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The A.B.C. Murdersby Agatha ChristieISBN 0785799281 (0-7857-9928-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The A.B.C. Murders'Book summary:There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway guide beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Asher, bludgeoned to death in Andover; and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhill; then who will Victim C be? [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Alyssa Harad, Claire Fletcher, Katherine PatersonISBN 0753454785 (0-7534-5478-5)
Hardcover, Kingfisher Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN, GREAT BOOK IN GREAT CONDITION !!! [via]
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0766607631 (0-7666-0763-1)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0743406354 (0-7434-0635-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 080490006X (0-8049-0006-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0762405422 (0-7624-0542-2)
Hardcover, Courage Books - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0753454785 (0-7534-5478-5)
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0766607631 (0-7666-0763-1)
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All Quiet on the Western Frontby Erich Maria Remarque, A. W. WheenISBN 0783882599 (0-7838-8259-9)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'Book summary:Remarque's 1929 novel is among the finest antiwar literature written after the First World War.
The title, Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on Western Front, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on Western Front through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Erich Maria Remarque, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 0809593998 (0-8095-9399-8)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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Anansi Boys: Library Editionby Neil GaimanISBN 0786285109 (0-7862-8510-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anansi Boys: Library Edition'Book summary:God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 080857275X (0-8085-7275-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Dahl tells the story of his adventures and misadventures as a child: his involvement in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924; his first automobile ride, in which he nearly lost his nose; his many canings by Headmasters; and his vacations at home in Wales with hi [via]
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0808509551 (0-8085-0955-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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The Cantos of Ezra Poundby Ezra PoundISBN 0811213269 (0-8112-1326-9)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cantos of Ezra Pound'Book summary:The Cantos of Ezra Pound is the most important epic poem of the twentieth century.
Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos: "They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry." William Carlos WIlliams said "[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of itin the words; fuses it with the words, present and past, to MAKE his Cantos. Make them."
Since the 1969 revised edition, the Italian Cantos LXXII and LXXIII (as well as a 1966 fragment concluding the work) have been added. Now appearing for the first time is Pound's recently found Eglish translation of Italian Canto LXXII. [via]More editions of The Cantos of Ezra Pound:
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Cider House Rulesby John IrvingISBN 0786885238 (0-7868-8523-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider House Rules'Book summary:First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [via]
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Cider With Rosieby Laurie LeeISBN 080943573X (0-8094-3573-X)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider With Rosie'Book summary:Paperback 1980 259p. 8.00"x5.25"x1.00 First Light;First Names;Village School;The Kitchen;Grannies in The Wainscot;Public Death,Private Murder;Mother;Winter and Summer and More. [via]
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Cliffsnotes All Quiet on the Western Frontby Susan Van KirkISBN 0764586718 (0-7645-8671-8)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffsnotes All Quiet on the Western Front'Book summary:The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.[via]In CliffsNotes on All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque takes you inside the gruesome realities of World War I through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a sensitive teenager and typical infantryman in the German army.
This study guide will help you begin to consider how Remarque's views on war might relate to modern-day conflicts. You'll also gain insight into the life and cultural background of the author. Other features that help you study include
- Character analyses of major players
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Critical essays
- A review section that tests your knowledge
- A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
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Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: 1934-1952by Dylan ThomasISBN 0756783399 (0-7567-8339-9)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: 1934-1952'Book summary:Dylan Thomas's poems gambol and frisk across the tongue and imagination like those of few poets I have ever read. His choicely crafted (and often synaesthetic) phrases, his musicality, and his laughingly lilting language are nicely captured by the first two stanzas of Fern Hill--read it aloud for full effect:
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns,
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.
And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams...
This collection of his poems contains only those pieces he wished preserved and should be owned by anyone who loves beautifully crafted language. [via]
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Collected Poems, 1934-1953by Dylan ThomasISBN 0753810662 (0-7538-1066-2)
Softcover, Phoenix
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Complete Nonsense Book of Edward Learby Edward LearISBN 0785801685 (0-7858-0168-5)
Hardcover, Book Sales, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Nonsense Book of Edward Lear'Book summary:An in-depth volume celebrates a popular and witty children's author, providing a complete collection of his endearing limericks, wacky verses, and nonsense alphabets, and accompanying many with black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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Cover Her Faceby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219570 (0-7432-1957-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur MillerISBN 0791093026 (0-7910-9302-6)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Death of a Salesman/Coles Notesby MillerISBN 0774030232 (0-7740-3023-2)
Softcover, Coles Pub Group Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Salesman/Coles Notes'Book summary:This is a study guide to help students who have to answer questions or write exams or essays about Death of a Salesman. It is the Coles Notes Edition. [via]
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0753818817 (0-7538-1881-7)
Softcover, Phoenix
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire'Book summary:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, edited with introduction, notes, and appendices by J.B. Bury, D.Litt., LL.D., in seven volumes. This is volume 1. [via]
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End of the Affairby Graham GreeneISBN 0783895283 (0-7838-9528-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'End of the Affair'Book summary:Set in London during and just after World War II, Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is a pathos-laden examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another, and love of God. The affair in question involves Maurice Bendrix, a solipsistic novelist, and a dutifully married woman, Sarah Miles. The lovers meet at a party thrown by Sarah's dreary civil-servant husband, and proceed to liberate each other from boredom and routine unhappiness. Reflecting on the ebullient beginnings of their romance, Bendrix recalls: "There was never any question in those days of who wanted whom--we were together in desire." Indeed, the affair goes on unchecked for several years until, during an afternoon tryst, Bendrix goes downstairs to look for intruders in his basement and a bomb falls on the building. Sarah rushes down to find him lying under a fallen door, and immediately makes a deal with God, whom she has never particularly cared for. "I love him and I'll do anything if you'll make him alive.... I'll give him up forever, only let him be alive with a chance.... People can love each other without seeing each other, can't they, they love You all their lives without seeing You."
Bendrix, as evidenced by his ability to tell the story, is not dead, merely unconscious, and so Sarah must keep her promise. She breaks off the relationship without giving a reason, leaving Bendrix mystified and angry. The only explanation he can think of is that she's left him for another man. It isn't until years later, when he hires a private detective to ascertain the truth, that he learns of her impassioned vow. Sarah herself comes to understand her move through a strange rationalization. Writing to God in her journal, she says:
You willed our separation, but he [Bendrix] willed it too. He worked for it with his anger and his jealousy, and he worked for it with his love. For he gave me so much love, and I gave him so much love that soon there wasn't anything left, when we'd finished, but You.
It's as though the pull toward faith were inevitable, if incomprehensible--perhaps as punishment for her sin of adultery. In her final years, Sarah's faith only deepens, even as she remains haunted by the bombing and the power of her own attraction to God. Set against the backdrop of a war-ravaged city, The End of the Affair is equally haunting as it lays forth the question of what constitutes love in troubling, unequivocal terms. --Melanie Rehak [via]More editions of End of the Affair:
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Essentials of Englishby Cedric Gale, Vincent F. Hopper, Benjamin W. Griffith, Ronald C. FooteISBN 0764113674 (0-7641-1367-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essentials of English'Book summary:Updated and expanded, this popular writer's style manual covers the basics of effective communication. It includes rules of english grammar and sentence structure, punctuation, word usage in correct contexts, and advice on adapting one's writing style to different assignments, both for classroom and business use. In classrooms the program contained in this book can constitute a course, proceeding from easy to more complex ideas. More advanced instruction covers topics that include logic, clarity, emphasis, consistency, and punctuation, and ends with advice on handling larger elements of language, such as paragraphs and full essays [via]
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Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton, Cynthia Brantley Johnson, Lynn MillerISBN 0743487702 (0-7434-8770-2)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via]-
The Face of a Strangerby Anne PerryISBN 0804108587 (0-8041-0858-7)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Face of a Stranger'Book summary:His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life: his memory and his entire past have vanished. Trying as best he can to hide that fact, Monk returns to work and finds himself assigned to the burtal murder of Major the Honorable Joscelin Grey, Crimean war hero and popular man about town, in his rooms in fashionable Mecklenburg Square. The exhaulted status of the victim puts any representative of the police in the precarious position of having to pry into a noble family's secrets-which in itself will be difficult for Monk, as he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else. But slowly the darkness begins to lighten as each new revelation leads Monk step by terrifying step to the answerw he seeks but dreads to find... [via]
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God of Small Thingsby Arundhati RoyISBN 0783882963 (0-7838-8296-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God of Small Things'Book summary:In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language. [via]
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, David WomersleyISBN 0713991240 (0-7139-9124-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:This edition of Gibbon's classic history returns to manuscript and original sources. [via]
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Homer's Iliadby Harold BloomISBN 0791082407 (0-7910-8240-7)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer's The Iliad'Book summary:In his introduction Harold Bloom states that, together with the Bible, the Iliad "represents the foundation of Western literature, thought, and spirituality." The piece is the focus of this title in our Bloom's Notes series. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on the work, this text includes a structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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The Honourable Schoolboyby John Le CarreISBN 0743457919 (0-7434-5791-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Honourable Schoolboy'Book summary:John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
In this classic masterwork, le Carre expands upon his extraordinary vision of a secret world as George Smiley goes on the attack.
In the wake of a demoralizing infiltration by a Soviet double agent, Smiley has been made ringmaster of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service). Determined to restore the organization's health and reputation, and bent on revenge, Smiley thrusts his own handpicked operative into action. Jerry Westerby, "The Honourable Schoolboy," is dispatched to the Far East. A burial ground of French, British, and American colonial cultures, the region is a fabled testing ground of patriotic allegiances?and a new showdown is about to begin. [via]
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Iliad of Homerby Homer, Barbara Leonie PicardISBN 0809830329 (0-8098-3032-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Immortal Poems of the English Languageby Oscar WilliamsISBN 0808510231 (0-8085-1023-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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John Donne: Poemsby John DonneISBN 0753816504 (0-7538-1650-4)
Hardcover, Phoenix Pr
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0785407200 (0-7854-0720-0)
Softcover, Pearson Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:SOFTBOUND - GLUED BINDING [via]
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King Solomon's Minesby Henry Rider HaggardISBN 0809595672 (0-8095-9567-2)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Solomon's Mines'Book summary:I am going to tell the strangest story that I remember. It may seem a queer thing to say, especially considering that there is no woman in it -- except Foulata. Stop, though! there is Gagaoola, if she was a woman, and not a fiend. But she was a hundred at least, and therefore not marriageable, so I don't count her. At any rate, I can safely say that there is not a _petticoat_ in the whole history. [via]
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The Koranby John Medows Rodwell, Books Ivy Books StaffISBN 0804111251 (0-8041-1125-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Koran'Book summary:An immensely important work for Muslims and anyone interested in studying world religions, THE KORAN, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's teaching. Like the Bible, the influence of the Koran on the world is incalculable. But it is deep and ongoing. This accessible translation and convenient size is perfect for prayer or study. [via]
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The Koranby N. J. DawoodISBN 071391131X (0-7139-1131-X)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Koran Or, Alkoran of Mohammed the Bible of the Easby George SaleISBN 0723202613 (0-7232-0261-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Richard Lauter, Devra Newberger SperegenISBN 0766607119 (0-7666-0711-9)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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- Little Women: ISBN 0785788727 (0-7857-8872-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Little Women: ISBN 0804901066 (0-8049-0106-6)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Little Women: ISBN 0716632020 (0-7166-3202-0)
Hardcover, World Book - Little Women: ISBN 0723512116 (0-7235-1211-6)
Hardcover, Egmont Books, Limited - Little Women: ISBN 0762405651 (0-7624-0565-1)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Little Women: ISBN 0764170473 (0-7641-7047-3)
Hardcover, Barrons Juveniles - Little Women: ISBN 0766607119 (0-7666-0711-9)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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Long Spoon Laneby Anne PerryISBN 0786272716 (0-7862-7271-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Lost Worldby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0809594358 (0-8095-9435-8)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost World'Book summary:Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World. Writing not long after dinosaurs first invaded the popular imagination, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spins a yarn about an expedition of two scientists, a big-game hunter, and a journalist (the narrator) to a volcanic plateau high over the vast Amazon rain forest. The bickering of the professors (a type Doyle knew well from his medical training) serves as witty contrast to the wonders of flora and fauna they encounter, building toward a dramatic moonlit chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the character of Professor George E. Challenger is second only to Sherlock Holmes in the outrageous force of his personality: he's a big man with an even bigger ego, and if you can grit your teeth through his racist behavior toward Native Americans, he's a lot of fun. [via]
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The Man in the Brown Suitby Agatha ChristieISBN 0766194140 (0-7661-9414-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man in the Brown Suit'Book summary:1924. How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. [via]
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A Mind to Murderby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219589 (0-7432-1958-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Mind to Murder'Book summary:When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. Dalgliesh must analyze the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted desires of patients and staff alike to determine which of their unresolved conflicts resulted in murder.
With "discernment, depth, and craftsmanship," wrote the Chicago Daily News, A Mind to Murder "is a superbly satisfying mystery." [via]
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Notes from a Small Islandby Bill BrysonISBN 0786207000 (0-7862-0700-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Official Scrabble Players Dictionaryby Merriam WebsterISBN 0786247738 (0-7862-4773-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary'Book summary:If you're using the 1991 edition or the 1978 original, you're woefully behind the Scrabble-playing times. With more than 100,000 2- to 8-letter words, there are some interesting additions ("aargh," "aarrgh," and "aarrghh" are all legitimate now), while words they consider offensive are no longer kosher. Why subscribe to the Scrabble dictionary's changeable lexicon? Well, it ends the argument of whose dictionary to use, but the main reason is that it's the winner's dictionary, and why play Scrabble if not to win? Memorize those 2- and 3-letter words, and your Scrabble game becomes lethal. [via]
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The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0808519328 (0-8085-1932-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Man and the Sea'Book summary:Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Old Man and the Sea:
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0742542467 (0-7425-4246-7)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Liberty'Book summary:Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support of the value of liberty. Mill's passionate advocacy of spontaneity, individuality and diversity, along with his contempt for compulsory uniformity and the despotism of popular opinion, has attracted both admiration and condemnation. [via]
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken KeseyISBN 0774033444 (0-7740-3344-4)
Softcover, Coles Pub Group Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'Book summary:Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned. [via]
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Painless Grammarby Rebecca ElliottISBN 0764134361 (0-7641-3436-1)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Painless Grammar'Book summary:This very approachable text combines instruction in parts of speech and sentence structure with down-to-earth examples, funny illustrations, and examination of some of the more amusing and peculiar words in the English language. A chapter on clear e-mail communication and etiquette is brand new in this edition, as are many of the author's challenging "Brain Ticklers." Her helpful chapter on how to edit a school paper has also been heavily revised and updated.
Barron's popular Painless Series of study guides for middle school and high school students offer a lighthearted, often humorous approach to their subjects, transforming details that might once have seemed boring or difficult into a series of interesting and mentally challenging ideas. Most titles in the series feature many fun-to-solve "Brain Tickler" problems with answers at the end of each chapter. [via]More editions of Painless Grammar:
A Perfect Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0743457927 (0-7434-5792-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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Pericles, Prince of Tyreby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 074327329X (0-7432-7329-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'Book summary:Each edition includes:
- Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
- Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
- Scene-by-scene plot summaries
- A key to famous lines and phrases
- An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
- An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
- Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
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Peril at End Houseby Agatha ChristieISBN 0785748903 (0-7857-4890-3)
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Pooh's Libraryby A. A. MilneISBN 0771058969 (0-7710-5896-9)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssiniaby Samuel Johnson, James MacAulayISBN 0766198774 (0-7661-9877-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Return of the Soldierby Rebecca WestISBN 0786703474 (0-7867-0347-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Right Ho Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0809589656 (0-8095-8965-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Right Ho Jeeves'Book summary:I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it. It's a thing you don't want to go wrong over, because one false step and you're sunk. I mean, if you fool about too long at the start, trying to establish atmosphere, as they call it, and all that sort of rot, you fail to grip and the customers walk out on you. Get off the mark, on the other hand, like a scalded cat, and your public is at a loss. It simply raises its eyebrows, and can't make out what you're talking about. And in opening my report of the complex case of Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, my Cousin Angela, my Aunt Dahlia, my Uncle Thomas, young Tuppy Glossop and the cook, Anatole, with the above spot of dialogue, I see that I have made the second of these two floaters. I shall have to hark back a bit. And taking it for all in all and weighing this against that, I suppose the affair may be said to have had its inception, if inception is the word I want, with that visit of mine to Cannes. If I hadn't gone to Cannes, I shouldn't have met the Bassett or bought that white mess jacket, and Angela wouldn't have met her shark, and Aunt Dahlia wouldn't have played baccarat. Yes, most decidedly, Cannes was the _point d'appui. . . ._ [via]
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The Russia Houseby John Le CarreISBN 0743464664 (0-7434-6466-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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She Stoops to Conquerby Oliver Goldsmith, James OgdenISBN 071366794X (0-7136-6794-X)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby R.A. WaldronISBN 0810103281 (0-8101-0328-1)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Spanish Tragedyby Thomas Kyd, David M. BevingtonISBN 0719043441 (0-7190-4344-1)
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Spiesby Michael FraynISBN 0805070583 (0-8050-7058-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!by Michael MooreISBN 0786244046 (0-7862-4404-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!'Book summary:Stupid White Men, Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief" George Bush's power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It's as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown. Moore offers a more interesting critique of the 2000 election than Ralph Nader's Crashing the Party (he argued with Nader, his old boss, who sacked him), and he's serious when he advocates ousting Bush. But Moore's rage is outrageous, couched in shameless gags and madcap comedy: "Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation's capital.... Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring us the head of Antonin Scalia!... We are no longer [able] to hold free and fair elections. We need U.N. observers, U.N. troops". Moore's ideas range from on-the-money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi's non-violent shame tactics) to over-the-top: blacks should put inflatable white dolls in their cars so racist cops will think they're chauffeurs; the ever-more-Republicanesque Democratic Party should be sued for fraud; "no contributions toward advancing our civilization ever came out of the South [except Faulkner, Hellman, and R.J. Reynolds]," because it's too hot to think straight there; Korean dictator Kim Jong-il "has got to broaden himself beyond porn and John Wayne" by watching better movies, like Dude, Where's My Car? (which contains "all you need to know about America"). Whatever your politics, Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack.--Tim Appelo [via]
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The Towers of Trebizondby Rose MacaulayISBN 0786702664 (0-7867-0266-4)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Towers of Trebizond'Book summary:This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst Laurie's only object is pleasure. [via]
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Vicar of Wakefieldby Oliver GoldsmithISBN 0804900523 (0-8049-0052-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vicar of Wakefield'Book summary:Rich with wisdom and gentle irony, Goldsmith's only novel tells of an unworldly and generous vicar who lives contentedly with his large family until disaster strikes. But bankruptcy, his daughter's abduction, and the vicar's imprisonment fail to dampen his spirit. Considered the author's finest work, this book is a delightful lampoon of 18th-century literary conventions.[via]More editions of Vicar of Wakefield:
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treaderby C. S. Lewis, Pauline BaynesISBN 0786222352 (0-7862-2235-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'Book summary:The BBC Radio production of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a delightful two-hour sail on the most fabulous ship in Narnia. Lucy and Edmund, with their dreadful cousin Eustace, get magically pulled into a painting of a ship at sea. That ship is the Dawn Treader, and on board is Caspian, King of Narnia. He and his companions, including Reepicheep, the valiant warrior mouse, are searching for seven lost lords of Narnia, and their voyage will take them to the edge of the world. Their adventures include being captured by slave traders, a much-too-close encounter with a dragon, and visits to many enchanted islands, including the place where dreams come true. The adaptation is faithful to its source, C.S. Lewis's series of Narnia books, which have provided exciting and uplifting tales for generations of children. BBC Radio does wonders with sound effects--the ship creaks in the wind, the sorrowful dragon roars lugubriously--and musical cues and interludes that keep the pacing dynamic. There's also a splendid cast of plummy British voices, making this far more than a book read onto cassette--it's an audio drama, as enjoyable as a trip to the theater. Grownups who buy this tape for their children will want to borrow it for themselves. (Running time: two hours, two cassettes) --Blaise Selby [via]
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Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. MilneISBN 0771058918 (0-7710-5891-8)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Wired Style : Principles of English Usage in the Digital Ageby Constance Hale, Jessie ScanlonISBN 0767903722 (0-7679-0372-2)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wired Style : Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age'Book summary:Remarkably more down-to-earth than its predecessor, the revised Wired Style guide is a handy little reference for digerati, or those who think they are. This version is much more accessible to general Internet users, not unlike the Web, which has become more mainstream in the three years since the original publication was released. (The previous edition was criticized for its pomposity and near-incomprehensibility.) This revision still delivers the inside scoop, though. You'll not only learn how to talk about cyberspace (for example, you can read about the evolution of the term "email" and why Wired prefers it without the hyphen), you'll also get an encyclopedic listing of all the trendy lingo that describes it.
Geared heavily toward high-tech communications writers but of use to any Web surfer, this pocket-size manual employs a very simple structure: it contains a short and well-organized discussion on writing technical material clearly and interestingly; a compact but thorough dictionary of relevant terms; a brief style FAQ (with answers to questions such as, "What's the deal with all those capital letters in the middle of words?"); and a petite index.
The introduction offers 10 "Principles for Writing Well in the Digital Age," encouraging you to "play with voice," "capture the colloquial," and "flaunt your subcultural literacy," all trademarks of Wired's tendency to be esoteric. Sure, it's fun and cool to be colloquial and subculturally in the know, but it's just as important to be widely understood. Luckily, in this edition, the editors have caught on to this, and have produced a guide that is smart, useful, and almost unpretentious. --Teri Kieffer [via]
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Zuleika Dobsonby Max BeerbohmISBN 0749399163 (0-7493-9916-3)
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