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10,000 French Wordsby William RowlinsonISBN 0192828959 (0-19-282895-9)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: '10,000 French Words'Book summary:10,000 French Words is a completely up-to-date reference book, offering over 10,000 words, phrases, and structures, conveniently arranged by topic and function. This practical guide covers all the bases, from noun gender and irregular noun plurals, through feminine forms of masculine nouns, to irregular feminine and plural forms of adjectives. Collected under fifty-six alphabetically arranged subject headings, including Food, Holidays, Shops and Shopping, and Transport, each heading is further divided into sub-headings for even easier accessibility. Now in a larger, easy-to-read edition, this compendium of the most useful French vocabulary is invaluable for beginners, yet comprehensive enough for more advanced French speakers. [via]
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10,000 German Wordsby W. RowlinsonISBN 0192830953 (0-19-283095-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Emory ElliottISBN 0192824414 (0-19-282441-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic attack on racism American-style, Twain's story of what he once called a "sound heart" triumphing over a "deformed conscience" is poignant, powerful, and fresh. It is no wonder that this extraordinary book continues to captivate readers around the world. This handsome Oxford World's Classic edition uses the reliable 1885 text and includes in-depth, up-to-date editorial apparatus. [via]
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An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fictionby Paul SalzmanISBN 0192839012 (0-19-283901-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--ivby Aristotle, J. O. Urmson, J. L. Ackrill, W.D. Ross, David RossISBN 019283407X (0-19-283407-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--iv'Book summary:This revised translation of Aristotle's classic treatise contains all ten books of his vastly influential work of moral philosophy. Founded on the famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency, the book offers an illuminating discource on moral virtue, intellectual virtue, pleasure, friendship, happiness, and many other topics. [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0192837788 (0-19-283778-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Around the World in Eighty Days has been a bestseller for over a century, but it has never before appeared in a critical edition. While most translations misread or even abridge the original, this stylish new version is completely true to Verne's classic, moving as fast and as brilliantly as Phineas Fogg's own race against time. Around the World in Eighty Days offers a strong dose of post-romantic reality but not a shred of science fiction: its modernism lies instead in the experimental technique and Verne's unique twisting of space and time. [via]
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Bbc Pronouncing Dictionary of British Namesby G.E. PointonISBN 0192827456 (0-19-282745-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Bel Amiby Guy De Maupassant, Robert Lethbridge, Margaret MauldonISBN 0192836838 (0-19-283683-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bel Ami'Book summary:Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism.
Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behavior and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist.
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard Kipling, Leonee OrmondISBN 0192837400 (0-19-283740-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captains Courageous'Book summary:Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner her is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captain's Courageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book, is thrown into an entirely alien environment. This is the only edition of the novel in print, and it offers a stimulating introduction and detailed notes which help readers navigate among the historical, geographical, and maritime references found in the book. [via]
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Carmen and Other Storiesby Prosper Merimee, Nicholas JotchamISBN 0192837222 (0-19-283722-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carmen and Other Stories'Book summary:A selection of stories by one of the earliest exponents of the short-story genre, Prosper Merimee (1803-70). His stories are seen to reveal the paradoxical fascination with the cruelty of violence and passion in a man ostensibly urbane and reticent; to an extent they all explore the contrast between primitive and civilized values. "Carmen", based on an anecdote recounted to Merimee by a Spanish countess in 1830, may have introduced the literary incarnation of the "femme fatale", the woman whose aura of mystery and malevolence exerts a fatal charm on the weak and unwary. Apart from the most famous longer tales "Carmen" and "Colomba", this selection includes the shorter stories, regarded by some as his best or most representative work - "Mateo Falcone", "The Storming of the Redoubt", "Tamango", "The Etruscan Vase", "The Game of Backgammon", "The Venus of Ille" and "Lokis". Their subjects range across the tragic enforcement of a Corsican bandit's code of honour, a historical reconstruction of a Franco-Russian battle, illegal slave-trading, overweening, jealous passion underlying a veneer of Parisian civilization, guilty remorse and its consequences, and the seductive and lethal nature of erotic love entwined with apparently supernatural forces. [via]
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The Charterhouse of Parmaby Margaret Mauldon, Henri StendhalISBN 0192839578 (0-19-283957-8)
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Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretendingby Iona Opie, Peter OpieISBN 0192814893 (0-19-281489-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending'Book summary:This record of children's outdoor games played in the street, park, playground, or wasteland is drawn from the contributions of 10,000 children in England, Scotland and Wales. It reveals that the games children take pleasure in when out on their own are usually those learnt from each other - not from adults. They are games in which children may deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, play ten against one, and yet in which they consistenly observe their own sense of fair play. This volume explains in detail how a large number of street games are played, and gives the rhymes and sayings children repeat while playing them, together with their different regional names. It also contains notes on their individual histories, and compares apparently recently invented games with amusements in Elizabethan, medieval and even classical times, while numerous analogues from other countries indicate the extent of their distribution. Iona and Peter Opie have also written "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes", "The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book", "The Oxford Book of Children's Verse", "The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren", "Classic Fairy Tales", "A Nursery Companion" and "The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse". Iona Opie is also the author of "The Singing Game" and "People in the Playground". [via]
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of QuotationsISBN 0192813242 (0-19-281324-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
Find This BookBook summary:The new edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, drawn from the third edition of the best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, is a collection of 5800 well-known quotations by 1100 authors. Ranging in time from the eighth century BC to the 1970s and in space from Russia to South Africa, it provides excellent browsing among a varied company of authors and includes a generous index to guide the reader to a particular quote or selection of quotes. [via]
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The Consolation of Philosophyby Boethius, Peterg WalshISBN 0192838830 (0-19-283883-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Consolation of Philosophy'Book summary:Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, which he protested as manifestly unjust. Though a Christian, Boethius details the true end of life as the soul's knowledge of God, and consoles himself with the tenets of Greek philosophy, not with Christian precepts. Written in a form called Meippean Satire that alternates between prose and verse, Boethius' work often consists of a story told by Ovid or Horace to illustrate the philosophy being expounded. The Consolation of Philosophy dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages; it inspired writers as diverse Thomas Aquinas, Jean de Meun, and Dante. In England it was rendered into Old English by Alfred the Great, into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, and later Queen Elizabeth I made her own translation. The circumstances of composition, the heroic demeanor of the author, and the Meippean texture of part prose, part verse have been a fascination for students of philosophy, literature, and religion ever since. [via]
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Christopher Fry, Edmond Rostand, Nicholas CronkISBN 0192824244 (0-19-282424-4)
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Edmond RostandISBN 0192836439 (0-19-283643-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyrano De Bergerac'Book summary:'Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ...My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the social realism which dominated late nineteenth-century theatre. He wrote his 'heroic comedy', unfashionably, in verse, and set it in the reign of Louis XIII and the Three Musketeers. Based on the life of a little known writer, Rostand's hero has become a figure of theatrical legend: Cyrano, with the nose of a clown and the soul of a poet, is by turns comic and sad, as reckless in love as in war, and never at a loss for words. Audiences immediately took him to their hearts, and since the triumphant opening night in December 1897 - at the height of the Dreyfus Affair - the play has never lost its appeal. The text is accompanied by notes and a full introduction which sets the play in its literary and historical context. Christopher Fry's acclaimed translation into 'chiming couplets' represents the homage of one verse dramatist to another. [via]
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Dictionary of Britainby Adrian RoomISBN 0192830562 (0-19-283056-2)
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A Discourse on the Method fo Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciencesby Rene Descartes, Ian MacLeanISBN 0192825143 (0-19-282514-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Discourse on the Method fo Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences'Book summary:Descartes' Discourse marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous "cogito ergo sum"). Next he deduces from it the existence and nature of God, and ends by offering a radical new account of the physical world and of human and animal nature. Written in everyday language and meant to be read by common people of the day, it swept away all previous philosophical traditions.
This new translation is an ideal introduction to Descartes for the general reader. It is accompanied by a substantial introductory essay from Renaissance scholar Ian Maclean that is designed to provide in-depth historical and philosophical context. The essay draws on Descartes' correspondence to examine what brought him to write his great work, and the impact it had on his contemporaries. A detailed section of notes explain Descartes' philosophical terminology and ideas, as well as historical references and allusions. Any reader can feel comfortable diving in to this classic work of Renaissance philosophical thought. [via]More editions of A Discourse on the Method fo Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences:
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Dublinersby James Joyce, Jeri JohnsonISBN 0192839993 (0-19-283999-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:The publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else. Although only twenty-four when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would "retard the course of civilization in Ireland." Joyce's aim was to tell the truth-- to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism, to reveal to the Irish their unromantic reality, which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country. Each of the fifteen stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners-- a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled - and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.
This edition is introduced and annotated by Jeri Johnson, who gives a witty and informative insight into the context, meanings, and reception of Joyce's work. [via]More editions of Dubliners:
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/the Greater Chronicle Bede's Letter to Egbertby Bede, Judith McClure, Roger CollinsISBN 0192838660 (0-19-283866-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/the Greater Chronicle Bede's Letter to Egbert'Book summary:Starting with the invasion of Julius Caesar in the fifth century, Bede recorded the history of the English up to his own day in 731 A.D. A scholarly monk working in the north-east of England, Bede wrote the five books of his history in Latin. The Ecclesiastical History is his most famous work, and this edition provides the authoritative Colgrave translation, as well as a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, never before published in English. His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death. This is the only edition to include all three texts, and they are illuminated further by a detailed introduction and explanatory notes. [via]
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Eclogues and Georgicsby VirgilISBN 0192816438 (0-19-281643-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eclogues and Georgics'Book summary:Translated by C. Day Lewis, with a new introduction, historical sketch and notes by R. O. A. M. Lyne. [via]
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The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physicsby Roger Penrose, Martin GardnerISBN 0192861980 (0-19-286198-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics'Book summary:Some love it, some hate it, but The Emperor's New Mind, physicist Roger Penrose's 1989 treatise attacking the foundations of strong artificial intelligence, is crucial for anyone interested in the history of thinking about AI and consciousness. Part survey of modern physics, part exploration of the philosophy of mind, the book is not for casual readers--though it's not overly technical, it rarely pauses to let the reader catch a breath. The overview of relativity and quantum theory, written by a master, is priceless and uncontroversial. The exploration of consciousness and AI, though, is generally considered as resting on shakier ground.
Penrose claims that there is an intimate, perhaps unknowable relation between quantum effects and our thinking, and ultimately derives his anti-AI stance from his proposition that some, if not all, of our thinking is non-algorithmic. Of course, these days we believe that there are other avenues to AI than traditional algorithmic programming; while he has been accused of setting up straw robots to knock down, this accusation is unfair. Little was then known about the power of neural networks and behavior-based robotics to simulate (and, some would say, produce) intelligent problem-solving behavior. Whether these tools will lead to strong AI is ultimately a question of belief, not proof, and The Emperor's New Mind offers powerful arguments useful to believer and nonbeliever alike. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Ethnicityby John Hutchinson, Anthony D. SmithISBN 0192892746 (0-19-289274-6)
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, James E. FalenISBN 0192838997 (0-19-283899-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. [via]
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Eugene Oneginby James E. Falen, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0192824910 (0-19-282491-0)
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The Flowers of Evilby Charles Baudelaire, James McGowanISBN 0192835459 (0-19-283545-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flowers of Evil'Book summary:This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection. This book is intended for general readers interested in Baudelaire, French poetry and 19th-century French culture. Students of Baudelaire, French literature. [via]
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French Grammarby William RowlinsonISBN 0192828940 (0-19-282894-0)
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Germinal: Library Editionby Emile Zola, Peter Collier, Robert LethbridgeISBN 0192837028 (0-19-283702-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Germinal: Library Edition'Book summary:Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted "Germinal! Germinal!"
While it is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, Germinal is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigor and power in this new translation. It is also the thirteenth book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, which celebrates its centenary in October 1993 with a new film version of Germinal starring Gerard Depardieu. [via]More editions of Germinal: Library Edition:
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Gorgiasby Plato, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0192836307 (0-19-283630-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gorgias'Book summary:One of Plato's most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosophy--and to everyone for its vividness, clarity, and occassional bitter humor--this new translation is accompanied by explanatory notes and an illuminating and accessible introduction. [via]
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Indianaby George Sand, Sylvia RaphaelISBN 0192837974 (0-19-283797-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indiana'Book summary:The first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, this is not only a vivid romance, but also an impassioned plea for change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, and for a new view of women. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. She falls in love with her handsome, frivolous neighbor, but discovers too late that his love is quite different from her own. This new translation, the first since 1900, does full justice to the passion and conviction of Sand's writing, and the introduction fully explores the response to Sand in her own time as well as contemporary feminist treatments. [via]
Jacques the Fatalist and His Masterby Denis Diderot, David CowardISBN 0192838741 (0-19-283874-1)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Margaret Smith, Sally ShuttleworthISBN 0192839659 (0-19-283965-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:A Victorian governess's love for her mysterious employer is threatened by the tragic secret of his mansion. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Margaret Smith, Charlotte BronteISBN 0192833561 (0-19-283356-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:A young woman looks back at her childhood in a harsh orphanage and describes her growing love for the man who employs her as governess. [via]
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Jane Eyreby UnkISBN 0194216322 (0-19-421632-2)
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The Kalevalaby Elias Lonnrot, Keith BosleyISBN 019283570X (0-19-283570-X)
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L'Assommoirby Emile Zola, Robert Lethbridge, Margaret MauldonISBN 019283813X (0-19-283813-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Assommoir'Book summary:The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband soon squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, a local drinking spot, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor.. L'Assommoir was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. This new translation captures not only the brutality but the pathos of its characters' lives. [via]
LA Bete Humaineby Emile Zola, Roger PearsonISBN 0192838148 (0-19-283814-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Bete Humaine'Book summary:"La bete humaine" (1890), the 17th novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context. [via]
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LA Debacleby Emile Zola, Robert Lethbridge, Elinor DordayISBN 0192822896 (0-19-282289-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Debacle'Book summary:The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) concerns the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-71. During Zola's lifetime it was the best-selling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as its attention to historical detail. The novel seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control. Often War and Peace, La Debacle skilfully integrates the narrative of events and the fictional lives of characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in French history. [via]
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The Ladies' Paradiseby Emile ZolaISBN 0192836021 (0-19-283602-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ladies' Paradise'Book summary:The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family: it is emblematic of changes in consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. This new translation of the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest works. [via]
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Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Choderlos De Laclos, Douglas ParmeeISBN 0192838679 (0-19-283867-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'Book summary:Au petit jeu du libertinage, l'adorable Valmont et la délicieuse Madame de Merteuil se livrent à une compétition amicale et néanmoins acharnée : c'est à celui qui aura le plus de succès galants, et le moins de scrupules. Peu importent les sentiments, seule la jouissance compte. Les conquêtes se succèdent de part et d'autre, jusqu'à ce que Valmont rencontre la vertu incarnée : la présidente de Tourvel. Elle est belle, douce, mariée et chaste : en un mot, intouchable. Voilà une proie de choix pour Valmont : saura-t-il relever ce défi sans tomber dans les pièges de l'amour ? De lettre en lettre, les héros dévoilent leurs aventures, échangent leurs impressions et nous entraînent dans un tourbillon de plaisirs qui semble n'avoir pas de fin.
Ce sulfureux roman a longtemps été censuré, ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de fasciner des générations de lecteurs et, plus près de nous, de captiver bon nombre de cinéastes : Les Liaisons Dangereuses de Stephen Frears mais aussi les adaptations de Roger Vadim, et de Milos Forman. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Linguistic Criticismby Roger FowlerISBN 0192892614 (0-19-289261-4)
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The Love Poemsby Ovid, A.D. MelvilleISBN 0192836331 (0-19-283633-1)
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Mahadevi Sancayitaby Elias Lonnrot, Keith BosleyISBN 0192817000 (0-19-281700-0)
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The Masterpieceby Emile Zola, Thomas WaltonISBN 0192839632 (0-19-283963-2)
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The Masterpieceby Thomas Walton, Emile Zola, Roger PearsonISBN 0192829068 (0-19-282906-8)
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Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and Its Background 1100-1500by John Anthony BurrowISBN 0192891227 (0-19-289122-7)
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Nanaby Emile Zola, Douglas ParmeeISBN 0192836706 (0-19-283670-6)
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On the Nature of the Universeby Lucretius, Ronald MelvilleISBN 0192817612 (0-19-281761-2)
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Orlando Furiosoby Ludvico Aristo, Guido WaldmanISBN 0192836773 (0-19-283677-3)
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The Oxford Paperback Italian Dictionary: Italian-English, English-Italianby Joyce AndrewsISBN 0192821849 (0-19-282184-9)
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The Oxford Paperback French Dictionary: French-English, English-Frenchby Michael JanesISBN 0192821830 (0-19-282183-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Paperback French Dictionary: French-English, English-French'Book summary:Language has never changed at a faster rate than it has recently. New words, or new uses of old words, crowd into everyday speech in English, French, and Italian. The Oxford Paperback French Dictionary and The Oxford Paperback Italian Dictionary successfully attempt to capture as many of these words as possible.
Specially designed to meet the needs of French, Italian, and English-speaking students, tourists, and travelers, these two up-to-date, concise, practical dictionaries contain the most useful words and expressions in the three languages today.
Offering translations from both French or Italian into English and English into French or Italian, each dictionary contains 45,000 words and phrases, including useful technical jargon and slang. Indicators in brackets marking different uses of the same word together with a wide range of clearly-marked style and field labels guide the user to the translation of the appropriate word or idiomatic expression. It gives correct pronunciation, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet, for all headwords and for those derived words whose pronunciation cannot be easily deduced from the headword. As well as providing the past tenses and participles of irregular English verbs, it also contains tables of regular and irregular French or Italian verbs.
Including common abbreviations, names of countries, and other useful geographical names, as well as proprietary names and trade marks, this detailed yet succinct guide to the most useful words in English and French or Italian also serves as a valuable guide to spelling and pronunciation. Extremely well-designed and highly legible, these two dictionaries provide a wealth of bilingual information. [via]More editions of The Oxford Paperback French Dictionary: French-English, English-French:
Oxford Book of Aphorismsby John J. GrossISBN 019282015X (0-19-282015-X)
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The Oxford Book of Humorous Proseby Frank MuirISBN 0192829599 (0-19-282959-9)
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The Oxford Book of Lettersby Frank Kermode, Anita KermodeISBN 0192825224 (0-19-282522-4)
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The Oxford Dictionary of Current Englishby Della ThompsonISBN 0192831275 (0-19-283127-5)
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Namesby Elizabeth Gidley WithycombeISBN 0192812130 (0-19-281213-0)
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Oxford English: A Guide to the Languageby I. C. B. DearISBN 0192829483 (0-19-282948-3)
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The Oxford Guide to the English Language: E.S.C. Weiner, J.M. Hawkins ; With a Foreword by Robert Burchfieldby E. S. C. Weiner, Joyce HawkinsISBN 0192814990 (0-19-281499-0)
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, Stephen Orgel, Jonathan GoldbergISBN 0192833197 (0-19-283319-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:From almost the moment of its publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficult now to appreciate how audacious an undertaking the epic represents, and how astonishing its immediate and continued success was. Over the course of twelve books John Milton wrote an epic poem that would "justify the ways of God to men," a mission that required a complex drama, the source of which is both historical and deeply personal. While the struggle for ascendancy between God and Satan is played out across hell, heaven, and earth in the work, the consequences of the Fall are all too humanly tragic, with pride, ambition, and aspiration being the motivating forces.
In this new edition derived from their acclaimed Oxford Authors text, Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg discuss the complexity of Milton's Paradise Lost in a new introduction. They contextualize Milton and his poem, discuss its structure and language, and provide a summary of critical responses to the poem since its initial publication. They also include on-page notes to explain the poem's language and allusions. This modernized edition of one of the most influential works in the English language will truly bring to light Milton's genius for today's reader. [via]More editions of Paradise Lost:
The Pathfinderby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0192829564 (0-19-282956-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pathfinder'Book summary:The Pathfinder (1840), Cooper's most picturesque novel and the fourth of the five Leatherstocking Tales, is a naval story set on the Great Lakes of the 1750s. Fashioned from Cooper's own experience as a midshipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, the novel revives Natty Bumpo (who had died in The Prairie), and illuminates Cooper's interest in American history with his concern for social development. [via]
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James Joyce, Jeri JohnsonISBN 0192839985 (0-19-283998-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life as indecorous, and its central character unappealing. Was it art or was it filth?
The novel charts the intellectual, moral, and sexual development of Stephen Dedalus, from his childhood listening to his father's stories through his schooldays and adolescence to the brink of adulthood and independence, and his awakening as an artist. Growing up in a Catholic family in Dublin in the final years of the nineteenth century, Stephen's consciousness is forged by Irish history and politics, by Catholicism and culture, language and art. Stephen's story mirrors that of Joyce himself, and the novel is both startlingly realistic and brilliantly crafted, not to mention that it is one of the founding texts of Modernism and the precursor of the acclaimed Ulysses.
For this edition Jeri Johnson, an eminent Joyce scholar, has written an introduction and notes which together provide a comprehensive and illuminating appreciation of Joyce's artistry. [via]More editions of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man:
Pot Luckby Emile Zola, Brian NelsonISBN 0192831798 (0-19-283179-8)
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The Story of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescautby Abbe Prevost, Angela ScholarISBN 0192840657 (0-19-284065-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut'Book summary:"The sweetness of her glance, or rather my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin, did not allow me to hesitate for a moment."
So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from early eighteenth-century Paris--with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses-via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement in the treeless wastes of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories, and also one of the most enigmatic: how reliable a witness is Des Grieux, Manon's lover, whose tale he narrates? Is Manon a thief and a whore, the image of love itself, or a thoroughly modern woman? Prévost is careful to leave the ambiguities unresolved, and to lay bare the disorders of passion.
This new translation includes the vignette and eight illustrations that were approved by Prévost and first published in the edition of 1753. [via]More editions of The Story of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut:
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermistonby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 019281740X (0-19-281740-X)
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Theogony and Works and Daysby HesiodISBN 0192817884 (0-19-281788-4)
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Time in History: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Dayby G.J. WhitrowISBN 0192852116 (0-19-285211-6)
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0192818163 (0-19-281816-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Lighthouse'Book summary:"Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that remains for ever after. This would remain." So reflects the beautiful, middle-aged Mrs Ramsay, mother of eight, as she surveys her family and guests at her dinner table, and sees their fleeting harmony, a fleeting reflection of eternity. This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever. For the children, it is an earthly Paradise. In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight, and the shifting complexity of adult relationships. From an acute awareness of transcience, she creates an enduring work of art. "To The Lighthouse" is one of ten World's Classics by Virginia Woolf, and includes an introduction and notes to provide guidance for readers new to this author. [via]
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What Maisie Knewby Henry James, Adrian PooleISBN 0192835912 (0-19-283591-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Mrs. Wix's, during these hours, Sir Claude was--and most of all through long pauses--the perpetual, the insurmountable theme. It all took them back to the first flush of his marriage and to the place he held in the schoolroom at that crisis of love and pain; only he had himself blown to a much bigger balloon the large consciousness he then filled out. They went through it all again, and indeed while the interval dragged by the very weight of its charm they went, in spite of defences and suspicions, through everything. Their intensified clutch of the future throbbed like a clock ticking seconds; but this was a timepiece that inevitably, as well, at the best, rang occasionally a portentous hour. Oh there were several of these, and two or three of the worst on the old city-wall where everything else so made for peace. There was nothing in the world Maisie more wanted than to be as nice to Mrs. Wix as Sir Claude had desired; but it was exactly because this fell in with her inveterate instinct of keeping the peace that the instinct itself was quickened. From the moment it was quickened, however, it found other work, and that was how, to begin with, she produced the very complication she most sought to avert. What she had essentially done, these days, had been to read the unspoken into the spoken; so that thus, with accumulations, it had become more definite to her that the unspoken was, unspeakably, the completeness of the sacrifice of Mrs. Beale. There were times when every minute that Sir Claude stayed away was like a nail in Mrs. Beale's coffin. That brought back to Maisie--it was a roundabout way--the beauty and antiquity of her connexion with the flower of the Overmores as well as that lady's own grace and charm, her peculiar prettiness and... [via]
Wittgensteinby A. C. GraylingISBN 0192876775 (0-19-287677-5)
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Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introductionby A. C. GraylingISBN 0192854119 (0-19-285411-9)
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