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Asimov's Annotated Paradise Lost

by John Milton, Isaac Asimov

ISBN 0385079923 (0-385-07992-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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ISBN 9781593082666 (1-59308-266-5, 1593082665)

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Beowulf

by John McNamara, Anonymous

ISBN 1593082665 (1-59308-266-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Beowulf, by Anonymous, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Widely regarded as the first true masterpiece of English literature, Beowulf describes the thrilling adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. Its lyric intensity and imaginative vitality are unparalleled, and the poem has greatly influenced many important modern novelists and poets, most notably J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings.

Part history and part mythology, Beowulf opens in the court of the Danish king where a horrible demon named Grendel devours men in their sleep every night. The hero Beowulf arrives and kills the monster, but joy turns to horror when Grendels mother attacks the hall to avenge the death of her son. Ultimately triumphant, Beowulf becomes king himself and rules peacefully for fifty years until, one dark day, a foe more powerful than any he has yet faced is arousedan ancient dragon guarding a horde of treasure. Once again, Beowulf must summon all his strength and courage to face the beast, but this time victory exacts a terrible price.

New translation by John McNamara. Features an original map and genealogy chart.

John McNamara is Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he teaches the early languages and literatures of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a special focus on their oral traditions. He is the co-editor of Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs.

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ISBN 9780140186529 (0-14-018652-2, 0140186522)

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The Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad, R. G. Hampson

ISBN 0140186522 (0-14-018652-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious trader Kurtz.

@JungleFever Heading down to Africa on a boat. Too hot! I get the creeping sense this job isnt going to be as cushy as they made it sound.

The natives seem unhappy. Some are even violent! Why dont they appreciate how much weve done for them? Ungrateful welfare leeches, I say!

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ISBN 9780312007614 (0-312-00761-2, 0312007612)

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Heart of Darkness

by Ross C. Murfin, Joseph Conrad

ISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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If asked to describe the way in which the study of literature is changing, most of us willing to venture an answer would say that it is becoming more theortical. Without some kind of theoretical underpinning, literary criticism runs the riskof being impressionistic, even illogical [via]

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Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN 9780375753770 (0-375-75377-X, 037575377X)

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Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diary

by Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips

ISBN 037575377X (0-375-75377-X)
Softcover, Modern Library

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Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890-the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life." [via]

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ISBN 9780192801722 (0-19-280172-4, 0192801724)

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Heart of Darkness and Other Tales

by Joseph Conrad, Cedric Watts

ISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Set in an atmosphere of mystery, this novel tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. The other three tales also appraise the glamour and rapacity of imperial adventure and display insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. [via]

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ISBN 9780451526571 (0-451-52657-0, 0451526570)

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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer

by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]

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ISBN 9780140436228 (0-14-043622-7, 0140436227)

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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

by Henry Fielding, Tom Keymer, Alice Wakely

ISBN 0140436227 (0-14-043622-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]

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ISBN 9780192840677 (0-19-284067-3, 0192840673)

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Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad, Jacques Berthoud

ISBN 0192840673 (0-19-284067-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]

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ISBN 9780140180923 (0-14-018092-3, 0140180923)

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Lord Jim : A Tale

by Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampson, Cedric P. Watts

ISBN 0140180923 (0-14-018092-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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When Lord Jim first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation--a ripping good yarn, if you like. (One critic in The Academy complained that the narrator "was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven solid hours.") Conrad defended his method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, and listen as well. In fact his chatty masterwork requires no defense--it offers up not only linguistic pleasures but a timeless exploration of morality.

The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism--which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat, which happens to be bearing the unscrupulous captain and his cohorts away from the disaster. The Patna, however, manages to stay afloat. The foundering vessel is towed into port--and since the officers have strategically vanished, Jim is left to stand trial for abandoning the ship and its 800 passengers.

Stripped of his seaman's license, convinced of his own cowardice, Jim sets out on a tragic and transcendent search for redemption. This may sound like the bleakest of narratives. But Lord Jim is also touching, elevating, and often funny. Here, for example, the narrator describes the ship's captain (proving that clothes do indeed make the man):

He made me think of a trained baby elephant walking on hind-legs. He was extravagantly gorgeous too--got up in a soiled sleeping suit, bright green and deep orange vertical stripes, with a pair of ragged straw slippers on his bare feet, and somebody's cast-off pith hat, very dirty and two sizes too small for him, tied up with a manilla rope-yarn on the top of his big head. You understand a man like that hasn't a ghost of a chance when it comes to borrowing clothes.

This is formidable prose by any standard. But when you consider that Conrad was working in his third language, the sublime after-dinner story that is Lord Jim seems even more astonishing an accomplishment. --Teri Kieffer [via]

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Lord Jim : A Tale: ISBN 0140180923 (0-14-018092-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

ISBN 9780192823366 (0-19-282336-1, 0192823361)

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Lord Jim/Heart of Darkness/Nostromo/3 Books in 1 Volume

by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 0192823361 (0-19-282336-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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These three works of Conrad's middle years show him at the height of his powers. Each is an adventure story which also explores profound issues of identity and provides ironic insights into the bases of civilization. "Lord Jim" (1900) tells of a young, idealistic Englishman who is disgraced by an act of cowardice in "an Eastern port". Behind the story of ships and the sea is an involving study of a modern tragic hero's greatness and weakness. "Heart of Darkness" (1902) shares the narrator of "Lord Jim" , Marlow, who journeys up the Congo river to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. Set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, the tale appraises the glamour and folly of imperial adventure. "Nostromo" (1904) recreates the perilous history of a Latin American seaboard country through a series of personal stories. Each character is affected by the attempts of the heirs of a silver mine to rescue it from the hands of the latest revolutionary dictator. Conrad is a writer of great subtlety and sophistication; these three works display the technical brilliance and psychological depth which have established him as one of the first English Modernists. [via]

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ISBN 9780048230874 (0-04-823087-1, 0048230871)

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The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0048230871 (0-04-823087-1)
Hardcover, Allen and Unwin

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Let's face it--even some adults find Tolkien's mammoth fantasy a daunting mouthful but children now have this special seven-book box set of The Lord of The Rings to make the epic tale just that bit easier to chew on. Split into its seven constituent parts, these slim volumes tell the ageless tale of young Frodo's quest to destroy The Ring and defeat the forces of evil. It's beautifully presented in a black presentation box with the movie logo and an illustration on the side and the spines of the books also form the movie logo. A contemporary look and plenty of "cool appeal" will grab kids' interest and ensure they don't miss out on reading this classic of the genre. --Jonathan Weir [via]

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ISBN 9780618260584 (0-618-26058-7, 0618260587)

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The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ring

by Alan Lee, J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0618260587 (0-618-26058-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Three-volume boxed set edition lavishly illustrated in full color by Alan Lee

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.

From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo dissapeared bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard, the hobbits Merry, Pippin and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

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ISBN 9780075536680 (0-07-553668-4, 0075536684)

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Paradise Lost

by John Milton

ISBN 0075536684 (0-07-553668-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College

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In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of executionParadise Lost has an apparent ambivalence towards authority which has led to intense debate about whether it manages to "justify the ways of God to men", or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.

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ISBN 9780393962932 (0-393-96293-8, 0393962938)

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Paradise Lost

by Scott Elledge, John Milton

ISBN 0393962938 (0-393-96293-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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This is the second edition of the "Norton Critical Edition" of Milton's "Paradise Lost". It represents an extensive revision of the first edition. The text of the poem remains that of Milton's 1674 edition, retaining the original punctuation but with modernized spelling and italics. Material for the study of contemporary religious and political issues is now included, as well as selections from his earlier poetry and prose. [via]

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by John Milton, C.A. Patrides, E. A. J. Honigmann

ISBN 0333019458 (0-333-01945-8)
Hardcover, Macmillan

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ISBN 9780140436112 (0-14-043611-1, 0140436111)

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The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0140436111 (0-14-043611-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed `papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still among Dicken's most popular works. This book is intended for general; courses on early 19th-century English novel; courses specifically on Dickens [via]

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ISBN 9780451517562 (0-451-51756-3, 0451517563)

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The Pickwick Papers : The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

by Charles Dickens, Steven Marcus

ISBN 0451517563 (0-451-51756-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Relates the various activities and adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club. [via]

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ISBN 9780375405488 (0-375-40548-8, 0375405488)

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Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0375405488 (0-375-40548-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Charles Dickenss satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 183637. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also reveals Dickenss burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system, lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors prisons. As G. K. Chesterton noted, Before [Dickens] wrote a single real story, he had a kind of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns, thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns, strange and swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick. [via]

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ISBN 9780345339737 (0-345-33973-8, 0345339738)

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The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0345339738 (0-345-33973-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings. As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escape into Fangorn Forest and there encounter the Ents. Gandalf has miraculously returned and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Sam has left his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob; but Frodo is still alive - now in the foul hands of the Orcs. And all the while the armies of the Dark Lord are massing as the One Ring draws ever nearer to the Cracks of Doom. [via]

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ISBN 9780192834973 (0-19-283497-5, 0192834975)

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Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding, John Bender, Simon Stern

ISBN 0192834975 (0-19-283497-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition of Fieldings great novel reprints the definitive fourth edition text (1749, dated 1750), "Carefully revisd and corrected/By Henry Fielding, Esq;", the last in his lifetime.

The novel is fully annotated for undergraduate readers and is accompanied by a Textual Appendix and a map depicting Toms route to London.

As in the previous edition, "Contemporary Reactions" by such noteworthy commentators as Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, and the Hill sisters provide rich historical context.

"Criticism" is a collection of fourteen interpretations of the novel spanning the years 18261990 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Forsyth, Kenneth Rexroth, R. S. Crane, John Preston, William Empson, Wayne C. Booth, Martin Battestin, Maaja A. Stewart, Eleanor N. Hutchens, Sean Shesgreen, Frederick W. Hilles, and Sheridan Baker.

A new Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]

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Tom Jones - A Foundling

by Henry Fielding

ISBN 0394605195 (0-394-60519-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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