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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Lancelyn GreenISBN 0192835084 (0-19-283508-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:This popular series of readers has now been completely revised and updated, using a new syllabus and new word structure lists. Readability has been ensured by means of specially designed computer software. Words that are above level but essential to the story are explained within the text, illustrated, and then reused for maximum reinforcement. [via]
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The Aerofilms Book of Britain from the Airby Bernard Stonehouse, Aerofilms LimitedISBN 0297781219 (0-297-78121-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650by John MorrisISBN 0297176013 (0-297-17601-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650'Book summary:A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. He describes the Arthurian Age as 'the starting point of future British history', for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain, the establishment of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales from the collapse of the Pax Romana. In exploring political, social, economic, religious and cultural history from the fourth to the seventh century, his theme is one of continuity. That continuity is embodied in Arthur himself: 'in name he was the last Roman Emperor, but he ruled as the first medieval king.' [via]
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All Creatures Great and Smallby James HerriotISBN 0312330855 (0-312-33085-5)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Creatures Great and Small'Book summary:"This book shines with humor, pathos, superb tale-telling and a rarity above all these, what seems a richly justified love of life. whether on his back in a much-filled stable with his arm inside a cow, trying to turn a calf into the proper position to be born, or calming a wealty dowager with an overfed Peckingses, or comforting a lonely old man companion -a dog -has died, James Herriot needed all the bedside manner, stamina, skill, and gift of humanity of the best of family doctors. [via]
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: The Courage of Kings, the Goodness of Saints and the Romance of English Historyby Anne SavageISBN 0312037406 (0-312-03740-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Autobiography of Henry VIIIby Margaret George, William SommersISBN 0312194390 (0-312-19439-0)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Henry VIII'Book summary:Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and neglected his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; who finally grew fat, disease-ridden, dissolute. Now, in her magnificent work of storytelling and imagination Margaret George bring us Henry VIII's story as he himself might have told it, in memoirs interspersed with irreverent comments from his jester and confident, Will Somers. Brilliantly combining history, wit, dramatic narrative, and an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power, this monumental novel shows us Henry the man more vividly than he has ever been seen before.[via]More editions of The Autobiography of Henry VIII:
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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfourby Barbara Wertheim TuchmanISBN 0345314271 (0-345-31427-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour'Book summary:With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.
"Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer, a shrewd observer with a lively command of high drama."
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Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens, Stephen Charles GillISBN 0192834010 (0-19-283401-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleak House'Book summary:Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837by Linda ColleyISBN 0300107595 (0-300-10759-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Britons: Forging The Nation, 1707-1837'Book summary:In this compelling book, Linda Colley recounts how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the Act of Union between England and Wales and Scotland in 1707. Skillfully interweaving political, military, and social history, Colley enlivens her story with colorful vignettes of the heroes and politicians, artists and writers, and ordinary women and men who helped forge a British national identity. Her book is a major contribution to our understanding of Britain`s past and to the contemporary debate about the shape and identity of Britain in the future. [via]
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biographyby Edward RiceISBN 030681028X (0-306-81028-X)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britainby George MonbiotISBN 0330369431 (0-330-36943-1)
Softcover, Pan Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain'Book summary:If both George Monbiot's Captive State and Naomi Klein's No Logo are the two Zeitgeist books of the beginning of the 21st century, then it is good old-fashioned late-20th century capitalism that has put them there. While Klein investigates how the counter-culture has been bought out by big business, Monbiot takes a close look at how this green and pleasant isle has been delivered into unaccountable corporate control with disastrous results for local communities and for democracy itself. The project of investigating this process is vast and strewn with problems, not least that a great deal of the material Monbiot needed was not in the public domain. Thus, the book itself is the result of "stargazing on a cloudy night": an impassioned attempt to understand what stellar corporate influence is brought to bear on which governmental constellation before the clouds close over again. Depressingly, he demonstrates how New Labour has smoothly transitioned from anti-corporate opposition to big business bedfellow. Like Klein, Monbiot celebrates grassroots action, but his local heroes are more likely to be drawing up battle lines in Skye, rather than Seattle. In his evocative dealings with those at the rump end of corporate mismanagement and greed, the sense of betrayal is palpable, and Captive State can be seen as a warning shot across New Labour's bows. The devil, though, is in the details. Anonymous brown paper parcels arrive full of classified documents and Monbiot is to be applauded for bringing together a wealth of material and rendering it intelligible and intelligent, if sometimes he doesn't shy away from big theatrical deliveries, especially at the end of chapters. Ironically, it seems from reading Captive State that one of the victims of the corporate infiltration of the government is choice as well as voice. Whereas some resistance has come from consumer power--for, as Monbiot reminds us, the things that join us together are the things we are sold, he goes on to make the pertinent point that consumer power is diluted when choice is restricted to a local superstore or one hospital on the edge of town. Monbiot asks the right questions, but his answers remain elusive and caught up in a foggy democratic rhetoric that is less effective and inspiring than the tales of local activists clogging up the system that was supposed to work for them in the first place. Captive State is the first big ideas book of this decade. Let's hope it goes out of date before the next. --Fiona Buckland [via]
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Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856by Trevor RoyleISBN 0312230796 (0-312-23079-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856'Book summary:The mid-19th-century Crimean War, pitting England, France, and less powerful allies against Russia, was one of the first major international wars in history. In the execution, it was none too inspiring. As Trevor Royle writes in his sweeping study of the conflict, "it encompassed maladministration on a grand scale and human suffering, if not without parallel then at least minutely recorded by the watching war correspondents"--the war being the first as well to have been widely reported. It was, a contemporary British journal put it, a war of "lions led by donkeys," young men commanded by doddering veterans of the Napoleonic campaigns who served in an unlikely alliance. The English officers, Royle writes, could never shake the habit of calling their French comrades "the enemy," and never quite trusted them, either.
The result was carnage: not only the loss of a good portion of the Light Brigade in the most famous--but not the most inept--incident of the war, but also the destruction of whole regiments left to blunder about in the fog and smoke, thanks to their commanders' inadequate intelligence-gathering efforts. Not much changed at war's end. In the eventual peace treaty, France and England and Russia kept their territories more or less intact, and the struggle for power between Russia and the neighboring Ottoman Empire, in whose defense France and England had ostensibly gone to war, stretched out for another generation. It ended with a Russian victory that allowed Russia to assume control of Turkish holdings in the Balkans, which, Royle notes, lay the seeds for still another international conflict, World War I.
Royle does a fine job of negotiating through the many complexities, diplomatic and military, of the Crimean War. His descriptions of battlefield tactics (or the lack thereof) are among the best in the literature. More comprehensive than Robert B. Edgerton's Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War, Royle's Crimea is likely to stand as an enduring work on this strange, wasteful conflict. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Dangerous Longingby Veronica SattlerISBN 0312923376 (0-312-92337-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Defeat of the Spanish Armadaby Garrett MattinglyISBN 0224617494 (0-224-61749-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Druidsby Stuart PiggottISBN 0275467309 (0-275-46730-9)
Hardcover, Praeger
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Druids'Book summary:In "The Druids" Piggott first defines the limits of what can be known about any pre-literate people such as the Druids, and how it can be known. This is not, as so many other books on the topic turn out to be, a romantic description of an ancient people, but rather a history first of the archeological, then the contemporary historical, and finaly the historiographic records of the Druids, who they may have been, and what they may have been about. [via]
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Emmaby Jane Austen, Alistair M. DuckworthISBN 0312207573 (0-312-20757-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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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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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 0330344676 (0-330-34467-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'Book summary:Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm, she attracts three very different suitors: the seemingly commonplace, man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak, the dashing young soldier, Francis Troy, and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. Her choice, and the tragedy it provokes, lie at the centre of Hardy's ambivalent story. This edition presents a new text, restoring several manuscript passages never before published with the novel, and many of the 1901 revisions missing from nearly all modern versions. [via]
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- Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 019283391X (0-19-283391-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 031228246X (0-312-28246-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 0333168801 (0-333-16880-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 0333168917 (0-333-16891-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 0333172698 (0-333-17269-8)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 0330344676 (0-330-34467-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
- Far from the Madding Crowd: ISBN 019283391X (0-19-283391-X)
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Far from the Madding Crowdby UnkISBN 0194226875 (0-19-422687-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'Book summary:"Oxford Bookworms" offer students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English. There are six stages, taking students from elementary to advanced level. At the lower stages, many of the texts have been specially written for the series, to provide elementary and lower-intermediate students with an introduction to real reading in English. At the higher stages, most of the books have been adapted from works originally published for native speakers. The language controls used in "Oxford Bookworms" are based on a syllabus specially created for the series by Tricia Hedge. This takes account of the more traditional approaches to grading and recent research into the nature of reading difficulty. The approximate vocabulary count for each stage is: Stage 1 - 400 words; Stage 2 - 700 words; Stage 3 - 1000 words; Stage 4 - 1400 words; Stage 5 - 1800 words; Stage 6 - 2500 words. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a supporting glossary to help students with vocabulary. Illustrations are used, especially at the lower stages, to help comprehension. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Dennis ButtsISBN 0192835963 (0-19-283596-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Howards Endby E. M. Forster, Alistair M. DuckworthISBN 0312111827 (0-312-11182-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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In Search of Englandby H. V. MortonISBN 0306811057 (0-306-81105-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of England'Book summary:Currently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one British newspaper has called "travel writing at its best. Bill Bryson must weep when he reads it." Whether describing ruined gothic arches at Glastonbury or hilarious encounters with the inhabitants of Norfolk, Morton recalls a way of life far from gone even at the beginning of a new century.[via]More editions of In Search of England:
James Herriot's Yorkshireby James HerriotISBN 0312439717 (0-312-43971-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Herriot's Yorkshire'Book summary:Yorkshire is Herriot country--restless winds ruffling the heater on the lonely moors, rustic stone walls stretching across lush green dales, gentle sheep grazing near isolated farmhouses. All the cherished scenes and memorable characters of the wonderful Herriot books come to life as the world's most beloved veterinarian takes you it his favorite places. . .and in warm, loving, deeply enriching commentary, shares with you memories of his life with Helen, Fiegfried, Tristan and the special animals he has so tenderly cared for in this hauntingly beautiful corner of England. [via]
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Jane Austen's Emma: A Longman Cultural Editionby Jane Austen, Frances FergusonISBN 032122504X (0-321-22504-X)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen's Emma: A Longman Cultural Edition'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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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0333168976 (0-333-16897-6)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:The first truly critical edition of Hardy's most controversial novel, presenting a "clean" text in which Hardy's own light punctuation is restored. [via]
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Keepers of the Kingdom: Jubilee Editionby Alastair BruceISBN 0304362018 (0-304-36201-8)
Hardcover, Cassell P L C
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Lieutenant Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316290637 (0-316-29063-7)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lieutenant Hornblower'Book summary:The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independent command on the high seas. And while blood and violence flow thick and fast aboard a beleaguered HMS Renown, the aftermath of war promises intrigue of an entirely different order: Maria, a young senorita, who might just soften the steely resolve of a young lieutenant. This is the second of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. [via]
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The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of Englandby Antonia FraserISBN 0297769111 (0-297-76911-1)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of England'Book summary:An illustrated survey of the dynasties of English royalty from the establishment of the monarchical power base by the early Norman kings through to the present Queen. [via]
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The Lord God Made Them Allby James HerriotISBN 0312335326 (0-312-33532-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord God Made Them All'Book summary:With each book more embraceable than the last, James Herriot once again brings us the magical beauty of Yorkshire through his heartwarming experiences as a country veterinarian. These new stories provide a grand finale to the wonderful books that began with all Creatures Great and Small.[via]
It is just after World War II, and James has returned from the R.A.F. to do battle with the diseases and injuries that befall the farm animals and pets of Skeldale and the surrounding moors. Four-year-old Jimmy Herriot, Humphrey Cobb and his little beagle Myrtle, Norman the book-loving veterinary assistant, and many more new faces join old favorites among the green hills of Yorkshire, as James takes an unforgettable voyage to Russia on a freighter with 383 pedigreed sheep. Touching our hearts with laughter and wisdom, lifting our spirits with compassion and goodness, James Herriot never fails to delight.More editions of The Lord God Made Them All:
- The Lord God Made Them All: ISBN 0312966202 (0-312-96620-2)
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Softcover, Pan Macmillan - The Lord God Made Them All: ISBN 0312498349 (0-312-49834-9)
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- The Lord God Made Them All: ISBN 0312966202 (0-312-96620-2)
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Lord Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289434 (0-316-28943-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Hornblower'Book summary:The Hornblower Novels of C. S. Forester Mr. Midshipman Hornblower Lieutenant Hornblower Hornblower and the Hotspur Hornblower During the Crisis Hornblower and the Atropos Beat to Quarters Ship of the Line Flying Colours Commodore Hornblower Lord Hornblower Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies Weary of the war that he has waged nearly his entire life, Hornblower finds himself assigned an especially dangerous and dubious new task: to rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew in the Bay of the Seine. This risky adventure, coinciding with reports that the tide of war may be turning-as Wellington has swept over the Pyrenees and the Russians have reached the Rhine-propels Hornblower toward the heart of the French Empire, toward a fateful reunion with old friends, and toward the harrowing but glorious conclusion of his own battle with Napoleon. [via]
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Mabinogionby Alan Lee, Charlotte SchreiberISBN 0261103911 (0-261-10391-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mabinogion'Book summary:A major illustrated edition of the classic fantasy with over 50 full-colour paintings by the celebrated artist of The Lord of the Rings. Before The Lord of the Rings there was THE MABINOGION. Widely recognized as the finest arc of Celtic mythology, the eleven stories were preserved in two Welsh collections, The White Book of Rhydderch (c.1300-1325) and The Red Book of Hergest (1375-1425), though the stories themselves hail from an oral tradition dating back to the tenth century. At its core are tales of heroes and men, birth and death, gods and beasts, penance and vindication, kinship and kingship, battles and quests. THE MABINOGION embraces much of ancient and early British culture, combining the numinous world of Celtic mythology, Arthurian legend and feudal Europe's Age of Chivalry. Indeed, scholars have identified that it was out of THE MABINOGION that the Arthurian legends were born. This new edition contains the definitive translation of the work by Lady Charlotte Guest, undoubtably the most accessible of those published, and includes the tale of Taliesin, which has been missing from the collected tales of the Mabinogion for over twenty years. It also contains 50 colour paintings by Alan Lee, many appearing here for the first time. Best known for his work on the illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, it was always Alan Lee's ambition to illustrate THE MABINOGION, as it combines his main interests of folklore, legend and the supernatural. His style lends itself perfectly to the work and his interpretation will give enormous pleasure as the stories enter their third millennium. [via]
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Mary Queen of Scotsby Antonia FraserISBN 0297177737 (0-297-17773-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Queen of Scots'Book summary:A biography of Mary Queen of Scots which, when originally published in 1969, won the James Tait Black Memorial prize. [via]
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionaryby Simon WinchesterISBN 019517500X (0-19-517500-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:Ask a logophile or crossword-puzzle addict what the holiest of holy reference works might be, and you're almost certain to receive a three-letter acronym in reply: the OED. Now in 20 volumes and still growing, the Oxford English Dictionary is an astounding monument, one that, like the Great Wall and the Roman Forum, seems to have been around forever. But, writes the always interesting explorer Simon Winchester in The Meaning of Everything, it took decades--and considerable sums of money--to bring it into being. The Scottish autodidact James Augustus Henry Murray, surrounded by a small army of underpaid and overworked helpers, laboured over it for more than half a century, seeing into print "a total of 227,779,589 letters and numbers, occupying fully 178 miles of type" that brought the elusive histories of words such as walrus (courtesy of J. R. R. Tolkien) and cow ("the female of any bovine animal," courtesy of Murray himself) into sharp relief. The making of the great dictionary over the years and decades seems an unlikely topic for a sometimes romantic, sometimes suspenseful tale, but Winchester delivers just that. Those who cherish words will find it a constant pleasure. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Melmoth the Wandererby Charles Robert MaturinISBN 0192835920 (0-19-283592-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289124 (0-316-28912-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Midshipman Hornblower'Book summary:Horatio Hornblower was born in C.S. Forester's fertile imagination and became arguably more famous, certainly more personal, than Nelson, Cook and Drake combined. He fought in a dozen major campaigns during the Napoleonic wars, and it was in these pages that we first got a glimmer of just how much Bonaparte was hated, and why.
Forester's genius was not tidy, and so this story, which sets Hornblower on course at age 17, is Forester's sixth book about him, though it should have been the first. LIEUTENANT HORNBLOWER, which follows it, carries the intrepid young man another step forward in his career. [via]
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblowerby Rosemary Border, Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0194230414 (0-19-423041-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Midshipman Hornblower'Book summary:'Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.' But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous. But the hardest battles are fought by Hornblower within himself. [via]
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The Old Curiosity Shopby Charles Dickens, Elizabeth M. BrennanISBN 0198124937 (0-19-812493-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922by David FromkinISBN 0233983937 (0-233-98393-7)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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Persuasionby Claude Rawson, Jane Austen, John N. Davie, John DavieISBN 0192833618 (0-19-283361-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had for ever put an end to such a prospect. [via]
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The Pickwick Papersby Charles Dickens, James KinsleyISBN 0192834576 (0-19-283457-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pickwick Papers'Book summary:In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed `papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still among Dicken's most popular works. This book is intended for general; courses on early 19th-century English novel; courses specifically on Dickens [via]
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Queens of Britainby Norah LoftsISBN 0340215879 (0-340-21587-9)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, L. G. MitchellISBN 0192839780 (0-19-283978-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'Book summary:"Reflections on the Revolution in France" was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke's analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This new edition of the "Reflections" presents Burke's famous text along with a historical introduction by Frank Turner and four critical essays by leading scholars. The volume sets the "Reflections" in the context of Western political thought, highlights its ongoing relevance to contemporary debates, and provides abundant critical notes, a glossary and a glossary-index to ensure its accessibility. Contributors to the book examine various provocative aspects of Burke's thought. Conor Cruise O'Brien explores Burke's hostility to "theory", Darrin McMahon considers Burke's characterization of the French Enlightenment, Jack Rakove contrasts the views of Burke and American constitutional framers on the process of drawing up constitutions, and Alan Wolfe investigates Burke, the social sciences, and liberal democracy. [via]
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Seven Pillars of Wisdomby T. E. LawrenceISBN 022400896X (0-224-00896-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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SS-GB: Nazi-Occupied Britain, 1941by Len DeightonISBN 0345318099 (0-345-31809-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'SS-GB: Nazi-Occupied Britain, 1941'Book summary:In 1941 murder is still murder, but detection is a little different in Hitler's Britain. This novel portrays what might have happened if Germany had won World War II. The author has written about 25 books since his best-selling first novel, "The Ipcress File". [via]
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Andrew SandersISBN 0192833901 (0-19-283390-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience and public history paralled one another as the political activities and personal responsibilities of these fictional characters, during the French Revolution, draw them into the Paris of the Terror. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, John Paul RiquelmeISBN 0312106882 (0-312-10688-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:One of a selection of Thomas Hardy's best-known novels with introductions by critics, notes, a bibliography, a map of Hardy's Wessex, a chronology of his life and the New Wessex Edition text. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Tess of the D'Urbervilles: ISBN 0312793464 (0-312-79346-4)
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Tess Of The d'Urbervillesby Simon Gatrell, Penny Boumelha, Juliet Grindle, Thomas HardyISBN 019284069X (0-19-284069-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess Of The d'Urbervilles'Book summary:Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.
Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions. [via]More editions of Tess Of The d'Urbervilles:
Tess of the D'urbervilles: Stage 6 2,500 Headwordsby Thomas Hardy, Jennifer BassettISBN 0194230945 (0-19-423094-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardyby Peter WiddowsonISBN 0312090927 (0-312-09092-7)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Casebookby Arthur PollardISBN 0333215133 (0-333-21513-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Tudor Englandby John GuyISBN 0192852132 (0-19-285213-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tudor England'Book summary:John Guy here provides the most complete narrative history of Tudor England in more than 30 years. A compelling account of political and religious developments from the advent of the Tudors in the 1460s to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, his authoritative study discusses the far-reaching changes in government and the Reformation of the Church under Henry VII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth, and is enriched with illuminating character studies of the monarchs and politicians of the era. Taking into account new debates on the progress of the English Reformation and the strengths and weaknesses of Tudor Government at a local and national level, the book includes contextual analyses of the Tudor English economy, society, and political culture. [via]
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Under the Greenwood Treeby Thomas Hardy, Simon GatrellISBN 0192835173 (0-19-283517-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Greenwood Tree'Book summary:This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work. [via]
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackery, John SutherlandISBN 0192834436 (0-19-283443-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:This edition of one of the greatest social satires of the English language reproduces the text of the Oxford Thackeray and includes all of Thackeray's own illustrations. [via]
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The Well of Lost Plotsby Jasper FfordeISBN 0340825928 (0-340-82592-8)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Well of Lost Plots'Book summary:Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ...With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'. In the words of one critic: 'Don't ask. Just read it.' [via]
The Wench Is Deadby Colin DexterISBN 0312044445 (0-312-04444-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wench Is Dead'Book summary:In 1856 the body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford canal. In 1989 Inspector Morse is taken to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital with a perforated ulcer. As Morse begins his recovery he comes across an account of the investigation of Joanna's death and subsequent murder trial. [via]
The Wire in the Bloodby Val McDermidISBN 0312983654 (0-312-98365-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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