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Abel Sanchez and Other Storiesby Miguel De UnamunoISBN 0895267071 (0-89526-707-1)
Softcover, Regnery Pub
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American Mercury: Facsimile Edition of Volume Iby H. L. MenckenISBN 0893450502 (0-89345-050-2)
Hardcover, Rudolf Steiner Pr
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Around the World in 80 Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0893756083 (0-89375-608-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER,
THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN
Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byronat least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.
Phileas Fogg was a member of the Reform, and that was all.
The way in which he got admission to this exclusive club was simple enough.
He was recommended by the Barings, with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush.
Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information. He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously. He was, in short, the least communicative of men. He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.
Had he travelled? It was likely, for no one seemed to know the world more familiarly; there was no spot so secluded that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance with it. He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard-of travellers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions. He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else. His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
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Beowulfby Welwyn Wilton Katz, Laszlo GalISBN 088899365X (0-88899-365-X)
Hardcover, Groundwood Books
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Best Loved ClassicsISBN 0895772884 (0-89577-288-4)
Softcover, Reader's Digest Association
Find This BookBook summary:Box set contains 10 paperback books as follows: [1] The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain -- [2] Oliver Twist / by Charles Dickens -- [3] Little women / by Louisa May Alcott -- [4] Treasure Island / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- [5] The red badge of courage / by Stephen Crane -- [6] The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain -- [7] The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- [8] David Copperfield / by Charles Dickens -- [9] The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe / by Daniel Defoe -- [10] Jane Eyre / by Charlotte Bronte?. [via]
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Big Moneyby John DOS PassosISBN 0884115348 (0-88411-534-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Money'Book summary:THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh takes his solo flight. Henry Ford makes automobiles. From New York to Hollywood, love affairs to business deals, it is a country taking the turns too fast, speeding toward the crash of 1929.[via]
Ultimately, whether the novels are read together or separately, they paint a sweeping portrait of collective America and showcase the brilliance and bravery of one of its most enduring and admired writers.More editions of Big Money:
The Black Bookby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0881846007 (0-88184-600-7)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Boonvilleby Robert Mailer AndersonISBN 0887394795 (0-88739-479-5)
Hardcover, Creative Arts Book Co
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0895776014 (0-89577-601-4)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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Children of Gebelaawiby Naguib MahfouzISBN 089410697X (0-89410-697-X)
Softcover, Lynne Rienner Pub
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Children of Gebelawiby Najib MahfuzISBN 0894102133 (0-89410-213-3)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Classic Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Talesby Sheila Black, H.C. AndersenISBN 0894719815 (0-89471-981-5)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The Confessionsby St Augustine, Tom GillISBN 0882709488 (0-88270-948-8)
Softcover, Bridge-Logos
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions'Book summary:Garry Willss complete translation of Saint Augustines spiritual masterpieceavailable now for the first time
Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustines Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Now for the first time, Willss translation of the entire work is being published as a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Removed by time and place but not by spiritual relevance, Augustines Confessions continues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Wills brings his superb gifts of analysis and insight to this ambitious translation of the entire book.
[Wills] renders Augustines famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact.
Los Angeles Times
[Willss] translations . . . are meant to bring Augustine straight into our own minds; and they succeed. Well-known passages, over which my eyes have often gazed, spring to life again from Willss pages.
Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books
Augustine flourishes in Willss hand.
James Wood
A masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition.
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The Confessions of Saint Augustineby AugustineISBN 0883683822 (0-88368-382-2)
Softcover, Whitaker House
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Confidence Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 0891908900 (0-89190-890-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 0895263475 (0-89526-347-5)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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Crossing to Safetyby Wallace Earle StegnerISBN 0896211827 (0-89621-182-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 089577223X (0-89577-223-X)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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Growing up is never easy--especially if your name happens to be David Copperfield. Orphaned as an infant, David must suffer the privation and cruelties of his evil stepfather, Mr. Murdstone--who packs David away to a workhouse at the age of ten! a trusting but vulnerable boy and practically alone in the world, David finds himself time after time at the mercy of a rogue's gallery of characters: the dashing but deceitful Steerforth, the detestable clerk Uriah Heep, and, last but not least, the beautiful but ditzy Dora. With friends like these it's a miracle that David grows up at all!More editions of David Copperfield:
Death of Ivan Ilychby TolstoyISBN 088238547X (0-88238-547-X)
Softcover, Center for Thanatology Research &
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose BierceISBN 0891901868 (0-89190-186-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Diary of Anne Frankby Anne Frank, Linda A. CadrainISBN 0883013088 (0-88301-308-8)
Softcover, Ags Pub
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0882950282 (0-88295-028-2)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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A Doll's Houseby Henrik Ibsen, William-Alan Landes, William ArcherISBN 0887342698 (0-88734-269-8)
Softcover, Players Pr
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The Doubleby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0882337572 (0-88233-757-2)
Softcover, Ardis
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Unhappy with the negative reception The Double received, Dostoevsky re-wrote his original version of 1846 fifteen years later. Dostoevsky wrote, "This revision, provided with an introduction, will be the equivalent of a new novel. They will finally see what The Double really is!...In a word, Im challenging everybody to a battle&Why should I lose a superb idea, a great type in its social importance, which I was the first to discover and of which I was the herald?" [via]
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Duplicate Keysby Jane SmileyISBN 0893408883 (0-89340-888-3)
Softcover, J. Curley
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El Doctor Zhivago / The Doctor Zhivagoby Boris Leonidovich PasternakISBN 0895773422 (0-89577-342-2)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 0881846023 (0-88184-602-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill'Book summary:Fanny Hill is more than the most widely acclaimed erotic novel in our mother tongue. It is a fiction of elegance and energy, a genuine tale told with considerable art and offering an accurate (if unreasonably sexy) picture of its social age. [via]
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Flowers for Algernonby Daniel Keyes, Etienne DelessertISBN 0886820073 (0-88682-007-3)
Hardcover, Creative Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flowers for Algernon'Book summary:Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic, Flowers for Algernon. As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation Charly (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.
Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:
I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.
I dint know mice were so smart.
Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: "Punctuation, is? fun!" But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry "friends" at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he's as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate...
Flowers for Algernon is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact. --David Langford [via]
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The Gift of the Magi and Other Storiesby O. HenryISBN 0895772663 (0-89577-266-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Gun in Cheek: A Study of "Alternative" Crime Fictionby Bill PronziniISBN 0892969008 (0-89296-900-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gun in Cheek: A Study of "Alternative" Crime Fiction'Book summary:GUN IN CHEEK is a treasure trove of such gems, a delightful exploration of what the author refers to as "alternative crime fiction." Less kindly put, it is a unique crash course in the worst English and American crime fiction of the twentieth century.
Every category of mystery fiction is represented: the private eye, the stately home, the arch-villain, the gentleman sleuth, the amateur spy, and many others who have blossomed from the genre. Within these categories, in what can only be called a labor of love, Bill Pronzini discusses, digests, and shares the best of the worst---adding a wonderfully comprehensive bibliography for advanced and dedicated devotees.
GUN IN CHEEK is an amusing and pleasurable reading experience as well as an enlightening guide to hardboiled potboilers. [via]
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, Lisbeth Zwerger, Anthea BellISBN 0887081827 (0-88708-182-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. TolkienISBN 0883657465 (0-88365-746-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0895310708 (0-89531-070-8)
Softcover, Sharon Pubns
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The Kappa Childby Hiromi GotoISBN 0889952280 (0-88995-228-0)
Softcover, Red Deer Pr
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The Last Tycoonby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0891906045 (0-89190-604-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Letters of J.R.R. Tolkienby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0890112797 (0-89011-279-7)
Hardcover, Horizon Book Promotions
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Literary Britainby Bill Brandt, Tom Hopkinson, John Hayward, Mark Haworth-BoothISBN 0893812234 (0-89381-223-4)
Hardcover, Aperture Foundation, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literary Britain'Book summary:From 1948 to 1951, Britain's foremost 20th-century photographer, Bill Brandt, journeyed into the heart of literary Britain, capturing these brilliant photographs. [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0893755001 (0-89375-500-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Written by British-born author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1905, A Little Princess tells the story of young Sara Crewe, privileged daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant. All the other girls at Miss Minchin's school treat Sara as if she truly were a princess. But when Captain Crewe's fortune is sadly lost, Sara's luck changes. Suddenly she is treated no better than a scullery maid. Her own fierce determination to maintain her dignity and remain a princess on the inside has intrigued and delighted readers for almost a hundred years, even inspiring an acclaimed sequel, Wishing for Tomorrow. [via]
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The Lord's Motelby Gail Donohue StoreyISBN 0892551941 (0-89255-194-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0881842257 (0-88184-225-7)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Master of Ballantraeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0895776294 (0-89577-629-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master of Ballantrae'Book summary:Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English crown, to inherit the title of Lord Durrisdeer. But he is to return years later, embittered by battles and a savage life of piracy on the high seas, to demand his inheritance. Turning the people against the Lord, he begins a savage feud with his brother that will lead the pair from the Scottish Highlands to the American Wilderness. Satanic and seductive, the Master was regarded by Stevenson as 'all I know of the devil'; his darkly manipulative schemes dominate this subtle and compelling tragedy.This edition takes as its text the Edinburgh Edition of the novel, the last approved by the author. The introduction considers the novel's inspiration and its place as one of Stevenson's greatest studies in cruelty. [via]
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Middle Mistby Mary RenaultISBN 0892440805 (0-89244-080-5)
Hardcover, Queens House
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Miles Gone By: A Literary Biographyby William F. BuckleyISBN 0895260042 (0-89526-004-2)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Breakby Steven SherrillISBN 0895871971 (0-89587-197-1)
Hardcover, John F Blair Pub
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Through the Minotaur's experiences, Sherrill spotlights the alienation and loneliness that are part of our society. During the two-week period we follow the Minotaur, we meet memorable characters along the way from his co-workers at the restaurant to his neighbors at the trailer park. Sherrill also manages to make mundane doings--kitchen work, car repair, personal grooming--interesting and even exciting at times. By the end of the novel, the reader is pulling for the Minotaur to find the brief moment of happiness that he has sought for so many centuries. [via]
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Modern Midrash: The Retelling of Traditional Jewish Narratives by Twentieth-Century Hebrew Writersby David C. JacobsonISBN 0887063233 (0-88706-323-3)
Hardcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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No Man Is an Islandby Thomas MertonISBN 0882548727 (0-88254-872-7)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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Northrop Frye on Shakespeareby Northrop Frye, Robert SandlerISBN 0889024413 (0-88902-441-3)
Softcover, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd
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On the Black Hillby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0893406171 (0-89340-617-1)
Softcover, J. Curley
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Open: Storiesby Lisa Lynne MooreISBN 088784684X (0-88784-684-X)
Softcover, House of Anansi Pr
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Ovid's Metamorphosesby Ovid, Charles BoerISBN 0882142178 (0-88214-217-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Plays of Anton Tchekovby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0891904328 (0-89190-432-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Quo Vadisby Henryk SienkiewiczISBN 0895263459 (0-89526-345-9)
Softcover, Regnery Pub
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Rebeccaby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0895776278 (0-89577-627-8)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0895771551 (0-89577-155-1)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn
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Softcover, Andor Pub Co - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0890090742 (0-89009-074-2)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 089434126X (0-89434-126-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure. And find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for thirty-five years. After scavenging his broken ship for useful items, he had only his skills and ingenuity to keep him alive as there was to be no one else on the island for the next twenty-four years. In the middle of that twenty-fourth year he rescued a native about to be eaten by cannibals who were using his island for a place of feasting. Crusoe named this man Friday, after the day of his rescue. Friday became his faithful servant and friend, even returning with him to England after their deliverance by an English ship. Listeners will enjoy Crusoe's determination for survival against all odds and admire the spirituality that gave him the strength to survive. A hero through the ages, he richly deserves the admiration that has endured over three centuries. [via]
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrasesby Peter Mark Roget, John Lewis Roget, Samuel Romilly RogetISBN 0890092451 (0-89009-245-1)
Hardcover, Chartwell Books
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Romance of the Three Kingdomsby Lou Guan ZhongISBN 0893469246 (0-89346-924-6)
Hardcover, Heian International Publishing, Incorporated
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The Sea-Wolfby Jack LondonISBN 0895773384 (0-89577-338-4)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea-Wolf'Book summary:In The Sea-Wolf, London's most gripping novel, Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued from the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay by a demonic sea captain and introduced to fates far worse that death. Through this story London recalls his own adventures on a sealing vessel at the age of seventeen. John Sutherland's notes include a history of pelagic seal hunting and an account of the many cinematic versions of this novel.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via]More editions of The Sea-Wolf:
Slow Monkeys and Other Storiesby Jim NicholsISBN 0887483798 (0-88748-379-8)
Softcover, Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr
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Sobranie Sochinenii: Darby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0882335340 (0-88233-534-0)
Hardcover, Ardis
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Song of Sixpenceby A. J. CroninISBN 089190218X (0-89190-218-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Storiesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0895773848 (0-89577-384-8)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories'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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Successful Love and Other Storiesby Delmore SchwartzISBN 0892550945 (0-89255-094-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0883011344 (0-88301-134-4)
Softcover, Ags Pub
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Television and the Teaching of Englishby Neil PostmanISBN 0891974458 (0-89197-445-8)
Softcover, Ardent Media Inc
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Thomas the Obscureby Maurice Blanchot, Robert LambertonISBN 0882680765 (0-88268-076-5)
Softcover, Barrytown/Station Hill Press
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0883011026 (0-88301-102-6)
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To Build a Fireby Jack LondonISBN 0895986744 (0-89598-674-4)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
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A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty SmithISBN 0895773287 (0-89577-328-7)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'Book summary:Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or David Copperfieldby Robert BenchleyISBN 0884113051 (0-88411-305-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Ultramarineby Malcolm LowryISBN 0881842583 (0-88184-258-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Unquiet Graveby Cyril ConnollyISBN 0892550589 (0-89255-058-9)
Softcover, Persea Books, Incorporated
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Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been collected in book form and published to wide acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. The Unquiet Grave is considered by many to be his most enduring work. It is a highly personal journal written during the devastation of World War II, filled with reflective passages that deal with aging, the break-up of a long term relationship, and the horrors of the war around him. It is also a wonderfully varied intellectual feast: a collection of aphorisms, epigrams, and quotations from such masters of European literature as Horace, Baudelaire, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, and Goethe. Dazzlingly original in both form and content, The Unquiet Grave has continued to influence generations of writers. [via]More editions of The Unquiet Grave:
Vesper Sparrowsby Deborah DiggesISBN 0887482287 (0-88748-228-7)
Softcover, Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr Center for
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Victims of the Latest Dance Crazeby Cornelius EadyISBN 0887482546 (0-88748-254-6)
Softcover, Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr
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Vino E Paneby Ignazio SiloneISBN 0884362698 (0-88436-269-8)
Softcover, Emc Pub
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0894714953 (0-89471-495-3)
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0893401307 (0-89340-130-7)
Hardcover, J. Curley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior'Book summary:'A brilliant memoir ...it is about being Chinese in the way A Portrait of the Artist is about being Irish; it is an investigation of soul, not landscape, its sources are dream and memory, myth and desire; its crises are the crises of a heart in exile from roots that bind and terrorize it ...Maxine Hong Kingston writes with bitter and relentless love. Her voice, now, is as clear as the voice of Ts'ai Yen, who sang her sad, angry songs of China to the barbarians. It is as fierce as a warrior's voice, and as eloquent as any artist's' Jane Kramer, New York Times Book Review 'This is a delightful book ...tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it's like simply to be alive' Victoria Radin, New Society 'A strange, enchanting book ...As a manual of self-discovery through the channels and terrors of one's own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatable' Clancy Sigal, Guardian 'As a dream -- of the "female avenger" -- it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword ...reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of God' John Leonard, New York Times 'A book of fierce clarity and originality' Newsweek [via]
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The Word Woman and Other Related Writingsby Elizabeth Friedmann, Laura JacksonISBN 0892551852 (0-89255-185-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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