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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0460873598 (0-460-87359-8)
Softcover, Everyman
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0460050826 (0-460-05082-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Phileas Fogg bet his entire fortune that he could cross the Nineteenth Century Earth - with no plans, no special arrangements, and no air travel - in exactly eighty days. Any delay, any breakdown, any missed connection, and Fogg would lose - everything. [via]
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The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islamby Bernard LewisISBN 0465004989 (0-465-00498-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam'Book summary:The Assassins is a comprehensive, readable, and authoritative account of history's first terrorists. An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make systematic use of murder as a political weapon. Established in Iran and Syria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, they aimed to overthrow the existing Sunni order in Islam and replace it with their own. They terrorized their foes with a series of dramatic murders of Islamic leaders, as well as of some of the Crusaders, who brought their name and fame back to Europe.Professor Lewis traces the history of this radical group, studying its teachings and its influence on Muslim thought. Particularly insightful in light of the rise of the terrorist attacks in the U.S. and in Israel, this account of the Assassins--whose name is now synonymous with politically motivated murderers--places recent events in historical perspective and sheds new light on the fanatic mind.[via]More editions of The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam:
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The Claveringsby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0486234649 (0-486-23464-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claverings'Book summary:The gardens of Clavering Park were removed some three hundred yards from the large square sombre looking stone mansion which was the country house of Sir Hugh Clavering. [via]
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Compleat Anglerby Izaak WaltonISBN 0460010700 (0-460-01070-0)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Cranfordby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0460010832 (0-460-01083-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cranford'Book summary:This work provides a timeless portrait of life in a peaceful English village in the early years of the 19th century. It is the most enduringly popular of Mrs Gaskell's works. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 046001501X (0-460-01501-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Decameronby Giovanni BoccaccioISBN 046010845X (0-460-10845-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose BierceISBN 0486204871 (0-486-20487-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Dictionary'Book summary:145 PP 1958 EARLY DOVER EDITION 5X7 SOFTCVR [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Storiesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0460017675 (0-460-01767-5)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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East O' the Sun and West O' the Moonby Peter Christen Asbjrnsen, George Webbe Dasent, Jorgen Engebretsen MoeISBN 0486225216 (0-486-22521-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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El Doctor Zhivago / The Doctor Zhivagoby Boris Leonidovich PasternakISBN 0472717960 (0-472-71796-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Essaysby Francis Bacon, Michael J. HawkinsISBN 0460874330 (0-460-87433-0)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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Felix Holtby George EliotISBN 0460876872 (0-460-87687-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Fixed Periodby Anthony Trollope, Super. R.H.ISBN 0472064487 (0-472-06448-7)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 046001837X (0-460-01837-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 0460871765 (0-460-87176-5)
Softcover, Everymans Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This book is part of the "Everyman Shakespeare" series, providing facing-page text and notes, a chronology of Shakespeare's life and times and a selection of critical and theatrical responses to "Hamlet" over the centuries. The "Everyman" texts preserve the way Shakespeare's lines were meant to be spoken as well as their meaning. Derived from the earliest authoritative printings, they retain original spellings and punctuations which preserve puns and and wordplay often lost. Sir John Gielgud, Zoe Caldwell, Ian Richardson, Jeremy Irons and other established actors, actresses and theatre directors have written forewards describing the plays in actual performance. John Andrews's introductions provide up-to-the-minute interpretation of the structure, atmosphere and content of each play and comment on sources and influences. [via]
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The Hand Of Ethelbertaby Thomas HardyISBN 0460876457 (0-460-87645-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Invisible Manby H. G. Wells, Macdonald DalyISBN 0460876287 (0-460-87628-7)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:A dazzling mind and driving ambition has carried Griffin into territory never before explored: he has discovered how to make himself invisible. What sacrifice now can be too great? Yet even as Griffin attains his dream, his nightmare begins. This edition contains an introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of Well's life and times. [via]
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Joseph Andrews and Shamelaby Henry Fielding, Arthur HumphreysISBN 0460873857 (0-460-87385-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Journal of the Plague Yearby Daniel Defoe, John ManISBN 0460874624 (0-460-87462-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journal of the Plague Year'Book summary:The shocking immediacy of Daniel Defoe's description of a plague-racked city makes it one of the most convincing accounts of the Great Plague of 1665 ever written. [via]
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Journey to the Centre of the Earthby Jules VerneISBN 0460050842 (0-460-05084-2)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'Book summary:In this fully dramatized adaptation of Jules Verne's classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, and cast members from Star Trek feature films and all four TV series take you on an incredible journey.
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is the story of Professor Lindenbrock, his nephew Axel and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, Lindenbrock and Axel descend deeper into the planet than anyone has ever gone before... but will they make it back to the surface alive?
Featuring virtuoso performaces from the entire cast, riveting sound effects and original music, Alien Voices' production of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an adventure in sound. [via]
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Kept in the Darkby Selma Betty GreenbergISBN 0486236099 (0-486-23609-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Land-Leaguersby Anthony Trollope, R. H. SuperISBN 0472064851 (0-472-06485-1)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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A Laodicean: A Story of Todayby Thomas Hardy, J.H. StapeISBN 0460876376 (0-460-87637-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence Sterne, Tim ParnellISBN 0460877631 (0-460-87763-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary: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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London 1851, the Year of the Great Exhibitionby Eric Samuel De MareISBN 0460041754 (0-460-04175-4)
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 0460019252 (0-460-01925-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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The MacDermots of Ballycloranby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0486255727 (0-486-25572-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, Pamela NorrisISBN 046087294X (0-460-87294-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Marion Fayby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0472081365 (0-472-08136-5)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Mary Bartonby Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan ShelstonISBN 046087554X (0-460-87554-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:Mary Barton(1848),subtitled 'A Tale of Manchester Life',is the first novel by Mrs Gaskell(1810-65).The entirely working-class cast of characters in this novel was then an innovation.The background story is Manchester in the 'hungry forties'and the acute poverty of the unemployed mill-hands. Mary Batson,daughter of an embittered worker,wins the attention of Henry Carson,son of one of the employers.But a group of workmen plot his murder as a warning to his class,and it falls upon Mary's father to perform the deed.Suspicion lies with Mary's working class admirer,Jed,who is tried for his life.Finally,John Barton is driven by guilt to confess. [via]
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Master of Ballantrae and Weir Hermanby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0460017640 (0-460-01764-0)
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 0460871803 (0-460-87180-3)
Softcover, Everymans Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series on Shakespeare, this edition provides facing-page text and notes, a chronology of Shakespeare's life and times and a selection of critical and theatrical responses to the plays over the centuries. The editor's introductions provide up-to-the-minute interpretation of the structure, atmosphere and content of each play and comment on sources and influences. The texts preserve the way Shakespeare's lines were meant to be spoken as well as their meaning. Derived from the earliest authoritative printings, they retain original spellings and punctuation which preserve puns and word play often lost in abridged versions. [via]
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 0460870955 (0-460-87095-5)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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North and Southby Elizabeth Gaskell, Jenny UglowISBN 0460872575 (0-460-87257-5)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series, which includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the author, a plot summary and selected criticism. This is a novel of hardship, passion and hard-won wisdom among the conflicts of the Industrial Revolution. [via]
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The Persian Empireby J. M. CookISBN 0460044486 (0-460-04448-6)
Hardcover, Dent
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccaby Richard F. BurtonISBN 0486212173 (0-486-21217-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0460012045 (0-460-01204-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary: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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Poemsby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0460110438 (0-460-11043-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems'Book summary:"Kubla Khan." "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." "The Eolian Harp." Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a genius who wrote some of the greatest poems in the history of the English language. Together with his friend William Wordsworth, he provided the best articulation of Romanticism, as well as some of the most powerful examples of that aesthetic. This collection, from the excellent Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series, includes not only Coleridge's poetry, but also some selections from his insightful essays and letters about poetry. But of course, it's the poems that count the most, as evidenced by this excerpt from one of Coleridge's less legendary works, his beautiful tribute "To William Wordsworth," which was written after hearing his friend give an especially moving reading. These sentiments could easily apply to the author himself: "The tumult rose and ceased: for Peace is nigh / Where Wisdom's voice has found a listening heart." [via]
Praise of Follyby Desiderius ErasmusISBN 0472060236 (0-472-06023-6)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Rape of the Lock: An Heroicomical Poem in Five Cantosby Alexander PopeISBN 0486219631 (0-486-21963-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rape of the Lock: An Heroicomical Poem in Five Cantos'Book summary:A rare example of a literary work where text, typography, and illustration perfectly complement one another. Created during Beardsley's Romantic period, the rich, textural contrasts of his drawings are a wonderful match for the delicate fancy of Pope's poem. "These drawings . . . can scarcely be matched in English literature." R. A. Walker.[via]More editions of The Rape of the Lock: An Heroicomical Poem in Five Cantos:
The Raven and Other Favorite Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0486266850 (0-486-26685-0)
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Rob Royby John Sutherland, Walter ScottISBN 0460875949 (0-460-87594-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rob Roy'Book summary:This novel, first published in 1817, achieved a huge success and helped establish the historical novel as a literary form. In rich prose and vivid description, Rob Roy follows the adventures of a businessman's son, Frank Osbaldistone, who is sent to Scotland and finds himself drawn to the powerful, enigmatic figure of Rob Roy MacGregor, the romantic outlaw who fights for justice and dignity for the Scots. This is an incomparable portrait of the haunted Highlands and Scotland's glorious past. [via]
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Rob Royby Walter ScottISBN 0460870890 (0-460-87089-0)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 046001059X (0-460-01059-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far away from any shipping routes. With patience and ingenuity, he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he has no human company, until one Friday, he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals. [via]
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Salome: A Tragedy in One Actby Oscar WildeISBN 0486218309 (0-486-21830-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salome: A Tragedy in One Act'Book summary:Lord Alfred Douglas' translation of Wilde's great play originally written in French with all well-known Beardsley illustrations, including the front and back cover designs, the title and List of Illustrations page decorations, the original cul de lampe, as well as three suppressed plates. Features an introduction by Robert Ross.[via]More editions of Salome: A Tragedy in One Act:
Samuel Taylor Coelridgeby John BeerISBN 0460878263 (0-460-87826-3)
Softcover, Everyman
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0460011227 (0-460-01122-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:Set two centuries from Hawthorne's own time, The Scarlet Letter (1850) sets its heroine, Hester Prynne, into the shaping early moments of American history. The mother of an illegitimate child, Hester is compelled both by her Puritan community and her awareness of her own moral autonomy to wear a scarlet letter "A", a symbol of her adultery, upon her clothes. Her child is seen as the evidence of her sin and her refusal to name her lover taken as a token of her moral perversity. However, Hester emerges from the novel a woman whose integrity is intact. Born from the heart of New England, The Scarlet Letter is as much about individualchoice and moral responsibilities as about the birth pangs of a nation. [via]
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane Austen, Janet ToddISBN 0460879146 (0-460-87914-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
The Ship of Foolsby Sebastian BrantISBN 0486257916 (0-486-25791-6)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patienceby A.C. Cawley, J.J. AndersonISBN 0460871013 (0-460-87101-3)
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The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0460873296 (0-460-87329-6)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Claire HarmanISBN 0460871978 (0-460-87197-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Tales from Shakespeareby Charles Lamb, Mary LambISBN 0460050397 (0-460-05039-7)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan Poe, Graham ClarkeISBN 0460873423 (0-460-87342-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'Book summary:Award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley writes, "I have selected three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories.... I chose 'The Fall of the House of Usher' for its classic Gothic images and its dark, melancholic central characters, including the house itself. 'The Black Cat' is ... appealing to me for its use of mystery and foreboding that takes us to a horrifying climax. 'The Cask of Amontillado' ... my personal favorite, [is] a simple narrative of revenge set in the contrasting worlds of carnival and catacomb." Click on the book's cover for a closer look, but the reproduction doesn't really do justice to the richness of color in Kelley's shadowy, atmospheric paintings. (The cat's eye is green, and its tongue is pink.) This gorgeous edition has 20 full- and double-page paintings, including a melancholy portrait of Poe; each page of text is surrounded by subtle decorative frames. The images of Roderick and Madeleine Usher are especially effective. [via]
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 0460874551 (0-460-87455-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Thomas Hardyby Andrew MotionISBN 0460874586 (0-460-87458-6)
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Three Men in a Boatby Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0460870289 (0-460-87028-9)
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Three Men in a Boat: (to Say Nothing of the Dog)by Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 046002504X (0-460-02504-X)
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0460877356 (0-460-87735-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Machine'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type. The first of Wells's scientific romances, this novel combines social and political allegory with an attempt to predict the future. [via]
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britainby Daniel Defoe, G.D.H. Cole, David Clayton BrowningISBN 0460108204 (0-460-10820-4)
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The Travels Of Marco Poloby Marco PoloISBN 0460113062 (0-460-11306-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Travels With a Donkey an Inland Voyage the Silverado Squattersby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0460117661 (0-460-11766-1)
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Trilbyby George Du MaurierISBN 0460018639 (0-460-01863-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trilby'Book summary: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]
Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 0460016172 (0-460-01617-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Two on a Towerby Thomas HardyISBN 0460877844 (0-460-87784-4)
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Typeeby Herman Melville, A. Robert LeeISBN 0460872761 (0-460-87276-1)
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Utopiaby Thomas MoreISBN 0460874314 (0-460-87431-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:Published in Latin in 1516, "Utopia" is one of the most influential books in the Western philosophical and literary tradition and an achievement of Renaissance humanism. This edition combines More's Latin text with an English translation, a commentary, a textual guide and an introduction. [via]
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The Vicar of Bullhamptonby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0486238245 (0-486-23824-5)
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0460871595 (0-460-87159-5)
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Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 046087635X (0-460-87635-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreau'Book summary:The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text summary. Presented in an affordable edition with wide format pages for generous margins for notes. Contact your sales rep or call Tuttle for a complete list of available titles. [via]
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0460873032 (0-460-87303-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary: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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The Well-Belovedby Thomas Hardy, Norman PageISBN 0460876252 (0-460-87625-2)
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The Whole Craft of Spinning from the Raw Material to the Finished Yarnby Carol KrollISBN 0486239683 (0-486-23968-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Whole Craft of Spinning from the Raw Material to the Finished Yarn'Book summary:You can master the timeless craft of spinning with this clear, easy-to-follow manual. Everything you need to know from set-up to finished product in order to create distinctive yarns for use in knitting, weaving, crocheting, needlepoint, embroidery, and macrame. Author's preface. 33 illustrations, 10 black-and-white photographs. Bibliography. Sources of Supply.[via]More editions of The Whole Craft of Spinning from the Raw Material to the Finished Yarn:
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William Shakespeareby Martin DodsworthISBN 0460878158 (0-460-87815-8)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare'Book summary:A few narrative poems and many sonnets that have shaped the language of love from the body of Shakespeare's verse. It is some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. [via]
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0460011103 (0-460-01110-3)
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Wives and Daughtersby Pam Morris, Elizabeth Gaskell, Graham HandleyISBN 0460876511 (0-460-87651-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wives and Daughters'Book summary:Molly seems fated to suffer, firstly from her father's ill-conceived remarriage, and then from seeing her friend Roger Hamley infatuated with Molly's stepsister Cynthia. Everyone relies on Molly, but when will she have a fulfilling life of her own? This study edition contains commentary. [via]
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The Woodlandersby Thomas Hardy, Norman PageISBN 0460874594 (0-460-87459-4)
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