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1900 : A Fin-de-Siecle Readerby Mike R. Jay, Michael NeveISBN 0141180838 (0-14-118083-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: '1900 : A Fin-de-Siecle Reader'Book summary:At the turn of the 19th century, just as today, many people were terrified--or thrilled--by the seemingly unstoppable progress of science, wrestling with questions of sexual identity, turning away from traditional religions or taking refuge in spiritualism, the paranormal and "new age" philosophies.
From poetry to pulp fiction, scientific polemic to sexologicical speculation, 1900 brings together a fascinating collage of writings which encompass the amazing range of beliefs, ideas and obsessions current at the turn of the century.
"1900 offers a striking vision of the fin-de-siècle shock of the new no less than the fatigue of the old, regeneration no less than degeneration, the viewpoints of scientists and futurists as well as decadent poets" Roy Porter.
"1900" is a splendid starting point for analysis of fin-de-siècle thought and for understanding the millenium" Elaine Showalter [via]
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At the Back of the North Windby George MacDonaldISBN 0140350306 (0-14-035030-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At the Back of the North Wind'Book summary:This is a story of a poor stable boy living in Victorian London in which everyday lives are mysteriously enveloped by a power and a glory, personified here as a beautiful woman known as the North Wind. She visits the small boy, Diamond, and takes him with her on her journeys, teaching him about herself. Through the eyes of an innocent and yet perceptive child, MacDonald explores North Wind as a way of exploring the place of death in our lives. He looks squarely at social injustice--he knew poverty and the poor first hand--and yet also sees that the deepest need we have is for love and forgiveness, which are rooted in eternity.
This is a book for children--I've read it to my own daughter more than once--even though they may not understand just who North Wind is until years later. Adults on the other hand will learn that while they thought they knew something about death, there is much to relearn--and probably the most important part. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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The Awakeningby Kate Chopin, Pamela KnightsISBN 0192823000 (0-19-282300-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. The subtle beauty of her writing was contrasted with her unwomanly and sordid subject-matter: Edna's rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom.
From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection, freshly edited from the first printing of each text, enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches. The Awakening is set alongside thirty-two short stories, illustrating the spectrum of the fiction from her first published stories to her 1898 secret masterpiece, "The Storm." [via]-
The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 0140390227 (0-14-039022-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories'Book summary:The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are the themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar, " "unhealthily introspective, " and "morbid, " the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. This edition also includes selected stories from Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, and an introduction and notes by Nina Baym. [via]
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The Awkward Ageby Henry JamesISBN 0140432973 (0-14-043297-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Baa Baa, Black Sheep and the Gardenerby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0146000145 (0-14-600014-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War Iby Roger ShattuckISBN 0224615262 (0-224-61526-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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Beardsleyby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0140215557 (0-14-021555-7)
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Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 014044923X (0-14-044923-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good and Evil'Book summary:Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women's emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a lucid introduction by one of the most eminent of Nietzsche scholars, Robert C. Holub. [via]
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Beyond Good and Evil:Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Futureby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 0140442677 (0-14-044267-7)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Charlotte Mew and Her Friendsby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0201088959 (0-201-08895-9)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Chekhov, Five Major Playsby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald HingleyISBN 0195022505 (0-19-502250-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Damnedby J.K. Huysmans, Joris-Karl Huysman, Terry J. HaleISBN 0140447679 (0-14-044767-9)
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Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchardby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald HingleyISBN 0192834126 (0-19-283412-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Four Major Playsby Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane, Jens ArupISBN 0192833871 (0-19-283387-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Major Plays'Book summary:Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. [via]
The Golden Bowlby Henry JamesISBN 0140432353 (0-14-043235-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bowl'Book summary:This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is "a work unique among all [James's] novels: it is [his] only novel in which things come out right for his characters. . . . he had finally resolved the questions, curious and passionate, that had kept him at his desk on his inquiries into the process of living. He could now make his peace with America-and he could now collect and unify the work of a lifetime." -Leon Edel, The Life of Henry James [via]
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- The Golden Bowl: ISBN 0141000902 (0-14-100090-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - The Golden Bowl: ISBN 0192835424 (0-19-283542-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Golden Bowl: ISBN 0192816535 (0-19-281653-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Golden Bowl: ISBN 0140024492 (0-14-002449-2)
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- The Golden Bowl: ISBN 0141000902 (0-14-100090-2)
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and Other Tales'Book summary:Set in an atmosphere of mystery, this novel tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. The other three tales also appraise the glamour and rapacity of imperial adventure and display insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. [via]
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Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siecle Cultureby Bram DijkstraISBN 0195056523 (0-19-505652-3)
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The Immoralistby Andre Gide, David WatsonISBN 0142180025 (0-14-218002-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immoralist'Book summary:With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas Hardy, Dennis TaylorISBN 0140435387 (0-14-043538-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:Hardy's last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure caused much outrage when it was published in 1895. Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but his ambitions to go to university are thwarted by class prejudice and his entrapment in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead, and their refusal to marry when free to do so confirms their rejection of and by the world around them. The shocking fate that overtakes them is an indictment of a rigid and uncaring society. This is the first truly critical edition, taking account of the changes that Hardy made over twenty-five years. Hardy's last, and most controversial novel, this revised edition has the first truly critical text, a new chronology and bibliography, and substantially revised notes. [via]
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- Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0192802615 (0-19-280261-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0140431314 (0-14-043131-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0192816705 (0-19-281670-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0192833790 (0-19-283379-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0140435387 (0-14-043538-7)
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- Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0192802615 (0-19-280261-5)
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0140390316 (0-14-039031-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day. [via]
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The Legend of Sheby H. Rider HaggardISBN 0140052976 (0-14-005297-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Legend of She'Book summary:Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.
Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." [via]
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The Longest Journeyby E. M. Forster, Elizabeth Heine, Gilbert AdairISBN 0141441488 (0-14-144148-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longest Journey'Book summary:E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer, but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.[via]More editions of The Longest Journey:
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Keith WilsonISBN 0141439785 (0-14-143978-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives.
Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to survive in the new commercial world, his story is also a journey towards love.
This edition is the only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardy's extensive revisions. [via]More editions of The Mayor of Casterbridge:
- The Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0192840711 (0-19-284071-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 014043125X (0-14-043125-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0140435131 (0-14-043513-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0192817280 (0-19-281728-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 019283441X (0-19-283441-X)
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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- The Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0192840711 (0-19-284071-1)
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Nietzscheby John Richardson, Brian LeiterISBN 0198752709 (0-19-875270-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nietzsche'Book summary:The latest volume in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series, this work brings together some of the best and most influential recent philosophical scholarship on Nietzsche. Opening with a substantial introduction by John Richardson, it covers: Nietzsche's views on truth and knowledge, his 'doctrines' of the eternal recurrence and will to power, his distinction between Apollinian and Dionysian art, his critique of morality, his conceptions of agency and self-creation, and his genealogical method. For each of these issues, the papers show Nietzsche's continuing philosophical importance. Giving a clear and accessible overview, while retaining an analytical philosophical approach throughout, this volume is essential reading for all students of Nietzsche. [via]
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On Suicideby Emile Durkheim, Alexander Riley, Robin Buss, Richard SennettISBN 0140449671 (0-14-044967-1)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Suicide'Book summary:The landmark investigation into suicide and society?now in a new translation[via]
Émile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was the first to suggest that suicide might be as much a response to society as an act of individual despair. When he looked at social, religious, or racial groups that had high incidences of suicide, he discovered that abnormally high or low levels of social integration increase the likelihood of suicide. More than a century after its initial publication, Durkheim?s groundbreaking work continues to fascinate and challenge those seeking to understand one of the least understandable of human acts.More editions of On Suicide:
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Oscar Wildeby Richard EllmannISBN 0241123925 (0-241-12392-5)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar Wilde'Book summary:Richard Ellmann capped an illustrious career in biography (his James Joyce is considered one of the masterpieces of the 20th century) with this life of Oscar Wilde, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize on its original publication in 1988. Ellmann's account of Wilde's extravagantly operatic life as poet, playwright, aesthete, and martyr to sexual morality is notable not only for the full portrait it gives of Wilde, but also for Ellmann's assessment of his subject's literary greatness; both aims are served by a plethora of quotations from Wilde's own work and correspondence. Wilde straddled the line between the Victorian age and the modern world as he did everything in life ... with impeccable style. [via]
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Princess and Curdieby George MacDonald, Helen StrattonISBN 0140367624 (0-14-036762-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess and Curdie'Book summary:Princess Irene's great-grandmother has a testing task for Curdie. He will not go alone though, as she provides him with a companion -- the oddest and ugliest creature Curdie has ever seen, but one who turns out to be the most loyal friend he could have hoped for. [via]
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonaldISBN 0060095520 (0-06-009552-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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The Proud Tower : A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914by Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0026203006 (0-02-620300-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Proud Tower : A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914'Book summary:"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it."
--Barbara W. Tuchman
The fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of Protest was heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate. The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.
In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman bings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the Anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted Hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two Peace Conferences at the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean Jaurès was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended.
"Tuchman [was] a distinguished historian who [wrote] her books with a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish. . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration."
--The New York Times
"Tuchman proved in The Guns of August that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord."
--Time
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Reading Nietzscheby Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. HigginsISBN 0195066731 (0-19-506673-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Sheby H. Rider Haggard, Patrick BrantlingerISBN 0140437630 (0-14-043763-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She'Book summary:Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.
Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." [via]
Sodom and Gomorrahby Marcel Proust, John SturrockISBN 0143039318 (0-14-303931-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Suicide Clubby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0140350470 (0-14-035047-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Suicide Club'Book summary:Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a "chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, "Jekyll And Hyde" is a brilliantly original study of man's dual nature -- as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror. Published in 1866, "Jekyll And Hyde" was an instant success and brought Stevenson his first taste of fame. Though sometimes dismissed as a mere mystery story, the book has evoked much literary admirations. Vladimir Nabokov likened it to "Madame Bovary" and "Dead Souls" as "a fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction." [via]
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Suicide: A Study in Sociologyby Emile DurkheimISBN 0029086604 (0-02-908660-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, Tom DolinISBN 0141439599 (0-14-143959-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:In a novel full of poetry and mysterious settings, Hardy unfolds the story of his beautiful, suffering Tess with unforgettable tenderness and intensity. [via]
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- Tess of the D'Urbervilles: ISBN 0140431357 (0-14-043135-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Tess of the D'Urbervilles: ISBN 0192818260 (0-19-281826-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Tess of the D'Urbervilles: ISBN 0192833626 (0-19-283362-6)
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Tess Of The d'Urbervillesby Simon Gatrell, Penny Boumelha, Juliet Grindle, Thomas HardyISBN 019284069X (0-19-284069-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess Of The d'Urbervilles'Book summary:Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.
Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions. [via]More editions of Tess Of The d'Urbervilles:
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Tom DolinISBN 014043514X (0-14-043514-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. [via]
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: Stage 6 2,500 Headwordsby Thomas Hardy, Jennifer BassettISBN 0194230945 (0-19-423094-5)
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For Everyone And Nobodyby Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Walter Arnold KaufmannISBN 0140047484 (0-14-004748-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For Everyone And Nobody'Book summary:Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic & free. [via]
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Twilight of the Idols and the Anti Christby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Dean A. Grennell, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 0140445145 (0-14-044514-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twilight of the Idols and the Anti Christ'Book summary:[via]'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soulin contempt
In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a grand declaration of war on reason, psychology and theology that combines highly charged personal attacks on his contemporaries with a lightning tour of his own philosophy. It also paves the way for The Anti-Christ, Nietzches final assault on institutional Christianity, in which he identifies himself with the Dionysian artist and confronts Christ; the only opponent he feels worthy of him.
In his introduction Michael Tanner discussed the themes of Nietzches argument and places the works in their historical and philosophical context.
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Under the Greenwood Treeby Thomas Hardy, Simon GatrellISBN 0192835173 (0-19-283517-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Greenwood Tree'Book summary:This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work. [via]
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Use and Abuse of Historyby Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Adrian CollinsISBN 0023237309 (0-02-323730-9)
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What Maisie Knewby Henry James, Paul TherouxISBN 0140432485 (0-14-043248-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'Book summary:What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue.
In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child's capacity for intelligent `wonder', James summons all the subtlety he devotes elsewhere to his most celebrated adult protagonists. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie inspires James to dwell with extraordinary acuteness on the things that may pass between adult and child. In addition to a new introduction, this edition of the novel offers particularly detailed notes, bibliography, and a list of variant readings. [via]More editions of What Maisie Knew:
The Woman Who Didby Grant AllenISBN 0192823124 (0-19-282312-4)
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Youth, Heart of Darkness, the End of the Tetherby Joseph Conrad, John LyonISBN 0140185135 (0-14-018513-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Youth, Heart of Darkness, the End of the Tether'Book summary:Conrad's aim was 'by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel . . . before all, to make you see' Heart of Darkness, his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of 'seeing,' its relativity and shifting compromise. Portraying a young man's first sea-voyage to the East in Youth, an unenlightened maturity in Heart of Darkness, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether, the stories in this volume are united in their theme - the 'Ages of Man' - and in their scepticism. Conrad's vision has influenced twentieth-century writers and artists from T. S. Eliot to Jorge Luis Borges and Werner Herzog, and continues to draw critical fire. In his stimulating introduction John Lyon discusses the links between these three stories, the critiques of Chinua Achebe and Edward Said, and the ebb and flow of Conrad's magnificent narrative art.[via]
@JungleFever Heading down to Africa on a boat. Too hot! I get the creeping sense this job isnt going to be as cushy as they made it sound.
The natives seem unhappy. Some are even violent! Why dont they appreciate how much weve done for them? Ungrateful welfare leeches, I say!
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Zarathustra's Discoursesby R.J. Hollingdale, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0146001753 (0-14-600175-3)
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