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Alice in WonderlandISBN 0831702389 (0-8317-0238-9)
Hardcover, Gallery Books
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glassby Lewis CarrollISBN 0831766948 (0-8317-6694-8)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 0831713518 (0-8317-1351-8)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0816718628 (0-8167-1862-8)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0840749260 (0-8407-4926-0)
Hardcover, Nelson Regency - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0856701890 (0-85670-189-0)
Hardcover, Academy Editions Ltd - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0831713518 (0-8317-1351-8)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0816718628 (0-8167-1862-8)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0816728755 (0-8167-2875-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Anderby Woldby Winifred HoltbyISBN 0860682072 (0-86068-207-2)
Hardcover, Virago
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Barchester Towersby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0850671051 (0-85067-105-1)
Hardcover, Folio Society
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barchester Towers'Book summary:This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0833522019 (0-8335-2201-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Bird of Nightby Susan HillISBN 0841502234 (0-8415-0223-4)
Hardcover, Saturday Review Press
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The Black Towerby P. D. JamesISBN 0816149836 (0-8161-4983-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Breakheart Passby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0816149828 (0-8161-4982-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Caravan to Vaccaresby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0854560998 (0-85456-099-8)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The Caretakerby Harold PinterISBN 0822201844 (0-8222-0184-4)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Caretaker'Book summary:This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication, broadly in the tradition of the theatre of the absurds and this is demonstrated in both "The Caretaker" and "The Birthday Party". [via]
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Christopher and His Kindby Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0816638632 (0-8166-3863-2)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteryby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0816167214 (0-8161-6721-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Complete Illustrated ShakespeareISBN 0831715812 (0-8317-1581-2)
Hardcover, Gallery Books
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0831716991 (0-8317-1699-1)
Hardcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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The Crowded Streetby Winifred HoltbyISBN 0860682080 (0-86068-208-0)
Hardcover, Virago
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Curtainby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816145407 (0-8161-4540-7)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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The Dogs of Warby Frederick ForsythISBN 081616245X (0-8161-6245-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Down There on a Visitby Christopher Isherwood, Isherwood ChristopherISBN 0816633673 (0-8166-3367-3)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down There on a Visit'Book summary:Christopher Isherwood originally intended Down There on a Visit to be part of The Lost, the unfinished epic novel that would also incorporate his famous Berlin Stories. Tracing many of the same themes as that earlier work, this novel is a bemused, sometimes acid portrait of people caught in private sexual hells of their own making. Its four episodes are connected by four narrators. All are called "Christopher Isherwood, " but each is a different character inhabiting a new setting: Berlin in 1928, the Greek Isles in 1933, London in 1938, and California in 1940. Down There on a Visit is a major work that shows Isherwood at the height of his literary powers. [via]
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0816156921 (0-8161-5692-1)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]Awareness of Dracula as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey to Transylvania, into the very heart of Count Draculas evil realm, is compelling, but it is perhaps the journey of the vampire to Englandand the dangers he poses to Jonathans beloved Minathat is more horrifying.More editions of Dracula:
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Dufyby Pierre CamoISBN 0828839824 (0-8288-3982-4)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Elephants Can Rememberby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816160864 (0-8161-6086-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Endless Nightby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816145482 (0-8161-4548-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0833524372 (0-8335-2437-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Freaks of Mayfairby E. F. BensonISBN 083693833X (0-8369-3833-X)
Hardcover, Books for Libraries Press
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Frenchman's Creekby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0837604125 (0-8376-0412-5)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub
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A Friend From Englandby Anita BrooknerISBN 081614656X (0-8161-4656-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0833511181 (0-8335-1118-1)
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For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Hamletby J. K. LowersISBN 0822000180 (0-8220-0018-0)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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Hamlet/Complete Study Editionby William ShakespeareISBN 0822014157 (0-8220-1415-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Hangover Squareby Patrick HamiltonISBN 0848810384 (0-8488-1038-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundlingby Henry FieldingISBN 0819560480 (0-8195-6048-0)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'Book summary:The Wesleyan edition of Tom Jones is widely acknowledged as the best available, and this new paperback reproduces the handsomely composed text and notes of that edition. A new Critical Introduction, a brief chronology of Fielding's life, and a selected bibliography of relevant criticism especially designed for student use have been added. The map - "A Geography of Tom Jones" - has been retained, while the General and Textual Introduction and six bibliographical Appendices of the two volume clothbound edition have been omitted.
"This edition offers a critical unmodernized text of Tom Jones. The text is critical in that it has been established by application of analytical criticism to the evidence of the various documentary forms in which the novel has appeared. It is unmodernized in that every effort has been made to present the text in as close a form to Fielding's own inscription and final revision as the surviving documents permit, subject only to normal editorial regulations."
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The Hollowby Agatha ChristieISBN 0854563016 (0-85456-301-6)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hollow'Book summary:It's Agatha Christie at her best as a weekend house party becomes a crime scene for special guest Hercule Poirot. [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 082220536X (0-8222-0536-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Human Factorby Graham GreeneISBN 081616598X (0-8161-6598-X)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Human Factor'Book summary:A morally complex and mature work from a modern master[via]
IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene? featuring a new introduction?the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studies and exciting drama on an international stage. In The Human Factor A high- level operative of the British Secret Service acts as a double agent to benefit his family.More editions of The Human Factor:
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I, Claudiusby Robert GravesISBN 0848805119 (0-8488-0511-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Claudius'Book summary:Having never seen the famous 1970s television series based on Graves' historical novel of ancient Rome and being generally uneducated about matters both ancient and Roman, I wasn't prepared for such an engaging book. But it's a ripping good read, this fictional autobiography set in the Roman Empire's days of glory and decadence. As a history lesson, it's fabulous; as a novel it's also wonderful. Best is Claudius himself, the stutterer who let everyone think he was an idiot (to avoid getting poisoned) but who reveals himself in the narrative to be a wry and likable observer. His story continues in Claudius the God. [via]
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The Illustrated Pilgrim's Progressby John Bunyan, Jean Watson, Vic MitchellISBN 0842316051 (0-8423-1605-1)
Hardcover, Tyndale House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:A simplified version of John Bunyan's religious allegory about the journey of Christian toward "the heavenly city." [via]
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In the Springtime of the Year: A Novelby Susan HillISBN 0841502986 (0-8415-0298-6)
Hardcover, Saturday Review Press
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In This House of Bredeby Rumer Godden, Phyllis TickleISBN 0829421289 (0-8294-2128-9)
Softcover, Loyola Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In This House of Brede'Book summary:Philippa Talbot leaves her Civil Service career for a new calling - to join an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns. In this small community, each crisis is guided by the Abbess and the Sisters' shared bond of faith. It is here that Philippa must learn to forgive and forget the past. [via]
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Islands in the Skyby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0839825161 (0-8398-2516-1)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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Jeeves and the Tie That Bindsby Pelham Grenville WodehouseISBN 0816160112 (0-8161-6011-2)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Jeeves, who has saved Bertie Wooster so often in the past, may finally prove to be the unwitting cause of this young master's undoing in Jeeves and the Tie that Binds. The Junior Ganymede, a club for butlers in London's fashionable West End, requires every member to provide details about the fellow he is working for. When information is inadvertently revealed to a dangerous source, it falls to Jeeves to undo the damage. [via]
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0848800931 (0-8488-0093-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jungle Book and the Second Jungle Book'Book summary:Children, parents, and educators for more than a decade have trusted Troll Illustrated Classics. Carefully abridged and beautifully illustrated, these afforably priced paperbacks now feature contemporary new covers that bring alive the best-loved classics for a new generation of readers. [via]
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Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0816728682 (0-8167-2868-2)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Jungle Book: ISBN 083170747X (0-8317-0747-X)
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- The Jungle Book: ISBN 0816725535 (0-8167-2553-5)
The Keys of the Kingdomby A. J. Cronin, Joseph BottumISBN 0829423346 (0-8294-2334-6)
Softcover, Loyola Pr
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The Labors of Herculesby Agatha ChristieISBN 081614558X (0-8161-4558-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0816156514 (0-8161-5651-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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A Meeting by the Riverby Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0816633681 (0-8166-3368-1)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Manby Siegfried SassoonISBN 0850670446 (0-85067-044-6)
Hardcover, Folio Society
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The Memorialby Christopher Isherwood, Isherwood ChristopherISBN 081663369X (0-8166-3369-X)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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A Month in the Countryby J. L. CarrISBN 0855273283 (0-85527-328-3)
Hardcover, Harvester Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Month in the Country'Book summary:Any good reader has, well, had it with novels of healing. The culture of confession has given rise to novels that begin with an unspeakable act (graphically described) and end in redemption (this part is usually more vague). That's not how it works in J.L. Carr's quiet, brief, dreamy A Month in the Country. Writing in 1978, Carr's narrator, Tom Birkin, recalls the summer of 1920. A veteran of the Great War and a cuckold, Tom arrives in Oxgodby to restore a medieval mural in the church. His single season in this town in the north of England passes quickly: he sleeps in the belfry, makes a friend or two, falls secretly in love with the vicar's wife, and, chipping away at plaster and dirt, uncovers a lost masterpiece. These events seem to melt past Tom in the heat of the perfect, fleeting English summer: "The front gardens of cottages were crammed with marjoram and roses, marguerites, sweet William, at night heavy with the scent of stocks. The Vale was heavy with leaves, motionless in the early morning, black caves of shadow in the midday heat, blurring the sound of trains hammering north and south."
Carr devotes many fewer words to Tom's time in the war. The vicar's wife tries to ask him about it. "'What about hell on earth?' she said. I told her I'd seen it and lived there and that, mercifully, they usually left an exit open." His healing consists of not talking about his past--perhaps a revolutionary notion these days. A Month in the Country, with its paean to a lost, good place, oddly recalls Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes. But where that novel was elliptical, Carr's work values clarity and simplicity above all. These are rare enough qualities, but to find them in a novel of romance and healing is a rarer pleasure still. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Murder Must Advertiseby Dorothy L. Sayers, Ian CarmichaelISBN 081619114X (0-8161-9114-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Murder of Roger Ackroydby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816144990 (0-8161-4499-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'Book summary:Agatha Christie's ginius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heartor the dark passions that can stop itbetter than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.
The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
Village rumor hints that Mrs. Ferrars poisoned her husband, but no one is sure. Then there's another victim in a chain of death. Unfortunately for the killer, master sleuth Hercule Poirot takes over the investigation.
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My Family and Other Animalsby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0844660736 (0-8446-6073-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Family and Other Animals'Book summary:As a self-described "champion of small uglies," Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) devoted his life to writing and the preservation of wildlife, from the Mauritius pink pigeon to the Rodriques fruit bat. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the Greek island of Corfu, but ended up as a delightful account of his family's experiences that were, according to him, "rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas".
As a 10-year-old boy, Gerry left England for Corfu with "all those items that I thought necessary to relieve the tedium of a long journey: four books on natural history, a butterfly net, a dog, and a jam-jar full of caterpillars all in imminent danger of turning into chrysalids". Durrell's descriptions of his family and its many eccentric hangers-on (he stresses that "all the anecdotes about the island and the islanders are absolutely true") are highly entertaining, as is the procession of toads, scorpions, geckos, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, the puppies Widdle and Puke, and the Magenpies. This is a lovely book. --Christine Buttery [via]
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Novel on Yellow Paper, or Work It Out for Yourselfby Stevie SmithISBN 0860681467 (0-86068-146-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0848810953 (0-8488-1095-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0851512593 (0-85151-259-3)
Hardcover, Banner of Truth
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:The great religious allegory of Christian's journey, through the Slough of Despond to the Celestial City, in search of the truth. [via]
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The Pilgrim's Progressby Cheryl FordISBN 0842351450 (0-8423-5145-0)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:1992 Gold Medallion Award winner! For over 300 years Christians have found life within the pages of The Pilgrim's Progress. This edition by Cheryl Ford provides a fresh, modern rendering as biblical truths are weaved into a simple yet profound story that reveals the treacheries of the human heart and the power of conquering faith. Many modern translations of this Christian classic leave out significant parts or add passages not included in John Bunyan's original. But this translation is different. First, in contemporary English it faithfully presents the complete text (including the pilgrimages of Christian and Christiana). Second, more than 150 one-color calligraphy pieces by Timothy R. Botts enhance this beloved story. Additional features include comprehensive Scripture cross-references and an index to all the people, places, and spiritual symbols. Questions for group discussion and personal application strengthen the impact of this timeless story of Christian life. [via]
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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Allegory of a Dreamby John Bunyan, Cheryl V. FordISBN 0842347879 (0-8423-4787-9)
Hardcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Point Counter Pointby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0848813790 (0-8488-1379-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Point Counter Point'Book summary:When it was published in 1928, Point Counter Point no doubt shocked its readers with frank depictions of infidelity, sexuality, and the highbrow high jinks of Aldous Huxley's arty characters. What's truly remarkable, however, is how his novel continues to shock today. True, we may hardly lift an eyebrow at poor Marjorie Carling leaving her husband to live in sin with--and get pregnant by--her lover Walter Bidlake. And the sexual exploits of Lady Edward Tantamount or her daughter, Lucy, seem quite in keeping with the behavior expected of such exalted persons by readers inured to the exploits of the British Royals. If the varieties of sexual experience on display in Huxley's novel seem tame by current standards, his clear-eyed dissection of the motives behind them are thrillingly fresh--and his commentaries on everything from politics to ecology sometimes chillingly prescient. Take for example, the wisdom of amateur biologist Lord Edward Tantamount on the subject of non-renewable resources:
"No doubt," he said, "you think you can make good the loss with phosphate rocks. But what'll you do when the deposits are exhausted?" He poked Everard in the shirt front. "What then? Only two hundred years and they'll be finished. You think we're being progressive because we're living on our capital Phosphates, coal, petroleum, nitre--squander them all. That's your policy. And meanwhile you go round trying to make our flesh creep with talk about revolutions."
When his interlocutor, the fascist politician Everard Webley, demands to know whether Lord Edward wants a revolution, Tantamount first asks whether such an event would reduce the population and check production and then, when assured it would, he responds, "'Then certainly I want a revolution.' The Old Man thought in terms of geology and was not afraid of logical conclusions."Huxley fills his novel with a multitude of characters, from the obscenely wealthy Tantamounts to the priapic painter John Bidlake, his children Walter and Elinor, and their respective mates, Marjorie Carling and Philip Quarles. There is also the venomous Maurice Spandrell, the revolutionary Illidge, the unctuous Burlap, and the happily married (a rarity in this novel) Mark and Mary Rampion, who are the book's moral center--theirs is the one relationship that combines reason and passion in proper measure. They are purportedly in part based on well-known figures of the time such as D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield. Love, loss, infidelity, and murder are the subjects under discussion as Huxley juxtaposes one point of view against its opposite, and mixes in a healthy dollop of science, politics, religion, and art, as well. Point Counter Point is an intelligent novel about the intellectual world, and one that bears up gracefully under the test of time. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Prater Violetby Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0816638616 (0-8166-3861-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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The classic novel on the golden era of film, now back in print!
Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter-the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.
"Prater Violet, in my view, is one of the best short novels in English written in this century." Stanley Kauffmann
"Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time. . . . a novel about movie writers, which is yet a novel about the life of every serious artist." Diana Trilling
"A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles the episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence." Edmund Wilson
A major figure in both twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) is also the author of Down There on a Visit, Lions and Shadows, The Memorial, The World in the Evening, and A Meeting by the River, all available in paperback editions from the University of Minnesota Press. [via]
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Rule Britanniaby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0816161100 (0-8161-6110-0)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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The Russia Houseby John Le CarreISBN 0816148856 (0-8161-4885-6)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Storyby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Louise Betts, Karen PrichettISBN 0816712042 (0-8167-1204-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Story'Book summary:This kindle book also includes bonus annotations:
- information on the historical context of the book
- biography of the author
- literary critique
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in autumn 1910; the book was first published in its entirety in 1911.
Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of children's literature.
The main character of this story is Mary Lennox. She has been born to rich British parents that are currently living in India. Her parents were busy with extravagent parties and left Mary with her ayah for most of the time. Orphaned by an outbreak of cholera, she is sent back to England to be cared for by her mother's sister's husband, Archibald Craven, a reclusive widower. Craven's wife, Lilian, passed away ten years earlier. He is still mourning that loss. To escape his sad memories, he constantly travels abroad, leaving the entire manor, including Mary, to be cared for by his housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock. The only person who has any time for the little girl is the chambermaid Martha Sowerby, who tells Mary about a locked up garden, surrounded by a wall that was the late Mrs. Craven's favorite place. No one has entered the garden since she died because Archibald locked its entrance and buried the key. He hasn't told anyone where it is.
Mary finds the key to the secret garden hidden in a box in the house. A robin shows her where the door is hidden beneath overgrown ivy. Once inside, she discovers that although the roses seem lifeless, some of the other flowers have survived. She decides to tend the garden herself. Mary wants to keep her new found garden a secret, but she knows she needs help tending it. She gets this help from Martha's brother Dickon. He seems to have a connection with all wild animals and plants. Mary gives him money to buy gardening implements and he shows her that the roses, though neglected, are not dead. When Mary's uncle briefly meets with her for the first time since her arrival, Mary asks him for permission to claim her own garden from any abandoned part of the grounds, and he acquiesces. Thanks to her new-found interests and activities, Mary herself begins to blossom, becoming more healthy looking and more pleasant to be around.
Some nights, Mary hears someone weeping in another part of the house. When she asks questions, the servants become evasive. They tell her that she is hearing things, like a servant with a toothache. Shortly after her uncle's visit, she goes exploring and discovers her uncle's son, Colin, a lonely, bedridden boy as petulant and disagreeable as Mary used to be. His father shuns him because the child closely resembles his mother. Mr. Craven is a mild hunchback, and both he and Colin are morbidly convinced that the boy will develop the same condition. The servants have been keeping Mary and Colin a secret from one another because Colin doesn't like strangers staring at him and is prone to terrible tantrums.
Mr. Craven has been traveling through Europe, but is inspired to rush home after hearing the voice of his dead wife in a dream and receiving a letter from Mrs. Sowerby (Martha's and Dickon's mother, who also knows the secret) telling him, "I think your lady would ask you to come if she was here." He arrives while the children are outdoors and finds himself drawn toward the secret garden. As he approaches nearer, he is astonished to hear their voices inside the walls; Colin bursts out of the garden door toward him, actually winning a footrace against Mary and Dickon. The story's heartwarming ending has Colin able to walk, Archibald smiling again, and Mary has a family and friends who love her. [via]More editions of The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Story:
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Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood Anderson, Ray Lewis WhiteISBN 0821411802 (0-8214-1180-2)
Hardcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. [via]
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Shroud for a Nightingaleby P. D. JamesISBN 081615032X (0-8161-5032-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Strangersby Antonia WhiteISBN 0860681718 (0-86068-171-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Texterminationby Christine Brooke-RoseISBN 0856359521 (0-85635-952-1)
Hardcover, Carcanet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Textermination'Book summary:A paperback edition of a novel of novels which takes place at a conference in the San Francisco Hilton, where characters from great works of literature convene and pray for survival in the mind of readers: Ahab, Odysseus, Huckleberry Finn, and characters from 'The Satanic Verses', among others. From the author of AMALGAMEMNON and VERBIVORE. [via]
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They Came to Baghdadby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816146055 (0-8161-4605-5)
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Three Men in a Boat: (to Say Nothing of the Dog)by Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0826400183 (0-8264-0018-3)
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Towers in the Mist.by Elizabeth GoudgeISBN 0848813464 (0-8488-1346-4)
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The Triumphby Gene EdwardsISBN 0842369783 (0-8423-6978-3)
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Unpleasantness at the Bellona Clubby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0816167249 (0-8161-6724-9)
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The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth GrahameISBN 0816725632 (0-8167-2563-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind in the Willows'Book summary:"[Mole] thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before--this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again." Such is the cautious, agreeable Mole's first introduction to the river and the Life Adventurous. Emerging from his home at Mole End one spring, his whole world changes when he hooks up with the good-natured, boat-loving Water Rat, the boastful Toad of Toad Hall, the society- hating Badger who lives in the frightening Wild Wood, and countless other mostly well-meaning creatures. Michael Hague's exquisitely detailed, breathtaking color illustrations on almost every generous spread--along with Kenneth Grahame's elegant, delightfully old-fashioned characterizations of the animals--make this book a wonderful read-aloud. Grahame's The Wind in the Willows has enchanted readers for four generations, and this lavishly illustrated gift edition is perhaps the finest around. (All ages, or 9 to 12) [via]
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