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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 015202199X (0-15-202199-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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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:"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
Taking to heart his charming, insatiably curious heroine's words, Lewis Carroll worked many long hours (days, months...) with illustrator Sir John Tenniel to create the most perfect pictures imaginable for what were to become instant classics: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. When thinking about Alice and her dreamy surrealistic adventures down the rabbit hole and behind the looking-glass, who can help picturing the golden-haired girl in her lilac dress and striped stockings, gazing up at the Cheshire Cat or arguing with Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Tenniel's drawings remained black and white for over 40 years until 1911, when eight prints in each book were hand colored. Now, for the first time, every remaining illustration has been colored, making these the first editions to feature all of the original art in full color. Traditionalists need not worry: colorist Diz Wallis colored proofs taken from Tenniel's carefully preserved woodblocks, remaining faithful to his original drawings. The beautiful tones of these new hardcover editions look as natural as can be; they could just as easily be from the 19th century. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Arden Shakespeare Twelfth Nightby T. W. Craik, J. M. LothianISBN 0174436254 (0-17-443625-4)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arden Shakespeare Twelfth Night'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Twelfth Night provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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Barchester Towersby Robin Gilmour, Anthony TrollopeISBN 0140432035 (0-14-043203-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Baudolinoby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156029065 (0-15-602906-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baudolino'Book summary:The most playful of historical novelists, Umberto Eco has absorbed the real lesson of history: that there is no such thing as the absolute truth. In Baudolino, he hands his narrative to an Italian peasant who has managed, through good luck and a clever tongue, to become the adopted son of the Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and a minister of his court in the closing years of the 12th century. Baudolino's other gift is for spontaneous but convincing lies, and so his unfolding tale--as recounted in 1204 to a nobleman of Constantinople, while the fires of the Fourth Crusade rage around them--exemplifies the Cretan Liar's Paradox: He can't be believed. Why not, then, make his story as outrageous as possible? In the course of his picaresque tale, Baudolino manages to touch on nearly every major theme, conflict, and boondoggle of the Middle Ages: the Crusades; the troubadours; the legend of the Holy Grail; the rise of the cathedral cities; the position of Jews; the market in relics; the local rivalries that made Italy so vulnerable to outside attack; and the perennial power struggles between the pope and the emperor. With the help of alcohol and a mysterious Moorish concoction called "green honey," Baudolino and his ragtag friends engage in typical scholastic debates of the period, trying to determine the dimensions of Solomon's Temple and the location of the Earthly Paradise. And when the Emperor needs support in his claims for saintly lineage, who but Baudolino can craft the perfect letter of homage from the legendary Prester John, Holy (and wholly fictitious) Christian King of the East? A giddy and exasperating romp, Baudolino will draw you into its labyrinthine inventions and half-truths, even if you know better. --Regina Marler [via]
Being Thereby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0151117004 (0-15-111700-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Birds and Other Plays: The Knight, Peace, Wealth, the Birds, the Assemblywomenby Aristophanes, David Barrett, Alan SommersteinISBN 0140449515 (0-14-044951-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bollocks to Alton Towers: Uncommonly British Days Outby Joel Morris, Jason Hazeley, Alex MorrisISBN 0141021209 (0-14-102120-9)
Softcover, Penguin Global
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Book of Enchantmentsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152055088 (0-15-205508-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Enchantments'Book summary:This witty and charming collection of ten short fantasies includes a story, set in the Enchanted Forest, about Queen Cimorene's Frying Pan of Doom; a zany yarn about a magical blue chipmunk with a passion for chestnuts; and an eerie tale of a caliph who turns his vizier's daughter into a wolf.[via]More editions of Book of Enchantments:
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0141303050 (0-14-130305-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes -- some funny, some painful, all interesting -- this is a book that's sure to please. [via]
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Clarkson on Carsby Jeremy ClarksonISBN 0141017880 (0-14-101788-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clarkson on Cars'Book summary:[via]Clarkson on Cars is a revamped, rejuvenated and expanded edition of Clarkson's classic collection of car journalism. Clarkson rewrote the rule book for motor journalism and here's how.
Opinionated, original and laugh-out-loud funny, this is Clarkson at his best.
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The Complete Novelsby Jane AustenISBN 0143039504 (0-14-303950-4)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Novels'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Cosmicomicsby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156226006 (0-15-622600-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmicomics'Book summary:An enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. Calvino makes characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves amongst galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms -- and have time for a love life. [via]
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141301147 (0-14-130114-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danny the Champion of the World'Book summary:"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Danny's mother died when he was four months old. Life is peaceful and wonderful... until he turns 9 and discovers his father's one vice. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world. Danny is right up to Roald Dahl's impishly brilliant standards. An intense and beautiful father-son relationship is balanced with sublegal high jinks that will have even the most rigid law-abider rooting them on. Dahl's inimitable way with words leaves the reader simultaneously satisfied and itching for more. (Ages 9 to 13) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Depraved and Insulting Englishby Ammon Shea, Peter NovobatzkyISBN 0156011492 (0-15-601149-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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A Dictionary of English Folkloreby Jacqueline Simpson, Steve RoudISBN 019210019X (0-19-210019-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Dictionary of Received Ideasby Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey WallISBN 0140389040 (0-14-038904-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Enchanted Forest Chroniclesby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152050523 (0-15-205052-3)
Softcover, Magic Carpet Books
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinkerby Tobias Smollett, Angus RossISBN 0140430210 (0-14-043021-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Falcon's Malteserby Anthony HorowitzISBN 0142402192 (0-14-240219-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 014043531X (0-14-043531-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:"Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it & and you will have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen."[via]Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world-its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.
Written more than a century ago, Flatland conceals within its brilliant parody of Victorian society speculations about the universe that resonate in Einstein's theory of relativity as well as the current "string-theory" of nature.
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Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, M. A. ScreechISBN 0140445501 (0-14-044550-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ; & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: Two Novelsby Anita LoosISBN 0141180692 (0-14-118069-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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George's Marvelous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141301112 (0-14-130111-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Going Soloby Roald DahlISBN 0141303107 (0-14-130310-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0143039946 (0-14-303994-6)
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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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Half Magicby Edward Eager, N. M. BodeckerISBN 0152020683 (0-15-202068-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Half Magic'Book summary:Edward Eager's hilarious and heartwarming Half Magic has been working wizardry on young readers for fifty years. To celebrate the golden anniversary of this enduringly popular story, a deluxe edition of the book has been created. It features the original jacket and a new introduction by Jack Gantos, the award-winning author of Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.
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- Half Magic: ISBN 0152020691 (0-15-202069-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books - Half Magic: ISBN 0152053026 (0-15-205302-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Half Magic: ISBN 015233081X (0-15-233081-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Half Magic: ISBN 0156379902 (0-15-637990-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Half Magic: ISBN 015233078X (0-15-233078-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Half Magic: ISBN 0152020683 (0-15-202068-3)
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High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Storiesby Robertson DaviesISBN 0142002461 (0-14-200246-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories'Book summary:Robertson Davies first hit upon the notion of writing ghost stories when he joined the University of Toronto's Massey College as a Master. Wishing to provide entertainment at the College's Gaudy Night, the annual Christmas party, Professor Davies created a "spooky story," which he read aloud to the gathering. That story, "Revelation from a Smoky Fire," is the first in this wonderful, haunting collection. A tradition quickly became established and, for eighteen years, Davies delighted and amused the Gaudy Night guests with his tales of the supernatural. Here, gathered together in one volume, are those eighteen stories, just as Davies first read them. [via]
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Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, J. M. CohenISBN 014044047X (0-14-044047-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel'Book summary:This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the story into which they are woven. [via]
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The History of Mr Pollyby H. G. Wells, Simon J. James, John SutherlandISBN 0141441070 (0-14-144107-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Mr Polly'Book summary:Fans of H.G. Wells's famous, genre-spawning science fiction novels may be startled to read his less-remembered but once bestselling The History of Mr. Polly. Its comically romping narrative voice is worlds away from the stern, melancholy tone of The Time Machine. Wells won fame for his apocalyptic, preachy books about the history of the future, but this history is strictly, as Mr. Polly would put it in his creatively cracked version of English, a series of "little accidentulous misadventures."
Mr. Alfred Polly is a dyspeptic, miserably married shopkeeper in what he terms that "Beastly Silly Wheeze of a hole!"--Fishbourne, England. He is inclined to spark arguments and slapstick calamity wherever he goes. Education was lost on him: when he left school at 14, "his mind was in much the same state that you would be in, dear reader, if you were operated upon for appendicitis by a well-meaning, boldly enterprising, but rather overworked and underpaid butcher boy, who was superseded towards the climax of the operation by a left-handed clerk of high principles but intemperate habits& the operators had left, so to speak, all their sponges and ligatures in the mangled confusion." Still, Polly's mind burns with eccentric genius, and his thwarted romantic heart beats him senseless. His despair results in the most amusing suicide attempt this side of Lisa Alther's novel Kinflicks. We won't spoil the surprise by saying precisely how his scheme misfires--and beware: the introduction gives it away. Note that you can't expect Polly to do anything right, and of course he'll become an inadvertent hero to the whole town. Then he promptly vanishes for further misadventure.
Many critics compare Mr. Polly's broad social satire to Dickens, but it smacks of Mark Twain and the dialect humor of Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley too. "I think it is one of my good books," Wells opined. What makes it so is Polly's heroic incompetence, his subversion of Edwardian propriety, and his bewildered unawareness that he is a revolutionary. --Tim Appelo [via]
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How I Became Stupidby Martin Page, Adriana HunterISBN 0142004952 (0-14-200495-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How I Became Stupid'Book summary:Ignorance is bliss, or so hopes Antoine, the lead character in Martin Page?s stinging satire, How I Became Stupid?a modern day Candide with a Darwin Award?like sensibility. A twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, Antoine has had it with being brilliant and deeply self-aware in today?s culture. So tortured is he by the depth of his perception and understanding of himself and the world around him that he vows to denounce his intelligence by any means necessary?in order to become ?stupid? enough to be a happy, functioning member of society. What follows is a dark and hilarious odyssey as Antoine tries everything from alcoholism to stock-trading in order to lighten the burden of his brain on his soul.[via]More editions of How I Became Stupid:
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Joseph Andrews and Shamelaby Henry Fielding, Judith HawleyISBN 0140433864 (0-14-043386-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joseph Andrews and Shamela'Book summary:[via]Kissing, Joseph, is but a Prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young Fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?
Joseph Andrews, Henry Fieldings first full-length novel, depicts the many colourful and often hilarious adventures of a comically chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill, a much-put-upon foundling girl, and Parson Adams, a man often duped and humiliated, but still a model of Christian charity. In the boisterous short tale Shamela, a brilliant parody of Richardsons Pamela, the spirited and sexually honest heroine uses coyness and mock modesty to catch herself a rich husband. Together these works anticipate Fieldings great comic epic Tom Jones, with their amiable good humour and pointed social satire.
Judith Hawleys introduction compares the works of Fielding and Richardson, and discusses sex and class relations, and the literary and political world of the time. This volume also includes a chronology and suggestions for further reading.
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0140367020 (0-14-036702-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere. [via]
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Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Margaret Drabble, Jane AustenISBN 0140431020 (0-14-043102-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon'Book summary:Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's "Lady Susan", "The Watsons" and "Sanditon" is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in "Penguin Classics". These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel "Lady Susan" depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with the affections of several men. In contrast, "The Watsons" is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine Emma Watson finds her marriage opportunities limited by poverty and pride. Written in the last months of Austen's life, the uncompleted novel "Sanditon", set in a newly established seaside resort, offers a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators, and shows an author contemplating a the great social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution with a mixture of scepticism and amusement. Margaret Drabble's introduction examines these three works in the context of Jane Austen's major novels and her life, and discusses the social background of her fiction. This edition features a new chronology. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, "Pride and Prejudice", at the age of 22. She was also the author of "Sense and Sensibility", "Persuasion", "Northanger Abbey" and "Mansfield Park". If you enjoyed "Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon", you may like Charlotte Bronte's "Tales of Angria", also available in "Penguin Classics". "In ["Sanditon"] she exploits her greatest gifts, her management of dialogue and her skill with monologue. The book feels open and modern ...as vigorous and inventive as her earlier work". (Carol Shields). [via]
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, Kathryn SutherlandISBN 0141439807 (0-14-143980-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Mansfield Park: ISBN 0140430164 (0-14-043016-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0140434143 (0-14-043414-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Mansfield Park: ISBN 014077162X (0-14-077162-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0192510215 (0-19-251021-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0141439807 (0-14-143980-7)
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- Mansfield Park: ISBN 0140430164 (0-14-043016-4)
Medicine Riverby Thomas KingISBN 014305435X (0-14-305435-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Menagerie Manorby Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Ralph ThompsonISBN 0143038532 (0-14-303853-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A New Penguin Leunigby Michael LeunigISBN 0143004808 (0-14-300480-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group Australia
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One Fat Englishmanby K. AmisISBN 0151694001 (0-15-169400-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken Kesey, Robert FaggenISBN 0141181222 (0-14-118122-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'Book summary:Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned. [via]
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The Other Statueby Edward GoreyISBN 0151006962 (0-15-100696-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Statue'Book summary:Lord Wherewithal is dead at Backwater Hall, Horace Gollop cavorts with Victoria Scone, and (perhaps most unsettling of all!) someone has offended decorum by disemboweling a stuffed thisby belonging to the Earl of Thump in The Other Statue, Edward Gorey's latest feat of macabre artistry and elliptical mystery. Come join the party! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane Austen, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192547011 (0-19-254701-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Persuasionby Jane Austen, Gillian BeerISBN 0141439688 (0-14-143968-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had for ever put an end to such a prospect. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Greyby Oscar Wilde, Robert MighallISBN 0141439572 (0-14-143957-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Grey'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
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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Pippi Longstockingby Astrid Ericsson Lindgren, Florence Lamborn Johnson, Louis S. Glanzman, Florence LambornISBN 0142402494 (0-14-240249-4)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pippi Longstocking'Book summary:Pippi is an irrepressible, irreverent, and irrefutably delightful girl who lives alone (with a monkey) in her wacky house, Villa Villekulla. When she's not dancing with the burglars who were just trying to rob her house, she's attempting to learn the "pluttification" tables at school; fighting Adolf, the strongest man in the world at the circus; or playing tag with police officers. Pippi's high-spirited, good-natured hijinks cause as much trouble as fun, but a more generous child you won't find anywhere.
Astrid Lindgren has created a unique and lovable character, inspiring generations of children to want to be Pippi. More than anything, Pippi makes reading a pleasure; no child will welcome the end of the book, and many will return to Pippi Longstocking again and again. Simply put, Pippi is irresistible. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Puffin Bk of Nonsense Storiesby BlakeISBN 0140382135 (0-14-038213-5)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Pygmalionby George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0141439505 (0-14-143950-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion'Book summary:When George Bernard Shaw wrote "Pygmalion" more than a half century ago, it seemed unlikely that his little play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time, "My Fair Lady," and a motion picture that captured numerous Academy Awards. Yet such popularity should not have been surprising since succeeding generations of readers and playgoers find continual relevance in the story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society. The extraordinary wit of the master dramatist of the twentieth century has not lost its sharp edge as it cuts away at the artificially of class distinctions and the callousness of indifference to human worth. [via]
The Satyricon and Seneca the Apocolocyntosisby Petronius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, J. P. SullivanISBN 0140444890 (0-14-044489-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sentimental Journey Through France and Italyby Laurence SterneISBN 0140430261 (0-14-043026-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorickby Laurence Sterne, Paul GoringISBN 0140437797 (0-14-043779-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Smithsonian Institutionby Gore VidalISBN 0156006480 (0-15-600648-0)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Superfudgeby Judy BlumeISBN 014240098X (0-14-240098-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Superfudge'Book summary:Fans young and old will laugh out loud at the irrepressible wit of peter Hatcher the hilarious antics of mischievous Fudge and the unbreakable confidence of know-it-all sheila tubman in Judy blume?s five Fudge books. brand-new covers adorn these perennial favorites and will entice a whole new generation of Fudge?and Judy blume?fans. [via]
Swing Hammer Swing!by Jeff TorringtonISBN 0156001977 (0-15-600197-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swing Hammer Swing!'Book summary:An "energetic, irreverent and very funny" (New York Times Book Review) first novel set in Glasgow during a single week in the late sixties. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it "a rich Scotch broth of language, steaming with metaphor...and pungent dialect." Winner of Britain's Whitbread Book of the Year Award.[via]-
The Tao of Pooh/the Te of Pigletby Benjamin HoffISBN 014095144X (0-14-095144-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tao of Pooh/the Te of Piglet'Book summary:Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. Romp through the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living. [via]
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0140367098 (0-14-036709-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Titmus Regainedby John MortimerISBN 0140997156 (0-14-099715-6)
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Too Close to the Fallsby Catherine GildinerISBN 014200040X (0-14-200040-X)
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigsby Jon Scieszka, Lane SmithISBN 0140544518 (0-14-054451-8)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs'Book summary:Did the story of the three little pigs ever seem slightly biased to you? All that huffing and puffing--could one wolf really be so unequivocally evil? Finally, we get to hear the rest of the story, "as told to author Jon Scieszka," straight from the wolf's mouth. As Alexander T. Wolf explains it, the whole Big Bad Wolf thing was just a big misunderstanding. Al Wolf was minding his own business, making his granny a cake, when he realized he was out of a key ingredient. He innocently went from house to house to house (one made of straw, one of sticks, and one of bricks) asking to borrow a cup of sugar. Could he help it if he had a bad cold, causing him to sneeze gigantic, gale-force sneezes? Could he help it if pigs these days use shabby construction materials? And after the pigs had been ever-so-accidentally killed, well, who can blame him for having a snack?
As with The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, (another stellar collaboration by Scieszka and illustrator Lane Smith), children who know all the old stories by heart will delight in reading impudent new versions. Here, Scieszka's text is clever, savvy, and tabloid-quick, and Smith's stretchy-strange illustrations complete this funny, irreverent, thoroughly original tale. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Twelfth Nightby William Shakespeare, Jonathan CreweISBN 0140714898 (0-14-071489-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will'Book summary:Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. It also contains dramatic criticism from the past and present, and a special introduction to the play by the editor, Herschel Baker, Harvard University. [via]
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Unmentionable!: More Amazing Storiesby Paul JenningsISBN 0140373993 (0-14-037399-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Unreal!by Paul JenningsISBN 0140375775 (0-14-037577-5)
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Vicar of Wakefieldby Oliver GoldsmithISBN 0140431594 (0-14-043159-4)
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A Wayne in a Mangerby Gervase PhinnISBN 014102688X (0-14-102688-X)
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The Wee Book of Calvin: Air-kissing in the North-eastby Bill DuncanISBN 0141019727 (0-14-101972-7)
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Which Witchby Eva Ibbotson, Annabel LargeISBN 0141304278 (0-14-130427-8)
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Whispering Landby Gerald DurrellISBN 0143037080 (0-14-303708-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whispering Land'Book summary:[via]Fans of Gerard Durrell's beloved classic My Family and Other Animals and other accounts of his lifelong fascination with members of the animal kingdom will rejoice at The Whispering Land. The sequel to A Zoo in My Luggage, this is the story of how Durrell and his wife's zoo-building efforts at England's Jersey Zoo led them and a team of helpers on an eight-month safari in Argentina to look for South American specimens. Through windswept Patagonian shores and tropical forests in Argentina, from ocelots to penguins, fur seals to parrots, Durrell captures the landscape and its inhabitants with his signature charm and humor.
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The Willowdale Handcar, Or, The Return of the Black Dollby Edward GoreyISBN 0151010358 (0-15-101035-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Moreby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141304707 (0-14-130470-7)
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Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A cleaver mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins.More editions of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More:
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The Works of Jane Austenby Jane AustinISBN 0192547062 (0-19-254706-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Zoo in My Luggageby Gerald Durrell, Ralph ThompsonISBN 014303524X (0-14-303524-X)
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LA Verdadera Historia De Los Tres Cerditos!/the True Story of the 3 Little Pigsby Jon Scieszka, S. Lobo, Lane SmithISBN 014055758X (0-14-055758-X)
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