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800 Years of Women's Lettersby Olga Kenyon, P. D. JamesISBN 0571198104 (0-571-19810-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Age of Elizabeth: England Under the Later Tudors 1547-1603by D. M. PalliserISBN 0582013224 (0-582-01322-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Age of Urban Democracy England 1868-1914by Donald ReadISBN 0582089212 (0-582-08921-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Alicia: My Storyby Alicia Appleman-JurmanISBN 0553282182 (0-553-28218-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquestby H. R. LoynISBN 0582072964 (0-582-07296-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553153277 (0-553-15327-7)
Softcover, Skylark
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever... but would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected -- a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes or blurt out the very first thing she had to say. Anne was not like anybody else, everyone at Green Gables agreed; she was special -- a girl with an enormous imagination. This orphan girl dreamed of the day when she could call herself Anne of Green Gables. [via]
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Arcadiaby Tom StoppardISBN 0571169341 (0-571-16934-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arcadia'Book summary:[via]Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteriesromantic, scientific, literarythat engage the minds and hearts of characters whose passions and lives intersect across scientific planes and centuries, it is Stoppards richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and . . . emotion. Its like a dream of levitation: youre instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think youre about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow . . . Exhilarating (Vincent Canby, The New York Times). -
Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994by Sylvia NasarISBN 0571197183 (0-571-19718-3)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Rosesby Louis Robert StevensonISBN 0543896609 (0-543-89660-9)
Softcover, Adamant Media
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Born Royal: The Lives and Loves of the Young Windsorsby Richard HoughISBN 0553282271 (0-553-28227-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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British Imperialism, 1688-2000by Peter Cain, Tony HopkinsISBN 0582472865 (0-582-47286-5)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Castlesby David Day, Alan LeeISBN 0553050664 (0-553-05066-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Catherine De'Mediciby R. J. KnechtISBN 0582082412 (0-582-08241-2)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethovenby Charles RosenISBN 0571049052 (0-571-04905-2)
Hardcover, Faber
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The Classical Style:Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: Haydn, Mozart, Beethovenby Charles RosenISBN 0571091180 (0-571-09118-0)
Hardcover, Faber
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Complete Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553609416 (0-553-60941-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 0543903508 (0-543-90350-8)
Softcover, Adamant Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court'Book summary:This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthurs Age of Chivalry the great and beneficent miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own eras faith in scientific and social progress.
A central document in American intellectual history, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is at once a hilarious comedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, a utopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only one of Americas greatest writers could pen. [via]More editions of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:
Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalismby Mark Curriden, Leroy PhillipsISBN 0571199526 (0-571-19952-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Cry, the Beloved Countryby Alan PatonISBN 0582077877 (0-582-07787-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cry, the Beloved Country'Book summary:This volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author. [via]
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The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930by Norah WaughISBN 0571085946 (0-571-08594-6)
Hardcover, Faber
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Darwin and the Barnacleby Rebecca StottISBN 0571209661 (0-571-20966-1)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Dawn on a Distant Shoreby Sara DonatiISBN 0553578553 (0-553-57855-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dawn on a Distant Shore'Book summary:Sara Donati's novel Dawn on a Distant Shore picks up soon after the conclusion of her prior book, Into the Wilderness. In the winter of 1794, on the edge of the New York wilderness, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into the comforts of domestic bliss. Typically, however, adventure seeks these two out. Alone but for her stepdaughter Hannah, Elizabeth gives birth to twins, while Nathaniel and his father Hawkeye are imprisoned in Montreal. Determined to help her men, Elizabeth packs up the children and sets off to free them. Liberty does not bring relief to the Bonner clan, however, as sinister forces conspire to pirate them to Scotland and embroil them in a complex family feud.
History and adventure are slathered on thickly throughout this epic tale. Donati's talent for dialect and detail bring the large cast of characters to life, though the steady pace of dramatic catastrophe is somewhat exhausting. Will our heroes never get a break? Fans of Donati's earlier work will enjoy seeing the familiar characters, but new readers would benefit by reading the books in the series in order. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien [via]
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Churchby Malachi MartinISBN 0553229443 (0-553-22944-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Deerslayerby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0553210858 (0-553-21085-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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The Emergence of a Nation State: The Commonwealth of England 1529-1660by Alan G.R. SmithISBN 0582238889 (0-582-23888-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Empire of the Sunby J.G. BallardISBN 0575034831 (0-575-03483-1)
Hardcover, V. Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire of the Sun'Book summary:"The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China."
Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.
Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.
Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.
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England, 1868-1914: The Age of Urban Democracyby Donald ReadISBN 0582488354 (0-582-48835-4)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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Europe 1880-1945by J. M. RobertsISBN 0582023882 (0-582-02388-2)
Hardcover, Longman
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Europe in the Eighteenth Century, 1713-1783by M.S AndersonISBN 0582486718 (0-582-48671-8)
Hardcover, Longman
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Excalibur: The Search for Arthurby Gwyn A. WilliamsISBN 0563370203 (0-563-37020-3)
Hardcover, BBC Books
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The Faber Book of Americaby Christopher B. Ricks, William L. VanceISBN 0571198260 (0-571-19826-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ringby Pete EarleyISBN 0553282220 (0-553-28222-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Flanders Panelby Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0553377868 (0-553-37786-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flanders Panel'Book summary:Julia, a young Madrid art restorer, is pulled into a shadowy world of metaphor when she discovers a long-covered inscription on a Flemish painting: Who killed the knight? Art, chess and murder are intertwined in this elegant, seductive mystery in the manner of The Name of the Rose. [via]
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The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870by Eric J. EvansISBN 0582089530 (0-582-08953-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Future Shockby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553277375 (0-553-27737-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages With Infotrac: The Western Perspectiveby Christin J. Mamiya, Fred S. Kleiner, Tanseyrichard G.ISBN 0534642055 (0-534-64205-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gardner's Art Through the Ages With Infotrac: The Western Perspective'Book summary:This new alternative, GARDNER'S WESTERN ART THROUGH THE AGES, offers instructors and students a brief, strictly Western approach to art history and retains all of the hallmark features of the market-leading Eleventh Edition in a concise 23-chapter format (also available in a two-volume split). Unique to books with a Western Art focus, the authors retain the chapter on Islam, providing students with insightful coverage of the Islamic tradition's impact on Western culture and art history. Featuring an outstanding art program with more color photos than any comparable art history survey textbook, the authors focus on the context and function of the role of art. [via]
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Gardners Western Art Through the Ages With Infotracby Richard G. Tansey, Christin J. Mamiya, Fred S. KleinerISBN 0534610943 (0-534-61094-3)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0553246844 (0-553-24684-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Hons and Rebelsby Jessica MitfordISBN 0575400048 (0-575-40004-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor HugoISBN 0553213709 (0-553-21370-9)
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Hundred Years' Warby Jonathan SumptionISBN 0571138969 (0-571-13896-9)
Hardcover, University of Pennsylvania Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hundred Years' War'Book summary:What do most of us know of the Hundred Years War? The famous victories at Agincourt, Crecy, and Poitiers, and that it actually went on--intermittently--for a great deal longer than a hundred years. Fortunately, Jonathan Sumption is on hand to remind us that there was a great deal more to this period of medieval history that was instrumental in establishing the national consciousness of both England and France. Trial by Battle is not for the faint-hearted. Its 650 pages cover only the period from the death of Charles IV, the last Capetian King of France, to the surrender of Calais to the English in 1347. At this rate, it will take at least another six volumes to get to the end. But for those who take a deep breath and decide to go for it, Sumption more than repays the effort. He takes a decidedly old-fashioned approach to history, being short on analysis and long on narrative, but there is nothing old-fashioned about his style. He has avoided the academic pitfalls of turgid prose and inaccessibility to produce a work of great readability that challenges many traditional assumptions.
To read many historians, the Hundred Years War was a glorious period of nobility and chivalry. Sumption gives the lie to this. He shows the war to be venal, savage, and mercenary. Soldiers often gave more thought to their captives than they did for their cause, as huge ransoms could be extracted for their release. We're only talking noble hostages, mind. The ordinary foot soldier had no monetary value and was usually butchered on the spot. The same applied to civilians. This wasn't a war where human life was sanctified and the fighting was restricted to the battlefield. It had all the subtlety of the bombing of Dresden, but as the fighting was almost entirely restricted to mainland France, England created a wave of terror to force the locals into submission. "Not a man or woman of substance dared to wait in the towns and castles or in the country around; wherever our army appeared, they fled away," wrote one English observer. Sumption's readers are likely to have precisely the opposite reaction. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
In the Footsteps of Churchillby Richard HolmesISBN 0563521767 (0-563-52176-7)
Hardcover, BBC Books
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Inherit the Windby Jerome LawrenceISBN 0553254359 (0-553-25435-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inherit the Wind'Book summary:The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain themselves. At stake was the freedom of every American. One of the most moving and meaningful plays of our generation. "a tidal wave of a drama." -- New York World-Telegram And Sun [via]
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Ishiby Theodora Kroeber, Ruth RobbinsISBN 0553248987 (0-553-24898-7)
Softcover, Skylark
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0553213326 (0-553-21332-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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King Learby William Shakespeare, David M. BevingtonISBN 0553212974 (0-553-21297-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Later Medieval Europe: 1250-1520by Peter Denley, Daniel WaleyISBN 0582258316 (0-582-25831-6)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0553212036 (0-553-21203-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0553212982 (0-553-21298-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
The Mask of Apolloby Mary RenaultISBN 0553242806 (0-553-24280-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Milton and the English Revolutionby John Edward Christopher HillISBN 0571101984 (0-571-10198-4)
Hardcover, Faber
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The Personal History of Samuel Johnsonby Christopher HibbertISBN 0582107954 (0-582-10795-4)
Hardcover, Longman
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Platoon Leaderby James R. McDonoughISBN 0553275828 (0-553-27582-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Praise Singerby Mary RenaultISBN 0553244000 (0-553-24400-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Road Aheadby Bill GatesISBN 0582402115 (0-582-40211-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Terry Jones' Barbariansby Terry Jones, Alan EreiraISBN 0563493186 (0-563-49318-6)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Third Waveby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553246984 (0-553-24698-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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This Sceptred Isleby Christopher LeeISBN 0563383844 (0-563-38384-4)
Hardcover, Bbc Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Sceptred Isle'Book summary:[via]Christopher Lees seminal history series, which accompanied the awardwinning BBC radio series, narrates the rich and gripping story of Britain, from the Roman Invasion in 55 BC to the dawn of the 21st century. It focuses on the significant events and personalities that shaped Britain for over nearly 2000 years, tracing its emergence from the Dark Ages which followed the Romans' departure, through the great flowering of culture in medieval times and the gradual evolution of the modern state, to the making of an empire and the huge changes brought about by the industrial revolution.More editions of This Sceptred Isle:
This Sceptred Isle - Twentieth Centuryby Christopher LeeISBN 0563384727 (0-563-38472-7)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Thousand-Mile Warby Brian Wynne GarfieldISBN 0553275275 (0-553-27527-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Tower Commission Report: The Full Text of the President's Special Review Boardby Brent Scowcroft, Edmund S. Muskie, John Tower, John G. Tower, R.W. AppleISBN 0553269682 (0-553-26968-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Traditions of Edinburghby Robert Chambers, James RiddelISBN 0550212922 (0-550-21292-2)
Hardcover, Chambers
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Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1471-1714by Roger LockyerISBN 0582353084 (0-582-35308-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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The Vision of Piers Plowmanby William Langland, Terence TillerISBN 0563179279 (0-563-17927-9)
Softcover, British Broadcasting Corp
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Voices of the American Past with Infotrac: Documents in U.S. Historyby Raymond M. Hyser, J. Chris ArndtISBN 0534643000 (0-534-64300-0)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Wilderness Empireby Allan W. EckertISBN 0553264885 (0-553-26488-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Wooden Horseby Eric WilliamsISBN 0563369019 (0-563-36901-9)
Hardcover, Bbc Pubns
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World History Atlasby MagellanISBN 0534568661 (0-534-56866-1)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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World Politics Since 1945by Peter CalvocoressiISBN 0582073790 (0-582-07379-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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World Politics, 1945 - 2000by Peter CalvocoressiISBN 0582381223 (0-582-38122-3)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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