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The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant

ISBN 1400060737 (1-4000-6073-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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The Birth of Venus is all the more fascinating a historical novel for the author's inability to make up her mind what it is about. Is it a novel about the limited choices available to a woman with talent in Renaissance Florence--marriage or the convent? Or is it a novel about the choices you make to survive in a totalitarian society? As Savonarola takes Florence closer and closer to being an ascetic theocracy, Alessandra, her gay brother and his lover whom she has married for mutual protection find themselves in more and more peril. It could also be a detective story--Allesandra is in love with a painter whose religious mania and fascination with the body makes him a plausible suspect for a series of killings and dismemberments. Some historical novels wear their research too heavily--Dunant's is light, fluent and pacy, but her fascination with the possibilities revealed by research leaves her failing to make choices.
The Birth of Venus is a highly intelligent novel kept from incoherence mostly by the intensely imagined Alessandra, through whose eyes we see the tragic end of a key moment in human culture and whose lively sensibility constantly sparks ideas about art and her time. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Burr
by Gore Vidal

ISBN 1417633840 (1-4176-3384-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.

Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. And he is determined to tell his own story. As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young United States. [via]
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Centennial
by James A. Michener

ISBN 0449214192 (0-449-21419-2)
Softcover, Fawcett Books

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Chronicles the lives of individuals involved in the development and exploitation of the American West, particularly Colorado. [via]
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El Nombre De La Rosa
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 9685959242 (968-5959-24-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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El nombre de la rosa / The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 8497592581 (84-9759-258-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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I, Claudius
by Robert Graves

ISBN 067972477X (0-679-72477-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Having never seen the famous 1970s television series based on Graves' historical novel of ancient Rome and being generally uneducated about matters both ancient and Roman, I wasn't prepared for such an engaging book. But it's a ripping good read, this fictional autobiography set in the Roman Empire's days of glory and decadence. As a history lesson, it's fabulous; as a novel it's also wonderful. Best is Claudius himself, the stutterer who let everyone think he was an idiot (to avoid getting poisoned) but who reveals himself in the narrative to be a wry and likable observer. His story continues in Claudius the God. [via]
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I, Claudius and Claudius the God
by Robert Graves, Richard Francis

ISBN 1857542797 (1-85754-279-7)
Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited

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This text re-edits "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God" as part of the 21-volume Robert Graves Programme. [via]
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Il Nome Della Rosa
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 8845207056 (88-452-0705-6)
Hardcover, Bompiani

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"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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James Clavell's Shogun

ISBN 1555600476 (1-55560-047-6)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill

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James Clavell's Shogun
by James Clavell

ISBN 044008721X (0-440-08721-X)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press

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Les Trois Mousquetaires
by Alexandre Dumas

ISBN 0785917713 (0-7859-1771-3)
Softcover, French & European Pubns

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This edition of "Les Trois Mousquetaires" has been specially adapted for beginners learning French. The original language has been simplified, although it still aims to retain the flavour and style of the original. [via]
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Lincoln
by Gore Vidal

ISBN 1568496265 (1-56849-626-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which Gore Vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of Civil War America with 20th-century literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding Abraham Lincoln, including personal secretary John Hay and scheming cabinet members William Seward and Salmon P. Chase, as well as his wife, Mary Todd. It is a book monumental in scope that never loses sight of the intimate and personal in its depiction of the power struggles that accompanied Lincoln's efforts to preserve the Union at all costs--efforts in which the eradication of slavery was far from the president's main objective. As usual, there's plenty of room for Vidal's wickedly humorous deflation of American icons, including a comic interlude in a Washington bordello in which Lincoln's former law partner informs Hay that Lincoln had contracted syphilis as a young man and had, just before marrying Mary Todd, suffered what can only be described as a nervous breakdown. (Protestors should note that Vidal is only passing along what that former partner had written in his own biography of Lincoln.) Don't be intimidated by the size of Lincoln; if you like historical fiction, you should read this book at the first opportunity. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Los Tres Mosqueteros / the Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas

ISBN 9706436332 (970-643-633-2)
Softcover, Selector S.A. De C.V.

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Un libro clasico de aventuras sin Igual. La narrativa definitivamente es rica y se disfruta por su sencillez durante toda la lectura. Compañerismo, lealtad y ética son valores que durante toda su obra menciona. [via]
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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"A brilliantly conceived adventure into another time" (San Francisco Chronicle) by critically acclaimed author Umberto Eco. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns to the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, and the empirical insights of Roger Bacon to find the killer. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey ("where the most interesting things happen at night") armed with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious curiosity. [via]
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Shogun
by James Clavell

ISBN 0440178002 (0-440-17800-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power...

From the Paperback edition. [via]
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The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas, Deborah G. Felder

ISBN 0679860177 (0-679-86017-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Dumas's most popular novel has long been a favorite with children, and its swashbuckling heroes are well known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in 17th-century France, this tale of the adventures of D'Artagnan and the three musketeers is the finest example of its author's brilliantly inventive storytelling genius. [via]
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel
by Alexandre Dumas

ISBN 141421166X (1-4142-1166-X)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. [via]
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Three Musketeers Special
by Alexandre Dumas

ISBN 0448424460 (0-448-42446-0)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
by Geraldine Brooks

ISBN 067091021X (0-670-91021-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders describes the 17th-century plague that is carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor. As villagers begin, one by one, to die, the rest face a choice: do they flee their village in hope of outrunning the plague or do they stay? The lord of the manor and his family pack up and leave. The rector, Michael Mompellion, argues forcefully that the villagers should stay put, isolate themselves from neighboring towns and villages, and prevent the contagion from spreading. His oratory wins the day and the village turns in on itself. Cocooned from the outside world and ravaged by the disease, its inhabitants struggle to retain their humanity in the face of the disaster. The narrator, the young widow Anna Frith, is one of the few who succeeds. With Mompellion and his wife, Elinor, she tends to the dying and battles to prevent her fellow villagers from descending into drink, violence, and superstition. All is complicated by the intense, inexpressible feelings she develops for both the rector and his wife. Year of Wonders sometimes seems anachronistic as historical fiction; Anna and Mompellion occasionally appear to be modern sensibilities unaccountably transferred to 17th-century Derbyshire. However, there is no mistaking the power of Brooks's imagination or the skill with which she constructs her story of ordinary people struggling to cope with extraordinary circumstances. --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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- Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague: ISBN 0783896824 (0-7838-9682-4)
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  Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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El Nombre De La Rosa
by Umberto Eco, Ricardo Pochtar

ISBN 8426411487 (84-264-1148-7)
Hardcover, Editorial Lumen

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- El Nombre De La Rosa: ISBN 9872060959 (987-20609-5-9)
  Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Yo, Claudio / I, Claudius
by Robert Graves

ISBN 842063512X (84-206-3512-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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EDICIoN ESPECIAL LIMITADA CONMEMORANDO EL 60 ANIVERSARIO DE EDHASA. A partir de la autobiografia del emperador Tiberio Claudio, nacido en el ano 10 d.C. y asesinado y deificado en el ano 54, se recrea la grandeza, la crueldad y la depravacion de los mandatarios de la Roma imperial. [via]
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Il Nome Della Rosa
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 8845246345 (88-452-4634-5)
Softcover, Rl Libri

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"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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OS Tres Mosqueteiros
by Dumas (Hijo), Dario Xohan Cabana

ISBN 8483024780 (84-8302-478-0)
Softcover, Xerais De Galicia Edicions

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Les Trois Mousquetaires
by Alexandre Dumas

ISBN 2011552443 (2-01-155244-3)
Softcover, Hachette Groupe Livre

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Les trois mousquetaires is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Alexandre Dumas pe¿re is in the French language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Alexandre Dumas pe¿re then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. [via]
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