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The Absenteeby Maria EdgeworthISBN 1419151193 (1-4191-5119-3)
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Ambassador Morgenthau's Storyby Henry MorgenthauISBN 1419105728 (1-4191-0572-8)
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America's War For Humanityby Thomas Herbert RussellISBN 1419105760 (1-4191-0576-0)
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An American Tragedyby Theodore DreiserISBN 1419176617 (1-4191-7661-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Tragedy'Book summary:1925. Volume Two of Two. American author, outstanding representative of naturalism, whose novels depict real-life subjects in a harsh light. Dreiser's books were held to be amoral, and he battled throughout his career against censorship and popular taste. An American Tragedy is a novel based on the famous case of Chester Gilette's murder of Grace Brown and is generally considered to be Dreiser's greatest accomplishment. In the novel, Clyde Griffiths, son of unworldly, evangelist parents, escapes from them to what seems to him the vastly more exciting and colorful life of a bellboy in a Kansas City Hotel; he moves to New York State to work in a collar factory, and when his girl friend Roberta becomes pregnant he drowns her, possibly accidentally in the event, though after much anguished premeditation, and is tried and condemned to death. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417905778. [via]
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The Ancient Eastby D. G. HogarthISBN 1419152262 (1-4191-5226-2)
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Around The World In 80 Daysby Jules VerneISBN 1419107658 (1-4191-0765-8)
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The Authentic Life Of Billy, The Kidby Pat GarrettISBN 1419153188 (1-4191-5318-8)
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Beyond Good And Evilby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 1420922505 (1-4209-2250-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good And Evil'Book summary:"Beyond Good and Evil" is Nietzsche at his best. In the book the philosopher attempts to systematically sum up his philosophy through a collection of 296 aphorisms grouped into nine different chapters based on their common theme. For the reader who has yet to discover Nietzsche in this translation by Helen Zimmern will be found a fabulous introduction. For those who have already discovered Nietzsche here you will find the opportunity to understand the whole of Nietzsche's philosophy. [via]
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The Birth of Tragedyby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 1419154079 (1-4191-5407-9)
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The Book Of Snobs By One Of Themselvesby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 1419154605 (1-4191-5460-5)
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The Bridgeby Richard BoydISBN 1419617176 (1-4196-1717-6)
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By England's Aidby G. A. HentyISBN 141911137X (1-4191-1137-X)
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Catherine De' Mediciby Honore De BalzacISBN 1419112317 (1-4191-1231-7)
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Christopher Columbusby Mildred StapleyISBN 1419113100 (1-4191-1310-0)
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Civil Disobedience And Other Essays the Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1420925229 (1-4209-2522-9)
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The Cricket on the Hearthby Charles DickensISBN 1419158074 (1-4191-5807-4)
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The Critique of Judgement: The Critique of Aesthetic Judgementby Immanuel Kant, James Creed MeredithISBN 1420926942 (1-4209-2694-2)
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Dante's Paradiso: Paradiseby Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot NortonISBN 1420926403 (1-4209-2640-3)
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Delaware's Ghost Towers: The Coast Artillery's Forgotten Last Stand During the Darkest Days of World War IIby William C. GraysonISBN 1420846914 (1-4208-4691-4)
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religionby David HumeISBN 1420927043 (1-4209-2704-3)
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Dr. Samuel A. Mudd at Fort Jefferson 1865-1869by Robert K. SummersISBN 1419613464 (1-4196-1346-4)
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Dwelling Place of Dragons: An Irish Storyby Marjorie Harshaw RobieISBN 1419651587 (1-4196-5158-7)
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Emmaby Jane AustenISBN 1420922246 (1-4209-2224-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Essay Concerning Humane Understandingby John LockeISBN 1419106368 (1-4191-0636-8)
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Essays Of Travelby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1419118358 (1-4191-1835-8)
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Evidence for Christianityby Josh McDowellISBN 1418506281 (1-4185-0628-1)
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man And Animalsby Charles DarwinISBN 1420924990 (1-4209-2499-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man And Animals'Book summary:"Even cows, when they frisk about from pleasure, throw up their tails in a ridiculous fashion." So writes Charles Darwin in his magnum opus on how humans and animals display such emotions as fear, anger, disdain, and pleasure; it is work that has in most respects been sustained by later scientific research. First published in 1872, Darwin's greatest work was never issued in quite the shape its author intended: bits and pieces were left out of subsequent printings, most of them released after Darwin's death, and later editors made additions to suit the intellectual fashion of their times. This definitive edition, heavily annotated, brings us the book that Darwin would have wanted, and it is essential to any naturalist's library. [via]
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Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensionsby Edwin A. AbbotISBN 1419120026 (1-4191-2002-6)
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Frederick The Great And His Familyby Louisa MuhlbachISBN 1419120859 (1-4191-2085-9)
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From the Earth to the Moonby Jules VerneISBN 1420926810 (1-4209-2681-0)
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Froudacity: West Indian Fablesby J. J. ThomasISBN 1419121243 (1-4191-2124-3)
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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Moralsby Immanuel Kant, Thomas Kingsmill AbbottISBN 1420926918 (1-4209-2691-8)
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God & the Stateby M. BakuninISBN 1419121952 (1-4191-2195-2)
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The Grandissimes-The Story of Creole Lifeby George W. CableISBN 1419164503 (1-4191-6450-3)
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 1419122819 (1-4191-2281-9)
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Henry Judd, the Third Generation in Hawaii: Memoirs of Rev. Henry P. Judd, Hawaiiby Henry P. JuddISBN 1419610732 (1-4196-1073-2)
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Hero of Our Timeby Mikhail LermontovISBN 1420924907 (1-4209-2490-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hero of Our Time'Book summary:Originally published in Russian in 1840 Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time" greatly influenced the later works of other great Russian authors such as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. "A Hero of Our Time" is a pioneering work in the genre of the anti-hero novel. The novel's narrative is the story of Pechorin a young nihilistic officer in the army who's story is told in five non-chronological parts. [via]
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History Of The Moravian Churchby J. E. HuttonISBN 1419124250 (1-4191-2425-0)
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History Of The Thirty Years' War In Germanyby Frederick SchillerISBN 1419124293 (1-4191-2429-3)
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Homeward Bound Or The Chase A Tale Of The Seaby James Fenimore CooperISBN 1419124501 (1-4191-2450-1)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 1420922270 (1-4209-2227-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre" is the story of its title character, a poor orphaned girl who comes to live with her aunt where she endures poor treatment from her aunt and cousins. Jane subsequently ships off to Lowood, a Christian boarding school where she endures more horrible conditions. After some time, life becomes more bearable at Lowood for Jane and she eventually finishes her coursework and spends a period of time as a teacher at the school. After leaving Lowood she comes into the employment of Mr. Rochester as a governess at Thornfield Hall. "Jane Eyre" is the story of one woman's struggle to overcome adversity and a classic love story. [via]
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Ku Klux Klan: America's First Terrorists Exposed The Rebirth Od The Strange Society Of Blood And Deathby David JacobsISBN 1419649787 (1-4196-4978-7)
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The Last Witness from a Dirt Roadby Bill HuntISBN 1419618830 (1-4196-1883-0)
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Life, Letters And Epicurean Philosophy Of Ninon De L'enclos, The Celebrated Beauty Of The Seventeenth Centuryby RobinsonISBN 1419130420 (1-4191-3042-0)
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertISBN 1419131915 (1-4191-3191-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madame Bovary'Book summary:Gustave Flaubert's tale of adultery and destruction. [via]
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Maggie a Girl of the Streetsby Stephen CraneISBN 1420925245 (1-4209-2524-5)
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Making of an Americanby Jacob A. RissISBN 1419141872 (1-4191-4187-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of an American'Book summary:In all of which I have made no account of a factor which is at the bottom of half our troubles with our immigrant population, so far as they are not of our own making: the loss of reckoning that follows uprooting; the cutting loose from all sense of responsibility, with the old standards gone, that makes the politician's job so profitable in our large cities, and that of the patriot and the housekeeper so wearisome. We all know the process. The immigrant has no patent on it. It afflicts the native, too, when he goes to a town where he is not known. [via]
Marxism, Freedom And The Stateby Michael BakuninISBN 1419132962 (1-4191-3296-2)
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The Merry Wives of Windsorby William ShakespeareISBN 1419172662 (1-4191-7266-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'Book summary:Written around 1597, critics believe that The Merry Wives of Windsor was written to capitalise on the popular success of the corpulent, knavish Sir John Falstaff in the two parts of Henry IV. Falstaff takes centre stage again in this play, hard up for money and planning to pay off his debts by seducing the wives of two rich citizens, Ford and Page. As in the earlier Henry IV plays, Falstaffs elaborate plans go awry, with disastrous and humiliating consequences. Ford is furious with Falstaff's attempt to woo his wife, whilst both Mistress Ford and Mistress Page have the measure of Falstaff, and repeatedly dupe him, first hiding him in a laundry basket and dumping him in the river, then tormenting him in the forest of Windsor with children disguised as fairies.
Often dismissed as a hasty and mechanical play lacking in depth, The Merry Wives of Windsor is in fact a wonderfully inventive farce. Falstaff is a ludicrous mock hero, dressed as a mythical hunter in the forest, declaiming "powerful love that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some others a man a beast!" Mistress Ford and Page are also great comic creations, witty and resilient women who drive the comedy, no longer "in the holiday time" of beauty, but wise and streetwise women who are always one step ahead of the absurd Falstaff. A greatly underrated play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Miscellaneous Writings And Speeches Of Lord Macaulayby MacaulayISBN 1419174185 (1-4191-7418-5)
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Myths Of Crete And Pre-hellenic Europeby Donald A. MacKenzieISBN 1419136534 (1-4191-3653-4)
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 1420925334 (1-4209-2533-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Oroonoko Or The Royal Slaveby Aphra BehnISBN 1419139312 (1-4191-3931-2)
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1420922327 (1-4209-2232-7)
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The People Of The Abyssby Jack LondonISBN 1419176994 (1-4191-7699-4)
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Persiansby AeschylusISBN 1419177060 (1-4191-7706-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persians'Book summary:The mighty Xerxes from Darius sprung, The stream of whose rich blood flows in our veins, Leads against Greece; whether his arrowy shower Shot from the strong-braced bow, or the huge spear High brandish'd, in the deathful field prevails. [via]
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The Philobiblon Of Richard De Buryby Richard De BuryISBN 1419177176 (1-4191-7717-6)
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Phoenixby Osamu TezukaISBN 1421502585 (1-4215-0258-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phoenix'Book summary:Considered by many the peak of Osamu Tezuka's artistic achievement and called his "life work" by the author, PHOENIX is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guarden of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating between a distant future and a distant past, converging on the present, with characters from one story being reincarnated in another. The 12 stories over 3000 pages. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 1420925288 (1-4209-2528-8)
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As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Plato Phaedrusby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 1420926853 (1-4209-2685-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato Phaedrus'Book summary:Plato's "Phaedrus" is a dialogue between Phaedrus and the great Greek philosopher Socrates. Phaedrus has been spending the morning with Lysias, the celebrated rhetorician, and is going to refresh himself by taking a walk outside the wall, when he is met by Socrates, who professes that he will not leave him until he has delivered up the speech with which Lysias has regaled him, and which he is carrying about in his mind, or more probably in a book hidden under his cloak, and is intending to study as he walks. The imputation is not denied, and the two agree to direct their steps out of the public way along the stream of the Ilissus towards a plane-tree which is seen in the distance. There, lying down amidst pleasant sounds and scents, they will read the speech of Lysias. [via]
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Prolegomena to the History of Israelby Julius WellhausenISBN 1419143212 (1-4191-4321-2)
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Psmith in the Cityby P. G. WodehouseISBN 1419143336 (1-4191-4333-6)
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Ragged Dickby Alger HoratioISBN 1419143816 (1-4191-4381-6)
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Rainbow Valleyby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1419143859 (1-4191-4385-9)
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Rilla of Inglesideby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1419144987 (1-4191-4498-7)
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The Rise of Silas Laphamby William Dean HowellsISBN 1419180665 (1-4191-8066-5)
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Robert's Rules of Orderby Henry M. RobertISBN 1420922521 (1-4209-2252-1)
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The Rock of Chickamaugaby Joseph AltshelerISBN 1419180827 (1-4191-8082-7)
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A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 1420925431 (1-4209-2543-1)
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Rurouni Kenshin 28by Nobuhiro WatsukiISBN 1421500647 (1-4215-0064-7)
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The Seventh Crossby Anna Seghers, James A. GalstonISBN 1419152882 (1-4191-5288-2)
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A Shropshire Ladby A. E. HousmanISBN 1419103318 (1-4191-0331-8)
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Specimen Daysby Walt WhitmanISBN 1419148524 (1-4191-4852-4)
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The Story of the Political Philosophersby George CatlinISBN 1419154702 (1-4191-5470-2)
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Straight Talk from Coleman Coxby Coleman CoxISBN 1419113933 (1-4191-1393-3)
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Tartarin Of Tarasconby Alphonse DaudetISBN 1419150812 (1-4191-5081-2)
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Tess Of The D'urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 1419151053 (1-4191-5105-3)
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Theodore Roosevelt An Autobiographyby Theodore RooseveltISBN 1419189433 (1-4191-8943-3)
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This Old Shirt of Mine: A 1950s Urban Idyllby J. J. RawlingsISBN 1420886908 (1-4208-8690-8)
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Tito's Imperial Communismby R. H. MarkhamISBN 1419162063 (1-4191-6206-3)
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Tractatus Logico: Philosophicusby Ludwig WittgensteinISBN 1419190725 (1-4191-9072-5)
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Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilsonby Mark TwainISBN 1420925342 (1-4209-2534-2)
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Twelfth Night; Or, What You Willby William ShakespeareISBN 1419191284 (1-4191-9128-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will'Book summary:Mar. Get ye all three into the box tree: Maluolio's comming downe this walke, he has beene yonder i'the Sunne practising behauiour to his own shadow this halfe houre: obserue him for the loue of Mockerie: for I know this Letter wil make a contemplatiue Ideot of him. [via]
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Typeeby Herman MelvilleISBN 1419191608 (1-4191-9160-8)
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Vichy: Two Years of Deceptionby Leon MarchalISBN 1419165747 (1-4191-6574-7)
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Vine's Concise Dictionary Of The Bibleby W. E. VineISBN 1418501506 (1-4185-0150-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vine's Concise Dictionary Of The Bible'Book summary:A great resource for students, pastors, and anyone who enjoys biblical word studies. Easy-to-use edition of the best-selling classic. Offers fast access to thousands of biblical word definitions. Dig into the meanings of the words used by the original Bible authors--quickly and easily. Keyed to Strong's reference numbers, each entry includes how the word is used, key occurrences in the Bible, the English transliteration (the original word represented with English letters for pronunciation), and definitions of its various uses in the Old or New Testament.
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 141917665X (1-4191-7665-X)
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Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 1420925199 (1-4209-2519-9)
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Waverleyby Walter ScottISBN 1419193287 (1-4191-9328-7)
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The Well at the World's Endby William MorrisISBN 1419187589 (1-4191-8758-9)
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 1419194658 (1-4191-9465-8)
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Yvain or the Knight with the Lionby Chrétien de TroyesISBN 141919545X (1-4191-9545-X)
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La Vendeeby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1419128930 (1-4191-2893-0)
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