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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0451526503 (0-451-52650-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary: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 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 Aeneidby Virgil, Patric DickinsonISBN 0451528638 (0-451-52863-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.[via] -
Against the Grain: (A Reboursby Joris Karl HuysmansISBN 0486221903 (0-486-22190-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Grain: (A Rebours'Book summary:Because of his extreme sensitivity to the absurd and grotesque in human affairs, the protagonist of this masterpiece of decadence has estranged himself from society and savors the most bizarre aspects of human existence in his quest for novelty. This landmark novel is filled with weird images and biting wit. Introduction by Havelock Ellis.[via]More editions of Against the Grain: (A Rebours:
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, David MagarshackISBN 0451528611 (0-451-52861-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:A direct and truthful transcript of life in Russia in the early 1800's. [via]
Annotated Aliceby Lewis CarrollISBN 0452010411 (0-452-01041-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Arabian Nightsby Jack ZipesISBN 0451525426 (0-451-52542-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, " "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, " and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]More editions of Arabian Nights:
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby Richard Francis Burton, Jack David ZipesISBN 0451527496 (0-451-52749-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights'Book summary:Adapted from Sir Richard F. Burton's lavish unexpurgated translation, this volume illuminates the sensual mystery and lushness of the original Arabic tales. It includes a wide variety of tales--from magic fairy tales to torrid erotic tales--that reveal a great deal about what life was like in the Middle East during the Medieval period.
* The companion volume to the popular Signet Classic edition of Arabian Nights (8/91), also edited by Jack Zipes
* Jack Zipes is the author of several books of fairy tales and is the editor of the Signet Classic edition of The Complete Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde (5/96)
* These volumes offer the uncensored, erotic versions of the tales, not the rewritten fairy tales for children [via]
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At Swim-Two-Birdsby Flann O'BrienISBN 0452259134 (0-452-25913-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Swim-Two-Birds'Book summary:If you try to read it too closely, the structure of this book will drive you crazy. Ask me how I know. On the first level, it seems to emanate from the addled mind of a navel-gazing Irish university student stumbling around thinking about writing a book or a school paper. As I said, you can go nuts trying to follow it. Yet At Swim-Two-Birds is a modernist masterpiece, the best-known fictional work of Irish newspaper writer Flann O'Brien. Published in 1939, the book's great charm is O'Brien's constant reinvention of the English language, fueled and altered by an Irish sensibility and language; the sentences come out in a torrent of musical, drunken ramblings. [via]
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Beowulfby Burton RaffelISBN 0451527402 (0-451-52740-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The epic poem of war and adventure.
Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death.
* Burton Raffel's modern language translation from the original Old English remains the most celebrated introduction of the poem to students and the general reader alike
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0486268659 (0-486-26865-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:This clear facsimile of the original manuscript tells not only the story but also how Dickens wrote the workmaking a few unsuccessful starts, carefully revising almost every pageuntil the masterpiece was finished. Eight illustrations by John Leech.[via]More editions of A Christmas Carol:
City of Godby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452282098 (0-452-28209-8)
Softcover, Plume
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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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Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterby Thomas De QuinceyISBN 0460002236 (0-460-00223-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'Book summary:Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions, he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, and paved the way for later generations of literary drug-takers from Baudelaire to Burroughs. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0451523938 (0-451-52393-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary: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 Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Leonard WolfISBN 0452269695 (0-452-26969-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature has given voice to our own fears of the depravity within all of us. Wolf's extensive annotations throughout the text reveal the psychological depths of the Jekyll and Hyde story and bring the tale's intricate details to light. [via]
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Fear of Flyingby Erica JongISBN 0452274796 (0-452-27479-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear of Flying'Book summary:Here is the gloriously wicked, sexy, brilliant novel that brought sexual frankness--and freedom--into its own--a book that still speaks to women's innermost sexual fantasies--and a book for every man who still believes that women "don't think like that". New introduction by the author. [via]
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Foxfireby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452272319 (0-452-27231-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0451528832 (0-451-52883-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0460051016 (0-460-05101-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0451524179 (0-451-52417-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0451525817 (0-451-52581-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0451528832 (0-451-52883-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0460051016 (0-460-05101-6)
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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- Great Expectations: ISBN 0460012347 (0-460-01234-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Great Expectations: ISBN 0460002341 (0-460-00234-1)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451525248 (0-451-52524-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Great Expectations: ISBN 0460873350 (0-460-87335-0)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M. - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
- Great Expectations: ISBN 0460012347 (0-460-01234-7)
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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 Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.[via]More editions of The Heart of Darkness:
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Featuring a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, the author's two best-known stories tell of encounters with moral depravity in the wilds of the Congo and second selves on a voyage into the Gulf of Siam. Reprint." [via]
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Hero of Our Timeby Mikhail Lermontov, Neil CornwellISBN 0460875663 (0-460-87566-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0451527917 (0-451-52791-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:An evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, is haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead and wracked by the fear of its frightened living. [via]
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- House of the Seven Gables: ISBN 0460011766 (0-460-01176-6)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - The House of the Seven Gables: ISBN 0451524365 (0-451-52436-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - The House of the Seven Gables: ISBN 0460874640 (0-460-87464-0)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M. - House of the Seven Gables: ISBN 0451527917 (0-451-52791-7)
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- House of the Seven Gables: ISBN 0460011766 (0-460-01176-6)
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, John CiardiISBN 0451527984 (0-451-52798-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:Ciardi's translation of the magnificent story of a man's way through the infinite torment of hell in his search for paradise. [via]
The Infernoby Alighieri DanteISBN 0451627091 (0-451-62709-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Jungle Booksby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0451529758 (0-451-52975-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Books'Book summary:The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the 'Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling's abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the 'Law'. [via]
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Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translationby Victor HugoISBN 0451525264 (0-451-52526-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation'Book summary:Victor Hugo's towering novel of Jean Valjean, his unjust imprisonment, and his lifelong flight from a relentless police officer.[via]More editions of Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation:
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence Sterne, Tim ParnellISBN 0460877631 (0-460-87763-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary: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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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Marilyn SidesISBN 0451529723 (0-451-52972-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Nikolai Gogol's Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0451525205 (0-451-52520-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane Austen, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451526368 (0-451-52636-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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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:Named a "national institution" by George Orwell, Dickens offers his most popular tale, of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London-a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. [via]
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The Oresteiaby Michael EwansISBN 0460875485 (0-460-87548-5)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia'Book summary:With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest Aeschylus scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, plot summary, selected criticism and chronology of Aeschylus's life and times. [via]
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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: Agamemnon; the Libation Bearers; the Eumenidesby Paul Roche, AeschylusISBN 0452011663 (0-452-01166-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: The Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenidesby AeschylusISBN 0451628195 (0-451-62819-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Pere Goriotby Honore De Balzac, Henry Reed, Peter BrooksISBN 0451529596 (0-451-52959-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pere Goriot'Book summary:[via]A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entrée" into La Comédie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization."
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The Poet and the Murderer : A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgeryby Simon WorrallISBN 0452284023 (0-452-28402-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Possessedby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Andrew R. MacAndrew, Marc SlonimISBN 0451524861 (0-451-52486-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Possessed'Book summary:The Possessed (In Russian: 5AK, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Possessed is an extremely political book, and is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences. This form of intellectual conservativism tied to the Slavophil movement of Dostoevsky's day, is seen to have continued on into its modern manifestation in individuals like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Dostoevsky's novels focusing on the idea that utopias and positivist ideas, in being utilitarian, were unrealistic and unobtainable. The book has five primary ideological characters: Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin, Stepan Trofimovich, and Kirilov. Through their philosophies, Dostoevsky describes the political chaos seen in 19th-Century Russia. [via]
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452279070 (0-452-27907-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:An account of the interrelated lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvements with period notables is set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century American history. Reprint. [via]
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0451525892 (0-451-52589-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
- Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0460010212 (0-460-01021-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0451524195 (0-451-52419-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0460879146 (0-460-87914-6)
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- Sense And Sensibility: ISBN 0460010212 (0-460-01021-2)
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Sister Carrieby Theodore Dreiser, Richard LingemanISBN 0451527607 (0-451-52760-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486266885 (0-486-26688-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary: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 Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories: ISBN 0460871978 (0-460-87197-8)
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- The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories: ISBN 0460871978 (0-460-87197-8)
A Summer Bird-Cageby Margret DrabbleISBN 0452257611 (0-452-25761-1)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0451525469 (0-451-52546-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:Thomas Hardy broke the boundaries of the acceptable Victorian heroine with "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", Victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy, Tess is a woman whose intense vitality flares unforgettably against the bleak background of a dying rural society. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and indelibly poignant beauty. This classic novel remains a triumph of literary art and a timeless commentary on the human condition. [via]
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Womanby Thomas HardyISBN 0451530276 (0-451-53027-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman'Book summary:Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin-a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. [via]
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilsonby Mark Twain, Wright MorrisISBN 0451523741 (0-451-52374-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson'Book summary:A slave of mixed blood substitutes her son with her master's son. [via]
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Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 0460016172 (0-460-01617-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tristram Shandy'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Tropic of Cancerby Henry MillerISBN 0451526058 (0-451-52605-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tropic of Cancer'Book summary:No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate American in Paris was deemed obscene and banned from publication in this country for years. When you read this, you see immediately how much modern writers owe Miller. [via]
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Under the Volcanoby Malcolm LowryISBN 0452255953 (0-452-25595-3)
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The Underdogsby Mariano Azuela, E. MunguiaISBN 0451526252 (0-451-52625-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Underdogs'Book summary:To save his family, Demetrio Maci+a7as, a peace-loving, naive Indian, becomes swept up in the mounting revolution against the tyranny of dictator Porfirio Diaz, as he rises to become a general in the army of Pancho Villa. Reissue. [via]
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0451529227 (0-451-52922-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:Classic Fiction [via]
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Hardcover, E P Dutton - Villette: Library Edition: ISBN 0460013513 (0-460-01351-3)
Hardcover, E P Dutton - Villette: Library Edition: ISBN 0451529227 (0-451-52922-7)
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- Villette: Library Edition: ISBN 0460872478 (0-460-87247-8)
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The Waterworksby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452275490 (0-452-27549-0)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waterworks'Book summary:While looking into the disappearance of a missing freelance book reviewer, McIlvaine, a reporter, finds himself roaming around the underground world of 1890s New York City, where he discovers a strange doctor who can keep the rich alive through macabre methods. Reprint. NYT. " [via]
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood Anderson, Koontz, Dean R. (AFT), Irving HoweISBN 0451529952 (0-451-52995-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. [via]
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