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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0486280616 (0-486-28061-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Barry Moser, Mark Twain

ISBN 0520053389 (0-520-05338-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517415100 (0-517-41510-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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The Adventures of Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens, Steven Connor

ISBN 046087490X (0-460-87490-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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One of a series of classic novels. [via]
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The Aeneid
by Virgil, Charles James Billson

ISBN 0486287491 (0-486-28749-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Virgil was the Greatest of Roman Poets. From Spenser and Shakespeare through to Tennyson and William Morris, his poetry has influenced the works of major writers throughout the ages. Dante chose Virgil as a guide through the hell and purgatory of his inferno; in the middle ages the Roman poet was regarded as a seer and a magician. His Aeneid served as the model for all the Latinepics of the medieval period and then for the new classical epic of the renaissance.It follows the mythical exploits of the hero Aeneas, who escapes from the burning rubble of Troy to become the founder of the Roman Empire. In this Patriotic masterpiece, the adventures of Aeneas take him across oceans, to mysterious lands and through the darkness of the underworld before the Gods eventually allow him peace. [via]
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The Aeneid of Virgil
by Virgil, Allen Mandelbaum

ISBN 0520016203 (0-520-01620-3)
Hardcover, University of California Press

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The Aeneid of Virgil
by Allen Mandlebaum

ISBN 0520045505 (0-520-04550-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains a new preface by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.
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Anne's House of Dreams
by L. M. Montgomery

ISBN 051714820X (0-517-14820-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor.

A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises. Anne and Gilbert will make new friends and meet their neighbors: Captain Jim, the lighthouse attendant, with his sad stories of the sea; Miss Cornelia Bryant, the lady who speaks from the heart -- and speaks her mind; and the tragically beautiful Leslie Moore, into whose dark life Anne shines a brilliant light.

The original, unabridged text

A specially commissioned biography of L. M. Montgomery

A map of Prince Edward Island

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The Annotated Dracula
by Bram Stoker, Leonard Wolf

ISBN 0517520176 (0-517-52017-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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The jacket is a little messed up but the book is great. Pages are all clean, no rips or writing. This is a must have book for Dracula fans, lots of great pictures and it even includes maps and calendars. Copyright 1975 by Leonard Wolf. Ships from GA [via]
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The Annotated Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0517530317 (0-517-53031-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis

ISBN 0486431673 (0-486-43167-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything. But when a personal crisis forces the middle-aged real estate agent to reexamine his life, Babbitt mounts a rebellion that jeopardizes everything he values. Widely considered Sinclair Lewis' greatest novel, this satire remains an ever-relevant tale of an individual caught in the machinery of modern life.
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Bolt
by Dick Francis

ISBN 0515130427 (0-515-13042-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett

ISBN 0486437914 (0-486-43791-4)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated

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This brilliant work by one of Russia's foremost novelists teems with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues. Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge.
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Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 0486407861 (0-486-40786-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A pampered millionaire's son tumbles overboard from a luxury liner and falls into good fortune, disguised in the form of a fishing boat. The gruff and hearty crew teach the young man to be worth his salt as they fish the waters off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Brimming with adventure and humor.
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
Hardcover

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Great collection of 7 science fiction novels by H.G. Wells... [via]
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Dark Force Rising
by Timothy Zahn

ISBN 0553085743 (0-553-08574-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Books

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With Luke trapped by the Dark Jedi, Han pursuing a missing battle fleet, and Princess Leia occupied with influencing an alien race heretofore loyal to Thrawn, the fate of the Republic is threatened. 250,000 first printing. [via]
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The Devil's Alternative
by Frederick Forsyth

ISBN 0552115002 (0-552-11500-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Dracula
by Bram Stoker, Thea Kliros

ISBN 0486295672 (0-486-29567-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula. A horror romance as deathless as any vampire, the blood-curdling tale still continues to hold readers spellbound a century later.
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The Eyes of the Dragon
by Stephen King

ISBN 0517001810 (0-517-00181-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Fathers and Children
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

ISBN 0460007424 (0-460-00742-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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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 Sons
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black Garnett

ISBN 0486400735 (0-486-40073-5)
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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.
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The Fourth Protocol
by Frederick Forsyth

ISBN 0552125695 (0-552-12569-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The Garden of Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke

ISBN 0553072617 (0-553-07261-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Books

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An instalment in the saga which began with the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "Rendezvous with Rama" and "Rama II". Rama II, the giant alien artifact, is to be turned into a habitat suitable for human beings. The colony starts well, but soon disintegrates under mounting political tensions. [via]
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier

ISBN 0452287022 (0-452-28702-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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]
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A Gothic Treasury of the Supernatural: The Castle of Otranto/Frankenstein/the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/the Picture of Dorian Gray/Dra

ISBN 051714641X (0-517-14641-X)
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

ISBN 0521402301 (0-521-40230-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0486419207 (0-486-41920-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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This edition of "Hard Times" contains an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. The novel tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and trapped in a loveless marriage. [via]
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Hard Times
by Philip Collins, Charles Dickens

ISBN 0460874500 (0-460-87450-0)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.

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Part of the "Everyman" series, which includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, notes, a selection of criticism, an annotated reading list and text summary. This edition has a new setting with wide margins. [via]
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Heir to the Empire
by Timothy Zahn

ISBN 0553073273 (0-553-07327-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Books

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Here is a special 20th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel that reignited the entire Star Wars publishing phenomenonfeaturing an Introduction and annotations from award-winning author Timothy Zahn, exclusive commentary from Lucasfilm and Del Rey Books, and a brand-new novella starring the ever-popular Grand Admiral Thrawn. The biggest event in the history of Star Wars books, Heir to the Empire follows the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia after they led the Rebel Alliance to victory in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.

Five years after the Death Star was destroyed and Darth Vader and the Emperor were defeated, the galaxy is struggling to heal the wounds of war, Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting twins, and Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of new Jedi Knights.

But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperors warlordsthe brilliant and deadly Grand Admiral Thrawnhas taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to create.

The explosive confrontation that results is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scalein short, a story worthy of the name Star Wars. [via]
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John Green

ISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black Garnett

ISBN 0486432130 (0-486-43213-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A towering figure of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky depicted with remarkable insight the depth and complexity of the human soul. In this literary classic, he focuses on a nobleman, whose gentle, child-like nature has earned him the nickname of "the idiot."A superb, panoramic view of mid-19th-century Russian manners, morals and philosophy.
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The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells, Macdonald Daly

ISBN 0460876287 (0-460-87628-7)
Softcover, Everyman

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One of the most famous scientific fantasies ever written, this highly imaginative tale focuses on the powers and bold ventures of a scientist, who, after discovering the means to make himself invisible, unleashes a bizarre streak of terror on the inhabitants of an English village. Filled with suspense and psychological nuances of plot.
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James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Music
by James Joyce

ISBN 051708239X (0-517-08239-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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An eclectic volume of works by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century includes a short story collection, his most famous novel, and an early sequence of poems. [via]
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Last Command
by Timothy Zahn

ISBN 0553091867 (0-553-09186-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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This story begins five years after the events of the "Star Wars" film "Return of the Jedi". Hopes are dim in the fragile New Republic as Grand Admiral Thrawn and his clone soldiers mount a final siege, threatening the Republic's ruin. [via]
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Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
by Wolfgang Iser

ISBN 0521328071 (0-521-32807-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens, Michael Slater

ISBN 0460873679 (0-460-87367-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 048645648X (0-486-45648-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The comic masterpiece "Tristram Shandy" is generally regarded as the progenitor of the 20th-century novel, consisting of a plot frequently and flagrantly interrupted by digressions. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it. [via]
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert

ISBN 0486292576 (0-486-29257-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Madame Bovary
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517385880 (0-517-38588-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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The Old Curiosity Shop
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0486426793 (0-486-42679-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The sound of Little Nell clattering hurriedly over cobblestones immediately sets the stage by bringing to mind the narrow and dangerous streets of Victorian London. No fewer than 20 performers are called upon to conjure up the Dickensian world of wanderers, ne'er-do-wells, con artists, and kind Samaritans--and each performance is excellent. Tom Courtenay plays the sadistic Quilp, "the ugliest dwarf that could be seen anywhere for a penny" with magnificent sarcastic glee, and Teresa Gallagher's silvery, childlike voice is ideally suited for the role of the angelic Little Nell.
Nell is on her way home to the dusty shop where she and her grandfather live a rather mysterious life. The old man disappears every night--visiting gambling dens with the naive hope of winning a fortune. Instead he sinks deeper and deeper into debt. Enter Daniel Quilp, moneylender, who becomes furious upon learning that the grandfather is a pauper and will never be able to repay his tremendous debt. Quilp seizes the curiosity shop and begins making lecherous overtures to Nell, so she and her grandfather steal away one morning to seek their fortunes elsewhere. But the demonic dwarf is never far behind.
Sound effects are employed judiciously and serve mainly as a springboard for the listener's imagination. The sound of a crying baby is enough to convey the image of crowded lodgings and genteel Victorian poverty, while raucous laughter and high-pitched squawks evoke the barely controlled chaos of an outdoor Punch and Judy show. The dramatization pares Dickens's weighty novel down to two and one-half hours, but does so skillfully, retaining Dickens's wit, marvelous dialogue, and delightful characterizations. (Running time: 155 minutes, 2 cassettes) --Elizabeth Laskey [via]
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0486424537 (0-486-42453-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...and soft-hearted a mood by the very first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion; and I wish I were a young fellow that I might avail myself on the spot of such a favourable opportunity for doing so, as the present. You are as great a boy as poor Brittles himself, returned Rose, blushing. Well, said the doctor, laughing heartily, that is no very ditficult matter. But to return to this boy: the great point of our agreement is yet to come. He will wake in an hour or so, I dare say; and although I have told that thick-headed constablefellow down stairs that he mustnt be moved or spoken to, on peril of his life, I think we may converse with him without, danger. Now, I make this stipulation---that I shall examine him in your presence, and that if from what he says, we judge, and I can show to the satisfaction of your cool reason, that he is a real and thorough bad one (which is more than possible), he shall be left to his fate, without any further interference on my part, at all events. Oh no, aunt l entreated Rose. Oh yes, aunt! said the doctor. Is it a bargain? _ He cannot be hardened in vice, said Rose; it is impossible. Very good, retorted the doctor; then so much th6 more reason for acceding to my proposition. Finally the treaty was entered into, and the parties thereto sat down to wait with some impatience until Oliver should awake. The patience of the two ladies was destined to undergo a longer trial than Mr. Losberne had led them to expect, for hour alter hour passed on, and still Oliver slumbered heavily. It was evening, indeed, before th_e kind-hearted doctor brought... [via]
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The Osterman Weekend
by Robert Ludlum

ISBN 0529045478 (0-529-04547-8)
Hardcover, World Pub

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Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens, Michael Slater, Joel J. Brattin, Marcus Stone, A. Boyd Houghton

ISBN 0460882171 (0-460-88217-1)
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Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basic plot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, a rocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host of unforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing the author's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, and the story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The mood is set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, and his daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned men whose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to the authorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that is later identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning from abroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered and thrown into the river.
Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happens in the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on the condition that he marry a girl he'd never met, Bella Wilfer. His death, however, brings a new heir onto the scene, Nicodemus Boffin, the kind-hearted but low-born assistant to Harmon's father. Boffin and his wife adopt young Bella, who is determined to marry money, and also hire a mysterious young secretary, John Rokesmith, who takes an uncommon interest in their ward. Not content with just one plot, Dickens throws in a secondary love story featuring the riverman's daughter, Lizzie Hexam; a dissolute young upper-class lawyer, Eugene Wrayburn; and his rival, the headmaster Bradley Headstone. Dark as the novel is, Dickens is careful to leaven it with secondary characters who are as funny as they are menacing--blackmailing Silas Wegg and his accomplice Mr. Venus, the avaricious Lammles, and self-centered Charlie Hexam. Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most satisfying novels, and a fitting denouement to his prolific career. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0460011987 (0-460-01198-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan

ISBN 0486426750 (0-486-42675-0)
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The great religious allegory of Christian's journey, through the Slough of Despond to the Celestial City, in search of the truth. [via]
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
by James Joyce

ISBN 0486280500 (0-486-28050-0)
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Masterpiece of semi-autobiographical fiction reveals a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity, and character. Telling portrayals of an Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish politics, sexual experimentation and its aftermath, and problems with art and morality. [via]
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The Postman
by David Brin

ISBN 0553051075 (0-553-05107-5)
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Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a post-apocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he's inadvertently forced to assume the made-up role of a "Restored United States" postal inspector, he becomes the very thing he's been seeking: a symbol of hope and rebirth for a desperate nation. Gordon goes through the motions of establishing a new postal route in the Pacific Northwest, uniting secluded towns and enclaves that are starved for communication with the rest of the world. And even though inside he feels like a fraud, eventually he will have to stand up for the new society he's helping to build or see it destroyed by fanatic survivalists. This classic reprint is not one of David Brin's best books, but the moving story he presents overcomes mediocre writing and contrived plots. [via]
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Reflex
by Dick Francis

ISBN 0515135097 (0-515-13509-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers 1833-39
by Charles Dickens, Michael Slater, George Cruikshank

ISBN 0460860763 (0-460-86076-3)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent

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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0460002376 (0-460-00237-6)
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A Treasury of American Poetry
by Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson

ISBN 0517221535 (0-517-22153-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as significant works of lesser-known American poets.

From the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the Romantic Era and the Gilded and Modern Ages, this unrivaled anthology also presents a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols that echo through our nation's history. Highlights include Native American poems, African American writings, and the works of Quakers, colonists, Huguenots, transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians, journalists, and clergymen.

These discerning selections demonstrate that the American canon of poetry is as diverse as the nation itself, and constantly evolving as we pass through time. Most important, this collection strongly reflects the peerless stylings that mark the American poetic experience as unique. Here, in one distinguished volume, are the many voices of the New World. [via]
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Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 0460016172 (0-460-01617-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 0460873032 (0-460-87303-2)
Softcover, Everyman

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This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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We the Living
by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff

ISBN 0525940545 (0-525-94054-5)
Hardcover, E P Dutton

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First published in 1936, this inspiring and defiant novel by the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged has sold nearly two million copies. Portraying the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives, We the Living is Ayn Rand's challenge to the modern conscience.
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The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins

ISBN 0460014641 (0-460-01464-1)
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A scheming nobleman, a beautiful heiress, and, of course, a mysterious woman in white confined to an asylum for the insane are just a few of the unforgettable characters in this marvelous tale of mistaken identities, locked rooms, and surprise revelations. Widely regarded as the finest work of Wilkie Collins.
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