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Aeschylus: Agamemnonby Aeschylus, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, P. E. Easterling, Philip De MayISBN 0521010756 (0-521-01075-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Aeschylus: Eumenidesby Alan H. SommersteinISBN 0521284309 (0-521-28430-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Animal Farmby Naura HaydenISBN 0582530083 (0-582-53008-3)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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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]
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Shanks MaudeISBN 0486437965 (0-486-43796-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society) would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life, haunted by thoughts of suicide, Levin's struggles echo Tolstoy's own spiritual crisis. But Anna's inner turmoil mirrors the own emotional imprisonment and mental disintegration of a woman who dares to transgress the strictures of a patriarchal world. In Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy brought to perfection the novel of social realism and created a masterpiece that bared the Russian soul. [via]
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Anna Kareninaby Outlet Book Company StaffISBN 0517457539 (0-517-45753-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production. [via]More editions of Anna Karenina:
The Annotated Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, John Leech, Michael Patrick HearnISBN 0517527413 (0-517-52741-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Antonin Artaud: Selected Writingsby Susan Sontag, Antonin ArtaudISBN 0520064437 (0-520-06443-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Atlas Shruggedby Ayn RandISBN 0525948929 (0-525-94892-9)
Hardcover, E P Dutton
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Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Partby Michael ShurtleffISBN 0553272950 (0-553-27295-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Beckett: Waiting for Godotby Lawrence GraverISBN 0521549388 (0-521-54938-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Belle of Amherstby William LuceISBN 057363033X (0-573-63033-X)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Beyond The Horizonby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0486290859 (0-486-29085-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Birth of Tragedyby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0486285154 (0-486-28515-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Blue Room: Freely Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's LA Rondeby David HareISBN 0573627053 (0-573-62705-3)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Dramaby A. R. Braunmuller, Michael HattawayISBN 0521527996 (0-521-52799-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0486268659 (0-486-26865-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 048642247X (0-486-42247-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0486451240 (0-486-45124-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0553212443 (0-553-21244-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0582421209 (0-582-42120-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0486209806 (0-486-20980-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0590435272 (0-590-43527-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 051723159X (0-517-23159-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0486268659 (0-486-26865-9)
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- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 048642247X (0-486-42247-X)
A Christmas Carol and Other Victorian Fairy Talesby Charles Dickens, U. C. KnoepflmacherISBN 0553211269 (0-553-21126-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmasby Charles DickensISBN 0590021028 (0-590-02102-8)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetesby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571162304 (0-571-16230-4)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Dalliance and Undiscovered Countryby Tom Stoppard, Arthur SchnitzlerISBN 0571147399 (0-571-14739-9)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dalliance and Undiscovered Country'Book summary:Tom Stoppard presents two works which explore in contrasting ways the workings of Viennese society in the 1890s, setting the upper-class stylized codes of behavior against their effects in practice on human relationships.[via]
Dalliance was first performed at the National Theatre in 1986.
Undiscovered Country was first produced at the National Theatre in 1979.More editions of Dalliance and Undiscovered Country:
Democracyby Michael FraynISBN 0571211097 (0-571-21109-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Drinking in Americaby Eric BogosianISBN 0573640483 (0-573-64048-3)
Hardcover, S. French, Inc.
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El Doctor Zhivago / The Doctor Zhivagoby Boris Leonidovich PasternakISBN 0472717960 (0-472-71796-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Eumenidesby Aeschylus, Alan H. SommersteinISBN 0521240840 (0-521-24084-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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J.B.by Archibald MacLeishISBN 0573610916 (0-573-61091-6)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0517388081 (0-517-38808-1)
Hardcover, Greenwich House
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Lost in Yonkersby Neil SimonISBN 0573693366 (0-573-69336-6)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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Making Historyby Brian FrielISBN 0571154778 (0-571-15477-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Member of the Weddingby Carson McCullersISBN 0553250515 (0-553-25051-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Mikadoby W. S. Gilbert, Williams Schwenck GilbertISBN 0486272680 (0-486-27268-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mikado'Book summary:A lighthearted burlesque of Japanese culture and the vagaries of love, and one of the most widely-admired of all the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. The sparkling lyrics and witty dialogue of this comic masterpiece are as much a delight to read as they are to hear. Complete libretto with 9 charming illustrations by W. S. Gilbert.[via]More editions of The Mikado:
Mousetrapby Agatha ChristieISBN 0573619239 (0-573-61923-9)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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My Beautiful Laundretteby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571202543 (0-571-20254-3)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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My Beautiful Laundrette & Other Writingsby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571177387 (0-571-17738-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Beautiful Laundrette & Other Writings'Book summary:Whitbread Prize winner Kureshi is one of a new generation of British writers whose experience is refracted through his Pakistani heritage. These collected screenplays and essays also include "My Son the Fanatic". [via]
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My Beautiful Laundrette and the Rainbow Signby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571139817 (0-571-13981-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Beautiful Laundrette and the Rainbow Sign'Book summary:The script of the screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay in 1984. Includes other screenplays and journalistic pieces. [via]
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The Mysteriesby Tony HarrisonISBN 0571137903 (0-571-13790-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Native Sonby Wright, Paul GreenISBN 0573612919 (0-573-61291-9)
Softcover, S. French
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Adapted from the classic novel by Richard WrightDrama
Characters: 15 male, 14 female (w/doubling)
Multiple Sets
The story of Bigger Thomas, a black youth seeking his identity in the white world. This adpatation was originally produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
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Night and Dayby Tom StoppardISBN 0571113737 (0-571-11373-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 055321392X (0-553-21392-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Human Bondage'Book summary:A young man struggling for self-realization is caught up in a destructive love affair. [via]
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The Pelican Briefby Robin Waterfield, John GrishamISBN 0582417961 (0-582-41796-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pelican Brief'Book summary:John Grisham's head was full of movies when he wrote The Pelican Brief, which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film Three Days of the Condor, but government gumshoes don't get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It's all spelled out for them in Darby's brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. (Sarandon also starred in the film version of Grisham's The Client.)
But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a Washington Post reporter, Gray Grantham, who sleuths like the guys in All the President's Men.
Grisham wishes he hadn't written The Pelican Brief quite so quickly (his first novel, A Time to Kill, went through dozens of drafts), but Pelican's very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere. [via]
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Phaedraby Michael Coffey, Seneca, Roland MayerISBN 0521200857 (0-521-20085-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Phaedraby Roland Mayer, Michael Coffey, SenecaISBN 0521337135 (0-521-33713-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Plays for the Theatre: A Drama Anthologyby Oscar G. Brockett, Robert J. BallISBN 0495095826 (0-495-09582-6)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Plays for the Theatre With Infotrac: A Drama Anthologyby Robert J. Ball, Oscar Gross BrockettISBN 0534577865 (0-534-57786-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Plays, Poems and Proseby John Millington Synge, Alison SmithISBN 046087070X (0-460-87070-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Portable James Joyceby James Joyce, Harry LevinISBN 0517618877 (0-517-61887-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Portable James Joyce, edited and with an introduction by Harry Levin, includes four of the six books on which Joyce's astonishing reputatuion is founded: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man; his Collected Poems (including Chamber Music); Exiles, Joyce's only drama; and his volume of short stories, Dubliners. In addition, there is a generous sampling from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, including the famous "Anna Livia Plurabelle" episode.
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Prick Up Your Earsby John LahrISBN 0520226666 (0-520-22666-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Prince of Tidesby Pat ConroyISBN 0553268880 (0-553-26888-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is PAT CONROY at his very best. [via] 
Reading Greek Tragedyby Simon GoldhillISBN 0521315794 (0-521-31579-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Restoration Playsby Robert G. LawrenceISBN 0460874322 (0-460-87432-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restoration Plays'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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Ring Round the Moon: A Charade with Musicby Jean Anouilh, Christopher FryISBN 0573113807 (0-573-11380-7)
Hardcover, French
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Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godotby Lawrence GraverISBN 0521355133 (0-521-35513-3)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godotby Samuel Beckett, Lawrence GraverISBN 0521357756 (0-521-35775-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0460011227 (0-460-01122-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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- The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0486280489 (0-486-28048-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0521567831 (0-521-56783-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0553210092 (0-553-21009-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0582421764 (0-582-42176-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0460871838 (0-460-87183-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0460877852 (0-460-87785-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0590090755 (0-590-09075-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0517436272 (0-517-43627-2)
Hardcover, Chatham River Press - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0517643022 (0-517-64302-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0606130276 (0-606-13027-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0460011227 (0-460-01122-7)
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0460010212 (0-460-01021-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
- Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0486290492 (0-486-29049-2)
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Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0521824362 (0-521-82436-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0460879146 (0-460-87914-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0460010212 (0-460-01021-2)
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- Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0486290492 (0-486-29049-2)
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Sense And Sensibilityby Cherry Gilchrist, Jane AustenISBN 0582416892 (0-582-41689-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
A Servant to Two Mastersby Carlo Goldoni, Tom ConeISBN 0573618976 (0-573-61897-6)
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Sophocles Ajaxby Sophocles, Shormit DuttaISBN 0521655641 (0-521-65564-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Sophocles: Trachiniaeby P. E. EasterlingISBN 0521287766 (0-521-28776-6)
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Speed-The-Plow: A Playby David MametISBN 0573690812 (0-573-69081-2)
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Ten Little Indiansby Agatha ChristieISBN 0573616396 (0-573-61639-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Little Indians'Book summary:Mystery / 8m, 3f / Int. In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead---poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up in this ideal play for schools, colleges and little theatres. [via]
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0486424448 (0-486-42444-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Regarded today as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Ulysses remained banned in the United States until 1933. Drawing upon a complex network of symbolic parallels from mythology, history, and literature, the novel employs experimental narrative techniques to chronicle an ordinary day in the lives of three Dubliners. [via]
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The Unexpected Man : A Playby Yasmina Reza, Christopher HamptonISBN 0571196047 (0-571-19604-7)
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Via Dolorosa and When Shall We Live?: & When Shall We Liveby David HareISBN 0571197523 (0-571-19752-3)
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Wb Yeats Poems Selected by Seamus Heaneyby W. B. YeatsISBN 0571203787 (0-571-20378-7)
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William Butler Yeats : Selected Poemsby W. B. Yeats, E. DickinsonISBN 051707396X (0-517-07396-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Butler Yeats : Selected Poems'Book summary:William Butler Yeats was not only one of the most beloved and honored poets of this century. Playwright, essayist, theatrical impresario, occultist, politician, famously hapless lover--he was also one of the most colorful and complex. Astonishingly, no full biography of Yeats has appeared in many years. Now, Keith Alldritt gives us a lively telling of Yeats's story that puts the poet in the context of his times, from the high Victorian era to the modernism of the thirties.
Alldritt reveals that Yeats was not just "the sensitive introvert who began as the mooning dreamer and after a lifetime seeking philosophical and hermetic wisdom, ended as the learned sage" that Yeats himself and his biographers would have us believe. He shows us a less familiar man: "a dedicated careerist, an ambitious man of determined self-interest, a seeker after social standing, and a combative man with a violent temper that sustained him in many nasty quarrels." Confrontational, scrappy, driven, he was deeply involved in both the political and literary issues of his day. He was instrumental in overturning the English domination of Irish literature and in researching and publishing books on Irish lore and fairy tales. He was the founder, with George Bernard Shaw, of the Irish Institute of Arts and Letters as well as the Abbey Theatre, where he refused to close down Synge's inflammatory play The Playboy of the Western World, despite riots in the street. During his tenure as senator in the Irish Parliament, he fought the Catholic divorce laws. At every level, Alldritt shows us a poet engaged in the world.
Yeats's long, passionate, and physically unrequited love affair with the beautiful Irish nationalist Maud Gonne, which led to some of his most poignant poetry, is brought vividly to life. Also covered in some detail are Yeats's numerous love affairs in the years before his death. Though condoned by his wife, they have not been explored in previous biographies out of respect for her feelings.
Another aspect of Yeats not generally appreciated is his involvement with literary movements outside Ireland and England. He wrote reviews for the Boston Globe; lectured regularly throughout the United States; and spent much time in France, where he was influenced by the symbolist poets, and in Italy, where he joined the Rapallo group led by the quixotic Ezra Pound.
In his years of research, Alldritt visited libraries worldwide. He was given special access to Yeats's private papers in the National Library of Ireland and interviewed many people who knew or are knowledgeable about Yeats, most notably Yeats's daughter, Anne.
Yeats has been called "the greatest poetic imagination of our century." Now Keith Alldritt reveals another facet of his extraordinary persona.
William Butler Yeats was a master craftsman, and one of his most skillful constructs was his own image. He wished to be remembered, above all, as an Irishman and a poet; as a man whose nature had been determined by the almost magical qualities of his childhood in Sligo and whose character had been shaped by the influence of admirable men. There is truth in this depiction of himself, but it is a partial truth only.
In this account, I attempt to go beyond his interior world and to evoke and do justice to those individuals and external forces which in their turn made up part of the dialectic of Yeats's life. Yeats lived at a time of profound changes for the Western world from the high Victorianism of the late 1800s to the advent of modernism in the 1930s. I have attempted to offer a strong sense of Yeats in his social and historical context--to show that an important side of his genius was his deep and often manipulative relationship with the turbulent life around him as with his turbulent life within. [via]More editions of William Butler Yeats : Selected Poems:
Women of Trachisby Sophocles, Ezra PoundISBN 0571084176 (0-571-08417-6)
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