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100 Selected Storiesby O. HenryISBN 1853262412 (1-85326-241-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Alexander's Bridgeby Willa Cather, Hermione LeeISBN 1853811637 (1-85381-163-7)
Softcover, Virago Pr
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The Awakening, and Other Stories.by Kate ChopinISBN 185326556X (1-85326-556-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening, and Other Stories.'Book summary:Edna Pontellier, married to a successful creole speculator from New Orleans, spends the summer on Grand Isle and falls in love. Her affair with Robert Lebrun awakens in her a new sense of spiritual and sexual self-awareness. [via]
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The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and Factby Janet CooperISBN 1852850655 (1-85285-065-5)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and Fact'Book summary:The Battle of Maldon in 991, fought at Northey Island in Essex, both inspired the most important Anglo-Saxon poem after Beowulf and has itself been the subject of extensive historical investigation and speculation. The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and Fact brings together specially commissioned essays by leading literary, archaeological and historical scholars to provide a rounded an detailed account of the battle based on the most recent scholarship.[via]More editions of The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and Fact:
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Beggar's Operaby John Gay, Colin CounsellISBN 1854599143 (1-85459-914-3)
Softcover, Nick Hern Books
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Best Short Storiesby G. MaupassantISBN 1853261890 (1-85326-189-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Bliss and Other Storiesby Katherine MansfieldISBN 1853267317 (1-85326-731-7)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Canzoniereby Francesco Petrarca, J. G. NicholsISBN 185754451X (1-85754-451-X)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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A Celtic Reader: Selections from Celtic Legend, Scholarship and Storyby John MatthewsISBN 1855382288 (1-85538-228-8)
Softcover, Thorsons Pub
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Collected Ghost Storiesby Montague Rhodes JamesISBN 1853260533 (1-85326-053-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Complete Nonsenseby Edward LearISBN 1853261440 (1-85326-144-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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The Coral Islandby ConradISBN 185326170X (1-85326-170-X)
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, Francis Bowen, Henry Reeve, Patrick RenshawISBN 1853264806 (1-85326-480-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures. His central theme is the advancement of the rule of the people, but he also predicts that slavery will bring about the 'most horrible of civil wars', foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century, and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position and importance of women. [via]
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The Diamond As Big As the Ritz" and Other Storiesby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 1853262129 (1-85326-212-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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Don Juanby MoliereISBN 1854593560 (1-85459-356-0)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Edward the Secondby Christopher MarloweISBN 1854594109 (1-85459-410-9)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Evelyn Waugh: A Biographyby Selina HastingsISBN 1856192237 (1-85619-223-7)
Hardcover, Sinclair-Stevenson
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Exilesby James Joyce, Conor McPhersonISBN 1854599526 (1-85459-952-6)
Softcover, Nick Hern Books
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Gay Signatures: Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995by James S. Williams, Alex Hughes, Owen HeathcoteISBN 1859739873 (1-85973-987-3)
Softcover, Berg Pub Ltd
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Gay Signatures : Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995by Owen Heathcote, Alex Hughes, James S. WilliamsISBN 1859739822 (1-85973-982-2)
Hardcover, Berg Publishers
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George Eliotby Kathryn HughesISBN 1857028910 (1-85702-891-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George Eliot'Book summary:From Gordon Haight's scrupulous 1968 work George Eliot through Ruby Redinger's 1976 feminist rethinking George Eliot: The Emergent Self and beyond, the unconventional life and probing fiction of Victorian England's loftiest female author has attracted the scrutiny of numerous biographers. British scholar Kathryn Hughes's pungent account distinguishes itself by limning Mary Ann Evans's turbulent emotions with as much acuity as she does the creative drive that eventually led one of London's most prominent editors and critics to reinvent herself as the novelist George Eliot. Cast out of respectable public life when she moved in with the married George Henry Lewes, Eliot found personal happiness with a man who understood her need for all-consuming love and artistic salvation. Lewes demonstrated his dedication to her by screening Eliot from outside criticism and inner doubts that could have prevented her from writing. Hughes's analysis of their relationship is as sympathetic yet candid as the rest of her narrative. She paints a vivid portrait of Victorian intellectual life and Eliot's provocative role within it as a writer who questioned conventional wisdom of all sorts, but whose heroines ultimately chose lives of modest usefulness within the existing society. As her biographer puts it in a typically well turned phrase, "Eliot's novels show people how they can deal with the pain of being a Victorian by remaining one." --Wendy Smith [via]
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A Heart So Whiteby Javier Marias, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 1860460038 (1-86046-003-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Holy Quranby Yusuf Ali AbdullahISBN 1853267821 (1-85326-782-1)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Holy Quran'Book summary:The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so it was committed to memory by his companions, though written copies were also made by literate believers during the lifetime of the Prophet. The first full compilation was by Abu Bakar, the first Caliph, and it was then recompiled in the original dialect by the third Caliph Uthman, after the best reciters had fallen in battle. Muslims believe that the truths of The Holy Qur'an are fully and authentically revealed only in the original classical Arabic. However, as the influence of Islam grows and spreads to the modern world, it is recognised that translation is an important element in introducing and explaining Islam to a wider audience. This translation, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, is considered to be the most faithful rendering available in English. [via]
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The Holy Warby John BunyanISBN 1857920287 (1-85792-028-7)
Hardcover, Appalachian Bible Co & Christian
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House of Bernarda Albaby Federico Garcia Lorca, Rona MunroISBN 1854594591 (1-85459-459-1)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Hugh Macdiarmid: Complete Poemsby Hugh MacDiarmidISBN 185754014X (1-85754-014-X)
Hardcover, Carcanet Pr
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The Hypochondriacby Moliere, Martin SorrellISBN 1854591975 (1-85459-197-5)
Softcover, Nick Hern Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hypochondriac'Book summary:First produced in 1673 and Moliere's final play, The Hypochondriac is a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the 'quack' medical profession. Argan is a perfectly healthy, wealthy gentleman, convinced that he is seriously ill. So obsessed is he with medicinal tinkerings and tonics that he is blind to the goings on in his own household. However, his most efficacious cure will not appear in a bottle or a bedpan, but in his sharp-tongued servant, who has a cunning plan to reveal the truth and open her master's eyes. Adapted by Roger McGough for the stage in 2009. [via]
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I, Claudius and Claudius the Godby Robert Graves, Richard FrancisISBN 1857542797 (1-85754-279-7)
Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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If He Hollers Let Him Goby Chester B. HimesISBN 1852427043 (1-85242-704-3)
Softcover, Mercury Books
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Arthurian Legendsby Ronan CoghlanISBN 1852306475 (1-85230-647-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Arthurian Legends'Book summary:For more than 500 years, the epic adventures of King Arthur and his knights have been one of the most potent forces in English literature. This lavishly illustrated volume examines all the different strands of the Arthurian myth, bringing together a wide variety of materials, fully complemented by paintings, engravings, maps, and family trees. [via]
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Imaginary People: A Who's Who of Fictional Characters from the 18th Century to the Present Dayby David PringleISBN 1859281621 (1-85928-162-1)
Hardcover, Ashgate Pub Co
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Incidencesby Daniil Kharms, Neil CornwellISBN 1852423064 (1-85242-306-4)
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Incidencesby Not Available, Neil Cornwell, Simon McBurneyISBN 185242480X (1-85242-480-X)
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The Interpretation of Dreamsby Sigmund FreudISBN 1853264849 (1-85326-484-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interpretation of Dreams'Book summary:Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness. While there's no question that his own biases and neuroses influenced his observations, the details are less important than the paradigm shift as a whole. After Freud, our interior lives became richer and vastly more mysterious.
These mysteries clearly bothered him--he went to great (often absurd) lengths to explain dream imagery in terms of childhood sexual trauma, a component of his theory jettisoned mid-century, though now popular among recovered-memory therapists. His dispassionate analyses of his own dreams are excellent studies for cognitive scientists wishing to learn how to sacrifice their vanities for the cause of learning. Freud said of the work contained in The Interpretation of Dreams, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." One would have to feel quite fortunate to shake the world even once. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Most Popular Authorby Maggie LaneISBN 185868224X (1-85868-224-X)
Hardcover, Carlton
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 1853260509 (1-85326-050-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. [via]
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfby Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Louise A. Desalvo, Mitchell Alexander LeaskaISBN 1853815055 (1-85381-505-5)
Hardcover, Virago Press
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Liber Amoris: Or, the New Pygmalion 1823by William HazlittISBN 1854771191 (1-85477-119-1)
Hardcover, Woodstock Books
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Little Lord FauntleroyISBN 1853261300 (1-85326-130-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romansby Plutarch, Judith Mossman, Thomas NorthISBN 1853267945 (1-85326-794-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans'Book summary:Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his Lives were the great men of antiquity, often greatly flawed, but with tragic depth and epic stature. Thomas North's translation, one of the most splendid works of sixteenth-century English prose, presents a vigorous and passionate version of the Lives whose qualities so attracted Shakespeare that he used North as his major source for Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony & Cleopatra. This collection includes all the Lives which Shakespeare used and a selection of others which aim to show the variety and range of Plutarch's writing. [via]
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London: The Biographyby Peter AckroydISBN 1856197166 (1-85619-716-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London: The Biography'Book summary:When the eminent novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd finished writing London: The Biography, he almost immediately had a heart attack, such was the effort of his 800-page work about the "human body" that is this most fascinating of cities. And not just any human body either, but "envisaged in the form of a young man with his arms outstretched in a gesture of liberation ... it embodies the energy and exaltation of a city continually beating in great waves of progress and of confidence". Probably there is no one better placed than Ackroyd--the author of mammoth lives of Dickens and Blake, and novels such as Hawksmoor and Dan Leno and the Lime House Golem which set singular characters against the backdrop of a city constantly shifting in time--to write such a rich, sinewy account of "Infinite London". Ackroyd's London is no mere chronology. Its chapters take on such varied themes as drinking, sex, childhood, poverty, crime and punishment, sewage, food, pestilence and fire, immigration, maps, theatre, war. We learn that gin was "the demon of London for half a century", and that "it has been estimated that in the 1740s and 1750s there were 17,000 'gin-houses'". Fleet Street was an area known for its "violent delights" where "a fourteen-year-old boy, only eighteen inches high, was to be seen in 1702 at a grocer's shop called the Eagle and Child by Shoe Lane". By the mid 19th-century "London had become known as the greatest city on earth". By 1939 "one in five of the British population had become a Londoner".
Though the variousness of London's chapters mean that it can be dipped into at random, Ackroyd is employing a skilful and continuous theme throughout, which constantly links past and present--the similarities of children's games in Lambeth in 1910 and 1999; the obsession with time--"in twenty-first century London time rushes forward and is everywhere apparent", while in 18th-century London the church clock of Newgate "regulated the times of hanging". Above all, he insists that the "dark secret life" of the metropolis is as relevant today as it was in perhaps its most appropriate period, Victorian London. Again and again Ackroyd returns to the image of London as a living organism, hence his use of the word "biography" in the title. At once awed by and intimate with this "ubiquitous" city, he stresses that "it can be located nowhere in particular ... its circumference is everywhere". --Catherine Taylor [via]
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Lost World & Other Storiesby A.C. DoyleISBN 1853262455 (1-85326-245-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Lustby Michael Hulse, Elfriede JelinekISBN 1852421835 (1-85242-183-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lust'Book summary:In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into which Hermann pours his juices, nastily, briefly, brutally. The long-suffering and battered Gerti thinks she has found her saviour and love in Michael, a student who rescues her after a day of vigorous use by her husband. But Michael is on his way up the Austrian political ladder, and he is, after all, a man. [via]
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The Malcontentby John MarstonISBN 1854596969 (1-85459-696-9)
Softcover, Hern Books, Limited, Nick
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The Man of Propertyby John GalsworthyISBN 185326217X (1-85326-217-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man of Property'Book summary:In "The Man of Property" Galsworthy ruthlessly strips away the gilded exterior of the Forsytes' lives, to expose the festering, rotten core of the unhappy and brutal relationships he examines within the book. [via]
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Man Without a Country and Other Storiesby Edward E. HaleISBN 1853265586 (1-85326-558-6)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Maudieby AnonymousISBN 1853266396 (1-85326-639-6)
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Medea: A New Versionby Brendan Kennelly, EuripidesISBN 1852241896 (1-85224-189-6)
Softcover, Bloodaxe Books
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Medeaby Euripides, Kenneth McLeish, Frederic RaphaelISBN 1854591649 (1-85459-164-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea'Book summary:A play of psychologically and physically murderous vengeance, Medea is one of the most powerful and perennially produced of all ancient drama. [via]
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Modern English Usageby FowlerISBN 1853263184 (1-85326-318-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern English Usage'Book summary:A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of Modern English Usage:
Mr. Standfastby John BuchanISBN 1853262250 (1-85326-225-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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The Napoleon of Notting Hillby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1853262803 (1-85326-280-3)
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New Grub Streetby George GissingISBN 1853262927 (1-85326-292-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Grub Street'Book summary:The commercial hacks of "Grub Street" are now in the ascendent. Sensitive novelist, Edwin Reardon, thought his reputation was safe, but poverty undermines his temperament and he finds it hard to produce marketable work. The future belongs to self-seeking writers such as Jasper Milvain. [via]
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Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natalby Aime Cesaire, Mireille Rosello, Annie PritchardISBN 1852241845 (1-85224-184-5)
Hardcover, Bloodaxe Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natal'Book summary:French-English bilingual edition. Andre Breton called Cesaire's Cahier 'nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time'. It is a seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black literatures - published in full in English for the first time in Bloodaxe's bilingual Contemporary French Poets series. Aime Cesaire (1913-2008) was born in in Basse-Pointe, a village on the north coast of Martinique, a former French colony in the Caribbean (now an overseas departement of France). His book Discourse on Colonialism (1950) is a classic of French political literature. Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1956) is the foundation stone of francophone Black literature: it is here that the word Negritude appeared for the first time. Negritude has come to mean the cultural, philosophical and political movement co-founded in Paris in the 1930s by three Black students from French colonies: the poets Leon-Gontran Damas from French Guiana; Leopold Senghor, later President of Senegal; and Aime Cesaire, who became a deputy in the French National Assembly for the Revolutionary Party of Martinique and was repeatedly elected Mayor of Fort-de-France. As a poet, Cesaire believed in the revolutionary power of language, and in the Notebook he combined high literary French with Martinican colloquialisms, and archaic turns of phrase with dazzling new coinages. The result is a challenging and deeply moving poem on the theme of the future of the negro race which presents and enacts the poignant search for a Martinican identity. The Notebook opposes the ideology of colonialism by inventing a language that refuses assimilation to a dominant cultural norm, a language that teaches resistance and liberation. [via]
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Opium and the Romantic Imagination: Addiction and Creativity in De Quincey, Coleridge, Baudelaire and Othersby Alethea HayterISBN 1852740140 (1-85274-014-0)
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The Origin of German Tragic Dramaby Walter Benjamin, John OsbourneISBN 1859844138 (1-85984-413-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Piano Teacherby Joachim Neugroschel, Elfriede JelinekISBN 1852427507 (1-85242-750-7)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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Poems and Fragmentsby SapphoISBN 1852242019 (1-85224-201-9)
Softcover, Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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Pretty Woman in Parisby R. De BeaumontISBN 1853266280 (1-85326-628-0)
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Rainer Maria Rilkeby Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen CohnISBN 1857543238 (1-85754-323-8)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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A Reader's Guide to Writers' Britainby Sally VarlowISBN 1853753734 (1-85375-373-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farmby Kate Douglas WigginISBN 1853261343 (1-85326-134-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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The Riders of the Purple Sageby Zane GreyISBN 1853265764 (1-85326-576-4)
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The Rivalsby Richard Brinsley Butler SheridanISBN 1854590995 (1-85459-099-5)
Softcover, Nick Hern Books
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Robin Hoodby Henry GilbertISBN 1853261270 (1-85326-127-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Room at the Topby John BraineISBN 1856953572 (1-85695-357-2)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The Second Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1853261432 (1-85326-143-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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Selected Poemsby Anna Andreevena Akhmatova, Richard McKaneISBN 1852240636 (1-85224-063-6)
Hardcover, Bloodaxe Books
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Selected Poemsby Marina I. Tsvetaeva, David McDuffISBN 1852240253 (1-85224-025-3)
Hardcover, Bloodaxe Books
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Selected Poemsby Robert Browning, Malcolm HicksISBN 1857547004 (1-85754-700-4)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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Selected Poetryby Hugh MacDiarmidISBN 185754756X (1-85754-756-X)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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Selected Poetry And Prose Of Shelleyby Percy Bysshe ShelleyISBN 1853264083 (1-85326-408-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Sex Lives of the Great Artistsby Nigel CawthorneISBN 185375529X (1-85375-529-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Shadow Danceby Angela CarterISBN 1856952290 (1-85695-229-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Derek Matravers, H. J. TozerISBN 1853267813 (1-85326-781-3)
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Sophoclesby Richard C. Jebb, Felix BudelmannISBN 1853996416 (1-85399-641-6)
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The Terminal Beachby J.G. BallardISBN 1857990218 (1-85799-021-8)
Hardcover, Phoenix
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Uncle Vanyaby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 1854594303 (1-85459-430-3)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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The Vaudevillesby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, David MagarshackISBN 1853992593 (1-85399-259-3)
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The Way of the Worldby William Congreve, Trevor GriffithsISBN 1854591983 (1-85459-198-3)
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What Katy Didby Susan CoolidgeISBN 1853261319 (1-85326-131-9)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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What Katy Did at Schoolby Susan CoolidgeISBN 1853261424 (1-85326-142-4)
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What Katy Did Next: Easyread Large Editionby Susan CoolidgeISBN 1853261505 (1-85326-150-5)
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The White Companyby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1853262897 (1-85326-289-7)
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Classical & Literary Allusionby A. H. LassISBN 185326332X (1-85326-332-X)
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The Works of Alfred Lord Tennysonby Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 1853264148 (1-85326-414-8)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Works of Algernon Charles Swinburneby A. C. SwinburneISBN 1853264431 (1-85326-443-1)
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The Works of Edgar Allen Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 1853264326 (1-85326-432-6)
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The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browningby Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN 1853264245 (1-85326-424-5)
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The Works of Gerard Manley Hopkinsby Gerard Manley HopkinsISBN 185326413X (1-85326-413-X)
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The Works of Robert Burnsby Robert BurnsISBN 1853264156 (1-85326-415-6)
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The World of Charles Dickens: The Life, Times and Work of the Great Victorian Novelistby Martin FidoISBN 1858683424 (1-85868-342-4)
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Virgil Aenid 7-12by Virgil, Robert D. WilliamsISBN 1853995002 (1-85399-500-2)
Softcover, Bristol Classical Pr
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Uncle Vanya : In a New Translation and Adaptation by Curt Columbusby Anton Chekhov, Pam GemsISBN 1854591762 (1-85459-176-2)
Softcover, Hern Books, Limited, Nick
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