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The Alchemistby Ben JonsonISBN 0393900142 (0-393-90014-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist'Book summary:New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
" The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
" Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings
" Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play
" Critical, contextual and staging notes
" Photographs of productions where applicable
" A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading.
Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike. [via]-
Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, George Gibian, Aylmer MaudeISBN 0393966429 (0-393-96642-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world's greatest color. But there is no doubt that Anna Karenina, generally considered Tolstoy's best book, is definitely one ripping great read. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say that 19th-century Russia doesn't take well to that sort of thing. [via]
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The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates, Hollis Robbins, Karen C.C. DaltonISBN 0393059464 (0-393-05946-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel.
Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949, Uncle Tom's Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Now, in a ringing refutation of Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852, galvanized the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done. The editors animate pre-Civil War life with rich insights into the lives of slaves, abolitionists, and the American reading public. Examining the lingering effects of the novel, they provide new insights into emerging race-relation, women's, gay, and gender issues. With reproductions of rare prints, posters, and photographs, this book is also one of the most thorough anthologies of Uncle Tom images up to the present day. [via]More editions of The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin:
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morningby Laurie LeeISBN 0393022331 (0-393-02233-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning'Book summary:It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one Spanish phrase, he decided to see Spain. For a year he tramped through a country in which the signs of impending civil war were clearly visible. Thirty years later Laurie Lee captured the atmosphere of the Spain he saw with all the freshness and beauty of a young man's vision, creating a lyrical and lucid picture of the beautiful and violent country that was to involve him inextricably. [via]
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The Awakeningby Kate Chopin, Margo CulleyISBN 0393960579 (0-393-96057-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:242 pages, Dimensions: 8.3 x 5 x .5 inches [via]
Best English Short Stories 4by Giles Gordon, David HughesISBN 0393034410 (0-393-03441-0)
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The Book of Margery Kempe: A New Translation, Contexts, Criticismby Lynn Staley, Margery KempeISBN 0393976394 (0-393-97639-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Margery Kempe: A New Translation, Contexts, Criticism'Book summary:The text presented here remains as faithful to the original Middle English as possible, without sounding archaic.
Kempe's work is accompanied by an introduction, a map of medieval England, a Kempe lexicon, and explanatory annotations.
"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminate The Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpts from The Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, Meditations on the Life of Christ, The Shewings of Julian of Norwich, The Book of Saint Bride, and The Life of Marie d'Oignies by Jacques de Vitry.
"Criticism" includes nine varied interpretations of the autobiography, written by Clarissa W. Atkinson, Lynn Staley, Karma Lochrie, David Aers, Kathleen Ashley, Gail McMurray Gibson, Sarah Beckwith, Caroline Walker Bynum, and Nicholas Watson.
A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]More editions of The Book of Margery Kempe: A New Translation, Contexts, Criticism:
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Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0393092143 (0-393-09214-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition'Book summary:Constance Garnetts translation, the basic version in English of this Russian masterpiece, has been revised by the editor for accuracy and readability.
Dostoevskys sources for the characters and situations of the novel are set forth in an extract from Lev Reynuss Dostoevsky and Staraya Russa and in selections from Dostoevskys letters and diary, all translated by Professor Matlaw. Konstantin Mochulskys essay provides a general discussion of the work. Important questions as to the craft of the novel, its characterization, Dostoevskys symbolism, the Grand Inquisitor, and the theme of religious salvation are surveyed in critical pieces by Dmitry Tschizewskij, Robert L. Belknap, Edward Wasiolek, Harry Slochower, D. H. Lawrence, Albert Camus, Nathan Rosen, Leonid Grossman, Ya. E. Golosovker, R. P. Blackmur, and Ralph E. Matlaw. Several of these selections are also recently translated from the Russian. A Selected Bibliography is included. [via] -
Caleb Williamsby William Godwin, David McCrackenISBN 0393008614 (0-393-00861-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caleb Williams'Book summary:Deals with the misdeeds of Tyrrel, a tyrannical country squire, who comes into conflict with Falkland, a neighbouring squire of a seemingly more benevolent disposition.
When Tyrrel knocks Falkland down in public and Tyrrel is later found murdered, suspicion falls on Falkland. [via]More editions of Caleb Williams:
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babelby Peter Constantine, Nathalie Babel, I. Babel, Cynthia OzickISBN 0393324028 (0-393-32402-8)
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 0394178009 (0-394-17800-9)
Softcover, Grove Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Confederacy of Dunces'Book summary:A Confederacy of Dunces... Winner of the Pulitzer Prize... John Kennedy Toole's work is a masterwork nothing less than a grand comic fugue. [via]
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Confidence Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 0393099687 (0-393-09968-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confidence Man'Book summary:The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected.
The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions.
"Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers.
A new section, "Biographical Overviews," embodies the transformation of knowledge about Melvilles life that has occurred over the last three decades. This section provides a wide range of readings of Melvilles life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others.
"Sources, Backgrounds, and Criticism" is thematically organized to inform readers about movements and social developments central to Melvilles America and to this novel, including utopias, cults, cure-alls, Transcendentalism, Indian hating, the Bible, and popular literature.
A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]![Melville, Herman: The Confidence-Man:His Masquerade: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Reviews, Criticism [and] an Annotated Bibliography](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393043452.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "Melville, Herman: The Confidence-Man:His Masquerade: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Reviews, Criticism [and] an Annotated Bibliography")
The Confidence-Man:His Masquerade: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Reviews, Criticism [and] an Annotated Bibliographyby Herman MelvilleISBN 0393043452 (0-393-04345-2)
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, George GibianISBN 0393956237 (0-393-95623-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:A Norton Critical Edition with the novel, letters from Dostoevsky and a collection of critical essays. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0393044726 (0-393-04472-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance.
Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]More editions of The Divine Comedy:
The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgotby David GrambsISBN 0393316068 (0-393-31606-8)
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The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 039428013X (0-394-28013-X)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen.
A book that binds readers of great literature, The English Patient garnered the Booker Prize for author Ondaatje. The poet and novelist has also written In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; two collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family. [via]
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The Far Side of the Worldby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308626 (0-393-30862-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Far Side of the World'Book summary:The inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.
The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific: typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity. [via]More editions of The Far Side of the World:
Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Michael R. KatzISBN 0393967522 (0-393-96752-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:This new translation by Richard Freeborn makes Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations seem as fresh, outspoken, and exciting as it was to those readers who first encountered its famous hero. The controversial portrayal of Bazarov, the 'nihilist' or 'new man', shocked Russian society when the novel was published in 1862. The image of humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities and prejudices is one that can threaten establishments of any political or religious persuasion, and is especially potent at the present time. Richard Freeborn is the first translator to have had access to Turgenev's working manuscript. An appendix contains the first English translation of some of Turgenev's preparatory sketches for the novel. [via]
Felix Holt, the Radicalby George EliotISBN 0393005178 (0-393-00517-8)
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The Fortune of Warby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308138 (0-393-30813-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortune of War'Book summary:"A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat."Times Literary Supplement
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. LevineISBN 0393924769 (0-393-92476-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House Of The Seven Gables'Book summary:Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. [via]
Humphry Clinkerby Tobias George SmollettISBN 0393952835 (0-393-95283-5)
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The Ionian Missionby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308219 (0-393-30821-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ionian Mission'Book summary:Aubrey and Maturin return to the choppy Mediterranean waters where they first served together, enforcing the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon. Then the two companions are sent to the Greek Islands, where another series of maritime cliff-hangers awaits them. O'Brian performs his peculiar narrative magic as adeptly as ever, putting (as The Observer would have it) the "spark of character into the sawdust of time." [via]
The Jew of Maltaby Christopher MarloweISBN 0393900207 (0-393-90020-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jew of Malta'Book summary:New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
" The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
" Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings
" Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play
" Critical, contextual and staging notes
" Photographs of productions where applicable
" A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading.
Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike. [via]-
John Donne's Poetryby John Donne, A. L. ClementsISBN 0393960625 (0-393-96062-5)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Donne's Poetry'Book summary:An annotated collection of Donne's most significant work, including five elegies, four satires, six verse letters, four divine poems and the text of all poems from the first 17th-century edition of his verse, originally published in 1633. [via]
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John Donne's Poetry: Authoritative Texts Criticismby John DonneISBN 0393926486 (0-393-92648-6)
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Losing Nelsonby Barry UnsworthISBN 0393321177 (0-393-32117-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Losing Nelson'Book summary:Perched high atop his pedestal in London, Admiral Horatio Nelson has remained one of the loftiest icons of English nationalism. Now, however, he has been seriously rattled by Barry Unsworth's Losing Nelson, a gripping study of the dark side of heroism and hero worship. In the basement of his large, anonymous North London house, Charles Cleasby obsessively reenacts the admiral's every military maneuver: "Usually when we fought these battles I had a feeling of fulfilment, they brought me closer to him..." Cleasby's admiration also extends upstairs--to his life's work, a biography of the great man. His only assistant in his heroic struggle is Miss Lily (real name, Lilian Butler), a hired secretary who carefully transcribes his painstaking pages. Cleasby wants nothing better than to rescue Nelson from the revisionist clutches of unpatriotic academic cynics. Alas, his passion soon reveals a sinister side, as he declares that he is in fact the admiral's twin:
I will say what I think angels are. They can be dark or bright, but they all have the gift of spontaneity, of creating themselves anew. This is a pure form of energy, and Horatio was winged with it. All the same, angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognize each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time or distance. He became a bright angel on February 14, 1797, during the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. I became his dark twin on September 9, 1997, when I too broke the line.
As the book builds to its inexorable climax--and Cleasby's only solace is his amanuensis--Losing Nelson confirms Unsworth as one of England's most elegant, understated novelists. His historical grasp of Nelson is outstanding. But his book really excels, and also profoundly disturbs, in its exploration of the tarnished angels of patriotism. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Losing Nelson:
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert, Paul De Man, Margaret Cohen, Eleanor Marx AvelingISBN 0393979172 (0-393-97917-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madame Bovary'Book summary:The bored wife of a bumbling provincial physician, Emma seeks to escape from the tedium of her life with romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs, but is ultimately doomed to disillusionment. Unable to come to terms with reality, Emma is a figure at once noble and banal, tragic and absurd. With her wrenching story, Flaubert forged an unforgettable classic that has remained one of the most admired and influential novels ever written. That peerless twentieth-century stylist, Vladimir Nabokov, put the case memorably: "Without Flaubert there would have been no Marcel Proust in France, no James Joyce in Ireland. Chekhov in Russia would not have been quite Chekhov." This volume features rare archival materials from The New York Public Library, including etchings from a 1905 French limited edition of Madame Bovary and a sampling of Vladimir Nabokov's handwritten lecture notes on Flaubert. [via]
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The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes 150th Anniversary: The Short Storiesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Leslie S. KlingerISBN 039305800X (0-393-05800-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels A Study In Scarlet / The Sign Of Four / The Hound Of The Baskervilles / The Valley Of Fear'Book summary:The four classic novels of Sherlock Holmes, heavily illustrated and annotated with extensive scholarly commentary, in an attractive and elegant slipcase.
The publication of Leslie S. Klinger's brilliant new annotations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four classic Holmes novels in 2005 created a Holmes sensation. Klinger reassembles Doyle's four seminal novels in their original order, with over 1,000 notes, 350 illustrations and period photographs, and tantalizing new Sherlockian theories. Inside, readers will find:- A Study in Scarlet (1887)a tale of murder and revenge that tells of Holmes and Dr. Watson's first meeting;
- The Sign of Four (1889)a chilling tale of lost treasure...and of how Watson met his wife;
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)hailed as the greatest mystery novel of all time; and
- The Valley of Fear (1914)a fresh murder scene that leads Holmes to solve a long-forgotten mystery.
Whether as a stand-alone volume or as a companion to the short stories, this classic work illuminates the timeless genius of Conan Doyle for an entirely new generation.
Two-color text; 300 illustrations [via]More editions of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes 150th Anniversary: The Short Stories:
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The Norton Introduction to Literatureby Jerome Beaty, J. Paul Hunter, C. BainISBN 0393952444 (0-393-95244-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Introduction to Literature'Book summary:Offering 59 stories, 458 poems, and 15 plays, this anthology provides a wider range of classic and contemporary works than any other three-genre anthology. Three new "Critical Contexts" casebooks introduce readers to examples of professional literary criticism, and editorial commentary throughout encourages readers to read thoughtfully, analytically, and creatively. [via]
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The Norton Introduction to Literatureby C. Bain, Jerome Beaty, J. Paul HunterISBN 0393093344 (0-393-09334-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Introduction to Literature'Book summary:Offering 59 stories, 458 poems, and 15 plays, this anthology provides a wider range of classic and contemporary works than any other three-genre anthology. Three new "Critical Contexts" casebooks introduce readers to examples of professional literary criticism, and editorial commentary throughout encourages readers to read thoughtfully, analytically, and creatively. [via]
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Nothing Like the Sunby Anthony BurgessISBN 039331507X (0-393-31507-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing Like the Sun'Book summary:Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.
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Pearl: A New Verse Translationby Marie BoroffISBN 0393091449 (0-393-09144-9)
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Poetic Meter and Poetic Formby Paul FussellISBN 0394321200 (0-394-32120-0)
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The Power of Oneby Bryce CourtenayISBN 0385732546 (0-385-73254-6)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of One'Book summary:In 1939, hatred took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong languageEnglish. He was nursed by a woman of the wrong colorblack. His childhood was marked by humiliation and abandonment. Yet he vowed to survivehe would become welterweight champion of the world, he would dream heroic dreams.
But his dreams were nothing compared to what awaited him. For he embarked on an epic journey, where he would learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the mystical power that would sustain him even when it appeared that villainy would rule the world: The Power of One. [via]More editions of The Power of One:
Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850by William Wordsworth, Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, Stephen Charles GillISBN 039309071X (0-393-09071-X)
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The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850: Authoritative Texts, Context and Reception, Recent Critical Essaysby M. H. Abrams, William Wordsworth, Jonathan Wordsworth, Stephen Charles GillISBN 0393044963 (0-393-04496-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850: Authoritative Texts, Context and Reception, Recent Critical Essays'Book summary:This volume is the first to present Wordsworth's great poem in all three of its forms. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of The Prelude that was completed in 1805, together with the much-revised work published after the poets death in 1850. In addition, the editors include the two-part version of the poem, composed in 1798-99. Each of these poems possesses distinctive qualities and values; to read them together provides an incomparable chance to observe a great poet composing and re-composing, throughout a long life, his major work.
There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and 1850thus freeing the latter poem from the unwarranted alterations made by Wordsworth's literary executors. The editors also provide a text of MS. JJ (Wordsworth's earliest drafts for parts of The Prelude) as well as transcriptions of other important passages in manuscript which Wordsworth failed to include in any fair copy of his poem. The texts are fully annotated, and the notes for all three versions of The Prelude are arranged so that each version may be read independently. The editors provide a concise history of the texts and describe the principles by which each has been transcribed from the manuscripts.
There are many other aids for a thorough study of The Prelude and its background. A chronological table enables the reader to contextualize the biographical and historical allusions in the texts and footnotes.
"References to The Prelude in Process" presents the relevant allusions to the poem, by Wordsworth and by members of his circle, from 1799 to 1850. Another section, "Early Reception," reprints significant comments on the published version of 1850 by readers and reviewers.
Finally, there are seven critical essays by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Richard J. Onorato, William Empson, Herbert Lindenberger, and W. B. Gallie. [via]More editions of The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850: Authoritative Texts, Context and Reception, Recent Critical Essays:
The Random House Handbookby Frederick CrewsISBN 0394310659 (0-394-31065-9)
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Revenger's Tragedyby TourneurISBN 0393900606 (0-393-90060-6)
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The Reverse of the Medalby Patrick O'BrienISBN 0393309606 (0-393-30960-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reverse of the Medal'Book summary:"An overwhelming, outstanding novel...!"Irish Times
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionagethe province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue which O'Brian's readers have come to expect.
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The Rivalsby Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan, Tiffany SternISBN 0393927520 (0-393-92752-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rivals'Book summary:New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
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" A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading.
Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike. [via]More editions of The Rivals:
Roaring Girlby Elizabeth CookISBN 0393900851 (0-393-90085-1)
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Sacred Hungerby Barry UnsworthISBN 0393311147 (0-393-31114-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Hunger'Book summary:Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction: "Possibly the best novel I've read in the last decade."David Halberstam
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp. [via]More editions of Sacred Hunger:
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticismby G.R. Thompson, Gary Richard ThompsonISBN 0393972852 (0-393-97285-2)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby M. BorroffISBN 0393097544 (0-393-09754-4)
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Something Special: A Storyby Iris Murdoch, Michael McCurdyISBN 0393050076 (0-393-05007-6)
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The Surgeon's Mateby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308200 (0-393-30820-0)
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick O'Brian has written.
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Treason's Harbourby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308634 (0-393-30863-4)
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All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission. [via] -
Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth AmmonsISBN 0393963039 (0-393-96303-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.
It was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. The book had a far-reaching impact and deeply affected the national conscience of antebellum America. The Norton Critical Edition text is that of the 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston; original illustrations are included. Annotations are provided to assist the reader with obscure historical terms and biblical allusions. Backgrounds and Contexts includes a wealth of historical material relevant to slavery and abolitionism. Among the documents presented are Josiah Henson's 1849 slave narrative (named by Stowe as one of the sources for the novel); Solomon Northup's eyewitness account of an 1841 slave auction; Harriet Jacobs's narrative of her life as a fifteen-year-old slave; two epistolary accounts by ex-slave and abolitionist William Wells Brown, which document events in Uncle Tom's Cabin; two crucial excerpts from Stowe's Key to "Uncle Tom's Cabin " which provide the real-life basis for characters and events in the novel; and accounts of Tom-Shows and the anti-Uncle Tom literature that sprang up in response to the novel's publication. Illustrative material includes slave advertisements, runaway slave posters, and illustrations for the first British edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Britain's premier illustrator, George Cruikshank, as well as popular illustrations from American editions of the novel. Criticism is arranged under two headings. "Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reception" includes critiques by George Sand, William G. Allen and Ethiop (both from Frederick Douglass' Paper), George F. Holmes, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others. Twentieth-Century Criticism collects five of the best critical assessments of the novel's continuing impact on American society. With the exception of James Baldwin's groundbreaking essay, "Everybody's Protest Novel," the critical essays date from the years 1985 to 1992. Jane P. Tompkins investigates why the text was excluded from the canon for most of the twentieth century. Robert S. Levine provides an overview of the text's popular reception and influence since publication, including current critical schools and critics. Hortense J. Spillers takes a textual/linguistic view in her comparison between Stowe and Ishmael Reed as "impression points in the literary imagination of slavery." And Christina Zwarg traces the influence Stowe's feminism had on her treatment of fatherhood and its effect on the home. A Chronology of Stowe's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
The Unknown Shoreby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039331538X (0-393-31538-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unknown Shore'Book summary:An immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, displaying all the splendid prose and attention to detail that O'Brian's readers expect.
Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another, quite different tale of exploration and adventure.
The Wager was parted from Anson's squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn and struggled alone up the coast of Chile until she was driven against the rocks and sank. The survivors were soon involved in trouble of every kind. A surplus of rum, a disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested captain soon drove them into drunkenness, mutiny, and bloodshed. After many months of privation, a handful of men made their way northward under the guidance of a band of Indians, at last finding safety in Valparaiso.
This saga of survival is the background to the adventures of two young men aboard the Wager: midshipman Jack Byron and his friend Tobias Barrow, an alarmingly naive surgeon's mate. Patrick O'Brian's many devoted readers will take particular interest in this story, as Jack and Toby form a kind of blueprint for Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, the famed heroes of the great Aubrey/Maturin series to come.
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, George Gibian, Aylmer MaudeISBN 039396647X (0-393-96647-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War and Peace'Book summary:The text of this revised Norton Critical Edition of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel is based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation. The editor has made revisions where appropriate; the annotations have also been revised and expanded. Three maps of Napoleon's campaigns and battles in Russia are included, making the military aspects of the novel easier to follow."Backgrounds and Sources" includes the publication history of War and Peace, selections from Tolstoy's letters and diaries as well as three drafts of his introduction to the novel that elucidate the its evolution, and an 1868 article by Tolstoy in which he reacts to his critics. "Criticism" includes twenty essays, seven of them new, that provide diverse perspectives on the novel by Nikolai Strakhov, V. I. Lenin, Henry James, Isaiah Berlin, D. S. Mirsky, Kathryn Feuer, Lydia Ginzburg, Richard Gustafson, Gary Saul Morson, and Caryl Emerson, among others. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeareby Stephen GreenblattISBN 039332737X (0-393-32737-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare'Book summary:There's no shortage of good Shakespearean biographies. But Stephen Greenblatt, brilliant scholar and author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, reminds us that the "surviving traces" are "abundant but thin" as to known facts. He acknowledges the paradox of the many biographies spun out of conjecture but then produces a book so persuasive and breathtakingly enjoyable that one wonders what he could have done if the usual stuff of biographical inquiry--memoirs, interviews, manuscripts, and drafts--had been at his disposal. Greenblatt uses the "verbal traces" in Shakespeare's work to take us "back into the life he lived and into the world to which he was so open." Whenever possible, he also ushers us from the extraordinary life into the luminous work. The result is a marvelous blend of scholarship, insight, observation, and, yes, conjecture--but conjecture always based on the most convincing and inspired reasoning and evidence. Particularly compelling are Greenblatt's discussions of the playwright's relationship with the university wit Robert Greene (discussed as a chief source for the character of Falstaff) and of Hamlet in relation to the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet, his aging father, and the "world of damaged rituals" that England's Catholics were forced to endure.
Will in the World is not just the life story of the world's most revered writer. It is the story, too, of 16th- and 17th-century England writ large, the story of religious upheaval and political intrigue, of country festivals and brutal public executions, of the court and the theater, of Stratford and London, of martyrdom and recusancy, of witchcraft and magic, of love and death: in short, of the private but engaged William Shakespeare in his remarkable world. Throughout the book, Greenblatt's style is breezy and familiar. He often refers to the poet simply as Will. Yet for all his alacrity of style and the book's accessibility, Will in the World is profoundly erudite, an enormous contribution to the world of Shakespearean letters. --Silvana TropeaInterview with Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt shares his thoughts about what make Shakespeare Shakespeare and why the Bard continues to fascinate us endlessly.More editions of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare:
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis WhiteISBN 0393967956 (0-393-96795-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Set against the backdrop of a fictional 1890s town, Sherwood Andersons Winesburg, Ohio depicts the not-so-simple lives of its residents as seen through the eyes of George Willard, a young and observant resident.
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the first book edition, published in 1919, and includes Harald Toksvigs original map of the fictional Winesburg. Ample annotation is provided throughout.
"Backgrounds" includes five of Andersons letters, which illustrate his ideas about the stories; memoirs in which he wrestles with the revision process; and eight reviews of Winesburg, Ohio by Andersons contemporaries, among them H. L. Mencken and William Faulkner.
"Criticism" collects six of the most illuminating assessments of the book published in the last three decades. A variety of perspectives is provided by Walter B. Rideout, Sally Adair Rigsbee, John Updike, Joseph Dewey, Kim Townsend, and David Stouck.
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Writings of Jonathan Swiftby Jonathan Swift, Robert Greenberg, William PiperISBN 0393094154 (0-393-09415-4)
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The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticismby Jonathan Swift, Robert A. Greenberg, William Bowman PiperISBN 0393042839 (0-393-04283-9)
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