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Angels
by Marian Keyes

ISBN 1842230743 (1-84223-074-3)
Hardcover, Poolbeg Press

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As You Like It
by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman

ISBN 1557834423 (1-55783-442-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, melancholy philosophising and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre. [via]
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- As You Like It: ISBN 1853260592 (1-85326-059-2)
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Auntie Mame
by Patrick Dennis

ISBN 0848804759 (0-8488-0475-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 1417917717 (1-4179-1771-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]
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Belinda
by Maria Edgeworth

ISBN 1419109561 (1-4191-0956-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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- Belinda: ISBN 0863580742 (0-86358-074-2)
  Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Brandons
by Angela Thirkell

ISBN 088184361X (0-88184-361-X)
Softcover, Pub Group West

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A Civil Contract
by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 1560541997 (1-56054-199-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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The Code of the Woosters
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1400079594 (1-4000-7959-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouse's death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels--the first in a series of his best known works--by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time.

Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P. G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.

In The Code of the Woosters, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves, the "gentleman's gentleman" extraordinaire, to rescue his hapless and hopelessly obtuse young employer, Bertie Wooster, from the pickle of a plot to steal a silver jug from the home of an irascible magistrate.

With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to any Wodehouse fan's library. [via]
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  Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Corinthian
by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 1567230474 (1-56723-047-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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Cotillion
by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 1560541989 (1-56054-198-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Cotillion
by Helen Bannerman

ISBN 0899661270 (0-89966-127-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated

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Cousin Betty
by Honore De Balzac, James Waring

ISBN 1406506273 (1-4065-0627-3)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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From Poor Relations. Scenes From Parisian Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories. [via]
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Decline And Fall
by Evelyn Waugh

ISBN 1417920769 (1-4179-2076-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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1928. English writer, regarded by many as the leading satirical novelist of his day. Among Waugh's most popular books is Brideshead Revisited. Waugh established his literary reputation with this novel, Decline and Fall, an episodic story of the hilarious misadventures of Paul Pennyfeather, whose feckless odyssey begins when he loses his trousers. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Devil's Cub
by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 1567230490 (1-56723-049-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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A Favourite of the Gods
by Sybille Bedford

ISBN 1582431582 (1-58243-158-2)
Softcover, Counterpoint

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The Finishing School
by Muriel Spark

ISBN 1400077397 (1-4000-7739-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books

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Friday's Child
by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 156054953X (1-56054-953-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr

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"A lightsome, brightsome comedy." Kirkus Reviews

"Nimble, light-hearted chronicle of high London society in the time of the Regency." The New Yorker

Georgette Heyer's sparkling romances have charmed and delighted millions of readers. Her characters brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting and fascinating eras of English historywhen drawing rooms sparkled with well-dressed nobility and romantic intrigues ruled the day. Heyer's heroines are smart and independent; her heroes are dashing noblemen who know how to handle a horse, fight a duel, or address a lady. And her sense of humor is legendary.

When the incomparable Miss Milbourne spurns the impetuous Lord Sherington's marriage proposal (she laughs at himlaughs!) he vows to marry the next female he encounters, who happens to be the young, penniless Miss Hero Wantage, who has adored him all her life. Whisking her off to London, Sherry discovers there is no end to the scrapes his young, green bride can get into, and she discovers the excitement and glamorous social scene of the ton. Not until a deep misunderstanding erupts and Sherry almost loses his bride, does he plumb the depths of his own heart, and surprises himself with the love he finds there.

"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen." Publishers Weekly

Georgette Heyer (19021974) wrote over fifty novels, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. [via]
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- Friday's Child: ISBN 1560541970 (1-56054-197-0)
  Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Grand Sophy
by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 1560542020 (1-56054-202-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 1406502448 (1-4065-0244-8)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Morning-room in Algernon's flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room. [LANE is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, ALGERNON enters.] ALGERNON. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? LANE. I didn't think it polite to listen, sir. ALGERNON. I'm sorry for that, for your sake. I don't play accurately - any one can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. [via]
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Importance Of Being Earnest And Four Other Plays
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 159308059X (1-59308-059-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
by Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad

ISBN 1416500421 (1-4165-0042-1)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship Wilde's classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest , and his other popular plays -- Lady Windermere's Fan , An Ideal Husband , and Salome -- challenged comtemporary notions of sex and sensibility, class and cultural identity. This Enriched Classic Edition includes: ? A concise introduction that gives readers important background information ? A chronology of the author's life and work ? A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context ? An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations ? Detailed explanatory notes ? Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work ? Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction ? A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson [via]
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 1416500243 (1-4165-0024-3)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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"Jane Eyre" is the story of its title character, a poor orphaned girl who comes to live with her aunt where she endures poor treatment from her aunt and cousins. Jane subsequently ships off to Lowood, a Christian boarding school where she endures more horrible conditions. After some time, life becomes more bearable at Lowood for Jane and she eventually finishes her coursework and spends a period of time as a teacher at the school. After leaving Lowood she comes into the employment of Mr. Rochester as a governess at Thornfield Hall. "Jane Eyre" is the story of one woman's struggle to overcome adversity and a classic love story. [via]
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke

ISBN 1582346038 (1-58234-603-8)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA

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It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the course of the Napoleonic wars? Susanna Clarke's ingenious first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, has the cleverness and lightness of touch of the Harry Potter series, but is less a fairy tale of good versus evil than a fantastic comedy of manners, complete with elaborate false footnotes, occasional period spellings, and a dense, lively mythology teeming beneath the narrative. Mr. Norrell moves to London to establish his influence in government circles, devising such powerful illusions as an 11-day blockade of French ports by English ships fabricated from rainwater. But however skillful his magic, his vanity provides an Achilles heel, and the differing ambitions of his more glamorous apprentice, Jonathan Strange, threaten to topple all that Mr. Norrell has achieved. A sparkling debut from Susanna Clarke--and it's not all fairy dust. --Regina Marler [via]
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Mapp and Lucia
by Edward Frederick Benson

ISBN 1559212322 (1-55921-232-2)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd

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The Mating Season
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585672319 (1-58567-231-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession.

The Mating Season is a time of love, mistaken identity, and mishap for Bertie, Gussie Fink-Nottle and other guests staying at Deverill Hall-luckily there's unflappable Jeeves to set things right.
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Much Obliged, Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585675261 (1-58567-526-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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While staying with his Aunt Dahlia to help out in the election at Market Snodsbury, Bertie Wooster comes up against the familiar horrors of Florence Craye, his former fiancee, and Roderick Spode, head of the Black Shorts, in a plot tangle from which, as usual, only the ingenuity of Jeeves can save him. [via]
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Nanny Diaries
by Emma McLaughlin

ISBN 1417684178 (1-4176-8417-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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The Nanny Diaries is an absolutely addictive peek into the utterly weird world of child rearing in the upper reaches of Manhattan's social strata. Cowritten by two former nannies, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, the novel follows the adventures of the aptly named Nan as she negotiates the Byzantine byways of working for Mrs. X, a Park Avenue mommy. Nan's 4-year-old charge, the hilariously named Grayer (his pals include Josephina, Christabelle, Brandford, and Darwin) is a genuinely good sort. He can't help it if his mom has scheduled him for every activity known to the Upper East Side, including ice skating, French lessons, and a Mommy and Me group largely attended by nannies. What makes the book so impossible to put down is the suspense of finding out what the unbelievably inconsiderate Mrs. X will demand of Nan next. One pictures the two authors having the last hearty laugh on their former employers. --Claire Dederer [via]
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  Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Nonesuch
by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 089190784X (0-89190-784-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St. James Theatre, London, 1895
by Oscar Wilde, Joseph Donohue, Ruth Berggren

ISBN 0861403789 (0-86140-378-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press

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This unique volume reconstructs the original 1895 production of Wilde's timeless classic. Based upon a new, reconstructive method for the study of theatrical performance that aims to set the play securely in its historical and cultural moment, the edition offers a wealth of detail about the staging and acting and numerous first production and early revival photographs. The reconstructed text itself, differing in important ways from the 1899 first edition, recaptures the essential comic vitality of the play. [via]
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The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1853260525 (1-85326-052-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final part. In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular. [via]
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The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

ISBN 1589636538 (1-58963-653-8)
Softcover, Fredonia Books

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Poems Of Love And Hate
by Josephine Balmer, Catullus

ISBN 1852246456 (1-85224-645-6)
Softcover, Dufour Editions

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Catallus distinguishes himself from other Roman poets by combining traditional Roman writing styles with Greek forms and scandalous content. This volume includes the full complement of his shorter poems... Balmer's translation preserves Catallus's wit and lyrical writing style.""--Translation Review. [via]
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Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1417917334 (1-4179-1733-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This new high-quality, hardcover series of timeless classics features the finest works of world literature. This standard edition has an attractive jacket design. Each title chosen for it's literary quality and for the untold pleasure it will give readers of all ages. [via]
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The Prime Minister
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 141917858X (1-4191-7858-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Right Ho Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1428002693 (1-4280-0269-3)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

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Jeeves, I said, "may I speak frankly?" "Certainly, sir." "What I have to say may wound you." "Not at all, sir." "Well, then-" No-wait. Hold the line a minute. I've gone off the rails. I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it. It's a thing you don't want to go wrong over, because one false step and you're sunk. I mean, if you fool about too long at the start, trying to establish atmosphere, as they call it, and all that sort of rot, you fail to grip and the customers walk out on you. [via]
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0848806824 (0-8488-0682-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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P. G. Wodehouse's complete Jeeves and Wooster novel read by Jonathan Cecil. Bertie Wooster looks pretty stylish in his new Tyrolean hat - or so he thinks. Others, notably Jeeves, disagree. But when Bertie embarks on an errand of mercy to Totleigh Towers, things get quickly out of control and he's going to need all the help Jeeves can provide. There are good eggs present, such as Gussie Fink-Nottle and the Rev. 'Stinker' Pinker. But there also is Sir Watkyn Bassett JP, enemy of all the Woosters hold dear, to say nothing of his daughter Madeline and Roderick Spode, now raised to the peerage. And Major Brabazon Plank, the peppery explorer, who wants to lay Bertie out cold. Thank goodness for the intervention of Chief Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard. But is this gentleman all he seems...? Jonathan Cecil (picture above) has toured in "The Incomparable Max", "Twelfth Night" and "An Ideal Husband", while among his considerable TV and film appearances are "The Rector's Wife", "The Worst Week of My Life", "Midsomer Murders" and "Victoria & Albert". [via]
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The Talisman Ring
by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 1567230571 (1-56723-057-1)
Hardcover, Yestermorrow Inc

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Thank You, Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585674346 (1-58567-434-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster seeks refuge in Lord Chuffington's cottage, but the peace is soon shattered with the arrival of an ex-fiancee, Pauline Stoker, and her father. From the author of RING FOR JEEVES and JOY IN THE MORNING. [via]
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The Thin Man
by Dashiell Hammett

ISBN 0893403296 (0-89340-329-6)
Softcover, John Curley & Assoc

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The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett's classic tale of murder in Manhattan, became the popular movie series with William Powell and Myrna Loy, and both the movies and the novel continue to captivate new generations of fans.
Nick and Nora Charles, accompanied by their schnauzer, Asta, are lounging in their suite at the Normandie in New York City for the Christmas holiday, enjoying the prerogatives of wealth: meals delivered at any hour, theater openings, taxi rides at dawn, rubbing elbows with the gangster element in speakeasies. They should be annoyingly affected, but they charm. Mad about each other, sardonic, observant, kind to those in need, and cool in a fight, Nick and Nora are graceful together, and their home life provides a sanctuary from the rough world of gangsters, hoodlums, and police investigations into which Nick is immediately plunged.
A lawyer-friend asks Nick to help find a killer and reintroduces him to the family of Richard Wynant, a more-than-eccentric inventor who disappeared from society 10 years before. His former wife, the lush and manipulative Mimi, has remarried a European fortune hunter who turns out to be a vindictive former associate of her first husband and is bent on the ruin of Wynant's family fortune. Wynant's children, Dorothy and Gilbert, seem to have inherited the family aversion to straight talk. Dorothy, who has matured into a beautiful young woman, has a crush on Nick, and so, in a hero-worshipping way, does mama's boy Gilbert. Nick and Nora respond kindly to their neediness as Nick tries to make sense of misinformation, false identities, far-fetched alibis, and, at the center of the confusion, the mystery of The Thin Man, Richard Wynant. Is he mad? Is he a killer? Or is he really an eccentric inventor protecting his discovery from intellectual theft?
The dialogue is spare, the locales lively, and Nick, the narrator, shows us the players as they are, while giving away little of his own thoughts. No one is telling the whole truth, but Nick remains mostly patient as he doggedly tries to backtrack the lies. Hammett's New York is a cross between Damon Runyon and Scott Fitzgerald--more glamorous than real, but compelling when visited in the company of these two charmers. The lives of the rich and famous don't get any better than this! --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1419191284 (1-4191-9128-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]
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Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackery, Nicholas Dames, William Makepeace Thackeray

ISBN 1593080719 (1-59308-071-9)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble

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With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world. [via]
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Vanity Fair: Bringing Thackeray's Timeless Novel to the Screen
by Julian Fellowes, Mira Nair, Matthew Faulk, Mark Skeet

ISBN 1557046379 (1-55704-637-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The full-color companion to the new film version of the Thackeray novel starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!).
Reese Witherspoon stars as Becky Sharp, one of the greatest female characters ever created. Born into the lower class, Becky can rely only on her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes her way up through London society circa 1820, alongside her best friend Amelia. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battlesmilitary and domesticare fought, fortunes made and lost.
In addition to the complete screenplay by Oscar^®-winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and Matthew Faulk & Mark Skeet (NBC's Jason and the Argonauts), this Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook features over 150 full-color illustrations, extracts from Thackeray's novel, interviews with the cast and crew, notes by director Mira Nair, and sidebars on the film's costume, set, and production design. 150 color photos.
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The Way of the World
by William Congreve

ISBN 1406500259 (1-4065-0025-9)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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Edited by Henry T E Perry, this edition of Congreve: The Way of the World for performance and study is well annotated and includes an introduction along with the editor's 'Argument', which unravels the complicated plot, allowing the reader to focus on Congreve's dialogue, famous for its brilliance and polish. Also included are a chronology of the principal dates in Congreve's life and a bibliography. [via]
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- The Way of the World: ISBN 088295024X (0-88295-024-X)
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White Man Falling
by Mike Stocks

ISBN 1846880246 (1-84688-024-6)
Softcover, Alma Books Inc

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