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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 076070015X (0-7607-0015-X)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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The Alchemistby Ben Jonson, F.H. MaresISBN 0719016177 (0-7190-1617-7)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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All's Well That Ends Wellby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743484975 (0-7434-8497-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All's Well That Ends Well'Book summary:FOLGER Shakespeare Library
The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies
Each edition includes:
" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by David McCandless
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.
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American Notes for General Circulation and Pictures from Italyby Charles DickensISBN 0749308680 (0-7493-0868-0)
Softcover, Heinemann
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An Apology for Poetry: Or the Defence of Poesyby Geoffrey Shepherd, Philip Sidney, R. W. MaslenISBN 0719053765 (0-7190-5376-5)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Autobiography of John Stuart Mill 1924by John Stuart Mill, John Jacob CossISBN 076613864X (0-7661-3864-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Book of Lost Thingsby John ConnollyISBN 0743298853 (0-7432-9885-3)
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Brick Laneby Monica AliISBN 0743243315 (0-7432-4331-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brick Lane'Book summary:With its gritty Tower Hamlets setting, this sharply observed contemporary novel about the life of an Asian immigrant girl deals cogently with issues of love, cultural difference and the human spirit. The pre-publicity hype about Brick Lane was precisely the kind to set alarm bells ringing (we've heard it so often before), but, for once, the excitement is fully justified: Monica Ali's debut novel demonstrates that there is a new voice in modern fiction to be reckoned with.
Nazneen is a teenager forced into an arranged marriage with a man considerably older than her--a man whose expectations of life are so low that misery seems to stretch ahead for her. Fearfully leaving the sultry oppression of her Bangladeshi village, Nazneen finds herself cloistered in a small flat in a high-rise block in the East End of London. Because she speaks no English, she is obliged to depend totally on her husband. But it becomes apparent that, of the two, she is the real survivor: more able to deal with the ways of the world, and a better judge of the vagaries of human behaviour. She makes friends with another Asian girl, Razia, who is the conduit to her understanding of the unsettling ways of her new homeland.
This is a novel of genuine insight, with the kind of characterisation that reminds the reader at every turn just what the novel form is capable of. Every character (Nazneen, her disappointed husband and her resourceful friend Razia) is drawn with the complexity that can really only be found in the novel these days. In some ways, the reader is given the same all-encompassing experience as in a Dickens novel: humour and tragedy rub shoulders in a narrative that inexorably grips the reader. Whether or not Monica Ali can follow up this achievement is a question for the future; it's enough to say right now that Brick Lane is an essential read for anyone interested in current British fiction. --Barry Forshaw [via]
The Castle of Otrantoby Horace WalpoleISBN 0760763070 (0-7607-6307-0)
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The Changelingby Thomas Middleton, N. W. Bawcutt, William RowleyISBN 0719044812 (0-7190-4481-2)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: 1934-1952by Dylan ThomasISBN 0756783399 (0-7567-8339-9)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Collected Poems, 1934-1953by Dylan ThomasISBN 0753810662 (0-7538-1066-2)
Softcover, Phoenix
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The Cricket on the Hearthby Charles DickensISBN 0723203199 (0-7232-0319-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Cry, the Beloved CountryISBN 0743262174 (0-7432-6217-4)
Softcover, Scribner
Find This BookBook summary:Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
The most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, "We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony."
Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man. [via]
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Diary of a Drug Fiendby Aleister CrowleyISBN 0722127049 (0-7221-2704-9)
Hardcover, Sphere
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of a Drug Fiend'Book summary:This is a true story. . . It is a terrible story; but it is also a story of hope and of beauty. Written by Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend tells the story of young Peter Pendragon and his lover Louise Laleham, and their adventures traveling through Europe in a cocaine and heroin haze. The bohemian couples' binges produce visions and poetic prophecies, but when their supply inevitably runs dry they find themselves faced with the reality of their drug addiction. Through the guidance of King Lamus, a master adept, they use the application of practical Magick to free themselves from addiction. First published in 1922 and dubbed "a book for burning" by the papers of the time, Diary of a Drug Fiend reveals the poet, the lover, and the profound adept that was Aleister Crowley. [via]
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The Doctor's Wifeby Brian MooreISBN 077106442X (0-7710-6442-X)
Hardcover, McClelland and Stewart
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Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation 1723by BedeISBN 0766169448 (0-7661-6944-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novelsby Walter Scott, David HewittISBN 0748605711 (0-7486-0571-1)
Hardcover, Edinburgh University Press
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Equusby Peter ShafferISBN 0743287304 (0-7432-8730-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equus'Book summary:An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence. [via]
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The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moralby Francis BaconISBN 0760770182 (0-7607-7018-2)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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George Eliotby George EliotISBN 0753703920 (0-7537-0392-0)
Hardcover, Chancellor Pr
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God of Small Thingsby Arundhati RoyISBN 0783882963 (0-7838-8296-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God of Small Things'Book summary:In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language. [via]
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Hallowe'En Partyby Agatha ChristieISBN 0785748725 (0-7857-4872-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hallowe'En Party'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Hercule Poirot investigates the death of a little girl who shortly before her bizarre death at a Halloween party had claimed to have witnessed a murder being committed. [via]
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Halloween Partyby Wendy Corsi Staub, Kensington Publishing Corporation StaffISBN 0786012463 (0-7860-1246-3)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Heat and Dustby Ruth Prawer JhabvalaISBN 0719534011 (0-7195-3401-1)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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Heavy Water and Other Storiesby Martin AmisISBN 0783886217 (0-7838-8621-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The History of the English Church and Peopleby BedeISBN 0760765510 (0-7607-6551-0)
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The Honourable Schoolboyby John Le CarreISBN 0743457919 (0-7434-5791-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Honourable Schoolboy'Book summary:John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
In this classic masterwork, le Carre expands upon his extraordinary vision of a secret world as George Smiley goes on the attack.
In the wake of a demoralizing infiltration by a Soviet double agent, Smiley has been made ringmaster of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service). Determined to restore the organization's health and reputation, and bent on revenge, Smiley thrusts his own handpicked operative into action. Jerry Westerby, "The Honourable Schoolboy," is dispatched to the Far East. A burial ground of French, British, and American colonial cultures, the region is a fabled testing ground of patriotic allegiances?and a new showdown is about to begin. [via]
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How Right You Are, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0743203593 (0-7432-0359-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Right You Are, Jeeves'Book summary:A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring a cow-creamer, the redheaded Miss Wickham, and the formidable schoolmaster Aubrey Upjohn.
Jeeves is infallible. Jeeves is indispensable. Unfortunately, in How Right You Are, Jeeves, he is also in absentia. In this wonderful slice of Woosterian mayhem, Bertie has sent that prince among gentlemen's gentlemen off on his annual vacation. Soon, drowning dachshunds, broken engagements, and inextricable complications lead to the only possible conclusion: "We must put our trust in a higher power. Go and fetch Jeeves!" [via]
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King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Talesby Thomas MaloryISBN 0766148823 (0-7661-4882-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. BraddonISBN 0760763046 (0-7607-6304-6)
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The Last of the Mohicans/ Book With Kitby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0764170481 (0-7641-7048-1)
Hardcover, Barrons Juveniles
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Last Orders: Library Editionby Graham SwiftISBN 0786209429 (0-7862-0942-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Richard Lauter, Devra Newberger SperegenISBN 0766607119 (0-7666-0711-9)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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Hardcover, Courage Books - Little Women: ISBN 0764170473 (0-7641-7047-3)
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0783880804 (0-7838-8080-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of Lolita:
The Magician's Wifeby Brian MooreISBN 0747537186 (0-7475-3718-6)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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Man and Boyby Tony ParsonsISBN 0743225082 (0-7432-2508-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man and Boy'Book summary:HE HAD TO FACE THE TOUGHEST JOB OF HIS LIFE. AND HE NEVER ONCE THOUGHT HE'D BE ON HIS OWN. Harry had it all: a beautiful wife, an adorable four-year-old son, and a high-paying media job. But on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, with one irresponsible act, he threw it all away. Suddenly he finds himself an unemployed single father trying to figure out how to wash his son's hair the way Mommy did and whether green spaghetti is proper breakfast food. This brilliantly engaging novel will tug at your heart as Harry learns to become a father to his son and a son to his aging father, takes stabs at finding new love, and makes the hardest decision of his life. [via]
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Marius the Epicureanby Walter PaterISBN 0766170969 (0-7661-7096-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marius the Epicurean'Book summary:This book contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the original work. Less prosperous in fortune than at an earlier day there had been reason to expect, and animating his solitude, as he read eagerly and intelligently, with the traditions of the past, already he lived much in the realm of the imagination, and became betimes, as he was to continue all through life, something of an idealist, constructing the world for himself in great measure from within, by the exercise of meditative power. Contents: religion of Numa; white nights; change of air; tree of knowledge; golden book; euphuism; pagan end; animula vagula; new cyrenaicism; on the way; most religious city in the world; divinity that doth hedge a king; mistress and mother of palaces; manly amusement. [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Jan Needle, Patrick BensonISBN 0763630187 (0-7636-3018-7)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman MelvilleISBN 0785788867 (0-7857-8886-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick Or, the Whale'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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A Modern Comedyby John GalsworthyISBN 0766194345 (0-7661-9434-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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The Most of P. G. Wodehouseby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0743203585 (0-7432-0358-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0785748768 (0-7857-4876-8)
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Murder in the Mews and Other Storiesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0785748814 (0-7857-4881-4)
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The Murder of Roger Ackroydby Agatha ChristieISBN 0735105855 (0-7351-0585-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'Book summary:In the quiet village of King's Abbot a widow's suicide has stirred suspicion - and dreadful gossip. There are rumours she murdered her first husband, rumours that she was blackmailed, and rumours that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd. When Ackroyd is found murdered it is unlucky for the killer that Hercule Poirot is close by. Setting up the traditional rules of mystery only to shatter them, this ingeniously tricky masterpiece startied fans, polarised critics, and stunned the Detection Club, the highly esteemed literary organisation, of which Christie herself was a member. One of the most famous detective novels ever written, and certainly one of the most controversial, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was championed by Dorothy L Sayers who said, "Christie fooled you (all)...It's the readers business to suspect everyone." And you will. [via]
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My Uncle Oswaldby Roald DahlISBN 0718118162 (0-7181-1816-2)
Hardcover, Joseph
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0785819118 (0-7858-1911-8)
Hardcover, Castle Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.
To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.
Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Oscar Wilde: Selected Poemsby Oscar WildeISBN 0753816628 (0-7538-1662-8)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Out of the Silent Planetby C. S. LewisISBN 0743234901 (0-7432-3490-1)
Softcover, Scribner
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[Read by Geoffrey Howard - aka - Ralph Cosham]
Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel from Lewis's Space Trilogy, (also called the Space Trilogy,the Cosmic Trilogy and the Ransom Trilogy,) considered to be his chief contribution to the science-fiction genre. A planetary romance with elements of medieval mythology, the trilogy concerns Dr. Ransom, a linguist who, like Christ, is offered as a ransom for mankind. On a walking tour of the English countryside, Ransom falls in with some slightly shady characters from his old University and wakes up suddenly to find himself naked in a metal ball in the middle of the light-filled heavens. He learns that he is on his way to a world called Malacandra by its natives, who also call our world Thulcandra...the Silent Planet. The Malacandrans see planets as having a tutelary spirit: those of the other planets are good and accessible, but that of Earth is fallen and twisted. [via]More editions of Out of the Silent Planet:
Oxford Book of Children's Verseby Peter OpieISBN 0785785809 (0-7857-8580-9)
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A Philosophical Investigationby Philip KerrISBN 0770425925 (0-7704-2592-5)
Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog,by Dylan ThomasISBN 0753812851 (0-7538-1285-1)
Softcover, Phoenix
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The Prisoner of Zendaby Anthony Hope-HawkinsISBN 0755107098 (0-7551-0709-8)
Softcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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The Red and the Greenby Iris MurdochISBN 0783890850 (0-7838-9085-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 076072847X (0-7607-2847-X)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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The Return of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0755106431 (0-7551-0643-1)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:This collection of Sherlock Holmes stories will have you leaving lights on and checking behind doors. These tales, first published in the Strand magazine between 1903 and 1905, include: "The Adventure of the Empty House," "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder," "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist," "The Adventure of the Priory School," "The Adventure of Black Peter," "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton," "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez," "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter," "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange," and "The Adventure of the Second Stain." "Properly suspenseful, Covell re-creates the awestruck Doctor Watson and the scientific Sherlock Holmes in another of the sleuth's escapades. Covell gives Watson a baronial English accent and renders the unerring Sherlock Holmes in a fittingly aloof, confident tone. To be led through a criminal quagmire by so expert a voice will please any...listener who likes a good mystery." (ALA Booklist) [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 Studentsby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0719530156 (0-7195-3015-6)
Hardcover, J. Murray : Cape
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The Russia Houseby John Le CarreISBN 0743464664 (0-7434-6466-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Satan Wants Meby Robert IrwinISBN 0747551650 (0-7475-5165-0)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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A Small Town in Germanyby John Le CarreISBN 0743431715 (0-7434-3171-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Small Town in Germany'Book summary:John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
A man is missing. Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files, all of them Confidential or above.
It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that there's been a leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way in Brussels, the timing could not be worse -- and that's probably not an accident.
Alan Turner, London's security officer, is sent to Bonn to find the missing man and files as Germany's past, present, and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence. [via]
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Smiley's Peopleby John Le CarreISBN 0743455800 (0-7434-5580-0)
Softcover, Scribner
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Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in "Smiley's People."
In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- "the no-men of no-man's land" -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla. [via]
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The Spy Who Came in from the Coldby John Le CarreISBN 0743442539 (0-7434-4253-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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Storm in the Villageby ReadISBN 0783816553 (0-7838-1655-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Talismanby Walter ScottISBN 0766187764 (0-7661-8776-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Tamburlaine the Greatby Christopher Marlowe, J. S. Cunningham, Eithne HensonISBN 0719054362 (0-7190-5436-2)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tamburlaine the Great'Book summary:Tamburlaine the Great achieved, and sustained, great success on the Elizabethan stage. And it speaks provocatively to our own time, when it has been the subject of numerous major productions. Timur Khan--to give Tamburlaine his original name--was long perceived in the West as a ruthless conqueror, whose career was marked by vindictive massacres, the sacking of enemy cities and the assertion of egotistic will. In this light, his career connects with twentieth-century experience of genocide, ideological justifications of brutality and conflicts of rival religions faiths. It is significant that the 1990s--four centuries on from Marlowes play--have seen the development in Uzbekistan, of a vindication of Timur, perceived as a heroic and admirable figure in this state newly "liberated" from the Soviet hegemony.[via]More editions of Tamburlaine the Great:
Tamburlaine the Great: Christopher Marloweby J.S. CunninghamISBN 071903096X (0-7190-3096-X)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Time Machineby H. G. Wells, Benjamin Beard, Cynthia Brantley JohnsonISBN 0743487737 (0-7434-8773-7)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0743457900 (0-7434-5790-0)
Softcover, Scribner
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A modern masterpiece in which le Carre expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart.
It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed. [via]
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Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boysby Will SelfISBN 0747539065 (0-7475-3906-5)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub
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Trainspottingby Irvine WelshISBN 0749396067 (0-7493-9606-7)
Hardcover, Minerva
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Under the Frogby Tibor FischerISBN 0748661336 (0-7486-6133-6)
Hardcover, Polygon
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A Visionby W. B. YeatsISBN 0766129624 (0-7661-2962-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vision'Book summary:1925. Contents: a packet for Ezra Pound; stories of Michael Robartes and his friends: an extract from a record made by his pupils; phases of moon; great wheel; completed symbol; soul in judgment; great year of ancients; dove or swan; all soul's night, an epilogue. With many figures and illustrations. [via]
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Voices of Ireland: Classic Writings of a Rich and Rare Landby Malachy McCourtISBN 0762413360 (0-7624-1336-0)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voices of Ireland: Classic Writings of a Rich and Rare Land'Book summary:This anthology collects fiction, poetry, and essays by several esteemed Irish writers over three centuries that describe the beauty and mystique of Ireland. From Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" to James Joyce's "Dubliners, " these masterpieces form a collective record of the modern Irish experience. [via]
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The Water Babiesby Charles Kingsley, Josephine Poole, Jan OrmerodISBN 0761304118 (0-7613-0411-8)
Hardcover, Lerner Pub Group
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The White Devilby Webster, John Russell BrownISBN 0719043557 (0-7190-4355-7)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?by Edward AlbeeISBN 0743255259 (0-7432-5525-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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William Blake: Poetical Sketchesby William Blake, Peter H. ButterISBN 0753816555 (0-7538-1655-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Who Present, Past, & Future sees
Whose ears have heard
The Holy Word
That walk'd among the ancient trees.
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Both as poet and painter, William Blake created uncompromising, highly original art. He was strongly influenced by the spiritual: he claimed to have seen angels, and to have spoken with the many supernatural beings who populated his verses and visual images. The many remarkable works gathered in this very special collection come from his Poetical Sketches, There Is No Natural Religion, Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, The Book of Urizen, For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, and others. Blake's powerful use of language truly makes it possible--as he wrote in "Auguries of Innocence"--"To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower."More editions of William Blake: Poetical Sketches:
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The Wine Dark Seaby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0786201339 (0-7862-0133-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Witchesby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0754061914 (0-7540-6191-4)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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