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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0486280616 (0-486-28061-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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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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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486417808 (0-486-41780-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486439534 (0-486-43953-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486443221 (0-486-44322-1)
Hardcover, Dover Pubns - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0517081288 (0-517-08128-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0517385864 (0-517-38586-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486280616 (0-486-28061-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486417808 (0-486-41780-8)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517415100 (0-517-41510-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Annalsby Cornelius Tacitus, Alfred J. Church, William Jackson BrodribbISBN 0486452360 (0-486-45236-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annals'Book summary:"The first writer in the world, without a single exception," declared Thomas Jefferson of Tacitus. The ancient historian wrote this vital chronicle of Imperial Rome as he witnessed the great civilization's decline. It spans A.D. 14-68, painting incisive psychological portraits of the era's major figures, from Tiberius to Nero.[via]More editions of The Annals:
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The Annotated Draculaby Bram Stoker, Leonard WolfISBN 0517520176 (0-517-52017-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Dracula'Book summary:The jacket is a little messed up but the book is great. Pages are all clean, no rips or writing. This is a must have book for Dracula fans, lots of great pictures and it even includes maps and calendars. Copyright 1975 by Leonard Wolf. Ships from GA [via]
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The Annotated Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard WolfISBN 0517530716 (0-517-53071-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated 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]
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The Annotated Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0517530317 (0-517-53031-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated 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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The Annotated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0517436035 (0-517-43603-5)
Hardcover, Greenwich House
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The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances; Completeby William Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse, Hans PrintzISBN 0517665557 (0-517-66555-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Storiesby Herman Melville, A. Robert LeeISBN 0460872052 (0-460-87205-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'Book summary:If Melville had never written "Moby Dick," his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor, " his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener, " his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic--and ultimately disastrous--extreme; and in "Benito Cereno, " his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados, " the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza, " and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower." [via]
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Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonISBN 0452273056 (0-452-27305-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluest Eye'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her debut is nothing if not sophisticated, in terms of both narrative ingenuity and rhetorical sweep. It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.
Set in Lorain, Ohio, in 1941, The Bluest Eye is something of an ensemble piece. The point of view is passed like a baton from one character to the next, with Morrison's own voice functioning as a kind of gold standard throughout. The focus, though, is on an 11-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove, whose entire family has been given a cosmetic cross to bear:
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.... And they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle over them, and went about the world with it.
There are far uglier things in the world than, well, ugliness, and poor Pecola is subjected to most of them. She's spat upon, ridiculed, and ultimately raped and impregnated by her own father. No wonder she yearns to be the very opposite of what she is--yearns, in other words, to be a white child, possessed of the blondest hair and the bluest eye.This vein of self-hatred is exactly what keeps Morrison's novel from devolving into a cut-and-dried scenario of victimization. She may in fact pin too much of the blame on the beauty myth: "Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion." Yet the destructive power of these ideas is essentially colorblind, which gives The Bluest Eye the sort of universal reach that Morrison's imitators can only dream of. And that, combined with the novel's modulated pathos and musical, fine-grained language, makes for not merely a sophisticated debut but a permanent one. --James Marcus [via]
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Civilization and Its Discontentsby Sigmund FreudISBN 0486282538 (0-486-28253-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization and Its Discontents'Book summary:In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition, focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers; 'civilised' sexual morality. After all, doesn't repression of sexuality deeply affect people and compromise their chances of happiness? [via]
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The Complete Illustrated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Howard StauntonISBN 0517278901 (0-517-27890-1)
Hardcover, Park Lane
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Illustrated Shakespeare'Book summary:This is a wonderful collection of Shakespeare. [via]
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Complete Plays of William Shakespeare : Cha Rivby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051743623X (0-517-43623-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0517053616 (0-517-05361-6)
Hardcover, Outlet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of William Shakespeare'Book summary:FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARES FIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES.
Skillfully assembled by Shakespeares fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day, Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, gradually corrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflated textual variations.
Now Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of todays most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, have edited the First Folio as a complete book, resulting in a definitive Complete Works for the twenty-first century.
Combining innovative scholarship with brilliant commentary and textual analysis that emphasizes performance history and values, this landmark edition will be indispensable to students, theater professionals, and general readers alike.
For more information on this Modern Library edition, visit www.therscshakespeare.com [via]More editions of Complete Works of William Shakespeare:
Complete Works of William Shakespeareby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517263297 (0-517-26329-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne JewettISBN 0486281965 (0-486-28196-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Country of the Pointed Firs'Book summary:A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners, and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England character.[via]More editions of Country of the Pointed Firs:
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Dante's Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Tom PhillipsISBN 0500013624 (0-500-01362-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno'Book summary:The complete, translated text of Dante's great masterpiece is accompanied by prints, which provide a visual commentary to the poet's journey through hell [via]
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Thea KlirosISBN 0486295672 (0-486-29567-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula. A horror romance as deathless as any vampire, the blood-curdling tale still continues to hold readers spellbound a century later. -
The Essential Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf, Christopher BingISBN 0452269687 (0-452-26968-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Frankenstein'Book summary:Horror expert Wolf's sublime edition of this literary masterpiece features in-depth and extensive notes on all the novel's most interesting aspects, plus biographical information revealing how Mary Shelley's turbulent personal life influenced her work. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings. [via]
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The Essential Frankensteinby Robert JamesonISBN 0517069741 (0-517-06974-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Philip GoodenISBN 0460875280 (0-460-87528-0)
Softcover, Everyman
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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]
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0486282112 (0-486-28211-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Frankenstein: ISBN 0486415627 (0-486-41562-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Frankenstein: ISBN 0460871498 (0-460-87149-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 0517118807 (0-517-11880-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Frankenstein: ISBN 0517668424 (0-517-66842-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Frankenstein: ISBN 0460875280 (0-460-87528-0)
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0486282112 (0-486-28211-2)
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The Globe Illustrated Shakespeareby Howard StauntonISBN 0517623803 (0-517-62380-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare'Book summary:The complete theatrical works of the immortal bard, uniquely supplemented with annotation and critical analysis by a host of eminent scholars and critics -- from Samuel Coleridge to Samuel Johnson. Plus a biography of Shakespeare himself. For the collection of the Shakespeare enthusiast, and the edification of the Shakespeare novice. [via]
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The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotatedby William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton, John Gilbert, Ray Abel, Brothers DalzielISBN 0517205963 (0-517-20596-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare : The Complete Works Annotated'Book summary:English literature. [via]
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0486272788 (0-486-27278-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- Hamlet: ISBN 0486424707 (0-486-42470-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Hamlet: ISBN 0460871765 (0-460-87176-5)
Softcover, Everymans Library - Hamlet: ISBN 0486410951 (0-486-41095-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Hamlet: ISBN 051706488X (0-517-06488-X)
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Henry IVby William ShakespeareISBN 0486295842 (0-486-29584-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.
The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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History of the Peloponnesian Warby Thucydides, Richard CrawleyISBN 0486437620 (0-486-43762-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Peloponnesian War'Book summary:One of the world's great history books and the first true historical narrative of Western literature, Thucydides' chronicle of the disastrous 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta resonates with tales of heroism and villainy, deeds of courage and desperation, and the eternal folly of human conflict. Scrupulously impartial and accurate. 5 maps. [via]
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History of the Peloponnesian Warby W. Robert Connor, CrawleyISBN 0460871536 (0-460-87153-6)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Peloponnesian War'Book summary:The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) was the greatest "disturbance" in Greek history to that time. The bitter rivalry between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies ended with the ruin of Athens' naval hegemony and what the Greek historian Thucydides (ca. 460-400 B.C.E.) called a "convulsion" affecting all humankind. With the detachment of a clinician and the dramatic skill of a poet, Thucydides recreates the often savage events of the war and brings to life its chief protagonists: Pericles, Nicias, Cleon, Alcibiades, and others. The first of the "scientific" historians, Thucydides makes use of documentary material and relies on eyewitness accounts; even where direct documentary evidence is lacking, his keen understanding of human nature helps him to uncover the truth of what actually happened. The loftiness of its ideals, its painstaking research, and its beauty of expression have made the History of the Peloponnesian War a work that is in the author's own words, "a possession for all time." [via]
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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundlingby Henry FieldingISBN 0460878336 (0-460-87833-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling'Book summary:Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]
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Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Eraby Elaine Tyler MayISBN 0465030556 (0-465-03055-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era'Book summary:In the 1950s, the term containment referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the sphere of influence was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the fulfilling life to which postwar women and men aspired. Homeward Bound tells the story of domestic containment - how it emerged, how it affected the lives of those who tried to conform to it, and how it unraveled in the wake of the Vietnam eras assault on Cold War culture, when unwed mothers, feminists, and secular humanists became the new enemy. This revised and updated edition includes the latest information on race, the culture wars, and current cultural and political controversies of the post-Cold War era.[via]More editions of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era:
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huckleberry Finn / 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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The Iliadby HomerISBN 0451627237 (0-451-62723-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:Focusing on the closing days of the Trojan War, this novel incorporates the same epic cast of gods and warriors from The Odyssey. From the kidnapping of Helen from her Greek home to the death of Achilles's companion, the battle rages between two warring nations and the gods which protect both sides. Thrilling in content, but literate and subtle in its meaning, The Iliad remains a classic among classics. [via]
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The Illiad: Homerby HomerISBN 0486408833 (0-486-40883-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Illustrated Shakespeare: Twelfth Nightby William Shakespeare, W. Heath RobinsonISBN 0517101211 (0-517-10121-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 0486442888 (0-486-44288-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:Ciardi's translation of the magnificent story of a man's way through the infinite torment of hell in his search for paradise. [via]
The Infernoby Alighieri DanteISBN 0451627091 (0-451-62709-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0486415856 (0-486-41585-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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McTeagueby Frank NorrisISBN 0486434087 (0-486-43408-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'McTeague'Book summary:The novelist Frank Norris is almost forgotten today, but in books like "McTeague," published in 1899, he paved the way for a whole generation of American writers--a generation that included Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis and, less directly, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. McTeague is a dentist saddled with a grasping wife, and the book chronicles his rise and fall in awkward but powerful prose. This type of social realism, so contrary to the uplifting entertainment of the day (and to Mark Twain's more fanciful, comic novels), provided turn-of-the-century America a disturbing mirror in which to view itself. [via]
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The Metamorphosis and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum, Franz KaftaISBN 0486290301 (0-486-29030-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis and Other Stories'Book summary:Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety, and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story - considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work - plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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Much Ado About Nothingby William ShakespeareISBN 0486282724 (0-486-28272-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:Like Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado about Nothing shows Shakespeare moving into a more complex and darker terrain through his exploration of an apparently harmless comical romance. The play revolves around the adventures of the two gallants Claudio and Benedick at the court of Sicily. Claudio falls in love with the governor's daughter Hero, and is eager for his more misanthropic friend Benedick to also find love. Benedick is introduced to the fiery, independent Beatrice, and sparks soon fly as they banter with each other in a more wittier version of Kate and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew. Beatrice has some wonderful ripostes to marriage asking why should a woman marry "a clod of wayward marl", whilst Benedick grumbles that "She speaks poniards and every word stabs". Meanwhile, the jealous Don John convinces Claudio that Hero has in fact been unfaithful to him. When Claudio rejects Hero on their wedding day, she faints and is taken for dead. In the hectic final scenes the play moves towards reconciliation between Claudio and Hero, and the tentative admission of the love between Benedick and Beatrice. Famously filmed by Kenneth Branagh in the Tuscan countryside with a cast that included Keanu Reeves, Much Ado about Nothing remains one of Shakespeare's most successful comedies. --Jerry Brotton. [via]
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0460018930 (0-460-01893-0)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Odysseyby Homer, George Herbert PalmerISBN 0486406547 (0-486-40654-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:Odysseus, the most heroic of the ancient Greek warriors, journeys home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. [via]
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- The Odyssey: ISBN 0451628055 (0-451-62805-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Odyssey: ISBN 0460871552 (0-460-87155-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Odyssey: ISBN 0472112317 (0-472-11231-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr - The Odyssey: ISBN 0517390531 (0-517-39053-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - The Odyssey: ISBN 0486406547 (0-486-40654-7)
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0486290972 (0-486-29097-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages. [via]
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Talcott Parsons, Max WeberISBN 048642703X (0-486-42703-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism'Book summary:This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds an effort that ultimately encouraged capitalism.[via]More editions of Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism:
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0460011227 (0-460-01122-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:For nearly a century and a half, Hawthorne's masterpiece has mesmerized readers and critics alike. One of the greatest American novels, its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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- The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0486280489 (0-486-28048-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0460871838 (0-460-87183-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0460877852 (0-460-87785-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0517436272 (0-517-43627-2)
Hardcover, Chatham River Press - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0517643022 (0-517-64302-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0460011227 (0-460-01122-7)
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Shakespeareby A. L. RowseISBN 0517535092 (0-517-53509-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare'Book summary:The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete (Three Volume Set in Slipcase) [Dec 12, 1978] A.L. Rowse [via]
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0486434680 (0-486-43468-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0486415899 (0-486-41589-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. [via]
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Womanby Thomas HardyISBN 0451530276 (0-451-53027-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman'Book summary:Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin-a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. [via]
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareISBN 0486268764 (0-486-26876-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Twelfth Nightby Alec McCowenISBN 0460875183 (0-460-87518-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Twelfth Nightby William ShakespeareISBN 0486292908 (0-486-29290-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's finest comedies, Twelfth Night was written at the same time as Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida, and whilst it shares their fascination with sex, death and confused identities, its exuberant comedy and linguistic inventiveness rises above the introspection of these plays. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are separated in a storm, which washes them both up at different points on the shores of Illyria. Believing each other to be dead, both attempt to survive by using their wits. Viola cross-dresses and enters the service of the lovesick Orsino, in love with Olivia, an heiress in mourning for the loss of her brother. Orsino's saucy young page Cesario (Viola) soon falls in love with "his" master, who tells "him", "all is semblative a woman's part". Unfortunately, whilst Viola falls in love with Orsino, Olivia falls in love with her alter ego, Cesario, whilst also being pursued at the same time by her pompous servant Malvolio. Olivia's house is also turned upside down by the antics of her drunken uncle, Sir Toby Belch, and the whole crazy situation reaches boiling point when Sebastian reappears.
Despite the madcap plot, Twelfth Night remains one of Shakespeare's most complex and inventive comedies, fascinated with questions of cross-dressing, gender confusion, language and inversion, as well as retaining a darker edge to some of its laughter. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 0517092948 (0-517-09294-8)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:Definitive, comprehensive, and handsome edition presents every one of Shakespeare's great plays-the Comedies, Tragedies and Histories-plus his poems and, of course, the Sonnets. All in one beautifully illustrated volume. B&W illustrations throughout. 1248 pages. [via]
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William Shakespeare, the Complete Works: Illustratedby William ShakespeareISBN 0517163020 (0-517-16302-0)
Hardcover, Gramercy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare, the Complete Works: Illustrated'Book summary:A landmark in Shakespeare studies, this version of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare is the first critical edition of the complete works in the original spelling and punctuation. It is based on the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of the earliest manuscripts, representing eight years of work by a team of British and American scholars. The works are arranged in conjectural order of composition based on the new research, and where the opportunity for choice existed, the spelling and punctuation of the text closest to Shakespeare's own manuscript has been chosen. With this Original Spelling Edition scholars and general readers have for the first time--
· The uncensored text of Henry IV and the original titles of three other plays
· Edited texts of King Lear both as Shakespeare originally wrote it and as it was revised for performance years later
Additional features include--
· Major textual alternatives--first versions and deleted lines--are printed as additional passages
· Stage directions have been reconsidered in light of the play's original staging and many directions have been added
· Conjectural stage directions and speech prefixes are identified in brackets
· A general introduction, brief introductions to each work, and an essay on the language of Shakespeare's time are provided [via]More editions of William Shakespeare, the Complete Works: Illustrated:
The Winter's Taleby William ShakespeareISBN 0486411184 (0-486-41118-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Winter's Tale : Texts and Contextsby William Shakespeare, John AndrewsISBN 0460875191 (0-460-87519-1)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter's Tale : Texts and Contexts'Book summary:Completely re-edited, the New Folger Library editions of Shakespeare's plays put readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. Each freshly edited text is based directly on what the editors consider the best early printed version of the play. Each volume contains full explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as a helpful introduction to Shakespeare's language. The accounts of William Shakespeare's life, his theater, and the publication of his plays present the latest scholarship, and the annotated reading lists suggest sources of further information. The illustrations of objects, clothing, and mythological figures mentioned in the plays are drawn from the Library's vast holdings of rare books. At the conclusion of each play there is a full essay by an outstanding scholar who assesses the play in light of today's interests and concerns. [via]
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