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ISBN 9780520235755 (0-520-23575-4, 0520235754)

by Mark Twain

ISBN 0520235754 (0-520-23575-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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Sparkling with mischief, jumping with youthful adventure, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer is one of the most splendid re-creations of childhood in all of literature. It is a lighthearted romp, full of humor and warmth. It shares with its sequel, Huckleberry Finn, not only a set of unforgettable characters--Tom, Huck, Aunt Polly and others--but a profound understanding of humanity as well. Through such hilarious scenes as the famous fence-whitewashing incident, Twain gives a portrait--perceptive yet tender--of a humanity rendered foolish by his own aspirations and obsessions. Written as much for adults as for young boys and girls, Tom Sawyer is the work of a master storyteller performing in his shirt sleeves, using his best talents to everyone's delight. [via]

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ISBN 9780531169780 (0-531-16978-2, 0531169782)

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Jean Craighead George, Mark Twain

ISBN 0531169782 (0-531-16978-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub

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Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]

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ISBN 9780553213461 (0-553-21346-6, 0553213466)

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

ISBN 0553213466 (0-553-21346-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society) would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life, haunted by thoughts of suicide, Levin's struggles echo Tolstoy's own spiritual crisis. But Anna's inner turmoil mirrors the own emotional imprisonment and mental disintegration of a woman who dares to transgress the strictures of a patriarchal world. In Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy brought to perfection the novel of social realism and created a masterpiece that bared the Russian soul. [via]

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ISBN 9780517457535 (0-517-45753-9, 0517457539)

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Anna Karenina

by Outlet Book Company Staff

ISBN 0517457539 (0-517-45753-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy's masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian soul, set against the fascinating panorama of life in nineteenth-century Russia.
With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production. [via]

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Black Water

by Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN 0525934553 (0-525-93455-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Bodily Harm

by Margaret Atwood

ISBN 0553274554 (0-553-27455-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The Call of the Wild and White Fang

by Jack London

ISBN 0553212338 (0-553-21233-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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ISBN 9780553211665 (0-553-21166-8, 0553211668)

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Candide

by Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0553211668 (0-553-21166-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.

Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]

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Cannery Row

by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0531001695 (0-531-00169-5)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub

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ISBN 9780553211900 (0-553-21190-0, 0553211900)

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Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 0553211900 (0-553-21190-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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The only one of Kipling's novels to be cast in an American setting, Captains Courageous endures as one of literature's most cherished and memorable sea adventures. Harvey Cheyne, spoiled millionaire's son, tumbles overboard from a luxury liner--only to be rescued by the crew of a Gloucester schooner. Thus begins the boy's second voyage into the rugged rites and ways of sailors. Like all Kipling's masterworks, Captains Courageous is an interweaving of art and moral purpose. Angus Wilson has said that it shows "delicacy of craft and violence of feeling, exactitude and wile impressionism, subtlety and true innocence." A popular favorite since its first publication in 1897, the novel remains a classic story of youthful initiation--and a lively tribute to the author's famous code of bravery, loyalty, and honor among men. [via]

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ISBN 9780525079767 (0-525-07976-9, 0525079769)

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Charity Girl

by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 0525079769 (0-525-07976-9)
Hardcover, E. P. Dutton

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A Regency romance in which fate and impulse collaborate to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless, homeless waif named Cherry Steane. Could it be that Desford has begun to fall in love with Cherry? From the author of COUSIN KATE, FRIDAY'S CHILD and THE UNKNOWN AJAX. [via]

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ISBN 9780553250428 (0-553-25042-6, 0553250426)

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The Clan of the Cave Bear

by Jean M. Auel

ISBN 0553250426 (0-553-25042-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.

Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson [via]

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ISBN 9780520235762 (0-520-23576-2, 0520235762)

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain, Bernard L. Stein

ISBN 0520235762 (0-520-23576-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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In this biting satire by Twain, a 19th c. Yankee mechanic is knocked out during a brawl, and wakes to find himself in Camelot, A.D. 528, in King Arthur's Court. When the modern mechanic tries to cure society's ills (oppressed peasantry, evil church, etc.) with 19th c. industrial inventions like electricity and gunfire - all hell breaks loose! [via]

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN 0553211757 (0-553-21175-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons [via]

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0553211897 (0-553-21189-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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East of Eden: An Easy Guide to Car Maintenance And Repair

by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0553129090 (0-553-12909-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Excellent Women

by Barbara Pym

ISBN 0525101160 (0-525-10116-0)
Hardcover, Dutton

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ISBN 9780553203486 (0-553-20348-7, 0553203487)

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Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

ISBN 0553203487 (0-553-20348-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill. [via]

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The General and His Labyrinth

by Gabriel García Márquez

ISBN 0517107473 (0-517-10747-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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ISBN 9780525945277 (0-525-94527-X, 052594527X)

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

ISBN 052594527X (0-525-94527-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.

Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.

Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:

I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.

In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]

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ISBN 9780552137034 (0-552-13703-0, 0552137030)

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Good Omens

by Terry Pratchett

ISBN 0552137030 (0-552-13703-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]

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High Society

by Ben Elton

ISBN 0552999954 (0-552-99995-4)
Softcover, Black Swan

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ISBN 9780521484787 (0-521-48478-2, 0521484782)

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A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chapters

by Julian Barnes, Ron Middleton

ISBN 0521484782 (0-521-48478-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes is edited by Ron Middleton of the University of Reading. [via]

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ISBN 9780525128007 (0-525-12800-X, 052512800X)

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The Hotel New Hampshire

by John Irving

ISBN 052512800X (0-525-12800-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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The first of my fathers illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they dream on in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.

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ISBN 9780553273915 (0-553-27391-4, 0553273914)

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The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

ISBN 0553273914 (0-553-27391-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nation's history thrillingly to life, but also makes its people's joys and anguishes wholly our own. [via]

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

ISBN 0553225472 (0-553-22547-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]

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ISBN 9780517082393 (0-517-08239-X, 051708239X)

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James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Music

by James Joyce

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

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

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ISBN 9780517118290 (0-517-11829-7, 0517118297)

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Jane Austen

by Jane Austen

ISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy

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Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]

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Jane Austen : Her Complete Novels Li

by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517351749 (0-517-35174-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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ISBN 9780517347997 (0-517-34799-7, 0517347997)

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Jane Austen, Her Complete Novels

by Jane Austen

ISBN 0517347997 (0-517-34799-7)
Hardcover, Avenel Books

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A new jacketed edition, illustrated with line drawings, of the works of the ever-popular, critically acclaimed English novelist collects the unabridged texts of all of her completed novels, making it a unique bargain. [via]

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ISBN 9780553212600 (0-553-21260-5, 0553212605)

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Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0553212605 (0-553-21260-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.

From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]

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ISBN 9780525947677 (0-525-94767-1, 0525947671)

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The Lady and the Unicorn

by Tracy Chevalier

ISBN 0525947671 (0-525-94767-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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If you think you wouldn't raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn's horn, then maybe you aren't a 15th-century serving girl under the sway of a velvet-tongued court painter of ill repute. In keeping with her bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring, and its Edwardian-era follow-up, Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier's tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours, The Lady and the Unicorn is a subtle study in social power, and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris's Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste's daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world--so forbidden, given their class differences, that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier's imagination in this cleverly woven tale. --Regina Marler [via]

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ISBN 9780553212624 (0-553-21262-1, 0553212621)

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

ISBN 0553212621 (0-553-21262-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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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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ISBN 9780521007177 (0-521-00717-8, 0521007178)

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Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

by Michael Squires, D. H. Lawrence, M. H. Black, James T. Boulton, Lindeth Vasey

ISBN 0521007178 (0-521-00717-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press

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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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ISBN 9780525142805 (0-525-14280-0, 0525142800)

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Lady of Quality

by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 0525142800 (0-525-14280-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA

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"A writer of great wit and style...I've read her books to ragged shreds."Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph

The spirited and independent Miss Annis Wychwood is twenty-nine and well past the age for falling in love. But when Annis embroils herself in the affairs of a pretty runaway heiress, Miss Lucilla Carleton, she is destined to see a great deal of her fugitive's uncivil and high-handed guardian, Mr. Oliver Carleton. Befriending the wayward girl brings unexpected consequences, among them the conflicting emotions aroused by her guardian, who is quite the rudest man Annis has ever met...

Georgette Heyer's historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers. Her smart, independent heroines and dashing heroes brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting and fascinating eras of English history, when drawing rooms sparkled with well-dressed nobility, and romantic intrigues ruled the day.

"In this delectable Georgette Heyer novel, the lady of quality and her bit-of-a-rake swain are the ones on whom our eyes are fixed. They don't play us false. Miss Heyer is in top form...romantic, amusing, and full of tart-tongued comment on the mores of the time."Publishers Weekly

"Set in Bath in the last years of the Regency, it has the authentic Heyer sparkle."Woman's Journal

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Last Orders

by Graham Swift

ISBN 0517304813 (0-517-30481-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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London

by Edward Rutherfurd

ISBN 0517591812 (0-517-59181-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group

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Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

ISBN 0553213113 (0-553-21311-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]

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Moby Dick Or, the Whale

by Herman Melville

ISBN 0520045483 (0-520-04548-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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Including hyperlinked explanatory notes within the ebook-optimized text, introductions by leading authorities, and a wealth of other valuable material, Oxford World's Classics ebooks continue the series century-long commitment to scholarship across a broad spectrum of literature from around the globe.
Moby Dick: This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discuss the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery. [via]

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The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN 0553214411 (0-553-21441-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

ISBN 0553211560 (0-553-21156-0)
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T.S. Eliot called `The Moonstone the first and greatest English detective novel. The novel is worthy of such praise.

The story begins with a brief prologue describing how the famous yellow diamond was captured during a military campaign in India by a British officer in 1799. The action moves quickly to 1848 England, where, according to the British officers will, the diamond has been given to one of the soldiers young relatives, Rachel Verinder. Yet only hours after the diamond arrives at the Verinder estate, it disappears. Was it stolen by a relative? A servant? And who are these three Indian men who keep hanging around the estate?

`The Moonstone is told from the point of view of several characters. The first portion of the tale is told by Gabriel Betteredge, house steward of the Verinder estate, who has been working for the family practically his entire life. Betteredges account holds the readers interest as he introduces the main players and the crime itself. The next account, by distant Verinder relative Miss Clack, is humorous and somewhat important. But after Miss Clacks account, things really take off at breakneck speed.

Readers who latch onto the T.S. Eliot quote expecting a modern detective tale will be sorely disappointed. You arent going to see anything resembling Jeffrey Deaver, James Patterson, Sue Grafton, or even Mary Higgins Clark. You also wont see Mickey Spillane, Dashiel Hammett, or Raymond Chandler. Nor will you see Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, or Martha Grimes. You wont even see Arthur Conan Doyle. But you WILL see the novel that influenced them all.

Youll also see something else. Something that modern mystery/detective writers have for the most part lost. Characters. Oh sure, modern writers have characters, but for the most part, the reader only learns enough about the character to forward the plot. In our time, plot is King. When `The Moonstone was published (1868), [via]

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Nine Stories

by J. D. Salinger

ISBN 0553263609 (0-553-26360-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worry--Seymour hasn't lost control. Mention of a book he sent her from Germany and several references to his psychiatrist lead the reader to believe that World War II has undone him.

The war hangs over these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage. Salinger's children are fragile, odd, hypersmart, whereas his grown-ups (even the materially content) seem beaten down by circumstances--some neurasthenic, others (often female) deeply unsympathetic. The greatest piece in this disturbing book may be "The Laughing Man," which starts out as a man's recollection of the pleasures of storytelling and ends with the intersection between adult need and childish innocence. The narrator remembers how, at nine, he and his fellow Comanches would be picked up each afternoon by the Chief--a Staten Island law student paid to keep them busy. At the end of each day, the Chief winds them down with the saga of a hideously deformed, gentle, world-class criminal. With his stalwart companions, which include "a glib timber wolf" and "a lovable dwarf," the Laughing Man regularly crosses the Paris-China border in order to avoid capture by "the internationally famous detective" Marcel Dufarge and his daughter, "an exquisite girl, though something of a transvestite." The masked hero's luck comes to an end on the same day that things go awry between the Chief and his girlfriend, hardly a coincidence. "A few minutes later, when I stepped out of the Chief's bus, the first thing I chanced to see was a piece of red tissue paper flapping in the wind against the base of a lamppost. It looked like someone's poppy-petal mask. I arrived home with my teeth chattering uncontrollably and was told to go straight to bed." [via]

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The Nonesuch

by Georgette Heyer

ISBN 0553253824 (0-553-25382-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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ISBN 9780553213928 (0-553-21392-X, 055321392X)

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Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN 055321392X (0-553-21392-X)
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A young man struggling for self-realization is caught up in a destructive love affair. [via]

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ISBN 9780553262612 (0-553-26261-0, 0553262610)

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The Pearl

by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0553262610 (0-553-26261-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to the tragedy.

For Steinbeck, Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems. Originally published in 1947, The Pearl shows why Steinbecks style has made him one of the most beloved American writers: it is a simple story of simple people, recounted with the warmth and sincerity and unrivaled craftsmanship Steinbeck brings to his writing. It is tragedy in the great tradition, beautifully conveying not despair but hope for mankind.

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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

by James Joyce

ISBN 0553214047 (0-553-21404-7)
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Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years as the youngest student at the Clongowed Wood school to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, and finally to his college studies where he challenges the conventions of his upbringing and his understanding of faith and intellectual freedom. James Joyce's highly autobiographical novel was first published in the United States in 1916 to immediate acclaim. Ezra Pound accurately predicted that Joyce's book would "remain a permanent part of English literature," while H.G. Wells dubbed it "by far the most important living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing." A remarkably rich study of a developing young mind, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man made an indelible mark on literature and confirmed Joyce's reputation as one of the world's greatest and lasting writers. [via]

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The Prince of Tides

by Pat Conroy

ISBN 0553268880 (0-553-26888-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister, Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.

Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina Low Country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is Pat Conroy at his very best. [via]

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ISBN 9780552994705 (0-552-99470-7, 0552994707)

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The Rector's Wife

by Joanna Trollope

ISBN 0552994707 (0-552-99470-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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ISBN 9780553213232 (0-553-21323-7, 0553213237)

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A Room With a View

by E. M. Forster

ISBN 0553213237 (0-553-21323-7)
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This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England.

A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson-who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist-Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion.

The enduring delight of this tale of romantic intrigue is rooted in Forster's colorful characters, including outrageous spinsters, pompous clergymen, and outspoken patriots. Written in 1908, A Room with a View is one of E. M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works. [via]

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Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

ISBN 0553208845 (0-553-20884-5)
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In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gautama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahman, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. --Brian Bruya [via]

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Sula

by Toni Morrison

ISBN 055320517X (0-553-20517-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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ISBN 9780521402347 (0-521-40234-4, 0521402344)

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This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West

ISBN 0521402344 (0-521-40234-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920. [via]

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The Thorn Birds

by Colleen McCullough

ISBN 0517201658 (0-517-20165-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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ISBN 9780553212495 (0-553-21249-4, 0553212494)

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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0553212494 (0-553-21249-4)
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Robert Louis Stevenson's cherished, unforgettable adventure magically captures the thrill of a sea voyage and a treasure hunt through the eyes of its teenage protagonist, Jim Hawkins. Crossing the Atlantic in search of the buried cache, Jim and the ship's crew must brave the elements and a mutinous charge led by the quintessentially ruthless pirate Long John Silver. Brilliantly conceived and splendidly executed, it is a novel that has seized the imagination of generations of adults and children alike. And as David Cordingly points out in his Introduction, Treasure Island is also the best and most influential of all the stories about pirates.

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Treasure Island : With Story of the Treasure of Normon Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0517618168 (0-517-61816-8)
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Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]

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Watership Down

by Richard Adams

ISBN 0517198126 (0-517-19812-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen, Lindeth Vasey, David R. Farmer, David H. Farmer

ISBN 0521280419 (0-521-28041-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Perhaps no other of the worlds great writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And perhaps no other of his books so explores the mysteries between men and womenboth sensual and intellectualas Women in Love. Written in the years before and during World War I in a heat of great energy, and criticized for its exploration of human sexuality, the book is filled with symbolism and poetryand is compulsively readable.

It opens with sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, characters who also appeared in The Rainbow, discussing marriage, then walking through a haunting landscape ruined by coal mines, smoking factories, and sooty dwellings. Soon Gudrun will choose Gerald, the icily handsome mining industrialist, as her lover; Ursula will become involved with Birkin, a school inspectorand an erotic interweaving of souls and bodies begins. One couple will find love, the other death, in Lawrences lush, powerfully crafted fifth novel, one of his masterpieces and the work that may best convey his beliefs about sex, love, and humankinds ongoing struggle between the forces of destruction and life. [via]

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

ISBN 0553196332 (0-553-19633-2)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing

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"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature. [via]

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