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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0140437711 (0-14-043771-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:From his rooms in Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes's brooding figure emerges into the foggy streets of Victorian London to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue, and evil.[via]
@KeepDiggingWatson Why are the lights at 221 Baker Street so damn bright in the morning? Why does Watson talk so loud? Elementary, my dear STFU!
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John SeelyeISBN 0143039563 (0-14-303956-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:[via]From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A somber undercurrent flows through the high humor and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult realitybase emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery. In his introduction, noted Twain scholar John Seelye considers Twains impact on American letters and discusses the balance between humorous escapades and serious concern that is found in much of Twains writing.
- This new edition includes a new text and, for the first time, explanatory notes
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0192806823 (0-19-280682-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0141305444 (0-14-130544-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0142500976 (0-14-250097-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0143039563 (0-14-303956-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Black Princeby Iris MurdochISBN 0142180114 (0-14-218011-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Prince'Book summary:Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.[via]More editions of Black Prince:
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0141303050 (0-14-130305-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes -- some funny, some painful, all interesting -- this is a book that's sure to please. [via]
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0140440046 (0-14-044004-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]
With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaires masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that all is for the best even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book that is vitally relevant today in our world pervaded byas Candide would say the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well.
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@MoYoLawn Ever wonder how we get across the world so quickly in this book? Continental flies six times daily from Eldorado to Paris.
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeedby Jared DiamondISBN 0143036556 (0-14-303655-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed'Book summary:Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.
Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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The Comediansby Graham GreeneISBN 0143039199 (0-14-303919-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedians'Book summary:[via]Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence manthese are the comedians of Greenes title. Hiding behind their actors masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. They are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...
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The Complete Poemsby Andrew Marvell, Elizabeth Story DonnoISBN 0140806857 (0-14-080685-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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The Crimson Petal and the Whiteby Michel FaberISBN 0156028778 (0-15-602877-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimson Petal and the White'Book summary:Although it's billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century," The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. The story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men, Michel Faber's dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favor, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself. When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped, and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar's life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor's wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber's emphasis on class and sexual politics. In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber's own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages, The Crimson Petal and the White turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down. --Regina Marler [via]
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Crucibleby Arthur MillerISBN 0140481389 (0-14-048138-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crucible'Book summary:Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism. [via]
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The Crucible : A Play in Four Actsby Arthur Miller, Richard EyreISBN 014200099X (0-14-200099-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts'Book summary:The Crucible, Arthur Miller's classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, is returning to Broadway. To mark the occasion, Penguin is pleased to offer this beautiful hardcover edition.
"A powerful drama." (Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times) [via]More editions of The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts:
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur MillerISBN 0140481346 (0-14-048134-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Salesman'Book summary:Arthur miller's pulitzer prize-winning play that forever changed the meaning of the american dream and won multiple tony awards for the 2012 broadway production directed by mike nichols and starring philip seymour hoffman as the tragic hero willy loman and andrew garfield as his son biff willy loman, the protagonist of death of a salesman, has spent his life following the american way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age sixty-three, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his marriage and destroyed his relationship with biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. arthur miller's masterpiece has steadily seen productions all over the world since its 1949 debut. As the noted miller scholar christopher bigsby states in his introduction, "if willy's is an american dream, it is also a dream shared by all those who are aware of the gap between what they might have been and what they are [via]
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Dic New Shorter Oxford English on Historical PrinciplesISBN 0191958042 (0-19-195804-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Earliest English Poemsby Michael AlexanderISBN 0140445943 (0-14-044594-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Edward Lear: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsenseby Edward Lear, Vivien NoakesISBN 0142002275 (0-14-200227-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edward Lear: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense'Book summary:[via]
The absurd and fanciful verses of Edward Lear-from "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" to "The Jumblies," from "The Scroobious Pip" to countless limericks-have enchanted generations of readers, children and adults alike. This delightful collection, the most comprehensive ever compiled of his work, presents all of Lear's verse and other nonsense writings, including stories, letters, and illustrated alphabets, as well as previously unpublished material. Featuring Lear's own line drawings throughout and an introduction by leading Lear authority Vivien Noakes, this captivating volume reveals a complex man of ample talents, achievements, and influence-and is teeming with timeless nonsense.More editions of Edward Lear: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense:
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End of the Affairby Graham Greene, Michael GoraISBN 0142437980 (0-14-243798-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'End of the Affair'Book summary:Set in London during and just after World War II, Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is a pathos-laden examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another, and love of God. The affair in question involves Maurice Bendrix, a solipsistic novelist, and a dutifully married woman, Sarah Miles. The lovers meet at a party thrown by Sarah's dreary civil-servant husband, and proceed to liberate each other from boredom and routine unhappiness. Reflecting on the ebullient beginnings of their romance, Bendrix recalls: "There was never any question in those days of who wanted whom--we were together in desire." Indeed, the affair goes on unchecked for several years until, during an afternoon tryst, Bendrix goes downstairs to look for intruders in his basement and a bomb falls on the building. Sarah rushes down to find him lying under a fallen door, and immediately makes a deal with God, whom she has never particularly cared for. "I love him and I'll do anything if you'll make him alive.... I'll give him up forever, only let him be alive with a chance.... People can love each other without seeing each other, can't they, they love You all their lives without seeing You."
Bendrix, as evidenced by his ability to tell the story, is not dead, merely unconscious, and so Sarah must keep her promise. She breaks off the relationship without giving a reason, leaving Bendrix mystified and angry. The only explanation he can think of is that she's left him for another man. It isn't until years later, when he hires a private detective to ascertain the truth, that he learns of her impassioned vow. Sarah herself comes to understand her move through a strange rationalization. Writing to God in her journal, she says:
You willed our separation, but he [Bendrix] willed it too. He worked for it with his anger and his jealousy, and he worked for it with his love. For he gave me so much love, and I gave him so much love that soon there wasn't anything left, when we'd finished, but You.
It's as though the pull toward faith were inevitable, if incomprehensible--perhaps as punishment for her sin of adultery. In her final years, Sarah's faith only deepens, even as she remains haunted by the bombing and the power of her own attraction to God. Set against the backdrop of a war-ravaged city, The End of the Affair is equally haunting as it lays forth the question of what constitutes love in troubling, unequivocal terms. --Melanie Rehak [via]More editions of End of the Affair:
The English Languageby David CrystalISBN 0141003960 (0-14-100396-0)
Softcover, Penguin Global
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Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton, Elizabeth AmmonsISBN 0142437808 (0-14-243780-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:[via]Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenies vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.
In one of American fictions finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Whartons other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read novel.
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The Eustace Diamondsby Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland, Stephen GillISBN 0141441208 (0-14-144120-8)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eustace Diamonds'Book summary:[via]The third novel in Trollopes Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds bears all the hallmarks of his later works, blending dark cynicism with humor and a keen perception of human nature. Following the death of her husband, Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift from her husband, but the Eustace lawyers insist she give it up, and while her cousin Frank takes her side, her new lover, Lord Fawn, declares that he will only marry her if the necklace is surrendered. As gossip and scandal intensify, Lizzies truthfulness is thrown into doubt, and, in her desire to keep the jewels, she is driven to increasingly desperate acts.
- Revised edition of Trollope's third Palliser novel
- Updated Introduction explores Trollope's depiction of a society that worships money and highlights his concerns with truth, honesty, and honor
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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 015603297X (0-15-603297-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foucault's Pendulum'Book summary:Book Department Fouault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco [via]
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissiniaby Samuel Johnson, Geoffrey Tillotson, Brian JenkinsISBN 0192553429 (0-19-255342-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, David WomersleyISBN 0140952659 (0-14-095265-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Homer in Englishby Homer, George Steiner, Aminadav DykmanISBN 0140446214 (0-14-044621-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer in English'Book summary:This text is one of the volumes in the "New Poets in Translation" series. It focuses on the epic poems of Homer, one of the most translated authors in literature. [via]
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The Iliadby Homer, Martin HammondISBN 0140444440 (0-14-044444-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:Newly updated by D. C. H. Rieu, son of E. V. Rieu One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals. @RageAgainstTheAchaean Pissed. I am so, so very pissed. First I have to go to this beach. Then I have to kill all these dudes. And NOW - now! This prick stole my biscuit. Who does that? Am I right? Can't resolve this problem on my own - calling Mom! From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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The Iliadby Peter Jones, Peter V. Jones, D. C. H. Rieu, E. V. Rieu, HomerISBN 0140447946 (0-14-044794-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:Newly updated by D. C. H. Rieu, son of E. V. Rieu[via]One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals.
@RageAgainstTheAchaean Pissed. I am so, so very pissed.
First I have to go to this beach. Then I have to kill all these dudes. And NOW now! This prick stole my biscuit. Who does that? Am I right?
Cant resolve this problem on my own calling Mom!
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Iliad of Homerby Barbara Leonie PicardISBN 0192741470 (0-19-274147-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad of Homer'Book summary:"Odysseus and his men put out to sea in twelve ships of fifty oars, their white sails unfurled and their blue-painted prows thrusting through the waves as the wind filled the sails: nigh on sixty men on board each ship. And the heart of every man was happy as he thought how at last, after ten weary years of battle, he would once again see Ithaca, which was his home."
Skillfully retold as clear, unencumbered narratives while retaining the dignity and excitment of Homer's original epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey were critically acclaimed as highly accessible editions for all ages when first published by Oxford in 1952. Now we are proud to reissue them in handsome paperback editions as part of the Oxford Myths and Legends series.
The Iliad describes the last years of the war between the Trojans and the Greeks with tales of heroes, battles, quarrels, and especially of Achilles--the greatest warrior among all the Greeks. The Odyssey continues the story after the fall of Troy, as Odysseus begins his exciting journey home. His voyage to Circe's enchanted island, down to the underworld, to the land of the Sirens, and finally home to patient Penelope remains one of the best adventure stories ever told.
All of the pride, daring, love, and revenge of these two enduring tales is captured in a way that spans ages and levels of familiarity with the works. Adults will find them the perfect complement to the originals for clarification or for pure reading pleasure. Younger children will love hearing the daring adventures read aloud, and young adults will appreciate a text that does not talk down to them, but is clear, understandable, and enjoyable. Joan Kiddell-Monroe's exquisite black and white illustrations blend a contemporary style with the classical and add to the timeless appeal of the stories.
Homer's great epics are brought to life in an immediate and engaging way for every member of the family and for all ages of students of classical literature in these two classic reissues. [via]More editions of Iliad of Homer:
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Iliad of Homerby Homer, Alexander Pope, Steven ShankmanISBN 0140445048 (0-14-044504-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad of Homer'Book summary:Pope spent his formative years as a poet translating Homer, beginning with the Iliad, and in his translation he successfully found a style that answers the sublimity and grace of Homer. Steven Shankman provides scholarly critical apparatus for this Penguin English Poets edition, which is based on the 1743 edition that contains the poet's final revisions. Pope's Preface and the three indexes are also included. Most importantly, this edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to observe one poetic genius illuminate the work of another. [via]
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The Iliad: The Epic Story of Troyby Robert FaglesISBN 0140997083 (0-14-099708-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Introduction to Languageby Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina HyamsISBN 015508481X (0-15-508481-X)
Softcover, Heinle
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to Language'Book summary:AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE is ideal for use at all levels and in many different areas of instruction including education, languages, psychology, anthropology, teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), and linguistics. All chapters in this best-seller have been substantially revised to reflect recent discoveries and new understanding of linguistics and languages. [via]
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0141309369 (0-14-130936-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:[via]Set against the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, the gripping drama of Kidnappedoriginally published in 1886takes readers to the danger and intrigue of a Scotland sundered by revolution. The story is told by David Balfour, a young Whig and Lowlander whose odyssey is a microcosm of the struggles besetting his country. Tricked by a miserly uncle, he survives attempted murder, kidnap, and shipwreck, only to escape through the Highlands in the company of Alan Brecka Jacobite adamantly opposed to Whigs like Balfour. Running for their lives, the two fugitives must rely on each other even as the ancient misunderstandings between them force tensions to the breaking point. A riveting page-turner and work of social commentary, Kidnapped is one of Robert Louis Stevensons greatest works.
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The Koranby N. J. DawoodISBN 0140449205 (0-14-044920-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Koran'Book summary:Universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible word of God as revealed to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago, the Koran still provides the rules of conduct fundamental to the Arab way of life. [via]
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The Koran: With a Parallel Arabic Textby N. J. DawoodISBN 0140445420 (0-14-044542-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Koran: With a Parallel Arabic Text'Book summary:The Koran, as N. J. Dawood states, is 'not only one of the most influential books of prophetic literature but also a literary masterpiece in its own right. Universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as revealed to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago, the Koran still provides the rules of conduct fundamental to the Arab way of life. N. J. Dawood's masterly translation, first published in the mid-1950s and now completely revised in the light of a life-long study of the language and style of the Koran, presents the English reader with a clear, fluent and authoritative rendering, while fully reflecting the characteristic flavour and rhythm of the original. The present edition follows the original sequence of the Koranic suras and is accompanied by a comprehensive index and a parallel Arabic text.[via]More editions of The Koran: With a Parallel Arabic Text:
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Janet Allison Brown, Dinah DryhurstISBN 0141312025 (0-14-131202-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:The March girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, are growing up in New England during the Civil War. Times are difficult, but the bond between the four sisters is strong and their courage and love help them overcome adversity. [via]
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The Long Patrolby Brian Jacques, Allan CurlessISBN 0142402451 (0-14-240245-1)
Softcover, Firebird
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Lost Worldby Arthur Conan Doyle, Philip GoodenISBN 0142002720 (0-14-200272-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost World'Book summary:"The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales" comprises of two novels and two short stories. In this mesmerizing collection, a blend of imagination and reality is apparent. The author bases his ideas on scientific facts and creates an extra-ordinary world of fantasy. An interesting array of escapades and expeditions. Engrossing! This EasyRead Large Bold Edition has been optimized for readers with reduced vision who prefer a bold print that stands out and facilitates reading. [via]
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Medieval English Verseby Brian StoneISBN 0140441441 (0-14-044144-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Ministry Of Fear: An Entertainmentby Graham Greene, Alan FurstISBN 0143039113 (0-14-303911-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ministry Of Fear: An Entertainment'Book summary:[via]For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the blitzand the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the war, until he happened to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quarry of malign and shadowy forces, from which he endeavors to escape with a mind that remains obstinately out of focus.
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Murder in the Cathedralby T. S. EliotISBN 0156632772 (0-15-663277-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in the Cathedral'Book summary:T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time. [via]
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The Name of the Roseby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156001314 (0-15-600131-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Name of the Rose'Book summary:It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskervilles investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of The Name of the Rose:
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Jane Austen, John N. DavieISBN 0192815253 (0-19-281525-3)
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Old Possums Book of Practical Catsby T. S. Eliot, Edward GoreyISBN 015668568X (0-15-668568-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Possums Book of Practical Cats'Book summary:An engaging collection of humorous poems. These verses, originally composed to amuse Eliots intimate friends, have proven irresistible to cat lovers, lovers of nonsense, and admirers of Eliot throughout the English-speaking world. Enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most...verses (Time). Drawings by Nicolas Bentley.[via]More editions of Old Possums Book of Practical Cats:
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Old Possums Book of Practical Catsby Edward Gorey, T. S. EliotISBN 0151686564 (0-15-168656-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Possums Book of Practical Cats'Book summary:The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, it isn't just one of your holiday games;
The phenomenal worldwide success in the 1980s of the musical Cats refuelled interest in T.S. Eliot's classic Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats on which the stage extravaganza was based. Old Possum's Book, originally published in 1939 and dedicated to Eliot's godchildren, contains a delightful rogues' gallery of felines, including the Rum Tum Tugger cat whose "disobliging ways are a matter of habit", Mr Mistoffelees "The Original Conjuring Cat" and Macavity: The Mystery Cat "the master criminal who can defy the law". Loved by generations of children and adults alike, Old Possum is perhaps most remarkable for having been written almost as an aside, a plaything, by Eliot, as a distraction from the internal religious and philosophical wranglings he charted in Four Quartets.
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.A warm and witty collection of free-verse poems, which demand to be read aloud and given full dramatic import, this edition of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats has been reissued by Faber and Faber Limited in a slim pocket-sized edition, with original tongue-in-cheek illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. --Catherine Taylor [via]
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken Kesey, Robert FaggenISBN 0141181222 (0-14-118122-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'Book summary:Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned. [via]
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Periclesby P. EdwardsISBN 0140707298 (0-14-070729-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles'Book summary:Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare's inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style and content. However, Shakespeare was clearly the driving force behind the play, and it is important to remember that it was one of the most popular plays of its time.
Famous for its resurrection of John Gower, the 14th-century English writer, who acts as the play's chorus, Pericles is a play which is obsessed with incest. The dramatic action begins in Antioch, where Pericles travels to solve the riddle of King Antiochus, who "to incest did provoke" his daughter. When Pericles realises Antiochus' terrible secret, he flees, wandering the seas, where he meets his wife Thaisa, who apparently dies whilst giving birth to her daughter Marina during a terrible storm. Pericles' grief is compounded by the apparent death of his daughter whilst staying at Tarsus some months later. She has in fact been sold into sexual slavery, and as Pericles resumes his wanderings, 16 years later Marina battles to retain her "peevish chastity". As with many of Shakespeare's later plays, or romances, recognition and reunion occurs in the most unlikely of circumstances. Despite questions of authorship and textual corruption, Pericles continues to fascinate audiences and critics with its dark and ambivalent account of the relations between fathers and daughters. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Periclesby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0140714693 (0-14-071469-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles'Book summary:Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare's inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style and content. However, Shakespeare was clearly the driving force behind the play, and it is important to remember that it was one of the most popular plays of its time.
Famous for its resurrection of John Gower, the 14th-century English writer, who acts as the play's chorus, Pericles is a play which is obsessed with incest. The dramatic action begins in Antioch, where Pericles travels to solve the riddle of King Antiochus, who "to incest did provoke" his daughter. When Pericles realises Antiochus' terrible secret, he flees, wandering the seas, where he meets his wife Thaisa, who apparently dies whilst giving birth to her daughter Marina during a terrible storm. Pericles' grief is compounded by the apparent death of his daughter whilst staying at Tarsus some months later. She has in fact been sold into sexual slavery, and as Pericles resumes his wanderings, 16 years later Marina battles to retain her "peevish chastity". As with many of Shakespeare's later plays, or romances, recognition and reunion occurs in the most unlikely of circumstances. Despite questions of authorship and textual corruption, Pericles continues to fascinate audiences and critics with its dark and ambivalent account of the relations between fathers and daughters. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Pericles, Prince of Tyreby William Shakespeare, Roger WarrenISBN 0192814605 (0-19-281460-5)
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Plain Tales from the Hillsby Rudyard Kipling, Andrew RutherfordISBN 0192816527 (0-19-281652-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plain Tales from the Hills'Book summary:First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. His vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indians themselves. Witty, wry, sometimes cynical, these tales with their brevity and concentration of effect are landmarks in the history of the short story as an art-form. [via]
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Pooh's Libraryby A. A. MilneISBN 0140955607 (0-14-095560-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pooh's Library'Book summary:Stop everything! If at least one copy of each of these classics is not in a prominent place on your bookshelf, your home and your progeny's childhood is incomplete. Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends--blustery old Owl, bouncy Tigger, clever Christopher Robin, glum Eeyore, and the rest--have been a staple of children's literature for over 70 years in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. And Milne's immortal collections of children's verse, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, have soothed many a savage beast at bedtime with such incomparable delights as "If I Were King" and "Us Two." All four of these classics, complete with Ernest H. Shepard's original illustrations, are gathered here in a handsome boxed set. These hardcover editions will most certainly be a cherished legacy to be handed down for generations to come. After all, as Rabbit says solemnly one day, "Without Pooh, the adventure would be impossible." (Ages 3 to 103) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Qur'anby Muhammad Abdel HaleemISBN 0192805487 (0-19-280548-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Qur'an'Book summary:One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur'an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching, the sacred text that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of Islam. Yet despite the growing interest in Islamic teachings and culture, there has never been a truly satisfactory English translation of the Qur'an, until now.
This superb new translation of the Qur'an is written in contemporary language that remains faithful to the meaning and spirit of the original, making the text crystal clear while retaining all of this great work's eloquence. The translation is accurate and completely free from the archaisms, incoherence, and alien structures that mar existing translations. Thus, for the first time, English-speaking readers will have a text of the Qur'an which is easy to use and comprehensible. Furthermore, Haleem includes notes that explain geographical, historical, and personal allusions as well as an index in which Qur'anic material is arranged into topics for easy reference. His introduction traces the history of the Qur'an, examines its structure and stylistic features, and considers issues related to militancy, intolerance, and the subjection of women.
Clearly written and filled with helpful information and guidance, this brilliant translation of the Qur'an is the best available introduction to the faith of Moslems around the world. [via]More editions of The Qur'an:
The Return of the Soldierby Rebecca WestISBN 014118065X (0-14-118065-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Robert Browningby Robert Browning, Daniel KarlinISBN 0140586156 (0-14-058615-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robert Browning'Book summary:A selection of Browning's poetry containing complete poems including examples from the early "Dramatic Lyrics" and "Dramatic Romances and Lyrics", "Men and Women", "Dramatis Personae" and from later less familiar works. [via]
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Selected Poemsby John Keats, John BarnardISBN 0140585982 (0-14-058598-2)
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The Shadow Lineby Joseph Conrad, Jeremy HawthornISBN 0192801708 (0-19-280170-8)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby J.A. BurrowISBN 0140806679 (0-14-080667-9)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:Although the date of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is uncertain, and we know nothing about the author, its composition is roughly contemporary with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in the latter part of the fourteenth century.[via]It is a remarkably subtle and accomplished poem, in which the hero's knightly virtues of courage, courtesy and fidelity are put to the test in a strange adventure involving a huge green knight on a green horse, a winter journey, a lady in a mysterious castle and a challenge answered. It ranks as one of the greatest works of the English Middle Ages and perhaps the greatest triumph of the English alliterative tradition.
Unlike The Canterbury Tales, however, Sir Gawain is written in a dialect belonging to Cheshire, Lancashire or Staffordshire, and this seems more remote to the modern reader than Chaucer's London language. The aim of this edition has been to remove unnecessary impediments while retaining the integrity of the original. Notes and a glossary have been provided to assist an informed, critical reading of the text.
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The deal is I cut off his head now, and he cuts off mine a year later. What a jester, doesnt he know hell be dead?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby W. R. J. Barron, Brian StoneISBN 0140440925 (0-14-044092-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain; Seek faithfully till you find me ...' A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and decapitates the knight - but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his head with him. The following winter Gawain sets out to find the Knight in the wild Northern lands and to keep his side of the bargain. One of the great masterpieces of Middle English poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight magically combines elements of fairy tale and heroic sagas with the pageantry, chivalry and courtly love of medieval Romance. Brian Stone's evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction that examines the Romance genre, and the poem's epic and pagan sources. This edition also includes essays discussing the central characters and themes, theories about authorship and Arthurian legends, and suggestions for further reading and notes. @GawainsWorld So listen here, some green man came to the hall and wants someone to cut his head off. Some sort of dare? Could be fun, right? The deal is I cut off his head now, and he cuts off mine a year later. What a jester, doesn't he know he'll be dead? This goblin fellow is totally dead. All seemed fine until Ichabod Crane here fell to the floor, stood up, and picked up his head. His head, in his hands. In HIS HANDS! From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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Sylvia's Loversby Andrew Sanders, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192815717 (0-19-281571-7)
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A Tale from Winnie-the-pooh and a Smackerel of Verseby A. A. MilneISBN 0146001044 (0-14-600104-4)
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Titus Andronicusby William Shakespeare, Russ McDonaldISBN 014071491X (0-14-071491-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Titus Andronicus'Book summary:Shakespeare's most violent and gory play, Titus Andronicus was written in 1592, and represents the dramatist's first foray into the popular genre of revenge tragedy (many editors argue with at least one other collaborator). The result was spectacular, including scenes of murder, human sacrifice, rape, bodily mutilation and cannibalism. Set in late-imperial Rome, the action begins with the Roman general Titus Andronicus and his triumphant return from wars with the Goths. Leading Queen Tamora and her sons as prisoners, Titus stumbles into a power struggle between Saturninus and his brother Bassianus. Titus fatally backs Saturninus, who rapidly turns on the old general and marries Tamora. The implications for the Andronicus family are disastrous. More of Titus' sons are killed, his daughter Lavinia is brutally raped by Tamora's sons, and as Titus begins his descent into madness and despair he even has his own hand cut off in an act of awful trickery. As Titus plots his bloody revenge, he reflects that "Rome is but a wilderness of tigers". The ending is one of the most gruesome conclusions to any dramatic tragedy, and leaves Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs looking quite restrained. Although the play has put audiences off for centuries due to its apparently gratuitous violence, more recently critics have discerned something more to it than pure shock, but that might say more about us than the Elizabethans. .--Jerry Brotton [via]
The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William Shakespeare, Mary Beth RoseISBN 0140714618 (0-14-071461-8)
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Two Gentlemen of Veronaby N. Sanders SkakespearISBN 0140707174 (0-14-070717-4)
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Under Western Eyes: Library Editionby Joseph Conrad, Jeremy HawthornISBN 0192801716 (0-19-280171-6)
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Vicar of Wakefieldby Oliver Goldsmith, Arthur Friedman, Robert L. MacKISBN 0192805126 (0-19-280512-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vicar of Wakefield'Book summary:Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction of domestic life and loving family relationships.
New to this edition is an introduction by Robert L. Mack that examines the reasons for the novels enduring popularity, as well as the critical debates over whether it is a straightforward novel of sentiment or a satire on the social and economic inequalities of the period and the very literary conventions and morality it seems to embody. This edition also includes a new, up-to-date bibliography and expanded notes, and contains reprints of Arthur Friedman's authoritative Oxford English Novels text of the corrected first edition of 1766. [via] -
The Voyage Outby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156028050 (0-15-602805-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage Out'Book summary:Woolfs first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South american coast. It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South americanca not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an americanca whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis (E. M. Forster).[via]More editions of The Voyage Out:
The Way We Live Nowby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0142437131 (0-14-243713-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Live Now'Book summary:Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and his daughter's ill-use at the hands of a grasping lover (for whom she steals funds in order to elope) is a classic in the literature of money and a ripping good read as well. [via]
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Winnie-the-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0142404675 (0-14-240467-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winnie-the-Pooh'Book summary:[via]For nearly seventy years, readers have been delighted by the adventures of Christopher Robin and his lovable friends. Paired with the perfectly suited drawings of Ernest H. Shepard, A.A. Milne's classic story continues to captivate children of all ages.
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 014243700X (0-14-243700-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wives and Daughters'Book summary:1865 novel from the English novelist and short story writer, whose writings can be seen as critiques of Victorian era attitudes, particularly those toward women, with complex narratives and dynamic women characters. [via]
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Moreby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141304707 (0-14-130470-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More'Book summary:Seven superb stories, from the world's no. 1 storyteller[via]
Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A cleaver mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins.More editions of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More:
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The Woodlandersby Thomas HardyISBN 0192816004 (0-19-281600-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woodlanders'Book summary:This is the novel that was Hardy's own favorite "as a story". It appears here for the first time critically edited, in a text based on the manuscript but incorporating Hardy's later revisions. [via]
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