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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0460050710 (0-460-05071-0)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. [via]
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Against the Grain: (A Reboursby Joris Karl HuysmansISBN 0486221903 (0-486-22190-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Grain: (A Rebours'Book summary:Because of his extreme sensitivity to the absurd and grotesque in human affairs, the protagonist of this masterpiece of decadence has estranged himself from society and savors the most bizarre aspects of human existence in his quest for novelty. This landmark novel is filled with weird images and biting wit. Introduction by Havelock Ellis.[via]More editions of Against the Grain: (A Rebours:
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The Age of Van Eyck: The Mediterranean World and Early Netherlandish Painting 1430-1530by Andreas Beyer, Till Borchert, Groeningemuseum, Stedelijke Musea BruggeISBN 0500237956 (0-500-23795-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules Verne, George M. TowleISBN 0486411117 (0-486-41111-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Phileas Fogg bet his entire fortune that he could cross the Nineteenth Century Earth - with no plans, no special arrangements, and no air travel - in exactly eighty days. Any delay, any breakdown, any missed connection, and Fogg would lose - everything. [via]
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Atlas Shruggedby Ayn RandISBN 0452286360 (0-452-28636-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the worldand did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the worlds motorand the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human lifefrom the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboyto the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destructionto the philosopher who becomes a pirateto the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumphto the woman who runs a transcontinental railroadto the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.
You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions. This is a mystery story, not about the murderand rebirthof mans spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.
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Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Helen ZimmernISBN 048629868X (0-486-29868-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Birth of Tragedyby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0486285154 (0-486-28515-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Tragedy'Book summary:[via]Philosopher's classic study declares that Greek tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of Apollonian restraint and control with Dionysian components of passion and the irrational. "A work of profound imaginative insight, which left the scholarship of a generation toiling in the rear." British classicist F. M. Cornford.More editions of The Birth of Tragedy:
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The Bourgeois Gentlemanby Moliere, J. Miller, H. BakerISBN 0486415929 (0-486-41592-9)
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0486407861 (0-486-40786-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000by Niall FergusonISBN 0465023266 (0-465-02326-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000'Book summary:Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or Internet. But is it? Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link-the nexus, in Thomas Carlyle's phrase-between economics and politics. His central argument is that the conflicting impulses of sex, violence, and power are together more powerful than money. Among Ferguson's startling claims are: · Nothing has done more to transform the world economy than war, yet wars themselves do not have primarily economic causes. · The present age of economic globalization is coinciding-paradoxically-with political and military fragmentation. · Financial crises are frequently caused by unforeseen political events rather than economic fluctuations. · The relationship between prosperity and government popularity is largely illusory. · Since political and economic liberalization are not self-perpetuating, the so-called triumph of democracy worldwide may be short-lived. · A bold synthesis of political history and modern economic theory, Cash Nexus will transform the landscape of modern history and draw challenging conclusions about the prospects of both capitalism and democracy.[via]More editions of The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000:
Complete English Poemsby John Donne, C.A. Patrides, Robin HamiltonISBN 0460874411 (0-460-87441-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Complete English Poems of John Donneby John Donne, C.A. PatridesISBN 0460100912 (0-460-10091-2)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Complete English Poems of John Donneby C.A. PatridesISBN 0460110918 (0-460-11091-8)
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The Crucible of Europe: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries in European Historyby Geoffrey BarracloughISBN 0500250448 (0-500-25044-8)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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Cuchulain of Muirthemneby Isabella Augusta GregoryISBN 0486417174 (0-486-41717-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cuchulain of Muirthemne'Book summary:Enthralling accounts of the legendary Cuchulain, the greatest of ancient Ireland's Knights of the Red Branch, tell of his birth and boyhood deeds, exploits in love and war, and premature death, all in the same beautifully simple style Lady Gregory first heard them as a child. Preface by W. B. Yeats.[via]More editions of Cuchulain of Muirthemne:
Cyrano De Bergeracby Edmond Rostand, Louis UntermeyerISBN 0486411192 (0-486-41119-2)
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Decameronby Giovanni BoccaccioISBN 0460008455 (0-460-00845-5)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decameron'Book summary:To escape the outbreak of the plague that ravished Europe in the 1340s, ten friends enclosed themselves in a castle outside Florence. To pass the time, they entertained one another with a series of stories: Ten stories over a period of ten days... [via]
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 046000476X (0-460-00476-X)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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A Doll's Houseby Henrik IbsenISBN 0486270629 (0-486-27062-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Doll's House'Book summary:One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, displaying Ibsen's genius for realistic prose drama. A classic expression of women's rights, the play builds to a climax in which the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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A Doll's House/the Wild Duck/the Lady from the Sea/3 Plays in 1 Volumeby Henrik IbsenISBN 0460872931 (0-460-87293-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Doubleby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0486295729 (0-486-29572-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double'Book summary:Most significant of the Russian novelist's early stories (1846) offers a straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is a powerless target of persecution by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect. Familiar Dostoyevskan themes of helplessness, victimization, scandal beautifully handled in this small masterpiece.[via]More editions of The Double:
Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Huntby Norman CohnISBN 046502131X (0-465-02131-X)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Fathers and Childrenby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0460007424 (0-460-00742-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Children'Book summary:First translated in 1867, Turgenev portays the new generation of nihilists, with their reliance on the material and on science, and their lack of respect for tradition. However, the novel's hero, Bazarov, pleased neither the revolutionaries, who thought the portrait libellous, nor the reactionaries, who thought it a glorification of iconoclasm. [via]
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486400735 (0-486-40073-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:Against the background of the liberation of Russia's serfs during the 1860s, a generational conflict flares between older aristocrats and radical youths. Quarrels, romance, and misunderstandings ensue when an outspoken young nihilist accompanies a school friend home for an extended visit. One of the truly great 19th-century Russian novels, available in an inexpensive edition. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Fathers and Sons:
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Philip GoodenISBN 0460875280 (0-460-87528-0)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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The Gay Scienceby Friedrich Nietzsche, Common, Thomas (RTL)ISBN 0486452468 (0-486-45246-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gay Science'Book summary:"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.." This is the book in which Nietzsche put forth his boldest declaration. It is also his most personal, featuring some of the author's most important discussions of art, morality, knowledge, and, ultimately, truth.[via]More editions of The Gay Science:
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The Genealogy of Moralsby Friedrich Nietzsche, Horace Barnett SamuelISBN 0486426912 (0-486-42691-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Genealogy of Morals'Book summary:Major work on ethics, by one of the most influential thinkers of the last two centuries, deals with master/slave morality and modern man's current moral practices; the evolution of man's feelings of guilt and bad conscience; and how ascetic ideals help maintain human life under certain conditions. [via]
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452284937 (0-452-28493-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl With a Pearl Earring:
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The Golemby Gustav MeyrinkISBN 0486250253 (0-486-25025-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golem'Book summary:"A favorite of connoisseurs of works of fantasy for many decades." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A compelling story of mystical experiences, strange transformations, and profound terror, this is the most famous supernatural novel in modern European literature, set in Ghetto of Old Prague around 1890. 13 black-and-white illustrations. "Not to be missed." Los Angeles Times.[via]More editions of The Golem:
The Golem and "the Man Who Was Born Again" Two German Supernatural Novelsby Gustav MeyrinkISBN 0486233278 (0-486-23327-8)
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The Grammar of Ornament: All 100 Color Plates from the Folio Edition of the Great Victorian Sourcebook of Historic Designby Owen JonesISBN 0486254631 (0-486-25463-1)
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0460012347 (0-460-01234-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:Humbled, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman and one day he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." One of Dickens' finest novels, this is a gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward.[via]More editions of Great Expectations:
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Human, All-too-humanby Helen Zimmern, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul V. Cohn, J. M. KennedyISBN 0486445666 (0-486-44566-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human, All-too-human'Book summary:The philosopher reviews his usual morality, religion, government, society with his characteristic depth of perception, unflinching honesty, and iconoclastic wit. But Nietzsche's manner of expression takes a new, aphoristic turn. More than 1,400 incisive and poetic aphorisms appear here, expressing many themes developed in Nietzsche's later works.[via]More editions of Human, All-too-human:
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The Immoralistby Andre Gide, Stantley AppelbaumISBN 0486292371 (0-486-29237-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immoralist'Book summary:With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0486410242 (0-486-41024-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Book'Book summary:Accounts of a courageous youngster and formidable creatures of the Indian jungle abound in this series of 14 imaginative tales. Mowgli, a boy raised by a wolf pack, learns the lore of the jungle from its inhabitants; Rikki-tikki-tavi, a brave mongoose, defeats a deadly cobra; and more.[via]More editions of The Jungle Book:
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486410269 (0-486-41026-9)
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LA Vita Nuovaby Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel RossettiISBN 0486419150 (0-486-41915-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Vita Nuova'Book summary:This celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) also serves as an ever-relevant treatise on the art and technique of poetry.[via]More editions of LA Vita Nuova:
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The Lady and the Unicornby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452285453 (0-452-28545-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady and the Unicorn'Book summary:A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier's answer to the mystery behind one of the art world's great masterpieces-a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown-until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house-mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting-before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries-his finest, most intricate work-on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives-lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn , Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry-an extraordinary story exquisitely told. [via]
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The Last Mediciby Harold ActonISBN 050025074X (0-500-25074-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Medici'Book summary:In his remarkable account of the last Medici, famous aesthete and historian Harold Acton (1904-1994) takes up the causes which led to the disappearance of a house which has left indelible traces on the art, literature and commerce of the world; and his book was one of the first attempts to deal with this despotic dynasty in a scholarly and impartial spirit. Much has been written about the phenomenal career of the early Medici: and there are many biographies of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Cosimo I, and the Medicean Popes. But less has been written of the final phase, and Acton demonstrates the hand of death overshadowing the great family in a series of unfortunate marriages - how one by one they vanished into the void. "The Last Medici" centres mainly round the fantastic figures of Princess Marguerite-Louise d'Orleans and her husband Cosimo III, most fatal of all the Medicean sovereigns. The last act closes on Gian Gastone, their cynical younger son, bedridden in the Pitti Palace, a florid figure of despair, with the Powers of Europe ever on the alert for the sound of his death-rattle. Full of brilliant colour, rich comedy and lurid tragedy, "The Last Medici" is at the same time a scientific contribution to the records of an extraordinary and unforgettable period. [via]
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Letters from the Underworldby Feodor DostoevskyISBN 0460006541 (0-460-00654-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from the Underworld'Book summary:This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher. [via]
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Life Is a Dreamby Pedro Calderon De LA Barca, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486421244 (0-486-42124-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Is a Dream'Book summary:[via]A king is suspicious of his son's role in an impending revolution. Considered one of the outstanding Spanish dramas of all-time, this 17th-century allegory explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will. Includes an excellent new English translation, with an informative introduction and footnotes.More editions of Life Is a Dream:
Life Is a Dream/LA Vida Es Sueno: LA Vida Es Sueno A Dual-Language Bookby Stanley Appelbaum, Pedro Calderon De LA BarcaISBN 0486424731 (0-486-42473-1)
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The Lore of the Unicornby Odell ShepardISBN 0486278034 (0-486-27803-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Medieval Europe: A Short Historyby C. Warren HollisterISBN 0471406988 (0-471-40698-8)
Softcover, Wiley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Europe: A Short History'Book summary:Marked by C. Warren Hollister's clear historical vision and engaging teaching style, this classic text has been judiciously revised by Judith Bennett; the tenth edition includes greater coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, a new essay program on medieval myths, and more. In his preface to the eighth edition, Professor Hollister wrote of his realization, while in college, that our world today "is a product of the medieval past." Medieval Europe introduces today's students to the medieval roots of our own society. [via]
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The Metamorphosis and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum, Franz KaftaISBN 0486290301 (0-486-29030-1)
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Mistra: Byzantine Capital of the Peloponneseby Steven RuncimanISBN 0500250715 (0-500-25071-5)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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Modern European Artby BownessISBN 0500202052 (0-500-20205-2)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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The Nibelungenliedby D. G. MowattISBN 0486414140 (0-486-41414-0)
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 048627053X (0-486-27053-X)
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0486421309 (0-486-42130-9)
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Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craftby Dard HunterISBN 0486236196 (0-486-23619-6)
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Pere Goriotby Honore De Balzac, Ellen MarriageISBN 0486436985 (0-486-43698-5)
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arcby Mark TwainISBN 0486424596 (0-486-42459-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc'Book summary:Regarded by many as the most luminous example of Twain's work, this historical novel chronicles the French heroine's life, as purportedly told by her longtime friend Sieur Louis de Conté. A panorama of stirring scenes recount Joan's childhood in Domremy, the story of her voices, the fight for Orleans, the splendid march to Rheims, and much more.[via]More editions of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc:
Phedraby Jean RacineISBN 0486419274 (0-486-41927-4)
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin in Full Colorby Robert Browning, Kate GreenawayISBN 0486296199 (0-486-29619-9)
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund BurkeISBN 0486445070 (0-486-44507-0)
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Renaissance Florenceby Gene BruckerISBN 0471113700 (0-471-11370-0)
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The Romance Of Tristan And Iseultby Hilaire Belloc, Joseph BedierISBN 0486440192 (0-486-44019-2)
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Roxanaby Daniel DefoeISBN 0460876767 (0-460-87676-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860-69by Edward WhymperISBN 0486289729 (0-486-28972-9)
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The Seagullby Anton ChekhovISBN 0486406563 (0-486-40656-3)
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Selected Poems from "Flowers of Evilby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0486284506 (0-486-28450-6)
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Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945by Margaret Collins WeitzISBN 0471196983 (0-471-19698-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Six Characters in Search of an Authorby Luigi Pirandello, Edward StorerISBN 0486299929 (0-486-29992-9)
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. Scott MontcrieffISBN 0486421236 (0-486-42123-6)
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The Swiss Family Robinsonby J.D. WyssISBN 0486416607 (0-486-41660-7)
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 0460874551 (0-460-87455-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asiaby Karl Meyer, Sharleen Blair BrysacISBN 0465045766 (0-465-04576-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Traditional Knitting Patterns, from Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Italy and Other European Countries: The British Isles, France, Italy, and Other European Countriesby James NorburyISBN 0486210138 (0-486-21013-8)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 046001319X (0-460-01319-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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More than a marvelously thrilling drama, this classic novel, written in 1870, foretells with uncanny accuracy the inventions and advanced technology of the twentieth century and has become a literary stepping-stone for generations of science fiction writers. [via]
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Twilight of the Idols and the Antichristby Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas CommonISBN 0486434605 (0-486-43460-5)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0460012983 (0-460-01298-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Vikings and Americaby Erik WahlgrenISBN 0500281998 (0-500-28199-8)
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0486400611 (0-486-40061-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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Western Civilizationby Jackson J. SpielvogelISBN 0495099740 (0-495-09974-0)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Western Civilization'Book summary:Put the world today into context by learning about the past through this brief, best-selling Western Civilization text that has helped thousands of students succeed in the course. Jack Spielvogel's engaging style of writing weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. You will also be exposed to primary source documents - actual historical documents that are the foundation for the historical analysis you read in the chapter. These documents include letters, poems, and songs through history-documents that actually enliven the past. Throughout the book there are also helpful tools to help you digest the reading including outlines, chronologies, numerous maps and key terms with definitions. [via]
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