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Altered Statesby Anita BrooknerISBN 0679773258 (0-679-77325-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Americans in Londonby Brian N. MortonISBN 0688065554 (0-688-06555-4)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles DickensISBN 0749307641 (0-7493-0764-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Black Rubber Dress: A Sam Jones Novelby Lauren HendersonISBN 0609804383 (0-609-80438-3)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Blind Justiceby Bruce AlexanderISBN 0708936067 (0-7089-3606-7)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Bram Stoker's Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0671009877 (0-671-00987-7)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Bram Stoker's Draculaby Jan Needle, Gary BlytheISBN 0763625086 (0-7636-2508-6)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'Book summary:Not for the faint of heart! Award-winning artist Gary Blythe brilliantly captures the eerie mood of Bram Stoker's uneasy tale, expertly edited for today's reader.
Can there be a more terrifying tale than this? The story of the notorious vampire Count Dracula, lord of the undead, who rises from his coffin at night to suck the blood of the living is, undoubtedly, the stuff of nightmares. A lunatic asylum, a bleak Transylvanian castle, an ancient cemetary . . . these are the dark backgrounds to the even darker deeds portrayed in this most bloodcurdling of tales.
Narrated from several viewpoints, DRACULA is a complex story that many know, but few have actually read. Jan Needle's newly edited version makes the gripping events accessible to the twenty-first reader without losing the incomparably chilling atmosphere of Bram Stoker's original novel. [via]More editions of Bram Stoker's Dracula:
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Classics of Horror: Dracula/Frankenstein/2 Books in 1by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0681411635 (0-681-41163-5)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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The Convictsby Iain LawrenceISBN 0786279117 (0-7862-7911-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Diary Of Samuel Pepys: Selected Passagesby Samuel Pepys, Richard Le Gallienne, Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0679642218 (0-679-64221-8)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary Of Samuel Pepys: Selected Passages'Book summary:The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ...is one of our greatest historical records and... a major work of English literature, writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day. Originally written in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's diary provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues and naval, church, and cultural affairs, as well as a quotidian journal of daily life in London during the Restoration.
In 1825, when Pepys's memoirs were first published, Francis Jeffrey of The Edinburgh Review declared, "We can scarcely say that we wish it a page shorter... it is very entertaining thus to be transported into the very heart of a time so long gone by; and to be admitted into the domestic intimacy, as well as the public councils of a man of great activity and circulation in the reign of Charles II." Edited and abridged by literary critic and author Richard Le Gallienne, this edition features an Introduction by Robert Louis Stevenson. [via]More editions of Diary Of Samuel Pepys: Selected Passages:
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Great Britainby Dorling KindersleyISBN 0756615429 (0-7566-1542-9)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Great Britain'Book summary:You'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you'll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts, and even popular bus routes. Broken into several sections--"Introducing Great Britain," "Region by Region" (including London and environs, Scotland, and Wales), "Traveler's Needs," and "Survival Guide"--the guide paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will especially appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from London's double-decker buses to the ancient formations at Stonehenge. You'll also find street-by-street illustrated city walks (Covent Garden, Westminster), as well as scenic hikes in the Scottish highlands and the Lake District, with plenty of listings for inns and fish-and-chip taverns along the way. --Jill Fergus [via]
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Great Britain: Great Britainby Dk Travel WritersISBN 0789493853 (0-7894-9385-3)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Great Britain: Great Britain'Book summary:You'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you'll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts, and even popular bus routes. Broken into several sections--"Introducing Great Britain," "Region by Region" (including London and environs, Scotland, and Wales), "Traveler's Needs," and "Survival Guide"--the guide paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will especially appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from London's double-decker buses to the ancient formations at Stonehenge. You'll also find street-by-street illustrated city walks (Covent Garden, Westminster), as well as scenic hikes in the Scottish highlands and the Lake District, with plenty of listings for inns and fish-and-chip taverns along the way. --Jill Fergus [via]
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Doctor Sleepby Madison Smartt BellISBN 0802140165 (0-8021-4016-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0743477367 (0-7434-7736-7)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:The punctured throat, the coffin lid slowly opening, the unholy shriek as the stake pierces the heart--these are just a few of the chilling images Bram Stoker unleashed upon the world with his 1897 masterpiece, Dracula. Inspired by the folk legend of nosferatu, the undead, Stoker created a timeless tale of gothic horror and romance that has enthralled and terrified readers ever since.
This illustrated edition does full justice to the clark splendor of Stoker's novel of the count who feeds off the blood of the living. Stark and powerful relief engravings from renowned illustrator Barry Moser bring to life the story's most unforgettable moments and characters: the ship of death that brings Dracula to English shores as it pitches upon the sea; the final terrible siege at his Transylvanian lair; and the faces of clever, loving Mina Harker, mad, ravenous Renfield, wise Professor Van Helsing, and of course, Count Dracula himself.
Told in letters, diary entries, and news clippings, Dracula maintains an uncanny power over the reader, not only in the chilling charisma of its oftimitated character, but in the pace and fury of its storytelling. Stoker's novel has inspired countless movies and stories. But the original Dracula, like its hero, has the power to live forever. [via]
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- Dracula: ISBN 0794500897 (0-7945-0089-7)
Softcover, Edc Pub - Dracula: ISBN 0688139213 (0-688-13921-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Dracula: ISBN 0804900728 (0-8049-0072-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Dracula: ISBN 0679602291 (0-679-60229-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Dracula: ISBN 0721408125 (0-7214-0812-5)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd - Dracula: ISBN 0786276010 (0-7862-7601-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Dracula: ISBN 0789414899 (0-7894-1489-9)
Hardcover, Dk Pub - Dracula: ISBN 0743477367 (0-7434-7736-7)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
- Dracula: ISBN 0794500897 (0-7945-0089-7)
English Musicby Peter AckroydISBN 0679409688 (0-679-40968-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Ex Librisby Ross KingISBN 0802733573 (0-8027-3357-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Eyewitness Travel Guide Great BritainISBN 0789401878 (0-7894-0187-8)
Softcover, Dk Pub
Find This BookBook summary:You'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you'll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts, and even popular bus routes. Broken into several sections--"Introducing Great Britain," "Region by Region" (including London and environs, Scotland, and Wales), "Traveler's Needs," and "Survival Guide"--the guide paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will especially appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from London's double-decker buses to the ancient formations at Stonehenge. You'll also find street-by-street illustrated city walks (Covent Garden, Westminster), as well as scenic hikes in the Scottish highlands and the Lake District, with plenty of listings for inns and fish-and-chip taverns along the way. --Jill Fergus [via]
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The Forsyte Sagaby John Galsworthy, Jojn GalsworthyISBN 0743245024 (0-7432-4502-4)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forsyte Saga'Book summary:The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. This is the only critical edition of the work available, with Notes that explain contemporary artistic and literary allusions and define the slang of the time. [via]
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- The Forsyte Saga: ISBN 0735101221 (0-7351-0122-1)
Hardcover, Replica Books - The Forsyte Saga: ISBN 068417653X (0-684-17653-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Forsyte Saga: ISBN 0684818892 (0-684-81889-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Forsyte Saga: ISBN 0783815050 (0-7838-1505-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - The Forsyte Saga: ISBN 0743245024 (0-7432-4502-4)
Softcover, Scribner
- The Forsyte Saga: ISBN 0735101221 (0-7351-0122-1)
Freeze My Margaritaby Lauren HendersonISBN 0609804871 (0-609-80487-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Frommer's Memorable Walks in Londonby Richard JonesISBN 0764563319 (0-7645-6331-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Great Fire of Londonby Stephen PorterISBN 0750918136 (0-7509-1813-6)
Softcover, Sutton Publishing
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The Green Knightby Iris MurdochISBN 0670852295 (0-670-85229-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Knight'Book summary:When distinguished scholar Lucas Graffe kills a mugger in self defence and then disappears immediately after the trial, it sends shock waves through his small circle of friends and family. When he finally returns, he is visited by a disconcerting and mysterious man. [via]
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How the Dead Liveby Will SelfISBN 0802138489 (0-8021-3848-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Dead Live'Book summary:In April 1988, 65-year-old Lily Bloom quickly succumbs to cancer in the Royal Ear Hospital. ("Where do they keep the Royal Ear, I wonder? I think of it as very large--as big as a dinner tray--and very red, angrily red.") But after life there's death. Guided by an aborigine named Phar Lap Jones, she is transported by a Greek Cypriot minicab driver to the North London dead neighborhood of Dulston. There, accompanied by her dead son, Rude Boy, she's introduced to the 12-step Personally Dead meetings, and she watches over her living daughters--the cold, ambitious Charlotte, and her favorite, the heroin-addicted Natasha. "Natasha is peculiarly charged by the drug--and even by the mere anticipation of its effects. She shifts from being vulnerable and skittish and withdrawn to being strong and steady and extrovert. She's told me before that it makes her feel 'complete' and 'confident,' and I can see what she means. When she's off heroin she's a fucking nightmare--when she's on it she's a peach."
Since Will Self's face, voice, and, notoriously, life story are familiar to many who will never pick up his fiction, there's always the risk of reading How the Dead Live as autobiography. In which case, he's clearly based Lily on his New York-born Jewish mother, and he's wittily retooled large chunks of his own much-publicized addictions, transmuting himself into the beautiful and glamorously doomed Natasha. But Lily is feisty and articulate, with a complex history spanning two continents, two husbands, and a constantly re-created personality--a great literary creation. Self's sympathetic account of Lily's decline into her morphine-laden deathbed is deeply affecting, and his long-term obsession with London provides us with the utterly convincing Dulston. His treatment of modern Jewish life in North London (rather than New York) will find its fans and critics, but the novel grows beyond such local concerns. Ultimately, it is about the vexed relationship between the worries of contemporary Western life and a more transcendent spirituality--signaled by Self's opening gesture to The Tibetan Book of the Dead and by the all-seeing Phar Lap Jones. How the Dead Live is a big book with big ideas, and quite definitely Will Self's most ambitious and mature work to date. --Alan Stewart [via]
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I, Corianderby Sally GardnerISBN 0803730993 (0-8037-3099-3)
Hardcover, Dial Books for Young Readers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Coriander'Book summary:Coriander Hobie, born in 1643, has a remarkable tale to tellthe tale of a childhood touched by unexplained bits of wonder, but too soon marked by tragedy. After her beloved mother dies and her father is forced to flee London, Coriander is left at the mercy of a stepmother full of cruelty. In the very nick of time, Coriander finds that she has somehow managed to transport herself to a land of fairies, and there she discovers what she has always suspected: that her mother was from a more magical world than grimy old London. And that she herself has inherited some of her mothers mysterious abilitiesabilities that she now has a desperate need to master.
Be prepared to be swept away by atmospheric writing that casts a lasting spell. Sally Gardners prose is exquisitely beautiful and her story and characters enthralling. She has written a rare and glorious book. [via]
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The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diaryby Robert Latham, D.H. TarlingISBN 0713517506 (0-7135-1750-6)
Hardcover, Bell & Hyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary'Book summary:Pepys's diary has long been recognized as one of the most remarkable in the English language, but it has been impossible until recent times to print it as he wrote it. Little academic work had been done on it and legal restrictions prevented the publication of its frankest passages in which Pepys describes his vigorous love life. In the pages reproduced here, the public events of the 1660s - the politics of the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Plague, the Great Fire of London - are interwoven with a diverting account of Pepys colourful private life. [via]
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The Invisible Man/the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0671471139 (0-671-47113-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscriptby James Boswell, Marshall WaingrowISBN 0748604715 (0-7486-0471-5)
Hardcover, Edinburgh University Press
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King Solomon's Carpetby Barbara VineISBN 0792710592 (0-7927-1059-2)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Knopf Guide LondonISBN 0679749179 (0-679-74917-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Lempriere's Dictionaryby Lawrence NorfolkISBN 0802139876 (0-8021-3987-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Life of Samuel Johnsonby James BoswellISBN 0679417176 (0-679-41717-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'Book summary:James Boswell is for some the ideal scribe, for others a sycophantic toady. Edmund Wilson, for example, memorably labeled him "a vain and pushing diarist." Boswell can even be seen as someone unconsciously intent on undermining his idol in sonorous, balanced sentences. Early on in his massive Life, he puts all manner of ideas into our heads with his boobish attempts to clear the youthful Johnson of potential impropriety: "His juvenile attachments to the fair sex were, however, very transient; and it is certain that he formed no criminal connection whatsoever." And while it's often tempting to ignore Boswell's more personal intrusions and delight solely in the melancholic master's words and deeds, there are suchdelightful admissions as, "I was at this time so occupied, shall I call it? or so dissipated, by the amusements of London that our next meeting was not till Saturday, June 25..."
Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. On April 20, 1764, for example, he declared, "I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits." Many of the quotes Boswell includes are a sort of greatest hits: Johnson's definitions of oats and lexicographer, his love for his cat Hodge, as well as thousands of bon, and mal, mots. ("Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"; "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.") But there are also many unfamiliar pleasures--Boswell's accounts of Johnson's literary industry, including the Dictionary, The Rambler, and Lives of the Poets; Johnson's singular loathing for Scotland and France; and the surprising hints of revelry. Awakened at 3 AM by friends, he greets them with, "What, is it you, you dogs! I'll have a frisk with you." This at age 42. Johnson's final years were marked by pain and loneliness but certainly no loss of wit. [via]
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Little Dorrit: Library Editionby Charles DickensISBN 0613708547 (0-613-70854-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Dorrit: Library Edition'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning example of how thoroughly Dickens could put his flair for the theatrical and his comic genius the service of his passion for justice. [via]
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Londonby Automobile Association Great BritainISBN 0749500344 (0-7495-0034-4)
Hardcover, Automobile Association
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Londonby Dorling Kindersley Publishing StaffISBN 0789452499 (0-7894-5249-9)
Softcover, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
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Londonby Marianne MehlingISBN 0714825042 (0-7148-2504-2)
Hardcover, Seven Hills Books
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The London Embassyby Paul TherouxISBN 0671498053 (0-671-49805-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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London Was Yesterday, 1934-1939by Janet FlannerISBN 0670437530 (0-670-43753-0)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Londonwalksby Anton PowellISBN 0805013008 (0-8050-1300-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soulby Douglas AdamsISBN 0671742515 (0-671-74251-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Long Spoon Laneby Anne PerryISBN 0786272716 (0-7862-7271-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Magehoundby Elaine CunninghamISBN 0786915617 (0-7869-1561-7)
Softcover, Wizards of the Coast
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Some without.
Matteo, un-magical counselor to the mighty of Halruaa, has devoted his life to the truth -- until he finds that he may have a hidden spark of magic after all. Now, with only a street waif for a companion, he's on the run from the mysterious Cabal. In the dismal Swamp of Akhlaur, Matteo will seek his own truth while battling a creature out of his nightmares.
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Magician's Wardby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0765342480 (0-7653-4248-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Man in the Queueby Josephine Tey, Robert BarnardISBN 0684815028 (0-684-81502-8)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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The Man of Propertyby John GalsworthyISBN 0786286016 (0-7862-8601-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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A Mind to Murderby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219589 (0-7432-1958-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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With "discernment, depth, and craftsmanship," wrote the Chicago Daily News, A Mind to Murder "is a superbly satisfying mystery." [via]
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A More Beautiful City: Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London After the Great Fireby Michael CooperISBN 0750929596 (0-7509-2959-6)
Hardcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Mrs P's Journey: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Created the A-Z Mapby Sarah HartleyISBN 0743208013 (0-7432-0801-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Murder in the Calais Coachby Agatha ChristieISBN 0671774484 (0-671-77448-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha ChristieISBN 080851895X (0-8085-1895-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder on the Orient Express'Book summary:Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again. [via]
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My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Timeby Liz JensenISBN 0747584184 (0-7475-8418-4)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Naked Civil Servantby Quentin CrispISBN 0715611879 (0-7156-1187-9)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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National Geographic Traveler Londonby Louise NicholsonISBN 0679029583 (0-679-02958-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Nicholas Nickelbyby Charles DickensISBN 0679423079 (0-679-42307-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Offshoreby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0805005617 (0-8050-0561-7)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoeby Agatha ChristieISBN 0785748857 (0-7857-4885-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Original Sinby P. D. JamesISBN 0679438890 (0-679-43889-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Philosophical Investigationby Philip KerrISBN 0770425925 (0-7704-2592-5)
Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark TwainISBN 0804900329 (0-8049-0032-9)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper'Book summary:"The Prince and the Pauper" is the story of how when young Prince Edward Tudor of Wales and Pauper Tom Canty switch clothes that they are mistaken for each other and end up switching places. Prince Edward learns of the struggles of the commoners of England while Tom discovers what it is like to be a Prince and then a King. "The Prince and the Pauper" is both a delightfully comedic tale and a biting social commentary on the inequities among different social classes. [via]
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day Peopleby Charles DickensISBN 0749308699 (0-7493-0869-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Study of Public Policyby Richard I. HofferbertISBN 0672514559 (0-672-51455-9)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill
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Successby Martin AmisISBN 0679734481 (0-679-73448-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Sweet Smell of Psychosisby Will Self, Martin RowsonISBN 0802136478 (0-8021-3647-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sweet Smell of Psychosis'Book summary:The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (very loosely based on Alexander Mackendrick's searing '50s movie Sweet Smell of Success) is the kind of mordant fable that Will Self could toss off in his sleep. But although it doesn't stretch Self's considerable talents, it is still a wonderfully poisonous entertainment.
Richard Hermes is a tiny cog in the London media machine, a hack whose only distinction is a tenuous position at the edge of the most powerful clique in town. At its heart is the loathsome Bell, a sort of malevolent anti-Oprah whose media omnipresence has given him enormous power.
...one of Bell's most sycophantic acolytes had established--through certain arcane statistical computations--that there must, logically, be at least two hundred thousand people in Britain who did nothing else but listen to Bell's voice, watch Bell's face, or read his words, for every waking hour of their lives.
Richard is drawn deeper into Bell's web in pursuit of the gorgeous Ursula Bentley, but he can't keep up with the clique's colossal appetite for controlled substances. He soon begins to slide into drug-addled madness, and Self once again demonstrates his uncanny ability to render altered states in perfectly crafted prose. In fact, much of the pleasure that The Sweet Smell of Psychosis has to offer comes not from the story of Richard's inevitable fall, but from Self's deft and playful way with words. Few writers in English are able to use such beautiful language to describe the most revolting things. Whether he's writing about an excruciating hangover or Bell's naked body ("each pap sporting a twistle of black, black hair",) Self's decadent language begs to be savored, even read out loud. Martin Rowson, the Hogarth to Self's Swift, provides some remarkable illustrations to accompany the text. Rowson's work (most recently showcased in his comic-book version of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman) is grim and shadowy, but filled with detail and twisted humor. Together, he and Self have created an elegant billet-aigre to London's dark underbelly, a cautionary tale that takes pleasure in its own unpleasantness. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of The Sweet Smell of Psychosis:
The Swimming-Pool Libraryby Alan HollinghurstISBN 0679722564 (0-679-72256-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Times London History Atlasby Hugh D. CloutISBN 0723009058 (0-7230-0905-8)
Hardcover, Times Books
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Traitors Gateby Anne PerryISBN 0786204516 (0-7862-0451-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century Londonby Paul S. SeaverISBN 0804714320 (0-8047-1432-0)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London'Book summary:Seventeenth-century England has been richly documented by th lives of kings and their great ministers, the nobility and gentry, and bishops and preachers, but we have very little firsthand information on ordinary citizens.[via]
This unique portrait of the life, thought, and attitudes of a London Puritan turner (lathe worker) is based on the extraordinary personal papers of Nehemiah Wallington2,600 surviving pages of memoirs, religious reflections, political reportage, and letters. Coming to maturity during the reign of James I, Wallington witnessed the persecution of Puritans during Archbishop Lauds ascendancy under Charles I, welcomed what he thought would be the godly revolution brought by the Long Parliament, and watched with increasing disillusionment the falure of that dream under the Rump republic and the Cromwellian Protectorate.
The author reconstructs Wallingtons inner world, allowing us to see what an ordinary man made of a lifetime of reading Puritan doctrine and listening to the sermons of Puritan preachers. For the first time we can penetrate the mind of one of those who made up the London mob calling for the end of episcopacy and the death of the Earl of Strafford in 1641, who welcomed the revolution, if not the war that followed, and who finally came to approve the death of his king.More editions of Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London:
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Tom KiddISBN 0688131379 (0-688-13137-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:H.G. Wells' novel, a "scientific romance," attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by the redoubtable Orson Welles. It was also notably made into an early fifties science fiction adventure movie (and there have been other adaptations as well). So indelible is the association that the novel, like the panic inducing broadcast and the Hollywood flick, now is taken as little more than a light fantasy of outerspace terror and human heroism. This is far from the author's original vision. Like the other scientific romances treated in the Annotated H.G. Wells series, The War of the Worlds is a philosophical tale and as such, is profoundly ideological. The world of the Martians represents the progressive future of humanity in a cultural war with our world of tradition and reaction-these are the two worlds in question. The Mars from which the invaders come is united by a planet-wide system of irrigation canals; for Wells this indicates a socialist world-state, as claimed by the American astronomer Percival Lowell. The red planet is red in more than one sense, pointing the direction of terrestrial progress. The Martians in the novel are octopoidal monsters, bodily anticipating the tentacular, all-controlling totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. To those familiar with Wells' works only through film, this acclaimed series annotated by the world's premier Wellsian scholar, Leon Stover, will be a real eye-opener. The historical, philosophical, and literary contexts of Wells' scientific romances are thoroughly examined. All editions are in library binding, with an introduction, appendices, bibliography and index. [via]
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The War of the Worlds/the Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0706430182 (0-7064-3018-2)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Way We Live Nowby Anthony TrollopeISBN 067960183X (0-679-60183-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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What Was She Thinking? : Notes on a Scandal: A Novelby Zoe HellerISBN 0805073337 (0-8050-7333-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Sheba is not alone in abusing power, though, and Heller forces us to confront this unpleasant truth about the moralising, managerial headmaster, the husband freed by Sheba's action to seduce his own very slightly older students, and the relatives who never liked her much and can now disown her. Above all, she devotes most of the novel to Barbara, the older colleague who becomes Sheba's confidante and slowly manipulates the situation to make Sheba entirely dependent on her. This is a brilliantly gloomy study in obsession--and the obsession in question is not actually Sheba's with her underage lover. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life IIby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 067003102X (0-670-03102-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II'Book summary:After the brooding, dark menace of his Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee's Youth is a slighter, more restrained work. Written in succinct, almost cold prose, it's a painfully maudlin bildsrungsroman that explores the dreary follies of youth rather than its more celebrated joys. The unprepossessing protagonist John is a South African mathematics graduate with literary aspirations, a dreamer who constantly yearns to meet a girl who will serve as his lover and muse. Having abandoned Cape Town after Sharpeville he finds Swinging '60s London grey, damp, and uninviting. Reluctantly he finds employment as a computer programmer. In between trundling from his grimy Archway bedsit to his soulless job, this autodidactic Pooter dabbles on a study of Ford Maddox Ford, composes an Ezra Pound-inspired poem (ostentatiously entitled "The Portuguese Rock-Lobster Fisherman"), and embarks on "one humiliating affair after another." Despite his artistic and romantic endeavors, John seems only able to cultivate "dull, honest, misery" and, broken by London, flees to a new programming job in Berkshire. Here he practically renounces literature and, for a while at least, concentrates on chess problems and feeding primitive computers magnetic tape. His creative and sexual drives appear to have gone, leaving him to consider the possibility that he might actually have grown up.
Like the halting, self-interrogating consciousness of John's computers, Coetzee renders his character's inner life through a series of rhetorical questions. These lend the book a curiously existentialist air but also contribute to its slightly dilatory gait. (It feels far longer than its 170-odd pages.) Coetzee's tone is so laconic it's hard, on occasions, to be entirely certain if John's poetic ambitions should be pitied or simply laughed at. However, this novel does offer an unflinchingly acute dissection of the adolescent male psyche. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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