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The Adventures of Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Steven ConnorISBN 046087490X (0-460-87490-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Oliver Twist'Book summary:One of a series of classic novels. [via]
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The Ambassadorsby Henry James, Sandra KempISBN 0460871609 (0-460-87160-9)
Softcover, Everyman
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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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The Art of Biblical Poetryby Robert AlterISBN 0465004318 (0-465-00431-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Blake: Prophet Against Empireby David V. ErdmanISBN 0486267199 (0-486-26719-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, James Dean, Donald Roy HowardISBN 0451529685 (0-451-52968-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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]
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- Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460870270 (0-460-87027-0)
Softcover, Everyman - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460103075 (0-460-10307-5)
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Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460113070 (0-460-11307-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0451529685 (0-451-52968-5)
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- Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460870270 (0-460-87027-0)
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The Canterbury Tales : A Selectionby Geoffrey Chaucer, Donald R. Howard, James M. DeanISBN 0451524004 (0-451-52400-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Collected Proseby Anne Wright, James Arlington WrightISBN 0472063448 (0-472-06344-8)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Complete Poems and Selected Essaysby Edgar Allan Poe, Richard GrayISBN 0460872613 (0-460-87261-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Selected Essays'Book summary:This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, a plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response. This selection presents all of Poe's poetry, and includes the less well known poems written before he was 20, among them "To Helen", which Poe said was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him "with half his heart to inhabit other worlds". The selected essays are illuminating in relation to Poe's life and times. [via]
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Criticism of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, Allen TateISBN 0452005485 (0-452-00548-5)
Softcover, New American Library
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Complete Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0486266869 (0-486-26686-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Sonnets'Book summary:Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality, and beauty. This inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this remarkable verse in his or her library. Includes glossary of archaic terms. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Complete Sonnets:
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sidney Monas, James D. Hardy, Leonard J. StantonISBN 0451527232 (0-451-52723-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0451530047 (0-451-53004-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:Beginning in 1854 up through to his death in 1870, Charles Dickens abridged and adapted many of his more popular works and performed them as staged readings. This version, each page illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings, is a beautiful example of one of these adaptations.
Because it is quite seriously abridged, the story concentrates primarily on the extended family of Mr. Peggotty: his orphaned nephew, Ham; his adopted niece, Little Emily; and Mrs. Gummidge, self-described as "a lone lorn creetur and everythink went contrairy with her." When Little Emily runs away with Copperfield's former schoolmate, leaving Mr. Peggotty completely brokenhearted, the whole family is thrown into turmoil. But Dickens weaves some comic relief throughout the story with the introduction of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and David's love for his pretty, silly "child-wife," Dora. Dark nights, mysterious locations, and the final destructive storm provide classic Dickensian drama. Although this is not David Copperfield in its entirety, it is a great introduction to the world and the language of Charles Dickens. [via]
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Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Edward H. Friedman, Walter StarkieISBN 0451527860 (0-451-52786-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:While don quixote thinks of himself as a brave knight, his trusty sidekick, sancho panza, finds out the truth as they battle real and imaginary enemies [via]
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Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes, Walter StarkieISBN 0451528905 (0-451-52890-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:Brimming with humor, rich in idealism and earthy common sense, this highly-esteemed translation and abridgement of the beloved masterpiece will enchant a new generation of readers.[via]
@DonQuixote People say that sleep deprivation, isolation, and too much reading have made me loopy. But I say nay! Nay!!!
I am going full-creeper and giving a girl I love a special secret nickname without her even knowing about it.
Ill call her Dulcinea. Get it? Like Dulce del Coochayyyy.
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Don Quixote of LA Manchaby Miguel De CervantesISBN 0451525078 (0-451-52507-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0451523377 (0-451-52337-7)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:Each book in the "Everyman" series has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology of life and times of the author, plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response. [via]
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Evelina : Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Fanny Burney, Katharine M. RogersISBN 0451525604 (0-451-52560-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina : Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World'Book summary:One of the first novels of manners ever written traces the adventures of country-born Evelina as she tries to make it in London pursued by cads, is used by boorish relatives, and, finally, is redeemed by the noble Lord Orville. Reprint. [via]
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 0451528565 (0-451-52856-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'Book summary:Bathsheba, a willful English beauty of the nineteenth century, finally recognizes her true love in Gabriel. [via]
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Fathers and Childrenby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0460007424 (0-460-00742-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Children'Book summary:First translated in 1867, Turgenev portays the new generation of nihilists, with their reliance on the material and on science, and their lack of respect for tradition. However, the novel's hero, Bazarov, pleased neither the revolutionaries, who thought the portrait libellous, nor the reactionaries, who thought it a glorification of iconoclasm. [via]
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, George Reavey, Jane T. CostlowISBN 0451529693 (0-451-52969-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:When first published in 1862, this novel of a divided russia, with peasants set against masters and fathers set against sons, caused great outrage. But its enduring legacy of social insight and conscience mixed with drama has given it universal appeal. Features an introduction by anna tolstoy in an exciting new bantam classics' package [via]
Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 046001837X (0-460-01837-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0451526724 (0-451-52672-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:This edition of "Hard Times" contains an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. The novel tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and trapped in a loveless marriage. [via]
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Hard Timesby Philip Collins, Charles DickensISBN 0460874500 (0-460-87450-0)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series, which includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, notes, a selection of criticism, an annotated reading list and text summary. This edition has a new setting with wide margins. [via]
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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundlingby Henry FieldingISBN 0460878336 (0-460-87833-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling'Book summary:Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0451527569 (0-451-52756-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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]
How to Writeby Gertrude SteinISBN 0486231445 (0-486-23144-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Iliadby Homer, W. H. D. RouseISBN 0451527372 (0-451-52737-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad : The Story of Achilles'Book summary:Focusing on the closing days of the Trojan War, this novel incorporates the same epic cast of gods and warriors from The Odyssey. From the kidnapping of Helen from her Greek home to the death of Achilles's companion, the battle rages between two warring nations and the gods which protect both sides. Thrilling in content, but literate and subtle in its meaning, The Iliad remains a classic among classics. [via]
Jane Austen, Feminism and Fictionby Margaret KirkhamISBN 0485121298 (0-485-12129-8)
Softcover, Athlone Pr
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0451528042 (0-451-52804-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown, " the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery, " the bewildering chaos of urban life. "The Jungle," a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important -- and moving -- works in the literature of social change. [via]
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Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Languageby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0465086454 (0-465-08645-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language'Book summary:In the fall of 1537, a child was confined to bed for some time. The French poet Clément Marot wrote her a get-well poem, 28 lines long, each line a scant three syllables. In the mid-1980s, the outrageously gifted Douglas R. Hofstadter--il miglior fabbro of Godel, Escher, Bach--first attempted to translate this "sweet, old, small elegant French poem into English." He was later to challenge friends, relations, and colleagues to do the same. The results were exceptional, and are now contained in Le Ton Beau De Marot, a sunny exploration of scholarly and linguistic play and love's infinity. Less sunny, however, is the tragedy that hangs over Hofstadter's book, the sudden death of his wife, Carol, from a brain tumor. (Her translation is among the book's finest.)
Marot's poem, in Hofstadter's initial translation (he is to compose many more), begins: "My sweet, / I bid you / A good day; / The stay / Is prison. / Health / Recover, / Then open / Your door ... "--a slim frame on which to hang 600 or so pages of text. But the book is far more than a compendium of translators' triumphs (with the occasional misstep). Most of the renderings are original and lively, some lovely, though Hofstadter often feels compelled to improve them. He lightly laments that Bill Cavnar's rendering, "though superb along so many dimensions at once, still seems to lack a bit of that intangible verbal sparkle that I associate with the deepest Maroticity."
Hofstadter's talents lie in linking his intoxication, erudition, and vision with humor, autobiography, and free association. His book takes on "rigidists," asks questions like, "Is plagiarism potentially creative?" and strives to define linguistic soul. Along the way, it accords the same level of respect to the seemingly trivial: sex jokes, Texas jokes, The Seven Year Itch, and the puzzle of how someone you love can hate a food that you adore. Throughout there is pun, ingenuity, and above all, love for language--which can compress distance and, through constraint, lead to freedom. [via]
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The Life of Samuel Johnsonby James BoswellISBN 0460000012 (0-460-00001-2)
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Lives of the English Poets: Selectionby Samuel Johnson, John WainISBN 046000770X (0-460-00770-X)
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0451526295 (0-451-52629-5)
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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 0451529855 (0-451-52985-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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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Moll Flanders/the Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famousby Daniel DefoeISBN 0451524594 (0-451-52459-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders/the Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous'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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The New Poetic: Yeats to Eliotby C.K. SteadISBN 0485121379 (0-485-12137-9)
Softcover, Athlone Pr
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No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Proseby Anne Sexton, Steven ColburnISBN 0472063669 (0-472-06366-9)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Le Comte, Edward (AFT), Frederick BuschISBN 0451529715 (0-451-52971-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:A young boy flees from an orphanage to London, only to be captured by thieves. [via]
On SFby Thomas M. DischISBN 0472068962 (0-472-06896-2)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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"One of the most remarkably talented writers around."
---Washington Post Book World
"[Disch] is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SF scene."
---Fantasy and Science Fiction
This collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverse as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and Twilight Zone.
Disch's perspectives on his genre are skeptical, novel, and often incendiary. The volume's opening essay, for example, characterizes writers of science fiction as "the provincials of literature." Other essays explore science fiction's roots-Poe, Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Vonnegut-as well as modern practitioners such as Stephen King, Philip Dick, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and William Gibson.
Disch entertains and provokes with essays on UFOs, Science Fiction as a Church, and Newt Gingrich's Futurist Brain Trust. Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Madame Blavatsky also get the Disch treatment. Throughout, the writing is lively, agile, and irreverent, exhibiting an incisive honesty that is undiluted by Disch's own attachments as a sci-fi practitioner. On SF will appeal equally to lovers of science fiction and connoisseurs of the finest critical prose.
The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Englandby Steven MarcusISBN 0452004624 (0-452-00462-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Paradise Lost and Other Poemsby John B. Milloni, Edward Le Comte, John MiltonISBN 0451628268 (0-451-62826-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Malcolm AndrewsISBN 0460872362 (0-460-87236-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Politics and the Novelby Irving HoweISBN 0452008441 (0-452-00844-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Promises, Promisesby Adam PhillipsISBN 0465056784 (0-465-05678-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Reader's Companion to World Literatureby Lillian H. Hornstein, G. D. Percy, C. S. BrownISBN 0451628160 (0-451-62816-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces, 1955-1982by Philip LarkinISBN 0472085840 (0-472-08584-0)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Return of the Nativeby Thomas Hardy, Jane SmileyISBN 0451527380 (0-451-52738-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Sartor Resartus and on Heroes and Hero Wby Thomas CarlyleISBN 0460002783 (0-460-00278-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Simulacra and Simulationby Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria GlaserISBN 0472065211 (0-472-06521-1)
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The Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, William BurtoISBN 0451527275 (0-451-52727-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Stephen King: The Art of Darknessby Douglas E. WinterISBN 0452258049 (0-452-25804-9)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Robert Bechtold HeilmanISBN 0451526791 (0-451-52679-1)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0451525469 (0-451-52546-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Womanby Thomas HardyISBN 0451530276 (0-451-53027-6)
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Twelfth Nightby Alec McCowenISBN 0460875183 (0-460-87518-3)
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Twelfth Night; Or, What You Willby William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet, Herschel BakerISBN 0451526767 (0-451-52676-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will'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 Cabin and Frederick Douglassby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Christopher BigsbyISBN 0460871390 (0-460-87139-0)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin : Or, Life among the Lowlyby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Darryl PinckneyISBN 0451526708 (0-451-52670-8)
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Walden And Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Miller, Perry (AFT), W.S. MerwinISBN 0451529456 (0-451-52945-6)
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Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musingsas well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil libertyhave inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.
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Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"by Henry David ThoreauISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Helen Hennessy VendlerISBN 0451526848 (0-451-52684-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land'Book summary:This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, The Waste land, which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece. Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Death of St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among the Nightingales. T.S. Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of America's greatest poets. Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremost scholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly for the New Yorker and The New Republic. Vendler is also the author of books on other essential poets, including W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, George Herbert, and the forthcoming The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnete. @DeadFlowers Note From Ezra Pound: Maybe cut 75%? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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William Shakespeareby Martin DodsworthISBN 0460878158 (0-460-87815-8)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocationby William Edgar StaffordISBN 0472873008 (0-472-87300-8)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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