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The Adventures of Roderick Randomby Tobias SmollettISBN 1414282397 (1-4142-8239-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Roderick Random'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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The Alexiadby Anna ComnenaISBN 141915186X (1-4191-5186-X)
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Alice's Adventures Under Groundby Lewis CarrollISBN 1419105531 (1-4191-0553-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'Book summary:Early (shorter) version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [via]
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The Aspern Papersby Henry JamesISBN 1419152769 (1-4191-5276-9)
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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Rosesby Louis Robert StevensonISBN 142197519X (1-4219-7519-X)
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Burrby Gore VidalISBN 1417633840 (1-4176-3384-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burr'Book summary:In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American history, debunks, in this historical novel of Burr's life, the common and casually held notion of the man as a scoundrel and an adventurer. Instead he appears as one of the 'host of choice spirits' forced to live among coarse, materialistic, hypocritical people ? among them Jefferson and Hamilton. Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry 'parvenu' from the West Indies and the former as a semi-literate slave-owning tyrant. American politics, suggests Vidal, had a penchant for the vulgar. Even then. Veering backwards to the revolution and the early days of the republic, stopping at dinner-parties on the way, and reaching forward to the future, BURR is a novel about treason, both the particular and in general. For what, asks Vidal, really belongs to whom? What properly belongs to the Constitution, to the nation, to the family ?even, intriguingly, to novelists and historians? [via]
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Cape Codby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1420927124 (1-4209-2712-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cape Cod'Book summary:Based on several trips to the Cape and originally published as a series of articles, Henry David Thoreau's "Cape Cod" is a remarkable work that depicts the natural beauty of Cape Cod and the nature that surrounds it. Thoreau, a consummate lover of the outdoors and nature is right at home in the Cape and he details his excitement of the area with naturalist portraits of the indigenous species and animals. Any lover of nature or of Cape Cod in general will delight in this captivating depiction of the area in the early to mid 1800s. [via]
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Captain Blood His Odysseyby Raphael SabatiniISBN 1417939885 (1-4179-3988-5)
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Castle Richmondby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1419112295 (1-4191-1229-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Castle Richmond'Book summary:Among the different houses in the country at which he had become intimate was that of the Countess of Desmond. The Countess of Desmond did not receive much company at Desmond Court. She had not the means, nor perhaps the will, to fill the huge old house with parties of her Irish neighbours--for she herself was English to the backbone. Ladies of course made morning calls, and gentlemen too, occasionally; but society at Desmond Court was for some years pretty much confined to this cold formal mode of visiting. Owen Fitzgerald, however, did obtain admittance into the precincts of the Desmond barracks. [via]
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A Child's History of Englandby Charles DickensISBN 1419100424 (1-4191-0042-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Child's History of England'Book summary:It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came in ships to these Islands, and found that they produced tin and lead; both very useful things, as you know, and both produced to this very hour upon the sea-coast. The most celebrated tin mines in Cornwall are, still, close to the sea. [via]
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The Chouansby Honore De BalzacISBN 1419156659 (1-4191-5665-9)
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Civil Disobedience And Other Essays the Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1420925229 (1-4209-2522-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civil Disobedience And Other Essays the Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau'Book summary:Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the following essays: Civil Disobedience, Natural History of Massachusetts, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Winter Walk, The Succession of Forest Trees, Walking, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples, Night and Moonlight, Aulus Persius Flaccus, Herald of Freedom, Life Without Principle, Paradise (to be) Regained, A Plea for John Brown, The Last Days of John Brown, After the Death of John Brown, The Service, Slavery in Massachusetts, and Wendell Phillips Before Concord Lyceum. [via]
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The Claveringsby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1421953307 (1-4219-5330-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claverings'Book summary:The gardens of Clavering Park were removed some three hundred yards from the large square sombre looking stone mansion which was the country house of Sir Hugh Clavering. [via]
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The Cloud Of Unknowingby AnonymousISBN 1419156993 (1-4191-5699-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cloud Of Unknowing'Book summary:And therefore take good heed unto time, how that thou dispendest it: for nothing is more precious than time. In one little time, as little as it is, may heaven be won and lost. A token it is that time is precious: for God, that is given of time, giveth never two times together, but each one after other. And this He doth, for He will not reverse the order or the ordinal course in the cause of His creation. For time is made for man, and not man for time. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 142092737X (1-4209-2737-X)
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The Constant Gardenerby John Le CarreISBN 1416503900 (1-4165-0390-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Constant Gardener'Book summary:There were those who feared that the end of the Cold War would deal a fatal blow to the creativity of many first-rate thriller writers who specialised in this territory. In the case of John le Carré, this would have meant the loss of not only Britain's finest thriller writer, but a serious novelist of quite as much literary gravitas as any of his mainstream contemporaries. Certainly, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold remains as utterly compelling today as when it was written, whereas such post-cold war le Carré themes as financial double-dealing seemed to inspire him less than the world of shifting identity he had dealt in so skilfully. But with The Constant Gardener, we have the author once again firing on all cylinders. The characterisation is as elegant and expressive as ever, the prose as limpid and forceful. But, most of all, le Carré has found a theme quite as pregnant as any he has handled in the past: the malign, deceptively ameliorative world of global pharmaceuticals. In the new novel, the customary themes of betrayal and danger are explored in a narrative that exerts a total grip throughout its considerable length. His protagonist, Justin Quayle, is an unreflective British diplomat whose job in the British High Commission in Nairobi suggests one of Graham Greene's dispossessed protagonists trying to survive in the sultry corruption of foreign climates. President Arap Moi's Kenya is a country in the grip of AIDS, while political machinations maintain a deadly status quo. When Quayle's wife (who has taken more interest in what is happening around her than her husband) is killed, his investigation of her murder leads him into a murky web of exploitation involving Kenyan greed and a major pharmaceutical company eager to promote its "wonder cure" for tuberculosis. As Quayle looks deeper into the company which his wife had been investigating, all he has carefully built around him begins to crumble. The steady accumulation of tension and rigorous delineation of character is emblematic of le Carré at his finest, and it is a tremendous pleasure to find the author so resolutely back on form, fired with a real sense of anger at the duplicity of the modern world:
"Specious, unadulterated, pompous Foreign Office bullshit, if you want its full name... trade isn't making the poor rich. Profits don't buy reforms. They buy corrupt government officials and Swiss bank accounts".
--Barry Forshaw (This Review refers to the hardback edition of this title) [via]More editions of The Constant Gardener:
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The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadiaby Philip Sidney, Albert FeuilleratISBN 1417966505 (1-4179-6650-5)
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Descent into Hellby Charles WilliamsISBN 1419115685 (1-4191-1568-5)
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The Devil Wears Pradaby Lauren WeisbergerISBN 1417663294 (1-4176-6329-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil Wears Prada'Book summary:It's a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it's killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Turns out Miranda is quite the bossyboots. That's pretty much the extent of the novel, but it's plenty. Miranda's behavior is so insanely over-the-top that it's a gas to see what she'll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who's been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour. For instance, when Miranda goes to Paris for the collections, Andrea receives a call back at the New York office (where, incidentally, she's not allowed to leave her desk to eat or go to the bathroom, lest her boss should call). Miranda bellows over the line: "I am standing in the pouring rain on the rue de Rivoli and my driver has vanished. Vanished! Find him immediately!"
This kind of thing is delicious fun to read about, though not as well written as its obvious antecedent, The Nanny Diaries. And therein lies the essential problem of the book. Andrea's goal in life is to work for The New Yorker--she's only sticking it out with Miranda for a job recommendation. But author Weisberger is such an inept, ungrammatical writer, you're positively rooting for her fictional alter ego not to get anywhere near The New Yorker. Still, Weisberger has certainly one-upped Me Times Three author Alix Witchel, whose magazine-world novel never gave us the inside dope that was the book's whole raison d' etre. For the most part, The Devil Wears Prada focuses on the outrageous Miranda Priestly, and she's an irresistible spectacle. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Diary of A Superfluous Manby Ivan TurgenevISBN 1419159267 (1-4191-5926-7)
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East Lynneby Andrew Maunder, Henry WoodISBN 1551112345 (1-55111-234-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'East Lynne'Book summary:Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working but neglectful lawyer-husband and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her, and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isabel disguises herself and takes the position of governess in the household of her husband and his new wife. East Lynne is the archetypal sensation novel, filled with disaster, guilt and repentance. It also documents the growing protest against the rigid roles prescribed for Victorian women. Among the many appendices included are a selection of Victorian medical views on men, women, and sexuality. [via]
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Ecloguesby VirgilISBN 1419160575 (1-4191-6057-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eclogues'Book summary:DAMOETAS Hold! not so ready with your jeers at men! We know who once, and in what shrine with you- The he-goats looked aside- the light nymphs laughed. [via]
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Eight Cousinsby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1421809761 (1-4218-0976-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Cousins'Book summary:Rose sat all alone in the big best parlor, with her little handkerchief laid ready to catch the first tear, for she was thinking of her troubles, and a shower was expected. She had retired to this room as a good place in which to be miserable; for it was dark and still, full of ancient furniture, sombre curtains, and hung all around with portraits of solemn old gentlemen in wigs, severe-nosed ladies in top-heavy caps, and staring children in little bob-tailed coats or short-waisted frocks. It was an excellent place for woe; and the fitful spring rain that pattered on the window-pane seemed to sob, "Cry away: I'm with you." Rose really did have some cause to be sad; for she had no mother, and had lately lost her father also, which left her no home but this with her great-aunts. She had been with them only a week, and, though the dear old ladies had tried their best to make her happy, they had not succeeded very well, for she was unlike any child they had ever seen, and they felt very much as if they had the care of a low-spirited butterfly. [via]
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Eight Cousins or the Aunt Hillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1417934492 (1-4179-3449-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Cousins or the Aunt Hill'Book summary:1874. Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, is universally recognized as the greatest and most popular story teller for children in her generation. She has known the way to the hearts of young people, not only in her own class, or even country, but in every condition of life, and in many foreign lands. Left an orphan after her father's death, Rose Campbell is sent to live at Aunt Hill with her six aunts and seven boy cousins. For someone who was used to a girl's boarding school, it all seems pretty overwhelming. Six aunts fussing and fretting over her are bad enough, but what is a quiet 13-year-old girl to do with seven boisterous boy cousins? A delightful and wholesome read for young girls. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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An Eye for an Eyeby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1421964694 (1-4219-6469-4)
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The First Lady Chatterleyby D. H. Lawrence, Frieda LawrenceISBN 1419130595 (1-4191-3059-5)
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The Foxby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1419163000 (1-4191-6300-0)
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A Gentle Spirit: A Fantastic Storyby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 141910134X (1-4191-0134-X)
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Goblin Market And Selected Poemsby Christina RossettiISBN 141912191X (1-4191-2191-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goblin Market And Selected Poems'Book summary:Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy. [via]
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Good Wivesby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1419122126 (1-4191-2212-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Wives'Book summary:Amy looked relieved, but naughty Jo took her at her word, for during the first call she sat with every limb gracefully composed, every fold correctly draped, calm as a summer sea, cool as a snowbank, and as silent as the sphinx. In vain Mrs. Chester alluded to her `charming novel', and the Misses Chester introduced parties, picnics, the opera, and the fashions. Each and all were answered by a smile, a bow, and a demure "Yes" or "No" with the chill on. [via]
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 1416524339 (1-4165-2433-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile'Book summary:This novel taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. Maybe it's a little too cute, maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. As Time magazine put it, "Like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions ... the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does." And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. The Green Mile was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award. [via]
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Heartbreak Houseby Bernard ShawISBN 1421807432 (1-4218-0743-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heartbreak House'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Heartbreak House is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of Heartbreak House, of which three, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and The Seagull, had been performed in England. Tolstoy, in his Fruits of Enlightenment, had shown us through it in his most ferociously contemptuous manner. Tolstoy did not waste any sympathy on it: it was to him the house in which Europe was stifling its soul; and he knew that our utter enervation and futilization in that overheated drawingroom atmosphere was delivering the world over to the control of ignorant and soulless cunning and energy, with the frightful consequences which have now overtaken it. Tolstoy was no pessimist: he was not disposed to leave the house standing if he could bring it down about the ears of its pretty and amiable voluptuaries; and he wielded the pickaxe with a will. He treated the case of the inmates as one of opium poisoning, to be dealt with by seizing the patients roughly and exercising them violently until they were broad awake. Tchekov, more of a fatalist, had no faith in these charming people extricating themselves. They would, he thought, be sold up and sent adrift by the bailiffs; and he therefore had no scruple in exploiting and even flattering their charm. [via]
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Hiawathaby Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 1421806355 (1-4218-0635-5)
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The Horla And Other Storiesby Guy De MaupassantISBN 1417901306 (1-4179-0130-6)
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A House of Pomegranatesby Oscar WildeISBN 1420927353 (1-4209-2735-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A House of Pomegranates'Book summary:A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, and The Star-child. Readers of all ages will be delighted by these fanciful tales. [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet JacobsISBN 1420925318 (1-4209-2531-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:Published in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was one of the first personal narratives by a slave and one of the few written by a woman. Jacobs (1813-97) was a slave in North Carolina and suffered terribly, along with her family, at the hands of a ruthless owner. She made several failed attempts to escape before successfully making her way North, though it took years of hiding and slow progress. Eventually, she was reunited with her children. For all biography and history collections. "Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women," Harriet Jacobs wrote in 1861. At that time she was an escaped slave living in the north, but the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 meant that she could no longer consider being in the northern states a guarantee of freedom or safety. Her book is an eloquent recital of the suffering that is slavery. Families broken apart; promises of freedom made but never kept; whippings, beatings, and burnings; masters selling their own children - all are recounted with precise detail and a blazing indignation. Harriet Jacobs' master started pursuing her when she was fifteen; in disgust she continually refused and avoided him. Her first attempt at revenge and escape failed: she became the lover of a local unmarried white man and had several children, but even then her master refused to sell her. Finally, in desperation, she ran away and hid in an uninsulated garret, three feet high at its tallest point with almost no air or light. She stayed there for seven years, enduring cold, heat, and a crippling lack of movement, always hoping to catch a glimpse of her children through a crack in the walls as they walked by on the road below her. At last she had a chance to escape to the North. Her story is a remarkable testimony to her strength and courage, and an unrelenting attack upon the institution of slavery. [via]
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The Insulted And Injuredby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Black GarnettISBN 1417905506 (1-4179-0550-6)
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Jane Austen's Lettersby Jane AustenISBN 1414500084 (1-4145-0008-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen's Letters'Book summary:Jane Austen famously labeled her literary ambit a "little bit (two inches wide) of ivory." Luckily, her personal travels and those of her family were slightly more extensive, otherwise we should be without her letters. Not only should every Janeite possess them, but also every connoisseur of correspondence. Austen's wit is ubiquitous--even though some protest it edges into waspishness. E. M. Forster, for example, described the letters between Austen and her beloved sister, Cassandra, as "the whinnying of harpies."
On September 18, 1796, she tells Cassandra, "What dreadful Hot weather we have!--It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance.--If Miss Pearson should return with me, pray be careful not to expect too much Beauty..." The dashes and capitalization alone make one long for the days before stylistic rules had so cemented. As for the sentiments! Austen paces her monologues to perfection, making the comic and ironic most out of the smallest incidents. Still, her frustration does occasionally emerge. "I am forced to be abusive," she implodes to Cassandra, "for want of a subject, having nothing really to say." Jane Austen has more than enough to say for lovers of literature and the cultural pinprick. [via]
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Jill the Recklessby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1434400093 (1-4344-0009-3)
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Kai Lung Unrolls His Matby Ernest BramahISBN 1417918594 (1-4179-1859-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat'Book summary:1928. The third in Bramah's Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and his despicable accomplice Ming-Shu. Kai Lung's adventures are related with humor and irony, his shrewdness and wisdom conveyed in euphemisms, paradoxes and parables. Bramah's droll writing style went a long way toward making the Kai Lung series so popular. [via]
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The Kingdom of God Is Within Youby Leo Tolstoy, Constance Black GarnettISBN 1420924877 (1-4209-2487-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kingdom of God Is Within You'Book summary:In affirming my belief in Christs teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the Churchs doctrine, which is usually called Christianity. [via]
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Letters From An American Farmerby J. Hector John de CrevecoeurISBN 1419129805 (1-4191-2980-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters From An American Farmer'Book summary:Who would have thought that because I received you with hospitality and kindness, you should imagine me capable of writing with propriety and perspicuity? Your gratitude misleads your judgment. The knowledge which I acquired from your conversation has amply repaid me for your five weeks' entertainment. I gave you nothing more than what common hospitality dictated; but could any other guest have instructed me as you did? [via]
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Little Dukeby Charlotte M. YongeISBN 1417999586 (1-4179-9958-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Duke'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the windows, which had no glass, were very small, set in such a depth of wall that there was a wide deep window seat, upon which the rain might beat, without reaching the interior of the room. And even if it had come in, there was nothing for it to hurt, for the walls were of rough stone, and the floor of tiles. There was a fire at each end of this great dark apartment, but there were no chimneys over the ample hearths, and the smoke curled about in thick white folds in the vaulted roof, adding to the wreaths of soot, which made the hall look still darker. [via]
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 1419131176 (1-4191-3117-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories'Book summary:Well, he is not a bit like a cheiromantist. I mean he is not mysterious, or esoteric, or romantic-looking. He is a little, stout man, with a funny, bald head, and great gold-rimmed spectacles; something between a family doctor and a country attorney. I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists. [via]
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Lucky: A Memoirby Alice SeboldISBN 1417616172 (1-4176-1617-2)
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Man Without a Countryby Edward HaleISBN 1419171720 (1-4191-7172-0)
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Mary Stuartby Friedrich Von SchillerISBN 1419133071 (1-4191-3307-1)
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Maurice Guestby Hugh Walpole, Henry Handel RichardsonISBN 1417942088 (1-4179-4208-8)
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My Brilliant Careerby Miles FranklinISBN 1419135961 (1-4191-3596-1)
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Thomas HardyISBN 1421808692 (1-4218-0869-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pair of Blue Eyes'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had long combined in perfect harmony with the crude Gothic Art of the ecclesiastical buildings scattered along it, throwing into extraordinary discord all architectural attempts at newness there. To restore the grey carcases of a mediaevalism whose spirit had fled, seemed a not less incongruous act than to set about renovating the adjoining crags themselves. Hence it happened that an imaginary history of three human hearts, whose emotions were not without correspondence with these material circumstances, found in the ordinary incidents of such church-renovations a fitting frame for its presentation. [via]
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Parnassus on Wheelsby Christopher MorleyISBN 1421903725 (1-4219-0372-5)
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Penguin Islandby Anatole FranceISBN 1426404050 (1-4264-0405-0)
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The Peterkin Papersby Lucretia P. HaleISBN 1419177095 (1-4191-7709-5)
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Piccadilly Jimby P. G. WodehouseISBN 1419141481 (1-4191-4148-1)
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Pickupby Nadine GordimerISBN 1417704543 (1-4177-0454-3)
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Popeby Alexander PopeISBN 1414281021 (1-4142-8102-1)
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Portrait of Mr W H theby Oscar WildeISBN 1425030378 (1-4250-3037-8)
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The Portrait of Mr. W. H.: Easyread Large Editionby Oscar WildeISBN 1419178253 (1-4191-7825-3)
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The Problem of Painby C. S. LewisISBN 1417979798 (1-4179-7979-8)
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Prometheus Boundby AeschylusISBN 1419143220 (1-4191-4322-0)
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Psmith in the Cityby P. G. WodehouseISBN 1419143336 (1-4191-4333-6)
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Rachel Rayby Anthony TrollopeISBN 141914376X (1-4191-4376-X)
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The Red Fairy Bookby Andrew LangISBN 1419179985 (1-4191-7998-5)
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Renascence And Other Poemsby Edna Vincent MillayISBN 1417903538 (1-4179-0353-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Renascence And Other Poems'Book summary:1917. Pulitzer prize-winning American poet, this is her first book of poems. Contents: Renascence; Interim; The Suicide; God's World; Afternoon on a Hill; Sorrow; Tavern; Ashes of Life; The Little Ghost; Kin to Sorrow; Three Songs of Shattering; The Shroud; The Dream; Indifference; Witch-Wife; Blight; When Year Grows Old; Sonnets I-V (unnamed); and Sonnet VI (Bluebeard). See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Sanditonby Jane AustenISBN 1419146068 (1-4191-4606-8)
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Sandman 3: Dream Countryby Neil GaimanISBN 141768612X (1-4176-8612-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sandman 3: Dream Country'Book summary:The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. What's remarkable here (considering the publisher and the time that this was originally published) is that the main character of the book--the Sandman, King of Dreams--serves only as a minor character in each of these otherwise unrelated stories. (Actually, he's not even in the last story.) This signaled a couple of important things in the development of what is considered one of the great comics of the second half of the century. First, it marked a distinct move away from the horror genre and into a more fantasy-rich, classical mythology-laden environment. And secondly, it solidly cemented Neil Gaiman as a storyteller. One of the stories here, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," took home the World Fantasy Award for best short story--the first time a comic was given that honor. But for my money, another story in Dream Country has it beat hands down. "A Dream of a Thousand Cats" has such hope, beauty, and good old-fashioned chills that rereading it becomes a welcome pleasure. --Jim Pascoe [via]
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The School for Wivesby MoliereISBN 1419181564 (1-4191-8156-4)
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Scottish Chiefsby Jane PorterISBN 1419181610 (1-4191-8161-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scottish Chiefs'Book summary:Do the traitors think, cried Wallace, "that by robbing Scotland of her annals, and of that stone, that they really deprive her of her palladium? Fools! fools! Scotland's history is in the memories of her sons; her palladium is in their hearts; and Edward may one day find that she remembers the victory of Largs, and needs not talismans to give her freedom." [via]
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Seventeenby Booth TarkingtonISBN 1426404786 (1-4264-0478-6)
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A Shropshire Ladby A. E. HousmanISBN 1419103318 (1-4191-0331-8)
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The Sign Of Fourby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 141918251X (1-4191-8251-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sign Of Four'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thought-fully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction. Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it. On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest. Again and again I had registered a vow that I should deliver my soul upon the subject, but there was that in the cool, nonchalant air of my companion which made him the last man with whom one would care to take anything approaching to a liberty. His great powers, his masterly manner, and the experience which I had had of his many extraordinary qualities, all made me diffident and backward in crossing him. [via]
The Song of Hiawathaby Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 1421984822 (1-4219-8482-2)
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1420925539 (1-4209-2553-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Study in Scarlet'Book summary:Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes's Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.
Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.
Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.
Conan Doyle quickly learned that it was Holmes's deductions that were of most interest to his readers. The lengthy flashback, while a convention of popular fiction, simply distracted from readers' real focus. It is when Holmes and Watson gather before the coal fire and Holmes sums up the deductions that led him to the successful apprehension of the criminal that we are most captivated. Subsequent Holmes stories--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes--rightly plunge the twosome directly into the middle of a baffling crime, piling mystery upon mystery until Holmes's denouement once more leaves the dazzled Watson murmuring, "You are wonderful, Holmes!" Generations of readers agree. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccioby Giovanni BoccaccioISBN 1417926902 (1-4179-2690-2)
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Tales of Unrestby Joseph ConradISBN 141915074X (1-4191-5074-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Unrest'Book summary:who maintained that his name was Henry Price. However, for some reason or other, the natives down the river had given him the name of Makola, and it stuck to him through all his wanderings about the country. He spoke English and French with a warbling accent, wrote a beautiful hand, understood bookkeeping, and cherished in his innermost heart the worship of evil spirits. [via]
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The Three Clerksby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1421926407 (1-4219-2640-7)
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The Three Sistersby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 1419185306 (1-4191-8530-6)
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Torquato Tassoby GoetheISBN 1425467393 (1-4254-6739-3)
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Understood Betsyby Dorothy Canfield FisherISBN 1421901900 (1-4219-0190-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understood Betsy'Book summary:Anyone who fondly remembers how the fresh air of the moors puts a blush in the cheeks of sallow young Mary in The Secret Garden will love Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Understood Betsy just as much. First published in 1916, this engaging classic tells the tale of a thin, pale 9-year-old orphan named Elizabeth Ann who is whisked away from her city home and relocated to a Vermont farm where her cousins, the "dreaded Putneys," live. The Putneys are not as bad as her doting, high-strung Aunt Frances warns, however, and Elizabeth, who had been nurtured by her aunt like an overwatered sapling--positively blooms under their breezy, earthy care.
Elizabeth Ann's first victories are small ones--taking the reins from Uncle Harry, doing her own hair, making her own breakfast--but children will revel in the awakening independence and growing self-confidence of a girl who learns to think for herself... and even laugh. Along the way, "citified" readers of all ages will get a glimpse into the lives of people who are truly connected to the world around them--making butter ("We always bought ours," says Elizabeth Ann), experiencing the "rapt wonder that people in the past were really people," and understanding the difference between failing in school and failing at life. Fisher is a wise, personable storyteller, steeped in the Montessori principles of learning for its own sake, the value of process, and the importance of "indirect support" in child rearing. She also captures the tempestuous emotional life of a child as few authors can, crafting a story that children will find deeply satisfying. And in the end, readers will have grown as fond of the happier, stronger "Betsy" as the gentle, unassuming Putneys have.
Loving care was dolloped on this 1999 reissue of an old favorite--with sweet new pencil illustrations by Kimberly Bulcken Root, and an introduction and afterword by Eden Ross Lipson that offer a historical context for the book and its author. (Ages 8 to 12) --Karin Snelson [via]
Valpergaby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Tilottama RajanISBN 1551111446 (1-55111-144-6)
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When The Sleeper Wakesby H. G. WellsISBN 1419193732 (1-4191-9373-2)
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Work: A Story of Experienceby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1419194909 (1-4191-9490-9)
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Works of Christopher Marloweby Christopher Marlow, Francis CunninghamISBN 1417922125 (1-4179-2212-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Works of Christopher Marlowe'Book summary:1870. Including his translations. Marlowe is considered the greatest English dramatist before Shakespeare. Contents: Tamburlaine the Great; The Tragical History of Faustus; The Jew of Malta; Edward the Second; The Massacre at Paris; Dido Queen of Carthage; Hero and Leander; Ovid's Elegies; Epigrams by J.D.; Ignoto; The Passionate Shepherd to His Love; The Nimph's Reply to the Sheepheard; Another of the Same Nature Made Since; Fragment; Dialogue in Verse; Epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood; The First Book of Lucan; The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus from the 4th of 1604; and Notes, Explanatory and Illustrative. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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