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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0883011042 (0-88301-104-2)
Softcover, Ags Pub

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20,000 Leagues Under the Seas

by Ron Miller, Jules Verne

ISBN 0881010855 (0-88101-085-5)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House

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The Aeneid of Virgil

by Virgil

ISBN 0881030694 (0-88103-069-4)
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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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Aesop's Fables

ISBN 0894717952 (0-89471-795-2)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub

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Aesop's Fables

by Aesop

ISBN 0890093504 (0-89009-350-4)
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Aesop's Fables

by Lisbeth Zwerger, Aesop

ISBN 0887081088 (0-88708-108-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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More than 200 classic tales by legendary storyteller Aesop have been translated into readable, modern American English, and illustrated with 50 woodcuts by famous 19th-century French artist J.J. [via]

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Aesop's Fables

by Walt Sturrock

ISBN 0881010863 (0-88101-086-3)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House

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Aesop's Fables for Modern Readers

by Aesop

ISBN 0880880228 (0-88088-022-8)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Pr

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Alice in Wonderland

ISBN 0881011096 (0-88101-109-6)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0880889020 (0-88088-902-0)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Pr

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Anne of Green Gables

by L.M. Montgomery, Laura Fernandez, Rick Jacobson

ISBN 0887765157 (0-88776-515-7)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd

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When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]

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Around the World in 80 Days

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0893756083 (0-89375-608-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc

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The Autobiography and Other Writings

by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas J. Fleming

ISBN 0882250310 (0-88225-031-0)
Hardcover, Newsweek

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Billy Budd, Foretopman

by Herman Melville

ISBN 0891908919 (0-89190-891-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

ISBN 0883017016 (0-88301-701-6)
Softcover, Academic Industries

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"The Call of the Wild" is the classic adventure tale of Buck, a dog torn from his home and thrown into the harsh Arctic North where he struggles to survive. [via]

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0893753564 (0-89375-356-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]

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Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce

by Ambrose Bierce

ISBN 0884118592 (0-88411-859-2)
Softcover, Amereon Ltd

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Complete Works of William Shakespeare

ISBN 0880290137 (0-88029-013-7)
Hardcover, Xs Books

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Confidence Man

by Herman Melville

ISBN 0891908900 (0-89190-890-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

ISBN 0883012634 (0-88301-263-4)
Softcover, Ags Pub

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Doctor Faustus

by Christopher Marlowe

ISBN 0882950541 (0-88295-054-1)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson

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The text of the edition is based primarily on the 1604 text with some readings from the 1616 version. Edited by Paul H. Kocher, this edition of The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus for performance and study features an introduction with a detailed discussion of the date, authorship, and textual questions regarding the play as well as its sources and interpretation. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Christopher Marlowe and a selected bibliography. [via]

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A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen, William-Alan Landes, William Archer

ISBN 0887342698 (0-88734-269-8)
Softcover, Players Pr

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(SCENE. - A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance-hall, another to the left leads to Helmer's study. Between the doors stands a piano. In the middle of the left-hand wall is a door, and beyond it a window. Near the window are a round table, arm-chairs and a small sofa. In the right-hand wall, at the farther end, another door; and on the same side, nearer the footlights, a stove, two easy chairs and a rocking-chair; between the stove and the door, a small table. [via]

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Don Juan

by George Gordon Byron Byron

ISBN 0891906606 (0-89190-660-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

ISBN 0881030201 (0-88103-020-1)
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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]

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Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift, Martina Selway, C. E. Brock

ISBN 0890093040 (0-89009-304-0)
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A retelling of the classic fantasy adventure, illustrated in colour by Gennady Spirin. [via]

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0881030236 (0-88103-023-6)
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The Horse and His Boy

by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0881037729 (0-88103-772-9)
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians. [via]

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 088301727X (0-88301-727-X)
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We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?

Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]

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House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 0893759988 (0-89375-998-8)
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Imitation of Christ

by Thomas A. Kempis

ISBN 0883680947 (0-88368-094-7)
Softcover, Whitaker House

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The Thomas à Kempis fan club includes St. Ignatius, Thomas Merton, Thomas More, and even Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. (She reads a chapter of The Imitation of Christ every night before sleep.) Imitation has exerted immense influence on Christian worship, ethics, and church structure, because it gives specific yet broad-minded guidance about the central task of Christian life--learning to live like Jesus. Better to read this book a little here and there, now and then, than to try gobbling it cover to cover. Imitation is no triumph of orderly thinking, but it's a great monument and incentive to deep living. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]

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The Imitation of Christ

by Harold J. Chadwick, Thomas

ISBN 0882707663 (0-88270-766-3)
Softcover, Bridge Logos Pub

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Written over five centuries ago by Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ has been translated into more languages than any other book except the Bible. It has been acclaimed by countless readers as one of the greatest spiritual masterpieces ever written. No book except the Bible points the way so clearly to inward peace and increased faith in God: "Many words do not satisfy the soul, but a good life comforts the mind, and a pure conscience inspires confidence in God." John Wesley considered it to be of such value to spiritual growth, and the best summary of the Christian life, that he personally translated it for the use of his followers. [via]

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The Jungle Books

by Rudyard Kipling, Bradley Clark

ISBN 0883632012 (0-88363-201-2)
Hardcover, Hugh Lauter Levin Assc

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No child should be allowed to grow up without reading The Jungle Books. Published in 1894 and 1895, the stories crackle with as much life and intensity as ever. Rudyard Kipling pours fuel on childhood fantasies with his tales of Mowgli, lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves. Mowgli is brought up on a diet of Jungle Law, loyalty, and fresh meat from the kill. Regular adventures with his friends and enemies among the Jungle-People--cobras, panthers, bears, and tigers--hone this man-cub's strength and cleverness and whet every reader's imagination. Mowgli's story is interspersed with other tales of the jungle, such as "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," lending depth and diversity to our understanding of Kipling's India. In much the same way Mowgli is carried away by the Bandar-log monkeys, young readers will be caught up by the stories, swinging from page to page, breathless, thrilled, and terrified. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]

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Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0883017172 (0-88301-717-2)
Softcover, Xs Books

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Young David Balfour, left in poverty when his father dies, goes to his uncle, Ebenezer, for assistance. He soon finds himself kidnapped and on board a ship, headed for a life of slavery. With the help of daring rebel Alan Breck, David escapes, only to get mixed up in a desperate adventure? suspected of murder and hunted across the Scottish moors.

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L'Immoraliste

by Andre Gide

ISBN 088133474X (0-88133-474-X)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc

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The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 0890090734 (0-89009-073-4)
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Le Pere Goriot

by De Balzac Honore

ISBN 0884360431 (0-88436-043-1)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com

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Lion, Witch, & Wardrobe

by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0881030775 (0-88103-077-5)
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Over 50 years ago, C.S. Lewis created a land of wonder and enchantment called Narnia, and since then over 60 million readers have discovered the wondrous world that exists beyond the back of the wardrobe. [via]

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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN 0882332287 (0-88233-228-7)
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The Magician's Nephew

by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0881037737 (0-88103-773-7)
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This large, deluxe hardcover edition of the first title in the classic Chronicles of Narnia series, The Magician's Nephew, is a gorgeous introduction to the magical land of Narnia. The many readers who discovered C.S. Lewis's Chronicles through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will be delighted to find that the next volume in the series is actually the first in the sequence--and a step back in time. In this unforgettable story, British schoolchildren Polly and Digory inadvertently tumble into the Wood Between the Worlds, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis and, ultimately, the great, mysterious King Aslan. We witness the birth of Narnia and discover the legendary source of all the adventures that are to follow in the seven books that comprise the series.

Rich, heavy pages, a gold-embossed cover, and Pauline Baynes's original illustrations (hand-colored by the illustrator herself 40 years later) make this special edition of a classic a bona fide treasure. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]

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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G. K. Chesterton

ISBN 0881842257 (0-88184-225-7)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub

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My Antonia

by Willa Cather

ISBN 0881032514 (0-88103-251-4)
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It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.

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

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

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Oedipus Rex

by Sophocles, William-Alan Landed, E.H. Plumptre

ISBN 0887342515 (0-88734-251-5)
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'Sophocles, in a play that won only second prize, created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama. In it he played on certain latent terrors that are part of man's nature in all kinds of societies and at all epochs; terrors whose influence may pervade our lives in ways we scarcely guess ...' These words come from the Introduction to Dr Dawe's edition of Oedipus Rex. In an attempt to analyse why this play 'Has exercised such a powerful and long-lasting fascination on the human mind' Dr Dawe devotes his Introduction to an examination of the content of the story and to the technique displayed by Sophocles in the unfolding of the plot. The commentary deals authoritatively with problems of language and expression. This is an edition for classical scholars, undergraduates, and students in the upper forms of schools. The Introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and may be read by anyone interested in Greek literature and drama. [via]

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Oedipus, the King ; And Antigone

by Sophocles

ISBN 0882950940 (0-88295-094-0)
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Translated and edited by Peter D Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy -- Oedipus the King and Antigone -- for performance and study. The editor's introduction contains a brief biography of the playwright and a description of Greek theatre. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Sophocles and a bibliography. [via]

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Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0881030376 (0-88103-037-6)
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The Ribald men yearn for land of their own. [via]

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The Original Illustrated Alice in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0890092567 (0-89009-256-7)
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The Original Illustrated Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll with the original illustrations by John Tenniel, in color for this edition by Martina Selway, published by Castle Books copyright 1978, published in Yugoslavia September 1985. Oversize hardback 80 page book with glossy pictorial cover [via]

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Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 0890090572 (0-89009-057-2)
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1977 Castle Publishers HB. 356 illustrations by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine where the S. Holmes mysteries were originally published. Great gift for a Conan Doyle Fan!!! [via]

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Ovid's Metamorphoses

by Ovid, Charles Boer

ISBN 0882142178 (0-88214-217-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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Peter Pan

by J. M. Barrie, Greg Hildebrandt

ISBN 0881010693 (0-88101-069-3)
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"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]

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by Greg Hildebrandt

ISBN 0881011118 (0-88101-111-8)
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Peter Pan

by Moose Charlap

ISBN 0881881058 (0-88188-105-8)
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8 vocal selections from the 1954 Broadway version of the beloved story starring Mary Martin. Includes

Songs: I Won't Grow Up : I'm Flying : Tender Shepherd (count Your Sheep) : I've Gotta Crow : Distant Melody : Never Never Land : Captain Hook [via]

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0893759953 (0-89375-995-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc

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The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

ISBN 0883680963 (0-88368-096-3)
Softcover, Whitaker House

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From the publisher who gave you the immensly popular?James usshers ANNALS OF THE WORLD: This volume includes: " John Bunyans personal memoir " His last sermon " Special sayings of Bunyan, about death and judgment, the joys of heaven, and much more " Bunyans personal account of his life before he accepted Christ " The writers account of his time spent in prison " The Barren Fig Tree " The Holy War Made by Shaddai Upon Diabolus for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World This masterpiece will become an instant family heirloom, introducing entire generations to the pilgrims spiritual journey to truth. This hard-cover edition was originally published in 1876. Master Books has re-created this valuable and rare heirloom with todays modern technology, but kept the original look and feel by painstakingly high-resolution scanning every page of this 850-page tomehistoric stains and all! The Pilgrims Progress appears in the original large print inside this new edition, creating an easier reading experience for all ages. [via]

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Poems

by Mary Baker Eddy

ISBN 0879520906 (0-87952-090-6)
Hardcover, Writings of Mary Baker Eddy

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"The poems garnered up in this little volume were written at different periods in the life of the author, dating from her early girlhood up to recent years. They were not written with a view of making a book, each poem being the spontaneous outpouring of a deeply poetic nature and called forth by some experience that claimed her attention " [via]

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Poetry for Young People : William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare, William G. Clark, William A. Wright

ISBN 0894716999 (0-89471-699-9)
Hardcover, Running Press Book Publishers

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More unabridged classics

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The Practice of the Presence of God

by Lawrence, Harold J. Chadwick

ISBN 0882707930 (0-88270-793-0)
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A text, compiled by Father Joseph de Beaufort, of the teachings of Brother Lawrence, a 17th century Carmelite monk. The compilation includes letters, as well as records of his conversations kept by Brother Lawrence's interlocutors [via]

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Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

ISBN 088411452X (0-88411-452-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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A rousing success on the London and New York stages, a popular film, and a great musical hit ("My Fair Lady"), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language. Includes Shaw's Preface and "Sequel."

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Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, Barbara Chitouras

ISBN 0880704381 (0-88070-438-1)
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Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps. [via]

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The Sea-Wolf

by Jack London

ISBN 0881037850 (0-88103-785-0)
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Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0894717286 (0-89471-728-6)
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These elegant volumes are bound in simulated leather with titles stamped in gold and gilt-edged pages.

Includes footnoted text of the Bard's 37 plays, sonnets, and poems, with a glossary and index of characters. [via]

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Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

ISBN 0881036390 (0-88103-639-0)
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In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gautama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahman, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. --Brian Bruya [via]

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Sophocles' Oedipus the King

by Sirish Rao, Gita Wolf-Sampath, Indrapramit Roy

ISBN 0892367644 (0-89236-764-4)
Hardcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns

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Among the Greek tragedies, none is better known than the story of Oedipus, the king of Thebes, who sets out to uncover the sin for which his people are being punished, only to discover that it is he who has unwittingly committed unspeakable acts. Oedipus's slow uncovering of the truth of his birth, marriage, and kingship, and the dreadful punishments he and his unfortunate mother and wife exact upon themselves are masterfully retold here. Original illustrations, silk-screened on handmade paper, accompany the story. This unique, handcrafted book will be a treasured addition to the libraries of those who love the arts of ancient Greece and the art of fine, contemporary bookmaking. [via]

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The Stranger

by Albert Camus

ISBN 0881032476 (0-88103-247-6)
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An ordinary man is unwittingly caught up in a senseless murder in Algeria. [via]

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination

by Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 0890095647 (0-89009-564-7)
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Award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley writes, "I have selected three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories.... I chose 'The Fall of the House of Usher' for its classic Gothic images and its dark, melancholic central characters, including the house itself. 'The Black Cat' is ... appealing to me for its use of mystery and foreboding that takes us to a horrifying climax. 'The Cask of Amontillado' ... my personal favorite, [is] a simple narrative of revenge set in the contrasting worlds of carnival and catacomb." Click on the book's cover for a closer look, but the reproduction doesn't really do justice to the richness of color in Kelley's shadowy, atmospheric paintings. (The cat's eye is green, and its tongue is pink.) This gorgeous edition has 20 full- and double-page paintings, including a melancholy portrait of Poe; each page of text is surrounded by subtle decorative frames. The images of Roderick and Madeleine Usher are especially effective. [via]

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 0881036129 (0-88103-612-9)
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The story of a simple country girl whose family's pretentions lead to her destruction [via]

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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0880889918 (0-88088-991-8)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Pr

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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0881030295 (0-88103-029-5)
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The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

by Christopher Marlowe, William-Alan Landes

ISBN 0887347215 (0-88734-721-5)
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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0883011069 (0-88301-106-9)
Softcover, Ags Pub

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Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]

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Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0883016451 (0-88301-645-1)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0881010901 (0-88101-090-1)
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The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. [via]

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Utopia

by Thomas More, H. V. S. Ogden

ISBN 0882950622 (0-88295-062-2)
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The classic idea of a people's commonwealth. Although it has become a byword for the unrealistic since publication in 1516, this extract demonstrates a far more real and practical side to More's vision. [via]

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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0880292547 (0-88029-254-7)
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
-- from Sonnet 18

No home should be without this: every play, from the early histories to the sad, wise Winter's Tale and The Tempest; every exquisitely crafted sonnet; every long poem (such as Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece) written by the greatest writer in the English language. This edition of the Bard of Avon's complete works is a facsimile of the definitive Shakespeare Head edition published originally in Oxford, England. All the plays are arranged in chronological order of their composition, rather than by genre, so that the evolution of Shakespeare's monumental genius can be more easily followed and appreciated.

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The Works of William Shakespeare

ISBN 0890096066 (0-89009-606-6)
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