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The Anatomy of Melancholyby Robert BurtonISBN 0460008862 (0-460-00886-2)
Hardcover, Dent
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'Book summary:Partial Contents: Definition of Melancholy; Causes of Melancholy; Bad Diet; Passions and Perturbations of the Mind; Symptoms or Signs of Melancholy in the body; Prognosticks of Melancholy; Unlawful Cures Rejected; Lawful Cures; Diet Rectified; Deformity of Body, Sickness, Baseness of Birth; Against Poverty and Want and other Adversities; Against: Servitude, Loss of Liberty, Imprisonment, Sorrow for death of Friends, Vain Fear, Envy, Emulation, Hatred, Ambition, Self-love, and all other Affections; Against: Repulse, Abuses, Injuries, Disgraces, Slanders; Cure of Melancholy all over the Body; Love-Melancholy; Symptoms or Signs of Love-Melancholy; Symptoms of Jealously, fear, sorrow, suspicion; Cure of Jealously; Religious Melancholy. An outstanding analysis of what melancholy is, its kinds, causes, symptoms, prognosticks, and several cures for it; Philosophically, Medicinally, and Historically. [via]
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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, Adam FrostISBN 048640062X (0-486-40062-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:The legendary romance between an irresistible siren and great general comes to dramatic life in one of Shakespeare's most powerful tragedies. Fascinating characterizations of a pair of historys most charismatic lovers, fast-paced action in scenes throughout the far-flung Roman Empire, and peerless poetry make this immortal drama a must for students of the theater and literature.[via]More editions of Antony and Cleopatra:
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The Bachman Booksby Stephen KingISBN 0453005071 (0-453-00507-1)
Hardcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bachman Books'Book summary:The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man. This is a compelling collection of three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense. It includes: "The Long Walk", "Roadwork", and "The Running Man" - in which Stephen King also explains 'Why I was Richard Bachman'. [via]
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Beardsleys Illustrations for Le Morte D'Arthurby Aubrey Vincent BeardsleyISBN 0486223485 (0-486-22348-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Complete Poems and Selected Essaysby Edgar Allan Poe, Richard GrayISBN 0460872613 (0-460-87261-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Selected Essays'Book summary:This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, a plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response. This selection presents all of Poe's poetry, and includes the less well known poems written before he was 20, among them "To Helen", which Poe said was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him "with half his heart to inhabit other worlds". The selected essays are illuminating in relation to Poe's life and times. [via]
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Complete Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0486266869 (0-486-26686-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Sonnets'Book summary:Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality, and beauty. This inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this remarkable verse in his or her library. Includes glossary of archaic terms. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Complete Sonnets:
The Dance of Death,by Hans HolbeinISBN 0486228045 (0-486-22804-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Darwin Awardsby Wendy NorthcuttISBN 0452291925 (0-452-29192-5)
Softcover, Plume
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Darwin's Wormsby Adam PhillipsISBN 046505675X (0-465-05675-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin's Worms'Book summary:Adam Phillips has been called the psychotherapist of the floating world and the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness. His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric.His new book, Darwins Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwins and Freuds lives to examine endingssuffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death. In each case, it is a death-story that uniquely illuminates the life story.[via]More editions of Darwin's Worms:
Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Storiesby Adam PhillipsISBN 0465056768 (0-465-05676-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Daughter Buffaloby Janet FrameISBN 049100883X (0-491-00883-X)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0486426823 (0-486-42682-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. Gogol's comic masterpiece offers a vast and satirical painting of 19th-century Russia. A work of great symbolism, it continues to inspire 21st-century authors and readers.[via]More editions of Dead Souls:
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Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft: 244 Illustrations for Artists and Craftspeopleby Ernst Lehner, Johanna LehnerISBN 0486227510 (0-486-22751-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft: 244 Illustrations for Artists and Craftspeople'Book summary:This masterwork presents 244 representations, symbols, and manuscript pages of devils and death from Ancient Egypt to 1913. Fascinating graphics depict demons, witches and warlocks, the Danse Macabre, Hell and Damnation, the Art of Dying, and more. Includes works by Dürer, Cranach, Holbein, and Rembrandt.[via]More editions of Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft: 244 Illustrations for Artists and Craftspeople:
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religionby David HumeISBN 0486451119 (0-486-45111-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'Book summary:How do we know that God exists? One of Britain's greatest 18th-century philosophers addresses the age-old question in this timeless dialogue. Equally captivating as a philosophical argument and as a work of literature, this classic is particularly relevant in terms of its criticism of the reasoning behind Intelligent Design.[via]More editions of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion:
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486411273 (0-486-41127-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This edition features all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - "Inferno", "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" - with explanatory notes on each canto. It includes Botticelli's illustrations of "The Divine Comedy", drawn in the 1480s. [via]
Dolores Claiborneby Stephen KingISBN 0453008038 (0-453-00803-8)
Hardcover, Penguin/Highbridge
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Storiesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0460017675 (0-460-01767-5)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Helen McNeilISBN 0460878956 (0-460-87895-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0486266907 (0-486-26690-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Tragic story of wasted lives, set against a bleak New England background. A poverty-stricken New England farmer, his ailing wife and a youthful housekeeper are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle in this hauntingly grim tale of thwarted love. Considered by many to be Wharton's masterpiece.[via]More editions of Ethan Frome:
Fatherless Women: How We Change After We Lose Our Dadsby Clea SimonISBN 0471410063 (0-471-41006-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Faust, Part Oneby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Anna SwanwickISBN 0486280462 (0-486-28046-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust, Part One'Book summary:The story of the old philosopher who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power constitutes one of Western folklore's most enduring legends. Incorporating themes from theology, ancient myth, and philosophy, Goethe renders his dramatic poem in styles ranging from epic and lyric to operatic and balletic.[via]More editions of Faust, Part One:
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Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainmentsby Richard F. BurtonISBN 0486419177 (0-486-41917-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments'Book summary:Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;" "The Fisherman and the Jinni;" "Judar and His Brethren;" and "Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad."[via]More editions of Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments:
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A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene Stratton-PorterISBN 0486457508 (0-486-45750-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Girl of the Limberlost'Book summary:Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observations on nature with the struggles of growing up in the early 20th century. Harassed by her mother and scorned by her peers, Elnora Comstock finds solace in natural beauty along with friendship, independence, and romance.[via]More editions of A Girl of the Limberlost:
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 0486424928 (0-486-42492-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:An expert in myth and religion, the author spent over a quarter-century assembling this study of the cults, rites, and myths of antiquity. Frazer's definitions of "magic," "religion," and "science" were useful to his successors in social anthropology, and his explications of ancient legends influenced generations of writers and poets.[via]More editions of The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion:
Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0460012347 (0-460-01234-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:Humbled, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman and one day he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." One of Dickens' finest novels, this is a gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward.[via]More editions of Great Expectations:
- Great Expectations: ISBN 0486415864 (0-486-41586-4)
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Hedda Gablerby Henrik Ibsen, Eva LegallienneISBN 0460011111 (0-460-01111-1)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hedda Gabler'Book summary:This dark psychological drama was first produced in Norway in 1890 and depicts the evil machinations of a ruthless, nihilistic heroine: the infamous Hedda Gabler. Readers will discover a masterly exploration of the nature of evil, along with the potential for tragedy that lies in human frailty. A true masterpiece.[via]-
Henry IVby William ShakespeareISBN 0486295842 (0-486-29584-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.
The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0486420493 (0-486-42049-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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In Memoriam, Maud and Other Poemsby Alfred Lord Tennyson, John D. JumpISBN 046087067X (0-460-87067-X)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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Last and First Men and Star Markerby William Olaf StapledonISBN 0486219623 (0-486-21962-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last and First Men and Star Marker'Book summary:The greatest future histories in science fiction. In Last and First Men the protagonist is "mankind" in an ultimate definition intelligence. Star Maker, in a sense its sequel, is concerned with the history of intelligence in the entire cosmos.[via]More editions of Last and First Men and Star Marker:
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas MaloryISBN 0460010468 (0-460-01046-8)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death.
Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend. Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenever, the quest for the Holy Grail; all the elements are there woven into a wonderful completeness by the magic of his prose style.
The result is not only one of the most readable accounts of the knights of the Round Table but also one of the most moving. As the story advances towards the inevitable tragedy of Arthur's death the effect is cumulative, rising with an impending sense of doom and tragedy towards its shattering finale. [via]
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Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Choderlos De Laclos, Ernest Christopher DowsonISBN 048645245X (0-486-45245-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'Book summary:A series of intimate letters chronicles the amorous adventures of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont rivals who use their bodies as weapons in the war of the sexes. Set in the final days of the ancien régime, the novel paints a revealing portrait of aristocratic decadence.[via]More editions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses:
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Letters from the Underworldby Feodor DostoevskyISBN 0460006541 (0-460-00654-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from the Underworld'Book summary:This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher. [via]
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Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondesby T CooperISBN 0452288061 (0-452-28806-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American Historyby Sheila M. RothmanISBN 0465030025 (0-465-03002-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 046087182X (0-460-87182-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:Dark and bloody drama of ambition, guilt, and revenge centers on an ambitious Scottish nobleman who murders the king in order to succeed to the throne. Tortured by his conscience and fearful of discovery, he becomes fatally enmeshed in a web of treachery and deceit that spells his doom. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via] -
Medeaby Euripides, Rex WarnerISBN 0486275485 (0-486-27548-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea'Book summary:One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Euripides' masterwork centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea - whom he marries and eventually abandons. Authoritative Rex Warner translation. [via]
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Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius, George LongISBN 048629823X (0-486-29823-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations'Book summary:Stirring reflections on the human condition from a warrior and emperor provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and personality of a highly principled Roman of the 2nd century. Recognizing that suffering is at the core of life, he counsels stoic detachment in the face of inevitable pain, loss and death.[via]More editions of Meditations:
The Mill on the Flossby George EliotISBN 0460113259 (0-460-11325-9)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Monk: A Longman Cultural Editionby Matthew LewisISBN 0486432149 (0-486-43214-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monk: A Longman Cultural Edition'Book summary:[via]A spellbinding Gothic novel, The Monk is Matthew Lewis' most famous work. First published in 1796 and set in a sinister Capuchin monastery in Madrid, this violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest focuses on a monk's struggle to maintain his monastic vows in the face of temptation and sexual obsession.More editions of The Monk: A Longman Cultural Edition:
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Moon and Sixpenceby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0486287319 (0-486-28731-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon and Sixpence'Book summary:An uncompromising and self-destructive young man deserts his wife, family, business, and civilization for his art. Shedding harsh light on an artist's ego, Maugham reveals the lengths to which one man will go to focus on his art. Written in 1919, this unforgettable story is timeless in its appeal.[via] -
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucketby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0486440931 (0-486-44093-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'Book summary:From the author who introduced readers to chilling tales of murder comes a novella based on factual accounts of a haunting, mutinous high-seas adventure. What begins with a young Nantucket man stowing away on a New Bedford whaler ends with 2 survivors drifting toward the South Pole in an open boat.[via]More editions of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket:
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 048627053X (0-486-27053-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground'Book summary:Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes that dominated Dostoyevsky's later masterworks. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction. [via]
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The Odysseyby Homer, George Herbert PalmerISBN 0486406547 (0-486-40654-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters Scylla and Charybdis; he extricates himself from the charms of Circe and Calypso. After these and numerous other legendary encounters he finally reaches home, where, disguised as a beggar, he begins to plan revenge on the suitors who have for years been besieging Penelope and feasting on his own meat and wine with insolent impunity. [via]
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The Oresteiaby Michael EwansISBN 0460875485 (0-460-87548-5)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furiesby Aeschylus, E. D. A. MorsheadISBN 0486292428 (0-486-29242-8)
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Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrectionby Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis BudgeISBN 0486227804 (0-486-22780-4)
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Phantastes: A Faerie Romanceby George MacDonald, Arthur HughesISBN 0486445674 (0-486-44567-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantastes: A Faerie Romance'Book summary:An enchanting early masterpiece of fantasy fiction, Phantastes tells the story of a young man's journey to, and adventures in, a fairy tale netherworld. Outstanding for its imaginative characters, vivid action, and subtle yet powerful moral messages, this is the book that earned MacDonald recognition as "The Grandfather of Modern Fantasy."[via]More editions of Phantastes: A Faerie Romance:
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira De MattosISBN 0486434583 (0-486-43458-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Rainbirdsby Janet FrameISBN 0491004117 (0-491-00411-7)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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The Raven and Other Favorite Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0486266850 (0-486-26685-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Republicby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0486411214 (0-486-41121-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent European thinking about these subjects owes its character, directly or indirectly, to this most famous (and most accessible) of the Platonic dialogues. Although he describes a society that looks to some like the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, in the course of his description Plato raises enduringly relevant questions about politics, art, education, and the general conduct of life.Translated by A. D. Lindsay [via]
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The Republicby John Hall, Plato, Terence IrwinISBN 0460873822 (0-460-87382-2)
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The Republic of Platoby Plato, Allan David BloomISBN 0465069347 (0-465-06934-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Selected Poemsby William Blake, Peter ButterISBN 0460873091 (0-460-87309-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Babysnatching is one thing but Babyswapping? Inspector Wexford had not previously encountered the phenomenon of one ginger haired baby in its pram being swapped for another of the opposite sex. But novelty was only one aspect of a crime which came eventually to reveal a far more sinister range of characteristics.Darkly imagined and beautifully observed,Ruth Rendells stories reveal her startling insights into the criminal mind. [via]
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Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0486264661 (0-486-26466-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, and technical adventurousness that have delighted and impressed generations of poetry lovers. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Selected Poems:
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The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0460873296 (0-460-87329-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Sorrows of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, Thomas Carlyle, R. D. BoylanISBN 0486424553 (0-486-42455-3)
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The Sorrows of Young Werther/Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther: Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther A Dual-Language Bookby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486433633 (0-486-43363-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sorrows of Young Werther/Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther: Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther A Dual-Language Book'Book summary:Loosely based on Goethe's personal experiences, the novel is written mostly in the form of letters in which Werther recounts his unrequited love for a married woman. Its Sturm und Drang style makes it a perennial favorite with readers of every era. Includes the original German with English translation on the facing pages.[via]More editions of The Sorrows of Young Werther/Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther: Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther A Dual-Language Book:
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486266885 (0-486-26688-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Thinnerby Richard BachmanISBN 0453004687 (0-453-00468-7)
Hardcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinner'Book summary:Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence [via]
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Tibetan Buddhism, With Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism, and Mythology, and in Its Relation to Indian Buddhismby Laurence Austine WaddellISBN 0486201309 (0-486-20130-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareISBN 0486268764 (0-486-26876-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0486266842 (0-486-26684-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she suspects that the previous governess and her lover are controlling the two orphaned children (a girl and a boy) for some evil purpose. The household staff don't know what she's talking about, the children are evasive when questioned, and the master of the house (the children's uncle) is absent. Why does the young girl claim not to see a perfectly visible woman standing on the far side of the lake? Are the children being deceptive, or is the governess being paranoid? By leaving the questions unanswered, The Turn of Screw generates spine-tingling anxiety in its mesmerized readers. [via]
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The Vampire in Lore and Legendby Montague SummersISBN 0486419428 (0-486-41942-8)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0460012983 (0-460-01298-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:A classic, set during the Napoleonic wars, giving a satiricl picture of a worldly society and revolving around the exploits of two women from very different backgrounds. [via]
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Victorian Cemetery Artby Edmund Vincent GillonISBN 0486227855 (0-486-22785-5)
Hardcover
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victorian Cemetery Art'Book summary:Hauntingly beautiful compilation of photographs detailing the Victorian style of grave ornamentation erected to those departed souls. [via]
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Victoryby Joseph ConradISBN 0460874780 (0-460-87478-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victory'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type, this book includes an introduction and comprehensive notes. This is a Joseph Conrad title. [via]
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The Voyage Outby Virginia WoolfISBN 0486450058 (0-486-45005-8)
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Where Angels Fear to Treadby E. M. ForsterISBN 0486277917 (0-486-27791-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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William Blake: Selected Poemsby P.H. ButterISBN 0460011251 (0-460-01125-1)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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William Shakespeareby Martin DodsworthISBN 0460878158 (0-460-87815-8)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Christopher Bigsby, Cheryle B. TorsneyISBN 0460876171 (0-460-87617-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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The Woman in Whiteby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0460014641 (0-460-01464-1)
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0486424588 (0-486-42458-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:A sequel to Lawrence's earlier The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love continues the story of the Brangwen sisters in the coal-mining town of Beldover. Based in part on Lawrence's own stormy marriage to German aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen, the tale is charged with intense feelings and psychological insights.[via]More editions of Women in Love:
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The World As Will and Representationby Arthur SchopenhauerISBN 0486217620 (0-486-21762-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World As Will and Representation'Book summary:[via]Volume 2 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For the first time, this edition translates and locates all quotes and provides full index.More editions of The World As Will and Representation:
Youthby Joseph ConradISBN 0460870467 (0-460-87046-7)
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Youth, a Narrative ; Heart of Darkness ; The End of the Tetherby Joseph ConradISBN 0460016946 (0-460-01694-6)
Hardcover, Dent
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