the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu for modern readers, bringing it new life through indelible poetic images.
For centuries the beginnings of the literary history of the West were defined by the Hebrew Bible--what most people call the Old Testament--and Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and Odyssey. These texts were once naively imagined to have come about in splendid isolation either as a miracle of divine creation or the spontaneous combustion of the ?Greek genius.? The mighty stream of words down over the millennia to our own time are so many generations of offspring still somehow beholden to their initial begetters. Thus do we construe Western Literature.
- from Ancient Epic Poetry Chapter 8: Gilgamesh
Charles Rowan Beye
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The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic - ISBN 0865165467For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Suess books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books.
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- Rome Alive: A Source-Guide Tothe Ancient City: ISBN 0865162522 (0-86516-252-2)
Scaramoucheby Rafael SabatiniISBN 0895263106 (0-89526-310-6)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Scaramouche the Kingmakerby Raphael SabatiniISBN 0848808797 (0-8488-0879-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Sheltering Skyby Paul BowlesISBN 0880015829 (0-88001-582-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sheltering Sky'Book summary:American novelist and short-story writer, poet, translator, classical music composer, and filmscorer Paul Bowles has lived as an expatriate for more than 40 years in the North African nation of Morocco, a country that reaches into the vast and inhospitable Sahara Desert. The desert is itself a character in The Sheltering Sky, the most famous of Bowles' books, which is about three young Americans of the postwar generation who go on a walkabout into Northern Africa's own arid heart of darkness. In the process, the veneer of their lives is peeled back under the author's psychological inquiry. [via]
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 087460219X (0-87460-219-X)
Softcover, Lion Books
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The Song of the Larkby Willa CatherISBN 0860682455 (0-86068-245-5)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The Stories of Edith Whartonby Edith Wharton, Anita BrooknerISBN 0881847070 (0-88184-707-0)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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The Stories of Edith Whartonby Anita BrooknerISBN 0881847607 (0-88184-760-7)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0831785136 (0-8317-8513-6)
Hardcover, Galley Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Study in Scarlet'Book summary:Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes's Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.
Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.
Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.
Conan Doyle quickly learned that it was Holmes's deductions that were of most interest to his readers. The lengthy flashback, while a convention of popular fiction, simply distracted from readers' real focus. It is when Holmes and Watson gather before the coal fire and Holmes sums up the deductions that led him to the successful apprehension of the criminal that we are most captivated. Subsequent Holmes stories--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes--rightly plunge the twosome directly into the middle of a baffling crime, piling mystery upon mystery until Holmes's denouement once more leaves the dazzled Watson murmuring, "You are wonderful, Holmes!" Generations of readers agree. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Three Men On The Bummelby Jerome K. JeromeISBN 0862990297 (0-86299-029-7)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0880889918 (0-88088-991-8)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Pr
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0892440465 (0-89244-046-5)
Hardcover, Queens House
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0879050934 (0-87905-093-4)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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Walden, or Life in the Woods : Selections from the American Classicby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0877736855 (0-87773-685-5)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0833526316 (0-8335-2631-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 087449883X (0-87449-883-X)
Softcover, Modern Pub
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0816725659 (0-8167-2565-9)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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