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Agricola and Germanyby Cornelius Tacitus, Anthony Richard BirleyISBN 0192833006 (0-19-283300-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agricola and Germany'Book summary:Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years of enforced silence. Much of Agricola, which is the biography of Tacitus' late father-in-law Julius Agricola, is devoted to Britain and its people, since Agricola's claim to fame was that as governor for seven years he had completed the conquest of Britain, begun four decades earlier. Germany provides an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans, and is the only surviving example of an ethnographic study from the ancient world. Each book in its way has had immense influence on our perception of Rome and the northern barbarians. This edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history and includes newly discovered evidence on Tacitus' early career. [via]
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Alexander Pope: Selected Poetryby Alexander Pope, Pat RogersISBN 019283276X (0-19-283276-X)
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The Americanby Henry James, Adrian PooleISBN 0192833227 (0-19-283322-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American'Book summary:During a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintré to be his wife. To his dismay, he receives an icy reception from the heads of her family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the American privileged class. Brilliantly combining elements of comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama, this tale of thwarted desire vividly contrasts nineteenth-century American and European manners. Oxford's edition of The American, which was first published in 1877, is the only one that uses James' revised 1907 text. [via]
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthologyby Kevin Crossley-HollandISBN 0192835475 (0-19-283547-5)
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules Verne, William ButcherISBN 0192830937 (0-19-283093-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Around the World in Eighty Days has been a bestseller for over a century, but it has never before appeared in a critical edition. While most translations misread or even abridge the original, this stylish new version is completely true to Verne's classic, moving as fast and as brilliantly as Phineas Fogg's own race against time. Around the World in Eighty Days offers a strong dose of post-romantic reality but not a shred of science fiction: its modernism lies instead in the experimental technique and Verne's unique twisting of space and time. [via]
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Aspern Papers and Other Storiesby Henry James, Adrian PooleISBN 0192836161 (0-19-283616-1)
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Aurora Leighby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kerry McSweeneyISBN 0192836536 (0-19-283653-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aurora Leigh'Book summary:This verse-novel is a detailed representation of the early-Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of satirical portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; sir Blaise Delorme, the ostentatious Roman Catholic; and the unscrupulous society beauty, Lady Waldemar. However, the dominant presence in the work is the narrator, Aurora Leigh herself. From early years in Italy and adolescence in the West country, to the vocational choices, creative struggles, and emotional entanglements of her early adult life, Aurora Leigh develops her ideas on love, art, God, the Woman Question, and society. This edition is critically edited and fuly annotated. It should be of interest to readers of Victorian poetry and students of 19th-century English literature and women's writing. [via]
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Basilby Wilkie Collins, Dorothy GoldmanISBN 0192835483 (0-19-283548-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basil'Book summary:In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the nineteenth century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. Contemporary reviewers vehemently disapproved of this explicit treatment of adultery; and even today the passionate and lurid atmosphere he creates still has the power to disturb the reader. [via]
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Belindaby Maria Edgeworth, Kathryn J. KirkpatrickISBN 0192837095 (0-19-283709-5)
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby David Mayer, Lew WallaceISBN 0192831992 (0-19-283199-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ'Book summary:A spiritual tale of the quest for love, the recovery of identity and patrimony, Ben-Hur never fails to delight in its detail and realism. As David Mayer's introduction makes explicit, Ben-Hur is marked by traces of contemporary issues and American Victorian concerns and tensions which shed important light on social and cultural history. [via]
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The Bhagavad Gitaby W. J. JohnsonISBN 0192835815 (0-19-283581-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:`I have heard the supreme mystery, yoga, from Krishna, from the lord of yoga himself.' Thus ends the Bhagavard Gita , the most famous episode from the great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata . In its eighteen short chapters Krishna's teaching leads the warrior Arjuna from perplexity to understanding and correct action, in the process raising and developing many key themes from the history of Indian relgions. The Bhagavad Gita considers social and religious duty, the nature of sacrifice, the nature of action, the means to liberation, and the relationship of human beings to God. It culminates in an awe-inspiring vision of Krishna as God omnipotent, disposer and destroyer of the universe. The poem has inspired a wide variety of interpretations, both within India and beyond, and it is the best known and most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world. This new translation is ideal for the non-specialist as well as for students of Indian religions, providing a full cultural and historical context in its introduction and notes. This book is intended for university students from 1st year up, studying Indian religions and culture, comparative religion, theology. Translated with introduction and notes by: Johnson, W. J. (Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Wales, College of Cardiff); [via]
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Bostoniansby Henry James, R. D. GooderISBN 0192834428 (0-19-283442-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'Book summary:From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of 'the sisterhood of women.' She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil.
The exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy. The Bostonians (1886) was not welcomed by James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit; but a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction, and perhaps his comic masterpiece. [via]More editions of Bostonians:
Can Jane Eyre Be Happy: More Puzzles in Classic Fictionby John SutherlandISBN 019283309X (0-19-283309-X)
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Carmen and Other Storiesby Prosper Merimee, Nicholas JotchamISBN 0192837222 (0-19-283722-2)
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The Castle of Otrantoby Horace Walpole, W.S. Lewis, Lewis. W. S., E. J. CleryISBN 0192834401 (0-19-283440-1)
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Castle Rackrentby George Watson, Maria EdgeworthISBN 0192835637 (0-19-283563-7)
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The Claveringsby Anthony Trollope, David SkiltonISBN 0192837079 (0-19-283707-9)
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The Complete Odes and Epodesby Horace, Horace Epodae, David Alexander West, David WestISBN 0192832468 (0-19-283246-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Odes and Epodes'Book summary:Horace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Steeped in allusion to contemporary affairs, Horace's verse is best read in terms of his changing relationship to the public sphere. While the Odes are subtle and allusive, the Epodes are robust and coarse in their celebrations of sex and tirades against political leaders. This edition also includes the Secular Hymn and Suetonius's "Life of Horace." [via]
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192833952 (0-19-283395-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great literary adventures, indeed William Thackeray was so enthralled he began reading 'at six one morning and never stopped till eleven at night'. The hero is Edmond Dantes, a young sailor who, falsely accused of treason, is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of Chateau d'If. After staging a dramatic escape he sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, Monte Cristo is also a tale of obsession and revenge, with Dantes, believing himself to be an 'Angel of Providence', pursuing his vengeance to the bitter end before realizing that he himself is a victim of fate. This new edition uses the classic, anonymous translation that has been in print since the nineteenth century. [via]
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Edmond RostandISBN 0192836439 (0-19-283643-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyrano De Bergerac'Book summary:'Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ...My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the social realism which dominated late nineteenth-century theatre. He wrote his 'heroic comedy', unfashionably, in verse, and set it in the reign of Louis XIII and the Three Musketeers. Based on the life of a little known writer, Rostand's hero has become a figure of theatrical legend: Cyrano, with the nose of a clown and the soul of a poet, is by turns comic and sad, as reckless in love as in war, and never at a loss for words. Audiences immediately took him to their hearts, and since the triumphant opening night in December 1897 - at the height of the Dreyfus Affair - the play has never lost its appeal. The text is accompanied by notes and a full introduction which sets the play in its literary and historical context. Christopher Fry's acclaimed translation into 'chiming couplets' represents the homage of one verse dramatist to another. [via]
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Daisy Miller and Other Storiesby Henry JamesISBN 0192835432 (0-19-283543-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Miller and Other Stories'Book summary:The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a succès de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here--'Pandora,' 'The Patagonia,' and 'Four Meetings'-- it describes a confrontation between different values in a changing world. Is the new independent American girl enchanting in her spontaneity, alarming in her unpredictability, or merely vulnerable in her ignorance of social codes? Hung about with make admirers who seek, uncertainly, to grasp the new phenomenon, Daisy marches on undiscourageable, to her triumphant--or tragic--destiny.
This volume contains prefaces by Henry James, a chronology of his life, and editor's notes. [via]More editions of Daisy Miller and Other Stories:
Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeckby Georg Buchner, Victor PriceISBN 0192836501 (0-19-283650-1)
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The Doctor's Wifeby Lyn Pykett, M. E. BraddonISBN 0192833014 (0-19-283301-4)
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Don Quixote De LA Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, E.C. Riley, Charles JarvisISBN 0192834835 (0-19-283483-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote De LA Mancha'Book summary:Don Quixote, originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, stands as Cervantes' belated but colossal literary success. A work which has achieved mythic status, it is considered to have pioneered the modern novel. Don Quixote, a poor gentleman from La Mancha, Spain, entranced by the code of chivalry, seeks romantic honor through absurd and fantastic adventures. His fevered imagination turns everyday objects into heroic opponents and stepping stones to greater glory; each exploit serves as a comic, yet disturbing commentary on the psychological struggle between reality and illusion, fact and fiction. This celebrated translation by Charles Jarvis offers a new introduction and notes which provide essential background information. [via]
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The Elements of Law Natural and Politic: Human Nature/De Corpore Politico With Three Livesby Thomas Hobbes, J.C.A. GaskinISBN 019283682X (0-19-283682-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Law Natural and Politic: Human Nature/De Corpore Politico With Three Lives'Book summary:Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. His analysis of the war between the individual and the group lays out the essential strands of his moral and political philosophy later made famous in Leviathan. This first ever complete paperback edition of Human Nature and De Corpore Politico is also supplemented by chapters from Hobbes' later work De Corpore and "The Three Lives," never before published together in English. [via]
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Faust Part 1by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192835955 (0-19-283595-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Part 1'Book summary:This new translation, in rhymed verse, of goethe's faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of european literature--preserves the essence of goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the german ever achieved [via]
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Five Children and Itby Edith Nesbit, Sandra KempISBN 0192831631 (0-19-283163-1)
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Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchardby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald HingleyISBN 0192834126 (0-19-283412-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard'Book summary:Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: ivanov, the seagull, uncle vanya, three sisters, and the cherry orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative oxford chekhov, in ronald hingley's acclaimed translation. Hingley has also written an introduction specifically for this volume in which he provides a detailed history of chekhov's involvement in the theater and an assessment of his accomplishment as a dramatist [via]
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Five Romantic Plays 1768-1821by Robert Southey, Inchbald, George Gordon Byron Byron, Joanna Baillie, Horace Walpole, Edward Burns, Paul BainesISBN 0192833162 (0-19-283316-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Romantic Plays 1768-1821'Book summary:Thriving during a period of profound revolution in Europe, the British Romantic theatre found itself re-examining social and sexual relations in English society. The five plays collected in this edition--the only one of its kind--represent some of the most radical and unusual examples of the drama created during this period. Horace invented gothic melodrama with his incest tragedy, The Mysterious Mother; Robert Southey imagined the theatre as a site of revolutionary protest in Wat Tyler (1794); Joanna Baillie's psychological case study in aristocratic hatred in De Monfort (1768) was thought too alarming to have been written by a woman, while Elizabeth Inchbald's hugely successful Lover's Vows (1798) was sufficiently subversive for Jane Austen to analyze some of its illicit potential in Mansfield Park (1814); Byron's strenuous tragedy The Two Foscari (1821) explores an inescapable conflict between parental love and political authority. The stage imagined by these writers is an arena of culturally charged issues--political, sexual, and socia--paralleling the ones being debated and decided in society at large. [via]
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The Flowers of Evilby Charles Baudelaire, James McGowanISBN 0192835459 (0-19-283545-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flowers of Evil'Book summary:This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection. This book is intended for general readers interested in Baudelaire, French poetry and 19th-century French culture. Students of Baudelaire, French literature. [via]
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Four Major Playsby Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane, Jens ArupISBN 0192833871 (0-19-283387-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Major Plays'Book summary:Taken from the highly acclaimed oxford ibsen, this collection of ibsen's plays includes a doll's house, ghosts, hedda gabler, and the master builder [via]
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert FraserISBN 0192835416 (0-19-283541-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Heart of Mid-Lothianby Walter Scott, Claire LamontISBN 019283567X (0-19-283567-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian'Book summary:This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. At the cente of the story is Edinburgh's forbidding Tolbooth prison, known by all as the Heart of Midlothian. [via]
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Hide and Seekby Wilkie Collins, Catherine PetersISBN 0192836595 (0-19-283659-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hide and Seek'Book summary:At the center of Hide and Seek 1854 a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known only as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe--rebelling against his repressive father--takes up with bad company and meets a mysterious stranger that the secret of Madonna can be unravelled. [via]
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Human Nature and the Corpore Politico: Elements of Lawby Thomas Hobbes, J.C.A. GaskinISBN 0192831216 (0-19-283121-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Nature and the Corpore Politico: Elements of Law'Book summary:Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. His analysis of the war between the individual and the group lays out the essential strands of his moral and political philosophy later made famous in Leviathan. This first ever complete paperback edition of Human Nature and De Corpore Politico is also supplemented by chapters from Hobbes' later work De Corpore and "The Three Lives," never before published together in English. [via]
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Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Centry Fictionby John SutherlandISBN 0192834681 (0-19-283468-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Centry Fiction'Book summary:In this quirky and intriguing book, John Sutherland has conveniently gathered together thirty-four nagging little questions, puzzles, errors, and enigmas from some of the best-loved examples of Victorian fiction. Readers often have stumbled upon seeming mysteries in their favorite novels. Why, for example, is the plot of The Woman in White irrevocably flawed? (The timing of the crime is off.) Is the hero of George Eliot's Middlemarch illegitimate? (Probably, although he was later legitimized.) Why does the otherwise sensible Jane Eyre give in to a sudden and unexplained outburst of superstition? (Charlotte Bronte, in reality, had a similar experience.) What is the real reason we find The Picture of Dorian Gray so disturbing? (There is an overwhelming emphasis on the sense of smell.) These answers and more can all be found in John Sutherland's entertaining and maddening book.
When it comes to literary criticism there's really nothing quite like the joys of close reading and good-natured inquiry. This is the spirit in which Is Heathcliff A Murderer was conceived and executed. Rather than trying to catch great authors in mistakes, Sutherland usually turns up perfectly plausible reasons for the seeming anomalies.
Everyone who reads nineteenth-century novels will thoroughly enjoy John Sutherland's exploration of the seemingly unanswered, and each chapter is a direct link to one of Oxford's World's Classics. [via]More editions of Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Centry Fiction:
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Lady Annaby Anthony Trollope, Stephen OrgelISBN 0192837184 (0-19-283718-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Anna'Book summary:When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - 'This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' ("Saturday Review") - although Trollope himself considered it 'the best novel I ever wrote! Very much! Quite far away above all others!!!' This tightly constructed and passionate study of enforced marriage in the world of Radical politics and social inequality, records the lifelong attempt of Countess Lovel to justify her claim to her title, and her daughter Anna's legitimacy, after her husband announces that he already has a wife. However, mother and daughter are driven apart when Anna defies her mother's wish that she marry her cousin, heir to her father's title, and falls in love with journeyman tailor and young Radical Daniel Thwaite. The outcome is never in doubt, but Trollope's ambivalence on the question is profound, and the novel both intense and powerful. [via]
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The Law and the Ladyby Wilkie Collins, Jenny Bourne TaylorISBN 019283679X (0-19-283679-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Law and the Lady'Book summary:Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady (1875) is a fascinating example of Collins' later fiction. Valeria Valerie Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name incorrectly in the marriage register; this slip is followed by a gradual disclosure of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads to another set of questions and enigmas. Developing many of the techniques at work in The Moonstone in bizarre and unexpected ways, and employing both Gothic and fantastic elements, The Law and the Lady adds a significant dimension to the history of the detective novel. [via]
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The Lifted Veilby George Eliot, Helen SmallISBN 0192832956 (0-19-283295-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lifted Veil'Book summary:This classic story of the March family women and their lives in New England during the Civil War has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868. Poor, argumentative, loving, and optimistic, the March sisters struggle to supplement their family's meager income and realize their own dreams. This highly autobiographical novel shows us women who are strong-minded and independent in their determination to control their own destiny. The introduction to this edition provides a fascinating history of the Alcotts, and a biographical history of Louisa Alcott's own struggles as a writer. [via]
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Little Lord Fauntleroyby Dennis Butts, Frances H. BurnettISBN 0192829610 (0-19-282961-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Lord Fauntleroy'Book summary:Little Lord Fauntleroy, which sold one million copies on its first publication in 1886, is the engaging, amusing, and moving story of a boy living on the edge of poverty in New York who suddenly learns that he is the heir to an English lord with vast lands and wealth. The text includes significant variations from the first serialization of the story and the first American edition. [via]
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Mary: A Fictionby Mary Wollstonecraft, Gary KellyISBN 019283536X (0-19-283536-X)
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, A.D. Melville, E.J. KenneyISBN 019283472X (0-19-283472-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses'Book summary:Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. [via]
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Miss or Mrs?/the Haunted Hotel/the Guilty Riverby Wilkie Collins, Norman Page, Toru SasakiISBN 0192833073 (0-19-283307-3)
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The Monk: A Longman Cultural Editionby Matthew Lewis, Howard AndersonISBN 0192833944 (0-19-283394-4)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slaveby Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowellISBN 0192832506 (0-19-283250-6)
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The New Oxford Book of English Proseby John GrossISBN 0192830007 (0-19-283000-7)
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On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic By Way of Clarification and Supplement to My Last Book Beyond Good and Evilby Douglas Smith, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 019283617X (0-19-283617-X)
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On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic By Way of Clarification and Supplement to My Last Book Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Nietzsche, Douglas SmithISBN 0192831372 (0-19-283137-2)
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The Oxford Dictionary of New Words: A Popular Guide to Words in the Newsby Sara TullochISBN 0192830775 (0-19-283077-5)
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The Oxford Dictionary of Current Englishby Della ThompsonISBN 0192831275 (0-19-283127-5)
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Oxford English: A Guide to the Languageby I. C. B. DearISBN 0192829483 (0-19-282948-3)
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The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spellingby Norman DavisISBN 0192836404 (0-19-283640-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling'Book summary:The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in English. The letters span three generations and most were written during the reigns of HenryVI, Edward IV, and Richard III, in a period of political turmoil, local anarchy, and war abroad and at home. They reveal personal hopes and anxieties, and contain as well as business matters a wealth of information on leisure pursuits, education, and domestic life. The writers express themselves with a clarity and vigour that is remarkable at this early date, and the letter illustrate, as no other documents can, the state of the language in daily use immediately before and after the introduction of printing. This modernized selection prepared from the original manuscripts is designed to present the full range of the Pastons' principle concerns. [via]
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The Pathfinderby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0192829564 (0-19-282956-4)
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Pere Goriotby Honore De Balzac, A.J. KrailsheimerISBN 0192835696 (0-19-283569-6)
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The Playboy of the Western World: And Other Playsby J. M. Synge, Ann SaddlemyerISBN 0192834487 (0-19-283448-7)
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Prester Johnby John Buchan, David DaniellISBN 019282936X (0-19-282936-X)
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The Princeby Niccolo MacHiaveli, Mark Musa, Peter BondanellaISBN 0192833979 (0-19-283397-9)
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, John CareyISBN 0192835904 (0-19-283590-4)
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The Prussian Officer, and Other Storiesby D. H. Lawrence, Antony AtkinsISBN 019283181X (0-19-283181-X)
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The Republicby Plato, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0192833707 (0-19-283370-7)
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Resurrectionby Leo Tolstoy, Louise Shanks MaudeISBN 0192836420 (0-19-283642-0)
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The Sea-Wolfby Jack London, John SutherlandISBN 0192829319 (0-19-282931-9)
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Selected Essaysby David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew EdgarISBN 0192836218 (0-19-283621-8)
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Selected Critical Writingsby George Eliot, Rosemary AshtonISBN 019282886X (0-19-282886-X)
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Selected Poetryby Gerard Manley HopkinsISBN 0192834924 (0-19-283492-4)
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Selected Poetryby Alexander Pope, Pat RogersISBN 0192834940 (0-19-283494-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poetry'Book summary:Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one. A succession of brilliant poems followed, including An Essay on Criticism (1711), Windsor Forest (1715), and his masterpiece, The Rape of the Lock. A second period of great poetry was begun in 1728 with the appearance of the first Dunciad. All these works--which exhibit Pope's astonishing human insight, his wide sympathies, and powers of social observation (displayed to greatest effect in his talent for satire)--are included in this selection of his poetry. It has been compiled by the distinguished Pope scholar and editor Pat Rodgers, who also provides an indispensable introduction that offers a new interpretation of Pope's poetry, and the philosophical ideas behind it. [via]
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Selected Poetryby Byron, Jerome J. McGannISBN 0192832778 (0-19-283277-8)
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Selected Poetryby Jerome J. McGann, ByronISBN 0192835297 (0-19-283529-7)
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Selected Poetryby John Donne, John CareyISBN 0192834908 (0-19-283490-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poetry'Book summary:John Donne's love poetry is a magnetic mix of the soul singing, intellectual rigor, and the lascivious prod. Seductions abound, but go hand in hand with metaphors of science, discovery, and conquest: "License my roving hands, and let them go, / Behind, before, above, between, below. / O my America! my new-found-land, / My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned ..." In "The Flea," the speaker even uses a revolting parasite to persuade his young woman to bed. Since the flea has bitten both of them already, he urges, why should they not commingle on a larger scale? But in one of Donne's trademark reversals, the argument fails when the woman squashes the offending insect.
"The Good Morrow" is a good deal more romantic, opening: "I wonder by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?" Lines such as "And now good morrow to our waking souls, / Which watch not one another out of fear; / For love all love of other sights controls, / And makes one little room an everywhere" have even made the poem a wedding standard. ("The Sun Rising" is another nuptial favorite.) As usual, however, the poet adds a tincture of imperfection to the vision: the persona's excuse (charming but dubious), "If ever any beauty I did see, / Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee." Though readers might concentrate on the love songs and sonnets, John Carey's edition of the Selected Poetry offers much more, including satires, epigrams, and Donne's brilliant holy sonnets. As rugged, brilliantly contorted, and fraught with feeling as his more diurnal poetry, they are also equally concerned with inconstancy--Donne was born a Catholic, but converted to Anglicanism in 1593. "Batter my heart, three-personed God" ends: "Take me to You, imprison me, for I / Except You' enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except You ravish me." [via]
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorickby Laurence Sterne, Ian Robert James JackISBN 019283522X (0-19-283522-X)
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Three Essays on Liberty: Representative Government the Subjection of Womenby John Stuart Mill, Jack StillingerISBN 0192830139 (0-19-283013-9)
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Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover's Melancholy, the Broken Heart, Perkin Warbeckby John Ford, Marion LomaxISBN 0192834495 (0-19-283449-5)
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Tom Jonesby Henry Fielding, John B. Bender, Simon Stern, John BenderISBN 0192831100 (0-19-283110-0)
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Storiesby Henry James, Tim LustigISBN 0192834045 (0-19-283404-5)
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Twelve Playsby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald HingleyISBN 0192836749 (0-19-283674-9)
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The Two Noble Kinsmenby William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Eugene M. WaithISBN 0192836129 (0-19-283612-9)
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Two on a Towerby Thomas Hardy, Suleiman M. AhmadISBN 019282919X (0-19-282919-X)
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Vathekby William Beckford, Roger H. LonsdaleISBN 0192836560 (0-19-283656-0)
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Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 0192835181 (0-19-283518-1)
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The Well-Belovedby Thomas Hardy, Tom HetheringtonISBN 0192835602 (0-19-283560-2)
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What Maisie Knewby Henry James, Adrian PooleISBN 0192835912 (0-19-283591-2)
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In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child's capacity for intelligent `wonder', James summons all the subtlety he devotes elsewhere to his most celebrated adult protagonists. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie inspires James to dwell with extraordinary acuteness on the things that may pass between adult and child. In addition to a new introduction, this edition of the novel offers particularly detailed notes, bibliography, and a list of variant readings. [via]More editions of What Maisie Knew:
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Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquistby Charles Brockden Brown, Emory ElliottISBN 0192836803 (0-19-283680-3)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Storiesby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert ShulmanISBN 0192834800 (0-19-283480-0)
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York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spellingby Richard Beadle, Pamela M. KingISBN 0192837109 (0-19-283710-9)
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