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Alien Sex : 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasyby Ellen Datlow, Harlan Ellison, Pat Murphy, Larry Niven, Lewis ShrinerISBN 0451451422 (0-451-45142-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alien Sex : 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy'Book summary:Nineteen erotic tales of love and aliens feature the writings of such popular authors as Harlan Ellison, Pat Murphy, Larry Niven, Connie Willis, Philip Jose+a7 Farmer, and Lewis Shiner. Reprint. [via]
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The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 0451519892 (0-451-51989-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, David MagarshackISBN 0451528611 (0-451-52861-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:A direct and truthful transcript of life in Russia in the early 1800's. [via]
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Apocalypse Arrayby Lyda MorehouseISBN 0451459814 (0-451-45981-4)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apocalypse Array'Book summary:Amariah McMannus isn't your normal, everyday, trouble-making teenager. Her mother's a legend in the cybernetic and law-enforcement communities. Her father is the Archangel Michael. The Antichrist is about to get married to Satan-and Amariah herself just may be the next messiah... [via]
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Archangel Protocolby Lyda MorehouseISBN 0451458273 (0-451-45827-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archangel Protocol'Book summary:First the LINK-an interactive, implanted computer-transformed society. Then came the angels-cybernetic manifestations that claimed to be working God's will...
But former cop Deidre McMannus has had her LINK implant removed-for a crime she didn't commit. And she has never believed in the angels.
All that will change when a man named Michael appears at her door. [via]More editions of Archangel Protocol:
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As You Like Itby William Shakespeare, Albert GilmanISBN 0451526783 (0-451-52678-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As You Like It'Book summary:With new dramatic criticism and updated bibliography. Edited by Albert Gilman. [via]
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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopinby Kate Chopin, Barbara H. SolomonISBN 0451524489 (0-451-52448-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin'Book summary:The Awakening tells of a wife who discovers the strength of her own sexuality and tries to wrench it from the hands of a patriarchal society- and her upper-class Cajun family.This and Chopin's other short stories are standard-setting masterpieces. [via]
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Beowulfby Burton RaffelISBN 0451527402 (0-451-52740-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The epic poem of war and adventure.
Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death.
* Burton Raffel's modern language translation from the original Old English remains the most celebrated introduction of the poem to students and the general reader alike
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Bram Stoker's Draculaby Fred Saberhagen, James V. HartISBN 0451175751 (0-451-17575-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'Book summary:A novelisation of the film of the book. This novel is a great deal shorter than the original novel and it is much more direct and erotic. Fred Saberhagen is the author of the "Berserker" books. James Hart is the screenwriter of "Hook". [via]
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Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne JewettISBN 0451527577 (0-451-52757-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Country of the Pointed Firs'Book summary:In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett published this classic novel of a female writer looking for seclusion and inspiration in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. Returning to the women and men of small New England towns for the accompanying collection of short fiction, this remarkable volume weaves a colorful and moving tapestry of the grand complexities, joys, and beauties of life.
"The young student of American Literature in far distant years to come will take up this book and say 'a masterpiece.'"-- Willa Cather [via]More editions of Country of the Pointed Firs:
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0451523377 (0-451-52337-7)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]Awareness of Dracula as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey to Transylvania, into the very heart of Count Draculas evil realm, is compelling, but it is perhaps the journey of the vampire to Englandand the dangers he poses to Jonathans beloved Minathat is more horrifying. -
Driftglassby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0451144244 (0-451-14424-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Emmaby Jane Austen, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451526279 (0-451-52627-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton, Anita ShreveISBN 0451527666 (0-451-52766-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Set against the bleak winter landscape of new england, ethan frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting mattie silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, edith wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her introduction, the distinguished critic elaine showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success. About the series: for over 100 years oxford world's classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more [via]
The Fallen Hostby Lyda MorehouseISBN 0451458796 (0-451-45879-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Four Major Playsby Henrik IbsenISBN 0451524063 (0-451-52406-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Major Plays'Book summary:Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen's works, these four plays--A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder--brilliantly embody his landmark contributions to the theater. Rich in symbolism and often autobiographical, each work deals convincingly with the human emotions of greed, fear, and sexual hostility, and confronts the external conflicts between reality and illusion. Reissue. [via]
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The French Lieutenant's Womanby John FowlesISBN 0451163753 (0-451-16375-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'Book summary:The story of a woman wronged, set against a backdrop of an unrelenting Victorian England. [via]
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Golden Witchbreedby Mary GentleISBN 0451450167 (0-451-45016-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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- Great Expectations: ISBN 0451517598 (0-451-51759-8)
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Hardcover, New Amer Library - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
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Guards! Guards!by Terry PratchettISBN 0451450892 (0-451-45089-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guards! Guards!'Book summary:This is the story of mysterious night-time prowling in Ankh-Morpork, the greatest city of Discworld: someone is turning the citizens into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. [via]
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0451527569 (0-451-52756-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet A. JacobsISBN 0451527526 (0-451-52752-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Harriet Jacobs, born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina, recounts her remarkable story. From her sale to an abusive master, to her bid for freedom as the lover of a white man, to her ultimate and harrowing emancipation, this work is an outstanding example of a woman's extraordinary courage--and one of the most provocative first-person accounts of slavery in American history.
Afterword by Myrlie Evers-Williams
"One of the major autobiographies of the Afro-American tradition."-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [via]More editions of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Brontë, Erica JongISBN 0451526554 (0-451-52655-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451511174 (0-451-51117-4)
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Softcover, Signet - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451514653 (0-451-51465-3)
Softcover, Signet - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451515560 (0-451-51556-0)
Softcover, Signet - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451518845 (0-451-51884-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451523326 (0-451-52332-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451526554 (0-451-52655-4)
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- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451511174 (0-451-51117-4)
Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0451520890 (0-451-52089-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0451527259 (0-451-52725-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death. [via]
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Geoff DyerISBN 0451528883 (0-451-52888-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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- Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451515196 (0-451-51519-6)
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- Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451515196 (0-451-51519-6)
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Little Menby Louisa May Alcott, Barbarese, J. T. (AFT)ISBN 0451529359 (0-451-52935-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Men'Book summary:Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place. [via]
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0451521358 (0-451-52135-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. It also contains comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of "Macbeth", then and now. [via]
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0451526295 (0-451-52629-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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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]
Marilynby Gloria SteinemISBN 0451155963 (0-451-15596-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet, Kenneth MyrickISBN 0451526805 (0-451-52680-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:****See Product Condition for Description of product [via]
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Messiah Nodeby Lyda MorehouseISBN 0451459296 (0-451-45929-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Messiah Node'Book summary:A potent mix of technology and salvation is the trademark of Lyda Morehouse's brilliant novels. Now, Messiah Node takes her uniquely-imagined world one step closer to its fate-as AIs and archangels, prophets and criminal masterminds face the final day of reckoning. [via]
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Middlemarchby George EliotISBN 0451529170 (0-451-52917-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:With sure and subtle touch, Eliot paints a luminous and spacious landscape of life in a provincial town, interweaving her themes with a proliferation of characters: an innocent idealist; a self-defeated young doctor; a naive young woman; and a cold man, who "lives too much with the dead". [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Wolfgang ClemenISBN 0451526961 (0-451-52696-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Newly revised, this comic play by Shakespeare features a new Introduction by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, an updated bibliography, suggested references, and stage and film history. [via]
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The Mill on the Flossby George EliotISBN 0451528263 (0-451-52826-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mill on the Floss'Book summary:Maggie Tulliver, the heroine who has aspirations beyond her sex and station has atoned for her sin and, finally, dies trying to save the brother whose love she could not win. [via]
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, David L. StevensonISBN 0451526813 (0-451-52681-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:This classic play gets a fresh update with the addition of an outline of Shakespeare's life, criticisms, and a new comprehensive stage history of notable productions. Detailed footnotes are keyed to numbered lines within the text. [via]
Murder of Angelsby Caitlin R. KiernanISBN 0451459962 (0-451-45996-2)
Softcover, Roc
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Nectar in a Sieveby Kamala Markandaya, Indira GanesanISBN 0451528239 (0-451-52823-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nectar in a Sieve'Book summary:Named Notable Book of 1955 by the American Library Association, this is the very moving story of a peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loved.
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane Austen, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451526368 (0-451-52636-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Persuasionby Jane Austen, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451526384 (0-451-52638-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey. [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. BarrieISBN 0451520882 (0-451-52088-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:Generations of readers have traveled to Neverland and all the secret places of a child's heart. With characters of startling originality and a story rich in adventure, humor, and sadness, J.M. Barrie's masterpiece remains a stirring call to flights of imagination. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 0451526015 (0-451-52601-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories'Book summary:"Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin." In their ideal of an exquisitely sensitive temperament that thrills to fine shadings in sensation, the principles of the aesthetic (or "decadent") movement are well suited to the tale of terror. No story exemplifies this better than Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The sparkling wit and zest for life of Wilde's characters combine with cold-blooded acts of horror to generate a deliciously twisted sense of elegance and evil, civilization and degradation. Oscar Wilde, like Edgar Allan Poe, shows us that what we find loathsome and frightening can also be beautiful. [via]
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Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 0451523849 (0-451-52384-9)
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Polymorphby Scott WesterfeldISBN 0451456602 (0-451-45660-2)
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Rosemary's Babyby Ira LevinISBN 0451194004 (0-451-19400-4)
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Sheby H. Rider HaggardISBN 0451525841 (0-451-52584-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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]
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George Eliot, Frederick R. KarlISBN 0451527216 (0-451-52721-6)
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Silkby Caitlin KiernanISBN 0451456688 (0-451-45668-8)
Softcover, Roc
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Song Of Solomonby Toni MorrisonISBN 0451152611 (0-451-15261-1)
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 0451525663 (0-451-52566-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer'Book summary:Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. "Summer" is the story of proud and independent Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated young man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of woman's romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly contemporary woman--in touch with her feelings and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of environment and heredity. Praised for its realism and candor by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," "Summer" was one of Wharton's personal favorites of all her novels and remains as fresh and relevant today as when it was first written. [via]
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0451519051 (0-451-51905-1)
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Tragedy of Macbethby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451526775 (0-451-52677-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tragedy of Macbeth'Book summary:"A first-rate entree to the Bard," hailed Publishers Weekly in praise of Bruce Coville's adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream Dial . Now the author follows with Macbeth, expertly weaving his own dramatic yet accessible prose with language from the play, creating a gateway to the greater enjoyment of the original. Powerful paintings, rich in atmosphere, by renowned artist Gary Kelley-winner of twenty medals from the Society of Illustrators-make this, like its predecessor, a classic in itself, full justice to the genius that came before. A perfect gift for both newcomers to Shakespeare's work as well as devoted followers. [via]
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William ShakespeareISBN 0451516494 (0-451-51649-4)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0451523024 (0-451-52302-4)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin : Or, Life among the Lowlyby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Darryl PinckneyISBN 0451526708 (0-451-52670-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin : Or, Life among the Lowly'Book summary:Arguably the most influential novel in American history, Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the embers of the struggle between free states and slave states into the fire of the Civil War-and is as powerful and relevant today as when it was first published a century and a half ago. [via]
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Villetteby Charlotte BronteISBN 0451529227 (0-451-52922-7)
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Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet. [via] -
Witches Abroadby Terry PratchettISBN 0451452259 (0-451-45225-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Witches Abroad'Book summary:Discworld's own version of the three witches--Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg--grab their broomstricks and journey to Genua to save Princess Emberella from a fairy tale ending-happy fairy godmother. [via]
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The Woman in Whiteby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0451519043 (0-451-51904-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman in White'Book summary:The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest "Sensation Novel." Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. This new critical edition is the first to use the original manuscript of the novel. John Sutherland examines Collins's contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, and provides a chronology of the novel's complicated events.
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Women in Loveby D. H. Lawrence, Louise A. DeSalvoISBN 0451525914 (0-451-52591-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:The erotic sequel to The Rainbow chronicles the lives, loves, obsessions, and struggles of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their lovers, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, as they search for fulfillment in post-World War I society. Reprint. [via]
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Wyrd Sistersby Terry PratchettISBN 0451450124 (0-451-45012-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wyrd Sisters'Book summary:When murder, mayhem and the sudden arrival of a royal baby disturb the monthly cauldron-stirring of three witches, trouble is bound to be brewed up in the little kingdom of Lancre. Kingdoms wobble and crowns topple in this sixth hilarious Discworld adventure! HC: Gollancz. [via]
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