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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Barry Moser, James R. Kincaid, Selwyn H. GoodacreISBN 0156044269 (0-15-604426-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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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 CarrollISBN 0192816209 (0-19-281620-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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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Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 019281186X (0-19-281186-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0192816209 (0-19-281620-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 015202199X (0-15-202199-X)
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Androcles and the Lion: An Old Fable Renovatedby Bernard ShawISBN 0140450130 (0-14-045013-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Annie Dunneby Sebastian BarryISBN 0142002879 (0-14-200287-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Annie Dunne'Book summary:The central character in Sebastian Barry's novel Annie Dunne is a woman who has been pushed to the margins, a woman whom life has given few chances of happiness and fulfillment. Unmarried, she spends years as housekeeper for her brother-in-law because her sister is too ill to manage. Her sister dies, her brother-in-law remarries, and Annie Dunne is homeless. Invited by her cousin Sarah, she moves to a small farm in a remote part of Wicklow. As the novel opens, the two cousins share their lives and the work on the farm. It is the late 1950s and rural Ireland is changing around them. Annie's nephew heads for London in search of work and leaves his young children with their great-aunt. Content with her life with Sarah, Annie also finds a new capacity for love in her feelings for the two children. Yet even the small pleasures that Annie finds in her life are threatened. An unlikely suitor pays court to Sarah, and Annie's love for the children opens her up to pain almost as much as to happiness. Annie Dunne is a novel in which few external dramas occur--there is an accident with a pony and trap, one of the children goes temporarily missing--but Barry evokes superbly the inner dramas of his characters. In a society where emotions are often severely repressed and expressed only obliquely, small incidents hint at larger feelings and Barry has written a story in which these are subtly and poignantly unfolded. --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Aran Islandsby Robin Skelton, J. M. SyngeISBN 0192812580 (0-19-281258-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aran Islands'Book summary:Nothing much happens on the Aran Islands--at least, not much went on there in the late 19th century, when John Synge sailed out to these mist-shrouded, salt-sprayed, and wave-battered chunks of rocks south of Ireland. Therein lies the charm of the setting and of this lovely book, which captures the saltiness of both the marine air and the time-lost characters, who deeply believe in the magical "wee people." In cottages where nets and fishing tackle hang from beams, the women (who always wear red dresses and petticoats, as do some of the boys) sit at their spinning wheels or sew cow-skin sandals, while the fishermen spin yarns about fairies, sunken vessels, and bags of gold gained from adulterous wives. The big happening of the year is when roofs are rethatched--an event that blossoms into a festival with twisted rope stretching from kitchen table through lane to nearby field. Synge seems an ambassador from a different world: addressed as "noble person," he brings tokens of modernity--be they clocks or simple magic tricks that beguile the locals. First published in 1907, this re-released travelogue gives a poignant peek into another time and begs a visit to the Aran Islands to see how, or if, they have changed. --Melissa Rossi [via]
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Arms and the Man: A Pleasant Playby Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, Rodelle WeintraubISBN 0143039768 (0-14-303976-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Bend for Homeby Dermot HealyISBN 0156011646 (0-15-601164-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Bird Aloneby Sean O'FaolainISBN 0192819062 (0-19-281906-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Black Princeby Iris MurdochISBN 0142180114 (0-14-218011-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Prince'Book summary:Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.[via]More editions of Black Prince:
Blood and Familyby Thomas KinsellaISBN 0192821822 (0-19-282182-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Byronby A. S. B. GloverISBN 0140585079 (0-14-058507-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Christians in Ulster: 1968-1980by Eric Gallagher, Stanley WorrallISBN 0192132377 (0-19-213237-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Collected Poems 1956-1994by Thomas KinsellaISBN 0192825267 (0-19-282526-7)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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The Crooked Manby Philip DavisonISBN 0142002089 (0-14-200208-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dead As Doornails: A Chronicle of Lifeby Anthony CroninISBN 0192819534 (0-19-281953-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Doctor's Dilemmaby George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0140450270 (0-14-045027-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doctor's Dilemma'Book summary:This is Shaw's humorous satire of the medical profession. [via]
A Dublin Quartetby Dermot BolgerISBN 0140482350 (0-14-048235-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Emma Brownby Charlotte Bronte, Clare BoylanISBN 0143034839 (0-14-303483-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Exilesby James JoyceISBN 0140481265 (0-14-048126-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Finbar's Hotelby Dermot BolgerISBN 0156006332 (0-15-600633-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finbar's Hotel'Book summary:It calls itself a novel, but Finbar's Hotel is really more a collection of related short stories by novelists. Irish writer Dermot Bolger came up with the idea to invite six of his literary colleagues to collaborate on a tale about a decrepit Dublin Hotel on the eve of its demolition. In its prime, Finbar's was a glorious place; now, however, it's the haunt of prostitutes and thieves. A new owner plans to pull it down, but before he does, the seven authors (Bolger, Anne Enright, Joseph O'Connor, Roddy Doyle, Jennifer Johnston, Hugo Hamilton, and Colm Tóibín) imagine for it one last night. In "Benny Does Dublin" we meet Ben Winters, a fortysomething husband and father on the lam from his loving family for a single night. "He'd never been in a hotel room before. He wanted to see what staying in one was like. He was curious. All of these were right, honest answers. But why alone? Why so close to home?" "White Lies" introduces Rose and Ivy, two sisters united by love, divided by a painful secret. In "The Test" Maureen Connolly comes to Finbar's to hide from a broken heart and ends up mending it instead.
The serial novel has been tried before; what provides Finbar's Hotel with its twist is that none of the stories are signed. Bolger leaves it up to his readers to guess who's who. Those familiar with the work of these Irish novelists will enjoy the puzzle; others will still have these seven stories of love, despair, and redemption to relish. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Georgicsby Virgil, L. P. WilkinsonISBN 0140444149 (0-14-044414-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Georgics'Book summary:Virgil's affectionate poem of the land brings us the disappointments as well as the rewards of the countryman's year-round devotion to his crops, his vines and olives, livestock great and small, and the complex society of his bees. Part agricultural manual, part political poem and allegory, The Georgics' scenes are real and vivid, allowing the reader to feel the sights, sounds, and textures of the ancient Italian landscape.
This lauded new translation has been written by Peter Fallon, who, as a farmer and a poet, is uniquely suited to the task. It is coupled here with an introduction and notes by the classical scholar Elaine Fantham. Fantham's introduction considers Virgil's life and poetry in its historical context, while her notes gloss the many classical and mythological allusions. The combination of a faithful and lyrical translation with well-researched contextual information makes this edition the best possible introduction to Virgil's masterpiece. It is sure to delight all lovers of poetry and Renaissance literature. [via] 
Hooray for St. Patrick's Dayby Paul Meisel, Joan HolubISBN 0142300616 (0-14-230061-6)
Softcover, Puffin
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Hungry for Home : Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Irelandby Cole MoretonISBN 0141001941 (0-14-100194-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Talesby Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, S. T. JoshiISBN 014243776X (0-14-243776-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales'Book summary:[via]A pioneer in the realm of imaginative literature, Lord Dunsany has gained a cult following for his influence on modern fantasy literature, including such authors as J.R.R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft. This unique collection of short stories ranges over five decades of work. Liberal selections of earlier talesincluding the entire Gods of Pegana as well as such notable works as "Idle Days of the Yann" and "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth"are followed by memorable later tales, including several about the garrulous traveler Joseph Jorkens and the outrageous murder tale "The Two Bottles of Relish." Throughout, the stories are united by Dunsany's cosmic vision, his impeccable and mellifluous prose, and his distinctively Irish sense of whimsy.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- The only annotated edition of Dunsany's short stories
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Island Cross-Talkby Tomas O'Crohan, Tim EnrightISBN 0192819097 (0-19-281909-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Jewel of Seven Starsby Bram Stoker, David GloverISBN 0192832190 (0-19-283219-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jewel of Seven Stars'Book summary:In the early hours of the morning, a young lawyer is called to the home of a beautiful woman he has just met. Here, her father, an archaeologist, lies in a coma, the victim of a mysterious attack. The injured man is discovered to be dabbling in ritual magic in an attempt to raise an ancient Egyptian queen from the dead. As the hour of his great experiment approaches, a deadly supernatural stuggle begins.
First published in 1903 as a successor to Dracula, this is the only available edition of the original version, and includes the alternative ending for the 1912 revised edition. [via]More editions of The Jewel of Seven Stars:
Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyceby Anthony BurgessISBN 0156465612 (0-15-646561-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Kimby Rudyard Kipling, Alan SandisonISBN 0192835130 (0-19-283513-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires, Doris LessingISBN 0141441496 (0-14-144149-6)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Barry MoserISBN 0151042306 (0-15-104230-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Life Maskby Emma DonoghueISBN 0156032643 (0-15-603264-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Mask'Book summary:One of the satisfactions of Emma Donoghue's masterful fourth novel, Life Mask, is the tension between the writer's contemporary interests, like lesbianism and the balance of power in marriage, and her 18th Century subject matter. Life Mask is a fictional recreation of a plausible (but unproven) love triangle between the comedic actress Eliza Farren, the sculptor Anne Damer (the niece of Horace Walpole, a fantastic minor character here), and Edward Smith-Stanley, the twelfth Earl of Derby, a Whig (liberal) politician who left his name to the horse race he founded. Like her bestseller Slammerkin, the novel spins an intricate story from the slightest of historical traces, in this case a single reference in the commonplace book of Hester (Thrale) Piozzi: a snarky four-line epigram that hints at the danger to Miss Farren's reputation in consorting with "one whose name approaches 'Damn Her.'"
Readers who stay with Donoghue through the crowded and confusing early chapters of Life Mask will find a skillful, partly sympathetic portrait of English aristocracy during and after the French Revolution, a trove of period detail, and a spellbinding tale of unlikely but enduring love. --Regina Marler [via]
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Lost Soulsby Michael CollinsISBN 0143035886 (0-14-303588-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Souls'Book summary:With such novels as The Resurrectionists, Michael Collins has galvanized his reputation as a master of the literary thriller. In Lost Souls, he embarks upon his most ambitious project yet, offering a harrowing portrait of a stricken American community.
On Halloween night, a small midwestern town is traumatized by what appears to be a hit- and-run accident. But the mayor and chief of police conspire to divert the investigation away from the prime suspect, a local high school football hero, leaving the beleaguered police officer who discovered the body to uncover the truth behind the cover-up. Full of the authors trademark psychological intensity, this fast-paced tale is Michael Collins at his page-turning best. [via]
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Mary: A Fictionby Mary Wollstonecraft, Gary KellyISBN 019283536X (0-19-283536-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Mary, a Fiction and the Wrongs of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0192553674 (0-19-255367-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.by William Makepeace Thackeray, Andrew SandersISBN 0192836285 (0-19-283628-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.'Book summary:First published in 1844, this is Thackeray's earliest substantial work of fiction and perhaps his most original. The text is that of Saintbury's 1908 Oxford edition which incorporates Thackeray's revisions. [via]
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Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introductionby Senia PasetaISBN 0192801678 (0-19-280167-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The New Penguin Book of English Verseby Paul KeeganISBN 0140586717 (0-14-058671-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Nothing to Fearby Jackie French KollerISBN 0152575820 (0-15-257582-0)
Softcover, Gulliver Books
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An Old Woman's Reflectionsby Peig Sayers, Seamus EnnisISBN 0192812394 (0-19-281239-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Isobel MurrayISBN 019281978X (0-19-281978-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Oscar Wildeby John SloanISBN 0192840649 (0-19-284064-9)
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The Oxford Companion to Irish Historyby S. J. ConnollyISBN 0192805010 (0-19-280501-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to Irish History'Book summary:The Oxford Companion to Irish History offers a radically new and eminently readable introduction to all aspects of the history of this fascinating and complex land. Written by a team of 87 specialists, its 1,800 entries explore Irish history from earliest times to the recent past. Key figures and events are re-evaluated in the light of recent research, while emerging areas of scholarship, such as women's history and public health, are discussed in depth. Many entries focus on enduring themes of Irish history, including nationalism, unionism, and Catholicism, breaking away from a purely chronological approach to examine the contexts and traditions that underpin Irish identity.
In a field bedeviled by controversy, The Oxford Companion to Irish History offers a reference that is both authoritative and innovative. [via]More editions of The Oxford Companion to Irish History:
Paddy's Lament: Ireland 1846-47by Thomas GallagherISBN 0151706182 (0-15-170618-2)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Paddy's Lament: Ireland, 1846-1847 Prelude to Hatredby Thomas GallagherISBN 0156707004 (0-15-670700-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetryby Peter Fallon, Derek MahonISBN 0140586091 (0-14-058609-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry'Book summary:The vitality, richness and range of Irish poetry over the last forty years, together with the strength of its traditions, are vividly demonstrated in this collection.
The anthology includes generous selections of poems by such exemplary and celebrated figures as Thomas Kinsella, John Montague and Seamus Heaney and, among younger poets, Paul Muldoon, Paul Durcan and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. It introduces to an international audience a number of poets whose work is insufficiently known outside Ireland (representing, moreover, the dual traditions they inherit) and includes some poems in Irish, with translations.
Irish poetry features at the forefront of modern writing in English, which these varied voices extend and enhance. [via]
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A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellersby Michael O'Guiheen, Tim EnrightISBN 019281320X (0-19-281320-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Poetical Worksby Edmund SpenserISBN 0192810707 (0-19-281070-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Poetical Worksby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0192541617 (0-19-254161-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Political Murder in Northern Irelandby Martin Dillon, Denis LehaneISBN 0140523081 (0-14-052308-1)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Portraits of the Artist in Exile: Recollections of James Joyce by Europeansby Willard PottsISBN 0156729806 (0-15-672980-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, L. G. MitchellISBN 0192839780 (0-19-283978-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Resurrectionistsby Not AvailableISBN 0143038222 (0-14-303822-2)
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Satires and Personal Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0192541471 (0-19-254147-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Scandalous Woman, and Other Storiesby Edna O'BrienISBN 0151795584 (0-15-179558-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Selected Poemsby John Donne, John HaywardISBN 0140585184 (0-14-058518-4)
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Selected Journalismby Oscar Wilde, Anya ClayworthISBN 019280412X (0-19-280412-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Journalism'Book summary:"The subject of a work of art has of course nothing to do with its beauty, but still there is always something depressing about the coloured lithograph of a leg of mutton."
Thus, in typical fashion, Oscar Wilde reviews the latest cookbook. Throughout the 1880s, Wilde honed his literary talent in numerous articles and reviews for some of the leading periodicals of the day. He wrote on subjects ranging from women's dress to the American invasion of English society, from a lecture by Whistler to a production of Hamlet starring Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. Witty and perceptive, often hilarious, Wilde's journalism shows him responding to writers such as Swinburne and Balzac, as well as to the latest theatrical trends and a wide range of topical issues. This edition shows how Wilde's journalistic techniques inform his later critical essays and social comedies. It also offers an insight into the colorful world of magazine publishing in the late nineteenth century. [via]More editions of Selected Journalism:
Sentimental Journey Through France and Italyby Laurence Sterne, Ian Robert James JackISBN 0192816853 (0-19-281685-3)
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorickby Laurence Sterne, Paul GoringISBN 0140437797 (0-14-043779-7)
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A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poemsby Paul DurcanISBN 0140587209 (0-14-058720-9)
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The Soul of Man and Prison Writingsby Oscar Wilde, Isobel MurrayISBN 0192817973 (0-19-281797-3)
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Studs Loniganby James T. Farrell, Ann DouglasISBN 0141186739 (0-14-118673-9)
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Ann Douglas provides an illuminating introductory essay to Farrell's masterpiece, one of the greatest novels of American literature.More editions of Studs Lonigan:
A Tale of a Tub and Other Worksby Jonathan Swift, Angus Ross, David WoolleyISBN 0192835939 (0-19-283593-9)
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Tales of Cu Chulaindby Jeffrey Gantz, AnonymousISBN 0146001850 (0-14-600185-0)
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Testimony of an Irish Slave Girlby Kate McCaffertyISBN 014200183X (0-14-200183-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl'Book summary:[via]Kidnapped from Galway, Ireland, as a young girl, shipped to Barbados, and forced to work the land alongside African slaves, Cot Daley's life has been shaped by injustice. In this stunning debut novel, Kate McCafferty re-creates, through Cot's story, the history of the more than fifty thousand Irish who were sold as indentured servants to Caribbean plantation owners during the seventeenth century. As Cot tells her story-the brutal journey to Barbados, the harrowing years of fieldwork on the sugarcane plantations, her marriage to an African slave and rebel leader, and the fate of her childrenher testimony reveals an exceptional woman's astonishing life.
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Thirteen Storiesby Eudora WeltyISBN 0156899698 (0-15-689969-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversionby Bernard Shaw, Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0140437924 (0-14-043792-4)
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Storiesby Henry James, Tim LustigISBN 0192834045 (0-19-283404-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories'Book summary:The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she suspects that the previous governess and her lover are controlling the two orphaned children (a girl and a boy) for some evil purpose. The household staff don't know what she's talking about, the children are evasive when questioned, and the master of the house (the children's uncle) is absent. Why does the young girl claim not to see a perfectly visible woman standing on the far side of the lake? Are the children being deceptive, or is the governess being paranoid? By leaving the questions unanswered, The Turn of Screw generates spine-tingling anxiety in its mesmerized readers. [via]
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The Waste Land and Other Poemsby T. S. Eliot, Frank KermodeISBN 014243731X (0-14-243731-X)
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In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. Eliot, Frank KermodeISBN 0141180722 (0-14-118072-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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The Wild Irish Girlby Morgan, (Sydney), Kathryn J. KirkpatrickISBN 0192832832 (0-19-283283-2)
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Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbitsby Emma DonoghueISBN 0156027399 (0-15-602739-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Whether she's spinning the tale of an English soldier tricked into marrying a dowdy spinster, a Victorian surgeon's attempts to "improve" women, a seventeenth-century Irish countess who ran away to Italy disguised as a man, or an "undead" murderess returning for the maid she left behind to be executed in her place, Emma Donoghue brings to her tales a colorful, elegant prose filled with the sights and smells and sounds of the period. She summons the ghosts of those men and women who counted for nothing in their own day and brings them to unforgettable life in fiction.More editions of Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits:
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Women in Loveby D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen, Lindeth Vasey, David R. Farmer, Amit ChaudhuriISBN 0141441542 (0-14-144154-2)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:In Women in Love (1920), Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen who first appeared in Lawrence's earlier novel, The Rainbow, take center stage as Lawrence explores their growth and development in their relationships with two powerful men, Rupert Birkin and his friend Gerald Crich. A novel of regeneration and dark, destructive human passion, Women in Love reflects the impact on Lawrence of the First World War in the potential both for annihilation and salvation of the self. A full introduction and detailed notes offer an illuminating discourse on one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative, and unsettling works. [via]
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