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Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenmentby Charles L. GriswoldISBN 0521628911 (0-521-62891-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Adam Smith's Politics: An Essay in Historiographic Revisionby Donald WinchISBN 0521292883 (0-521-29288-3)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Developmentby J. E. InikoriISBN 0521010799 (0-521-01079-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Albion's People: English Society, 1714-1815by John RuleISBN 0582089166 (0-582-08916-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Autobiography, and Other Writingsby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0553210750 (0-553-21075-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Black Mothby Georgette HeyerISBN 0553245910 (0-553-24591-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Catherine the Great: A Biographyby Henri TroyatISBN 0525078134 (0-525-07813-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785by David HancockISBN 052162942X (0-521-62942-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Common Sense: Library Editionby Thomas Paine, Diana GabaldonISBN 0553214659 (0-553-21465-9)
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Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in Common-Field England, 1700-1820by J. M. NeesonISBN 0521440548 (0-521-44054-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820by J. M. NeesonISBN 0521567742 (0-521-56774-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre, and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832by James WattISBN 0521640997 (0-521-64099-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Lowell BlairISBN 0553213504 (0-553-21350-4)
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Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoeby Walter De LA MareISBN 0571151205 (0-571-15120-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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A Dictionary of the English LanguageISBN 0582073804 (0-582-07380-4)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Economy, Polity and Society: British Intellectual History 1750-1950by Stefan Collini, Brian Young, Richard WhatmoreISBN 0521639786 (0-521-63978-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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English Society 1688-1832: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice During the Ancient Regimeby J. C. D. ClarkISBN 052131383X (0-521-31383-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics During the Ancien R'Egimeby J. C. D. ClarkISBN 0521666279 (0-521-66627-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Fashioning Adultery : Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740by David M. Turner, Lyndal RoperISBN 0521792444 (0-521-79244-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Faust, Part Iby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0553213482 (0-553-21348-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust, Part I'Book summary:Goethes masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethes genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethes characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchens tragic fate.
This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salms wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethes words. [via]More editions of Faust, Part I:
Faust/Bilingualby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 055321182X (0-553-21182-X)
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Federalist Papersby James MadisonISBN 0553212222 (0-553-21222-2)
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The Federalist Papersby John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Garry WillsISBN 0553213407 (0-553-21340-7)
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The Federalist: With Letters of Brutusby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Terence BallISBN 052180650X (0-521-80650-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Barry Moser, Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0520201795 (0-520-20179-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Barry MoserISBN 0520089421 (0-520-08942-1)
Softcover, Texas Bookman
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Gender in English Society 1650-1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres?by Robert Brink ShoemakerISBN 0582103150 (0-582-10315-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Great Catherineby Carolly EricksonISBN 0517590913 (0-517-59091-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Grenadillo Box: A Novelby Janet GleesonISBN 0553813897 (0-553-81389-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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History of Australiaby F. G. ClarkeISBN 0522841651 (0-522-84165-1)
Softcover, Melbourne Univ Pr
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History, Religion and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750-1950by Stefan Collini, Brian Young, Richard WhatmoreISBN 0521626390 (0-521-62639-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Hornblower and the Hotspurby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 052341790X (0-523-41790-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Jane Austen: A Lifeby David NokesISBN 0520216067 (0-520-21606-7)
Softcover, California Academy of Sciences
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Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860by Ann BerminghamISBN 0520066235 (0-520-06623-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750-1914by David VincentISBN 0521457718 (0-521-45771-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Centuryby Peter LinebaughISBN 0521457580 (0-521-45758-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century'Book summary:In eighteenth-century London the gallows at Tyburn was the dramatic focus of a struggle between the rich and the poor. Most of the London hanged were executed for property crimes, and the chief lesson that the gallows had to teach was: 'Respect private property'. The executions took place amid a London populace that knew the same poverty and hunger as the condemned. Indeed, in this stimulating account Peter Linebaugh shows how there was little distinction between a 'criminal' population and the poor population of London as a whole. Necessity drove the city's poor into inevitable conflict with the laws of a privileged ruling class. Peter Linebaugh examines how the meaning of 'property' changed substantially during a century of unparalleled growth in trade and commerce, analyses the increasing attempts of the propertied classes to criminalize 'customary rights'--perquisites of employment that the labouring poor depended upon for survival--and suggests that property-owners, by their exploitation of the emergent working class, substantially determined the nature of crime, and that crime, in turn, shaped the development of the economic system. Peter Linebaugh's account not only pinpoints critical themes in the formation of the working class, but also presents the plight of the individuals who made up that class. Contemporary documents of the period are skilfully used to recreate the predicament of men and women who, in the pursuit of a bare subsistence, had good reason to fear the example of Tyburn's 'triple tree'. [via]
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Love and Friendship : And Other Early Worksby Jane AustenISBN 0517543729 (0-517-54372-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De StaFElby J. Christopher HeroldISBN 0517537834 (0-517-53783-4)
Softcover, Crown Pub
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0523420536 (0-523-42053-6)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Night Thoughtsby Edward Young, Stephen CornfordISBN 052134185X (0-521-34185-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Perreaus & Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century Londonby Donna T. Andrew, Randall McGowenISBN 0520220625 (0-520-22062-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Political Worksby John Robertson, Andrew FletcherISBN 0521439949 (0-521-43994-9)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0553213105 (0-553-21310-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Pride And Prejudice: ISBN 0521825148 (0-521-82514-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Pride And Prejudice: ISBN 0531169944 (0-531-16994-4)
Hardcover, Franklin Watts - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0563371900 (0-563-37190-0)
Hardcover, Bbc Pubns - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0521576547 (0-521-57654-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0525183817 (0-525-18381-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0553213105 (0-553-21310-5)
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Pride and Prejudice : Oxford World Classicsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517606097 (0-517-60609-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaires and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840by Iain McCalmanISBN 0521307554 (0-521-30755-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Regicide and Revolutionby Michael WalzerISBN 0521203708 (0-521-20370-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Remaking of France: The National Assembly and the Constitution of 1791by Michael P. FitzsimmonsISBN 0521893771 (0-521-89377-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Riches and Poverty : An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1750-1834by Donald Winch, Lorraine Daston, Dorothy Ross, Quentin Skinner, James TullyISBN 0521559200 (0-521-55920-0)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Rise of the Novelby I. WattISBN 0520013182 (0-520-01318-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Rise of African Slavery in the Americasby David EltisISBN 052165548X (0-521-65548-X)
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fieldingby Ian WattISBN 0520230698 (0-520-23069-8)
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Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writingsby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor GourevitchISBN 0521413818 (0-521-41381-8)
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Rousseau-The Discourses and Other Early Political Thoughtby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor GourevitchISBN 0521424453 (0-521-42445-3)
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and Proseby William K. Wimsatt, Brady, Frank & Wimsatt, William K., EditorsISBN 0520035526 (0-520-03552-6)
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The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785by Kathleen WilsonISBN 0521635276 (0-521-63527-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Shaftesbury : Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Timesby Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, Ashley Cooper, Lawrence Klein, Karl Ameriks, Desmond M. ClarkeISBN 0521570220 (0-521-57022-0)
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Shaftesbury : Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Timesby Lord Shaftesbury, Lawrence E. Klein, Karl Ameriks, Desmond M. ClarkeISBN 0521578922 (0-521-57892-2)
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0525026606 (0-525-02660-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Spirit of Lawsby Anne M. Cohler, C. De MontisquieuISBN 0521369746 (0-521-36974-6)
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The Spirit of Laws: A Compendium of the First English Editionby Charles Louis De Secondat MontesquieuISBN 0520034554 (0-520-03455-4)
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The Sublime : A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theoryby Andrew Ashfield, Peter de BollaISBN 0521395828 (0-521-39582-8)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0553211765 (0-553-21176-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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The Talisman Ringby Georgette HeyerISBN 0553253840 (0-553-25384-0)
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The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Carolineby Flora FraserISBN 0520212754 (0-520-21275-4)
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Vico : The First New Scienceby Leon Pompa, Raymond Geuss, Quentin Skinner, Gianbattista VicoISBN 0521387264 (0-521-38726-4)
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Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenmentby Istvan Hont, Michael IgnatieffISBN 0521312140 (0-521-31214-0)
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White Servitude in Colonial Americaby David GalensonISBN 052127379X (0-521-27379-X)
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White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysisby David W. GalensonISBN 052123686X (0-521-23686-X)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontëISBN 0553196332 (0-553-19633-2)
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