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The Annotated Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, William Stuart Baring-GouldISBN 0517564556 (0-517-56455-6)
Hardcover, C.N. Potter
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:The complete texts of the four novels and fifty-six short stories that made the legendary detective famous are accompanied by an introduction, notes, maps, diagrams, photographs, and drawings in this oversized edition--an indispensable possession for all mystery fans. [via]
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The Annotated Sherlock Holmes : The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Completeby Arthur Conan Doyle, William S. Baring-GouldISBN 0517481022 (0-517-48102-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Sherlock Holmes : The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete'Book summary:Chapter titles are: Two Doctors and A Detective, 2. The Early Holmes, 3. The Partnership to Dr. Watson's First Marriage, 4.From Dr. Watson's First Marriage to the Death of the First Mrs. Watson, 5. From Dr. Watson's Return to Baker Street to His Marriage to Mary Morstan.two volume set. good condition [via]
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Best of Lewis Carrollby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Henry HolidayISBN 0785813268 (0-7858-1326-8)
Softcover, Book Sales, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best of Lewis Carroll'Book summary:Children and adults alike have never grown tired of the exciting and fantastical adventures of master story-teller Lewis Carroll. Lavishly illustrated, here are his finest works, including Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark, A Tangled Tale, Phantasmagoria, and Nonsense from Letters. [via]
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Byronby George Gordon Byron Byron, Frederick Page, John JumpISBN 0192810685 (0-19-281068-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Byron'Book summary:A legend in his lifetime, Lord Byron was the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The text of this edition, which contains nearly all of Byron's published poems together with the poet's own Notes, was first published in The Oxford Poets in 1896, and has been reprinted numerous times. Fredrick Page's text has been revised by John Jump, who has made a number of substantive corrections, and added to Don Juan the fragment of a seventeenth canto that was previously unavailable. [via]
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The Cask of Amontilladoby Edgar Allan Poe, Byron GlaserISBN 0871917734 (0-87191-773-4)
Hardcover, Creative Co
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The Collected Poemsby Ted Hughes, Sylvia PlathISBN 1568497032 (1-56849-703-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems'Book summary:Sylvia Plath died in 1963, and even now her outsize persona threatens to bury her poetry--the numerous biographies and studies often drawing the reader toward anecdote and away from the work. It's a relief to turn to the poems themselves and once more be jolted by their strange beauty, hard-wrought originality, and acetylene anger. "It is a heart, / This holocaust I walk in, / O golden child the world will kill and eat." While the juvenilia and poems written before 1960 that Ted Hughes has included here prefigure Plath's later obsessions, they also enable us to witness her turn from thesaurus-heavy verse to stripped-down art as they gather power through raw simplicity. "The blood jet is poetry. / There is no stopping it," she declares in "Kindness." [via]
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Collected Poemsby Robert Lowell, Frank Bidart, David GewanterISBN 0374126178 (0-374-12617-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems'Book summary:For the first time, the collected poems of America's preeminent postwar poet[via]
Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the "only recent American poet--if you don't count Eliot--who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition."
Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled a definitive edition of Lowell's poems, from the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, to the brilliant willfulness of his Imitations of Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, and other masters, to the late spontaneity of his History, winner of another Pulitzer, and of his last book of poems, Day by Day. The book will also include several poems never previously collected, as well as a selection of Lowell's intriguing drafts.
As poet and critic Randall Jarrell said, "You feel before reading any new poem of his the uneasy expectation of perhaps encountering a masterpiece."
Lowell's Collected Poems will offer the first opportunity to view the entire range of his astonishing verse. -
Collected Poemsby David Gewanter, Frank BidartISBN 0374530327 (0-374-53032-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems'Book summary:Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in Imitations; to the late spontaneity of The Dolphin, winner of another Pulitzer Prize; to his last, most searching book, Day by Day. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant drive to reimagine his work. Collected Poems at last offers readers the opportunity to take in, in its entirety, one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.[via]More editions of Collected Poems:
The Collected Poemsby Sylvia Plath, Ted HughesISBN 0808595040 (0-8085-9504-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Lettersby Edith Hamilton, Huntington CairnsISBN 0691097186 (0-691-09718-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Collected Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew HurleyISBN 0670849707 (0-670-84970-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Fictions'Book summary:Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923--doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires--he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist--a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.
By the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style--poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises--was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." (Incidentally, the thrifty author later recycled the second of these aphorisms in his classic bit of bookish metaphysics, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Teris.") The glories of his middle period, of course, have hardly aged a day. "The Garden of the Forking Paths" remains the best deconstruction of the detective story ever written, even in the post-Auster era, and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" puts the so-called death of the author in pointed, hilarious perspective.
But Hurley's omnibus also brings home exactly how consistent Borges remained in his concerns. As late as 1975, in "Avelino Arredondo," he was still asking (and occasionally even answering) the same riddles about time and its human repository, memory: "For the man in prison, or the blind man, time flows downstream as though down a slight decline. As he reached the midpoint of his reclusion, Arredondo more than once achieved that virtually timeless time. In the first patio there was a wellhead, and at the bottom, a cistern where a toad lived; it never occurred to Arredondo that it was the toad's time, bordering on eternity, that he sought." Throughout, Hurley's translation is crisp and assured (although this reader will always have a soft spot for "Funes, the Memorious" rather than "Funes, His Memory.") And thanks to his efforts, Borgesians will find no better--and no more pleasurable--rebuttal of the author's description of himself as "a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short stories." --James Marcus [via]
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byronby George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 1853264067 (1-85326-406-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of Lord Byron'Book summary:'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be', wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and near East which Byron knew so well, touching on the major political, cultural and social concerns of the day.
This selection includes all of that poem, and selections from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the satirical poems English Bards and Scotch Reviewers and A Vision of Judgement. Paul Wright's detailed introductions place Byron's colourful life and work within their broader social and political contexts, and demonstrate that Byron both fostered and critiqued the notorious 'Byronic myth' of heroic adventure, political action and sexual scandal. [via]More editions of The Collected Poems of Lord Byron:
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsby W. B. YeatsISBN 1853264547 (1-85326-454-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Collected Poems: Yeatsby W. B. YeatsISBN 0330316389 (0-330-31638-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems: Yeats'Book summary:This anthology of Yeats's work encompasses his 14 books of lyrical poems, as well as his narrative and dramatic poetry. It covers his early symbolist period and the complex, visionary work of his later years. There is also an incorporation of the final revisions Yeats made just before his death. [via]
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Weltyby Eudora WeltyISBN 0156189216 (0-15-618921-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty'Book summary:This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition. [via]
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Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0007144350 (0-00-714435-0)
Hardcover, Harper Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:The centennial edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works. A new centennial edition of the bestselling Complete Worlks of Oscar Wilde: now published in a special papreback centennial edition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, with a revision of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Merlin Holland, Oscar's grandson. [via]
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Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Editionby Oscar Wilde, Merlin HollandISBN 0004723724 (0-00-472372-4)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Edition'Book summary:The centennial edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works. A new centennial edition of the bestselling Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: now published in a special hardback centennial edition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, with a revision of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson. [via]
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The Complete Poemsby Anne SextonISBN 0395957761 (0-395-95776-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems'Book summary:She drew her poems from a great depth in herself, and they continue to stir us...Her voice remains a distinctive one in American poetry of the past half century. -- J.D. McClatchy [via]
Complete Poemsby E. E. CummingsISBN 0261620355 (0-261-62035-5)
Hardcover, MacGibbon & Kee
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The Complete Storiesby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0374515360 (0-374-51536-0)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Stories'Book summary:Winner of the National Book Award[via]
The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her deathis a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux. -
The Complete Storiesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679417400 (0-679-41740-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Edgar Allan Poes gift for the macabrehis genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingswas so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful representin contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitmanthe other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.More editions of The Complete Stories:
The Complete Poemsby Elizabeth BishopISBN 0701116080 (0-7011-1608-0)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Complete Edgar Allan Poe Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517336340 (0-517-33634-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Complete Illustrated Works of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 1851526307 (1-85152-630-7)
Hardcover, Chancellor Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Illustrated Works of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Famous for his horror stories and brooding poetry, Poe is often considered to be the inventor of the modern detective story, as well. Now, this one marvelously illustrated and popularly priced volume makes it possible to appreciate the full genius of this master of the mysterious and brilliant literary talent. Images, reproduced from a variety of sources (including Aubrey Beardsley, Edouard Manet, and Arthur Rackham) enhance the mood of such favorites as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Purloined Letter, A Descent into the Maelström and The Masque of the Red Death. In addition to those "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"--70 chronicles of terror and fantasy that established Poe as the supreme craftsman of the short story--there is The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Poe's only full-length work and a masterful blending of science and romance. Finally, a section devoted to "The Raven and Other Poems" reflects Poe's obsession with the macabre.[via]More editions of The Complete Illustrated Works of Edgar Allan Poe:
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Complete Poems and Selected Essaysby Edgar Allan Poe, Richard GrayISBN 0460872613 (0-460-87261-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Selected Essays'Book summary:This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, a plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response. This selection presents all of Poe's poetry, and includes the less well known poems written before he was 20, among them "To Helen", which Poe said was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him "with half his heart to inhabit other worlds". The selected essays are illuminating in relation to Poe's life and times. [via]
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Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 039440324X (0-394-40324-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Compiled here are over 50 of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and tales in one giant Kindle book. This includes an active table of contents to make finding stories easy.
This edition includes the following stories:
The Angel of the Odd
The Assignation
The Balloon Hoax
Berenice
Bon-Bon
The Black Cat
The Business Man
The Cask of Amontillado
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
A Descent Into the Maelström
The Devil in the Belfry
Diddling
The Domain of Arnheim
Duc De L'Omelette
Eleonora
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of the Usher
Four Beasts in One
The Gold-Bug
Hop Frog
How to Write a Blackwood Article
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
King Pest
Landor's Cottage
Landscape Garden
Ligeia
Lionizing
Loss of Breath
Maelzel's Chess-Player
Man of the Crowd
Man that was Used Up
The Masque of the Red Death
Mellonta Tauta
Mesmeric Revelation
Metzengerstein
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Mystification
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Oblong Box
The Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
Predicament
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
Shadow -- A Parable
Silence -- A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
Spectacles
Sphinx
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
A Tale of Jerusalem
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Tell Tale Heart
Thou Art the Man
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Three Sundays in a Week
The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0316184136 (0-316-18413-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed."
The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent:
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets. [via]
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Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: ISBN 0899667139 (0-89966-713-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: ISBN 0571090877 (0-571-09087-7)
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Complete Poems, 1904-1962by E. E. Cummings, George James FirmageISBN 0871401452 (0-87140-145-2)
Hardcover, Liveright
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979by Elizabeth BishopISBN 0374518173 (0-374-51817-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems, 1927-1979'Book summary:Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't want to be seen as a "woman poet." In 1977, two years before her death she wrote, "art is art and to separate writings, paintings, musical compositions, etc., into two sexes is to emphasize values in them that are not art." She also deeply distrusted the dominant mode of modern poetry, one practiced with such detached passion by her friend Robert Lowell, the confessional.
Bishop was unforgiving of fashion and limited ways of seeing and feeling, but cast an even more trenchant eye on her own work. One wishes this volume were thicker, though the perfections within mark the rightness of her approach. The poems are sublimely controlled, fraught with word play, fierce moral vision (see her caustic ballad on Ezra Pound, "Visits to St. Elizabeths"), and reticence. From the surreal sorrow of the early "Man-Moth" (leaping off from a typo she had come across for "mammoth"), about a lonely monster who rarely emerges from "the pale subways of cement he calls his home," to the beauty of her villanelle "One Art" (with its repeated "the art of losing isn't hard to master"), the poet wittily explores distance and desolation, separation and sorrow. [via]
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The Complete Poetical Worksby Jerome J. McGann, Barry Weller, George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 0198118902 (0-19-811890-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Criticism of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, Allen TateISBN 0452005485 (0-452-00548-5)
Softcover, New American Library
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The Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Kyle FreemanISBN 1593080344 (1-59308-034-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I'Book summary:[via]The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worlds most popular and influential fictional detectivethe eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmess comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.
Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of The Final Problem, the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). Public demand for new Holmes stories was so great, however, that Conan Doyle eventually resurrected him. The first story in The Return, The Adventure of the Empty House, features Conan Doyles infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped what seemed like certain death.
This volume also includes two other collections of Holmes stories, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyles final full-length Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear; a pair of parodies, The Field Bazaar and How Watson Learned the Trick ; and two essays about the private life of the beloved sleuth.Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.More editions of The Complete Sherlock Holmes:
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Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Complete Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 1593082037 (1-59308-203-7)
Hardcover, Fine Communications - The Complete Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0553328255 (0-553-32825-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Complete Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0385006896 (0-385-00689-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday - The Complete Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0436133008 (0-436-13300-8)
Hardcover, Harper & Collins - The Complete Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0385045913 (0-385-04591-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Complete Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0517220784 (0-517-22078-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I: ISBN 1593080344 (1-59308-034-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination ; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; The Raven and Other Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0706415523 (0-7064-1552-3)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Sixty-Seven Tales, One Complete Novel and Thirty-One Poemsby Edgar Allan Poe, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051745372X (0-517-45372-X)
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Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 040405109X (0-404-05109-X)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Complete Works of Oscar WildeISBN 0004704738 (0-00-470473-8)
Softcover, Irish Books & Media
Find This BookBook summary:The third edition incorporates texts which were previously available only in difficult-to-obtain form as well as corrections and emendations to the text by the critic and columnist Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson. It also includes newly-commissioned introductions to the poems, plays, stories and selected letters and journalism from such contributors as the biographer and critic Owen Dudley Edwards, and the Irish poet and scholar Declan Kiberd. The book retains the 1966 introduction by Oscar Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland, and now also has a new introduction by Merlin Holland, explaining the significance of the text, with his observations on the public interest of the biography of Wilde by Richard Ellman. [via]
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E.E.Cummingsby E. E. Cummings, George James FirmageISBN 0871401525 (0-87140-152-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Edgar Allan Poe Essays and Reviews: Theory of Poetry, Reviews of British and Continental Authors, Reviews of American Authors and American Literaturby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0940450194 (0-940450-19-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Edgar Allan Poe : Selected Worksby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0517053586 (0-517-05358-6)
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Elizabeth I: Collected Worksby Elizabeth, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth RoseISBN 0226504646 (0-226-50464-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth I: Collected Works'Book summary:This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers and poetry of the monarch's later years. The first collection of its kind, Elizabeth I reveals brilliance on two counts: that of the Queen, a dazzling writer and a leading intellect of the English Renaissance, and that of the editors, whose copious annotations make the book not only essential to scholars but accessible to general readers as well.[via]
"This collection shines a light onto the character and experience of one of the most interesting of monarchs. . . . We are likely never to get a closer or clearer look at her. An intriguing and intense portrait of a woman who figures so importantly in the birth of our modern world."Publishers Weekly
"An admirable scholarly edition of the queen's literary output. . . . This anthology will excite scholars of Elizabethan history, but there is something here for all of us who revel in the English language."John Cooper, Washington Times
"Substantial, scholarly, but accessible. . . . An invaluable work of reference."Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books
"In a single extraordinary volume . . . Marcus and her coeditors have collected the Virgin Queen's letters, speeches, poems and prayers. . . . An impressive, heavily footnoted volume."Library Journal
"This excellent anthology of [Elizabeth's] speeches, poems, prayers and letters demonstrates her virtuosity and afford the reader a penetrating insight into her 'wiles and understandings.'"Anne Somerset, New Statesman
"Here then is the only trustworthy collection of the various genres of Elizabeth's writings. . . . A fine edition which will be indispensable to all those interested in Elizabeth I and her reign."Susan Doran, History
"In the torrent of words about her, the queen's own words have been hard to find. . . . [This] volume is a major scholarly achievement that makes Elizabeth's mind much more accessible than before. . . . A veritable feast of material in different genres."David Norbrook, The New RepublicMore editions of Elizabeth I: Collected Works:
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Elizabeth I: Collected Worksby Leah S. Marcus, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth RoseISBN 0226504654 (0-226-50465-4)
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Flannery O'Connor Collected Worksby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0940450372 (0-940450-37-2)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Her Sisters Hand in Mine: An Expanded Edition of the Collected Works of Jane Bowlesby Jane BowlesISBN 091294644X (0-912946-44-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland, Throby Lewis CarrollISBN 1419139797 (1-4191-3979-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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My Sister's Hand in Mineby Jane Auer BowlesISBN 0374529787 (0-374-52978-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Sister's Hand in Mine'Book summary:Though she wrote only one novella, one short play, and fewer than a dozen short stories over a roughly twenty-year span from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s, Jane Bowles has long been regarded by critics as one of the premier stylists of her generation. Enlivened at unexpected moments by sexual exploration, mysticism, and flashes of wit alternately dry and hilarious, her prose is spare and honed, her stories filled with subtly sly characterizations of men and, mostly, women, dissatisfied not so much with the downward spiral of their fortunes as with the hollowness of their neat little lives. Whether focused on the separate emergences of Miss Goering and Mrs. Copperfield from their affluent, airless lives in New York and Panama into a less defined but intense sexual and social maelstrom in the novella Two Serious Ladies, or on the doomed efforts of the neighbors Mr. Drake and Mrs. Perry to form a connection out of their very different loneliness in "Plain Pleasures," or on the bittersweet cultural collision of an American wife and a peasant woman in Morocco in "Everything Is Nice," Jane Bowles creates whole worlds out of the unexpressed longings of individuals, adrift in their own lives, whether residing in their childhood homes or in faraway lands that are somehow both stranger and more familiar than what they left behind.[via] -
My Sister's Hand in Mineby Jane Bowles, Jane Auer BowlesISBN 0374506523 (0-374-50652-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0890090572 (0-89009-057-2)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Original Illustrated Strand Sherlockby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0792454154 (0-7924-5415-4)
Hardcover, World Pubns
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The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of thby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0192123297 (0-19-212329-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th'Book summary:Any fan of detective fiction knows that there is no substitute in all of literature for a few hours of reading pleasure at 221 B Baker Street. The tobacco in the persian slipper, the piles of monographs and newspaper clippings covering the floor and table, the unanswered correspondence affixed to the mantle with a dagger. What will the next visitor or urgent message bring? Perhaps a request from a mysterious stranger to help prevent "A Scandal in Bohemia." Perhaps Watson will tell us the story, discretely leaving out certain names, of how he and Holmes had to step outside the law to protect a certain royal personage from a blackmailer in "The Case of Charles Augustus Milverton." Or, for a very unusual treat, perhaps Holmes himself, in quiet retirement in Sussex, will tell a tale in his own words as in "The Lion's Mane."
In the more than a century since the publication of the first tale featuring Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and stories have inspired countless films, plays, pastiches, literary tributes, and tens of thousands of imitations. Now, Oxford is proud to announce The Oxford Sherlock Holmes, the complete works gathered together in nine handsomely bound, meticulously edited volumes. The books themselves are beautiful, and the entire set comes in an attractive display box, perfect for gift-giving.
Beautifully designed, boasting an introduction by a Doyle authority, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and notes, all carefully researched and assembled, this magnificent set will enhance the reading pleasure of readers new to Doyle's work and veterans of Holmsian arcana. A goldmine of reading pleasure, The Oxford Sherlock Holmes is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in crime fiction. [via]More editions of The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th:
Person & Work of Christby Benjamin B. WarfieldISBN 0875525296 (0-87552-529-6)
Hardcover, Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co
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Plato Complete Worksby Plato, D.S. Hutchinson, John M. CooperISBN 0872203492 (0-87220-349-2)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Poemsby W. B. Yeats, Richard J. FinneranISBN 0684839350 (0-684-83935-0)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind.
Though this edition has been reset and revised, the changes are not as shocking as the 1984 edition, which included 100 extra pages of notes, changes in language and punctuation, and, most significantly, a redefinition of the Last Poems. Richard Finneran has had the courage to reorder the poems according to notes that Yeats made shortly before his death. Readers may be surprised to find that "Under Ben Bulben," the poet's powerful and self-mythologizing epitaph, no longer ends the collection, as it has for more than 30 years. In its place they will discover the wistful "Politics": "How can I, that girl standing there, / My attention fix / On Roman or on Russian / Or on Spanish politics..." Yet devotees of either ending will agree that this is a truly necessary volume--indeed, one of the few. As Seamus Heaney writes, "All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster." [via]
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The Poetical Works of Byron.by George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 0395204313 (0-395-20431-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Salmon of Doubtby Douglas AdamsISBN 1400045088 (1-4000-4508-8)
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In a way that none of his previous books could, The Salmon of Doubt provides the full, dazzling, laugh-out-loud experience of a journey through the galaxy as perceived by Douglas Adams. From a boys first love letter (to his favorite science fiction magazine) to the distinction of possessing a nose of heroic proportions; from climbing Kilimanjaro in a rhino costume to explaining why Americans cant make a decent cup of tea; from lyrical tributes to the sublime pleasures found in music by Procol Harum, the Beatles, and Bach to the follies of his hopeless infatuation with technology; from fantastic, fictional forays into the private life of Genghis Khan to extended visits with Dirk Gently and Zaphod Beeblebrox: this is the vista from the elevated perch of one of the tallest, funniest, most brilliant, and most penetrating social critics and thinkers of our time.
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Selected Non-Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger, Esther Allen, Suzane Jill Levine, Andrew HurleyISBN 0670849472 (0-670-84947-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Non-Fictions'Book summary:Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin. Yet his splendid economy, along the wafer-thin proportions of such classic volumes as Ficciones and Labyrinths, has given readers the impression that Borges was miserly with his prose. In fact, he was something of a verbal spendthrift. His collected stories alone run to nearly 1,000 pages. And his nonfiction output was even more staggering: the young Borges cranked out hundreds of essays, book notes, cultural polemics, and movie reviews, and even after he lost his sight in 1955, he continued to dictate short pieces by the dozens. Eliot Weinberger has assembled just a fraction of this outpouring in Selected Non-Fictions, and the result is a 559-page Borgesian blowout, in which the Argentinean fabulist takes on being and nothingness, James Joyce and Lana Turner, and (surprisingly) racial hatred and the rise of Nazism. So much for our image of the mandarin bookworm! The very engagé author of this book seems more like a subequatorial Camus, with a dash of Siskel and Ebert on the side.
Selected Non-Fictions demonstrates just how quickly Borges began wrestling with such brainteasers as identity, time, and infinity. Indeed, the very first piece in the collection, "The Nothingness of Personality" (1922), already finds him fiddling with the self: "I, as I write this, am only a certainty that seeks out the words that are most apt to compel your attention. That proposition and a few muscular sensations, and the sight of the limpid branches that the trees place outside my window, constitute my current I." There are many such meditations here, including "A History of Eternity" (in which Borges maps out his own, disarmingly empty version of the eternal, "without a God or even a co-proprietor, and entirely devoid of archetypes"). But it's more fun--and more revelatory--to see the author venturing beyond his metaphysical stomping grounds. Borges on King Kong is a hoot, and a cornball masterpiece such as The Petrified Forest elicits this terrific nugget: "Death works in this film like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day." His capsule biographies are a delight, his critiques of Nazi propaganda are memorably stringent, and nobody should miss him on the tango. True, the sheer variety and mind-boggling erudition of Selected Non-Fictions can be a little forbidding. But, taken as a whole, the collection surely meets the specifications that Borges laid out in a 1927 essay on literary pleasure: "If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning as in the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world." Oh, but it does. --James Marcus [via]
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0553212419 (0-553-21241-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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The Complete Novels and Stories
Volume I
Since his first appearance in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyles classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmess adventures in crime!
Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmess famous seven percent solution and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.
Also included are Holmess feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling The Adventure of the Speckled Band, the baffling riddle of The Musgrave Ritual, and the ingeniously plotted The Five Orange Pips, tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time. [via]More editions of Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen:
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories With Illustrations from the Strand Magazineby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1853268968 (1-85326-896-8)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Sylvia Plath: Collected Poemsby Aylvia PlathISBN 0809590573 (0-8095-9057-3)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Throyby Jack VanceISBN 0971237514 (0-9712375-1-4)
Hardcover, Vance Integral Edition
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Works of Benjamin Warfieldby WarfieldISBN 0801096456 (0-8010-9645-6)
Hardcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 1588275752 (1-58827-575-2)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Works of Edgar Allan Poeby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517486555 (0-517-48655-5)
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The Works of Platoby Plato, Irwin EdmanISBN 0394604202 (0-394-60420-2)
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Obras Completasby Plato, Maria AraujoISBN 8403010028 (84-03-01002-8)
Hardcover, Aguilar
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