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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne, Rod Whigham, Roy RichardsonISBN 0142406643 (0-14-240664-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Aeneidby Virgil, William F. KnightISBN 0140440518 (0-14-044051-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:In Aeneas, Virgil created the most powerful figure in Latin literature, the dutiful yet fallible Trojan prince who overcomes war, suffering and countless setbacks to lay the foundations of the Roman race. [via]
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Hugh HaughtonISBN 0141439769 (0-14-143976-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140301690 (0-14-030169-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140433171 (0-14-043317-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140301690 (0-14-030169-0)
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The Art of War: Sunzi Bing Faby Sun-Tzu, John MinfordISBN 0140439196 (0-14-043919-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War: Sunzi Bing Fa'Book summary:[via]The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.
Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling 2000-year-old military manual is still worshipped by soldiers on the battlefield and managers in the boardroom as the ultimate guide to winning.More editions of The Art of War: Sunzi Bing Fa:
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Beowulfby Michael AlexanderISBN 0140449310 (0-14-044931-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:A translation of the first epic poem in the English language. [via]
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Beowulfby David WrightISBN 0140440704 (0-14-044070-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beowulf dates from around the year 1000 CE, it is thought that the poem existed in its present form from the year 850. Beowulf's adventures themselves stand in front of the wide historical canvas of 5th and 6th century Scandinavia. Against this heroic background of feuding and feasting, Beowulf first kills the monster Grendel and her mother, and later defends his people against a dragon in a battle that leaves them both mortally wounded.
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Beowulfby Kevin Crossley-Holland, Charles KeepingISBN 0192723693 (0-19-272369-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:This is the story of a young man who travelled far across the sea to fight two terrifying monsters-one who could rip a man apart and drink his blood, the other who lived like a sea-wolf at the bottom of a dark, blood-stained lake. The young hero's name was Beowulf, and his story, first written in Anglo-Saxon in the eighth century, has become one of the world's most famous epics. Kevin Crossley-Holland retells the story for children in quick-paced, rhythmical prose accompanied by Charles Keeping's striking illustrations. Together they bring to life the beauty and power of one of the first great English poems. [via]
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Beowulfby Not AvailableISBN 0141026391 (0-14-102639-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:When an evil monster terrorizes the land, only one man can stop him. A new horror stalks the ancient kingdom of the Danes. Grendel, a hideous beast, has crawled from hell to lay waste to the country and devour its people. His reign of slaughter seems unstoppable. The mighty warrior Beowulf comes forward to fight this demonic enemy. But Grendel has a powerful and deadly ally. Can Beowulf survive the rage of a fiendish mother who will destroy anyone who harms her child? [via]
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Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuffISBN 0140449248 (0-14-044924-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers Karamazov'Book summary:The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoy's bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky's own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries. [via]
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Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby CaesarISBN 0140444335 (0-14-044433-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul'Book summary:Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus:
Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby S. A. Handford, CaesarISBN 0140440216 (0-14-044021-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul'Book summary:Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus:
Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerISBN 0156028352 (0-15-602835-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color Purple'Book summary:Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self. [via]
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The Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Alighieri Dante, Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140441050 (0-14-044105-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:Dante (12651321) is the greatest of Italian poets, and his Divine Comedy is the finest of all Christian allegories. To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady he combined them into a great allegory of the souls search for God. He made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning and wit, all his tenderness, humour and enthusiasm, and all his poetry. In Paradise, which T. S. Eliot among others has found either incomprehensible or intensely exciting, Dante journeys through the encircling spheres of heaven towards God. Translated by and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers [via]
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Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Florentine Cantica II Purgatoryby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140440461 (0-14-044046-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Florentine Cantica II Purgatory'Book summary:Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through the first seven levels, Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a stronger and better man. For it is only when he has learned from each of these levels that he can ascend to the gateway to Heaven: the Garden of Eden. The second part of one of the greatest epic poems, Purgatory is an enthralling Christian allegory of sin, redemption and ultimate enlightenment. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuffISBN 0140449132 (0-14-044913-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Table of Contens:
Translator's Preface
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
Epilogue
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- Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0140440232 (0-14-044023-2)
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Softcover, Penguin USA - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0192815490 (0-19-281549-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0140621806 (0-14-062180-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0140449132 (0-14-044913-2)
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- Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0140440232 (0-14-044023-2)
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David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Jeremy Tambling, H. K. BrowneISBN 0140297383 (0-14-029738-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield-the novel he described as his "favorite child"-Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. This edition uses the text of the first book edition of 1850 Includes updated suggestions for further reading, a revised chronology, and expanded notes introduction discusses the novel's autobiographical elements and its central themes of memory and identity [via]
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- David Copperfiield: ISBN 0140439447 (0-14-043944-7)
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - David Copperfield: ISBN 0192100432 (0-19-210043-2)
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- David Copperfiield: ISBN 0140439447 (0-14-043944-7)
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, Mark MusaISBN 0140444432 (0-14-044443-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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Divine Comedy Purgatoryby Dante AlighieriISBN 0140444424 (0-14-044442-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divine Comedy Purgatory'Book summary:[via]
This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text.
@HolyHaha I have to climb a mountain now? You got to be kidding me. Is this a joke? Who the hell came up with story? VIIIRRRGGGILLLLLLLLLLL!
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Electra and Other Playsby E.F. Watling, SophoclesISBN 0140440283 (0-14-044028-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Electra and Other Plays'Book summary:All three of the great tragic poets of ancient greece produced plays about the electra myth. If sophocles (496-406 b.c.) lacks the archaic grandeur of aeschylus or the neurotic intensity of euripides, his version is supreme for its power and humanity [via]
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Eyre Affairby Jasper FfordeISBN 0142001805 (0-14-200180-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyre Affair'Book summary:Is this on your summer reading list? [via]
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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornographyby Roger ShattuckISBN 0156005514 (0-15-600551-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography'Book summary:An intellectual tour-de-force, Forbidden Knowledge is a study of the ethics of literary and scientific inquiry. Shattuck first approaches his subject indirectly, conducting an engaging tour of Western literature: Adam and Eve, Prometheus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Goethe's Faust, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He then uses these tales to address the moral questions raised by mankind's tendency to search for dangerous knowledge. He contrasts J. Robert Oppenheimer's acceptance of guilt for the atomic bombings with Edward Teller's dismissal of the same. In his own field of literary criticism he argues against the neutral analysis of immoral works as "pure literature," illustrating his point with a critique of the Marquis de Sade. Forbidden Knowledge is a stimulating and forceful intellectual argument against moral relativism, as well as a practical approach to difficult ethical problems, from genetic engineering to pornography. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robin LawrieISBN 0140366660 (0-14-036666-0)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0141309318 (0-14-130931-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0140366660 (0-14-036666-0)
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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0142437050 (0-14-243705-0)
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Hard Timesby Charles Dickens, Kate FlintISBN 014143967X (0-14-143967-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby, Dickens stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers. [via]
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Hard Times. for These Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0192545159 (0-19-254515-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff, William Mills ToddISBN 014044792X (0-14-044792-X)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idiot'Book summary:Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class. [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0140366881 (0-14-036688-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:After her father dies and the family fortune is lost, Sara Crewe is forced to live in the school attic and work as a maid. But Sara's charming imagination and bold spirit help her to survive and flourish despite these hardships. [via]
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A Little Princessby U. C. Knoepflmacher, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0142437018 (0-14-243701-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature.[via]
This unique and fully annotated edition appends excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett's original 1888 novella Sara Crewe and the stage play that preceded the novel, as well as an early story, "Behind the White Brick," allowing readers to see how A Little Princess evolved. In his delightful introduction, U. C. Knoepflmacher considers the fairy-tale allusions and literary touchstones that place the book among the major works of Victorian literature, and shows it to be an exceptionally rich and resonant novel.More editions of A Little Princess:
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Lost in a Good Bookby Jasper FfordeISBN 0142004030 (0-14-200403-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in a Good Book'Book summary:[via]The second installment in Jasper Ffordes New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with New York Times bestselling author Jasper Ffordes magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfictionthe police force inside the BookWorld. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickenss Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poes The Raven. What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potters The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth. Its another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment for fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse. Thursdays zany investigations continue with The Well of Lost Plots. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including One of Our Thursdays is Missing and Jasper Ffordes latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!More editions of Lost in a Good Book:
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The Night Before Christmas : A Visit from St. Nicholasby Clement C. Moore, Reginald BirchISBN 0152048030 (0-15-204803-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Before Christmas : A Visit from St. Nicholas'Book summary:On a moonlit Christmas Eve, a family snuggles in for the long, cold night. The parents and children sleep soundly until . . . strange sounds from the snow-covered lawn awaken them. It's clear that there's glorious magic afoot when a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer appear--driven by jolly old St. Nick![via]
Celebrate the joy of the Christmas season with this beloved holiday poem, made new again in this gift edition brightened by the humor and warmth of Reginald Birch's illustrations.More editions of The Night Before Christmas : A Visit from St. Nicholas:
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Oedipus Cycleby Dudley FittsISBN 0156838389 (0-15-683838-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus Cycle'Book summary:English versions of Sophocles three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.[via]More editions of Oedipus Cycle:
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The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigoneby SophoclesISBN 015602764X (0-15-602764-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone'Book summary:English versions of Sophocles three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.[via]More editions of The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone:
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Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Peter FaircloughISBN 0140430172 (0-14-043017-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, "The Pickwick Papers." Set against London's seedy back street slums, "Oliver Twist" is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of "Oliver Twist" firmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a champion." [via]
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On the Roadby Jack Kerouac, Ann ChartersISBN 0142437255 (0-14-243725-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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On Warby Karl Von ClausewitzISBN 0140444270 (0-14-044427-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On War'Book summary:On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, sought to understand and analyze the phenomenon of war so that future leaders could conduct and win conflicts more effectively. He studied the human and social factors that affect outcomes, as well as the tactical and technological ones. He understood that war was a weapon of government, and that political purpose, chance, and enmity combine to shape its dynamics. On War continues to be read by military strategists, politicians, and others for its timeless insights.
This abridged edition by Beatrice Heuser, using the acclaimed translation by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, selects the central books in which Clausewitz's views on the nature and theory of war are developed. Heuser's introduction explains the originality of Clausewitz's ideas, his education and background, and summarizes his key theories, while explanatory notes provide further information on the historical examples Clausewitz cites. [via] -
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken KeseyISBN 014028334X (0-14-028334-X)
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Penguin Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrasesby Sue Lloyd, Peter Mark RogetISBN 0140511555 (0-14-051155-5)
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The Personal History of David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Trevor BlountISBN 0140430083 (0-14-043008-3)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John Bunyan, Roger SharrockISBN 0140430040 (0-14-043004-0)
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Bunyan's own experience of religious persecution informs his story, and its qualities of psychological realism, and the beauty and simplicity of his prose combine to create a book whose appeal is universal. This edition includes the illustrations that appeared with the book in Bunyan's lifetime, giving a sense of its impact on contemporary readers. [via] -
Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri, Robin KirkpatrickISBN 0140448969 (0-14-044896-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatorio'Book summary:Climbing out of Hell, Dante in the Purgatorio reaches an island set in the southern ocean. This is Mount Purgatory, where he encounters the penitents who heroically endure their sufferings and speak of their time on Earth. Strange and fresh at every turn, Dante's narrative evokes the mountain landscape in terms of intense physical sensation, right up to the summit. There, before rising to heaven, he enters the Earthly Paradise, where he is movingly reunited with his lost love, Beatrice. This gloriously vivid portrayal of the search for redemption transformed the traditional conception of Purgatory and affirmed the dignity of human will and compassion.[via]More editions of Purgatorio:
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nina Baym, Thomas E. ConnollyISBN 0142437263 (0-14-243726-3)
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The Scarlet Letter and Selected Talesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas E. ConnollyISBN 0140430520 (0-14-043052-0)
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The Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Janet Allison Brown, Graham RustISBN 0141312017 (0-14-131201-7)
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Study of Historyby Jane Caplan, Arnold Joseph ToynbeeISBN 0192152548 (0-19-215254-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press; Thames and Hudson
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Tao Te Chingby Lao-Tzu, D. C. Lau, Lao TzuISBN 014044131X (0-14-044131-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Theban Playsby Sophocles, E.F. WatlingISBN 0140440038 (0-14-044003-8)
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The Three Theban Playsby Robert Fagles, Sophocles, Bernard MacGregor Walker KnoxISBN 0140444254 (0-14-044425-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Theban Plays'Book summary:Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater. Today, nearly 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote, scholars and audiences still consider it one of the most powerful dramatic works ever made. Freud sure did. The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus"--are not strictly a trilogy, but all are based on the Theban myths that were old even in Sophocles' time. This particular edition was rendered by Robert Fagles, perhaps the best translator of the Greek classics into English. [via]
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0140367217 (0-14-036721-7)
Softcover, Puffin
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Utopiaby Paul Turner, Thomas MoreISBN 0140449108 (0-14-044910-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:Sir Thomas More's entertaining description of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people, was a best-seller when it first appeared in Latin in 1516. This work of a Catholic martyr has later been seen as the source of Ana-baptism, Mormonism, and even communism. Utopia revolutionized Plato's classical blueprint of the perfect republic, mainly by its realism. Locating his island in the (then) New World, More endowed it with a language and poetry, and detailed the length of the working day and even the divorce laws. Such precision gives a disturbing and exciting impact to Utopia, which still remains a book of the future. [via]
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Virgil's Aeneidby Frederick M. Keener, Publio Maron Virgilio, John DrydenISBN 0140446273 (0-14-044627-3)
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@TranslatioStud Got a gift of a huge wooden horse today, here in Troy. Just appeared outside the city gate. BTW: War going poorly.
Surprise. Soldiers inside the horse. We didnt start the fire! Hectors Ghost says to GTFO take Dad and the kid with me.
Im on a boat. Three generations of Aenean men on a sea-journey of epic proportions. Hmm. Sounds familiar&
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Michael MeyerISBN 0140390448 (0-14-039044-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Civil Disobedience'Book summary:'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.' Disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods by Walden Pond. Walden, the classic account of his stay there, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. But even as Thoreau disentangled himself from worldly matters, his solitary musings were often disturbed by his social conscience. 'Civil Disobedience', expressing his antislavery and antiwar sentiments, has influenced nonviolent resistance movements worldwide. Michael Meyer's introduction points out that Walden is not so much an autobiographical study as a 'shining example' of Transcendental individualism. So, too, 'Civil Disobedience' is less a call to political activism than a statement of Thoreau's insistence on living a life of principle. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, David McKeeISBN 0140366938 (0-14-036693-8)
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The Woman Who Rides Like A Manby Tamora PierceISBN 0192715828 (0-19-271582-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Wonderful World of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Jack David ZipesISBN 0141180854 (0-14-118085-4)
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