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Abraham Lincolnby Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'AulaireISBN 0440406900 (0-440-40690-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Amorous Ritesby Sandra Clark, Sandra Clark BirkbeckISBN 0460875302 (0-460-87530-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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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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Benedict De Spinoza: On the Improvement of the Understanding the Ethics Correspondenceby Benedictus De SpinozaISBN 048620250X (0-486-20250-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Benedict De Spinoza: On the Improvement of the Understanding the Ethics Correspondence'Book summary:[via]Also contains Ethics, Correspondence, all in excellent R. Elwes translation. Basic works on entry to philosophy, pantheism, exchange of ideas with great contemporaries.More editions of Benedict De Spinoza: On the Improvement of the Understanding the Ethics Correspondence:
Candide, Zadig, and Other Storiesby Voltaire, Donald Murdoch Frame, John IversonISBN 0451528093 (0-451-52809-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Candide, Zadig and Selected Storiesby Voltaire, Francoise M. DevoltaireISBN 0451524268 (0-451-52426-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000by Niall FergusonISBN 0465023266 (0-465-02326-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000'Book summary:Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or Internet. But is it? Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link-the nexus, in Thomas Carlyle's phrase-between economics and politics. His central argument is that the conflicting impulses of sex, violence, and power are together more powerful than money. Among Ferguson's startling claims are: · Nothing has done more to transform the world economy than war, yet wars themselves do not have primarily economic causes. · The present age of economic globalization is coinciding-paradoxically-with political and military fragmentation. · Financial crises are frequently caused by unforeseen political events rather than economic fluctuations. · The relationship between prosperity and government popularity is largely illusory. · Since political and economic liberalization are not self-perpetuating, the so-called triumph of democracy worldwide may be short-lived. · A bold synthesis of political history and modern economic theory, Cash Nexus will transform the landscape of modern history and draw challenging conclusions about the prospects of both capitalism and democracy.[via]More editions of The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000:
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Catherine the Greatby Henri Troyat, Joan PinkhamISBN 0452011205 (0-452-01120-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Christopher Columbusby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0452009928 (0-452-00992-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Christopher Columbus Marinerby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0451138791 (0-451-13879-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Comedy of Errorsby William Shakespeare, Harry LevinISBN 0451528395 (0-451-52839-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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The Comedy of Errorsby Harry T. LevinISBN 0451521633 (0-451-52163-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Compleat Anglerby Izaak WaltonISBN 0460010700 (0-460-01070-0)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Complete Poemsby John MiltonISBN 0460113844 (0-460-11384-4)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Complete English Poemsby John Milton, Gordon CampbellISBN 0460872753 (0-460-87275-3)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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Complete English Peoms: Everyman's Libraryby John MiltonISBN 0460860453 (0-460-86045-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Complete Plays and Poemsby J.C. Maxwell, Christopher Marlowe, E.D. PendryISBN 0460870432 (0-460-87043-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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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:
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Coriolanusby William Shakespeare, Reuben Arthur BrowerISBN 0451528433 (0-451-52843-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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-- Grow with the times by including both historical and thoroughly contemporary critical commentary on such issues as feminist, political, and theatrical interpretations of the plays -- with recent full-length essays by such respected scholars as Frank Kermode, Carolyn Heilbrun, Michael Goldman, Linda Bamber, and many others.
-- Provide more bibliographic listings and more up-to-date and relevant listings of pertinent books and articles in the Suggested Reference Section than the competition offers.
-- Feature essays on the Performance or Stage History of each play, written by Sylvan Barnet. [via] 
Devotions upon Emergent Occasionsby John DonneISBN 0472060309 (0-472-06030-9)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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A Discourse on Methodby Descartes, John VeitchISBN 046087411X (0-460-87411-X)
Softcover, Everyman
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A Discourse on Method: Meditations on the First Philosophy ; Principles of Philosophyby Rene Descartes, John VeitchISBN 0460871269 (0-460-87126-9)
Hardcover, Dent
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Elizabethan Sonnetsby Maurice Evans, Roy J. BoothISBN 0460873636 (0-460-87363-6)
Softcover, Everymans Library
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An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John LockeISBN 0486205304 (0-486-20530-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'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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- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: ISBN 0460103326 (0-460-10332-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: ISBN 0452010195 (0-452-01019-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: ISBN 0460113321 (0-460-11332-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: ISBN 0460873555 (0-460-87355-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: ISBN 0486205312 (0-486-20531-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: ISBN 0486205304 (0-486-20530-4)
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Essays Concerning Human Understandingby LockeISBN 0460003321 (0-460-00332-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Huntby Norman CohnISBN 0452009006 (0-452-00900-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighthby William ShakespeareISBN 0451512464 (0-451-51246-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Four Great Comediesby William ShakespeareISBN 0451527313 (0-451-52731-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Great Comedies'Book summary:The four plays selected for this collection--The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest--represent a significant stage in the development of the world's greatest dramatist. [via]
Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451527291 (0-451-52729-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0451523180 (0-451-52318-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0451527291 (0-451-52729-1)
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- Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0451519493 (0-451-51949-3)
Galileo, Science and the Churchby J. J. LangfordISBN 0472065106 (0-472-06510-6)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666by Neil HansonISBN 0471218227 (0-471-21822-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0451527321 (0-451-52732-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This masterpiece tells the incredible tale of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. He is shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, where the residents are only six inches high, then journeys takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, populated by giants, a floating island in the sky, and a land where horses have intelligence and man lives as a beast. His adventures, while read by children as an adventure story, are a devastating satire of society and human foibles. Part travelogue, part realism, part symbolism, Gullivers Travels remains a treasured classic of literature. [via]
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Henry IVby William ShakespeareISBN 0451527119 (0-451-52711-9)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of Part One., Part Two is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that "I will turn diseases to commodity".
The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of Part One, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of Part Two. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of Part One. "I know thee not, old man" he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, Henry V. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Henry IV. Part 2by William ShakespeareISBN 0451517229 (0-451-51722-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Henry VI: Henry VI, Part One / Henry VI Part Two / Henry VI Part Threeby William Shakespeare, Arthur Freeman, Milton Crane, Lawrence V. RyanISBN 0451529847 (0-451-52984-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Henry VI Pts. 1-3by William Shakespeare, Lawrence V. RyanISBN 0451523121 (0-451-52312-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry VI Pts. 1-3'Book summary:Our Signet Classic Shakespeare Series was extensively revised in 1998. We offer the best of everything -- unforgettable works edited by eminent Shakespeare scholars, comprehensive notes on the text, an essay on Shakespeare's life and times, source material, critical commentaries, extensive bibliographies, and footnotes. And there's more
-- Grow with the times by including both historical and thoroughly contemporary critical commentary on such issues as feminist, political, and theatrical interpretations of the plays -- with recent full-length essays by such respected scholars as Frank Kermode, Carolyn Heilbrun, Michael Goldman, Linda Bamber, and many others.
-- Provide more bibliographic listings and more up-to-date and relevant listings of pertinent books and articles in the Suggested Reference Section than the competition offers.
-- Feature essays on the Performance or Stage History of each play, written by Sylvan Barnet. [via]More editions of Henry VI Pts. 1-3:
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Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Lutherby Roland H. BaintonISBN 0452011469 (0-452-01146-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther'Book summary:Available for the first time in trade paperback, this authoritative biography of the great religious leader was hailed by Time magazine as "the most readable Luther biography in English." This edition showcases the intricate woodcuts and engravings that enhance the text and give the flavor of the era in which Martin Luther lived. More than 100 woodcuts and engravings. [via]
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Holy Bible: Open Bible, King James Version, Brown Genuine LeatherISBN 0452010624 (0-452-01062-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Illustrated Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Howard ChapnickISBN 0448020742 (0-448-02074-2)
Hardcover, Madison Square Press
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Italian Folktalesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0460051008 (0-460-05100-8)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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John Donneby Dennis EnrightISBN 0460879014 (0-460-87901-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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John Miltonby Gordon J. M. CampbellISBN 0460878131 (0-460-87813-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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The Lady in the Towerby Jean PlaidyISBN 0449213889 (0-449-21388-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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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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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Peter Davison, Billy Collins, Gay Wilson AllenISBN 0451529731 (0-451-52973-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
- Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0460005731 (0-460-00573-1)
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0451527585 (0-451-52758-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0451529731 (0-451-52973-1)
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Malory's Le Morte D' Arthurby Thomas Malory, Keith BainesISBN 0451528166 (0-451-52816-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Malory's Le Morte D' Arthur'Book summary:From the incredible wizardry of Merlin to the undeniable passion of Sir Launcelot, these tales of Arthur and his knights offer epic adventures with the supernatural-as well as timeless battles with our own humanity. [via]
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Malory's Le Morte D'Arthurby Malory ThomasISBN 0451625676 (0-451-62567-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:New rendition of the classic tale of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. [via]
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Mary Queen of Scotsby Antonia FraserISBN 0440354765 (0-440-35476-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary, Queen of Scots'Book summary:Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox and the unruly Scottish nobility; the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death; her marriage to Bothwell, the chief suspect, that led directly to her long English captivity at the hands of Queen Elizabeth; the poignant and extraordinary story of her long imprisonment that ended with the labyrinthine Babington plot to free her, and her execution at the age of forty-four. [via]
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson: With a Fragment of Autobiographyby Lucy Hutchinson, N.H. KeebleISBN 0460874918 (0-460-87491-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Philosophy of Historyby George HegelISBN 0486201120 (0-486-20112-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy of History'Book summary:One of the great classics of Western thought develops concept that history is not chance but a rational process, operating according to the laws of evolution, and embodying the spirit of freedom. Translated by J. Sibree. Introduction by Carl Friedrich. [via]
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Queen of This Realmby Jean PlaidyISBN 0449209792 (0-449-20979-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Rape of the Lock: An Heroicomical Poem in Five Cantosby Alexander PopeISBN 0486219631 (0-486-21963-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Red, White and Blueby John Herman, Robin RorabackISBN 0448412705 (0-448-41270-5)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Renaissance Florenceby Gene BruckerISBN 0471113700 (0-471-11370-0)
Hardcover, Wiley
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Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Ageby Theodore K. RabbISBN 0465068006 (0-465-06800-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Restoration Playsby Robert G. LawrenceISBN 0460874322 (0-460-87432-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Selected Poetry of Donneby John Donne, Marius BewleyISBN 0452005175 (0-452-00517-5)
Hardcover, New American Library
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The Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, William BurtoISBN 0451527275 (0-451-52727-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Tartuffe And Other Playsby Jean Baptiste Moliere, Virginia Scott, Donald Murdoch FrameISBN 0451530330 (0-451-53033-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athensby William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet, Maurice CharneyISBN 0451522699 (0-451-52269-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Barbara Rosen, William RosenISBN 0451526899 (0-451-52689-9)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus / the Life of Timon of Athensby William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet, Maurice CharneyISBN 0451529561 (0-451-52956-1)
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Utilitarianism on Liberty and Representative Governmentby MillISBN 0460004824 (0-460-00482-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Utilitarianism, on Liberty, Considerations on Representative Government: Remarks on Bentham's Philosophyby John Stuart MillISBN 0460873466 (0-460-87346-6)
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William Shakespeareby Martin DodsworthISBN 0460878158 (0-460-87815-8)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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Witchcraft: Magic and Alchemyby Emile Angelo Grillot De GivryISBN 0486224937 (0-486-22493-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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