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A. A. Milneby A. A. MilneISBN 0525457240 (0-525-45724-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A. A. Milne'Book summary:Seventy-five years ago, that most beloved of "silly old bears," Winnie- the-Pooh, came down the stairs, "bump, bump, bump," on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. And now, after generations of children have grown up on stories about Pooh's adventures with his forest friends, the four all-time children's classics from A.A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard have been collected in one hefty, handsome volume for another multitude of generations to enjoy. Gathered together are the poems and tales that celebrate heffalumps, Eeyore's birthday, the unbouncing of Tigger, Disobedience, Buckingham Palace, and sneezles. The stories about Pooh getting stuck in Rabbit's doorway, Piglet doing a "Very Grand Thing," and Eeyore losing a tail (and Pooh finding one) are timeless favorites for children--and grownups--of all ages. Four original classics are here, in all their glory: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, and Now We Are Six. This beautiful edition features complete, unabridged text and all of Shepard's original illustrations, each hand painted in watercolors--this is a true collector's gem. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 0486298035 (0-486-29803-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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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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Allen And Greenough's New Latin Grammarby J. B. Greenough, Joseph Henry AllenISBN 0486448061 (0-486-44806-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Allen And Greenough's New Latin Grammar'Book summary:A venerable resource for more than a century, this is still regarded by students and teachers as the finest Latin grammar reference available. Concise, comprehensive, and well organized, it is unrivaled in depth and clarity, placing a wealth of advice on usage, vocabulary, diction, composition, and syntax within easy reach of all levels.[via]More editions of Allen And Greenough's New Latin Grammar:
Assassin's Questby Robin HobbISBN 0553106406 (0-553-10640-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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At the Back of the North Windby George MacDonaldISBN 0517691205 (0-517-69120-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0486290735 (0-486-29073-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:One of the most popular works of American literature, this charming self-portrait has been translated into nearly every language. It covers Franklin's life up to his prewar stay in London as representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly, including his boyhood years, work as a printer, experiments with electricity, political career, much more.[via]More editions of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:
The Ball and the Crossby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486288056 (0-486-28805-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Breakerby Minette WaltersISBN 0515128821 (0-515-12882-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Chambers Dictionary of Etymologyby Robert K. Barnhart, Sol SteinmetzISBN 0550142304 (0-550-14230-4)
Hardcover, Chambers Harrap Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chambers Dictionary of Etymology'Book summary:How are the words 'door' German 'Tzr' and Sanskrit 'dvar' related? When did the word Blarney first appear in print? What's the linguistic history of the word 'history'? The Chambers Etymological Dictionary holds all the answers for any person curious about the origins of the words they use, and how these words have changed over time. This fascinating dictionary explores the development of meaning, spelling, and pronunciation of over 25,000 English words. Over 30,000 detailed entries trace words back to their Proto-Germanic or Indo-European roots, and include words borrowed from other languages, as well as the sources and dates of their first recorded use. For many years academics, wordsmiths, crossword lovers, and language enthusiasts of all stripes have turned to this celebrated volume as their reference of choice in lexical matters. First published as the Barnhart Etymological Dictionary, the Chambers Dictionary of Etymology offers a unique combination of approachability and authoritativeness in an accessible single-volume format, making it an essential etymological resource for the expert, and a fascinating reference for the general reader. Sample entry from the Chambers Etymological Dictionary: blarney n. flattering, coaxing talk. 1766, Lady Blarny (for Blarney), a smooth-talking flatterer in Goldsmith's the Vicar of Wakefield, her name being a literary contrivance in allusion to Blarney Stone, a stone in a castle near Cork, Ireland. Anyone kissing the stone is supposed to become skillful in flattering and coaxing. The word is used in its general sense in a letter of Sir Walter Scott (1796).[via]More editions of Chambers Dictionary of Etymology:
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Charles Darwin's Beagle Diaryby Richard Darwin KeynesISBN 0521003172 (0-521-00317-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
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The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0486452166 (0-486-45216-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525457232 (0-525-45723-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh'Book summary:When Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he likes doing best in the world, Pooh says, after much thought, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing."
Happy readers for over 70 years couldn't agree more. Pooh's status as a "Bear of Very Little Brain" belies his profoundly eternal wisdom in the ways of the world. To many, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and the others are as familiar and important as their own family members. A.A. Milne's classics, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, are brought together in this beautiful edition, complete and unabridged, with recolored illustrations by Milne's creative counterpart, Ernest H. Shepard. Join Pooh and the gang as they meet a Heffalump, help get Pooh unstuck from Rabbit's doorway, (re)build a house for Eeyore, and try to unbounce Tigger. A childhood is simply not complete without full participation in all of Pooh's adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterby Thomas De QuinceyISBN 0486287424 (0-486-28742-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'Book summary:Impressive account admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness of author's early years as a precocious student of Greek and Latin, his adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University, introduction to opium in 1804 and his longterm involvement with the drug.[via]More editions of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:
The Crocodile Birdby Ruth RendellISBN 0517595761 (0-517-59576-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Crome Yellowby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0486436632 (0-486-43663-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Dark Roomby Minette WaltersISBN 0515120456 (0-515-12045-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalkby Hugh RawsonISBN 0517545187 (0-517-54518-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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East of Eden: An Easy Guide to Car Maintenance And Repairby John SteinbeckISBN 0553129090 (0-553-12909-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Echoby Minette WaltersISBN 0515122564 (0-515-12256-4)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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Falling Angels : A Novelby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0525945814 (0-525-94581-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Angels : A Novel'Book summary:Set among the sweeping skirts and social upheavals of Edwardian London, Tracy Chevalier's Falling Angels is a meditation on change, loss, and recovery. Her central characters are two young girls of the same age, whose family plots are situated side-by-side in a cemetery modeled on Highgate. Lavinia Waterhouse is respectably middle-class, devoted, like her conventional, doting mother, to the right way to do things, although suspiciously well- schooled in subjects like funerary sculpture and the English practices of mourning. Her friend Maude Coleman comes from a slightly more privileged and free-thinking background. In contrast with Lavinia's mother, Maude's mother Kitty Coleman is well-educated by the standards of the day, and it has made her restless and irritable. But neither her reading, nor her gardening, nor her affair with the somber, high-thinking governor of the cemetery is enough for Kitty. She comes alive only when she discovers the women's suffrage movement, and her devotion to the cause takes her away from Maude in every sense.
Although the point of view shifts between many characters (with even the Coleman's maid and cook getting their say, sometimes unnecessarily), Falling Angels is essentially the children's story, since it is their lives that are most open to change. The narrative spans exactly the years of Edward VII's reign, from the morning after his mother Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 to his own death in May 1910. Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring) deftly uses the nation's dramatically different mourning for these two monarchs to signal the social transformations of the period. Readers at ease with English history will find Falling Angels an unusually subtle novel, with an emotional range that recalls the best of the Edwardian novelists, E.M. Forster, and his quintessential novel of Edwardian manners, Howard's End. --Regina Marler [via]
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Fantastic Mr. Foxby Roald DahlISBN 0553153900 (0-553-15390-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Franny and Zooeyby J. D. SalingerISBN 0553203487 (0-553-20348-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franny and Zooey'Book summary:The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill. [via]
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Girl with a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 052594527X (0-525-94527-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl with a Pearl Earring:
Graphologyby Thomas G. AylesworthISBN 053100323X (0-531-00323-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 055321232X (0-553-21232-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:Considered one of English literature's first and greatest satirists, Jonathan Swift possessed a timeless genius for pointing out the foibles of human nature that still has the power to provoke, amuse, and, at times, even outrage our modern sensibilities. This representative collection of Swift's major writings includes the complete Gulliver's Travels as well as A Tale of a Tub, "The Battle of the Books," "A Modest Proposal," "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity," "The Bickerstaff Papers," and many more of his brilliantly satirical works. Here too are selections from Swift's poetry and portions of his Journal to Stella. Swift's savage ridicule, corrosive wit, and sparkling humor are fully displayed in this comprehensive collection. [via]
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Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIIIby A.F. GarvieISBN 0521338409 (0-521-33840-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIII'Book summary:This is the first self-contained edition of Books VI-VIII of the Odyssey--the account of Odysseus' time among the Phaeacians, and a popular introduction to Homer. While not neglecting matters of language and formulaic composition, the Commentary aims to provide guidance on questions of literary and narrative technique and poetic artistry. The Introduction deals with the problem of Homeric composition in general, and with the place of the Phaeacian books in the poem as a whole. There are also brief sections on Homeric meter and the text. [via]
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0486420493 (0-486-42049-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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In Praise of Follyby Desiderius ErasmusISBN 0486426890 (0-486-42689-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Praise of Folly'Book summary:Witty, influential work by one of the greatest scholars of the Renaissance satirizes the shortcomings of the upper classes and religious institutions. Required reading for humanities classes, this literary gem is ripe with vignettes and caricatures with Folly, a metaphor for stupidity, the centerpiece. Unabridged republication of the John Wilson translation.[via]More editions of In Praise of Folly:
Introduction to the Grammar of Englishby Rodney D. Huddleston, S. R. Anderson, J. Bresnan, B. Comrie, W. DresslerISBN 0521297044 (0-521-29704-4)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0486290271 (0-486-29027-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of Dr Moreau'Book summary:Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life. While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells's prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing "smarter" human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick's adventures on Dr. Moreau's island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read. [via]
Jane and Prudenceby Barbara PymISBN 0525136401 (0-525-13640-1)
Hardcover, E.P. Dutton
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L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Barry MoserISBN 0520058224 (0-520-05822-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas. [via]
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Lady of Qualityby Georgette HeyerISBN 0525142800 (0-525-14280-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady of Quality'Book summary:"A writer of great wit and style...I've read her books to ragged shreds."Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph
The spirited and independent Miss Annis Wychwood is twenty-nine and well past the age for falling in love. But when Annis embroils herself in the affairs of a pretty runaway heiress, Miss Lucilla Carleton, she is destined to see a great deal of her fugitive's uncivil and high-handed guardian, Mr. Oliver Carleton. Befriending the wayward girl brings unexpected consequences, among them the conflicting emotions aroused by her guardian, who is quite the rudest man Annis has ever met...
Georgette Heyer's historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers. Her smart, independent heroines and dashing heroes brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting and fascinating eras of English history, when drawing rooms sparkled with well-dressed nobility, and romantic intrigues ruled the day.
"In this delectable Georgette Heyer novel, the lady of quality and her bit-of-a-rake swain are the ones on whom our eyes are fixed. They don't play us false. Miss Heyer is in top form...romantic, amusing, and full of tart-tongued comment on the mores of the time."Publishers Weekly
"Set in Bath in the last years of the Regency, it has the authentic Heyer sparkle."Woman's Journal
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 0553211161 (0-553-21116-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift . . . the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Over the course of Whitman's life, the book reappeared in many versions, expanded and transformed as the author's experiences and the nation's history changed and grew. Whitman's ambition was to creates something uniquely American. In that he succeeded. His poems have been woven into the very fabric of the American character. From his solemn masterpieces "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" to the joyous freedom of "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "Song of the Open Road," Whitman's work lives on, an inspiration to the poets of later generations. [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486291715 (0-486-29171-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:When Sara's privileged status at her boarding school comes to an abrupt end, the former favorite finds herself penniless and at the mercy of a vindictive headmistress. This Victorian-era tale's use of imagination and generosity to make the best of life and losses remains a source of inspiration and enchantment.[via]More editions of A Little Princess:
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Hardcover, Franklin Watts - A Little Princess: ISBN 0553212036 (0-553-21203-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - A Little Princess: ISBN 0517014807 (0-517-01480-7)
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The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of Englandby Antonia FraserISBN 0520224604 (0-520-22460-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of England'Book summary:This essential reference is a concise, accessible guide to the great dynasties of English royalty. A collection of biographical sketches that encompasses the period from the establishment of monarchical power by the early Norman kings through the reign of Elizabeth II, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England tells the stories of many monarchs and their colorful lives--some merry, some cruel, some heroic, others sinister. Antonia Fraser and a collection of distinguished contributors bring the people and events to life in this lavishly illustrated volume that is both engrossing history and an excellent reference tool.[via]
This updated edition includes a new essay describing the recently tumultuous reign of the Windsors. Included are details of the weddings of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, and of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson; the acrimonious collapse of the marriages; the effect the media have had on the royal family's image; and the fire at Windsor Castle. Such recent events as Diana's tragic death, the decommissioning of the Royal Yacht Britannia, and the launching of Queen Elizabeth's own website are also discussed.
Accompanying the text are 175 contemporary illustrations and drawings of the royal coats of arms, with their significance explained by J.P. Brooke-Little, Richmond Herald of Arms. This is a dazzling story of a thousand years of English history, as told through the lives and deeds of the nation's sovereigns.More editions of The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of England:
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The Longest Journeyby E. M. Forster, Jeffrey MeyersISBN 0553214551 (0-553-21455-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longest Journey'Book summary:Bookish, sensitive Rickie Elliot is quite at home amid the placid and scholarly environs of Cambridge. That is, until he falls for the shallow young Agnes Pembroke. Forster skewers undergraduate philosophical debate, the opening day of a public school, and tea with a frightful dowager, as the dire consequences of mistaken love later developed in Howard's End take their toll. Together, these elements combine to form a deft blend of tragedy and social satire that readers will savor. [via]
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Lorna Dooneby R. D. BlackmoreISBN 0525341668 (0-525-34166-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Make Death Love Meby Ruth RendellISBN 0553134566 (0-553-13456-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Neverending Storyby Michael Ende, Ralph Manheim, Roswitha QuadfliegISBN 0525457585 (0-525-45758-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Neverending Story'Book summary:The Neverending Story When it was published more than a decade ago, this special story within a story captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers worldwide. A lonely boy named Bastian is drawn into a beautiful but doomed world. Only Bastian can save this enchanted place of dragons, giants, monsters, and mysteries . . . but will he have to stay there forever? This beautifully repackaged hardcover classic Full description [via]
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Nigger of the Narcissusby Joseph ConradISBN 0486408809 (0-486-40880-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Now We Are Sixby A. A. MilneISBN 0525444467 (0-525-44446-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Now We Are Six'Book summary:Back by popular demand, the four full-color gift editions of the original Pooh classics are available again. These elegant books, larger in format than the classic editions, include all of Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations, each meticulously hand-painted in delicate watercolors.
Here are the two great storybooks chronicling the adventures of Christopher Robin and all the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood, as well as the two charming volumes of poems. Bright in color and true in spirit, these are books for giving--To Pooh fans of all ages. [via]
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The Odysseyby Homer, George Herbert PalmerISBN 0486406547 (0-486-40654-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Odyssey of Homerby Allen MandelbaumISBN 0520070216 (0-520-07021-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan Wara journey of ten years and countless thrilling adventures. Rich in Greek folklore and myth, featuring gods and goddesses, monsters and sorceresses, The Odyssey has enchanted listeners around the world for thousands of years.
Mandelbaum's robust, romantic, lyrical translation has an openness and immediacy unsurpassed by any other. Read aloud, it is a wonderful way to experience this enduring classic. [via]More editions of The Odyssey of Homer:
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The Odyssey of Homerby Homer, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0553213997 (0-553-21399-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern Englishby Eric PartridgeISBN 0517414252 (0-517-41425-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Palgrave's Golden TreasuryISBN 0517629178 (0-517-62917-8)
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Poems of Christina Rossettiby Christina Rossetti, Florence HarrisonISBN 0517118513 (0-517-11851-3)
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Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk : Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and Verbal Flourishes for Artful Users of the English Languageby Hugh RawsonISBN 0517702010 (0-517-70201-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymesby Roald DahlISBN 0553153617 (0-553-15361-7)
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Edward Fitzgerald, Rene BullISBN 0517072327 (0-517-07232-7)
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockhby Thomas Carlyle, Mark Engel, Rodger L. TarrISBN 0520209281 (0-520-20928-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh'Book summary:Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. First published in serial form in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-1834, it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists. Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, it was first printed as a book in Boston in 1836 and immediately became the inspiration for the Transcendental movement. The first London trade edition was published in 1838. By the 1840s, largely on the strength of Sartor Resartus, Carlyle became one of the leading literary figures in Britain.[via]
Sartor Resartus became one of the important texts of nineteenth-century English literature, central to the Romantic movement and Victorian culture. At the time of Carlyle's death in 1881, more than 69,000 copies had been sold. The post-Victorian influence continued and extends to writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, Willa Cather and Ernest Hemingway.
This edition of Sartor Resartus is the first publication of the work that uses all extant versions to create an accurate authorial text. This volume, the second in an eight-volume series, includes a complete textual apparatus as well as a historical introduction and full critical and explanatory annotation.More editions of Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh:
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The Second Part of King Henry VIby William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway, A. R. Braunmuller, Brian GibbonsISBN 0521377048 (0-521-37704-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Tolerationby John LockeISBN 0486424642 (0-486-42464-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Selected Short Storiesby D. H. Lawrence, Michael LockwoodISBN 0521575052 (0-521-57505-2)
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Sonnets from the Portugueseby Elizabeth B. Browning, Margaret ArmstrongISBN 0517187213 (0-517-18721-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Sonnets from the Portugueseby William PetersonISBN 051753178X (0-517-53178-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poemsby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Margaret ArmstrongISBN 0517092808 (0-517-09280-8)
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Studies in Wordsby C. S. LewisISBN 0521398312 (0-521-39831-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Successby Martin AmisISBN 0517566494 (0-517-56649-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Truckers: Bromeliad Trilogyby Terry Pratchett, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0552525952 (0-552-52595-2)
Hardcover, Corgi Books
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A Very Private Eyeby Barbara PymISBN 0525241450 (0-525-24145-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Vurtby Jeff NoonISBN 0517196182 (0-517-19618-2)
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0534522068 (0-534-52206-8)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 0486456765 (0-486-45676-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Wicked Wordsby Hugh RawsonISBN 0517573342 (0-517-57334-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Wicked Words : A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Presentby Hugh RawsonISBN 0517590891 (0-517-59089-1)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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William Wordsworth: Selected Poemsby William WordsworthISBN 0517093251 (0-517-09325-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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" "The Prelude"
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" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
" "The World is Too Much With Us"
" "To a Butterfly"
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0528871870 (0-528-87187-0)
Softcover, Rand McNally
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. DenslowISBN 0486291162 (0-486-29116-2)
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The World of Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525444475 (0-525-44447-5)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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The World of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. MilneISBN 0525444521 (0-525-44452-1)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, and Othersby Candace WardISBN 0486295680 (0-486-29568-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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