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Adventures of Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding

ISBN 0192553232 (0-19-255323-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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"The Adventures of Joseph Andrews" was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and one of the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742, Fielding defined it as a 'comic romance.' [via]
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Charles Dickens' Christmas Tales
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0517474689 (0-517-47468-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Christmas Stories
by Charles Dickens, Ruth Glancy

ISBN 0460877127 (0-460-87712-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel. [via]
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Christmas Books
by Charles Dickens, Ruth Glancy

ISBN 0192817906 (0-19-281790-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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These five short novels, written for Christmas 1843 to 1848, demonstrate Dickens' most characteristic writing. The volume includes A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Haunted Man, The Cricket on the Hearth, and The Battle of Life. [via]
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Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens : A Cricket on the Hearth, a Christmas Carol, the Chimes and Other Tales
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0517180871 (0-517-18087-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Framley Parsonage
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0460011812 (0-460-01181-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Alison Lurie

ISBN 0142437050 (0-14-243705-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.
Born in England and transplanted to New York toward the end of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries, and today both countries claim her as their own. The Secret Garden, her best-known work, became an instant modern classic and world-wide bestseller upon its publication in 1911. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" and "Letters" illuminate important aspects of Burnetts life and work and include her own writings on gardens and their spiritual healing. Four illustrations point to Burnetts prominence in popular culture.

"Criticism" includes fourteen contemporary reviews and nine recent critical views of The Secret Garden, including Jerry Phillipss sociopolitical interpretation and Phyllis Bixlers comparative analysis of the Broadway musical adaptation of the novel.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden
by Dennis Butts, Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN 0192817728 (0-19-281772-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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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 truculent as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, cooped up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors, 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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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden
by Kathy Mitchell, Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN 0448412500 (0-448-41250-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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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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A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh

ISBN 0316926051 (0-316-92605-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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"All over England people were waking up, queasy and despondent."
Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars.
Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. While he earnestly plays the lord of the manor in his ghastly Victorian Gothic pile, she sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. In the first half of the novel Waugh fearlessly anatomizes the lifestyles of the rich and shameless. Everyone moves through an endless cycle of parties and country-house weekends, being scrupulously polite in public and utterly horrid in private. Sex is something one does to relieve the boredom, and Brenda's affair provides a welcome subject for conversation:
It had been an autumn of very sparse and meagre romance; only the most obvious people had parted or come together, and Brenda was filling a want long felt by those whose simple, vicarious pleasure it was to discuss the subject in bed over the telephone.
Tony's indifference and Brenda's selfishness give their relationship a sort of equilibrium until tragedy forces them to face facts. The collapse of their relationship accelerates, and in the famous final section of the book Tony seeks solace in a foolhardy search for El Dorado, throwing himself on the mercy of a jungle only slightly more savage than the one he leaves behind in England. For all its biting wit, A Handful of Dust paints a bleak picture of the English upper classes, reaching beyond satire toward a very modern sense of despair. In Waugh's world, culture, breeding, and the trappings of civilization only provide more subtle means of destruction. --Simon Leake [via]
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History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding

ISBN 0451518195 (0-451-51819-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams
by Henry Fielding, Douglas Brooks-Davies, Tom Keymer

ISBN 019283343X (0-19-283343-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding

ISBN 0486415880 (0-486-41588-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Joseph Andrews refuses Lady Booby's advances, she discharges him, and Joseph and his old tutor, Parson Adams (one of the great comic figures of literature), sets off to visit his sweetheart, Fanny. Along the way, they meet with a series of adventures in which, through their own innocence and honesty, they expose the hypocrisy and affectation of others.
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Joseph Andrews
by Stephen Copley

ISBN 0416412408 (0-416-41240-8)
Softcover, Routledge

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Joseph Andrews and Shamela
by Henry Fielding

ISBN 0192815504 (0-19-281550-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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Joseph Andrews With Shamela and Related Writings
by Henry Fielding, Homer Goldberg

ISBN 0393955559 (0-393-95555-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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This Norton Critical Edition reprints the authoritative Wesleyan text of Joseph Andrews, edited by Martin Battestin.
An accurate text of Shamela (Fieldings satire of Samuel Richardsons Pamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth century) as well as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men, selections from The Champion, and the Preface to The Adventures of David Simple are also included. All of the texts are fully annotated.

"Backgrounds" contains generous extracts from works that Fielding satirizedPamela and Conyer Middletons Dedication to the Life of Ciceroand emulatedGil Blas and selections from Don Quixote, the Roman Comique, and Le Paysan Parvenu. The section concludes with a general explanation of the political and religious contexts in which Joseph Andrews was written.

"Criticism" offers a broad range of responses to the novel. Contemporary assessments include selected letters of Thomas Gray, William Shenstone, Samuel Richardson, and others as well as commentary from The Student, or Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, by William Hazlitt, James Beattie, and Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier.

Modern assessments are by Mark Spilka, Dick Taylor, Jr., Martin Battestin, Sheldon Sacks, Morris Golden, Brian McCrea, and Homer Goldberg.

A Selected Bibliography is also included.
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King Richard III
by William Shakespeare, John Jowett

ISBN 0192839934 (0-19-283993-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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"Now is the winter of our discontent," intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at the beginning of Shakespeare's Richard III, one of his most abidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals of political tyranny ever seen on stage. Richard emerges from the chaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised by Shakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king by removing his elder brother Edward IV by convincing him that their brother Clarence is plotting against the crown. The deaths of both Clarence and Edward take Richard inexorably towards the crown, and the series of murders and conspiracies that Richard masterminds confirms his claim that "I am determined to prove a villain". Richard's political and sexual charisma are truly chilling, and his seduction of Lady Anne, over her husband's corpse is one of the most disturbing scenes in Shakespeare. At another level, the play is also a strongly anti-Yorkist play, which has a vested interest in portraying Richard as such as vicious tyrant before seeing him toppled, ushering in a period of rule which prefigured the Tudor dynasty of which Elizabeth I was herself a part. The play has had a deep and lasting influence on audiences and writers; Brecht rewrote the play as The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, while both Laurance Olivier and Ian Mckellen have produced memorable film versions of Richard III, the latter updating the play into a 1930s fascist state ruled over by a Richard akin to Oswald Mosley. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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A Little Princess
by U. C. Knoepflmacher, Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN 0142437018 (0-14-243701-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature.

This unique and fully annotated edition appends excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett's original 1888 novella Sara Crewe and the stage play that preceded the novel, as well as an early story, "Behind the White Brick," allowing readers to see how A Little Princess evolved. In his delightful introduction, U. C. Knoepflmacher considers the fairy-tale allusions and literary touchstones that place the book among the major works of Victorian literature, and shows it to be an exceptionally rich and resonant novel.
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Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen, Mary E. Chase

ISBN 0393002748 (0-393-00274-8)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

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A new edition of a satire on Richardson's PAMELA, featuring the character of Parson Adams. With explanatory notes by A R Humphreys. [via]
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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham, Gore Vidal

ISBN 037575315X (0-375-75315-X)
Softcover, Modern Library

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Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a clergyman, but Philip sheds his religious faith and begins to study art in Paris. [via]
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier

ISBN 0380730405 (0-380-73040-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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"Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again." So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past ther beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten...her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant -- the sinister Mrs. Danvers -- still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca...for the secrets of Manderley. [via]
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Rebecca
by John Milne

ISBN 0435272616 (0-435-27261-6)
Softcover, Delta Systems Co Inc

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The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Janet Allison Brown, Graham Rust

ISBN 0141312017 (0-14-131201-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Secret Garden
by Random House Value Publishing Staff, Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN 0517189607 (0-517-18960-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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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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The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Story
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Troy Howell

ISBN 0517200198 (0-517-20019-8)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group

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Illus. in full color. A storybook edition of Burnett's classic tale about the healing power of love. [via]
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The Small House at Allington
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0375400672 (0-375-40067-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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The Small House at Allington
by David Skilton, Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0460877941 (0-460-87794-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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The Tragedy of Richard Third
by William Shakespeare, Mark Eccles

ISBN 0451526953 (0-451-52695-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Featuring a new overview of Shakespeare's works by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, this Signet classic also includes a comprehensive stage and screen history, dramatic criticism from the past and present, and sources from which Shakespeare derived this great work.
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Under Western Eyes: Library Edition
by Joseph Conrad, Jeremy Hawthorn

ISBN 0192801716 (0-19-280171-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin
his close friend he must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity.
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White Teeth: Reader's Companion
by Zadie Smith

ISBN 0375703861 (0-375-70386-1)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.
Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]
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El Jardin Secreto
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Aurora Ulsamer, Rafael Diaz Santander, Thea Kliros

ISBN 0486291995 (0-486-29199-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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In this abridged adaptation of the classic novel, a lonely orphan discovers the wonders of a mysterious garden and befriends her invalid cousin. [via]
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