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1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbusby Charles C. MannISBN 1400032059 (1-4000-3205-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus'Book summary:A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them:
? In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe.
? Certain cities-such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital-were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore, Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets.
? The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids.
? Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as "man's first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering."
? Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it-a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge.
? Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings. [via]More editions of 1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus:
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbusby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 1567311431 (1-56731-143-1)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus'Book summary:Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world. 50 drawings, maps & charts; 4 fold-outs. [via]
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- Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus: ISBN 1597402664 (1-59740-266-4)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project - Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus: ISBN 0316584789 (0-316-58478-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co - Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus: ISBN 0930350375 (0-930350-37-5)
Softcover, Northeastern University Press - Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus: ISBN 1567311431 (1-56731-143-1)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus: ISBN 1597402664 (1-59740-266-4)
Age of Explorationby John Rigby HaleISBN 0809403242 (0-8094-0324-2)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Around the World in a Hundred Yearsby Jean Fritz, Anthony Bacon VentiISBN 0698116380 (0-698-11638-0)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in a Hundred Years'Book summary:Jean Fritz brings history to life once again in 10 true tales of 15th-century European explorers?from Bartholomew Diaz and Christopher Columbus to Juan Ponce de Leon and Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa?who changed the map and left behind stories of adventure too good to miss. ?Fritz approaches Athe salient facts? with playful irreverence; accordingly, the frequently traveled material can seem refreshingly new.? ? Publishers Weekly, starred review ?AFritz? turns in a fast-paced narrative enriched and enlivened by fascinating stories and details of the sort that rarely appear in standard textbooks.? ? Kirkus Reviews, pointer review ?No one is better than Jean Fritz at making history interesting as well as comprehensible.? ? The Horn Book Jean Fritz lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Anthony Bacon Venti lives in Rockland, Maine.[via]More editions of Around the World in a Hundred Years:
Benjamin Franklinby Ingri D'AulaireISBN 060603515X (0-606-03515-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Christopher Columbusby Connie Roop, Peter RoopISBN 0439158079 (0-439-15807-9)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christopher Columbus'Book summary:Recounts the life story of the noted explorer, including excerpts from his own writings. [via]
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Christopher Columbusby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0452009928 (0-452-00992-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christopher Columbus'Book summary:Christopher Columbus's first journey across thousands of miles of unknown ocean, amid a mutinous crew, was not only one of the most significant achievements of recorded human history but also a demonstration of his supremacy as mariner and navigator. This is the story of Columbus the seaman, told by a skilled navigator who has actually followed Columbus's original courses under sail. [via]
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Christopher Columbusby Stephen Krensky, Norman GreenISBN 0679803696 (0-679-80369-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Christopher Columbus And the Conquest of Paradiseby Kirkpatrick SaleISBN 1845111540 (1-84511-154-0)
Softcover, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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Christopher Columbus Marinerby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0451138791 (0-451-13879-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Columbusby Ingri D'Aulaire, Parin EdgarISBN 0385241062 (0-385-24106-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Columbus & Cortez: Conquerors for Christby John EidsmoeISBN 0892212233 (0-89221-223-3)
Softcover, New Leaf Pr
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Columbus and the Age of Discoveryby Zvi Dor-Ner, William SchellerISBN 0688085458 (0-688-08545-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Columbus: For Gold, God and Gloryby John Dyson, Peter ChristopherISBN 0671687913 (0-671-68791-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Columbus: For Gold, God and Glory'Book summary:Who was this man who discovered America? Did he really believe he was sailing to the Orient? From nautical writer John Dyson and photographer Peter Christopher, creators of the bestselling Discovery of the Titanic, comes the most dramatically illustrated, thoroughly researched, and aggressively promoted book to tie in with the 500th anniversary of the Columbus discovery voyage. 150 color photographs, charts, maps, archival paintings, and drawings throughout. TV special to air October 13 on NBC. [via]
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Columbus Was Lastby Patrick HuygheISBN 1933665017 (1-933665-01-7)
Softcover, Anomalist Books
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Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacyby Kirkpatrick SaleISBN 0452266696 (0-452-26669-6)
Softcover, Plume
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Follow the Dreamby Peter SisISBN 0679806288 (0-679-80628-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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- Follow the Dream : The Story of Christopher Columbus: ISBN 0679880887 (0-679-88088-7)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books - Follow the Dream/the Story of Christopher Columbus: ISBN 0679906282 (0-679-90628-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - Follow the Dream: ISBN 0679806288 (0-679-80628-8)
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- Follow the Dream : The Story of Christopher Columbus: ISBN 0679880887 (0-679-88088-7)
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches With Connecting Narrative Drawn from the Life of the Admiral by His Son Hernando Colon and Otherby Christopher Columbus, J.M. CohenISBN 0140442170 (0-14-044217-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Freedom Beyond the Seaby Elizabeth D. Crawford, Waldtraut LewinISBN 0440228689 (0-440-22868-9)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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Freedom Beyond the Seaby Waldtraut Lewin, Elizabeth D. CrawfordISBN 0385327056 (0-385-32705-6)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (P)by Howard Zinn, Donaldo MacedoISBN 1594510555 (1-59451-055-5)
Softcover, Paradigm Publishers
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In 1492by Jean MarzolloISBN 0590727370 (0-590-72737-0)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Journal: Account of the First Voyage and Discovery of the Indiesby Christopher Columbus, Paolo Emilio Taviani, Italy, Consuelo Varela, Comitato nazionale per le celebrazioni del V centenario della scoperta dell'America (Italy)ISBN 8824002668 (88-240-0266-8)
Hardcover, Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato
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The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discoveryby Martin DugardISBN 0316154563 (0-316-15456-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Morning Girlby Michael DorrisISBN 1562822853 (1-56282-285-3)
Hardcover, Disney Pr
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- Morning Girl: ISBN 1562826611 (1-56282-661-1)
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Hardcover, Disney Pr - Morning Girl: ISBN 078681358X (0-7868-1358-X)
Softcover, Disney Pr - Morning Girl: ISBN 0786813725 (0-7868-1372-5)
Softcover, Hyperion Press - Morning Girl: ISBN 1562822853 (1-56282-285-3)
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- Morning Girl: ISBN 1562826611 (1-56282-661-1)
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 1426455062 (1-4264-5506-2)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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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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- Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1551114798 (1-55111-479-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1593082649 (1-59308-264-9)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1596880473 (1-59688-047-3)
Softcover, Large Print Book Co - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1853260436 (1-85326-043-6)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1854598376 (1-85459-837-6)
Softcover, Nick Hern Books - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1421800608 (1-4218-0060-8)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 3829030010 (3-8290-3001-0)
Hardcover, Konemann - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1426455062 (1-4264-5506-2)
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- Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1551114798 (1-55111-479-8)
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Northanger Abbeyby Claire GroganISBN 1551110784 (1-55111-078-4)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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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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Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Jose Luis CaramesISBN 8437606780 (84-376-0678-0)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.[via]Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.More editions of Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudice:
- Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 8497646932 (84-9764-693-2)
Softcover, Edimat Libros - Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 8466304045 (84-663-0404-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc - Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 8484038939 (84-8403-893-9)
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- Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 8497646932 (84-9764-693-2)
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Pastwatchby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812508645 (0-8125-0864-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pastwatch'Book summary:Anyone who's read Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong knows about the devastating consequences that Columbus's voyage and ensuing colonization had on the native people of the Americas and Africa. In a thought-provoking work that is part science fiction, part historical drama, Orson Scott Card writes about scientists in a fearful future who study that tragic past, then attempt to actually intervene and change it into something better.
Tagiri and Hassan are members of Pastwatch, an academic organization that uses machines to see into the past and record it. Their project focuses on slavery and its dreadful effects, and gradually evolves into a study of Christopher Columbus. They eventually marry and their daughter Diko joins them in their quest to discover what drove Columbus west.
Columbus, with whom readers become acquainted through both images in the Pastwatch machines and personal narrative, is portrayed as a religious man with both strengths and weaknesses, a charismatic leader who sometimes rose above but often fell beneath the mores of his times. As usual, Orson Scott Card uses his formidable writing skills to create likable, complex characters who face gripping problems; he also provides an entertaining and thoughtful history lesson in Pastwatch. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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Pedro's Journalby Pam Conrad, Peter KoeppenISBN 1878093177 (1-878093-17-7)
Hardcover, Boyds Mills Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pedro's Journal'Book summary:Pedro can read and write better than any boy in the small Spanish town of Palos. That's why Christopher Columbus signs him on as part of his crew of the Santa Maria. The young Pedro records his adventures in a journal, where he also keeps sketches of what he sees during the treacherous journey across the Atlantic. Award-winning author Pam Conrad and illustrator Peter Koeppen create a thrilling and believable re-creation of one boy's account of this epic voyage.[via] -
Persuasionby Jane Austen, Linda BreeISBN 1551111314 (1-55111-131-4)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey. [via]
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- Persuasion: ISBN 1593080484 (1-59308-048-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Persuasion: ISBN 1593081308 (1-59308-130-8)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble - Persuasion: ISBN 1853260568 (1-85326-056-8)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Persuasion: ISBN 157646265X (1-57646-265-X)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub - Persuasion: ISBN 1593083580 (1-59308-358-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Persuasion: ISBN 8497595033 (84-9759-503-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori - Persuasion: ISBN 840147955X (84-01-47955-X)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori - Persuasion: ISBN 3829009011 (3-8290-0901-1)
Hardcover, Konemann - Persuasion: ISBN 1551111314 (1-55111-131-4)
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- Persuasion: ISBN 1593080484 (1-59308-048-4)
A Picture Book of Christopher Columbusby David A. Adler, John C. Wallner, Alexandra WallnerISBN 082340949X (0-8234-0949-X)
Softcover, Holiday House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus'Book summary:A brief account of the life and accomplishments of Christopher Columbus. [via]
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Carol HowardISBN 1593080204 (1-59308-020-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1593082010 (1-59308-201-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1853260002 (1-85326-000-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1421808404 (1-4218-0840-4)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Pride And Prejudice: ISBN 1593083246 (1-59308-324-6)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Pride And Prejudice: ISBN 1933652446 (1-933652-44-6)
Hardcover, Bed Book - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1576462676 (1-57646-267-6)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1561381713 (1-56138-171-3)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1566190932 (1-56619-093-2)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1582790329 (1-58279-032-9)
Hardcover, Trident Pr Intl - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1582790442 (1-58279-044-2)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1596792493 (1-59679-249-3)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1857150015 (1-85715-001-5)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library] - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 3895082074 (3-89508-207-4)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1593080204 (1-59308-020-4)
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- Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 1593082010 (1-59308-201-0)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Robert Irvine, Robert P. IrvineISBN 1551110288 (1-55111-028-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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