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The Barnum Museumby Steven MillhauserISBN 0452267021 (0-452-26702-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0486264726 (0-486-26472-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, that was stolen, wound up in the Yukon Territory, and became leader of a wolf pack. [via]
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 0451529588 (0-451-52958-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:Hank Morgan finds himself transported back to England's Dark Ages - where he is immediately captured and sentenced to death at Camelot. Fortunately, he's quick-witted, and in the process of saving his life he turns himself into a celebrity - winning himself the position of prime minister as well as the lasting enmity of Merlin. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyoder Dostoyevsky, Sidney MonasISBN 0451530063 (0-451-53006-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime And Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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Cycle of the Werewolfby Stephen KingISBN 0451822196 (0-451-82219-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cycle of the Werewolf'Book summary:When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated. [via]
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Death in Veniceby Thomas MannISBN 0486287149 (0-486-28714-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice'Book summary:Celebrated novella of a middle-aged German writer's tormented passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, and its tragic consequences. Powerful evocation of the mysterious forces of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, and the isolation of the artist in 20th-century life. New translation and extensive commentary.[via]More editions of Death in Venice:
Dorothy and the Wizard in Ozby L. Frank Baum, John R. NeillISBN 0486247147 (0-486-24714-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0486266907 (0-486-26690-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Tragic story of wasted lives, set against a bleak New England background. A poverty-stricken New England farmer, his ailing wife and a youthful housekeeper are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle in this hauntingly grim tale of thwarted love. Considered by many to be Wharton's masterpiece.[via]More editions of Ethan Frome:
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 0451528565 (0-451-52856-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'Book summary:Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing fiction. The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with an energy and charm not customarily associated with Hardy. ("When Farmer Oak smiled, " the novel begins, "the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears. . . .")
----The text is based on the authoritative Wessex Edition of 1912, revised and corrected by Hardy himself.
----This edition is the companion volume to the Mobil Masterpiece Theatre WGBH television presentation broadcast on PBS. It stars Paloma Baeza as Bathsheba Everdene, Nathaniel Parker as Gabriel Oak, Nigel Terry as Mr. Boldwood, and Jonathan Firth as Frank Troy. Adapted by Philomena
McDonagh, Far from the Madding Crowd is directed by Nick Renton.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesignedthe series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via]More editions of Far from the Madding Crowd:
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Fountainheadby Ayn RandISBN 0452273331 (0-452-27333-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fountainhead'Book summary:An early Ayn Rand novel about perseverance and determination . [via]
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From the Earth to the Moonby Jules VerneISBN 0460050885 (0-460-05088-5)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0486272788 (0-486-27278-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.[via] -
Heidiby Johanna Spyri, Helen B. DoleISBN 0486412350 (0-486-41235-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome--and this is a very appealing edition. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundlingby Henry FieldingISBN 0460878336 (0-460-87833-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling'Book summary:Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 0486264785 (0-486-26478-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde's most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of The Importance of Being Earnest:
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The Invisible Manby H. G. Wells, Macdonald DalyISBN 0460876287 (0-460-87628-7)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:One of the most famous scientific fantasies ever written, this highly imaginative tale focuses on the powers and bold ventures of a scientist, who, after discovering the means to make himself invisible, unleashes a bizarre streak of terror on the inhabitants of an English village. Filled with suspense and psychological nuances of plot.[via]More editions of The Invisible Man:
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The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Editionby H. G. Wells, Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0460872583 (0-460-87258-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0451529898 (0-451-52989-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of Dr Moreau'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0451529820 (0-451-52982-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Of The Mohicans'Book summary:A massacre at a colonial garrison, the kidnapping of 2 pioneer sisters by Iroquois tribesmen, the treachery of a renegade brave, and the ambush of innocent settlers create an unforgettable picture of American frontier life in this imaginative, innovative, and classic 18th-century adventure the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales."[via] -
Le Divorceby Diane JohnsonISBN 0452277337 (0-452-27733-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Divorce'Book summary:Diane Johnson updates the transatlantic novel so gorgeously rendered by Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; evokes the spirit of such expatriates sojourning in Paris as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald; and mines the pathos of modern fiction in creating this wonderful and important novel. Isabel Walker, eerily reminiscent of James's Isabel Archer, is a young film-school dropout who travels to Paris to aid her stepsister, who is going through a divorce. Isabel's California cool, American freedoms, and feminist slants comingle, successfully and fractiously, with the customs, biases, and complex sexuality of modern Europe. The result modulates between introspection and hilarity, and a quick, Hollywood-inspired sweep of violent action in the end doesn't undermine the author's mastery of Old World vs. New--in fact, it provides an ironic scrim. [via]
Little Lord Fauntleroyby Frances H. BurnettISBN 0486423689 (0-486-42368-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runnerby Alan SillitoeISBN 0452269083 (0-452-26908-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner'Book summary:Sillitoe's portrayal of the mind of an incorrigible rebel, and other stories. [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 048627067X (0-486-27067-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:This book is part of the "Everyman Shakespeare" series, providing facing-page text and notes, a chronology of Shakespeare's life and times and a selection of critical and theatrical responses to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" over the centuries. The "Everyman" texts preserve the way Shakespeare's lines were meant to be spoken as well as their meaning. Derived from the earliest authoritative printings, they retain original spellings and punctuations which preserve puns and and wordplay often lost. Sir John Gielgud, Zoe Caldwell, Ian Richardson, Jeremy Irons and other established actors, actresses and theatre directors have written forewards describing the plays in actual performance. John Andrews's introductions provide up-to-the-minute interpretation of the structure, atmosphere and content of each play and comment on sources and influences. [via]
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Much Ado About Nothingby William ShakespeareISBN 0486282724 (0-486-28272-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:Like Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado about Nothing shows Shakespeare moving into a more complex and darker terrain through his exploration of an apparently harmless comical romance. The play revolves around the adventures of the two gallants Claudio and Benedick at the court of Sicily. Claudio falls in love with the governor's daughter Hero, and is eager for his more misanthropic friend Benedick to also find love. Benedick is introduced to the fiery, independent Beatrice, and sparks soon fly as they banter with each other in a more wittier version of Kate and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew. Beatrice has some wonderful ripostes to marriage asking why should a woman marry "a clod of wayward marl", whilst Benedick grumbles that "She speaks poniards and every word stabs". Meanwhile, the jealous Don John convinces Claudio that Hero has in fact been unfaithful to him. When Claudio rejects Hero on their wedding day, she faints and is taken for dead. In the hectic final scenes the play moves towards reconciliation between Claudio and Hero, and the tentative admission of the love between Benedick and Beatrice. Famously filmed by Kenneth Branagh in the Tuscan countryside with a cast that included Keanu Reeves, Much Ado about Nothing remains one of Shakespeare's most successful comedies. --Jerry Brotton. [via]
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cabby Fergus W. HumeISBN 0486219569 (0-486-21956-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0460018930 (0-460-01893-0)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset Maugham, Binchy, Maeve (AFT), Benjamin DemottISBN 0451530179 (0-451-53017-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Human Bondage'Book summary:From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.[via]More editions of Of Human Bondage:
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0486290972 (0-486-29097-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages. [via]
Pierre, Or, the Ambiguitiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 0452009960 (0-452-00996-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James Joyce, Langdon HammerISBN 0451530152 (0-451-53015-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Masterpiece of semi-autobiographical fiction reveals a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity, and character. Telling portrayals of an Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish politics, sexual experimentation and its aftermath, and problems with art and morality. [via]
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 0452255899 (0-452-25589-9)
Softcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Edition'Book summary:At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, andmost importantin her dedication to "her girls," the students she selects to be her crème de la crème. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie setEunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandyis "famous for something," and Miss Brodie strives to bring out the best in each one. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises her girls, "Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me."
And they do. But one of them will betray her.
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486293831 (0-486-29383-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper'Book summary:Treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socio-economic worlds of 16th-century England, focuses on two young look-alikes Edward, the Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a street beggar. When both youngsters decide to trade clothes and roles, they find their lives drastically altered. This timeless tale of transposed identities remains one of Twain's best-loved novels.[via] -
Pygmalionby George Bernard ShawISBN 0486282228 (0-486-28222-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion'Book summary:[via]A rousing success on the London and New York stages, a popular film, and a great musical hit ("My Fair Lady"), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language. Includes Shaw's Preface and "Sequel."More editions of Pygmalion:
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Pygmalion And My Fair Ladyby George Bernard ShawISBN 0451530098 (0-451-53009-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion And My Fair Lady'Book summary:The ancient Greeks tell the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. Then, Aphrodite, taking pity on this man whose love could not reach beyond the barrier of stone, brought the statue to life and gave her to Pygmalion as his bride.[via]Centuries later, George Bernard Shaw captured the magic of this legend in his celebrated romantic play, Pygmalion. Pygmalion became Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, his statue an untutored flower girl from the streets of London, and the barrier between them the difference in their stations in life.
In My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner takes the legend one step furtherthe barrier is swept away and Higgins and Eliza are reunited as the curtain falls on one of the loveliest musical plays of our timewinning seven Tonys® for its original Broadway production, and seven Oscars® for its film adaptation.
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452279070 (0-452-27907-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:An account of the interrelated lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvements with period notables is set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century American history. Reprint. [via]
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Salems Lotby Stephen KingISBN 0452267218 (0-452-26721-8)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salems Lot'Book summary:Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George Eliot, Hughes, Kathryn (AFT), Frederick R. KarlISBN 0451530624 (0-451-53062-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe'Book summary:Engrossing tale with a heartwarming denouement of a lonely and embittered country weaver whose life is drastically changed when he becomes the guardian of an orphaned child. A masterly portrait of moral and psychological behavior in Victorian England, widely hailed for its brevity and perfection of form.[via]More editions of Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe:
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe: ISBN 0460011219 (0-460-01121-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe: ISBN 046087263X (0-460-87263-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe: ISBN 0451530624 (0-451-53062-4)
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- Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe: ISBN 0486292460 (0-486-29246-0)
Stephen Kingby Stephen KingISBN 0451931416 (0-451-93141-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Swiss Family Robinsonby J.D. Wyss, Janeway, Elizabeth (AFT), J. Hillis MillerISBN 0451529618 (0-451-52961-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Swiss Family Robinson'Book summary:After a shipwreck, the narrator, his wife, and four sons find themselves castaways on an uninhabited island. Retrieving what they can from the ship, they construct a life for themselves through their own resourcefulness building a tree house, finding such foods as coconuts, sugarcane, honey, and potatoes, and securing themselves against danger.[via]More editions of The Swiss Family Robinson:
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The Tale of Peter Rabbitby Beatrix PotterISBN 0486228274 (0-486-22827-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'Book summary:Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught. [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 0486297659 (0-486-29765-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Tarzanby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486295303 (0-486-29530-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan'Book summary:Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the worthy opponent of the jungle's most feared predators. Large, easy-to-read type, accompanied by 18 striking illustrations. Abridged.[via]More editions of Tarzan:
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0486295702 (0-486-29570-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0486415899 (0-486-41589-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. [via]
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Womanby Thomas HardyISBN 0451530276 (0-451-53027-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman'Book summary:Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin-a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. [via]
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Thinnerby Richard BachmanISBN 0453004687 (0-453-00468-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinner'Book summary:Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence [via]
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The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4by John BuchanISBN 0460050648 (0-460-05064-8)
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Time Machineby H. G. Wells, Greg BearISBN 0451528557 (0-451-52855-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Machine'Book summary:Illus. in black-and-white. When a turn-of-the-century scientist travels
into the distant future in his time machine, he expects to find progress and
superior people. But instead he discovers a world in decay. Reading level: 2.4. [via]More editions of Time Machine:
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareISBN 0486268764 (0-486-26876-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Christopher Bigsby, Cheryle B. TorsneyISBN 0460876171 (0-460-87617-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0486424588 (0-486-42458-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:A sequel to Lawrence's earlier The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love continues the story of the Brangwen sisters in the coal-mining town of Beldover. Based in part on Lawrence's own stormy marriage to German aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen, the tale is charged with intense feelings and psychological insights.[via]More editions of Women in Love:
Youthby Joseph ConradISBN 0460870467 (0-460-87046-7)
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Youth, a Narrative ; Heart of Darkness ; The End of the Tetherby Joseph ConradISBN 0460016946 (0-460-01694-6)
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Frenchby Beatrix PotterISBN 0486253139 (0-486-25313-9)
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El Ciclo Del Hombre Lobo / Cycle of the Werewolfby Stephen KingISBN 0451821114 (0-451-82111-4)
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