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Checkmateby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0899663192 (0-89966-319-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Checkmate'Book summary:The grand finale to Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles, "Checkmate" finds Francis Crawford returning to France to lead an army against England. But even as the soldier-scholar succeeds brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of intense interest to forces in both the French and English courts. "Checkmate" is a masterly evocation of the intrigue and pageantry of sixteenth-century Europe--and a triumphant conclusion to the Lymond saga. 1 map. [via]
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0445406518 (0-445-40651-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crocodile on the Sandbank'Book summary:Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery. Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Evelyn Barton-Forbes, a young woman abandoned by her lover and left with no means of support. Amelia promptly takes Evelyn under her wing, insisting that the young lady accompany her to Egypt, where Amelia plans to indulge her passion for Egyptology. When Evelyn becomes the target of an aborted kidnapping and the focus of a series of suspicious accidents and mysterious visitations, Amelia becomes convinced of a plot to harm her young friend. Like any self-respecting sleuth, Amelia sets out to discover who is behind it all. [via]
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The Curse of the Pharaohsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890390 (0-922890-39-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Curse of the Pharaohs/Collectorsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890404 (0-922890-40-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Daughter of Fortuneby Isabel AllendeISBN 1417755946 (1-4177-5594-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughter of Fortune'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprising such heavy hitters as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa. But the Chilean Allende shouldered her way in with her magical realist multi-generational tale of the Trueba family, followed it up with four more novels and a spate of nonfiction, and has remained in a place of honor ever since. Her sixth work of fiction, Daughter of Fortune, shares some characteristics with her earlier works: the canvas is wide, the characters are multi-generational and multi-ethnic, and the protagonist is an unconventional woman who overcomes enormous obstacles to make her way in the world. Yet one cannot accuse Allende of telling the same story twice; set in the mid-1800s, this novel follows the fortunes of Eliza Sommers, Chilean by birth but adopted by a British spinster, Rose Sommers, and her bachelor brother, Jeremy, after she is abandoned on their doorstep.
"You have English blood, like us," Miss Rose assured Eliza when she was old enough to understand. "Only someone from the British colony would have thought to leave you in a basket on the doorstep of the British Import and Export Company, Limited. I am sure they knew how good-hearted my brother Jeremy is, and felt sure he would take you in. In those days I was longing to have a child, and you fell into my arms, sent by God to be brought up in the solid principles of the Protestant faith and the English language."
The family servant, Mama Fresia, has a different point of view, however: "You, English? Don't get any ideas, child. You have Indian hair, like mine." And certainly Eliza's almost mystical ability to recall all the events of her life would seem to stem more from the Indian than the Protestant side.As Eliza grows up, she becomes less tractable, and when she falls in love with Joachin Andieta, a clerk in Jeremy's firm, her adoptive family is horrified. They are even more so when a now-pregnant Eliza follows her lover to California where he has gone to make his fortune in the 1849 gold rush. Along the way Eliza meets Tao Chi'en, a Chinese doctor who saves her life and becomes her closest friend. What starts out as a search for a lost love becomes, over time, the discovery of self; and by the time Eliza finally catches up with the elusive Joachin, she is no longer sure she still wants what she once wished for. Allende peoples her novel with a host of colorful secondary characters. She even takes the narrative as far afield as China, providing an intimate portrait of Tao Chi'en's past before returning to 19th-century San Francisco, where he and Eliza eventually fetch up. Readers with a taste for the epic, the picaresque, and romance that is satisfyingly complex will find them all in Daughter of Fortune. --Margaret Prior [via]
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Falcon at the Portalby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0380798573 (0-380-79857-3)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falcon at the Portal'Book summary:"'Really,' I thought in mounting exasperation, 'there never was a household in which so many people felt free to offer their unsolicited opinions!'" This, of course, is the eminent Egyptologist and dedicated crime solver Amelia Peabody, setting the stage and the tone (an updated Oscar Wildean irony) for Elizabeth Peters's 11th book. And it's true that there are no shrinking violets in this particular household, from the redoubtable Amelia and her hot-tempered archaeologist husband Emerson (his native diggers call him the Father of Curses), to their dashing, unpredictable son Ramses (born Walter). Also, let's not forget their lovely ward, Nefret (rescued from a desert tribe several books back), and their butler, Gargery, "who wields a cudgel as handily as he carves a roast."
As she has so many times before, Peters presents us with this quaint--even campy--little group of people, plops them down in an exotic Egyptian setting, and then surprises us by involving them in a story of great strength and emotion.
It's 1911, and David Todros, a young Egyptian who has just married into the Peabody family, is suspected of dealing in forged antiquities, possibly to help support a rising nationalist movement. Amelia, Emerson, Ramses, and Nefret all take various actions to help David, and there are serious, dangerous consequences for everyone involved. Despite the melodramatic setting and the theatrical language, Peters's story is--as always--modern, believable, and exciting.
Other books in the Peabody series available in paperback are The Ape Who Guards the Balance, The Crocodile on the Sandbank, The Curse of the Pharaohs, and The Hippopotamus Pool. --Dick Adler [via]
The Grand Sophyby Georgette HeyerISBN 1560542020 (1-56054-202-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Hija De La Fortuna / Daughter of Fortuneby Isabel AllendeISBN 8484500152 (84-8450-015-2)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hija De La Fortuna / Daughter of Fortune'Book summary:Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo común. Eliza recibe ayuda y afecto de Tao Chi'en, un médico chino, quien la conducirá de la mano en un itinerario memorable por los misterios y contradicciónes de la condición humana. hija de la fortuna es un retrato palpitante de una época marcada por la violencia y la codicia en la cual los protagonistas rescatan el amor, la amistad, la compasión y el valor.
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The Illustrated Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, DarcyISBN 0142005142 (0-14-200514-2)
Softcover, Studio
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Jane Eyre'Book summary:[via]
A devoted readership will recognize Dame Darcy as the creator of highly original and off-kilter comic books. Here she uses her lavishly detailed illustrations to bring the best-loved Victorian novel Jane Eyre back into the spotlight. Darkly elegant illustrations draw back the novels curtain, revealing the depths of human depravity, despair, and ultimate redemption. Sure to impress traditional fans and newcomers alike, The Illustrated Jane Eyre updates the classic for a new era.
@ToEyreIsHuman Romance, romance, this poppa Rochester wants to get in my pants!
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0140366784 (0-14-036678-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:A new edition of one of Penguin's top ten Classics-the novel that has been "teaching true strength of character for generations"[via]
(The Guardian)
A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom. This updated edition features a new introduction discussing the novel's political and magical dimensions.Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay with him whatever the consequences or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving her beloved?
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- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0141441143 (0-14-144114-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0192839659 (0-19-283965-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0312095457 (0-312-09545-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0393975428 (0-393-97542-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0439518482 (0-439-51848-2)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0030957648 (0-03-095764-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt School - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0140351310 (0-14-035131-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0140430113 (0-14-043011-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0140434003 (0-14-043400-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0141305371 (0-14-130537-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0142437204 (0-14-243720-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0142500909 (0-14-250090-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 019281513X (0-19-281513-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0194230880 (0-19-423088-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0375757600 (0-375-75760-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0393955893 (0-393-95589-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0192100424 (0-19-210042-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0312127952 (0-312-12795-2)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0385487177 (0-385-48717-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0393043428 (0-393-04342-8)
Hardcover, Norton - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0394600649 (0-394-60064-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0396082599 (0-396-08259-9)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0140366784 (0-14-036678-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0141441143 (0-14-144114-3)
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Jane Eyreby Margaret Smith, Charlotte BronteISBN 0192833561 (0-19-283356-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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Jane Eyreby Heather GlenISBN 0312165803 (0-312-16580-3)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Romantic melodrama or feminist classic, Jane Eyre is one of the most enduringly popular and compelling novels in the literary canon. Overlooked or dismissed by critics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it first began to attract serious critical attention in the 1970s as New Critical, formalist and feminist critics began to re-evaluate Charlotte Bronte's achievement. This New Casebook brings together essays by leading scholars over the past twenty years, mapping Jane Eyre's progress through the literary and theoretical establishment and encouraging the student to consider these different critical approaches and how they shape the novel and our reading of it. [via]
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Jane Eyreby UnkISBN 0194216322 (0-19-421632-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:This book is intended for Prizes won etc. [via]
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The King Must Dieby Mary RenaultISBN 0394751043 (0-394-75104-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King Must Die'Book summary:The story of the mythical hero Theseus, slayer of monsters, abductor of princesses and king of Athens. He emerges from these pages as a clearly defined personality; brave, aggressive and quick. The core of the story is Theseus' Cretan adventure. [via]
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A Monstrous Regiment of Womenby Laurie R. KingISBN 0312135653 (0-312-13565-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Monstrous Regiment of Women'Book summary:In The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King came up with a completely original story that had Sherlock Holmes as one of its principal characters but was in no way part of the Holmes canon. The focus of that book was a young woman, Mary Russell. Now in A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Mary Russell's adventures as a student of the famous detective continue. A series of murders claims members of a strange suffrage organization's wealthy young female volunteers, and Mary, with Holmes in the background, investigates, little knowing what danger she personally faces.
Laurie R. King is also the author of the Edgar Award-winning novel A Grave Talent. [via]
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Morbid Taste for Bonesby Ellis PetersISBN 0446400157 (0-446-40015-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morbid Taste for Bones'Book summary:A delightful detective makes his appearance in the person of Brother Cadfael, in charge of the herb-gardens in the Benedictine Monastery of Shrewsbury. Cadfael is not very unwordly, since he entered the cloister late in life. But his role becomes a very vital one when his superiors become obsessed with the notion of acquiring the bones of an obscure saint from a remote Welsh village. Miraculous powers had been attributed to this saint, and it is thought the possession of her remains will add much to the prestige of the Shrewsbury Foundation - and of its prior. The ambitious prior leads a delegation into Wales to acquire these relics. They encounter many obstacles - the worst of them murder. Dissention, the tangled affairs of two pairs of lovers, a surfeit of unwelcome miracles and visitations plague them. But in the end Brother Cadfael gets all the bones and all the bodies into the most appropriate places and makes all the survivors happy. [via]
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Nutmeg of Consolationby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393309061 (0-393-30906-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nutmeg of Consolation'Book summary:"[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page....You're in for a wonderful voyage."Cutler Durkee, People
Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brianor Stephen Maturincould devise.
In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin's Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback. [via]-
Pawn in Frankincenseby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0446312940 (0-446-31294-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pawn in Frankincense'Book summary:The fourth title in the LYMOND CHRONICLES series, originally published in 1969. Set in 1552, Frances Crawford is searching for his son, who has been hidden somewhere in slavery. While he searches, his enemy waits with an elaborate plan of humiliation and violence. Follows THE GAME OF KINGS, QUEEN'S PLAY and THE DISORDERLY KNIGHTS. [via]
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The Picasso Flopby Robert J. Randisi, Vince Van PattenISBN 0892960701 (0-89296-070-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picasso Flop'Book summary:Van Patten, host of Travel Channel's "World Poker Tour," and mystery writer Randisi team up to deliver this first novel in a new fast-paced, high-stakes poker mystery series. [via]
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Stephen MartinISBN 1551116367 (1-55111-636-7)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:In the puritan atmosphere of colonial New England, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet "A" (adulteress) for giving birth to an illegitimate daughter. The child's father, the minister Arthur Dimmesdale, knows peace only after he has been shamed into confessing; Hester, however, acknowledging no sin, cannot find such peace. Here is a masterful account of religious and sexual oppression, hypocrisy, and intrigue by one of the giants of American fiction. [via]
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- The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1573920479 (1-57392-047-9)
Softcover, Prometheus Books - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1591940729 (1-59194-072-9)
Softcover, Townsend Press - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1593080123 (1-59308-012-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 159308207X (1-59308-207-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1853260290 (1-85326-029-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1853265683 (1-85326-568-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1593081707 (1-59308-170-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1557012040 (1-55701-204-0)
Softcover, Cyber Classics Inc - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1561380369 (1-56138-036-9)
Hardcover, Courage Books - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1582790779 (1-58279-077-9)
Hardcover, Trident Press International - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1879329069 (1-879329-06-9)
Hardcover, Silver Burdett Pr - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0877208085 (0-87720-808-5)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0881030457 (0-88103-045-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0899664946 (0-89966-494-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0893759945 (0-89375-994-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0821916173 (0-8219-1617-3)
Hardcover, Varsitybooks.Com - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0895771845 (0-89577-184-5)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0971075611 (0-9710756-1-1)
Hardcover, Everbind Anthologies - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 3895084573 (3-89508-457-3)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1551116367 (1-55111-636-7)
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- The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 1573920479 (1-57392-047-9)
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 1414500211 (1-4145-0021-1)
Softcover, Pavilion Pr
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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:
- Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 155111125X (1-55111-125-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 1593080492 (1-59308-049-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 1593081251 (1-59308-125-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 1853260169 (1-85326-016-9)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 159308336X (1-59308-336-X)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Sense and Sensibility: ISBN 3895082333 (3-89508-233-3)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 1414500211 (1-4145-0021-1)
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- Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 155111125X (1-55111-125-X)
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Sense And Sensibilityby C. S. Lewis, Jane AustenISBN 1561387053 (1-56138-705-3)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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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:
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Sorcery and Ceceliaby Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline StevermerISBN 0441775594 (0-441-77559-4)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sorcery and Cecelia'Book summary:A great deal is happening in London this season.[via]
For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at Sir Hilary's induction into the Royal College of Wizards. (Since when does hot chocolate burn a hole straight through one's dress?!)
Then there's Dorothea. Is it a spell that's made her the toast of the town--or could it possibly have something to do with the charm-bag under Oliver's bed?
And speaking of Oliver, just how long can Cecelia and Kate make excuses for him? Ever since he was turned into a tree, he hasn't bothered to tell anyone where he is!
The girls might think it all a magical nightmare . . . if only they weren't having so much fun.More editions of Sorcery and Cecelia:
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Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Potby Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline StevermerISBN 015205300X (0-15-205300-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot'Book summary:A great deal is happening in London this season.[via]
For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at Sir Hilary's induction into the Royal College of Wizards. (Since when does hot chocolate burn a hole straight through one's dress?!)
Then there's Dorothea. Is it a spell that's made her the toast of the town--or could it possibly have something to do with the charm-bag under Oliver's bed?
And speaking of Oliver, just how long can Cecelia and Kate make excuses for him? Ever since he was turned into a tree, he hasn't bothered to tell anyone where he is!
The girls might think it all a magical nightmare . . . if only they weren't having so much fun.More editions of Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot:
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyleby AviISBN 0060739479 (0-06-073947-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle'Book summary:An ocean voyage of
unimaginable consequencesNot every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however: If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.
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Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: ISBN 0030547091 (0-03-054709-1)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: ISBN 0439327318 (0-439-32731-8)
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, SparkNotes StaffISBN 1586638149 (1-58663-814-9)
Softcover, Spark Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War and Peace'Book summary:[via]War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:The most famousand perhaps greatestnovel of all time, Tolstoys War and Peace tells the story of five families struggling for survival during Napoleons invasion of Russia.Among its many unforgettable characters is Prince Andrey Bolkonsky, a proud, dashing man who, despising the artifice of high society, joins the army to achieve glory. Badly wounded at Austerlitz, he begins to discover the emptiness of everything to which he has devoted himself. His death scene is considered one of the greatest passages in Russian literature.The novel's other hero, the bumbling Pierre Bezukhov, tries to find meaning in life through a series of philosophical systems that promise to resolve all questions. He at last discovers the Tolstoyan truth that wisdom is to be found not in systems but in the ordinary processes of daily life, especially in his marriage to the novel's most memorable heroine, Natasha.Both an intimate study of individual passions and an epic history of Russia and its people, War and Peace is nothing more or less than a complete portrait of human existence.Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of a five-volume study of Dostoevskys life and work.
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The Yellow Admiral: Library Editionby Patrick O'BrianISBN 1568954301 (1-56895-430-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Admiral: Library Edition'Book summary:At last! Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are back as Patrick O'Brian provides his indomitably loyal fans with another adventure, this one by land as well as by sea. Lucky Jack Aubrey finds himself not so lucky as his troubles amount ashore, his prospects of admiralty dimmed and Sophie's affection waning. At sea, he fares little better: in the storms off Brest he captures a French privateer ladden with gold and ivory at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. And worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out...
Fortunately, Maturin returns from a mission in Chile with news that may help restore Aubrey to good favor with both his beloved navy and wife. Then, off to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.
The Yellow Admiral is a change of pace, a reversion to the themes of the earlier novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Much of the story takes place on land, giving scope to O'Brian's fascination with the landscape, physical and social, of early nineteenth-century England. In vivid glimpses of various rural pursuits, and nuanced observation of politics and domestic arrangements, O'Brian proves himself ever more surely to be the heir of Jane Austen. Not to say there aren't some rousing and bloody sea-battles! [via]
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Guerra Y Paz / War and Peaceby Leon TolstoiISBN 8484036545 (84-8403-654-5)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guerra Y Paz / War and Peace'Book summary:The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced imitation leather bound books enhance any library, putting the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy within everyone's reach.[via]More editions of Guerra Y Paz / War and Peace:
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Hija de la fortuna / Daughter of Fortuneby Not AvailableISBN 8497592530 (84-9759-253-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hija de la fortuna / Daughter of Fortune'Book summary:Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo común. Eliza recibe ayuda y afecto de Tao Chi'en, un médico chino, quien la conducirá de la mano en un itinerario memorable por los misterios y contradicciónes de la condición humana. hija de la fortuna es un retrato palpitante de una época marcada por la violencia y la codicia en la cual los protagonistas rescatan el amor, la amistad, la compasión y el valor.
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Sentido y Sensibilidadby Jane Austen, Clara Ituero HerreroISBN 8497646940 (84-9764-694-0)
Softcover, Edimat Libros, S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sentido y Sensibilidad'Book summary:For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.[via]Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.More editions of Sentido y Sensibilidad:
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Fille Du Destinby Isabel Allende, Claude de FrayssinetISBN 2253152455 (2-253-15245-5)
Softcover, Hachette
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fille Du Destin'Book summary:445pages. poche. Broché. [via]
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