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Age Like This 1920-1940: Collected Essaysby George OrwellISBN 0156186209 (0-15-618620-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Age Like This 1920-1940: Collected Essays'Book summary:Considering that much of his life was spent in poverty and ill health, it is something of a miracle that in only forty-six years George Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. Here, in four fat volumes, is the best selection of his non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions. Orwell had something to say about just about everyone and everything. His letters to such luminaries as Julian Symons, Anthony Powell, Arthur Koestler, and Cyril Connolly are poignant and personal. His essays, covering everything from "English Cooking" to "Literature and Totalitarianism," are memorable, and his books reviews (Hitler's Mein Kampf, Mumford's Herman Melville, Miller's Black Spring, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield to name just a few) are among the most lucid and intelligent ever written. From 1943 to l945, he wrote a regular column for the Tribune, a left wing weekly, entitled "As I Please." His observations about life in Britain during the war embraced everything from anti-American sentiment to the history of domestic appliances. [via]
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As I Please: 1943-1945by George Orwell, Ian AngusISBN 0156186225 (0-15-618622-5)
Softcover, SPCK Publishing
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Between the Earth and the Sky: The Penguin Book of Forest Writingsby SavyasaachiISBN 0144000024 (0-14-400002-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Between Worlds: Travels among Mediums, Shamans, and Healersby Uma SinghISBN 0143029630 (0-14-302963-0)
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Buddhist Scripturesby Donald LopezISBN 014044758X (0-14-044758-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buddhist Scriptures'Book summary:While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of the Buddha. In this rich anthology, eminent scholar Donald S. Lopez, Jr., brings together works from a broad historical and geographical range, and from such languages as Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese. There are tales of the Buddha?s past lives, a discussion of qualities and qualifications for a monk, and an exploration of the many meanings of enlightenment. Together they provide a vivid picture of the Buddha and of the vast and profound nature of the Buddhist tradition.[via]More editions of Buddhist Scriptures:
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Buddhist Scripturesby Edward ConzeISBN 0140440887 (0-14-044088-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buddhist Scriptures'Book summary:Striving to understand the truth of the human condition and determining the path to spiritual enlightenment is the fundamental nature of Buddhism. Lighting this path is the Buddha, committed to guiding human beings to pure and happy lives. This beautiful hardcover gift book is the ideal introduction to the amazing ideals and beliefs of Buddhism. Containing dozens of selected Buddhist teachings, quotes and commentaries, this book offers guiding words of wisdom on how to find peace, harmony and happiness within yourself. Discover the meaning of truth, love and hate, and learn to find tranquility and contentment in your everyday life. With messages of inspiration and insight from canonical Buddhist texts on every page, Buddhist Scriptures is your first step on the road to spiritual enlightenment. [via]
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The Burden of Democracyby Pratap Bhanu MehtaISBN 0143030221 (0-14-303022-1)
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The Calcutta Cookbook: A Treasury of over 200 Recipes from Pavement to Palaceby Jaya Chaliha, Minakshie Dasgupta, Bunny GuptaISBN 0140469729 (0-14-046972-9)
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Charles Dickensby John LucasISBN 0140772529 (0-14-077252-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles with Changeby Gurcharan DasISBN 014302910X (0-14-302910-X)
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Elephants Aloftby Kathi Appelt, Keith BakerISBN 015225384X (0-15-225384-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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Elephas Maximus: A Portrait Of The Indian Elephantby Stephen AlterISBN 0151006466 (0-15-100646-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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An Englishwoman in India: The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-1858by Anthony Sattin, Harriet TytlerISBN 0192122444 (0-19-212244-4)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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A Field Guide to Indian Mammalsby J.C. Daniel, Vivek MenonISBN 0143029983 (0-14-302998-3)
Hardcover, Dorling Kindersley, India in association with Penguin Book, India
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Funny Boyby Shyam SelvaduraiISBN 015600500X (0-15-600500-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Gunga Dinby Rudyard Kipling, Robert A. Parker, Kingsley AmisISBN 0152004564 (0-15-200456-4)
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The Hermit and the Love-Thiefby Bhartrihari, BilhanaISBN 0140445846 (0-14-044584-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hill of Deviby E. M. ForsterISBN 0156402653 (0-15-640265-3)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Hindu Mythsby Wendy Oflaberty, Wendy DonigerISBN 0140443061 (0-14-044306-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hindu Myths'Book summary:Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna, alongside stories of the minor gods, demons, rivers and animals including boars, buffalo, serpents and monkeys. Immensely varied and bursting with colour and life, they demonstrate the Hindu belief in the limitless possibilities of the world - from the teeming miracles of creation to the origins of the incarnation of Death who eventually touches them all. [via]
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Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated From The Sanskritby Anonymous, Wendy DonigerISBN 0140449906 (0-14-044990-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Howards Endby E. M. Forster, David LodgeISBN 014118213X (0-14-118213-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Imitation of Christby Thomas A. KempisISBN 0140440275 (0-14-044027-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imitation of Christ'Book summary:One of the best-loved books of Christianity after the Bible, The Imitation of Christ is a passionate celebration of God and His love, mercy and holiness, which has inspired conversion and stimulated religious devotion for over five hundred years. With great personal conviction, Thomas a Kempis (1380 1471) demonstrates the individual's reliance on God and on the words of Christ, and the futility of life without faith. Thomas spent some seventy years of his life in the reclusive environment of monasteries, yet in this astonishing work he demonstrates an encompassing understanding of human nature and his writing speaks to readers of every age and every nation. [via]
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India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nationby Robert L. Hardgrave, Stanley L. KochanekISBN 0155003844 (0-15-500384-4)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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The Indian Luck Bookby Monisha BharadwajISBN 0142196185 (0-14-219618-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Other South Asian Flashpointsby Anita PratapISBN 0142003662 (0-14-200366-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Kartographyby Kamila ShamsieISBN 0156029731 (0-15-602973-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kartography'Book summary:Kartography is Kamila Shamsie's impressive third novel. At its heart is rather a traditional love story-cum-family saga. Karim and Raheen are anagram swapping "fated friends". Until the age of 13, when Karim moved to London, they were virtually raised as brother and sister. Their parents had once been engaged to each other. The unravelling of quite why this matrimonial square dance occurred is juxtaposed with Karim and Raheen's own, and decidedly more protracted, romance.
As the title suggests, mapping--geographical, political and emotional-- is central to the book. The "comic" spelling is a wry allusion to its setting: the troubled Pakistani city of Karachi, a place that, as Karim observes, worships "at the altar of K". Karim, Raheen and their friends Sonia and Zia all belong to the privileged Karachi elite. Born on the right "side of the Clifton Bridge" they seem immune from Karachi's endemic corruption, violence and religious and ethnic intolerance but they and their families, like the rest of the city's inhabitants, have all been horrifically scarred by events of the 1971 civil war.
Like Austen, or perhaps more accurately Forster, Shamsie is wonderfully adept at capturing the petty rivalries and social games of Pakistan's highly stratified bourgeoisie society--Zia's house is sagely described as "always full of people worth cultivating, rather than people worth having in your home." There are a few (well-acknowledged) nods to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and even Homer's Odyssey gets a look in but Shamsie wears her learning lightly. She manages to make Karim and Raheen's journey to toward engagement, both with the realities of Karachi and with each other, into a profound meditation on the nature of love, storytelling and politics. --Travis Elborough [via]
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Kashmir: The Untold Storyby Humra QuraishiISBN 0143030876 (0-14-303087-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kashmir: The Untold Story'Book summary:Since 1989, Kashmir has rarely been out of the headlines, as local militants, foreign terrorists, and Indian security forces battle it out in a region once known as `paradise on earth'. In all the propaganda, and news and statistics about terrorist strikes, counter insurgency operations, and the foreign hand, the human stories are often lost. In this book, journalist Humra Quraishi draws upon her extensive travels in the Valley and interactions with ordinary Kashmiris over two decades to try and understand what the long strife has done to them. She brings us heartrending stories of mothers waiting for their young sons who disappeared years ago, picked up by the army or by militants; minds undone by the constant uncertainty and fear and almost daily humiliation; old harmonies tragically undermined by the atmosphere of suspicion; an entire generation of young Kashmiris who have grown up with no concept of security; and individual families and a whole society falling apart under the strain of the seemingly endless turmoil. [via]
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Khushwant Singh's Book of Unforgettable Womenby Khushwant Singh, Mala DayalISBN 0141000864 (0-14-100086-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Krishna's Dialogue on the Soulby Juan Mascaro, AnonymousISBN 0146001931 (0-14-600193-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Laws of Manuby Manu, Wendy DonigerISBN 0140445404 (0-14-044540-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales, Or, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentby William L. Hedges, Haskell S. Springer, Washington IrvingISBN 014043769X (0-14-043769-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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When Washington Irving first published this collection of essays, sketches, and tales--originally entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.--readers greeted it with enthusiasm, and Irving emerged as America's first successful professional author.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," two of America's most recognizable and loved works of fiction, display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture so vividly that readers feel themselves a part of them. And it is on the basis of these two classic tales that Irving is generally credited with inventing the short story as a distinct literary genre. This volume also contains gently ironic pieces about life in England that reflect the author's interest in the traditions of the Old World and his longings for his home in the New.
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Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0156030209 (0-15-603020-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Pi'Book summary:Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."
An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampson, Penguin Books, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Cedric Thomas WattsISBN 0140431691 (0-14-043169-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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The Lusiadsby Luis Vaz De Camoes, Landeg WhiteISBN 0192801511 (0-19-280151-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lusiads'Book summary:First published in 1572, "The Lusiads" is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of "The Lusiads" is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes' narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India and the Far East. The poem's twin symbols are the Cross and the Astrolabe, and its celebration of a turning point in mankind's knowledge of the world unites the old map of the heavens with the newly discovered terrain on earth. Yet it speaks powerfully, too, of the precariousness of power, and of the rise and decline of nationhood, threatened not only from without by enemies, but from within by loss of integrity and vision. [via]
Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Heroby Rudrangshu MukherjeeISBN 0143032569 (0-14-303256-9)
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A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Foodby Nilanjana S. RoyISBN 0143031481 (0-14-303148-1)
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The Miniaturistby Kunal BasuISBN 0143029711 (0-14-302971-1)
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My Country Right or Left 1940-1943by George Orwell, Ian AngusISBN 0156186217 (0-15-618621-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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My Family and Other Animalsby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0142004413 (0-14-200441-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Family and Other Animals'Book summary:As a self-described "champion of small uglies," English writer Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) devoted his life to writing and the preservation of wildlife, from the Mauritius pink pigeon to the Rodriques fruit bat. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the Greek island of Corfu, but ended up as a delightful account of his family's experiences that were, according to him, "rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas."
As a 10-year-old boy, Gerry left England for Corfu with "all those items that I thought necessary to relieve the tedium of a long journey: four books on natural history, a butterfly net, a dog, and a jam-jar full of caterpillars all in imminent danger of turning into chrysalids." Durrell's descriptions of his family and its many eccentric hangers-on (he stresses that "all the anecdotes about the island and the islanders are absolutely true") are highly entertaining, as is the procession of toads, scorpions, geckos, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, the puppies Widdle and Puke, and the Magenpies. This is a lovely book. [via]
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No Onions nor Garlicby Srividya NatarajanISBN 0143099612 (0-14-309961-2)
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey, Maria DibattistaISBN 0156031515 (0-15-603151-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orlando: A Biography'Book summary:In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon. [via]
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The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of thby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0192123297 (0-19-212329-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th'Book summary:Any fan of detective fiction knows that there is no substitute in all of literature for a few hours of reading pleasure at 221 B Baker Street. The tobacco in the persian slipper, the piles of monographs and newspaper clippings covering the floor and table, the unanswered correspondence affixed to the mantle with a dagger. What will the next visitor or urgent message bring? Perhaps a request from a mysterious stranger to help prevent "A Scandal in Bohemia." Perhaps Watson will tell us the story, discretely leaving out certain names, of how he and Holmes had to step outside the law to protect a certain royal personage from a blackmailer in "The Case of Charles Augustus Milverton." Or, for a very unusual treat, perhaps Holmes himself, in quiet retirement in Sussex, will tell a tale in his own words as in "The Lion's Mane."
In the more than a century since the publication of the first tale featuring Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and stories have inspired countless films, plays, pastiches, literary tributes, and tens of thousands of imitations. Now, Oxford is proud to announce The Oxford Sherlock Holmes, the complete works gathered together in nine handsomely bound, meticulously edited volumes. The books themselves are beautiful, and the entire set comes in an attractive display box, perfect for gift-giving.
Beautifully designed, boasting an introduction by a Doyle authority, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and notes, all carefully researched and assembled, this magnificent set will enhance the reading pleasure of readers new to Doyle's work and veterans of Holmsian arcana. A goldmine of reading pleasure, The Oxford Sherlock Holmes is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in crime fiction. [via]More editions of The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th:
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, John LeonardISBN 0140424393 (0-14-042439-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle ranges across heaven, hell, and earth, as Satan and his band of rebel angels conspire against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.
This marvelous edition boasts an introduction by one of Milton's most famous modern admirers, the best-selling novelist Philip Pullman. Indeed, Pullman not only provides a general introduction, but also introduces each of the twelve books of the poem. In these commentaries, Pullman illuminates the power of the poem and its achievement as a story, suggests how we should read it today, and describes its influence on him and his acclaimed trilogy His Dark Materials, which takes its title from a line in the poem. His observations offer a tribute that is both personal and insightful, and his enthusiasm for Milton's language, skill, and supreme gifts as a storyteller is infectious. He encourages readers above all to experience the poem for themselves, and surrender to its enchantment.
Pullman's tremendous admiration and passion for Paradise Lost will attract a whole new generation of readers to this classic of English literature. An ideal gift, the book is beautifully produced, printed in two colors throughout, illustrated with the twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition published in 1688, with ribbon marker. [via] -
Parineetaby Saratcandra Cattopadhyaya, Malobika ChaudhuriISBN 0143033565 (0-14-303356-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parineeta'Book summary:Set in early twentieth century Kolkata, "Parineeta" (Espoused) is the unforgettable story of a child-woman. It is an intense and bittersweet romance. Lalita, an orphaned girl who lives with her uncle considers herself betrothed to Shekhar, her benefactor and guardian. After several failed attempts, Lalita finally gets the egotistical Shekhar to admit that he reciprocates her feelings. However, tensions erupt between Shekhar's prosperous father and Lalita's poor but principled uncle, and the situation is further complicated by the arrival on the scene of Girin, a mild-mannered and eligible bachelor, who is attracted to Lalita. The lover's world is turned upside down, and Shekhar and Lalita find themselves estranged. Years later, they meet again, and the story takes another unexpected turn. "Parineeta" is a classic that has captured the imagination of generations of readers. This new translation, published to coincide with Vidhu Vinod Chopra's film, will delight Saratchandra's fans, as well as those who are not familiar with the writer's works. [via]
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The Penguin Guide to the States and Union Territories of IndiaISBN 0143033395 (0-14-303339-5)
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Rajasthanby Rustom BharuchaISBN 0143029592 (0-14-302959-2)
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Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia's Largest Slumby Kalpana SharmaISBN 0141000236 (0-14-100023-6)
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The Rice Motherby Rani ManickaISBN 0142004545 (0-14-200454-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rice Mother'Book summary:[via]At the age of fourteen, Lakshmi leaves behind her childhood among the mango trees of Ceylon for married life across the ocean in Malaysia, and soon finds herself struggling to raise a family in a country that is, by turns, unyielding and amazing, brutal and beautiful. Giving birth to a child every year until she is nineteen, Lakshmi becomes a formidable matriarch, determined to secure a better life for her daughters and sons. From the Japanese occupation during World War II to the torture of watching some of her children succumb to lifes most terrible temptations, she rises to face every new challenge with almost mythic strength. Dreamy and lyrical, told in the alternating voices of the men and women of this amazing family, The Rice Mother gorgeously evokes a world where small pleasures offset unimaginable horrors, where ghosts and gods walk hand in hand. It marks the triumphant debut of a writer whose wisdom and soaring prose will touch readers, especially women, the world over.
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A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asiaby Frederick Burnaby, Peter HopkirkISBN 0192803670 (0-19-280367-0)
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar Khayyam, Peter Avery, John Francis Alexander Heath-StubbsISBN 0140443843 (0-14-044384-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'Book summary:A reissue of Edward Fitzgerald's Victorian translation of this Persian classic. The introduction concerns itself as much with Edward Fitzgerald and the Victorian reception of his translation as with the poem itself. [via]
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Rudyard Kipling: El Libro De La Selva / The Jungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling, Daniel KarlinISBN 019254201X (0-19-254201-X)
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Rusty, the Boy from the Hillsby Ruskin BondISBN 0143335472 (0-14-333547-2)
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Sacred Waters : A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Cultureby Stephen AlterISBN 0151005850 (0-15-100585-0)
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The Satasaiby Bihari, Vihari LalaISBN 0140445765 (0-14-044576-5)
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Selected Short Storiesby Rabindranath Tagore, William RadiceISBN 0140449833 (0-14-044983-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Short Stories'Book summary:Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundly original vision. [via]
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Selected Poems Rudyard Kiplingby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0140424318 (0-14-042431-8)
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Selected Stories Ruyard Kiplingby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0141186755 (0-14-118675-5)
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Sholay, the Making of a Classicby Anupama ChopraISBN 014029970X (0-14-029970-X)
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Show Your Tongueby Günter Grass, John E. WoodsISBN 0156823306 (0-15-682330-6)
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Snakebite Survivors' Club : Travels among Serpentsby Jeremy SealISBN 0156013673 (0-15-601367-3)
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Somaby Robert Gordon WassonISBN 0156838001 (0-15-683800-1)
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Something Black in the Lentil Soupby Reshma S. RuiaISBN 0143032356 (0-14-303235-6)
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The Story of Englishby Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeilISBN 0142002313 (0-14-200231-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of English'Book summary:[via]Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written Englishfrom its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture with more than one billion English speakers around the world. From Cockney, Scouse, and Scots to Gulla, Singlish, Franglais, and the latest African American slang, this sweeping history of the English language is the essential introduction for anyone who wants to know more about our common tongue.
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Surveys from Exile: Political Writingsby Karl Marx, David FernbachISBN 0140445722 (0-14-044572-2)
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Taj: A Story Of Mughal Indiaby Timeri N. MurariISBN 0143031163 (0-14-303116-3)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Linda JenningsISBN 0140373365 (0-14-037336-5)
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In his absorbing Introduction, Richard Maxwell discusses the novel's intricate design, in which Dickens magnificently interweaves epic drama with personal tragedy. Comparing it to Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Maxwell argues that A Tale of Two Cities "stands as Dickens's most memorable effort to see a world in a very small space; a work short by its nature ... yet curiously at its ease among giants". [via]
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Tales from Indiaby Rosamund Fowler, J.E.B. GrayISBN 0192751158 (0-19-275115-8)
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That Man on the Road: Contemporary Telugu Short Fictionby Ranga RaoISBN 014306181X (0-14-306181-X)
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Traffics and Discoveriesby Rudyard Kipling, Hermione LeeISBN 0140432868 (0-14-043286-8)
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Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellersby Jane RobinsonISBN 0192802011 (0-19-280201-1)
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The Upanisadsby Valerie J. RoebuckISBN 0140447490 (0-14-044749-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Upanisads'Book summary:An "Upanisad" is a teaching session with a guru, and the thirteen texts of the "Principal Upanis.ads"which comprise this volumeform a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world. Composed beginning around the eighth century bce, the Upanisads have been central to the development of Hinduism, exploring its central doctrines: rebirth, karma, overcoming death, and achieving detachment, equilibrium, and spiritual bliss. Speaking to the reader in direct, unadorned prose or lucid verse, the Upanisads collected here embody humanitys perennial search for truth and knowledge. Valerie Roebucks powerful new translation blends accuracy with readability and retains the oral style of these stirring and profound philosophical explorations. [via]
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Upanishadsby Juan MascaroISBN 0140441638 (0-14-044163-8)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0141439831 (0-14-143983-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the social ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of English society in the early 1800s, battles-military and domestic-are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honorable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin, devoted to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to William Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure. [via]
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Vanity Fairby John Carey, William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0140437533 (0-14-043753-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:This is Thackeray's rich and gloriously chaotic sketch of English society during the Napoleonic wars. At the centre of this picture is the scheming and disreputable Becky Sharp, one of Thackeray's greatest creations. The style here is fast-paced and comic, but the character of Dobbin and his unrequited love for Amelia bring depth and pathos to the novel. Dobbin, the unheroic hero, is Thackeray's realistic answer to the hero-worship of high romanticism. The novel stands as a landmark in the development of European Realism. [via]
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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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World Tales: The Extraordinary Coincidence of Stories Told in All Times, in All Placesby Shah, Idries, SayedISBN 015199434X (0-15-199434-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World Tales: The Extraordinary Coincidence of Stories Told in All Times, in All Places'Book summary:An illustrated collection of 65 folktales, each with an introduction outlining the appearance of the tale in various cultures. [via]
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