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Adventures of Joseph Andrewsby Henry FieldingISBN 0192553232 (0-19-255323-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Joseph Andrews'Book summary:"The Adventures of Joseph Andrews" was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and one of the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742, Fielding defined it as a 'comic romance.' [via]
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Amphigorey Alsoby Edward GoreyISBN 0156056720 (0-15-605672-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amphigorey Also'Book summary:Here is Gorey, doing what Gorey does best--and what only Gorey can do: droll, cracked Victorian pen-and-ink takeoffs on melodramas and primers, bicycles and divas, allegories and crime. [via]
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Androcles and the Lion: An Old Fable Renovatedby Bernard ShawISBN 0140450130 (0-14-045013-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Androcles and the Lion: An Old Fable Renovated'Book summary:"Androcles and the Lion" is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. "Androcles and the Lion" is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and traditional Roman values. [via]
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Animal Farmby George Orwell, Ralph SteadmanISBN 0151002177 (0-15-100217-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
Aristophanes Acharniansby S. Douglas OlsonISBN 0199275866 (0-19-927586-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Arms and the Man: A Pleasant Playby Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, Rodelle WeintraubISBN 0143039768 (0-14-303976-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arms And the Man: A Pleasant Play'Book summary:[via]Arms and the Man, optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect.
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At Swim-Two-Birdsby Flann O'BrienISBN 0141182687 (0-14-118268-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Swim-Two-Birds'Book summary:If you try to read it too closely, the structure of this book will drive you crazy. Ask me how I know. On the first level, it seems to emanate from the addled mind of a navel-gazing Irish university student stumbling around thinking about writing a book or a school paper. As I said, you can go nuts trying to follow it. Yet At Swim-Two-Birds is a modernist masterpiece, the best-known fictional work of Irish newspaper writer Flann O'Brien. Published in 1939, the book's great charm is O'Brien's constant reinvention of the English language, fueled and altered by an Irish sensibility and language; the sentences come out in a torrent of musical, drunken ramblings. [via]
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Bachelors Anonymousby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214668894 (0-214-66889-4)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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Baudolinoby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156029065 (0-15-602906-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baudolino'Book summary:The most playful of historical novelists, Umberto Eco has absorbed the real lesson of history: that there is no such thing as the absolute truth. In Baudolino, he hands his narrative to an Italian peasant who has managed, through good luck and a clever tongue, to become the adopted son of the Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and a minister of his court in the closing years of the 12th century. Baudolino's other gift is for spontaneous but convincing lies, and so his unfolding tale--as recounted in 1204 to a nobleman of Constantinople, while the fires of the Fourth Crusade rage around them--exemplifies the Cretan Liar's Paradox: He can't be believed. Why not, then, make his story as outrageous as possible? In the course of his picaresque tale, Baudolino manages to touch on nearly every major theme, conflict, and boondoggle of the Middle Ages: the Crusades; the troubadours; the legend of the Holy Grail; the rise of the cathedral cities; the position of Jews; the market in relics; the local rivalries that made Italy so vulnerable to outside attack; and the perennial power struggles between the pope and the emperor. With the help of alcohol and a mysterious Moorish concoction called "green honey," Baudolino and his ragtag friends engage in typical scholastic debates of the period, trying to determine the dimensions of Solomon's Temple and the location of the Earthly Paradise. And when the Emperor needs support in his claims for saintly lineage, who but Baudolino can craft the perfect letter of homage from the legendary Prester John, Holy (and wholly fictitious) Christian King of the East? A giddy and exasperating romp, Baudolino will draw you into its labyrinthine inventions and half-truths, even if you know better. --Regina Marler [via]
The BFGby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141301058 (0-14-130105-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The BFG'Book summary:Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh ... Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows. What kind of way is that for a G to behave?
The BFG is one of Dahl's most lovable character creations. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Book of Enchantmentsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152055088 (0-15-205508-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Enchantments'Book summary:This witty and charming collection of ten short fantasies includes a new story set in the Enchanted Forest about Queen Cimorenes Frying Pan of Doom, a zany story about a magical blue chipmunk with a passion for chestnuts, and an eerie tale of a caliph who turns his viziers daughter into a wolf. A well-crafted anthology with several selections suited for reading aloud. --Booklist[via] 
Brit-Think, Ameri-Think: A Transatlantic Survival Guideby Jane Walmsley, Gray JolliffeISBN 0142001341 (0-14-200134-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Catharine and Other Writingsby Jane Austen, Douglas Murray, Margaret Anne DoodyISBN 0192835211 (0-19-283521-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catharine and Other Writings'Book summary:This new collection of Austen's brilliant short fiction is the first annotated edition of her short writings. The texts have been compared with the manuscripts to give a number of new readings. In addition to prose fiction and prayers, this collection contains many of her poems written to amuse and console her friends, and are unavailable in any other single volume. [via]
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Cause Celeb: Library Editionby Helen FieldingISBN 0142000221 (0-14-200022-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cause Celeb: Library Edition'Book summary:Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-something Rosie Richardson decides to give up glitz for good deeds and escape to Africa to run a refugee camp. When famine strikes and a massive refugee influx threatens to overwhelm the camp, officials drag their heels. The only way to get food fast is to bring the celebrities first, so Rosie returns to London to organize a star-studded and risky emergency appeal. Deftly skewering the world of celebrity fundraising, Fielding's debut novel is both comic and thought-provoking.
Cause Celeb crackles with insights into the nature of fame, passion, and altruism in our time, all the while following an unlikely-but hugely likeable-heroine. [via]More editions of Cause Celeb: Library Edition:
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Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks And Romansby William F. HansenISBN 0195300351 (0-19-530035-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks And Romans'Book summary:The birth of Aphrodite, the Trojan Horse, Zeus disguised as a swan. These and other classical myths and legends are usually encountered separately, but together they make up a coherent, multigenerational saga of epic battles, bizarre metamorphoses, immortal heroes, and all-too-human gods--a fantastic world recognizably real to its audience. Classical Mythology offers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths, beginning by exploring the landscapes where the myths are set. It then provides a richly detailed timeline of mythic episodes from the origin of the cosmos to the end of the Heroic Age--plus an illustrated mythological dictionary listing significant characters, places, events, objects, and concepts.
Whether you wish to explore the world that gave rise to ancient mythology or research a specific piece of the whole, this handbook is the best introduction available to an extraordinary cast of characters (gods, nymphs, satyrs, monsters, heroes) and the natural and supernatural stages upon which their fates are played out.
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· A detailed timeline serves as a convenient "episode guide" chronicling events described in classical mythology
· A comprehensive A-Z section offers a quick way to identify the gods, mortals, events, and objects that are key to specific myths and legends [via]More editions of Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks And Romans:
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The Comedies of William Congreveby William CongreveISBN 0140432310 (0-14-043231-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedies of William Congreve'Book summary:1927. Congreve's literary apprenticeship was served under the tutelage of John Dryden, the leading playwright of the day. William Congreve only wrote five plays before retiring from writing to work in government. Love for Love and his other plays showed a knack for writing urbane, scintillating wit that some say rivaled Moliere's. Contents: The Old Batchelor; The Double-Dealer; Love for Love; and The Way of the World. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Comedy: Plays, Theory, and Criticismby Marvin FelheimISBN 0155122800 (0-15-512280-0)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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The Complete Novelsby Jane AustenISBN 0143039504 (0-14-303950-4)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Novels'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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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, M. Thomas IngeISBN 0192839020 (0-19-283902-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one of Twain's best-loved tales. A pioneering work of science fiction, it vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary as well. In this complex and ambitious tour de force, an inventive nineteenth-century resident of Hartford named Hank Morgan travels back in time to sixteenth-century England where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas. Along the way he founds the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, organizes a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, and "keeps up a steady fire of flippancies, so frequent that no reader registers all of them on the first go-around," as Louis Budd reminds us in his introduction. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain's most complex and disturbing meditation on technology, as well as a powerful consideration of politics and power. The original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, brilliantly mix buffoonery with sharp social satire in an effective counterpoint to the text. By turns side-splittingly funny and somberly thought-provoking, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain at his finest. [via]
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114108 (0-19-511410-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889'Book summary:One of Twain's best-loved stories next to his classic tales of Huck and Tom, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary. While Hank Morgan, Twain's time-displaced Yankee traveler, keeps up a steady stream of flippancies, founding the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, and organizing a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, he also keeps up a steady commentary on the social mores of King Arthur's court, criticizing the hereditary social classes and state church still strong in the Victorian England of Twain's own day, and championing women's suffrage and union labor organization. Widely regarded as one of the first science fiction novels, this edition also features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, our own twentieth century master of satiric social commentary and science fiction. It also features the original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, whose drawings brilliantly mix buffoonery with sharp social satire: sharp-eyed readers, for instance, will spot that the model for Merlin, Hank's nemesis, is none other than Tennyson, whose Idylls of the King made the romantic vision of King Arthur's court nearly a sacred Victorian cult. By turns side-splittingly funny and somberly thought-provoking, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain at his finest. [via]
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The Doubtful Guestby Edward GoreyISBN 0151003130 (0-15-100313-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doubtful Guest'Book summary:Originally published in 1957, The Doubtful Guest serves as a prime example of the beauty, eccentricity, and brilliance of Edward Gorey's work. If the book was read aloud without revealing the accompanying black-and-white drawings, you might guess the tale came from the quirky genius of Dr. Seuss. The rhyming couplets and nonsensical verse (about an even more nonsensical creature) feel familiar, but in Gorey's skilled hands, the experience becomes altogether new.
The doubtful guest shows up unannounced and unwelcome, yet its presence is accepted after only a brief interlude of screaming. The staid, pale, Victorian inhabitants of the mansion alternately stare and glare at the doubtful guest as it tears out whole chapters from books, peels the soles of its white canvas shoes, and broods while lying on the floor ("inconveniently close to the drawing-room door"). Strangely, or rather, typically, as this is a Gorey book, the stymied occupants never ask the guest to leave--and in 17 years it has still "shown no intention of going away." Maintaining a matter-of-fact tone in spite of true oddity is pure, delicious Gorey, and his trademark drawings are not to be missed. The ghostly, stark, and undeniably amusing illustrations make The Doubtful Guest an entrancing tale in which reserved, insular lives meet with the unexpected and bizarre. (Ages 5 and older) [via]
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The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridanby Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Cecil John Layton PriceISBN 0198118562 (0-19-811856-2)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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Evelinaby Fanny Burney, Margaret Anne DoodyISBN 0140433473 (0-14-043347-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina'Book summary:Evelina, the first of Burney's novels, was published anonymously and brought her immediate fame. It tells the story of a young girl, fresh from the provinces, whose initiation into the ways of the world is frequently painful, though it leads to self-discovery, moral growth, and, finally, happiness. Hilarious comedy and moral gravity make the novel a fund of entertainment and wisdom. Out of the graceful shifts from the idyllic to the near-tragic and realistic, Evelina emerges as a fully realized character. And out of its treatment of contrasts - the peace of the countryside and the cultured and social excitement of London and Bristol, the crowd of life-like vulgarians and the elegant gentry - the novel reveals superbly the life and temper of eighteenth-century England, as seen through the curious eyes of its young heroine. Edward A. Bloom has edited the text from the rare first edition of 1778. [via]
Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Edward A. Bloom, Frances Burney, Vivien JonesISBN 0192840312 (0-19-284031-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Frances Burney, Edward A. BloomISBN 0192815962 (0-19-281596-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World'Book summary: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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Flashman at the Charge:from the Flashman Papers, 1854-1855: From the Flashman Papers, 1854-1855by George MacDonald FraserISBN 021466841X (0-214-66841-X)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashman at the Charge:from the Flashman Papers, 1854-1855: From the Flashman Papers, 1854-1855'Book summary:The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade. Part of the FLASHMAN series, comprising FLASHMAN, ROYAL FLASH and FLASH FOR FREEDOM, which explores the successful though scandalous later career of the bully in TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. [via]
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Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842by George MacDonald FraserISBN 0257667997 (0-257-66799-7)
Hardcover, Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842'Book summary:The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of "Tom Brown's Schooldays", after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. The author has written several books about Flashman, and books of short stories, including "The General Danced at Dawn". [via]
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The Flying Sorcerersby Peter HainingISBN 0285633880 (0-285-63388-0)
Hardcover, Souvenir Press
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Four Playsby Peter ShafferISBN 0140481591 (0-14-048159-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Galapagosby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224028472 (0-224-02847-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galapagos'Book summary:The human survivors of the "Nature Crisis of the Century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. From the author of "Slaughterhouse 5". [via]
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George's Marvelous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141301112 (0-14-130111-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George's Marvelous Medicine'Book summary:George's grouchy grandma needs a taste of her own medicine -- and George knows just the right ingredients to put into it! [via]
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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Meby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141302283 (0-14-130228-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me'Book summary:When Billy joins the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company, he gets a lot more than a new job. First he makes three new friends, then it's time to get to work cleaning all 677 windows of the Duke of Hampshire's house. The Duke is not only the most wealthy man in the country, he's also the most generous. Can he make Billy's lifelong dream come true? [via]
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The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World Warby Jaroslav Hasek, Josef Lada, Cecil ParrottISBN 0140449914 (0-14-044991-4)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Robert Demaria, Peter Dixon, Michael FootISBN 0140437347 (0-14-043734-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony. @LittleBigMan Awoke in an unfamiliar land. The boat and my crew are gone. Oh dear, the people here are very small. Oops. Sorry about that. I don't mean to boast; I'm not a terribly tall man. But these people of Lilliput are the size of child's Johnson. Still, they have captured me. I have become a great favorite of the Lilliputian court, whose antics are like an adorable tiny version King George's, the blithering idiot. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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- Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0141439491 (0-14-143949-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0192817558 (0-19-281755-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0192833774 (0-19-283377-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0194230341 (0-19-423034-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0192100378 (0-19-210037-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0195199782 (0-19-519978-2)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0140437347 (0-14-043734-7)
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Gulliver's Travelsby Claude Rawson, Jonathan Swift, Ian HigginsISBN 0192805347 (0-19-280534-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. An extraordinarily skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition.
The fullest, most up-to-date paperback of Gulliver's Travels currently available, this new edition contains an astute analysis of the nature of Swift's satire. It includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions and whose subtle changes contribute to the reader's uncertainty about the veracity of the author. A new introduction by Claude Rawson draws on the latest scholarship and considers Swift's role-playing and the relationship of the author to Gulliver. [via]More editions of Gulliver's Travels:
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Gulliver's Travelsby James Riordan, Jonathan Swift, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0192741780 (0-19-274178-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Embark on a journey with one of the greatest world travelers of all time. Ride with him across the South Seas to the miniature island of Liliput, where people grow no taller than six inches high. Round the Cape of Good Hope to the land of Brobdingnag, home of giants tall as church steeples, and sail on to the exotic lands of Laputa, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrip, and more. Share Gulliver's incredible adventures, from his singlehanded defeat of an entire naval fleet (albeit one whose ships are toy boat-sized), to his harrowing abduction by a giant eagle, to his unfortunate dunking in a reservoir-sized pot of cream by a jealous dwarf!
These are the stories of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift's classic tale of fantastic adventures in far-off lands, brilliantly retold by James Riordan in rich, vivid prose that captures all the whimsy and satire of the original in the modern language of today's children. The illustrations by noted artist Victor Ambrus are rich and colorful, delicate in detail, strong in composition, and permeated with humor. And the insightful--often scathing--social commentary that Swift wove into his original tale remains intact, providing fascinating reading for adults as well as children. [via]More editions of Gulliver's Travels:
Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan Swift, Louis A. LandaISBN 0192812068 (0-19-281206-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adamsby Henry Fielding, Douglas Brooks-Davies, Tom KeymerISBN 019283343X (0-19-283343-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0192822845 (0-19-282284-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:With scenes from English life and her diversity of light-hearted, witty, wise, or patient heroines, Jane Austen has delighted generations of readers while exploring the social and moral values of the early nineteenth century with elegantly barbed perception. This edition includes all six of Austen's completed novels--Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Predjudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Also included are Catherine, a key work of her youth; Lady Susan, which was unpublished in her lifetime; and the unfinished novels The Watsons and Sanditon. All demonstrate the irony, wit, and skill in characterization, as well as faultless control of tone and narrative, which mark them as timeless classics of provincial romance and intrigue. [via]
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The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconsciousby Sigmund Freud, John Carey, Joyce CrickISBN 0142437441 (0-14-243744-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious'Book summary:[via]Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. In elaborating this theory, Freud brings together a rich collection of puns, witticisms, one-liners, and anecdotes, which, as Freud shows, are a method of giving ourselves away.
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Joseph Andrews and Shamelaby Henry Fielding, Judith HawleyISBN 0140433864 (0-14-043386-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joseph Andrews and Shamela'Book summary:[via]Kissing, Joseph, is but a Prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young Fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?
Joseph Andrews, Henry Fieldings first full-length novel, depicts the many colourful and often hilarious adventures of a comically chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill, a much-put-upon foundling girl, and Parson Adams, a man often duped and humiliated, but still a model of Christian charity. In the boisterous short tale Shamela, a brilliant parody of Richardsons Pamela, the spirited and sexually honest heroine uses coyness and mock modesty to catch herself a rich husband. Together these works anticipate Fieldings great comic epic Tom Jones, with their amiable good humour and pointed social satire.
Judith Hawleys introduction compares the works of Fielding and Richardson, and discusses sex and class relations, and the literary and political world of the time. This volume also includes a chronology and suggestions for further reading.
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Man and Supermanby George Bernard ShawISBN 0140480064 (0-14-048006-4)
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophyby Bernard Shaw, Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0140437886 (0-14-043788-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy'Book summary:How tantalizing to hear Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler's List) but not be able to see him! And hear him one does in his role as Jack Tanner, the antihero of Shaw's 1905 classic drama Man and Superman. Fiennes is a veritable mouthpiece--and a frequently sarcastic one at that--for the burning issues on Shaw's philosophical and social laundry list: the state of the English working class, the arms race, women's rights, unwed mothers, the evils of industry and capitalism, and English morality in general. The seriousness of the discussions is tempered by delightful Shavian wit ("There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."), which prevents the dialogue from collapsing under its own weight, although it does teeter at times. The four-act play, directed by the esteemed Peter Hall for BBC Radio, begins in the English countryside and ends in the mountains of Spain after a curious detour to Hell, where, in act 3, the famous dream sequence unfolds and the main characters take on such roles as Don Juan and the Devil to further hash out the meaning of existence, the definition of life force, and the power of the female sex. This is a spirited production of Shaw's imperfect but intellectually challenging work. (Running time: 225 min; four cassettes) [via]
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The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Storiesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 021465334X (0-214-65334-X)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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Master And Margaritaby Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0141180145 (0-14-118014-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'MASTER AND MARGARITA'Book summary:[via]Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign and a devastating satire of Soviet life, it combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with incident and with historical, imaginary, frightful and wonderful characters. Although completed in 1940, The Master and Margarita was not published until 1966 when the first section appeared in the monthly magazine Moskva. Russians everywhere responded enthusiastically to the novel's artistic and spiritual freedom and it was an immediate and enduring success. This new translation has been made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.
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On Beautyby Zadie SmithISBN 0143037749 (0-14-303774-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Beauty'Book summary:Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction and from the celebrated author of White Teeth comes another bestselling masterwork Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle , this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars-on both sides of the Atlantic-serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent. Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, Time , and Publishers Weekly A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post , and Publishers Weekly bestseller A Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Christian Science Monitor , and Minneapolis Star Tribune Best Book of the Year Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize BACKCOVER: Praise for On Beauty : "A thoroughly original tale . . . wonderfully engaging, wonderfully observed . . . That rare thing: a novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining, as provocative as it is humane." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A thing of beauty. Oh happy day when a writer as gifted as Zadie Smith fulfills her early promise with a novel as accomplished, substantive and penetrating as On Beauty ." - Los Angeles Times "Smith's specialty is her ability to render the new world, in its vibrant multiculturalism, with a kind of dancing, daring joy. . . . Her plots and people sing with life. . . . One of the best of the year, a splendid treat. [via]
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane Austen, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192547011 (0-19-254701-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen'Book summary:"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma.
Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage. [via]
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Playsby Richard Brinsley Butler SheridanISBN 0192541692 (0-19-254169-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays'Book summary:This edition of the complete plays of Sheridan, English dramatist, theatre manager, and politician, includes The Rivals and The School for Scandal, as well as six lesser-known works: St. Patrick's Day, The Duenna, A Trip to Scarborough, The Camp, The Critic, and Pizarro. the only one available in paperback B [via]
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The Rope and Other Playsby E.F. WatlingISBN 0140441360 (0-14-044136-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Sheridan's Playsby Cecil PriceISBN 0192811584 (0-19-281158-4)
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Sir John Vanbrughby John Vanbrugh, Michael CordnerISBN 0140432760 (0-14-043276-0)
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Slapstickby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224013424 (0-224-01342-4)
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Spanish Steps: One Man and His Ass on the Pilgrim Way to Santiagoby Tim MooreISBN 0224062654 (0-224-06265-4)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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The Tao of Pooh/the Te of Pigletby Benjamin HoffISBN 014095144X (0-14-095144-X)
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Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Partsby Richard PeckISBN 0142405078 (0-14-240507-8)
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Troilus and Criseydeby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0140442391 (0-14-044239-1)
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The Two Noble Kinsmenby William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Lois PotterISBN 0174434626 (0-17-443462-6)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two Noble Kinsmen'Book summary:Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen was written at the end of Shakespeare's career, as a collaboration with the rising young dramatist John Fletcher. Neglected until recently by directors and teachers, the play deserves to be better known for its moving dramatization of the conflict of love and friendship. This new edition, compiled by distinguished scholar Eugene M. Waith, offers helpful new material on the play's authenticity as a work of Shakespeare, his collaboration with Fletcher, the relevance to the play of the contemporary ideals of chivalry and friendship, and its limited but increasing stage history. Based on the Quarto of 1634, Waith's edition also sets out to clarify the stage directions, address problems of mislineation, and provide useful guides to unfamiliar words, stage business, allusions, and textual problems. [via]
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The Witchesby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141301104 (0-14-130110-4)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witches'Book summary:"This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches." So begins one of Roald Dahl's best books ever, and, ironically, it is such a great story because the premise is perfectly plausible from the outset. When the narrator's parents die in a car crash on page two (contrast this terribly real demise with that of James's parents who are devoured by an escaped rhinoceros in James and the Giant Peach), he is taken in by his cigar-smoking Norwegian grandmother, who has learned a storyteller's respect for witches and is wise to their ways.
The bond between the boy and his grandmother becomes the centrepiece of the tale--a partnership of love and understanding that survives even the boy's unfortunate transformation into a mouse. And once the two have teamed up to outwitch the witches, the boy's declaration that he's glad he's a mouse because he will now live only as long as his grandmother is far more poignant than eerie.
Of course, there's adventure here along with Dahl's trademark cleverness and sense of the grotesque. Dahl also communicates some essential truths to children: if they smoke cigars, they'll never catch cold, and, most importantly, they should never bathe, because a clean child is far, far easier for a witch to smell than a dirty one. (Ages 7 to 10, or read aloud to younger children) [via]
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The Works of Jane Austenby Jane AustinISBN 0192547062 (0-19-254706-2)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Darakhshanda Asghar KhokharISBN 0195798767 (0-19-579876-7)
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stoneby J. K. Rowling, Darakhshanda Asghar KhokharISBN 0195798589 (0-19-579858-9)
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Harry Potter Aur Azkaban Ka Qaidi / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. Rowling, Darakhshanda Asghar KhokharISBN 0195799151 (0-19-579915-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Aristophanes Acharniansby S. Douglas OlsonISBN 0198141955 (0-19-814195-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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