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Alfred Lord Tennysonby Michael BaronISBN 0460878026 (0-460-87802-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alfred Lord Tennyson'Book summary:One of the great Victorians poets, Tennyson's genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems. [via]
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeareby Isaac Asimov, Rafael PalaciosISBN 0517268256 (0-517-26825-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
Hardcover
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells'Book summary:Great collection of 7 science fiction novels by H.G. Wells... [via]
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The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525457232 (0-525-45723-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh'Book summary:When Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he likes doing best in the world, Pooh says, after much thought, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing."
Happy readers for over 70 years couldn't agree more. Pooh's status as a "Bear of Very Little Brain" belies his profoundly eternal wisdom in the ways of the world. To many, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and the others are as familiar and important as their own family members. A.A. Milne's classics, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, are brought together in this beautiful edition, complete and unabridged, with recolored illustrations by Milne's creative counterpart, Ernest H. Shepard. Join Pooh and the gang as they meet a Heffalump, help get Pooh unstuck from Rabbit's doorway, (re)build a house for Eeyore, and try to unbounce Tigger. A childhood is simply not complete without full participation in all of Pooh's adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Coriolanusby William ShakespeareISBN 0486426882 (0-486-42688-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coriolanus'Book summary:This edition presents a new look at Coriolanus in accordance with the work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project, the national curriculum for English and developments at GCSE and A level. Cambridge School Shakespeare considers the play as theater and the text as script, enabling pupils to inhabit the imaginative world of the play in an accessible, meaningful and creative way. [via]
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Cymbelineby William Shakespeare, Martin ButlerISBN 0521296943 (0-521-29694-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cymbeline'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most perplexing and unclassifiable late plays, Cymbeline is often labelled a "Romance", due to its themes of pastoralism, exile and familial reconciliation which critics notice recur throughout Shakespeare's last plays, from Pericles to The Tempest. Set in ancient Roman Britain at the court of the British king Cymbeline, the main action of the play revolves around the relationship between Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, and Posthumous Leonatus. Attempting to marry Imogen off to Cloten, the grotesque son of Cymbeline's second wife, the king banishes Posthumous in a rage when he discovers he has secretly married Imogen. As the personal relationships in the play deteriorate, on the public stage Rome prepares to invade Britain due to Cymbeline's failure to pay tribute to his imperial master. As the play builds to its militaristic climax, Posthumous returns to Britain, where he eventually contrives a reunion with Imogen and Cymbeline's long-lost sons, who unite in their attempt to resist the might of Rome.
The ending of the play, with its series of mystical riddles, unlikely coincidences and extraordinary reunions has baffled critics for centuries. Some read it as a heavy-handed political allegory of Jacobean national union under the new sovereign of the time, King James I, whilst others see in it Shakespeare pushing theatrical realism to its furthermost limits, with its decapitated bodies, complex staging and unlikely mistaken identities. Cymbeline remains a puzzling, enigmatic play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Diary of a Nobodyby George GrossmithISBN 0460872273 (0-460-87227-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Eminent Victoriansby Lytton StracheyISBN 0486451364 (0-486-45136-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Green Mansionsby W. H. HudsonISBN 0486259935 (0-486-25993-5)
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Haroun and the Sea of Storiesby Salman RushdieISBN 0571196934 (0-571-19693-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'Book summary:Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have about Salman Rushdie and the controversy that has swirled around his million-dollar head. You should instead know that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Here's a representative passage about the sources and power of inspiration:
So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Stream of Stories, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.
[via]"And if you are very, very careful, or very, very highly skilled, you can dip a cup into the Ocean," Iff told Haroun, "like so," and here he produced a little golden cup from another of his waistcoat pockets, "and you can fill it with water from a single, pure Stream of Story, like so," as he did precisely that.
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A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chaptersby Julian Barnes, Ron MiddletonISBN 0521484782 (0-521-48478-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chapters'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes is edited by Ron Middleton of the University of Reading. [via]
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517542099 (0-517-54209-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:Don't panic! You're not timetripping! It's the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams's zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!
By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.
For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who've read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams's unique universe -- remember -- don't panic, don't forget to bring a towel, and don't forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe. [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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Hitchhikers Trilogy Omnibus Edby CrownISBN 0517552000 (0-517-55200-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitchhikers Trilogy Omnibus Ed'Book summary:Contains The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, The Restaurant at the endof the Universe, and life, the universe and everything [via]
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Horse And His Boy: Full-color Collector's Editionby C. S. LewisISBN 061393007X (0-613-93007-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 051752399X (0-517-52399-X)
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The Invisible Manby H. G. Wells, Macdonald DalyISBN 0460876287 (0-460-87628-7)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:One of the most famous scientific fantasies ever written, this highly imaginative tale focuses on the powers and bold ventures of a scientist, who, after discovering the means to make himself invisible, unleashes a bizarre streak of terror on the inhabitants of an English village. Filled with suspense and psychological nuances of plot.[via]More editions of The Invisible Man:
- The Invisible Man: ISBN 0486270718 (0-486-27071-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0553213539 (0-553-21353-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0590013815 (0-590-01381-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0590440160 (0-590-44016-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0460876287 (0-460-87628-7)
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journeyby Salman RushdieISBN 0670817570 (0-670-81757-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey'Book summary:In this timeless, haunting portrait of the people and the politics of Nicaragua, Rushdie brings to life the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. [via]
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John Cleland's Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 0583116833 (0-583-11683-3)
Hardcover, Mayflower
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John Miltonby Gordon J. M. CampbellISBN 0460878131 (0-460-87813-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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King Johnby William Shakespeare, L.A. BeaurlineISBN 0521293871 (0-521-29387-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King John'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most unpopular history plays, King John deals with the life and death of King John, who reigned from 1199 to 1216. This is as early as Shakespeare goes in his treatment of English history, concentrating more successfully on the later 14th and 15th centuries in the plays which stretch from Richard II to Henry VI. As a result, King John suffers from being so historically distant in time, as well as offering a rather weak and vacillating king, who lacks the charisma and authority of Richard III or Henry V. The play begins with King John struggling to retain his throne, under attack from rebellious courtiers and Philip, the king of France. As the quarrel escalates into war with France, the plays begins to take on a contemporary Elizabethan flavour--the feared invasion from a foreign (Catholic) nation, and the extent to which such an invasion is based on the questionable paternity of King John (like Queen Elizabeth, John is accused of being a bastard and is excommunicated). The play is saved from its rather colourless political machinations by Philip the Bastard, John's favourite, a dramatic forerunner of dubious but charismatic malcontents like Edmund in King Lear. It is also Philip who is given the most powerful and patriotic lines, when he claims that "This England never did, nor never shall, / Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror". King John's mysterious and anticlimactic death through illness at the end of the play deflates expectations--something that could be said of the play as a whole. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Last Battleby C. S. Lewis, Focus on the Family, Pauline BaynesISBN 0613946073 (0-613-94607-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Battle'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0517147815 (0-517-14781-5)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snark'Book summary:This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.
Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.
Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection. [via]
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The Longest Journeyby E. M. Forster, Jeffrey MeyersISBN 0553214551 (0-553-21455-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longest Journey'Book summary:Bookish, sensitive Rickie Elliot is quite at home amid the placid and scholarly environs of Cambridge. That is, until he falls for the shallow young Agnes Pembroke. Forster skewers undergraduate philosophical debate, the opening day of a public school, and tea with a frightful dowager, as the dire consequences of mistaken love later developed in Howard's End take their toll. Together, these elements combine to form a deft blend of tragedy and social satire that readers will savor. [via]
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The Magician's Nephewby C. S. Lewis, Focus on the Family, Pauline BaynesISBN 061393010X (0-613-93010-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magician's Nephew'Book summary:This large, deluxe hardcover edition of the first title in the classic Chronicles of Narnia series, The Magician's Nephew, is a gorgeous introduction to the magical land of Narnia. The many readers who discovered C.S. Lewis's Chronicles through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will be delighted to find that the next volume in the series is actually the first in the sequence--and a step back in time. In this unforgettable story, British schoolchildren Polly and Digory inadvertently tumble into the Wood Between the Worlds, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis and, ultimately, the great, mysterious King Aslan. We witness the birth of Narnia and discover the legendary source of all the adventures that are to follow in the seven books that comprise the series.
Rich, heavy pages, a gold-embossed cover, and Pauline Baynes's original illustrations (hand-colored by the illustrator herself 40 years later) make this special edition of a classic a bona fide treasure. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Major Barbaraby Bernard ShawISBN 0486421260 (0-486-42126-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Major Barbara'Book summary:[via]When a Salvation Army officer learns that her father, a wealthy armaments manufacturer, has donated lots of money to her organization, she resigns in disgust but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other.More editions of Major Barbara:
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486251217 (0-486-25121-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:
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Mary Bartonby Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan ShelstonISBN 046087554X (0-460-87554-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:Mary Barton(1848),subtitled 'A Tale of Manchester Life',is the first novel by Mrs Gaskell(1810-65).The entirely working-class cast of characters in this novel was then an innovation.The background story is Manchester in the 'hungry forties'and the acute poverty of the unemployed mill-hands. Mary Batson,daughter of an embittered worker,wins the attention of Henry Carson,son of one of the employers.But a group of workmen plot his murder as a warning to his class,and it falls upon Mary's father to perform the deed.Suspicion lies with Mary's working class admirer,Jed,who is tried for his life.Finally,John Barton is driven by guilt to confess. [via]
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The Merry Wives of Windsorby William ShakespeareISBN 0486414221 (0-486-41422-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'Book summary:Written around 1597, critics believe that The Merry Wives of Windsor was written to capitalise on the popular success of the corpulent, knavish Sir John Falstaff in the two parts of Henry IV. Falstaff takes centre stage again in this play, hard up for money and planning to pay off his debts by seducing the wives of two rich citizens, Ford and Page. As in the earlier Henry IV plays, Falstaffs elaborate plans go awry, with disastrous and humiliating consequences. Ford is furious with Falstaff's attempt to woo his wife, whilst both Mistress Ford and Mistress Page have the measure of Falstaff, and repeatedly dupe him, first hiding him in a laundry basket and dumping him in the river, then tormenting him in the forest of Windsor with children disguised as fairies.
Often dismissed as a hasty and mechanical play lacking in depth, The Merry Wives of Windsor is in fact a wonderfully inventive farce. Falstaff is a ludicrous mock hero, dressed as a mythical hunter in the forest, declaiming "powerful love that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some others a man a beast!" Mistress Ford and Page are also great comic creations, witty and resilient women who drive the comedy, no longer "in the holiday time" of beauty, but wise and streetwise women who are always one step ahead of the absurd Falstaff. A greatly underrated play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor: ISBN 0521293707 (0-521-29370-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press - The Merry Wives of Windsor: ISBN 0563201150 (0-563-20115-0)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns - The Merry Wives of Windsor: ISBN 0517122200 (0-517-12220-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - The Merry Wives of Windsor: ISBN 0486414221 (0-486-41422-1)
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor: ISBN 0521293707 (0-521-29370-7)
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The Merry Wives of Windsorby Jerome MonahanISBN 0521000556 (0-521-00055-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'Book summary:Written around 1597, critics believe that The Merry Wives of Windsor was written to capitalise on the popular success of the corpulent, knavish Sir John Falstaff in the two parts of Henry IV. Falstaff takes centre stage again in this play, hard up for money and planning to pay off his debts by seducing the wives of two rich citizens, Ford and Page. As in the earlier Henry IV plays, Falstaffs elaborate plans go awry, with disastrous and humiliating consequences. Ford is furious with Falstaff's attempt to woo his wife, whilst both Mistress Ford and Mistress Page have the measure of Falstaff, and repeatedly dupe him, first hiding him in a laundry basket and dumping him in the river, then tormenting him in the forest of Windsor with children disguised as fairies.
Often dismissed as a hasty and mechanical play lacking in depth, The Merry Wives of Windsor is in fact a wonderfully inventive farce. Falstaff is a ludicrous mock hero, dressed as a mythical hunter in the forest, declaiming "powerful love that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some others a man a beast!" Mistress Ford and Page are also great comic creations, witty and resilient women who drive the comedy, no longer "in the holiday time" of beauty, but wise and streetwise women who are always one step ahead of the absurd Falstaff. A greatly underrated play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Moor's Last Sighby Salman RushdieISBN 0517199513 (0-517-19951-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Much Ado About Nothingby William ShakespeareISBN 0486282724 (0-486-28272-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:Like Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado about Nothing shows Shakespeare moving into a more complex and darker terrain through his exploration of an apparently harmless comical romance. The play revolves around the adventures of the two gallants Claudio and Benedick at the court of Sicily. Claudio falls in love with the governor's daughter Hero, and is eager for his more misanthropic friend Benedick to also find love. Benedick is introduced to the fiery, independent Beatrice, and sparks soon fly as they banter with each other in a more wittier version of Kate and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew. Beatrice has some wonderful ripostes to marriage asking why should a woman marry "a clod of wayward marl", whilst Benedick grumbles that "She speaks poniards and every word stabs". Meanwhile, the jealous Don John convinces Claudio that Hero has in fact been unfaithful to him. When Claudio rejects Hero on their wedding day, she faints and is taken for dead. In the hectic final scenes the play moves towards reconciliation between Claudio and Hero, and the tentative admission of the love between Benedick and Beatrice. Famously filmed by Kenneth Branagh in the Tuscan countryside with a cast that included Keanu Reeves, Much Ado about Nothing remains one of Shakespeare's most successful comedies. --Jerry Brotton. [via]
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- Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 052161872X (0-521-61872-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0553213016 (0-553-21301-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0582002362 (0-582-00236-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 052147163X (0-521-47163-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0460875159 (0-460-87515-9)
Softcover, Everymans Library - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0521094917 (0-521-09491-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0521293677 (0-521-29367-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0521426103 (0-521-42610-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0521598222 (0-521-59822-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0486282724 (0-486-28272-4)
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- Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 052161872X (0-521-61872-X)
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Much Ado about Nothingby F. H. Mares, A. R. Braunmuller, Brian Gibbons, William ShakespeareISBN 0521532507 (0-521-53250-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado about Nothing'Book summary:Famous actors have appeared as this play's sparring lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, from David Garrick's time in the eighteenth century to the present. Angela Stock has added a new section to the Introduction where she reviews the romantic and darker, more cynical aspects of the play in the context of late twentieth-century stage, film and critical interpretations. She also tackles the critical fortunes of Hero and Claudio as they reflect the play's concerns with sexuality and misogyny, eavesdropping and deception. First Edition Hb (1988): 0-521-22152-8 First Edition Pb (1988): 0-521-29367-7 [via]
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New Grub Streetby George R. GissingISBN 0460877240 (0-460-87724-0)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Grub Street'Book summary:Jasper is attracted to Marian, who loves him passionately, but he proposes to her only when she inherits a legacy of 5000 pounds. When the legacy does not materialise Jasper withdraws. Instead he marries Amy Reardon, the young widow of the writer Edwin Reardon. Edwin is the author of two fine works, but his poverty-stricken existence, his lack of public recognition and his wife's desertion eventualyy drive him to an early grave, in stark and bitter contrast to Jasper's success which comes as a triumph of self-advertisement over artistic conscience. [via]
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Palgrave's Golden TreasuryISBN 0517629178 (0-517-62917-8)
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Paradise Lost and Other Poemsby John MiltonISBN 060603885X (0-606-03885-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Poems of John Miltonby John Milton, John Carey, Alastair FowlerISBN 058248443X (0-582-48443-X)
Hardcover, Longmans
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Poems of Tennyson: Chosen and Edited, With an Introduction by Henry Van Dykeby Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 0520060121 (0-520-06012-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Satanic Versesby Salman RushdieISBN 0670825379 (0-670-82537-9)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Satanic Verses'Book summary:No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner. [via]
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A Shropshire Ladby A. E. HousmanISBN 0486264688 (0-486-26468-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Shropshire Lad'Book summary:Authoritative edition of one of the enduring classics of English poetry 63 poems on the nature of friendship, the passing of youth, the vanity of dreams, other human concerns. Long prized by literary scholars for their perfection of form and feeling, and loved by generations of readers for simplicity, sensitivity, direct emotional appeal.[via]More editions of A Shropshire Lad:
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Three Adventure Novelsby H. Rider HaggardISBN 0486206432 (0-486-20643-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Tragedy of Coriolanusby William Shakespeare, John Dover WilsonISBN 0521094720 (0-521-09472-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge U.P.
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Trilbyby George Du MaurierISBN 0486283194 (0-486-28319-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Turn of the Screwby Henry James, Allan Lloyd SmithISBN 0460872990 (0-460-87299-0)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she suspects that the previous governess and her lover are controlling the two orphaned children (a girl and a boy) for some evil purpose. The household staff don't know what she's talking about, the children are evasive when questioned, and the master of the house (the children's uncle) is absent. Why does the young girl claim not to see a perfectly visible woman standing on the far side of the lake? Are the children being deceptive, or is the governess being paranoid? By leaving the questions unanswered, The Turn of Screw generates spine-tingling anxiety in its mesmerized readers. [via]
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fictionby Henry JamesISBN 0553210599 (0-553-21059-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guideby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517124858 (0-517-12485-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide'Book summary:It's safe to say that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the funniest science fiction novels ever written. Adams spoofs many core science fiction tropes: space travel, aliens, interstellar war--stripping away all sense of wonder and repainting them as commonplace, even silly.
This omnibus edition begins with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction. Then in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur and his new friends travel to the end of time and discover the true reason for Earth's existence. In Life, the Universe, and Everything, the gang goes on a mission to save the entire universe. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish recounts how Arthur finds true love and "God's Final Message to His Creation." Finally, Mostly Harmless is the story of Arthur's continuing search for home, in which he instead encounters his estranged daughter, who is on her own quest. There's also a bonus short story, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe," more of a vignette than a full story, which wraps up this completist's package of the Don't Panic chronicles. As the series progresses, its wackier elements diminish, but the satire of human life and foibles is ever present. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Volponeby Ben JonsonISBN 0486280497 (0-486-28049-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Voyage of the Dawn Treaderby C. S. LewisISBN 0613946111 (0-613-94611-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voyage Of The Dawn Treader'Book summary:The BBC Radio production of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a delightful two-hour sail on the most fabulous ship in Narnia. Lucy and Edmund, with their dreadful cousin Eustace, get magically pulled into a painting of a ship at sea. That ship is the Dawn Treader, and on board is Caspian, King of Narnia. He and his companions, including Reepicheep, the valiant warrior mouse, are searching for seven lost lords of Narnia, and their voyage will take them to the edge of the world. Their adventures include being captured by slave traders, a much-too-close encounter with a dragon, and visits to many enchanted islands, including the place where dreams come true. The adaptation is faithful to its source, C.S. Lewis's series of Narnia books, which have provided exciting and uplifting tales for generations of children. BBC Radio does wonders with sound effects--the ship creaks in the wind, the sorrowful dragon roars lugubriously--and musical cues and interludes that keep the pacing dynamic. There's also a splendid cast of plummy British voices, making this far more than a book read onto cassette--it's an audio drama, as enjoyable as a trip to the theater. Grownups who buy this tape for their children will want to borrow it for themselves. (Running time: two hours, two cassettes) --Blaise Selby [via]
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0460873032 (0-460-87303-2)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0531169634 (0-531-16963-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0590101129 (0-590-10112-9)
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When Spring Comesby Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, Stacey SchuettISBN 0525450084 (0-525-45008-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Wide Sargasso Seaby Jean RhysISBN 0613175972 (0-613-17597-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wide Sargasso Sea'Book summary:In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and '30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the '40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses.
Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched."
The novel is Rhys's answer to Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë's book had long haunted her, mostly for the story it did not tell--that of the madwoman in the attic, Rochester's terrible secret. Antoinette is Rhys's imagining of that locked-up woman, who in the end burns up the house and herself. Wide Sargasso Sea follows her voyage into the dark, both from her point of view and Rochester's. It is a voyage charged with soul-destroying lust. "I watched her die many times," observes the new husband. "In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty."
Rhys struggled over the book, enduring rejections and revisions, wrestling to bring this ruined woman out of the ashes. The slim volume was finally published when she was 70 years old. The critical adulation that followed, she said, "has come too late." Jean Rhys died a few years later, but with Wide Sargasso Sea she left behind a great legacy, a work of strange, scary loveliness. There has not been a book like it before or since. Believe me, I've been searching. --Emily White [via]
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Winnie-La-Puby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard, Ralph A. Lewin, Humphrey Tonkin, Ivy Kellerman ReedISBN 0525430105 (0-525-43010-5)
Hardcover, E.P. Dutton
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Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525444432 (0-525-44443-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winnie-The-Pooh'Book summary:Back by popular demand, the four full-color gift editions of the original Pooh classics are available again. These elegant books, larger in format than the classic editions, include all of Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations, each meticulously hand-painted in delicate watercolors.
Here are the two great storybooks chronicling the adventures of Christopher Robin and all the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood, as well as the two charming volumes of poems. Bright in color and true in spirit, these are books for giving--To Pooh fans of all ages. [via]
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Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Winnie-The-Pooh: ISBN 0525467564 (0-525-46756-4)
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Winnie-The-Pooh and the House at Pooh Cornerby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525468048 (0-525-46804-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Winnie-Ille-Pu/Winnie the Poohby A. A. MilneISBN 0525242678 (0-525-24267-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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