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Aaron's Rodby D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins, Steven VineISBN 0140188142 (0-14-018814-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Adventures of Robin Hoodby Roger L. Green, Roger Lancelyn Green, Arthur HallISBN 0140367004 (0-14-036700-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Robin Hood'Book summary:This is the classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed by twelfth-century England against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache. [via]
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Age of Shakespeareby Boris FordISBN 0140138080 (0-14-013808-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Age of Shakespeare'Book summary:This volume covers the period of Shakespeare's lifetime. It contains a long general survey of the English literary renaissance, and also an account of the social context of literature in the period. Then there follow a number of essays which consider in detail the work and importance of individual dramatists, poets and prose-writers, but above all the dram atists, for this was their age. Five of the essays are devoted to Shakespeare's plays alone. Finally, this volume contains an appendix giving short author-biographies and, in each case, standard editions of authors' works, critical commentaries and lists of books further study and reference. [via]
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Ah, Sweet Mystery of Lifeby Roald Dahl, John LawrenceISBN 0140118470 (0-14-011847-0)
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Almayer's Follyby Joseph ConradISBN 0140180303 (0-14-018030-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almayer's Folly'Book summary:Set in a jungle village in eastern Borneo during the 1880s, Almayer's Folly recreates the many conflicts - economic, religious, racial, cultural, sexual - of imperial Europe with the colonized East Indies through Joseph Conrad's story of Kaspar Almayer's personal tragedy: his loss of both his daughter of mixed race to her native lover and his dream of finding enough gold to return to Amsterdam in triumph. The introduction gives the history of the composition of Conrad's first book, which was started in London in the autumn of 1889 and completed four and a half years later; the manuscript went with him to the Congo, Australia, the Ukraine, Belgium, Switzerland and France on his travels as a seaman and on holiday. During this long gestation, some of the chapters were typed twice, and later Conrad's slightly foreign English was tidied several times by publishers. The novel has suffered seven layers of unauthorized intervention, as set out in the essay on the text and the apparatus. The notes explain Malay terms and historical references, and there are two regional maps. This is the text of Almayer's Folly, established through modern textual scholarship, as Conrad would have liked it to have appeared in 1895. [via]
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Anna Kareninaby Leo TolstoyISBN 0140267433 (0-14-026743-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy's masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian soul, set against the fascinating panorama of life in nineteenth-century Russia.
With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production. [via]More editions of Anna Karenina:
Anna of the Five Townsby Arnold Bennett, Frank SwinnertonISBN 014018015X (0-14-018015-X)
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The Arabian Nightmareby Robert IrwinISBN 0140112162 (0-14-011216-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Asta's Bookby Barbara VineISBN 0140176616 (0-14-017661-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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The Balkan Trilogyby Olivia ManningISBN 014010996X (0-14-010996-X)
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Hough, Charlotte (Woodyatt)ISBN 0140366849 (0-14-036684-9)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
The Blue Fairy Bookby Andrew Lang, Brian Alderson, John LawrenceISBN 014035090X (0-14-035090-X)
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The British Museum Is Falling Downby David LodgeISBN 0140124195 (0-14-012419-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Burning Your Boatsby Angela CarterISBN 0140255281 (0-14-025528-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burning Your Boats'Book summary:"Baudelaire, Poe, Dream-Shakespeare, Hollywood, panto, fairy tale: [Angela] Carter wears her influences openly, for she is their deconstructionist, their saboteur." So writes Salman Rushdie in his introduction to this essential dark fantasy collection, the complete stories (1962-1993) of a master of perfervid prose, dark eroticism, northern Gothic exuberance (think Isak Dinesen), and Grand Guignol imagery. (You may be familiar with Neil Jordan's movie The Company of Wolves, based on one of Carter's tales.) As the New York Times writes, "There is an archaic cruel streak in many of these stories. Violence is always a possibility; beauty and courage and passion may prevail, but the weak and the timid go to the wall. In this, Angela Carter is true to the material that inspired her. After all, one reason the old fairy tales have survived for hundreds of years is that they do not try to disguise what the world is really like." [via]
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A Burnt-Out Caseby Graham GreeneISBN 0140185399 (0-14-018539-9)
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Ceciliaby Fanny BurneyISBN 0140161368 (0-14-016136-8)
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The Cement Gardenby Ian McEwanISBN 0140112820 (0-14-011282-0)
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Chanceby Joseph Conrad, Jacques BerthoudISBN 0140182586 (0-14-018258-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chance'Book summary:It is a mighty force that of mere chance, absolutely irresistible yet manifesting itself often in delicate forms such for instance as the charm, true or illusory, of a human being. In "Flora de Barral", the slender, dreamy, morbidly charming daughter of a parvenu financier, Conrad creates his most complex heroine and one of his most unrelenting, but not unhopeful, novels of emotional isolation. Neglected by her bankrupt father and rejected by her governess, drifting into abstraction and despair, Flora takes refuge at sea on Captain Anthony's ship, where tragedy and her transformation begin. When published in 1913, "Chance" was an immediate success. Arnold Bennett wrote that 'this is a discouraging book for a writer because he damn well knows he can't write as well as this'; while an anonymous reviewer in Punch declared that 'the whole thing is much nearer wizardry than workmanship'. [via]
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Collected Short Storiesby Somerset MaughamISBN 0140185909 (0-14-018590-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Short Stories'Book summary:This third volume of Maughams stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maughams own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. [via]
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Collected Storiesby David McDuff, Isaac BabelISBN 0140184627 (0-14-018462-7)
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Complete Poemsby Marianne MooreISBN 0140188517 (0-14-018851-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems'Book summary:This definitive edition contains sixty years of Marianne Moore's poems, incorporating her text revisions and her own entertaining notes that reveal the inspiration for complete poems and individual lines. [via]
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England's Thousand Best Churchesby Simon JenkinsISBN 0140297952 (0-14-029795-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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England, My Englandby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140181989 (0-14-018198-9)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Enormous Crocodileby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0140365567 (0-14-036556-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enormous Crocodile'Book summary:With his "secret plans and clever tricks," the Enormous Crocodile desires to lunch not with but on a nice, juicy child. His croc companion, the Notsobig One, is the first to try to talk him out of his scheme, claiming children are no good to eat. "'Tough and chewy!' cried the Enormous Crocodile. 'Nasty and bitter! What awful tommyrot you talk! They are juicy and yummy!'" One jungle critter after another--from Trunky the elephant to Muggle-Wump the monkey to the Roly-Poly Bird--tries to prevent the Enormous Crocodile from carrying out his dastardly deed, but on he waddles toward the village. Unfortunately for him, the animals have a few secret plans and clever tricks up their furry sleeves, too!
This new storybook format of a fabulous Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake classic is destined to delight a whole new generation of young readers. The first collaborative effort of this picture-perfect creative match, The Enormous Crocodile's uniquely Dahl-esque dialogue and laugh-out-loud illustrations marked the beginning of a beautiful partnership. Some of their other creations include The Magic Finger and The BFG. Dahl is a master at giving readers a delectably sweet taste of vengeance. (Ages 6 to 10) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0140367055 (0-14-036705-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Through the foggy streets of Victoria London to the deepest countryside, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson embark on eight thrilling investigations. In some of his best known cases including 'The Speckled Band' and 'The Reigate Puzzle', Holmes brings his unique powers of deduction to bear on the most challenging mysteries. [via]
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First Love, Last Ritesby Ian McEwanISBN 0140112804 (0-14-011280-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Love, Last Rites'Book summary:A collection of short stories, focusing on the awakening sensations of first love and its ritual initiations. This collection won the Somerset Maugham Award, and is from the author of THE CEMENT GARDEN, THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS and THE CHILD IN TIME. [via]
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From Blake to Byron: Volume Five of the New Pelican Guide to English Literatureby Boris FordISBN 0140222685 (0-14-022268-5)
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A Gentleman of Leisureby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140124527 (0-14-012452-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Gentleman of Leisure'Book summary:Jimmy Pitt, rich, generous, popular American bachelor, has fallen in love with an unknown girl on a transatlantic liner. He bets a friend at the Strollers Club in New York that he can break into a house. Unfortunately he selects the house of Police Captain McEachern. [via]
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Good Wivesby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140366954 (0-14-036695-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Wives'Book summary:This is the second story about the March family. Three years on from "Little Women", the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with their futures ahead of them. Although they all face painful trials along the way - from Meg's sad lesson in housekeeping to Laurie's disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all - each of the girls finally finds happiness, if not always in the way they expect. [via]
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The Greek Mythsby Robert GravesISBN 0140171991 (0-14-017199-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Myths'Book summary:Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths.[via]
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The Green Knightby Iris MurdochISBN 0140243372 (0-14-024337-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Knight'Book summary:Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in contemporary London. An attempt by the sharp, feral, and uncommonly intelligent Lucas Graffe to murder his sensual and charismatic half-brother Clement is interrupted by a strangerwhom Lucas strikes and leaves for dead. When the stranger mysteriously reappears, with specific demands for reparation, the Graffes circle of idiosyncratic family and friends is disruptedfor the demands are bizarre, intrusive, and ultimately fatal.[via]More editions of The Green Knight:
The Grim Smile of the Five Townsby Arnold BennettISBN 0140180214 (0-14-018021-4)
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A Gun for Saleby Graham GreeneISBN 0140185402 (0-14-018540-2)
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Haroun and the Sea of Storiesby Salman RushdieISBN 0140157379 (0-14-015737-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'Book summary:Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have about Salman Rushdie and the controversy that has swirled around his million-dollar head. You should instead know that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Here's a representative passage about the sources and power of inspiration:
So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Stream of Stories, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.
[via]"And if you are very, very careful, or very, very highly skilled, you can dip a cup into the Ocean," Iff told Haroun, "like so," and here he produced a little golden cup from another of his waistcoat pockets, "and you can fill it with water from a single, pure Stream of Story, like so," as he did precisely that.
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The Heat of the Dayby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0140183019 (0-14-018301-9)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The House at Pooh Corner: Library Editionby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0140361227 (0-14-036122-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House at Pooh Corner: Library Edition'Book summary:Here are Pooh and Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and of course Christopher Robin, doing what they've done for generations--enchanting young readers. [via]
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The Inimitable Jeevesby P. G. WodehouseISBN 0140284125 (0-14-028412-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inimitable Jeeves'Book summary:With a cast of characters that includes bearded revolutionaries, practical-joking twins, incognito authors, and a pair of confidence tricksters, The Inimitable Jeeves finds our upper-class hero Bertie Wooster in all kinds of hot water. Of particular concern in this collection of short stories--sensitively abridged by Penguin and read by Simon Callow--is Bertie's friend Bingo Little, who falls in love so often that it is impossible to keep track of his romantic entanglements, and who always falls for the most unsuitable women.
Unable to refuse to help a friend, Bertie is placed in one difficult situation after another, always under the watchful eye of his butler. Jeeves constantly works in the background, undermining Bertie's autonomy and moving the narrative in unexpected directions. He often fails to let his employer in on his plots, and a large proportion of his schemes turn out to expose Bertie to ridicule.
Yet Jeeves also ensures that Bertie's life runs smoothly, steering him through the pitfalls which face a rich young man with too much time on his hands. When in one story Bertie overhears Jeeves describing his employer as "not intelligent", he sets out to disprove the butler's assessment. If it is predictable that things do not go according to plan, then it is Wodehouse's brilliant grasp of comedy which makes the manner in which things go wrong so constantly surprising. And, of course, by the end of the tale Jeeves has proved himself both inimitable and indispensable. --John Oates [via]
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The Island of the Day Beforeby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0140259198 (0-14-025919-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of the Day Before'Book summary:Roberto della Griva, a seventeenth-century nobleman, finds himself stuck upon a ship from which he cannot escape, so he explores the ship and reminisces about the various chapters and experiences of his life. Reprint. NYT. [via]
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The Judas Pairby Jonathan GashISBN 0140126880 (0-14-012688-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Judas Pair'Book summary:Lovejoy knows that the legendary Judas Pair of flintlock pistols are just that--a legend. Or are they? By the time he finds out the truth, two people are dead, and Lovejoy has to pull a nifty scam to avoid the same fate. First in the Lovejoy series. [via]
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Lark Rise to Candlefordby Flora ThompsonISBN 0140117563 (0-14-011756-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lark Rise to Candleford'Book summary:A collection of Flora Thompson's three accounts of her experiences during her childhood and youth: "Lark Rise", "Over to Candleford" and "Candleford Green". The book is set in three closely-related Oxfordshire communities: a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town. [via]
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The Light That Failedby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0140185127 (0-14-018512-7)
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The Lost Princeby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0140350713 (0-14-035071-3)
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Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0140119906 (0-14-011990-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in the Time of Cholera'Book summary:Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Mrquez's extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera 1988 relates one of literature's most remarkable stories of unrequited love. "This shining and heartbreaking novel," Thomas Pynchon wrote in The New York Times Book Review, is one of those few rare works "that can even return our worn souls to us." Mary Wesley on Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: "This is the funniest, most moving book I have read and re-read. Each reading discovers fresh delights, a true classic. Garcia Marquez is the greatest South American writer who doesn't hesitate to write of the spiritual and mundane in the same paragraph." [via]
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Loving/Living/Party Goingby Henry GreenISBN 0140186913 (0-14-018691-3)
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Moon and Sixpenceby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140185976 (0-14-018597-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon and Sixpence'Book summary:On a trip to research French artist Paul Gauguin, Maugham sailed into Tahiti's Papeet harbor, where he imagined an exotic tale of the ultimate outsider, one who rejects his entire way of life to pursue an obsession. The result of his efforts is a story of rebellion and escape from civilization which continues to attract and captivate readers to this day. Introduction by Perry Meisel. [via]
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Mr. Sammler's Planetby Saul Bellow, Stanley CrouchISBN 014018936X (0-14-018936-X)
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, John J. Murphy, Wladyslaw T. BendaISBN 0140187642 (0-14-018764-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
The Napoleon of Notting Hillby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0140183892 (0-14-018389-2)
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The New Pelican Guide to English Literatureby Boris FordISBN 0140222650 (0-14-022265-0)
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An Outcast of the Islandsby Joseph ConradISBN 014018032X (0-14-018032-X)
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Penguin Dict Modern Humor Quotatby MetcalfISBN 0140243593 (0-14-024359-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Penguin Dict Modern Humor Quotat'Book summary:From Miss Piggy to Woody Allen ('Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber at weekends'), from Dorothy Parker to Mae West ('To err is human, but it feels divine'), from Morecambe and Wise to Homer Simpson ('To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems'), the last hundred years offer a rich banquet of humour. Even Belgium, golf and inflation have inspired witty remarks. Here is the definitive collection, organised by theme and offering more laughs per page than any other book. 'Wittily indispensable' - Chris Patten, "Guardian". [via]
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The Portable Danteby Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa, Laurence Binyon, Dante Gabriel RossettISBN 0140231145 (0-14-023114-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Dante'Book summary:As a philosopher, Dante wedded classical methods of enquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked at his own failures to depict universal moral struggles. As a visionary, he dared to draw maps of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and populate all three realms with recognizable human beings. As a lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunciation. As all these things Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) paved the way for modern literature. This volume aims to capture the scope of Dante's genius. It contains complete verse translations of his two masterworks, "The Divine Comedy" and "La Vita Nuova". [via]
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The Portable Swiftby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0140150374 (0-14-015037-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Swift'Book summary:THE CAUSTIC GENIUS OF JANATHAN SWIFT; GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, COMPLETE; EXCERPTS INCLUDING; A MODEST PROPOSAL; LETTERS TO ALEXANDER POPE; JOHN GAY; JOHN ARBUTHNOT AND OTHERS; POETRY INCLUDING; VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR SWIFT; [via]
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark TwainISBN 0140350179 (0-14-035017-9)
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonald, Arthur HughesISBN 0140367462 (0-14-036746-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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The Prisoner of Zendaby Anthony HopeISBN 0140350322 (0-14-035032-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prisoner of Zenda'Book summary:Five times made into film versions since its original publication in 1894, The Prisoner of Zenda is a perennially popular adventure and romance story. Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-paced adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll must impersonate the rightful king in order to rescue him from the castle Zenda, all the while facing tests of honor with the beautiful Princess Flavia, and enduring tests of strength in his encounters with the villainous Black Michael and his handsome, debonair bodyguard, Rupert of Hentzau. [via]
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Puffballby Fay WeldonISBN 0140131183 (0-14-013118-3)
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Raise the Red Lanternby Su Tong, Michael S. DukeISBN 0140260307 (0-14-026030-7)
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Restorationby Rose TremainISBN 0140244883 (0-14-024488-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restoration'Book summary:Restoration is a dazzling romp through 17th-century England. The main character Robert Merivel not only embodies the contradictions of his era, but ours as well. He is trapped between the longing for wealth and power and the realization that the pursuit of these trappings can leave one's life rather empty. [via]
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Revenge of the Middle-Aged Womanby Elizabeth BuchanISBN 0140290087 (0-14-029008-7)
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Robin Hoodby R. L. GreenISBN 0140301011 (0-14-030101-1)
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Rudyard Kipling: El Libro De La Selva / The Jungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling, Peter KeatingISBN 0140184775 (0-14-018477-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rudyard Kipling: El Libro De La Selva / The Jungle Book'Book summary:Rudyard Kipling's reputation as Britain's unofficial Poet Laureate has obscured the true nature of his achievement. Far from being an Establishment figure, he was a fiercely independent poet, opposed to the dominant political and literary leanings of his age. His poems range from exhilarating celebrations of British expansion, through vivid character sketches of soldiers and seamen, to political invective, artistic manifestos, and enchanting poems for children. In this new selection, Kipling's poems are presented in chronological order to reveal the scope and development, as well as the originality, of his work. Opening with Kipling's satirization of the British in India, it closes with his warning against the rise of Nazi Germany. [via]
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Rumpole a LA Carteby John Clifford MortimerISBN 014017981X (0-14-017981-X)
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Rumpole à la Carteby John MortimerISBN 0140156097 (0-14-015609-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rumpole à la Carte'Book summary:Six new tales featuring everyone's favorite barrister, Horace Rupole--disheveled, polemical, and immensely fond of cigars, Wordsworth, and Chateau Thames Embankment. "One of the immortals of mystery fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle), Mortimer's Rumpole has also been featured on the popular PBS series, "Mystery!" [via]
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Rumpole and the Age of Miraclesby John MortimerISBN 0140131167 (0-14-013116-7)
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Rumpole for the Defenceby John MortimerISBN 0140250131 (0-14-025013-1)
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Rumpole of the Baileyby John MortimerISBN 0140250123 (0-14-025012-3)
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Rumpole on Trialby John MortimerISBN 0140175105 (0-14-017510-5)
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Shakespeare's Wordsby David Crystal, Ben CrystalISBN 0140291172 (0-14-029117-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Words'Book summary:[via]One of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, and the actor Ben Crystal, have taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary of nearly 14,000 words and meanings that are frequently misunderstood byor incomprehensible tothe modern reader. Every entry is supported by at least one illustrative quote to help the student, the teacher, the actor, the scholar, and the general reader grasp the depth and beauty of the Bard's language. Shakespeare's Words includes:
- Complete listings of all the French, Latin, Spanish, and Italian words, as well as Welsh, Scottish, and Irish dialects Shakespeare used
- Easy-to-read diagrams that represent the relationships between the characters and places for each play
- A conventional plot synopsis and list of dramatis personae for all the plays
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Something Freshby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140284613 (0-14-028461-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Fresh'Book summary:The one thing that could be expected to militate against the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has imposters like other houses have mice. On this particular occasion there are two of them - both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is afoot - despite the distractions caused by the Hon. Freddie Threepwood's hapless affair of the heart. The first "Blandings Castle" novel sets the standard for the parade of impostors on the premises. [via]
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Stamboul Trainby Graham GreeneISBN 0140185321 (0-14-018532-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stamboul Train'Book summary:Published in 1932, this spy thriller unfolds aboard the Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople. Weaving a web of subterfuge, murder and politics along the way, it focuses upon the disturbing relationship between Myatt, the pragmatic Jew, and chorus girl, Coral Musker. [via]
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The Third Manby Graham GreeneISBN 0140286829 (0-14-028682-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Man'Book summary:Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city." Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his own...[via]More editions of The Third Man:
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0140181849 (0-14-018184-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature enables readers to see how radical Stein's subject was. [via]
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 0140350543 (0-14-035054-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel'Book summary:The classic historical adventure novel, set in the 1620s at the court of Louis XIII, where the musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, together with their companion, the headstrong d'Artagnan, are engaged in a battle against Richelieu, the King's minister, and a beautiful, unscrupulous spy. [via]
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Tom Brown's Schooldaysby Thomas HughesISBN 0140350225 (0-14-035022-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'Book summary:Recounts a young English schoolboy's adventures at Rugby in the early nineteenth century. [via]
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The Trick of Itby Michael FraynISBN 0140126511 (0-14-012651-1)
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Typhoon and Other Storiesby Joseph Conrad, Paul KirschnerISBN 0140182578 (0-14-018257-8)
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Utzby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0140115765 (0-14-011576-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utz'Book summary:Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of Kaspar Utz, an enigmatic collector of Meissen porcelain living in Cold War Czechoslovakia. Although Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each time, he always returns to his Czech home, a prisoner of the Communist state and of his precious collection.[via]More editions of Utz:
Weby Clarence Brown, Evgenii Ivanovich ZamiatinISBN 0140185852 (0-14-018585-2)
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The White Hotelby D. M. ThomasISBN 0140231730 (0-14-023173-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Hotel'Book summary:It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.[via]More editions of The White Hotel:
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White Noiseby Don Delillo, Mark OsteenISBN 0140274987 (0-14-027498-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Noise'Book summary:Something is amiss in a small college town in Middle America. Something subliminal, something omnipresent, something hard to put your finger on. For example, teachers and students at the grade school are falling mysteriously ill:
Investigators said it could be the ventilating system, the paint or varnish, the foam insulation, the electrical insulation, the cafeteria food, the rays emitted by microcomputers, the asbestos fireproofing, the adhesive on shipping containers, the fumes from the chlorinated pool, or perhaps something deeper, finer-grained, more closely woven into the fabric of things.
J.A.K. Gladney, world-renowned as the living center, the absolute font, of Hitler Studies in North America in the mid-1980s, describes the malaise affecting his town in a superbly ironic and detached manner. But even he fails to mask his disquiet. There is menace in the air, and ultimately it is made manifest: a poisonous cloud--an "airborne toxic event"--unleashed by an industrial accident floats over the town, requiring evacuation. In the aftermath, as the residents adjust to new and blazingly brilliant sunsets, Gladney and his family must confront their own poses, night terrors, self-deceptions, and secrets.DeLillo is at his dark, hilarious best in this 1985 National Book Award winner, a novel that preceded but anticipated the explosion of the Internet, tabloid television, and the dialed-in, wired-up, endlessly accelerated tenor of the culture we live in. He doesn't just describe life in a hypermediated society, he re-creates it. His characters repeat phrases, information, and rumor gleaned from television, radio, and other media sources like people speaking in code. And DeLillo has seeded the book with short gemlike episodes that demand to be read aloud, and that haunt the imagination years after their first reading: a visit to the Most Photographed Barn in America. A plane that nearly falls out of the sky. An hour in a classroom, canonizing Elvis. These vignettes are vivid and unique, yet, like the phrases from television shows that interject themselves, out of context, into Gladney's consciousness, they are strangely unconnected to one another--reflections of the lives DeLillo is showing us we lead. --Jan Bultmann [via]
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 0140186557 (0-14-018655-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:A collection of short stories dealing with a small town in Ohio. [via]
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Wizard of Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0140304770 (0-14-030477-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard of Earthsea'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this first book, A Wizard of Earthsea readers will witness Sparrowhawk's moving rite of passage--when he discovers his true name and becomes a young man. Great challenges await Sparrowhawk, including an almost deadly battle with a sinister creature, a monster that may be his own shadow. [via]
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World's Endby T. C. BoyleISBN 0140299939 (0-14-029993-9)
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El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0140255788 (0-14-025578-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Time of Cholera'Book summary:From the Nobel Prize-winning author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" comes an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics edition of the masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than 50 years. This is one of Marquez's most famous novels. [via]
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