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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0553212524 (0-553-21252-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:The futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, takes the reader through dangerously adventurous voyages and introduces many interesting, distinctive characters. Includes colorful illustrations, notes to readers and an author profile. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Kazin, Alfred (AFT)ISBN 0553210793 (0-553-21079-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Morton N. CohenISBN 0553211730 (0-553-21173-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0529050315 (0-529-05031-5)
Hardcover, Collins-World
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Ancient Rome: A Military And Political Historyby Christopher MackayISBN 0521809185 (0-521-80918-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Aristotle: The Desire to Understandby Jonathan LearISBN 0521347629 (0-521-34762-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: The Desire to Understand'Book summary:This is a philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself started. He introduces us to the essence of Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through all the central Aristotelian texts--selected from the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics and the biological and logical works. The book is written in a direct, lucid style that engages the reader with the themes in an active and participatory manner. It will prove a stimulating introduction for all students of Greek philosophy and for a wide range of others interested in Aristotle as a giant figure in Western intellectual history. [via]
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Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athensby Aristotle, Stephen EversonISBN 0521484006 (0-521-48400-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Bach: The Brandenburg Concertosby Malcolm BoydISBN 0521387132 (0-521-38713-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Beethoven: Symphony Number 9by Nicholas CookISBN 0521399246 (0-521-39924-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Book Of Imaginary Beingsby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0525475389 (0-525-47538-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Of Imaginary Beings'Book summary:In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. A lavish feast of exotica brought vividly to life with art commissioned specifically for this volume, The Book of Imaginary Beings will delight readers of classic fantasy as well as Borges's many admirers.[via]More editions of The Book Of Imaginary Beings:
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedyby P. E. EasterlingISBN 0521423511 (0-521-42351-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Dramaby P. E. Easterling, Bernard MacGregor Walker KnoxISBN 0521359821 (0-521-35982-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Catullus and His World : A Reappraisalby T. P. WisemanISBN 0521319684 (0-521-31968-4)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catullus and His World : A Reappraisal'Book summary:This book is an attempt to read the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus in his own context; to look at the poet and his works against the cultural realities of the first century BC as recent advances in historical research allow us to understand them. Catullus' own social background, the circumstances of the literary life of his time, the true extent of his works and the variety of audiences he addressed - these and other questions are explored by Professor Wiseman with new and startling results. Contemporary high society and politics are illustrated through Clodia and Caelius Rufus, considered not as mere adjuncts to Catullus' story but as significant historical personalities in their own right. A final chapter on nineteenth- and twentieth-century interpretations of Catullus' world shows how anachronistic preconceptions have prevented a proper understanding of it, and made this radical reappraisal necessary. Anyone with a serious interest in Latin literature or Roman history will want to read this book. Students in the upper levels of school or at university will find it essential background reading to their work on Catullus and Cicero's Pro Caelio. [via]
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Chaucerby Donald R. HowardISBN 052524400X (0-525-24400-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0553212443 (0-553-21244-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary: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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A Christmas Carol and Other Victorian Fairy Talesby Charles Dickens, U. C. KnoepflmacherISBN 0553211269 (0-553-21126-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Cicero: On the Commonwealth and on Lawsby James G. ZetzelISBN 0521453445 (0-521-45344-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Cicero: On the Commonwealth and on the Lawsby Marcus Tullius Cicero, James E. G. ZetzelISBN 0521459591 (0-521-45959-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The City of God Against the Pagansby R.W. Dyson, AugustineISBN 0521468434 (0-521-46843-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of God Against the Pagans'Book summary:This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of De Civitate Dei, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliography and chronology of Augustine's life. The result is an important contribution of interest to students of theology, philosophy, ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought and late antiquity. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0553211757 (0-553-21175-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? so begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of st. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime and punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil ... A man who cannot escape his own conscience [via]
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The Death of Ivan Ilyichby Leo TolstoyISBN 0553210351 (0-553-21035-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'Book summary:Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 055321277X (0-553-21277-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:From the Back Cover: "Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' as a 'shilling shocker.' He then burned the draft, and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self. Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, 'Jekyll and Hyde' is a brilliantly original study of man's dual nature - as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror..." [via]
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0553212710 (0-553-21271-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:One of the most popular stories ever told, dracula (1897) has been re-created for the stage and screen hundreds of times in the last century. Yet it is essentially a victorian saga, an awesome tale of thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities reflect the dark underside of a supremely moralistic age. Above all, dracula is a quintessential story of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters in literature: centuries-old count dracula, whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, the beautiful. Bram stoker, who was also the manager of the famous actor sir henry irving, wrote seventeen novels. Dracula remains his most celebrated and enduring work -- even today this gothic masterpiece has lost none of the spine-tingling impact that makes it a classic of the genre [via]
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Turgenev, Barbara Makanowitzky, Alexandra TolstoyISBN 0553212591 (0-553-21259-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:When first published in 1862, this novel of a divided Russia, with peasants set against masters and fathers set against sons, caused great outrage. But its enduring legacy of social insight and conscience mixed with drama has given it universal appeal. Features an introduction by Anna Tolstoy in an exciting new Bantam Classics' package. [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, David Stevens, Judith BaxterISBN 0521587026 (0-521-58702-6)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
Gardener's Art Through the Ages With Infotracby Fred S. KleinerISBN 0534126111 (0-534-12611-1)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Gardener's Art Through the Ages With Infotracby Richard G. Tansey, Christin J. Mamiya, Fred S. KleinerISBN 0534216773 (0-534-21677-3)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspectiveby Richard G. Tansey, Christin J. Mamiya, Fred S. KleinerISBN 0534611133 (0-534-61113-3)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages With Infotracby Tansey, Christin J. Mamiya, Fred S. KleinerISBN 0534167039 (0-534-16703-9)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gardner's Art Through the Ages With Infotrac'Book summary:No art history student can get through a semester without the twin doorstops of Art Through the Ages. Chronicling the history of art from the earliest known cave paintings to postmodern architecture, as well as most major artists, works, and styles in between, these books are must-haves for those interested in understanding art in context. Both books are surveys, and experts may notice the omission of more esoteric movements and artists. Regardless, these volumes are invaluable references--especially since each edition of this classic improves noticeably in its coverage of non-Western art. [via]
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages With Infotrac: The Western Perspectiveby Christin J. Mamiya, Fred S. Kleiner, Tanseyrichard G.ISBN 0534642039 (0-534-64203-9)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gardner's Art Through the Ages With Infotrac: The Western Perspective'Book summary:This new alternative, GARDNER'S WESTERN ART THROUGH THE AGES, offers instructors and students a brief, strictly Western approach to art history and retains all of the hallmark features of the market-leading Eleventh Edition in a concise 23-chapter format (also available in a two-volume split). Unique to books with a Western Art focus, the authors retain the chapter on Islam, providing students with insightful coverage of the Islamic tradition's impact on Western culture and art history. Featuring an outstanding art program with more color photos than any comparable art history survey textbook, the authors focus on the context and function of the role of art. [via]
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages With Infotrac: The Western Perspectiveby Richard G. Tansey, Helen Gardner, Christin J. Mamiya, Fred S. KleinerISBN 0534610927 (0-534-61092-7)
Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gardner's Art Through the Ages With Infotrac: The Western Perspective'Book summary:This new alternative, GARDNER'S WESTERN ART THROUGH THE AGES, offers instructors and students a brief, strictly Western approach to art history and retains all of the hallmark features of the market-leading Eleventh Edition in a concise 23-chapter format (also available in a two-volume split). Unique to books with a Western Art focus, the authors retain the chapter on Islam, providing students with insightful coverage of the Islamic tradition's impact on Western culture and art history. Featuring an outstanding art program with more color photos than any comparable art history survey textbook, the authors focus on the context and function of the role of art. [via]
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages, a Concise History - Teacher's Editionby Helen GardnerISBN 0534636470 (0-534-63647-0)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Rosemary WilliamsISBN 0528810146 (0-528-81014-6)
Hardcover, Rand McNally
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Tim SewardISBN 0521484723 (0-521-48472-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph BruccoliISBN 0521402301 (0-521-40230-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
Greek Dramaby Moses HadasISBN 0553212214 (0-553-21221-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Gulliver's Travelsby Howard Erskine-HillISBN 0521329345 (0-521-32934-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels provides a fresh and impartial account of this world-famous satire. It presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, its four-part structure, its narrative strategy and its prose style. A final chapter sketches the fictional aftermath of the Travels from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and there is a guide to further reading. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 055321232X (0-553-21232-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:Considered one of English literature's first and greatest satirists, Jonathan Swift possessed a timeless genius for pointing out the foibles of human nature that still has the power to provoke, amuse, and, at times, even outrage our modern sensibilities. This representative collection of Swift's major writings includes the complete Gulliver's Travels as well as A Tale of a Tub, "The Battle of the Books," "A Modest Proposal," "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity," "The Bickerstaff Papers," and many more of his brilliantly satirical works. Here too are selections from Swift's poetry and portions of his Journal to Stella. Swift's savage ridicule, corrosive wit, and sparkling humor are fully displayed in this comprehensive collection. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0553212141 (0-553-21214-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]
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Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, With Notes and Introductionby Brian P. CopenhaverISBN 0521425433 (0-521-42543-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, With Notes and Introduction'Book summary:The Hermetica are a body of mystical texts written in late antiquity, but believed during the Renaissance (when they became well known) to be much older. Their supposed author, a mythical figure named Hermes Trismegistus, was thought to be a contemporary of Moses. The Hermetic philosophy was regarded as an ancient theology, parallel to the revealed wisdom of the Bible, supporting Biblical revelation and culminating in the Platonic philosophical tradition. This new translation is the only English version based on reliable texts, and Professor Copenhaver's introduction and notes make this accessible and up-to-date edition an indispensable resource to scholars. [via]
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Homerby Jasper GriffinISBN 0521539781 (0-521-53978-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Homer: The Odysseyby Jaspar GriffinISBN 0521310431 (0-521-31043-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIIIby A.F. GarvieISBN 0521338409 (0-521-33840-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIII'Book summary:This is the first self-contained edition of Books VI-VIII of the Odyssey--the account of Odysseus' time among the Phaeacians, and a popular introduction to Homer. While not neglecting matters of language and formulaic composition, the Commentary aims to provide guidance on questions of literary and narrative technique and poetic artistry. The Introduction deals with the problem of Homeric composition in general, and with the place of the Phaeacian books in the poem as a whole. There are also brief sections on Homeric meter and the text. [via]
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How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestsellerby OvidISBN 0525472835 (0-525-47283-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Kathy MitchellISBN 0553211404 (0-553-21140-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Juvenal Bk. 1 : Satiresby Susanna Morton Braund, P. E. Easterling, Philip Hardie, Richard Hunter, JuvenalISBN 0521356679 (0-521-35667-9)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Juvenal Bk. 1 : Satires'Book summary:This volume presents a new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal. In the Introduction Braund situates Juvenal within the genre of satire and demonstrates his originality in creating an angry character who declaims in the "grand style." The Commentary illuminates the content and style of Satires 1-5. The essays on each of the poems together with the overview of Book I in the Introduction present the first integrated reading of these Satires as an organic structure. [via]
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Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandyby Wolfgang IserISBN 0521328071 (0-521-32807-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Machiavelli: The Princeby Quentin Skinner, Russell PriceISBN 0521349931 (0-521-34993-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Martin Edenby Jack LondonISBN 0553212125 (0-553-21212-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Medeaby Euripides, Donald J. MastronardeISBN 0521643864 (0-521-64386-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea'Book summary:Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries,including suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities. Medea is suitable for students of both Classical Civilisation and Drama. Useful features include full synopsis of the play, commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre. Medea is aimed primarily at A-level and undergraduate students in the UK, and college students in North America. [via]
The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Robert Smith, Jonathan MorrisISBN 0521618754 (0-521-61875-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Merchant of Veniceby M. M. Mahood, A. R. Braunmuller, Brian Gibbons, William ShakespeareISBN 0521532515 (0-521-53251-5)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Metamorphosis: Including Selections from Kafka's Letters and Diaries and Critical Essaysby Franz Kafka, Stanley CorngoldISBN 055321196X (0-553-21196-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Middlemarchby George EliotISBN 0553211803 (0-553-21180-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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More Utopiaby Thomas More, Robert M. Adams, George M. LoganISBN 0521525403 (0-521-52540-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Utopia'Book summary:This revision incorporates the many refinements to the translation of Utopia undertaken in 1995. George Logan has also updated the editorial commentary and introduction to take into account the scholarship published since the first Cambridge Texts edition of Utopia appeared in 1989. This edition is the most accessible and student-friendly version of Utopia currently available. [via]
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Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithacaby James Diggle, Robert Bittlestone, John UnderhillISBN 0521853575 (0-521-85357-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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On Mozartby James M. MorrisISBN 0521476615 (0-521-47661-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0553212540 (0-553-21254-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Politics and the Constitution of Athensby Aristotle, Stephen EversonISBN 0521482437 (0-521-48243-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Pat RogersISBN 0521825148 (0-521-82514-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride And Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0525183817 (0-525-18381-7)
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Quentin Skinner, Russell PriceISBN 0521342406 (0-521-34240-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Rousseau : Confessionsby Peter France, J. P. SternISBN 052131500X (0-521-31500-X)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0553212419 (0-553-21241-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen'Book summary:Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Novels and Stories
Volume I
Since his first appearance in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyles classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmess adventures in crime!
Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmess famous seven percent solution and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.
Also included are Holmess feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling The Adventure of the Speckled Band, the baffling riddle of The Musgrave Ritual, and the ingeniously plotted The Five Orange Pips, tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time. [via]More editions of Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen:
Socrates : Ironist and Moral Philosopherby Gregory VlastosISBN 052131450X (0-521-31450-X)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, Rex GibsonISBN 0521559472 (0-521-55947-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sonnets'Book summary:In his own time, Shakespeare was best known to the reading public as a poet, and even today copies of his Sonnets regularly outsell everything else he wrote. For this edition, Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. Careful readings emphasize their sexual and temperamental ambiguity, their textual history and the special perils an editor faces when modernizing the original quarto's spelling, punctuation, and even layout. The edition retains the text of the Sonnets prepared by Gwynne Evans, together with his detailed notes on each, and a line-by-line commentary. Throughout, the 'voices' of the sonnets appear in all their intricacy and dramatic power. [via]
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0531002853 (0-531-00285-3)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Structure and Scale in the Roman Economyby Richard Duncan-JonesISBN 0521892899 (0-521-89289-9)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Structure and Scale in the Roman Economyby Robert Duncan-JonesISBN 0521354773 (0-521-35477-3)
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The Structure of Singing: System and Art in Vocal Techniqueby Richard MillerISBN 0534255353 (0-534-25535-3)
Softcover, Schirmer Books
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0553211765 (0-553-21176-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fictionby Henry JamesISBN 0553210599 (0-553-21059-9)
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Utopiaby Thomas More, Robert M. Adams, George M. LoganISBN 0521347971 (0-521-34797-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architectureby Michael Dewar, Ingrid D. Rowland, Pollio Vitruvius, Thomas Noble Howe, Vitruvius PollioISBN 0521553644 (0-521-55364-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture'Book summary:For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. Demonstrating the range of Vitruvius' style, this new edition includes examples from archaeological sites discovered since World War II and not previously published in English language translations. Rowland's new translation and Howe's critical commentary and illustrations provide a new image of Vitruvius, who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ingrid D. Rowland is an associate professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Thomas Noble Howe is a professor in the Department of Art at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontëISBN 0553196332 (0-553-19633-2)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Euripides: Medeaby Donald J. MastronardeISBN 0521643651 (0-521-64365-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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