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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathomby Tobias SmollettISBN 0192553216 (0-19-255321-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Albion's Storyby Kate GrenvilleISBN 0156002418 (0-15-600241-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Answer Is Yesby Sara LewisISBN 0156005646 (0-15-600564-6)
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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japanby Sugawara No Takasue No MusumeISBN 0192125532 (0-19-212553-2)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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At End of Dayby George V. HigginsISBN 0156011905 (0-15-601190-5)
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B Is For Betsyby Carolyn HaywoodISBN 0156116952 (0-15-611695-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Baby Cat-Faceby Barry GiffordISBN 0156005255 (0-15-600525-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Best New American Voices 2006by Jane Smiley, Natalie DanfordISBN 0156029014 (0-15-602901-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Best New American Voices 2000by Tobias Wolff, Natalie Danford, John KulkaISBN 0156013223 (0-15-601322-3)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Best of Bad Hemingwayby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0156118610 (0-15-611861-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Breakable Youby Brian MortonISBN 0156033178 (0-15-603317-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Breaking Newsby Robert MacNeilISBN 0156007630 (0-15-600763-0)
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Brothers No Moreby Buckley, William F., Jr., Candace HodgesISBN 0156004763 (0-15-600476-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers No More'Book summary:Threading its way through some of the most significant events in modern american history and grappling with issues raised by the FDR legacy, William F. Buckleys first novel without Blackford Oakes is a moral thriller, a story of human frailty, testing, and redemption of the spirit (Baltimore Sun) that aspires to genuine greatness (Washington Post).[via]More editions of Brothers No More:
But I Love You Anywayby Sara LewisISBN 0156005042 (0-15-600504-2)
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedyby T. S. EliotISBN 0156182890 (0-15-618289-0)
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The Complete Poems of Cavafyby Rae Dalven, Constantine Cavafy, Konstantinos Petrou KabaphesISBN 0156198207 (0-15-619820-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Crystal Frontierby Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdamISBN 0156006200 (0-15-600620-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Delight Makersby Adolph Francis Alphonse BandelierISBN 0156252643 (0-15-625264-3)
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Detective Stories from the Strandby Jack AdrianISBN 0192123068 (0-19-212306-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagasby Jones GISBN 0192505823 (0-19-250582-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Eirik the Red, and Other Icelandic Sagasby Gwyn JonesISBN 0192510061 (0-19-251006-1)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Eminent Victoriansby Lytton StracheyISBN 0156286971 (0-15-628697-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminent Victorians'Book summary:The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, some said, skewed) portraits. Rarely does Strachey explore the details of a subject's daily or family life unless they point directly to an issue of character. In short, he pioneered a deeply sardonic and often scathingly funny biographical style.
None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one." Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form." In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnoldby Lytton StracheyISBN 0156027895 (0-15-602789-5)
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None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one." Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form." In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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Exposureby Talitha StevensonISBN 0156030446 (0-15-603044-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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A Factory Of Cunningby Philippa StockleyISBN 0156030675 (0-15-603067-5)
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Fairy Talesby e e cummings, John EatonISBN 0156298953 (0-15-629895-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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Fiddlers: Library Editionby Ed McBainISBN 0156032783 (0-15-603278-3)
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The Fortunes of Casanovaby Jack Adrian, Rafael SabatiniISBN 019212319X (0-19-212319-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortunes of Casanova'Book summary:Rafael Sabatini was one of the greatest writers of historical adventure fiction who ever lived. The master of the swashbuckling tale, he penned such runaway bestsellers as Scaramouche and Captain Blood. Indeed, Scaramouche was made into one of the most successful adventure films of that era, surpassed only by another Sabatini novel, The Sea Hawk, which sold over a million copies and led to a celebrated film starring Errol Flynn.
Sabatini was also a prolific author of short stories, and this volume contains 20 of his best. Full of pace, incident, and plot, these tales range in time from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and they conjure up a wonderful cast of rogues, vagabonds, shyster lawyers, cutpurses, quacks, and conmen. The heart of the book is a series of stories featuring Casanova, the libertine, swordsman, and wit. Sabatini takes nine colorful exploits from Casanova's notorious Memoirs and retells them with his characteristic gusto. And in addition to the stories, Jack Adrian provides an informative introduction that outlines Sabatini's life and offers an enlightening discussion of the genre of historical fiction.
"No writer, not Scott nor Dumas nor Stevenson, has brought the past to life more vividly," observes George MacDonald Fraser in the foreword. Whether set in Italy during the Renaissance or France during the Terror, these tales do indeed bring the past to glorious life, paying meticulous attention to historical detail even as they abound in surprising turns, witty dialogue, and breathtaking adventure. [via]More editions of The Fortunes of Casanova:
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The Golden Treasury: Of the Best Songs & Lyrical Poems in the English Languageby John Press, Francis Turner PalgraveISBN 0192542028 (0-19-254202-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Treasury: Of the Best Songs & Lyrical Poems in the English Language'Book summary:In the 1860s, Francis Turner Palgrave set out to collect the finest English lyrical poems in one volume. What he created was The Golden Treasury, an instant classic of verse anthologies. Over the last century, it has withstood the test of time as an immensely popular collection--becoming virtually synonymous with English verse for generations of readers.
Now available in a new edition for the first time in thirty years, The Golden Treasury is as delightful as ever, offering old classics together with the finest works of our own time. Here you can find priceless gems by Shakespeare, Byron, Tennyson, Yeats, and other immortal lights of literature. This new edition also serves as a map to the changing landscape of today's British verse, presenting outstanding poetry by both famous and lesser-known writers of Ireland and Great Britain: Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Fleur Adcock, Carol Ann Duffy, Douglas Dunn, Gavin Ewart, Tony Harrison, Elizabeth Jennings, Derek Mahon, Peter Porter, Carol Rumens, Anne Stevenson, and Hugo Williams, among others. Editor John Press is himself an accomplished poet and translator, and he has taken care to preserve the spirit of the original Golden Treasury. The result is a marvelous collection of British verse--a source of unexpected delights and old favorites alike. [via]More editions of The Golden Treasury: Of the Best Songs & Lyrical Poems in the English Language:
The Gypsy Manby Robert BauschISBN 0156028735 (0-15-602873-5)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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Heart Earthby Ivan DoigISBN 0156031086 (0-15-603108-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Heronby Giorgio Bassani, William WeaverISBN 0156400855 (0-15-640085-5)
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His Lovely Wifeby Elizabeth DewberryISBN 0156032554 (0-15-603255-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Hot Gates and Other Occasional Piecesby William GoldingISBN 0156421801 (0-15-642180-1)
Softcover, Bookthrift Co
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I Am Snowing : The Confessions of a Woman of Pragueby Pavel Kohout, Neil BermelISBN 015600187X (0-15-600187-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Jassby David FulmerISBN 0156031914 (0-15-603191-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Jonathan Swiftby Jonathan Swift, Angus Ross, David WoolleyISBN 0192541765 (0-19-254176-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Karoo Boyby 'Troy BlacklawsISBN 0156030659 (0-15-603065-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Karoo Boy'Book summary:After a freak accident, Douglas's twin brother is dead, and his family's fragmentation begins. His mother packs up their home in Cape Town and takes him to a tiny backwater town in the semi-desert Karoo region, where she withdraws into her painting. Douglas, a city kid in an insular community, makes only two friends: a beautiful girl named Marika, with her adventurous spirit and tyrannical father; and an old garage worker named Moses, with his junkyard Volvo and dreams of driving away to Cape Town.[via]
Against the backdrop of the bitter conflict of 1970s South Africa, Douglas develops a clearer insight into himself and his place in the world, a world where dreams and reality meet in a surprising twist. Blazing with color and light, Karoo Boy offers a sensuous and lyrical evocation of South Africa that leaves a lasting impression and ultimately ends on a note of hope.More editions of Karoo Boy:
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King Henry IVby A.R. HumphreysISBN 0174436106 (0-17-443610-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry IV'Book summary:This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare's The First Part of King Henry IV and the history of its interpretation. The introduction clarifies the play's surprising, de-centred dramatic structure, questioning the dominant assumption that the drama focuses on the education of Prince Hal. It calls attention to the effects of civil war upon a broad range of relationships. Falstaff's unpredictable vitality is explored, together with important contemporary values of honour, friendship, festivity and reformation. Extensive lexical glosses of obscure, ambiguous or archaic meanings make the rich wordplay accessible. The notes also provide a thorough commentary on Shakespeare's transformation of his sources (particularly Holinshed's Chronicles) and suggest alternative stagings. This updated edition contains a new introductory section by Katharine A. Craik, which describes recent stage, film and critical interpretations, and an updated reading list. [via]
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King Henry VIby Ron KnowlesISBN 0174434944 (0-17-443494-4)
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Last Call For Blackford Oakesby William F. BuckleyISBN 0156032953 (0-15-603295-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Call For Blackford Oakes'Book summary:More than twenty years ago William F. Buckley Jr. launched the dashing character of Blackford Oakes like a missile over the literary landscape. This newly minted CIA agent-brainy, bold, and complex-began his career by saving the queen of England and quickly took his place in the pantheon of master spies drawn up by Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré.[via]
Against the backdrop of sinister Cold War intrigue, in this, his eleventh outing, Oakes crosses paths-and swords-with Kim Philby, perhaps the highest-ranking in the parade of defectors to the Soviet Union. Oakes is now himself a master spy, working outside of the agency and around agency rules. His romance with an able and worldly Soviet doctor provides consolation for the death of his beloved Sally. But after his return to Washington, he receives dismaying news. It is inevitable that the great Soviet spy and the renowned American agent will meet again-this time with deadly consequences.More editions of Last Call For Blackford Oakes:
A Late Divorceby A. B. YehoshuaISBN 0156494477 (0-15-649447-7)
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Loon Featherby Iola FullerISBN 015653200X (0-15-653200-X)
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Maigret and the Black Sheepby Georges Simenon, Helen ThomsonISBN 0156551381 (0-15-655138-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Maigret and the Calame Reportby Georges Simenon, Moura BudbergISBN 0156551535 (0-15-655153-5)
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Maigret and the Reluctant Witnessby Georges Simenon, Daphne WoodwardISBN 0156551594 (0-15-655159-4)
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Maigret Bides His Timeby Georges Simenon, Alastair HamiltonISBN 0156551519 (0-15-655151-9)
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Maigret's Christmas: Nine Storiesby Georges Simenon, Jean Margaret StewartISBN 0156028530 (0-15-602853-0)
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Maigret's Rivalby Georges SimenonISBN 0156551411 (0-15-655141-1)
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Mama's Bank Accountby Kathryn ForbesISBN 0156563770 (0-15-656377-0)
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Microworldsby Stanislaw LemISBN 0156594439 (0-15-659443-9)
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Misanthrope and Tartuffeby MoliereISBN 0156605171 (0-15-660517-1)
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Miss Macintosh, My Darlingby Marguerite YoungISBN 015660793X (0-15-660793-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Missusby Ruth ParkISBN 0170065944 (0-17-006594-4)
Hardcover, Nelson
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Moving House and Other Storiesby Pawel Huelle, Michael KandelISBN 0156002515 (0-15-600251-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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My Grandma Lived in Gooligulchby Graeme BaseISBN 0170061698 (0-17-006169-8)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Australia
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The Name of a Bullfighterby Luis SepulvedaISBN 0156005484 (0-15-600548-4)
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 : The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Americaby Gregory BenfordISBN 0156007053 (0-15-600705-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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The New Oxford Book of English Proseby John GrossISBN 0192142461 (0-19-214246-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Novelby George SingletonISBN 0156030918 (0-15-603091-8)
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The Ordinary White Boyby Brock ClarkeISBN 0156027097 (0-15-602709-7)
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The Oxford Book of Essaysby John GrossISBN 0192141856 (0-19-214185-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Essays'Book summary:When Montaigne developed the essay in the sixteenth century, he could not have imagined the power and longevity of his creation. "He did not set up for a philosopher, wit, orator, or moralist," wrote Hazlitt, "but he became all these by merely daring to tell us whatever passed through his mind." Ever since, writers have seized upon his example, and for over four hundred years we have encountered astonishing insights and breathtaking language by following what has passed through their minds, as recounted in the essay. And now some of the finest essays of all time have been gathered together by John Gross, former editor of The New York Times Book Review, in an outstanding new anthology.
Ranging from the early 1600s through the 1980s, this sweeping collection includes 140 essays by 120 of the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross has collected classics and rare gems, representative samples and personal favorites, intimate essays and learned, serious reflections and hysterically funny satire, by both British and American writers. Here is Eveleyn Waugh, providing tips on how to move in Well-Informed Circles ("Attribute all facts of common knowledge to personal information; for instance, do not say, 'What a wet week it has been,' but, 'They tell me at Greenwich they have registered the highest rainfall for six weeks'"); Ralph Waldo Emerson on conservatism and innovation; Ambrose Bierce on "the horror of the characteristic American custom of promiscuous, unsought, and unauthorized introductions"; Oscar Wilde on the critic as artist ("It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless"); Rose Macaulay on dinner parties; and James Baldwin, musing about what a remote Swiss village tells him about race in the wider world ("Joyce is right about history being a nightmare--but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.").
The authors Gross has gathered form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from John Dryden to Ben Franklin, from Geoge Eliot to George Bernard Shaw, from E.B. White to Joan Didion. Including book reviews and travel sketches, history lessons and meditations, reflections on art and on potato chips, these essays sample four centuries of eloquence and insight in a collection that is at once immensely enlightening, edifying, and entertaining. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of Essays:
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Storiesby Douglas DunnISBN 0192142356 (0-19-214235-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Book of Villainsby John MortimerISBN 0192141953 (0-19-214195-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Companion to the English Languageby Tom McArthurISBN 019214183X (0-19-214183-X)
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A language-lover's dream, The Oxford Companion to the English Language is a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language as well as language in general. The range of topics is remarkable, offering a goldmine of information on writing and speech (including entries on grammar, literary terms, linguistics, rhetoric, and style) as well as on such wider issues as sexist language, bilingual education, child language acquisition, and the history of English. There are biographies of Shakespeare, Noah Webster, Noam Chomsky, James Joyce, and many others who have influenced the shape or study of the language; extended articles on everything from psycholinguistics to sign language to tragedy; coverage of every nation in which a significant part of the population speaks English as well as virtually every regional dialect and pidgin (from Gullah and Scouse to Cockney and Tok Pisin). In addition, the Companion provides bibliographies for the larger entries, generous cross-referencing, etymologies for headwords, a chronology of English from Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries or bibliographies. And like all Oxford Companions, this volume is packed with delightful surprises. We learn, for instance, that the first Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard later became President (John Quincy Adams); that "slogan" originally meant "war cry"; that the keyboard arrangement QWERTY became popular not because it was efficient but the opposite (it slows down the fingers and keeps them from jamming the keys); that "mbenzi" is Swahili for "rich person" (i.e., one who owns a Mercedes Benz); and that in Scotland, "to dree yir ain weird" means "to follow your own star."
From Scrabble to Websters to TESOL to Gibraltar, the thirty-five hundred entries here offer more information on a wider variety of topics than any other reference on the English language. Featuring the work of nearly a hundred scholars from around the world, this unique volume is the ideal shelf-mate to The Oxford Companion to English Literature. It will captivate everyone who loves language. [via]More editions of The Oxford Companion to the English Language:
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane Austen, R. W. ChapmanISBN 0192547070 (0-19-254707-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen'Book summary:"R.W. Chapman's fine new edition has, among its other merits, the advantage of waking the Jane Austenite up.... The novels continue to live their own wonderful internal life...freshened and enriched by contact with the life of facts. His illustrations are beyond all praise."--E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest.
This beautiful set provides the definitive text of Austen's six great comic masterpieces and her minor works (the latter include three high-spirited efforts written at about age fifteen; a charming fragment, The Watsons, which has been thought to be a sketch for Emma; and a tantalizing fragment, Sanditon, written in the last year of her life). All six volumes feature splendid early 19th-century illustrations as well as Chapman's detailed explanatory notes. Chapman has collated all the editions published in the author's lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts, establishing an authoritative text that retains the punctuation, the spelling, and division into volumes of the originals. In addition, at the end of each work he supplies notes on textual matters and appendixes on such matters as the modes of address, or characters, or carriages and travel, as these seem warranted by the text. Additional changes have been incorporated by Mary Lascelles. [via]More editions of The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen:
Pigby Andrew CowanISBN 015600545X (0-15-600545-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning EMEA, Limited
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The Roaring Girlby Greg HollingsheadISBN 0156005840 (0-15-600584-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Rootie Kazootieby Lawrence NaumoffISBN 0156003368 (0-15-600336-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Same Seaby Amos Oz, Nicholas De LangeISBN 0156013126 (0-15-601312-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Samuel Johnsonby Samuel Johnson, Donald Johnson GreeneISBN 019254179X (0-19-254179-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samuel Johnson'Book summary:This edition presents not only familiar pieces like Rasselas, "The Vanity of Human Wishes," the Prefaces to Shakespeare and the Dictionary, many Rambler and Idler essays, and biographical and critical works, but also a substantial sampling of lesserknown prose, poetry, letters, and journals. [via]
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Season in Purgatoryby Thomas KeneallyISBN 0156798506 (0-15-679850-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Simonby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 0192714422 (0-19-271442-2)
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Six Figuresby Fred LeebronISBN 015601064X (0-15-601064-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Snowlegby Nicholas ShakespeareISBN 0156030462 (0-15-603046-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Stones Cry Outby James Westerhoven, Hikaru OkuizumiISBN 0156011832 (0-15-601183-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stones Cry Out'Book summary:Hikaru Okuizumi's The Stones Cry Out traces 20-odd years in the life of World War II veteran Tsuyoshi Manase, a timid bookseller and amateur geologist who struggles to suppress a troubled conscience. More novella than novel, this brief but keenly realized story--for which Okuizumi won the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan's highest literary awards--is a stark, disturbing, but ultimately redemptive meditation on remembrance and mortality.
At the novel's outset, Manase, weakened by malaria and hunger, finds himself languishing in a jungle cave with other hapless soldiers, many of whom are near death. The scene is hellish, fuel for future nightmares. "Even the most ordinary pebble has the history of this heavenly body we call earth written on it," a faltering lance corporal explains, a cryptic and riveting truth that sustains Manase and that he spends the rest of the novel attempting to unravel. When the war ends--and with the corporal's words still lingering--he opens a bookstore and then devotes himself to collecting stones. This obsession puzzles the woman he marries but becomes his only means of mooring a war-shadowed life.
Throughout, like some mute audience, is his immense and patiently gathered stone collection, evidence of Manase's desire for order and his need to understand something more enduring than his own passing life. The Stones Cry Out is a heartbreaking and harrowing tale, one whose most remarkable achievement is that, like the stones of its title, it reveals something greater than itself. --Ben Guterson [via]
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Story and Structureby Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. ArpISBN 0155837885 (0-15-583788-5)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Strange Fruitby Lillian SmithISBN 0156856360 (0-15-685636-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Strange Loyaltiesby William McIlvanneyISBN 0156856441 (0-15-685644-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Strange Tales from the Strandby Jack AdrianISBN 019212305X (0-19-212305-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Survey of French Literature.by Morris BishopISBN 0155849638 (0-15-584963-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt School
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Survey of French Literature of the Nineteenth Centuryby Morris BishopISBN 0155849646 (0-15-584964-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Taller Women : A Cautionary Taleby Lawrence NaumoffISBN 0156881624 (0-15-688162-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Task Of This Translator: Storiesby Todd Hasak-LowyISBN 0156031124 (0-15-603112-4)
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The Ticket Outby Helen KnodeISBN 0156029057 (0-15-602905-7)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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To Know a Womanby Amos Oz, Nicholas De LangeISBN 0156906805 (0-15-690680-5)
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Ugly Waysby Tina McElroy AnsaISBN 0156000776 (0-15-600077-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Uncle Boris in the Yukon and Other Shaggy Dog Storiesby Daniel M. PinkwaterISBN 0156027151 (0-15-602715-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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Unto Death: Crusade/Late Loveby Amos OzISBN 0156931702 (0-15-693170-2)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Victorian Love Storiesby Kate FlintISBN 0192123300 (0-19-212330-0)
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The Voyageby Robert MacNeilISBN 0156004631 (0-15-600463-1)
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The Watcher and Other Storiesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156949520 (0-15-694952-0)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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We're in Trouble: Storiesby Christopher CoakeISBN 0156032775 (0-15-603277-5)
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The White Dawn: An Eskimo Sagaby James HoustonISBN 015696256X (0-15-696256-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Who Was David Weiser?by Pawel Huelle, Michael KandelISBN 0156001276 (0-15-600127-6)
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Winterdanceby Gary PaulsenISBN 0156001454 (0-15-600145-4)
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Young Bessby Margaret E. IrwinISBN 0156998246 (0-15-699824-6)
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