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The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 048642457X (0-486-42457-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl And the Making of the Beat Generationby Jonah RaskinISBN 0520246772 (0-520-24677-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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As he follows the genesis and the evolution of Howl, Jonah Raskin constructs a vivid picture of a poet and an era. He illuminates the development of Beat poetry in New York and San Francisco in the 1950s--focusing on historic occasions such as the first reading of Howl at Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955 and the obscenity trial over the poem's publication. He looks closely at Ginsberg's life, including his relationships with his parents, friends, and mentors, while he was writing the poem and uses this material to illuminate the themes of madness, nakedness, and secrecy that pervade Howl.
A captivating look at the cultural climate of the Cold War and at a great American poet, American Scream finally tells the full story of Howl--a rousing manifesto for a generation and a classic of twentieth-century literature.More editions of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl And the Making of the Beat Generation:
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The Annotated Draculaby Bram Stoker, Leonard WolfISBN 0517520176 (0-517-52017-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Dracula'Book summary:The jacket is a little messed up but the book is great. Pages are all clean, no rips or writing. This is a must have book for Dracula fans, lots of great pictures and it even includes maps and calendars. Copyright 1975 by Leonard Wolf. Ships from GA [via]
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The Annotated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0517436035 (0-517-43603-5)
Hardcover, Greenwich House
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The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances; Completeby William Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse, Hans PrintzISBN 0517665557 (0-517-66555-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Asimov's Guide to the Bible Set : The Old and New Testamentsby Isaac Asimov, Rafael PalaciosISBN 051734582X (0-517-34582-X)
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Attitudes Toward Historyby Kenneth BurkeISBN 0520041488 (0-520-04148-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Attitudes Toward History'Book summary:This book marks Kenneth Burke's breakthrough in criticism from the literary and aesthetic into social theory and the philosophy of history. In this volume we find Burke's first entry into what he calls his theory of Dramatism; and here also is an important section on the nature of ritual.[via] 
The Body in Swift and Defoeby Carol Houlihan Flynn, Howard Erskine-Hill, John RichettiISBN 0521021650 (0-521-02165-0)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Bottom: On Shakespeareby Louis ZukofskyISBN 0520048512 (0-520-04851-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th Century Englandby Louis CromptonISBN 0520051726 (0-520-05172-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinsonby Wendy MartinISBN 0521001188 (0-521-00118-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swiftby Christopher FoxISBN 0521002834 (0-521-00283-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fictionby Edward James, Farah MendlesohnISBN 0521016576 (0-521-01657-6)
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, J. U. NicolsonISBN 0486431622 (0-486-43162-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
Chaucer and the French Tradition: A Study in Style and Meaningby Charles MussgatineISBN 0520009088 (0-520-00908-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Complete Edgar Allan Poe Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517336340 (0-517-33634-0)
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The Complete Illustrated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Howard StauntonISBN 0517278901 (0-517-27890-1)
Hardcover, Park Lane
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Complete Plays of William Shakespeare : Cha Rivby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051743623X (0-517-43623-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Sixty-Seven Tales, One Complete Novel and Thirty-One Poemsby Edgar Allan Poe, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051745372X (0-517-45372-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0517053616 (0-517-05361-6)
Hardcover, Outlet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of William Shakespeare'Book summary:FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARES FIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES.
Skillfully assembled by Shakespeares fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day, Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, gradually corrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflated textual variations.
Now Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of todays most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, have edited the First Folio as a complete book, resulting in a definitive Complete Works for the twenty-first century.
Combining innovative scholarship with brilliant commentary and textual analysis that emphasizes performance history and values, this landmark edition will be indispensable to students, theater professionals, and general readers alike.
For more information on this Modern Library edition, visit www.therscshakespeare.com [via]More editions of Complete Works of William Shakespeare:
Complete Works of William Shakespeareby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517263297 (0-517-26329-7)
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486415872 (0-486-41587-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons [via]
The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politicsby John PlotzISBN 0520219171 (0-520-21917-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0486436659 (0-486-43665-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:Based on the author's own tumultuous journey from boy to man, this epic traces young David's progress from his mother's sheltering arms to the miseries of boarding-school and sweatshop and the rewards of friendship, romance, and self-discovery in his vocation as a writer. A cherished favorite with generations of readers.[via]More editions of David Copperfield:
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Thea KlirosISBN 0486295672 (0-486-29567-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula. A horror romance as deathless as any vampire, the blood-curdling tale still continues to hold readers spellbound a century later. 
Edgar Allan Poe : Selected Worksby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0517053586 (0-517-05358-6)
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Essentials of Literary Criticismby Philip HobsbaumISBN 0500272859 (0-500-27285-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Ezra Poundby Peter AckroydISBN 0500260257 (0-500-26025-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist As Fascistby Fredric JamesonISBN 0520043987 (0-520-04398-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 051722786X (0-517-22786-X)
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486400735 (0-486-40073-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:Against the background of the liberation of Russia's serfs during the 1860s, a generational conflict flares between older aristocrats and radical youths. Quarrels, romance, and misunderstandings ensue when an outspoken young nihilist accompanies a school friend home for an extended visit. One of the truly great 19th-century Russian novels, available in an inexpensive edition. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Fathers and Sons:
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The Globe Illustrated Shakespeareby Howard StauntonISBN 0517623803 (0-517-62380-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare'Book summary:The complete theatrical works of the immortal bard, uniquely supplemented with annotation and critical analysis by a host of eminent scholars and critics -- from Samuel Coleridge to Samuel Johnson. Plus a biography of Shakespeare himself. For the collection of the Shakespeare enthusiast, and the edification of the Shakespeare novice. [via]
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The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotatedby William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton, John Gilbert, Ray Abel, Brothers DalzielISBN 0517205963 (0-517-20596-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare : The Complete Works Annotated'Book summary:English literature. [via]
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Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olsonby George F. ButterickISBN 0520042700 (0-520-04270-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0486419207 (0-486-41920-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Classic 1845 novel offers a powerful indictment of the dehumanizing effects of mid-19th-century industrialization. Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a sterile atmosphere of strict practicality. With no guiding principles, the young Gradgrinds sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim backdrop of Coketown, a wretched industrial community.[via]More editions of Hard Times:
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0486420493 (0-486-42049-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Idea of the Canterbury Talesby Donald Roy HowardISBN 0520028163 (0-520-02816-3)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Illiad: Homerby HomerISBN 0486408833 (0-486-40883-3)
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Illustrated Shakespeare: Twelfth Nightby William Shakespeare, W. Heath RobinsonISBN 0517101211 (0-517-10121-1)
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James Joyce's Ulysses: Critical Essaysby Clive HartISBN 0520032756 (0-520-03275-6)
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners Portraitby Don GiffordISBN 0520046102 (0-520-04610-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0486419231 (0-486-41923-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page.[via]More editions of The Jungle:
Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750by William Beatty WarnerISBN 0520212967 (0-520-21296-7)
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The Life and Times of William Shakespeareby Peter LeviISBN 0517146983 (0-517-14698-3)
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0486415856 (0-486-41585-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 048629093X (0-486-29093-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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Murder Inkby OutletISBN 0517347857 (0-517-34785-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder Ink'Book summary:Thoughtful and amusing articles about the mystery genre by authors, critics and fans. [via]
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October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literatureby Carlo RotellaISBN 0520211448 (0-520-21144-8)
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0486424537 (0-486-42453-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'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. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...and soft-hearted a mood by the very first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion; and I wish I were a young fellow that I might avail myself on the spot of such a favourable opportunity for doing so, as the present. You are as great a boy as poor Brittles himself, returned Rose, blushing. Well, said the doctor, laughing heartily, that is no very ditficult matter. But to return to this boy: the great point of our agreement is yet to come. He will wake in an hour or so, I dare say; and although I have told that thick-headed constablefellow down stairs that he mustnt be moved or spoken to, on peril of his life, I think we may converse with him without, danger. Now, I make this stipulation---that I shall examine him in your presence, and that if from what he says, we judge, and I can show to the satisfaction of your cool reason, that he is a real and thorough bad one (which is more than possible), he shall be left to his fate, without any further interference on my part, at all events. Oh no, aunt l entreated Rose. Oh yes, aunt! said the doctor. Is it a bargain? _ He cannot be hardened in vice, said Rose; it is impossible. Very good, retorted the doctor; then so much th6 more reason for acceding to my proposition. Finally the treaty was entered into, and the parties thereto sat down to wait with some impatience until Oliver should awake. The patience of the two ladies was destined to undergo a longer trial than Mr. Losberne had led them to expect, for hour alter hour passed on, and still Oliver slumbered heavily. It was evening, indeed, before th_e kind-hearted doctor brought... [via]
On Racineby Roland Barthes, Richard HowardISBN 0520078241 (0-520-07824-1)
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, John A. HimesISBN 048644287X (0-486-44287-X)
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Reader's Guide to Robert Lowellby Philip HobsbaumISBN 0500150206 (0-500-15020-6)
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Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Charles Dickensby John KucichISBN 0520059808 (0-520-05980-8)
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The Return of the Nativeby Thomas HardyISBN 0486431657 (0-486-43165-7)
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Robin Hoodby James Clarke HoltISBN 0500275416 (0-500-27541-6)
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Samuel Beckett a Critical Studyby Hugh KennerISBN 0520006410 (0-520-00641-0)
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockhby Thomas Carlyle, Mark Engel, Rodger L. TarrISBN 0520209281 (0-520-20928-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh'Book summary:Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. First published in serial form in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-1834, it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists. Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, it was first printed as a book in Boston in 1836 and immediately became the inspiration for the Transcendental movement. The first London trade edition was published in 1838. By the 1840s, largely on the strength of Sartor Resartus, Carlyle became one of the leading literary figures in Britain.[via]
Sartor Resartus became one of the important texts of nineteenth-century English literature, central to the Romantic movement and Victorian culture. At the time of Carlyle's death in 1881, more than 69,000 copies had been sold. The post-Victorian influence continued and extends to writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, Willa Cather and Ernest Hemingway.
This edition of Sartor Resartus is the first publication of the work that uses all extant versions to create an accurate authorial text. This volume, the second in an eight-volume series, includes a complete textual apparatus as well as a historical introduction and full critical and explanatory annotation.More editions of Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh:
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Shakespeareby A. L. RowseISBN 0517535092 (0-517-53509-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare'Book summary:The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete (Three Volume Set in Slipcase) [Dec 12, 1978] A.L. Rowse [via]
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The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themesby Frederick CrewsISBN 0520068173 (0-520-06817-3)
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The Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, Charles RobinsonISBN 0517072319 (0-517-07231-9)
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Although the sonnets are among the finest poems in the English language, questions about them have preoccupied scholars for several hundred years. This edition portrays the sonnets in the order and sequence thought to be traditional.
This edition of the sonnets also includes imaginative, flowing illustrations of Charles Robinson. One of the most popular of Edwardian artists, he was acclaimed for his highly original coloring and flights of fantasy. His illustrations add an unusual dimension to the sonnets, which are unequalled in their poetic power, exploration of intimate human relationships, and sensitivity to tragedy of human aspirations. [via] -
Sonnets of William ShakespeareISBN 0517637502 (0-517-63750-2)
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The Sonnets of William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Robert Oleson BallouISBN 0517309831 (0-517-30983-1)
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The Stoic Comedians, Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckettby Hugh KennerISBN 0520025849 (0-520-02584-9)
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Structuralism and Semioticsby Terence HawkesISBN 0520034228 (0-520-03422-8)
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Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lostby Stanley Eugene FishISBN 0520018974 (0-520-01897-4)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 0486297659 (0-486-29765-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0486415899 (0-486-41589-9)
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Tolstoy Pby Henri TroyatISBN 0517540924 (0-517-54092-4)
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Twelfth Nightby William ShakespeareISBN 0486292908 (0-486-29290-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's finest comedies, Twelfth Night was written at the same time as Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida, and whilst it shares their fascination with sex, death and confused identities, its exuberant comedy and linguistic inventiveness rises above the introspection of these plays. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are separated in a storm, which washes them both up at different points on the shores of Illyria. Believing each other to be dead, both attempt to survive by using their wits. Viola cross-dresses and enters the service of the lovesick Orsino, in love with Olivia, an heiress in mourning for the loss of her brother. Orsino's saucy young page Cesario (Viola) soon falls in love with "his" master, who tells "him", "all is semblative a woman's part". Unfortunately, whilst Viola falls in love with Orsino, Olivia falls in love with her alter ego, Cesario, whilst also being pursued at the same time by her pompous servant Malvolio. Olivia's house is also turned upside down by the antics of her drunken uncle, Sir Toby Belch, and the whole crazy situation reaches boiling point when Sebastian reappears.
Despite the madcap plot, Twelfth Night remains one of Shakespeare's most complex and inventive comedies, fascinated with questions of cross-dressing, gender confusion, language and inversion, as well as retaining a darker edge to some of its laughter. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0486440281 (0-486-44028-1)
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary EdmondsISBN 0517399938 (0-517-39993-8)
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0486400611 (0-486-40061-1)
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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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William Blakeby Kathleen Jessie RaineISBN 0500201072 (0-500-20107-2)
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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 0517092948 (0-517-09294-8)
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William Shakespeare, the Complete Works: Illustratedby William ShakespeareISBN 0517163020 (0-517-16302-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare, the Complete Works: Illustrated'Book summary:A landmark in Shakespeare studies, this version of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare is the first critical edition of the complete works in the original spelling and punctuation. It is based on the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of the earliest manuscripts, representing eight years of work by a team of British and American scholars. The works are arranged in conjectural order of composition based on the new research, and where the opportunity for choice existed, the spelling and punctuation of the text closest to Shakespeare's own manuscript has been chosen. With this Original Spelling Edition scholars and general readers have for the first time--
· The uncensored text of Henry IV and the original titles of three other plays
· Edited texts of King Lear both as Shakespeare originally wrote it and as it was revised for performance years later
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· Major textual alternatives--first versions and deleted lines--are printed as additional passages
· Stage directions have been reconsidered in light of the play's original staging and many directions have been added
· Conjectural stage directions and speech prefixes are identified in brackets
· A general introduction, brief introductions to each work, and an essay on the language of Shakespeare's time are provided [via]More editions of William Shakespeare, the Complete Works: Illustrated:
Works of Edgar Allan Poeby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517486555 (0-517-48655-5)
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Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381by Steven JusticeISBN 0520206975 (0-520-20697-5)
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Focusing on six brief, enigmatic texts written by the rebels themselves, Justice places the English peasantry within a public discourse from which historians, both medieval and modern, have thus far excluded them. He recreates the imaginative world of medieval villagers--how they worked and governed themselves, how they used official communications in unofficial ways, and how they produced a disciplined insurgent ideology.More editions of Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381:
The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486298574 (0-486-29857-4)
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