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The American Senator
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0405141645 (0-405-14164-5)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub

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Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare, John Wilders

ISBN 0415011035 (0-415-01103-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning

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John Wilders brings to life the range of approaches that have bee taken to the play's performance throughout its history, together with the insights and changing views which critics have offered. Commentary on the play provides invaluable guidance to the play's classical references and short biographies are given of the play's historical characters. The edition also includes an accessible discussion of the decisions involved in establishing an edited text, opening up Arden's scholarship to the general reader. [via]
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Antony and Cleopatra
by Maurice R. Ridley

ISBN 0416476309 (0-416-47630-9)
Softcover, Routledge

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The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts
by David Lodge

ISBN 0436256711 (0-436-25671-1)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg

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The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday for fifty weeks between 1991 and 1992 he has now revised, expanded and collected together in book form. The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, the Sense of Place, and Symbolism. Each topic is illustrated by a short passage or two taken from classic and modern fiction, extending from Laurence Sterne to J.D. Salinger, from Jane Austen to Fay Weldon, from Charles Dickens to Martin Amis. David Lodge takes these passages apart and puts them together again with the expertise of a novelist, critic and teacher. Technical terms and lucidly explained and their application examined, in the literary-critical equivalent of slow-motion action replays of some of the best writing in the English language. To throw further light on a given topic the author sometimes refers directly, and revealingly, to his own experience of writing fiction. This book is essential reading for students of literature, aspiring writers, and anyone who enjoys literary fiction and would like to understand better how it works. [via]
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes II
by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 0425101940 (0-425-10194-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, Michael Foreman

ISBN 0395607264 (0-395-60726-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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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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Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0415105846 (0-415-10584-6)
Hardcover, Routledge

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Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee

ISBN 0436204894 (0-436-20489-4)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg

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David Lurie is hardly the hero of his own life, or anyone else's. At 52, the protagonist of Disgrace is at the end of his professional and romantic game, and seems to be deliberately courting disaster. Long a professor of modern languages at Cape Town University College, he has recently been relegated to adjunct professor of communications at the same institution, now pointedly renamed Cape Technical University:
Although he devotes hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: "Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other." His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
Twice married and twice divorced, his magnetic looks on the wane, David rather cruelly seduces one of his students, and his conduct unbecoming is soon uncovered. In his eighth novel, J.M. Coetzee might have been content to write a searching academic satire. But in Disgrace he is intent on much more, and his art is as uncompromising as his main character, though infinitely more complex. Refusing to play the public-repentance game, David gets himself fired--a final gesture of contempt. Now, he thinks, he will write something on Byron's last years. Not empty, unread criticism, "prose measured by the yard," but a libretto. To do so, he heads for the Eastern Cape and his daughter's farm. In her mid-20s, Lucy has turned her back on city sophistications: with five hectares, she makes her living by growing flowers and produce and boarding dogs. "Nothing," David thinks, "could be more simple." But nothing, in fact, is more complicated--or, in the new South Africa, more dangerous. Far from being the refuge he has sought, little is safe in Salem. Just as David has settled into his temporary role as farmworker and unenthusiastic animal-shelter volunteer, he and Lucy are attacked by three black men. Unable to protect his daughter, David's disgrace is complete. Hers, however, is far worse.
There is much more to be explored in Coetzee's painful novel, and few consolations. It would be easy to pick up on his title and view Disgrace as a complicated working-out of personal and political shame and responsibility. But the author is concerned with his country's history, brutalities, and betrayals. Coetzee is also intent on what measure of soul and rights we allow animals. After the attack, David takes his role at the shelter more seriously, at last achieving an unlikely home and some measure of love. In Coetzee's recent Princeton lectures, The Lives of Animals, an aging novelist tells her audience that the question that occupies all lab and zoo creatures is, "Where is home, and how do I get there?" David, though still all-powerful compared to those he helps dispose of, is equally trapped, equally lost.
Disgrace is almost willfully plain. Yet it possesses its own lean, heartbreaking lyricism, most of all in its descriptions of unwanted animals. At the start of the novel, David tells his student that poetry either speaks instantly to the reader--"a flash of revelation and a flash of response"--or not at all. Coetzee's book speaks differently, its layers and sadnesses endlessly unfolding. --Kerry Fried [via]
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A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen, Michael Meyer

ISBN 0413544702 (0-413-54470-2)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd

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A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life".
The Student Edition contains these exclusive features:
·         A chronology of the playwright's life and work
·         An introduction giving the background of the play
·         Commentary on themes, characters. language and style
·         Notes on individual words and phrases in the text
·         Questions for further study
·         Bibliography for further reading.

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The Empire of the Glass
by Andy Lane

ISBN 0426204573 (0-426-20457-3)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited

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An Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen, Michael Leverson Meyer

ISBN 0413294706 (0-413-29470-6)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen

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The English Studies Book
by Rob Pope

ISBN 0415257107 (0-415-25710-7)
Softcover, Routledge

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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser

ISBN 0395977894 (0-395-97789-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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First Men in the Moon
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 0425044114 (0-425-04411-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha Tudor

ISBN 0397321651 (0-397-32165-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0416179207 (0-416-17920-7)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold

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Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
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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A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh

ISBN 0412505703 (0-412-50570-3)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
by J. K. Rowling, Mary Grandpre

ISBN 0439064872 (0-439-06487-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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In one of the most hotly anticipated sequel in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left off with Harry's second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, an outrageously conceited professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, and a mysterious force that turns Hogwarts students to stone. [via]
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K. Rowling, Mary Grandpre

ISBN 0439139600 (0-439-13960-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger. [via]
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J. K. Rowling, Mary Grandpre

ISBN 0439136369 (0-439-13636-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. [via]
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling, Mary Grandpre

ISBN 043920352X (0-439-20352-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic

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Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand and jellybeans that come in every flavour, including strawberry, curry, grass and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in JK Rowling's enchanting, funny debut novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the non-magical human world--the world of "Muggles"--Harry is a nobody, treated like dirt by the aunt and uncle who begrudgingly inherited him when his parents were killed by the evil Voldemort. But in the world of wizards, small, skinny Harry is renowned as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him. He is left only with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, curiously refined sensibilities and a host of mysterious powers to remind him that he's quite, yes, altogether different from his aunt, uncle, and spoilt, pig-like cousin Dudley.
A mysterious letter, delivered by the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence: "We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry". Of course, Uncle Vernon yells most unpleasantly, "I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" Soon enough, however, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig ... and that's where the real adventure--humorous, haunting, and suspenseful--begins.
This magical, gripping, brilliant book--a future classic to be sure--will leave children clamouring for a sequel. (Ages 8-13) --Karin Snelson, Amazon.com [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 0425104052 (0-425-10405-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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very good reading copy--pb--one minor cover scratch--ships quick--eao65r [via]
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Human Nature
by Paul Cornell

ISBN 0426204433 (0-426-20443-3)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited

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I, Claudius
by Robert Graves

ISBN 0413370704 (0-413-37070-4)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen

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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0413396304 (0-413-39630-4)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd

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Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This book includes "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", which appears in full with the 'Grigsby' scene which originally made up the fourth act. [via]
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Island of Dr Moreau
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 0425044076 (0-425-04407-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Jack Sheppard
by William H. Ainsworth, George Cruikshank

ISBN 0404617514 (0-404-61751-4)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc

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Julius Caesar and Related Readings
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0395775426 (0-395-77542-6)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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Literature and Gender
by Lizbeth Goodman

ISBN 0415135745 (0-415-13574-5)
Softcover, Routledge

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Literature and Gender combines an introduction to and an anthology of literary texts which powerfully demonstrate the relevance of gender issues to the study of literature. The volume covers all three major literary genres - poetry, fiction and drama - and closely examines a wide range of themes, including:b
* feminity versus creativity in women's lives and writing
* the construction of female characters
* autobiography and fiction
* the gendering of language
* the interaction of race, class and gender within writing, reading and interpretation.
Literature and Gender is also a superb resource of primary texts, and includes writing by:
* Sappho
* Emily Dickinson
* Sylvia Plath
* Tennyson
* Elizabeth Bishop
* Louisa May Alcott
* Virginia Woolf
* Jamaica Kincaid
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman
* Susan Glaspell
Also reproduced are essential essays by, amoung others, Maya Angelou, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Toni Morrison, Elaine Showalter, and Alice Walker. No other book on this subject provides an anthology, introduction and critical reader in one volume. Literature and Gender is the ideal guide for any student new to this field. [via]
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0415026962 (0-415-02696-2)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold

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One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605 to 1606. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Macbeth and Related Readings
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0395775531 (0-395-77553-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School

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Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: McDougal Littel (March 25, 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0395775531 ISBN-13: 978-0395775530 [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0395775434 (0-395-77543-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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An illustrated, abridged verison of the Shakespeare comedy with background information and explanatory stage directions. [via]
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Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan

ISBN 0415280222 (0-415-28022-2)
Softcover, Routledge

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The New Adventures of Doctor Who: Nightshade
by Mark Gatiss

ISBN 0426203763 (0-426-20376-3)
Softcover, General Publishing Company, Limited

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The Doctor and Ace end up in the village of Crook Marsham in 1968. The Doctor contemplates retiring and Ace falls in love with local boy Robin Yeadon. in a nearby retirement home, Edmund Trevithick, who once played the fictional character known as Professor Nightshade in the BBC t.v series of the same title, begins to see other fictional characters from the program as if they were real. The Doctor realizes that Crook Marsham has had many unexplained deaths throughout history. The villagers are then plagued by appearances of lost loved ones. [via]
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New Art: Some Recent New Zealand Sculpture A Past Object of Art
by Jim Allen, Wystan Curnow

ISBN 0424000938 (0-424-00093-8)
Hardcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc

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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0396082610 (0-396-08261-0)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead

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The Once and Future King
by Terence Hanbury White

ISBN 0399105972 (0-399-10597-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group

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T.H. White, whose The Sword in the Stone has been read by hundreds of thousands, now at last has turned his hand to retelling the entire Arthurian Epic. The Once and Future King takes Arthur from the glorious lyrical phase of his youth through the disillusioning early years of his reign to the mature years in which his vision of the Round Table develops into the search for the Holy Grail and finally to his weary old age.
In part, T.H. White has drawn on published material which he has revised and reworked heavily to bring form and continuity to an overall work, a tetralogy which will stand as unique and vivid and quite apart from the individual effects of the various particular books. And in part the author has created new material as enchanting as any he has ever set on paper.
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
by Charles Darwin

ISBN 0404084044 (0-404-08404-4)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc

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Oroonoko and Other Stories
by Aphra Behn, Maureen Duffy

ISBN 0413413608 (0-413-41360-8)
Softcover, Methuen

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Othello
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0415027012 (0-415-02701-2)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold

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This edition of "Othello" aims to shed light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. The professional malpractices of the publisher of the Quarto, as described in documents in the Public Record Office, and the professional zeal of the Folio scribe, who wished to tidy and correct Shakespeare's manuscript, introduced many plausible but post-Shakespearean readings into the text, which call into question a number of our assumptions about the play. As well as investigating the implications of these findings about the early texts, the editor offers a wider background to the play, discussing major critical issues, the play in performance and the relationship between reading and seeing it, and topics such as its date, sources, the famous conundrum of "double time", and its "greatness" compared with "Hamlet" and "King Lear". Commentary notes assist the reader's understanding of the text in detail; many are concerned with the contemporary resonsanaces of its language. [via]
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Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie, John Caird

ISBN 0413735508 (0-413-73550-8)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd

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"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Students
by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 0425101517 (0-425-10151-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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The Return of the King
by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 039548930X (0-395-48930-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, Aragorn is revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient kings. Gandalf miraculously returns and defeats the evil wizard, Saruman. Sam leaves his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob; but Frodo is still alive -- in the hands of the Orcs. And all the while the armies of the Dark Lord are massing -- and the One Ring comes ever closer to the Cracks of Doom. [via]
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor

ISBN 0395775302 (0-395-77530-2)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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CLEAN, NO WRITING, TIGHT BINDING, stamped on inside with ownership [via]
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The Silmarillion
by J. R. R. Tolkien, Ted Nasmith, Christopher Tolkien

ISBN 0395939461 (0-395-93946-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via]
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The Summing Up
by W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN 0405078307 (0-405-07830-7)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub

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The Tao of Pooh
by Benjamin Hoff

ISBN 0416195113 (0-416-19511-3)
Softcover, Routledge

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Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. Romp through the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living. [via]
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf, Sandra Kemp

ISBN 0415016630 (0-415-01663-0)
Softcover, Routledge

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Top Girls
by Caryl Churchill

ISBN 0413554805 (0-413-55480-5)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd

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The dialectic of Top Girls is wide-ranging, covering universal dilemmas facing women, but focuses on major themes of contemporary life. The critique of feminist ambitions is a clear central theme and Churchill's selection of women from the past and modern world shows sympathy for the feminist cause and disdain for the male oppressor, but there is no sentimentality an no comfortable solution is offered for their problems.
Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull Gret, who as Dulle Griet in a Bruegel painting, led a crowd of women on a charge through hell; Pope Joan - the transvestite early female pope and last but not least Patient Griselda, an obedient wife out of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. As the evening continues we are involved with the stories of all five women and the impending crisis in Marlene's own life. A classic of contemporary theatre, Churchill's play is seen as a landmark for a new generation of playwrights. It was premiered by the Royal Court in 1982.

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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0424000946 (0-424-00094-6)
Softcover, Sydney Univ Pr

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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare, T.S. Dorsch

ISBN 0415026849 (0-415-02684-9)
Softcover, Thomson Learning

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In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March"--and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead. [via]
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Tragedy of Macbeth
by William Shakespeare, A. P. Riemer

ISBN 0424000814 (0-424-00081-4)
Softcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc

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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dan Danko

ISBN 0439288886 (0-439-28888-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited

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Pirates. Danger. Treasure. It's all here in Stevenson's classic, with a rousing introduction from best-selling author Mary Pope Osbourne.When Jim Hawkins finds an old pirate map showing a small island marked with a red cross, he knows that a fortune in gold lies waiting for him. What could be more exciting than buried treasure? Aboard a ship named the Hispaniola, Jim sails toward Treasure Island. The voyage goes well until Jim overhears a frightening conversation. He learns that the one-legged man who signed on as ship's cook is really the famous pirate Long John Silver. And worse - he discovers that the crew are teaming up with Silver to steal the treasure. Can Jim save the gold . . . and save his life? [via]
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Two Towers
by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0395489334 (0-395-48933-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest. They have lost the wizard Gandalf in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. Now Frodo and Sam continue the journey alone down the great river Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. [via]
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Unpopular Essays
by Bertrand Russell

ISBN 0415119634 (0-415-11963-4)
Softcover, Routledge

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Washington Square
by Henry James

ISBN 0435121383 (0-435-12138-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann Educational

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The Watsons
by Jane Austen

ISBN 0432007512 (0-432-00751-2)
Hardcover, P. Davies

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The Well-Mannered War
by Gareth Roberts

ISBN 0426205065 (0-426-20506-5)
Softcover, Doctor Who Books

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Who Killed Kennedy?
by James Stevens, David Bishop

ISBN 0426204670 (0-426-20467-0)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited

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Who's Who in Shakespeare
by Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson

ISBN 0415260353 (0-415-26035-3)
Softcover, Routledge

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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, Ernest H. Shepard

ISBN 0416169805 (0-416-16980-5)
Hardcover, Methuen

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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. 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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The Works of Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde, Wilde, J. Barbey d'Aurevilly

ISBN 0404069606 (0-404-06960-6)
Hardcover, AMS Press

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A Writer's Notebook
by W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN 0405078323 (0-405-07832-3)
Hardcover, Arno Press

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From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating admission into this great writer's workshop [via]
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