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The Alchemistby Ben Jonson, Gordon CampbellISBN 0192834460 (0-19-283446-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist'Book summary:This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in the seventeenth century, and the introduction, notes, and glossary further bring to life these timeless comedies for the modern reader. [via]
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The Alchemist and Other Playsby Ben Jonson, Gordon CampbellISBN 0192822527 (0-19-282252-7)
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The Alchemist and Other Plays; Volpone, or the Fox; Epicene, or the Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fairby Ben Jonson, Gordon CampbellISBN 0198121504 (0-19-812150-4)
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Allan Quatermainby H. Rider Haggard, Dennis ButtsISBN 0192822977 (0-19-282297-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Allan Quatermain'Book summary:This sequel to King Solomon's Mines is based on Rider Haggard's own experiences in Africa. During their search for a white race reputed to live near Mount Kenya, Allan Quatermain and his companions undergo a series of dangerous and thrilling adventures. The dramatic and often poetic story reveals Victorian preoccupations with evolution, race, sexuality, and the "New Woman." This is the only critical edition available, and the notes help clarify many of the contemporary references Haggard makes throughout the tale. [via]
Anglo-saxon Primerby Henry Sweet, Norman DavisISBN 0198111789 (0-19-811178-9)
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manualby Associated Press, the Associated Press, Norm GoldsteinISBN 0201339854 (0-201-33985-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual'Book summary:The world is divided into two types of people: those who wince when they see the words Canadian geese in print, and those who don't. If you are the former, or if you are the latter working for the former, the The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual provides invaluable assistance when you need to get your Canada geese all in a row. Countless newspapers and other publications base their style guides on this manual. The entries are arranged alphabetically and include issues of spelling, punctuation (there is no period in Dr Pepper), grammar, abbreviation, capitalization (Popsicle and Dumpster are, tollhouse cookies aren't), hyphenation (none, surprisingly, in ball point pen), and frequently misused words. There are also longer discussions of things such as Arabic names, chess notation, weather terms, and religious movements. Plus you'll find separate sections on sports writing, business writing, libel, and copyright. [via]
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles Dickens, Iain McCalman, Jon Mee, Clive HurstISBN 0192840568 (0-19-284056-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'Book summary:Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mindless violence of the mob. Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices is interwoven with the murder mystery surrounding the father of the simple-minded Barnaby. The discovery of the murderer and his involvement in the riots put Barnaby's life in jeopardy. Culminating in the terrifying destruction of Newgate prison by the rampaging hordes, the brilliant descriptions of the riots are among Dickens's most powerful. Barnaby Rudge looks forward to the dark complexities of Dickens's later novels, whose characters also seek refuge from a chaotic and unstable world. This edition includes all the original illustrations, plus an illuminating Introduction and notes. [via]
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Can You Forgive Herby Anthony TrollopeISBN 019283469X (0-19-283469-X)
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes IIby Arthur Conan Doyle, W.W. RobsonISBN 0192839179 (0-19-283917-9)
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Complete Shorter Fictionby Oscar Wilde, Isobel MurrayISBN 0192833766 (0-19-283376-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Shorter Fiction'Book summary:For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known fairy tales as "The Happy Prince," "The Young King," and "The Fisherman and his Soul;" an imaginary portrait of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets entitled "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.;" and the parables Wilde referred to as "Poems in Prose," including "The Artist," "The House of Judgment," and "The Teacher of Wisdom." [via]
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Termsby Chris BaldickISBN 0192828932 (0-19-282893-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms'Book summary:This dictionary provides succinct and often witty explanations of over one thousand potentially troublesome terms encountered in the study of literature, from absurd to zeugma, from the ancient dithyramb to the contemporary dub poetry, from the popular bodice-ripper to the aristocratic masque. While it is fully up to date with the terminologies of deconstruction and other modern schools of literary theory, it also offers extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history. Literary schools from Alexandrianism to Transcendentalism are included, along with dozens of terms from languages other than English. Adjectival forms and other derived words are displayed, and simple pronunciation guides are given for over two hundred difficult terms, making this thoroughly cross-referenced dictionary the most helpful of its kind for all readers of literature. [via]
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbsby John SimpsonISBN 0192818805 (0-19-281880-5)
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writingsby Thomas De Quincey, Grevel LindopISBN 0192836544 (0-19-283654-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, John TorpeyISBN 0195158458 (0-19-515845-8)
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A Dictionary Of Euphemisms: How Not To Say What You Meanby R. W. HolderISBN 0198607628 (0-19-860762-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of Literary Termsby Chris BaldickISBN 0198608837 (0-19-860883-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Literary Terms'Book summary:Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this gem of a book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism. The dictionary also provides extensive coverage of traditional drama, rhetoric, literary history, and textual criticism. It offers pronunciation guides and suggestions for further reading for many entries, and includes a new preface and terms that have become prominent in literature in the last few years, such as cyberpunk and antanaclasis. This second edition is the most up-to-date and accessible dictionary of literary terms available, popular with both students and teachers of literature at all levels. [via]
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Elia and the Last Essays of Eliaby Charles Lamb, Jonathan BateISBN 0192817647 (0-19-281764-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elia and the Last Essays of Elia'Book summary:Charles Lamb wrote essays under the pseudonym "Elia" in the 1820s. Few have written more evocatively of the past, of childhood, loss, books and plays, and London. This volume contains all the "Elia" essays Lamb collected in book form, including the "Confessions of a Drunkard". [via]
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An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John Locke, Peter H. NidditchISBN 0198245955 (0-19-824595-5)
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Framley Parsonageby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192815458 (0-19-281545-8)
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Gerard Manley Hopkinsby Gerard Manley Hopkins, Catherine PhillipsISBN 0192813862 (0-19-281386-2)
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Worksby Gerard Manley Hopkins, Catherine PhillipsISBN 0192840797 (0-19-284079-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works'Book summary:This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work and thinking.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth-century poets. During his tragically short life he strove to reconcile his religious and artistic vocations, and this edition demonstrates the range of his interests. It includes all his poetry, from best-known works such as "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and "The Windhover" to translations, foreign language poems, plays, and verse fragments, and the recently discovered poem "Consule Jones". In addition there are excerpts from Hopkins's journals, letters, and spiritual writings. The poems are printed in chronological order to show Hopkins's changing preoccupations, and all the texts have been established from original manuscripts. [via]More editions of Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works:
The Golden Treasuryby Francis Turner PalgraveISBN 0192820354 (0-19-282035-4)
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Languageby Francis T. Palgrave, John PressISBN 0192823159 (0-19-282315-9)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language'Book summary:In the 1860s, Francis Turner Palgrave set out to collect the finest English lyrical poems in one volume. What he created was The Golden Treasury, an instant classic of verse anthologies. Over the last century, it has withstood the test of time as an immensely popular collection--becoming virtually synonymous with English verse for generations of readers.
Now available in a new edition for the first time in thirty years, The Golden Treasury is as delightful as ever, offering old classics together with the finest works of our own time. Here you can find priceless gems by Shakespeare, Byron, Tennyson, Yeats, and other immortal lights of literature. This new edition also serves as a map to the changing landscape of today's British verse, presenting outstanding poetry by both famous and lesser-known writers of Ireland and Great Britain: Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Fleur Adcock, Carol Ann Duffy, Douglas Dunn, Gavin Ewart, Tony Harrison, Elizabeth Jennings, Derek Mahon, Peter Porter, Carol Rumens, Anne Stevenson, and Hugo Williams, among others. Editor John Press is himself an accomplished poet and translator, and was editor of the previous edition, thus ensuring that the spirit of the original Golden Treasury is preserved. The result is a marvelous collection of British verse--a source of unexpected delights and old favorites alike. [via]More editions of The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language:
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192826514 (0-19-282651-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and Other Tales'Book summary:'Heart of Darkness' is the finest of all Conrad's stories, showing him at the height of his powers as a writer of great vividness, intensity, and sophistication. Set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, it tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. 'An Outpost of Progress', 'Karain', and 'Youth', unavailable in any other edition, echo the theme of the folly of imperial adventure and display Conrad's audaciously brilliant insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. [via]
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Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzlesby Cedric Watts, John Sutherland, Stephen OrgelISBN 0192838792 (0-19-283879-2)
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The House of Mirthby Edith Wharton, Martha BantaISBN 0192835793 (0-19-283579-3)
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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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An Introduction to English Phonologyby April McMahonISBN 0195218914 (0-19-521891-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to English Phonology'Book summary:This is a short, lively, and accessible introduction to the sounds of modern English. Its emphasis on variation, with examples from British, American, New Zealand, and Singaporean English, make it suitable for both native and non-native speakers. McMahon focuses on the vowels and consonants, but also discusses syllables, stress, and the phonology of words and phrases. She introduces new tools and terminology gradually, and discusses the motivation for key concepts. [via]
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The Language Reportby Susie DentISBN 0199207666 (0-19-920766-6)
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whithman, Jerome LovingISBN 0192834096 (0-19-283409-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:The first edition of "Leaves of Grass" had received little attention until a positive review appeared, in fact written by Walt Whitman himself. Described by Emily Dickinson as "disgraceful" and by Emerson as "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America had yet contributed to world literature", the book went on to provoke strong reactions from its readers. It is not only the allusions to sex and physiology that disturbed Whitman's critics but also his departure from the rules of conventional poetry. He broke down the standard metered line, discarded the obligatory rhyming scheme and freely expressed himself in the living vernacular of American speech. Today Whitman is regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work as the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. Whitman saw his verses as more than a "literary performance", they were an expression of his own "emotional and other personal nature". In this sense "Leaves of Grass" is autobiography, but the poet's vision embraces the vigorous spirit of the whole American nation. This edition reproduces the 1891-2 text and includes Whitman's Preface to the 1855 edition as well as Emerson's famous letter of 1855 greeting Whitman "at the beginning of a great career". [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0194229440 (0-19-422944-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Pack of ten best-selling Bookworms ideal for building up class libraries. Each Pack contains one copy of each listed title. * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer * The Elephant Man * A Little Princess * Love or Money? * The Monkey's Paw * The Phantom of the Opera * The President's Murderer * Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son * White Death * The Wizard of Oz [via]
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Lorna Dooneby R. D. Blackmore, Sally ShuttleworthISBN 0192836277 (0-19-283627-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lorna Doone'Book summary:"Lorna Doone" is the perenially popular story of how John Ridd, a Devon farmer, falls in love with the aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones of Exmoor. Since it was first published in 1869, the novel has remained constantly in print. This text of "Lorna Doone" is accompanied by an examination of the novel in its different contexts as a romance, as an historical novel set at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion in the 17th century, and as a new development in the pastoral tradition. The editor discusses Victorian social values and the image of a "manly" hero whose inward doubts prompt him constantly to prove his own masculinity to himself. Sally Shuttleworth is the author of "George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science" and co-editor with John Christie of "Transfigurations - Essays on Science and Literature 1700-1900". [via]
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 0192835653 (0-19-283565-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill. [via]
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Traditionby M. H. AbramsISBN 0195014715 (0-19-501471-5)
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More Weird and Wonderful Wordsby Erin McKean, Danny Shanahan, Richard LedererISBN 0195170571 (0-19-517057-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Weird and Wonderful Words'Book summary:Wouldn't you like to use proctomorph in your everyday conversation--or at least feel as if you could? How about singerie? Or rememble?
Following the smash hit Weird and Wonderful Words, editor Erin McKean has dug deeper into forgotten corners of the dictionary gathering both the most spectacular old and the most impressive new words. The result is more than four hundred prime specimens (with pronunciations!), defined in a conversational style and perfect for adding to your own collection of favorites.
Guaranteed to amuse and astonish, accompanied by full-page illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan, these words will appeal to logophiles everywhere. In addition to its wonderful offerings, the book also features a guide to finding new words, a guide to the best word websites, and an annotated bibliography of essential Oxford dictionaries.
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anopisthograph: something that has writing on only one side (usually paper, although you could pedantically use this for things like t-shirts or billboards). Anopisthography is the practice of writing on only one side of something, a policy disdained by those who know how to make that 1-to-2 button on the copy machine work. (Opisthography is the practice of writing on both sides.) (from Greek words that mean "written on the back or cover.")
mesonoxian: of or related to midnight. "What are your mesonoxian plans?" sounds so much better on Dec. 31 than "Hey, whatcha doin' tonight?"
ichoglan: a page waiting in the palace of the Sultan. (from Turkish words that mean "interior" and "young man."). In this definition, 'waiting' obviously means 'serving,' but it's so much more poetic to understand it as 'to stay in expectation of.' What is he waiting FOR? Alas, the Sultan has fled, and we will never know.
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Nigger of the Narcissusby Joseph Conrad, Jacques A. BerthoudISBN 0192816233 (0-19-281623-3)
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No Nameby Wilkie Collins, Virginia BlainISBN 019283388X (0-19-283388-X)
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Odd Womenby Patricia Ingham, George GissingISBN 019283312X (0-19-283312-X)
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The Odysseyby Homer, Walter ShewringISBN 0192833758 (0-19-283375-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:The first English prose translation of Homer's The Odyssey to appear in over thirty years, Shewring's translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow. [via]
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The Odyssey of Homerby Bernard Knox, T. E. LawrenceISBN 0195068181 (0-19-506818-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'Book summary:Colonel T.E. Lawrence was one of the most flamboyant figures of his era, known throughout the Western world as Lawrence of Arabia. Glory-seeking yet self-effacing, this soldier, archaeologist, spy, and scholar was a war hero whom Winston Churchill called "one of the greatest men of our time." Less well known were his abilities as historian and author, which won him the admiration of such writers as Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, and Robert Graves.
While stationed on a desolate R.A.F. outpost on the fringes of the Karachi desert in India, Lawrence began his acclaimed translation of The Odyssey. He devoted himself to the project for four years, and during that time he came to feel that he was uniquely suited to the task. "I have hunted wild boars and watched wild lions," he wrote. "Built boats and killed many men. So I have odd knowledges that qualify me to understand The Odyssey, and odd experiences that interpret it to me." Relying on an innate sense of language and truly gifted abilities at translation, Lawrence transformed Homer's Odyssey into mellifluous prose. The result was an overnight bestseller. The New York Herald Tribune hailed it "perhaps the most interesting translation of the world's most interesting book," and The New York Times called it "ruggedly and roughly masculine" and added that it "gives a vividness to the story beyond any other text familiar to us."
Lawrence breathes new life into the adventures of Odysseus, smoothing the reader's path through a fantastic array of monsters, temptresses, gods, and goddesses. For a generation of readers accustomed to verse translations of Homer, this bold and vivid prose version is well worth rediscovery. [via]More editions of The Odyssey of Homer:
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The Odyssey World Classicby HomerISBN 0192815423 (0-19-281542-3)
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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionaryby Albert SidneyISBN 0194314227 (0-19-431422-7)
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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary: Of Current Englishby A. S. Hornby, Sally WehmeierISBN 019431510X (0-19-431510-X)
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The Oxford Desk Thesaurusby Laurence UrdangISBN 0195099605 (0-19-509960-5)
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Oxford Dictionary of Catchprasesby Anna FarkasISBN 0198607350 (0-19-860735-0)
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The Oxford Thesaurus: American Edition/Thumb Indexedby Laurence UrdangISBN 0195073541 (0-19-507354-1)
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Thomas Hardy, Alan ManfordISBN 0192816845 (0-19-281684-5)
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Alan Manford, Thomas Hardy, Tim DolinISBN 0192840738 (0-19-284073-8)
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Phineas Finnby Anthony Trollope, Jacques Berthoud, T. L. B. HuskinsonISBN 0192835335 (0-19-283533-5)
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A Practical English Grammarby A.J. Thomson, Av MartinetISBN 0198631170 (0-19-863117-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Practical English Grammar'Book summary:This is a boxed set of three volumes, quarter bound in bonded leather. The three volumes in the set, retitled as I "Usage", II "Grammar", and III "Spelling", are "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" by H.W.Fowler (2nd edition revised by Sir Ernest Gowers), "A Practical English Grammar" 4th edition by A.J.Thompson and A.V.Martinet, and "The Oxford Spelling Dictionary" compiled by R.E.Allen. The text of each book will remain unchanged. [via]
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Robert Burton's the Anatomy of Melancholy: Commentary Up to Part. 1, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subs. 15, 'Misery of Schollers'by Martin Dodsworth, J. B. Bamborough, Robert BurtonISBN 0198123329 (0-19-812332-9)
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Roxanaby Daniel Defoe, John MullanISBN 0192834592 (0-19-283459-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roxana'Book summary:The Fortunate Mistress, or a History of the Life and Vast Varieties of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards called the Countess of Wintelsheim in Germany, Being the person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana in the time of Charles II. Edited with an introduction by Jane Jack. [via]
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockhby Kerry McSweeney, Peter Sabor, Thomas CarlyleISBN 0192836730 (0-19-283673-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh'Book summary:Sartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world, and the large questions of faith and understanding. This is the first edition to present the novel as it originally appeared, with indications of the changes Carlyle made to later editions. [via]
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockhby Thomas Carlyle, Kerry McSweeney, Peter SaborISBN 0192817574 (0-19-281757-4)
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The School for Scandalby Richard Brinsley Butler SheridanISBN 0199110085 (0-19-911008-5)
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Selected Lettersby Gerard Manley Hopkins, Catherine PhillipsISBN 0192828185 (0-19-282818-5)
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Selected Poetryby William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill, Duncan WuISBN 0192834886 (0-19-283488-6)
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Selected Poetryby Gerard Manley HopkinsISBN 0192834924 (0-19-283492-4)
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Seven Men and Two Othersby Max BeerbohmISBN 0192815121 (0-19-281512-1)
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Sherlock Holmes Short Storiesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0194216500 (0-19-421650-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes Short Stories'Book summary:"Oxford Bookworms" offer students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English. There are six stages, taking students from elementary to advanced level. At the lower stages, many of the texts have been specially written for the series, to provide elementary and lower-intermediate students with an introduction to real reading in English. At the higher stages, most of the books have been adapted from works originally published for native speakers. The language controls used in "Oxford Bookworms" are based on a syllabus specially created for the series by Tricia Hedge. This takes account of the more traditional approaches to grading and recent research into the nature of reading difficulty. The approximate vocabulary count for each stage is: Stage 1 - 400 words; Stage 2 - 700 words; Stage 3 - 1000 words; Stage 4 - 1400 words; Stage 5 - 1800 words; Stage 6 - 2500 words. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a supporting glossary to help students with vocabulary. Illustrations are used, especially at the lower stages, to help comprehension. [via]
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Speaking Freely: A Guided Tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valleyby Anne H. Soukhanov, Stuart Berg FlexnerISBN 019510692X (0-19-510692-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speaking Freely: A Guided Tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley'Book summary:Language, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, is fossil poetry. It is also fossil history, and when we examine the origins of words we learn a great deal about the people who coined and used them. In this fascinating compendium of American English words, lexicographers Stuart Berg Flexner and Anne Soukhanov examine, among other things, the language of prohibition and the Jazz Age, the origins of 19th-century words such as "undertaker" and "blizzard," and the enduring lingo of hippiedom. You'll also learn that the term "abolition" was originally applied to tax resistance against the English crown, and that the first known American folk song concerned a snakebite. [via]
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Sweets Anglo-Saxon Primerby H. SweetISBN 019811110X (0-19-811110-X)
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Tono-bungayby H. G. Wells, Bryan CheyetteISBN 0192828290 (0-19-282829-0)
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Tragediesby William Shakespeare, Stanley WellsISBN 0198182740 (0-19-818274-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tragedies'Book summary:This is the complete set of Shakespeare's tragedies taken from the First Folio of 1623. The plays include: Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus; The First Part of Henry the Sixth; The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI); Hamlet; Henry V; Henry VIII; The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text; Julius Caesar; King Lear: The Folio Text; King Lear: The Quarto Text; Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus; Othello; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus; The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra; The Tragedy of Coriolanus; The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; The Tragedy of Julius Caesar; The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice; and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI). [via]
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The Trumpet-majorby Thomas Hardy, Richard NemesvariISBN 0192827189 (0-19-282718-9)
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Unquiet Grave level 4by M. R. James, Tricia HedgeISBN 0194230511 (0-19-423051-1)
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, David S. ReynoldsISBN 0195183428 (0-19-518342-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass'Book summary:"I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass."
So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature.
The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it--the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience--was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its affirmation of the sanctity of the physical world.
This Anniversary Edition captures the typeface, design and layout of the original edition supervised by Whitman himself. Today's readers get a sense of the "ur-text" of Leaves of Grass, the first version of this historic volume, before Whitman made many revisions of both format and style. The volume also boasts an afterword by Whitman authority David Reynolds, in which he discusses the 1855 edition in its social and cultural contexts: its background, its reception, and its contributions to literary history. There is also an appendix containing the early responses to the volume, including Emerson's letter, Whitman's three self-reviews, and the twenty other known reviews published in various newspapers and magazines.
This special volume will be a must-have keepsake for fans of Whitman and lovers of American poetry. [via]More editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass:
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Weird and Wonderful Wordsby Roz Chast, Erin McKean, Simon WinchesterISBN 0195159055 (0-19-515905-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weird and Wonderful Words'Book summary:Do you know what a snollygoster is? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. Tie your tongue in knots trying to say such sesquipedalian words as floccinaucinihilipilification or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Weird and Wonderful Words.
Weird and Wonderful Words is a potpourri--a gallimaufry--a salmagundi--a collection of colorful and strange words. Compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, the book contains hundreds of definitions written in a clear and conversational style accompanied by full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
Smart and funny and with just a touch of whimsy, Weird and Wonderful Words is the perfect book for reading in your sitooterie with a bumbo in your hand while mavises sing in your earor something like that.
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*Autochthon: a human being born from the soil where he or she lives (like the Biblical Adam). Also used as a synonym for aborigine, it comes from a Greek word meaning sprung from that land itself.
*Camorra: a secret society, usually one breaking the law. This word comes from the name of group that was active in Naples in the nineteenth century.
*Snollygoster: a dishonest politician, especially a shrewd or calculating one. A connection has been proposed between this word and snallygaster, a mythical monster of Maryland, invented to frighten freed slaves. However, the first evidence for snallygaster follows snollygoster by about a hundred years, making a connection (in this direction, at least) unlikely.
*Tigon: the hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a lioness. A liger is the offspring produced by a male lion and a tigress. [via]More editions of Weird and Wonderful Words:
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Wessex Tales: The Three Strangers; a Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; the Melancholy Hussar; the Withered Armby Thomas Hardy, Kathryn R. KingISBN 0192835580 (0-19-283558-0)
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The critically established text, the first to be based on detailed study of all revised texts, presents manuscript readings which have never before appeared in print.
The stories include The Three Strangers; A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; The Withered Arm; Fellow-Townsmen; Interlopers at the Knap; The Distracted Preacher [via]More editions of Wessex Tales: The Three Strangers; a Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; the Melancholy Hussar; the Withered Arm:
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. DenslowISBN 0192839306 (0-19-283930-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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