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Arden Shakespeare Twelfth Nightby T. W. Craik, J. M. LothianISBN 0174436254 (0-17-443625-4)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arden Shakespeare Twelfth Night'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Twelfth Night provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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Arden Shakespeare Complete Works: Complete Seriesby Richard ProudfootISBN 0174436157 (0-17-443615-7)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arden Shakespeare Complete Works: Complete Series'Book summary:The Complete Arden Shakespeare, published for the first time in 1998, is now available in an updated hardback edition. The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. The updated edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998.A general introduction by the three General Editors of the ongoing Arden Shakespeare series gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime.Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's 'uvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.A The sound, reliable, critical edition of Shakespeare's workA Updated and revised to include all of the editions currently available in the Arden Third SeriesA Includes The Two Noble Kinsmen, the Poems and the SonnetsA General introduction by the Arden General EditorsA Brief contextual introductions to each playA Glossary with about 400 entries [via]
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The Awakeningby Kate Chopin, Pamela KnightsISBN 0192823000 (0-19-282300-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Borrowers Afloatby Mary Norton, Joe Krush, Beth KrushISBN 0152047336 (0-15-204733-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Borrowers Afloat'Book summary:Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years--and their appeal is as strong as ever in these handsome new paperback packages. While the original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush have been retained, Marla Frazee's striking cover illustrations capture these little people with a larger-than-life appeal.[via]More editions of The Borrowers Afloat:
- The Borrowers Afloat: ISBN 0152103457 (0-15-210345-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - The Borrowers Afloat: ISBN 0152105344 (0-15-210534-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books - The Borrowers Afloat: ISBN 0156136031 (0-15-613603-1)
Softcover, Horizon Book Promotions - The Borrowers Afloat: ISBN 0152047336 (0-15-204733-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
- The Borrowers Afloat: ISBN 0152103457 (0-15-210345-7)
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Boy Girl Boyby Ronald KoertgeISBN 0152058656 (0-15-205865-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy Girl Boy'Book summary:Larry, Teresa, and Elliot are so tight, there's no room in their circle for more than three: boy, girl, boy. And when they graduate, they plan to move to California to start their real lives--together.
But who are they fooling? Larry is gay and trying to come to terms with his sexuality. Teresa is tired of hanging out with boys she loves who don't want to be her boyfriend. And Elliot is realizing that he may like himself more if he isn't always in the shadow of his friends. This is a wry, surprising, and insightful story about three best friends who each learn how tough it is to be yourself.Includes an interview with the author.[via] -
A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0195852583 (0-19-585258-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0155126105 (0-15-512610-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt School
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The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Histories, Comedies, Tragediesby William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells, Gary TaylorISBN 0198129726 (0-19-812972-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Histories, Comedies, Tragedies'Book summary:Hailed in The Washington Post Book World as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions of recent decades," the massive one-volume Oxford Shakespeare was based on eight years of full-time research by a team of distinguished British and American scholars. The result of the most fundamental rethinking of the text and presentation of Shakespeare's works ever undertaken, it offered many remarkable innovations features, including a new chronological order, revised stage directions, modern spelling and punctuation, and two full versions of King Lear--as originally written and as revised later for performance.
The Complete Oxford Shakespeare divides this excellent book into three handy volumes. It contains all the innovative features of the original, including a lucid General Introduction by Stanley Wells, and brief introductions to each work. It has been organized into Histories (including the poems and sonnets), Comedies, and Tragedies, with the plays grouped in chronological order in each volume.
Attractively bound, with gold stamping on front and spine, and beautifully designed, these handsome volumes will undoubtably become a treasure for lovers of Shakespeare throughout the English-speaking world. [via]More editions of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Histories, Comedies, Tragedies:
The Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, William J. CraigISBN 0192541013 (0-19-254101-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Complete Works of Shakespeareby CraigISBN 0192541021 (0-19-254102-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Complete Works/Red Leather Editionby William ShakespeareISBN 0191900451 (0-19-190045-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Cousin Betteby Honore De BalzacISBN 0192836684 (0-19-283668-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cousin Bette'Book summary:This new translation has an introduction which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context [via]
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The Crimson Petal and the Whiteby Michel FaberISBN 0156028778 (0-15-602877-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimson Petal and the White'Book summary:Although it's billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century," The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It's the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men. Michel Faber's dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favour, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself.
When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar's life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor's wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber's emphasis on class and sexual politics.
In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber's own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages, The Crimson Petal and the White turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down. --Regina Marler, Amazon.com [via]
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Dealings With the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportationby Charles DickensISBN 0192545078 (0-19-254507-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dealings With the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation'Book summary:Mr. Dombey's idealistic vision of his "Dombey and Son" shipping firm rests on the shoulders of his delicate son Paul. However, when the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, it is his devoted daughter Florence, unloved and neglected, who comes to his aid. [via]
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Delta Weddingby Eudora WeltyISBN 0156252805 (0-15-625280-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delta Wedding'Book summary:A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the familys preparations for her cousin Dabneys wedding.[via]More editions of Delta Wedding:
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Dombey and Sonby Charles Dickens, Dennis Walder, E. A. Horsman, Alan HorsmanISBN 019283990X (0-19-283990-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dombey and Son'Book summary:'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel. [via]
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Each Little Bird That Singsby Debbie WilesISBN 0152056572 (0-15-205657-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Each Little Bird That Sings'Book summary:Death is a way of life for the Snowberger family, since they run a funeral parlor out of their Mississippi home with the motto "We live to serve." Still, when 94-year-old Great-great-aunt Florentine Snowberger dies in the vegetable garden, no one can truly be prepared, even though she'd been bidding "good night and good-bye" to the family every night since she turned 90. Florentine's death is hard on 10-year-old Comfort, since the two were so close, even co-writing the Fantastic (and Fun) Funeral Food for Family and Friends. It's no surprise, then, when the annoyingly overwrought emotional displays of her young cousin Peach Shuggars and the sudden iciness of her alleged best friend Declaration Johnson send Comfort over the edge. Thank goodness for her shaggy "feel-good" dog Dismay who can eradicate all bad feelings with a single slobbery lick.
When a dangerous flash flood comes to Snapfinger on the day of Florentine's funeral, Comfort learns again that life is full of surprises, good and bad, and that, ultimately, it's just good to be alive. This warm, witty novel, told in Comfort's voice (and a mix of letters, recipes, articles, and helpful hints), celebrates the joys of family, of prune bread, of freshly sharpened pencils, and of "each little bird that sings." The fairly constant philosophizing about life and death, the unusual character names (Tidings, Comfort, Joy), and the narrator's oft-precocious voice may fray a nerve or two, but readers will find more than enough humor and good old-fashioned storytelling here to make up for it. (Ages 8 to 12) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Eva Undergroundby Dandi Daley MackallISBN 0152054626 (0-15-205462-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Families: And How to Survive Themby Robin Skynner, John CleeseISBN 0195204662 (0-19-520466-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Families: And How to Survive Them'Book summary:Written in an unconventional dialogue form, this book explores the inner workings of the modern family, and the interactions between couples and their children. [via]
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The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Ageby Beatrice GottliebISBN 019509056X (0-19-509056-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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How My Parents Learned to Eatby Ina FriedmanISBN 0153007877 (0-15-300787-7)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Invitation to the Waltzby Rosamond LehmannISBN 0156453843 (0-15-645384-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invitation to the Waltz'Book summary:[via]A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dressthese are the gifts Olivia Curtis receives for her 17th birthday. She anticipates her first dance, the greatest yet most terrifying event of her restricted social life, with tremulous uncertainty and excitement. For her pretty, charming elder sister Kate, the dance is certain to be a triumph, but what will it be for shy, awkward Olivia? Exploring the daydreams and miseries attendant upon even the most innocent of social events, Rosamond Lehmann perfectly captures the emotions of a girl standing poised on the threshold of womanhood.More editions of Invitation to the Waltz:
Just Janeby William LavenderISBN 0152054723 (0-15-205472-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just Jane'Book summary:At what price does independence come? Lady Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1776, and finds herself plunged into the middle of a heated war--a war not only between her former country and her new home, but also between the members of her own family, whose loyalties are strongly divided in America's fight for freedom.[via]
Torn by family responsibilities, the brutality of war, a secret romance, and her own growing need for independence, Jane is forced to adopt many roles, until she finds the courage to become the person she wants to be: just Jane.
Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, Peter RabyISBN 0198121679 (0-19-812167-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Life As We Knew Itby Susan Beth PfefferISBN 0152058265 (0-15-205826-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Mary Poppins in the Parkby P. L. Travers, Mary ShepardISBN 0152017216 (0-15-201721-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Poppins in the Park'Book summary:More adventures of Mary Poppins, Michael, Jane, the twins and baby Annabel. [via]
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- Mary Poppins in the Park: ISBN 0152058281 (0-15-205828-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Mary Poppins in the Park: ISBN 0156576902 (0-15-657690-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Mary Poppins in the Park: ISBN 015201716X (0-15-201716-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books - Mary Poppins in the Park: ISBN 0152529470 (0-15-252947-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Young Classic - Mary Poppins in the Park: ISBN 0152017216 (0-15-201721-6)
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- Mary Poppins in the Park: ISBN 0152058281 (0-15-205828-1)
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Dale Kramer, Pamela DalzielISBN 0192840711 (0-19-284071-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth in the historical town of Dorchester, and it is to these familiar surroundings that he turns for the setting of this novel. This edition is the first critically established text of The Mayor of Casterbridge, based on a detailed study of the manuscript and of Hardy's revised printed versions. [via]
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- The Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0192817280 (0-19-281728-0)
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0195168445 (0-19-516844-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0195851188 (0-19-585118-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 019514810X (0-19-514810-X)
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Miracles on Maple Hill: Library Editionby Virginia Sorensen Waugh, Joe Krush, Beth KrushISBN 0152047182 (0-15-204718-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miracles on Maple Hill'Book summary:Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.[via]More editions of Miracles on Maple Hill: Library Edition:
- Miracles on Maple Hill: ISBN 0152047190 (0-15-204719-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Miracles on Maple Hill: Library Edition: ISBN 0152545611 (0-15-254561-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Miracles on Maple Hill: Library Edition: ISBN 015660440X (0-15-660440-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Miracles on Maple Hill: Library Edition: ISBN 0152545603 (0-15-254560-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Miracles on Maple Hill: ISBN 0152047182 (0-15-204718-2)
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The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After: Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of theby Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer, R. G. RothISBN 0152055487 (0-15-205548-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After: Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the'Book summary:Ten years have passed since Kate and Cecy married Thomas and James, and England is now being transformed by the first railways. When the Duke of Wellington asks James to look into the sudden disappearance of a German railway engineer, James and Cecy's search reveals a shocking truth: The railway lines are wreaking havoc with ancient underground magic, which could endanger the very unity of England. Meanwhile, Kate has her hands full taking care of all their children, not to mention the mysterious mute girl they rescued from a kidnapper!
Written in letters between Kate and Cecy--and between their husbands--this installment of the cousins' adventures is another satisfying blend of magic, mystery, adventure, humor, and romance.[via]More editions of The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After: Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the:
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Tony TannerISBN 0192833855 (0-19-283385-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:"There is a whale in the sea, as white as a ghost, and it haunts me. Sometimes, when I'm afloat in sleep, like a drowned sailor, he swims towards me--a nightmare all in white, jaws gaping, and I wake up screaming and salt-water wet with sweat. Somewhere out there in the bottomless oceans lives Moby Dick, a great white winter of a whale, and I shiver still at the thought of him."
In vivid and compelling language, the award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean retells Herman Melville's classic story of the obsessed Captain Ahab and his relentless hunt for the great white whale, Moby Dick. Together with Starbuck, the mate; Queequeg, the harpoonist; the sinister crewman Fedallah; and the innocent narrator, Ishmael, Ahab travels the oceans of the world in pursuit of the elusive monster, braving waves like strips of volcanoes and lightning like the visitation of angels.
McCaughrean's text is beautifully complemented by Victor Ambrus's evocative pictures of ships and the sea and of the white monster, Moby Dick, a creature as vast and dangerous as the sea itself. Children and young adults will be thrilled and captivated by this wonderful adventure tale. [via]More editions of Moby Dick:
- Moby Dick: ISBN 0192781537 (0-19-278153-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Moby Dick: ISBN 0192817809 (0-19-281780-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Moby Dick: ISBN 0192100416 (0-19-210041-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Moby Dick: ISBN 019274156X (0-19-274156-X)
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Night Noisesby Mem Fox, Terry DentonISBN 0152574212 (0-15-257421-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Noises'Book summary:As elderly Lily Laceby dozes by the fire, her dog, Butch Aggie, becomes alarmed by strange noises outside. Finally awakened by Butch Aggies growls and barks, Lily finds a lovely surprise waiting for her. The language, pacing, tension, and sparks of excitement are absolutely at one with the artwork. --The Horn Book[via]
No Matter Whatby Debi GlioriISBN 0152020616 (0-15-202061-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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North to Freedomby Anne Holm, L. W. KingslandISBN 0152051600 (0-15-205160-0)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North to Freedom'Book summary:David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek refuge in Denmark. Is that enough to survive?[via]
David's extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm's classic about the meaning of freedom and the power of hope. 
The Old Wives' Taleby Arnold Bennett, Margaret HarrisISBN 0192829661 (0-19-282966-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James Joyce, Jeri JohnsonISBN 0192839985 (0-19-283998-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life as indecorous, and its central character unappealing. Was it art or was it filth?
The novel charts the intellectual, moral, and sexual development of Stephen Dedalus, from his childhood listening to his father's stories through his schooldays and adolescence to the brink of adulthood and independence, and his awakening as an artist. Growing up in a Catholic family in Dublin in the final years of the nineteenth century, Stephen's consciousness is forged by Irish history and politics, by Catholicism and culture, language and art. Stephen's story mirrors that of Joyce himself, and the novel is both startlingly realistic and brilliantly crafted, not to mention that it is one of the founding texts of Modernism and the precursor of the acclaimed Ulysses.
For this edition Jeri Johnson, an eminent Joyce scholar, has written an introduction and notes which together provide a comprehensive and illuminating appreciation of Joyce's artistry. [via]More editions of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man:
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The Rainbowby D. H. Lawrence, Kate FlintISBN 0192835246 (0-19-283524-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rainbow'Book summary:In The Rainbow (1915) Lawrence challenged the customary limitations of language and convention to carry into the structures of his prose the fascination with boundaries and space that characterize the entire novel. Condemned and suppressed on first publication for its open treatment of sexuality and its "unpatriotic" spirit, the novel chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against the the emergence of modern England. [via]
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Rufus M.by Eleanor Estes, Louis SlobodkinISBN 0152025774 (0-15-202577-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rufus M'Book summary:You've never met anyone quite like Rufus Moffat. He gets things done, but he gets them done his way.[via]
When he wants to check out library books, Rufus teaches himself to write...even though he doesn't yet know how to read. When food is scarce, he plants some special "Rufus beans" that actually grow...despite his digging them up every day to check on them. And Rufus has friends that other people don't even know exist! He discovers the only invisible piano player in town, has his own personal flying horse for a day, and tours town with the Cardboard Boy, his dearest friend-and enemy.
Rufus isn't just the youngest Moffat, he's also the cleverest, the funniest, and the most unforgettable.
Eleanor Estes's beloved Moffats stories are being published in new editions as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. The original interior illustrations have been retained, but handsome new cover art by Tricia Tusa gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today's readers. 
The Seven Silly Eatersby Mary Ann Hoberman, Marla FrazeeISBN 0152024409 (0-15-202440-9)
Softcover, Voyager Books
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Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, G. B. HarrisonISBN 0155805304 (0-15-580530-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare'Book summary:Book viii, 1164 p. 20 cm. ; Edited with a glossary by W.J. Craig. ; "The Oxford Standard Authors edition of Shakespeare's works was first published in 1905 ... reset in 1943 ... "--T.p. verso. [via]
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0192834142 (0-19-283414-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Information on literary and theatrical aspects of the comedy and the life and times of Shakespeare accompany an annotated text taken from the First Folio. [via]
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- The Tempest: ISBN 0174434782 (0-17-443478-2)
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Tempest: ISBN 0198319983 (0-19-831998-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Tempest: ISBN 0198319991 (0-19-831999-1)
Softcover, Oxford University Press - The Tempest: ISBN 0198320302 (0-19-832030-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Tempest: ISBN 0174435681 (0-17-443568-1)
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- The Tempest: ISBN 0174434782 (0-17-443478-2)
The Tempestby Alden T. Vaughan, Virginia Mason VaughanISBN 0174435355 (0-17-443535-5)
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This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mindby Ivan DoigISBN 0156899825 (0-15-689982-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This House of Sky, Landscapes of a Western Mind'Book summary:A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our inextricable connection to those who shaped our values in our search for intimacy, independence, love, and family. A powerfully told story, This House of Sky is at once especially American and universal in its ability to awaken a longing for an explicable past. [via]
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- This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind: ISBN 015190054X (0-15-190054-X)
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Twelfth Nightby William ShakespeareISBN 0174435827 (0-17-443582-7)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night'Book summary:In the modern theater, Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities in both the introduction and the full and detailed commentary. Where original music has not survived, James Walker has composed settings compatible with the surviving originals, freshly edited so that this edition, unique among modern editions, offers all the music required to perform the play. It will be invaluable to actors, directors, and students at all levels. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will: ISBN 0192831402 (0-19-283140-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - 12th Night: ISBN 0198320183 (0-19-832018-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Twelfth Night: ISBN 0174435827 (0-17-443582-7)
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- Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will: ISBN 0192834150 (0-19-283415-0)
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Twelfth Nightby Roma GillISBN 0198319746 (0-19-831974-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's finest comedies, Twelfth Night was written at the same time as Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida, and whilst it shares their fascination with sex, death and confused identities, its exuberant comedy and linguistic inventiveness rises above the introspection of these plays. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are separated in a storm, which washes them both up at different points on the shores of Illyria. Believing each other to be dead, both attempt to survive by using their wits. Viola cross-dresses and enters the service of the lovesick Orsino, in love with Olivia, an heiress in mourning for the loss of her brother. Orsino's saucy young page Cesario (Viola) soon falls in love with "his" master, who tells "him", "all is semblative a woman's part". Unfortunately, whilst Viola falls in love with Orsino, Olivia falls in love with her alter ego, Cesario, whilst also being pursued at the same time by her pompous servant Malvolio. Olivia's house is also turned upside down by the antics of her drunken uncle, Sir Toby Belch, and the whole crazy situation reaches boiling point when Sebastian reappears.
Despite the madcap plot, Twelfth Night remains one of Shakespeare's most complex and inventive comedies, fascinated with questions of cross-dressing, gender confusion, language and inversion, as well as retaining a darker edge to some of its laughter. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Ulyssesby James Joyce, Jeri JohnsonISBN 0192828665 (0-19-282866-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jean Fagan YellinISBN 0192827871 (0-19-282787-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:There may be no other novel in American history as significant as Uncle Tom's Cabin. A feat of gripping storytelling--the first American work of fiction to become an international bestseller--no other book so effectively expressed the moral case against the "peculiar institution" of slavery.
Oxford University Press is pleased to announce a special 150th anniversary edition of this American classic. This volume features a new introduction by Charles Johnson, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and winner of the National Book Award for his 1990 novel Middle Passage. Johnson examines Uncle Tom's Cabin with an eye that is at once appreciative and critical, discussing its considerable craft, its impact on its 1852 audience, and its "ineluctably racist" view of African Americans. He describes how Stowe created vibrant and dramatic characters from all levels of Southern society--the mulatto genius George Harris, his light-skinned wife Eliza, the vicious slave trader Dan Haley, the guilt-ridden Augustine St. Clare--hurling them along truly exciting plotlines. She also infused her book with her then-controversial awareness of the humanity of black men and women, giving her audience a sense of the personal reality of the horrors of slavery. But even as sympathetic an author as Stowe, Johnson observes, substituted one kind of racism for another, depicting her black characters with a patronizing condescension.
A classic of American fiction, a pivotal moment in history, and a cultural touchstone, Uncle Tom's Cabin has not lost its relevance or its power. With this insightful new introduction by one of our finest writers, it deserves a place on a bookshelf in every home. [via] 
What Do You Love?by Jonathan London, Karen Lee SchmidtISBN 015205054X (0-15-205054-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells, Gary TaylorISBN 019812919X (0-19-812919-X)
Hardcover, Clarendon Pr
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, Taylor, Stanley WellsISBN 0198117477 (0-19-811747-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare: The Complete Works'Book summary:This beautiful new edition of Shakespeare's complete works--"The Oxford Shakespeare"--is the product of eight years of full-time research by a team of British and American scholars and represents the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of the early documents.
The edition abounds in unique features. It is the first volume to provide edited texts of King Lear both as Shakespeare originally wrote it and as it was revised for performance somes years later. Other plays, such as Hamlet, Othello, and Troilus and Cressida, are based on what recent research identifies as Shakespeare's revised text. Major textual alternatives--first versions of revised passages, omitted lines--are printed as additional passages. All stage directions have been reconsidered in light of original staging, and many new directions for essential action have been added. Specially designed brackets idenify conjectural stage direction and speech prefixes. In most respects, the text is identical to that of the "old-spelling" edition, but spelling and punctuation have been freshly modernized. There is a General Introduction along with brief, factual introductions to each work.
Elegantly (and Readably) designed, this book will undoubtedly become a treasure for lovers of Shakespeare throughout the English-speaking world.
About the Editors:
Stanley Wells, Head of the Shakespeare Department at OUP-UK, is a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on Shakespeare.
Gary Taylor, who holds degrees from the Universities of Kansas and Cambridge, is the author of several books and articles on Shakespeare, including To Analyze Delight: A Hedonist Criticism of Shakespeare. [via]More editions of William Shakespeare: The Complete Works:
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Won't You Be My Kissaroo?by Joanne Ryder, Melissa SweetISBN 015202641X (0-15-202641-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Won't You Be My Kissaroo?'Book summary:[via]There are lots of different kinds of kisses--from sticky breakfast kisses to playful "gotcha!" kisses to special birthday cake kisses--and this charming story celebrates them all! Now in a sweet new board book edition, this is just the thing for sharing with your favorite kissaroo.More editions of Won't You Be My Kissaroo?:
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