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Beowulfby Kevin Crossley-Holland, Charles KeepingISBN 0192723693 (0-19-272369-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:This is the story of a young man who travelled far across the sea to fight two terrifying monsters-one who could rip a man apart and drink his blood, the other who lived like a sea-wolf at the bottom of a dark, blood-stained lake. The young hero's name was Beowulf, and his story, first written in Anglo-Saxon in the eighth century, has become one of the world's most famous epics. Kevin Crossley-Holland retells the story for children in quick-paced, rhythmical prose accompanied by Charles Keeping's striking illustrations. Together they bring to life the beauty and power of one of the first great English poems. [via]
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The Birth and Growth of Industrial England 1714-1867by John Fletcher Clews HarrisonISBN 0155351095 (0-15-535109-5)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Byronby Jerome J. McGann, George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 0192541846 (0-19-254184-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0192741810 (0-19-274181-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canterbury Tales'Book summary:They set off on an April morning with the rain dripping from the branches. Even with the rain, they were glad to be on their way--priests, nuns, tradesmen, men from the city, all pilgrims on the road to Canterbury.
To pass the long journey they told each other stories: of magic and trickery, of animals with blazing eyes, of people with their pants on fire, of two thousand men battling before smoking walls, stories of love and death and the devil. There were written down by Geoffrey Chaucer, and he called them The Canterbury Tales.
Geraldine McCaughrean retells The Canterbury Tales for children in a lively and humorous style which captures the original flair of Chaucer himself. She introduces us to the characters who told these tales: the shy, battle-hardened Knight, the Summoner whose breath smells of onions, the angry Miller with his read beard, and the Widow of Bath who likes a happy ending.
The stories and the characters are vividly brought to life by Victor Ambrus, with pictures of wild chases, exciting battles, and the April countryside through which the pilgrims travel. [via] -
The Canterbury Talesby Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 019278109X (0-19-278109-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canterbury Tales'Book summary:Interest age: 9+ [via]
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Churchill, the End of Glory: A Political Biographyby John CharmleyISBN 0156001446 (0-15-600144-6)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Clergyman's Daughterby George OrwellISBN 0156180650 (0-15-618065-0)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clergyman's Daughter'Book summary:At the distance of a half-century, this satiric social fiction is both a treasure and a disappointment. Orwell's wit is priceless--and ruthless--as he describes rural Church of England parish life; the transitory culture of the hops harvest; a brothel's soiled linen; not to mention when his heroine hobnobs with the Trafalgar Square homeless of a bitter winter's night or bullies bored students in a fourth-rate private school: "Last term the girls had behaved badly, because she had started by treating them as human beings, and later on, when the lessons that interested them were discontinued, they had rebelled like human beings. But if you are obliged to teach children rubbish, you must not treat them as human beings.... Before all else, you must teach them it is more painful to rebel than to obey."
Orwell's compassion for Dorothy Hare, ensnared by faith, birth, and gender to toil thanklessly as her minister father's unpaid curate, is admirable, and his evocation, early in the novel, of a woman's consciousness totally subsumed by the mostly trivial demands of others stands shoulder to shoulder with the best feminist fiction. The dialogues between Dorothy and her dissolute middle-aged suitor, Mr. Warburton, concerning human nature, faith, and morality, are smart and fun to read. The problem (and here Orwell commits the sort of sin he denounces in Dickens) is that the novel's plot--Dorothy's picaresque amnesiac travels through the seamy side of English life--feels manufactured for the author's satiric purposes. Orwell never relinquishes his cleverness, or his maleness, to become his heroine, with the result that the reader never surrenders wholly to the fiction. Thus A Clergyman's Daughter, while a pleasure to pick up, is not quite a book one can't put down. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Complete Worksby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0192541196 (0-19-254119-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysisby Lyman Tower SargentISBN 0155055151 (0-15-505515-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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The Continental Armyby Robert K. WrightISBN 0160019311 (0-16-001931-1)
Softcover, Bernan Assoc
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Conundrumby Jan MorrisISBN 015122563X (0-15-122563-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Paul BaileyISBN 0192100432 (0-19-210043-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:David Copperfield (1849-50) was Dickens's favorite novel: 'Of all my books', he wrote, 'I like it the best.' Strikingly autobiographical in its childhood scenes, it relates David's history from birth to young manhood, and the host of characters he meets on his journey of self-knowledge: Mr Micawber, the Peggottys, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth and Uriah Heep among them.
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A Dictionary of English Place-Namesby A. D. MillsISBN 0192800744 (0-19-280074-4)
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Divine Landscapesby Ronald BlytheISBN 0151257469 (0-15-125746-9)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Eagle of the Ninthby Rosemary Sutcliff, C. Walter HodgesISBN 0192710370 (0-19-271037-0)
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England and Ireland Since 1800by P. J. O'FarrellISBN 0192158147 (0-19-215814-7)
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English Romantic Writersby David PerkinsISBN 0155226606 (0-15-522660-6)
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English Romantic Writersby Perkins DavidISBN 0155016881 (0-15-501688-1)
Hardcover, Heinle
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Romantic Writers'Book summary:When preparing english romantic writers, one of the principal considerations was the relevance of the english romantic writers to our own generation. This book offers a very generous selection from authors who have traditionally held a large place in our consciousness of english romanticism, but it also includes other figures, especially women, who have been less emphasized in the past. The intellectual discourses of the age concerning governance, politics, and the impact of the french revolution, gender and the status of women, the nature of nature and of human psychology, and the theory of literature and art are represented in the prose and poetry of writers like wordsworth, coleridge, the shelleys, and keats. There is also an usually large selection of ancillary materials -- letters, journals, reviews, and reminiscences of the writers [via]
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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreatby James MorrisISBN 0156302861 (0-15-630286-1)
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From the Dardanelles to Oran: Studies of the Royal Navy in War Andpeace 1915-1940by Arthur J. MarderISBN 0192158023 (0-19-215802-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Gulliver's Travelsby James Riordan, Jonathan Swift, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0192741780 (0-19-274178-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Embark on a journey with one of the greatest world travelers of all time. Ride with him across the South Seas to the miniature island of Liliput, where people grow no taller than six inches high. Round the Cape of Good Hope to the land of Brobdingnag, home of giants tall as church steeples, and sail on to the exotic lands of Laputa, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrip, and more. Share Gulliver's incredible adventures, from his singlehanded defeat of an entire naval fleet (albeit one whose ships are toy boat-sized), to his harrowing abduction by a giant eagle, to his unfortunate dunking in a reservoir-sized pot of cream by a jealous dwarf!
These are the stories of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift's classic tale of fantastic adventures in far-off lands, brilliantly retold by James Riordan in rich, vivid prose that captures all the whimsy and satire of the original in the modern language of today's children. The illustrations by noted artist Victor Ambrus are rich and colorful, delicate in detail, strong in composition, and permeated with humor. And the insightful--often scathing--social commentary that Swift wove into his original tale remains intact, providing fascinating reading for adults as well as children. [via]More editions of Gulliver's Travels:
Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Jeanette WintersonISBN 0192100378 (0-19-210037-8)
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Hamletby JenkinsISBN 0174434693 (0-17-443469-3)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This edition offers a detailed insight into the work of Shakespeare expanding the individual's knowledge and appreciation of his work. [via]
Hard Times. for These Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0192545159 (0-19-254515-9)
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and Other Tales'Book summary:The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr. Kurtz. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature. Endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted for film, radio, and television, the story shows Conrad at his most intense and sophisticated. The other three tales in this volume depict corruption and obsession, and question racial assumptions. Set in the exotic surroundings of Africa, Malaysia, and the east, they variously appraise the glamour, folly, and rapacity of imperial adventure. This revised edition uses the English first edition texts and has a new chronology and bibliography. [via]
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Heart of Oak: A Survey of British Sea Power in the Georgian Eraby Geoffrey Jules MarcusISBN 0192158120 (0-19-215812-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Julius Caesarby David DaniellISBN 0174435479 (0-17-443547-9)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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King Johnby William ShakespeareISBN 0174436130 (0-17-443613-0)
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King Learby William Shakespeare, R. A. FoakesISBN 017443460X (0-17-443460-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:This edition of King Lear provides a clear a nd authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of sc holarship, and includes an in-depth survey of critical appro aches to the play. ' [via]
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King Richard IIby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434723 (0-17-443472-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Richard III'Book summary:King Richard exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, the son of the powerful but ailing nobleman, John of Gaunt. When Gaunt dies and the king seizes his lands, the son returns to his homeland. But Bolingbroke's ambitions extend beyond his family's property. He seeks nothing less than Richard's crown and all of England. In this production Richard is played by Rupert Graves, and Bolingbroke, by Julian Glover. The role of Queen Isabel falls to Saira Todd. [via]
The Lantern Bearersby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 0192720309 (0-19-272030-9)
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Lark Rise to Candlefordby Flora ThompsonISBN 0192117599 (0-19-211759-9)
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Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austenby Fay WeldonISBN 0156509814 (0-15-650981-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewitby Charles DickensISBN 0192545094 (0-19-254509-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit'Book summary:'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel. [via]
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A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret Warby William StevensonISBN 0151567956 (0-15-156795-6)
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Jane StablerISBN 019280264X (0-19-280264-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
Mary Poppinsby Pamela L. TraversISBN 0152524088 (0-15-252408-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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Mary Poppins: Three Enchanting Classics Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, and Mary Poppins Opens the Doorby P. L. Travers, Mary ShepardISBN 0152017178 (0-15-201717-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Poppins: Three Enchanting Classics Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, and Mary Poppins Opens the Door'Book summary:For all her offended sniffs and humphs, Mary Poppins is likely the most exciting nanny England--and the world--has ever seen. Young Jane and Michael Banks have no idea what's in store for them when Mary Poppins blows in on the east wind one autumn evening. Soon, though, the children are having tea on the ceiling, flying around the world in a minute (visiting polar bears and hyacinth macaws on the way), and secretly watching as their unusual nanny pastes gold paper stars to the sky. Mary's stern and haughty exterior belies the delightful nonsense she harbors; her charges, as well as her literary fans, respect and adore her.
Grownups who have forgotten Mary Poppins's true charms will be tickled pink to rediscover this uniquely unsentimental fantasy. Younger readers will walk into Mary's world without batting an eye--of course the animals in the zoo exchange places with people on the night of the full moon. Certainly a falling star landing on a cow's horn will make her dance ceaselessly. Why wouldn't one be able to enter into a chalk picture? The only disappointing aspect of this classic is that it doesn't go on forever! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Mary Poppins: Three Enchanting Classics Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, and Mary Poppins Opens the Door: ISBN 0152058109 (0-15-205810-9)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 0174436068 (0-17-443606-8)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale and confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN 0192553402 (0-19-255340-2)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0192553437 (0-19-255343-7)
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Northanger Abbey and Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0192547054 (0-19-254705-4)
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On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring down the British Empireby Peter HopkirkISBN 0192802305 (0-19-280230-5)
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Operation Menace: The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affairby Arthur Jacob MarderISBN 0192158112 (0-19-215811-2)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Over Sea, Under Stoneby Susan Cooper, Margery GillISBN 015259034X (0-15-259034-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Over Sea, Under Stone'Book summary:Three English children find clues to an ancient treasure linked to King Arthur and suddenly find themselves in deadly danger, pursued by forces of ancient evil. A wonderfully well-told story. --The Horn Book[via] 
Oxfordby Jan MorrisISBN 0192115715 (0-19-211571-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Book of Oxfordby Jan MorrisISBN 0192804073 (0-19-280407-3)
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The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotesby Elizabeth LongfordISBN 0192141538 (0-19-214153-8)
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The Oxford History of the British Armyby David Chandler, I. F. W. BeckettISBN 0192803115 (0-19-280311-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane Austen, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192547011 (0-19-254701-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Great Britain and Irelandby Dorothy Eagle, Meic Stephens, Hilary CarnellISBN 0192129880 (0-19-212988-0)
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A Passage to India: Library Editionby E. M. ForsterISBN 0156711427 (0-15-671142-7)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Passage to India: Library Edition'Book summary:What really happened in the Marabar caves? This is the mystery at the heart of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, the puzzle that sets in motion events highlighting an even larger question: Can an Englishman and an Indian be friends?
"It is impossible here," an Indian character tells his friend, Dr. Aziz, early in the novel.
"They come out intending to be gentlemen, and are told it will not do.... Why, I remember when Turton came out first. It was in another part of the Province. You fellows will not believe me, but I have driven with Turton in his carriage--Turton! Oh yes, we were once quite intimate. He has shown me his stamp collection.
Written while England was still firmly in control of India, Forster's novel follows the fortunes of three English newcomers to India--Miss Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Cyril Fielding--and the Indian, Dr. Aziz, with whom they cross destinies. The idea of true friendship between the races was a radical one in Forster's time, and he makes it abundantly clear that it was not one that either side welcomed. If Aziz's friend, Hamidullah, believed it impossible, the British representatives of the Raj were equally discouraging."He would expect you to steal it now. Turton! But red-nosed boy will be far worse than Turton!
"I do not think so. They all become exactly the same, not worse, not better. I give any Englishman two years, be he Turton or Burton. It is only the difference of a letter. And I give any Englishwoman six months. All are exactly alike."
"Why, the kindest thing one can do to a native is to let him die," said Mrs. Callendar.
Despite their countrymen's disapproval, Miss Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Mr. Fielding are all eager to meet Indians, and in Dr. Aziz they find a perfect companion: educated, westernized, and open-minded. Slowly, the friendships ripen, especially between Aziz and Fielding. Having created the possibility of esteem based on trust and mutual affection, Forster then subjects it to the crucible of racial hatred: during a visit to the famed Marabar caves, Miss Quested accuses Dr. Aziz of sexually assaulting her, then later recants during the frenzied trial that follows. Under such circumstances, affection proves to be a very fragile commodity indeed.
"How if he went to heaven?" asked Mrs. Moore, with a gentle but crooked smile.
"He can go where he likes as long as he doesn't come near me. They give me the creeps."Arguably Forster's greatest novel, A Passage to India limns a troubling portrait of colonialism at its worst, and is remarkable for the complexity of its characters. Here the personal becomes the political and in the breach between Aziz and his English "friends," Forster foreshadows the eventual end of the Raj. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empireby Jan MorrisISBN 0156028018 (0-15-602801-8)
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The Personal History of David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0192545027 (0-19-254502-7)
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The Raphael Affairby Iain PearsISBN 0151789126 (0-15-178912-6)
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Roald Dahl: A Biographyby Jeremy TreglownISBN 0156001993 (0-15-600199-3)
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Margaret Anne DoodyISBN 0192804782 (0-19-280478-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
Shakespeare in Performance: An Introduction through Six Major Playsby William Shakespeare, John Russell BrownISBN 015580829X (0-15-580829-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Katherine Duncan-JonesISBN 017443474X (0-17-443474-X)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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Slammerkinby Emma DonoghueISBN 0156007479 (0-15-600747-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slammerkin'Book summary:Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for linen and lace. Her lust for a shiny red ribbon leads her to a life of prostitution at a young age, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virtuous young women. But a dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth and the refuge of the middle-class household of Mrs. Jones, to become the seamstress her mother always expected her to be and to live the ordinary life of an ordinary girl. Although Mary becomes a close confidante of Mrs. Jones, her desire for a better life leads her back to prostitution. She remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets of London: Never give up your liberty; Clothes make the woman; Clothes are the greatest lie ever told. In the end, it is clothes, their splendor and their deception, that lead Mary to disaster.[via]
Emma Donoghue's daring, sensually charged prose casts a new sheen on the squalor and glamour of eighteenth-century England. Accurate, masterfully written, and infused with themes that still bedevil us today, Slammerkin is historical fiction for all readers.More editions of Slammerkin:
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Songs of Innocence and of Experienceby William BlakeISBN 0192804871 (0-19-280487-1)
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The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434731 (0-17-443473-1)
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The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailngeby Louis Le Brocquy, Thomas KinsellaISBN 0192803735 (0-19-280373-5)
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Taken on Trustby Terry WaiteISBN 0151878498 (0-15-187849-8)
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The Titian Committeeby Iain PearsISBN 0151904723 (0-15-190472-3)
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, G. B. HarrisonISBN 0156384108 (0-15-638410-8)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, David DaniellISBN 0174434901 (0-17-443490-1)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: With Related Readingsby Dom Saliani, Chris Ferguson, Tim ScottISBN 0176066152 (0-17-606615-2)
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0192500473 (0-19-250047-3)
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The Voyage Outby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156028050 (0-15-602805-0)
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A Wizard Abroadby Diane DuaneISBN 0152055037 (0-15-205503-7)
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The Works of Jane Austenby Jane AustinISBN 0192547062 (0-19-254706-2)
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Works [of] Maloryby Thomas Malory, Eugene VinaverISBN 0192541633 (0-19-254163-3)
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