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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0486280616 (0-486-28061-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Barry Moser, Mark Twain

ISBN 0520053389 (0-520-05338-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517415100 (0-517-41510-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren

ISBN 0553204548 (0-553-20454-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Anne Tyler: Three Complete Novels
by Anne Tyler

ISBN 0517064596 (0-517-06459-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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The Annotated Dracula
by Bram Stoker, Leonard Wolf

ISBN 0517520176 (0-517-52017-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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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 Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0517530317 (0-517-53031-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Another Roadside Attraction
by Tom Robbins

ISBN 049100804X (0-491-00804-X)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen

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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand

ISBN 0525948929 (0-525-94892-9)
Hardcover, E P Dutton

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The story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world--and did. This novel is the setting for the author's philosophy of Objectivism. [via]
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- Atlas Shrugged: ISBN 0525934189 (0-525-93418-9)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis

ISBN 0486431673 (0-486-43167-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything. But when a personal crisis forces the middle-aged real estate agent to reexamine his life, Babbitt mounts a rebellion that jeopardizes everything he values. Widely considered Sinclair Lewis' greatest novel, this satire remains an ever-relevant tale of an individual caught in the machinery of modern life.
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Barchester Towers
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 051762639X (0-517-62639-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]
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Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison

ISBN 0525934251 (0-525-93425-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright familyrough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furiousuntil their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back. [via]
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Candide
by Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0486266893 (0-486-26689-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candide
by Shane Weller, Francois M. Voltaire

ISBN 0486276252 (0-486-27625-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Voltaire's brilliant satire, in the original French, with a new and exacting English translation on the opposing page. Through the adventures of Candide, we experience life's most crushing misfortunes, see the redeeming wisdom those misfortunes can bring all the while enjoying Voltaire's witty burlesque of human excess.
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
Hardcover

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Great collection of 7 science fiction novels by H.G. Wells... [via]
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Conrad: Nostromo
by Ian Watt

ISBN 0521313651 (0-521-31365-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently topical. Ian Watt addresses Conrad's concerns when writing the work, and provides an accessible introduction, taking account of background, history and politics, and reception and influence. [via]
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Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas

ISBN 0553211870 (0-553-21187-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after 14 years of imprisonment and seeks his revenge in Paris. [via]
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- The Count of Monte Cristo: ISBN 0553212303 (0-553-21230-3)
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Dandelion Wine
by Ray Bradbury

ISBN 0553119303 (0-553-11930-3)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books

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Dante's Inferno
by Dante Alighieri, Tom Phillips

ISBN 0500013624 (0-500-01362-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The complete, translated text of Dante's great masterpiece is accompanied by prints, which provide a visual commentary to the poet's journey through hell [via]
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Death in Venice and Other Stories
by Thomas Mann

ISBN 0553213334 (0-553-21333-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Manns early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these stories he began to grapple with themes that were to recur throughout his work. In Little Herr Friedemann, a characters carefully structured way of life is suddenly threatened by an unexpected sexual passion. In Gladius Dei, puritanical intellect clashes with beauty. In Tristan, Mann presents an ironic and comic account of the tension between an artist and bourgeois society.

All seven of these stories are accomplished and memorable, but it is Death in Venice that truly forms the centerpiece of the collection. The themes that Mann weaves through the shorter pieces come to a climax in this stunning novella, one of the most hauntingly magnificent tales of art and self-destruction ever written. [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
by Dante Alighieri

ISBN 0520027124 (0-520-02712-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

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"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington Times

In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture.

"If Dante's Inferno is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events."--San Diego Union-Tribune

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 055321277X (0-553-21277-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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From the Back Cover: "Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' as a 'shilling shocker.' He then burned the draft, and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self. Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, 'Jekyll and Hyde' is a brilliantly original study of man's dual nature - as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror..." [via]
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker, Thea Kliros

ISBN 0486295672 (0-486-29567-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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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.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 0553213318 (0-553-21331-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Graced with the splendid illustrations executed by helen paterson for the first edition of the novel, this special collector's edition of far from the madding crowd also features handwritten letters and drawings by hardy, as well as rare and intimate portraits of the author and his first wife, emma. Here, too, readers are granted a fascinating and touching glimpse of how two great imaginative writers interact with one another: this edition reproduces the handwritten pages from virginia woolf's diary in which she recounts her now-famous visit with the very aged thomas hardy at his home, max gate, in 1926.from the hardcover edition [via]
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The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox

ISBN 0486419215 (0-486-41921-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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From one of the 20th century's major writers a story of deception and betrayal, of conventional appearances and bitter truth. Highly innovative for its time, this powerful novel tells of 2 married couples whose long, ongoing friendship is severely disrupted when one husband learns that his wife has been the mistress of his British friend.
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Headhunter
by Timothy Findley

ISBN 0517598272 (0-517-59827-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group

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House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 0486408825 (0-486-40882-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the familys salvationor its downfall.

Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables a Romance, and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel. [via]
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John Green

ISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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- Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black Garnett

ISBN 0486432130 (0-486-43213-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A towering figure of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky depicted with remarkable insight the depth and complexity of the human soul. In this literary classic, he focuses on a nobleman, whose gentle, child-like nature has earned him the nickname of "the idiot."A superb, panoramic view of mid-19th-century Russian manners, morals and philosophy.
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The Inferno
by Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

ISBN 0486442888 (0-486-44288-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The first of the 3 canticles in La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), this 14th-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. There he encounters historical and mythological creatures each symbolic of a particular vice or crime. Translated beautifully by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Island of Dr Moreau
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 0486290271 (0-486-29027-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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Joseph Conrad: Nostromo
by Ian Watt

ISBN 0521328217 (0-521-32821-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently topical. Ian Watt addresses Conrad's concerns when writing the work, and provides an accessible introduction, taking account of background, history and politics, and reception and influence. [via]
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Last Orders
by Graham Swift

ISBN 0517304813 (0-517-30481-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
by Wolfgang Iser

ISBN 0521328071 (0-521-32807-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Le Divorce
by Diane Johnson

ISBN 0525942386 (0-525-94238-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Diane Johnson updates the transatlantic novel so gorgeously rendered by Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; evokes the spirit of such expatriates sojourning in Paris as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald; and mines the pathos of modern fiction in creating this wonderful and important novel. Isabel Walker, eerily reminiscent of James's Isabel Archer, is a young film-school dropout who travels to Paris to aid her stepsister, who is going through a divorce. Isabel's California cool, American freedoms, and feminist slants comingle, successfully and fractiously, with the customs, biases, and complex sexuality of modern Europe. The result modulates between introspection and hilarity, and a quick, Hollywood-inspired sweep of violent action in the end doesn't undermine the author's mastery of Old World vs. New--in fact, it provides an ironic scrim. [via]
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Choderlos De Laclos, Ernest Christopher Dowson

ISBN 048645245X (0-486-45245-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A series of intimate letters chronicles the amorous adventures of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont rivals who use their bodies as weapons in the war of the sexes. Set in the final days of the ancien régime, the novel paints a revealing portrait of aristocratic decadence.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 048645648X (0-486-45648-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The comic masterpiece "Tristram Shandy" is generally regarded as the progenitor of the 20th-century novel, consisting of a plot frequently and flagrantly interrupted by digressions. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it. [via]
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Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis

ISBN 0486406555 (0-486-40655-5)
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In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G. K. Chesterton

ISBN 0486251217 (0-486-25121-7)
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In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 0486437493 (0-486-43749-3)
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From its spectacular opening-the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair-to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy's finest and most powerful novels.Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power-only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, "Hardy's Lord Jim...his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction. [via]
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The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

ISBN 0486426807 (0-486-42680-7)
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The Mill on the Floss, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow from children to young adults in the small rural town of St. Ogg's, England. Intelligent and passionate, Maggie yearns to develop her mind and break free of the constraints of her provincial village. Though she loves her brother above anyone else, Tom's rigid, pragmatic personality often conflicts with Maggie's headstrong nature, with increasingly tragic consequences.A classic novel of development, The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot's most autobiographical work. Through the characters of Tom and Maggie, Eliot examines themes of gender, education, and personality formation, and her portrayal of the town of St. Ogg's is both a brilliant depiction of provincial narrow-mindedness and constraining social norms and an intelligent commentary on the changes to rural life brought about by the forces of industrialization.The Mill on the Floss is an enduring portrait of love, family, and individuals striving to create their own destinies, one whose words and characters resonate as vividly today as they did for Eliot's first readers.
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The Moor's Last Sigh
by Salman Rushdie

ISBN 0517199513 (0-517-19951-3)
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 0486424529 (0-486-42452-9)
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O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather

ISBN 0486277852 (0-486-27785-2)
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This powerful early Cather novel, a landmark of American fiction, tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm. In Alexandra's lifelong fight to survive and succeed, Cather relates an important chapter in the history of the American frontier.
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Of Love and Other Demons
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 0517405091 (0-517-40509-1)
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The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0553211234 (0-553-21123-4)
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The PICKWICK PAPERS is a remarkable story about a man (Pickwick) who is dealt an injustice with the law. [via]
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The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James

ISBN 0486452417 (0-486-45241-7)
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Capturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe of wealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novel has become a touchstone for a great writers entire literary achievement. From the opening pages, when the high-spirited American girl Isabel Archer arrives at the English manor Gardencourt, Jamess luminous, superbly crafted prose creates an atmosphere of intensity, expectation, and incomparable beauty.

Isabel, who has been taken abroad by an eccentric aunt to fulfill her potential, attracts the passions of a British aristocrat and a brash American, as well as the secret adoration of her invalid cousin, Ralph Touchett. But her vulnerability and innocence lead her not to love but to a fatal entrapment in intrigue, deception, and betrayal. This brilliant interior drama of the forming of a womans consciousness makes The Portrait of a Lady a masterpiece of Jamess middle years. [via]
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 0486280489 (0-486-28048-9)
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Set in 17th-century Puritan New England, this story of illicit passion, guilt and punishment revolves around the beautiful and mysterious Hester Prynne. She is condemned to wear a scarlet letter as a sign of her adultery, and it has a strange and disturbing effect upon those around her--neighbours, husband, lover and child. Cambridge Literature is a series of study texts which presents writing in the English-speaking world from the 16th century up to the present day. The series includes novels, drama, short stories, poetry, essays and other types of non-fiction. Each edition has the complete text with an appropriate glossary. The student will find in each volume a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods. [via]
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Still Life With Woodpecker
by Tom Robbins

ISBN 0553012606 (0-553-01260-6)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0486266885 (0-486-26688-5)
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The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Tale Of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley

ISBN 0486414159 (0-486-41415-9)
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One of the world's oldest novels and the greatest single work of Japanese literature, this 11th-century romance centers on the lives and loves of an emperor's son. It offers a vast tapestry of the intrigues and rivalries of court life, as well as an exquisitely detailed portrayal of a decaying aristocracy. [via]
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The Theban Plays
by Sophocles, George Young

ISBN 048645049X (0-486-45049-X)
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The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Sophocles' 3-play cycle, chronicling Oedipus's search for the truth and its tragic results, remains essential reading for English and classical studies majors as well as for all students of Western civilization. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Jerome K. Jerome

ISBN 0486451100 (0-486-45110-0)
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Jerome's comic masterpiece and one of the best-known classics of English humor follows the misadventures of 3 bungling, Victorian-era bachelors who take off on a rowing excursion up the Thames. Their disastrous struggles with camping equipment, meal preparation, and rampant hypochondria trumpet simple truths that still resonate today.
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Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackery

ISBN 0460877259 (0-460-87725-9)
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A classic, set during the Napoleonic wars, giving a satiricl picture of a worldly society and revolving around the exploits of two women from very different backgrounds. [via]
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The Warden
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 048640076X (0-486-40076-X)
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We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN 0525942238 (0-525-94223-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 2001: A happy family, the Mulvaneys. After decades of marriage, Mom and Dad are still in love--and the proud parents of a brood of youngsters that includes a star athlete, a class valedictorian, and a popular cheerleader. Home is an idyllic place called High Point Farm. And the bonds of attachment within this all-American clan do seem both deep and unconditional: "Mom paused again, drawing in her breath sharply, her eyes suffused with a special lustre, gazing upon her family one by one, with what crazy unbounded love she gazed upon us, and at such a moment my heart would contract as if this woman who was my mother had slipped her fingers inside my rib cage to contain it, as you might hold a wild, thrashing bird to comfort it."
But as we all know, Eden can't last forever. And in the hands of Joyce Carol Oates, who's chronicled just about every variety of familial dysfunction, you know the fall from grace is going to be a doozy. By the time all is said and done, a rape occurs, a daughter is exiled, much alcohol is consumed, and the farm is lost. Even to recount these events in retrospect is a trial for the Mulvaney offspring, one of whom declares: "When I say this is a hard reckoning I mean it's been like squeezing thick drops of blood from my veins." In the hands of a lesser writer, this could be the stuff of a bad television movie. But this is Oates's 26th novel, and by now she knows her material and her craft to perfection. We Were the Mulvaneys is populated with such richly observed and complex characters that we can't help but care about them, even as we wait for disaster to strike them down. --Anita Urquhart [via]
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Willa Cather
by Willa Cather

ISBN 0517064936 (0-517-06493-6)
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Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence

ISBN 0486424588 (0-486-42458-8)
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D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love - 'the beginning of a new world', as he called it - suffered in the course of its revision, transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women in Love has ever been published which is faithful to all of Lawrence's revisions. This edition, edited by scholars in England and America, clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist's work as he himself created it. The edition includes the 'Foreword' Lawrence wrote in 1919 and two preliminary and discarded chapters which have attracted widespread critical and biographical discussion. The introduction gives a full history of the novel's composition, revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions and references; the textual apparatus records all variants between the base-text and the first printed editions. [via]
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