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365 Manners Kids Should Know: Games, Activities, and Other Fun Ways to Help Children Learn Etiquetteby Sheryl EberlyISBN 0609806378 (0-609-80637-8)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 0671535560 (0-671-53556-0)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York. With vivid power, Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets, formal dances held in the ballrooms of stately brownstones, and society people "who dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to many the docile May Welland. Then, suddenly, the mysterious, intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a long absence, turning Archer's world upside down.
This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart, as well as a literary achievement of the highest order. [via]
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- The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684719258 (0-684-71925-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684146592 (0-684-14659-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684178184 (0-684-17818-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684197197 (0-684-19719-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0671535560 (0-671-53556-0)
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- The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684719258 (0-684-71925-8)
The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 0678028214 (0-678-02821-4)
Hardcover, Scholars Book Shelf
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The American Way of Deathby Jessica MitfordISBN 0671244159 (0-671-24415-9)
Softcover, Simon and Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Way of Death'Book summary:Before the turn of the century, the American funeral was simple "to the point of starkness," says Jessica Mitford, the acclaimed muckraking journalist who published this investigation of the country's funeral business in 1963. That the country went on to develop a tendency for gross overspending on funerals Mitford puts down to the greed and ingenuity of undertakers, whom she regards as salesmen guilty of pressuring families into agreeing to their excessive standards for burial. Mitford, who died recently, delivers facts and criticism in a forthright and humorous manner. She would certainly appreciate that her assessment of the American way of death endures after her own passing. [via]
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The Analects of Confuciusby Arthur Waley, ConfuciusISBN 0679722963 (0-679-72296-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Analects of Confucius'Book summary:The Analects of Confucius is one of the central books of Chinese literature and Chinese thought; memorized and studied for many centuries, it has been certainly one of the most influential books in world history. There are many translations of this rewarding but difficult work. Arthur Waley -- the translator of the Tale of Genji, of a vast body of Chinese poetry, and of many other classics of Oriental literature and thought -- brings to this translation his great gifts as a scholar and a writer, and has produced what is without question the best version in English of the Analects. A full introduction gives the social and political background of this work, analyses of key terms in Chinese thought that are prominent in it, and a careful study of the history of the book and its interpretations. There are also full notes illuminating the references to contemporary events and clarifying obscure passages. [via]
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Arthur, Clean Your Roomby Marc BrownISBN 067988467X (0-679-88467-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Berenstain Bears Think of Those in Needby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0679889574 (0-679-88957-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Book of Virtuesby William John BennettISBN 0684835770 (0-684-83577-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Virtues'Book summary:Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history.
William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together. [via]
Charlotte Ford's Book of Modern Mannersby Charlotte FordISBN 0671457691 (0-671-45769-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Civilizing Processby Norbert EliasISBN 0631196803 (0-631-19680-3)
Hardcover, B. Blackwell
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The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigationsby Johan Goudsblom, Norbert Elias, Stephen Mennell, Eric Dunning, Edmund JephcottISBN 0631221611 (0-631-22161-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations'Book summary:The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever. [via]
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The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilizationby Norbert Elias, Edmund JephcottISBN 0631192220 (0-631-19222-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization'Book summary:The Civilizing Process stands as Norbert Elias's greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages, and showing how this was related to the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them. [via]
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status Systemby Paul Fussell, Martim De AvillezISBN 0671792253 (0-671-79225-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Class: A Guide Through the American Status System'Book summary:In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom and everybody -- you'll surely recognize yourself -- in between. Class is guaranteed to amuse and infuriate, whether your class is so high it's out of sight (literally) or you are, alas, a sinking victim of prole drift. [via]
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The Custom of the Countryby Edith WhartonISBN 0684825880 (0-684-82588-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Custom of the Country'Book summary:Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on Americas nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory. As Undine moves from Americas heartland to Manhattan, and then to Paris, Whartons critical eye leaves no social class unscathed.
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- The Custom of the Country: ISBN 067942301X (0-679-42301-X)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - The Custom of the Country: ISBN 068414655X (0-684-14655-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Custom of the Country: ISBN 0684719266 (0-684-71926-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Custom of the Country: ISBN 0684825880 (0-684-82588-0)
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- The Custom of the Country: ISBN 067942301X (0-679-42301-X)
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Democracy in Americaby Daniel J. Boorstin, Phillips Bradley, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0679728252 (0-679-72825-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Democracy in America is the classic analysis of America's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who visited the United States in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeeded in penning this penetrating study of America's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, "I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress."
In addition to a brilliant, perceptive outline of "the philosophical method of the Americans," Volume II of Democracy in America includes the oddly modern-sounding "Why the Americans Are So Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperity," the surprising and provocative "How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes," and the more archaic "The Study of Greek and Latin is Peculiarly Useful in Democratic Communities." This edition--which many consider the best--contains the Henry Reeve text, revised by Francis Bowen, and further edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliographies by Phillips Bradley. [via]
Do I Have to Say Helloby Delia Ephron, Edward KorenISBN 0670828556 (0-670-82855-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Edith Whartonby Edith WhartonISBN 068100570X (0-681-00570-X)
Softcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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The English Gentleman's Childby Douglas SutherlandISBN 067029683X (0-670-29683-X)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0684515652 (0-684-51565-2)
Softcover, Stationery Office, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:First published in 1911, ethan frome is widely regarded as edith wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the bleak, barren winter landscape of new england, it is the tragic tale of a simple man, bound to the demands of his farm and his tyrannical, sickly wife, zeena, and driven by his star-crossed love for zeena's young cousin, mattie silver. "in its spare, chilling creation of rural isolation, hardscrabble poverty and wintry landscape," writes alfred kazin in his afterword, "ethan frome overwhelms the reader as a drama of irresistible necessity." an exemplary work of literary realism in setting and character, ethan frome stands as one of the great classics of twentieth-century american literature [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles RobinsonISBN 0679423095 (0-679-42309-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0681303840 (0-681-30384-0)
Hardcover, Xs Books - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0606036482 (0-606-03648-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0670899119 (0-670-89911-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0681400560 (0-681-40056-0)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0679423095 (0-679-42309-5)
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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0681303840 (0-681-30384-0)
Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Shirley Hughes, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0670825719 (0-670-82571-9)
Hardcover, Kestrel Pr
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From the Land and Backby Curtis K. StadtfeldISBN 0684129442 (0-684-12944-2)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Good Wivesby Louisa May Alcott, Jessie Willcox SmithISBN 0681103507 (0-681-10350-7)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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The Hatless Man: An Anthology of Odd and Forgotten Mannersby Ronald Searle, Sarah KortumISBN 0670864978 (0-670-86497-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Timesby Antoine Prost, Gerard Vincent, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0674400046 (0-674-40004-6)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times'Book summary:This fifth and final volume in an award-winning series charts the inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s. Nine historians present a picture of cultures in transition and in the process scrutinize a myriad of subjects - the sacrament of confession, volunteer hotlines, Nazi policies toward the family, the baby boom, evolving sexuality, the history of contraception, and ever-changing dress codes. They draw upon unexpected sources, including divorce hearing transcripts, personal ads, and little-known demographic and consumer data. Perhaps the most notable pattern to emerge is a polarizing of public and private realms. Productive labour shifts from the home to an impersonal public setting. Salaried or corporate employment replaces many independent, entrepreneurial jobs, and workers of all kinds aggressively pursue their leisure time. Zoning laws segregate industrial and commercial areas from residential neighbourhoods, which are no longer a supportive "theatre" of benign surveillance, gossip, and mutual concern, but an assemblage of aloof and anonymous individuals or families. Scattered with personal possessions and appliances, homes grow large by yesterday's standards and are marked by elaborate spatial subdivisions. Men and women are obsessed with health, fitness, diet and appearance as the body becomes the focal point of personal identity. In the search for sexual and individualistic fulfillment, romantic love becomes the foundation of marriage. Couples marry at an older age; families are smaller. The divorce rate rises, and with it the number of single-family households. Women, entering the work forces in unprecedented numbers, frequently function as both breadwinner and homemaker. The authors interrelate these patterns with the changing roles of state and religion in family matters, the socialization of education and elder care, the growth of feminism, the impact of media on private life, and the nature of secrecy. "Riddles of Identity in Modern Times" chronicles a period when the differentiation of life into public and private realms, once a luxury of the wealthy, gradually spread throughout the population. This final volume, differing from the French edition, portrays Italian, German and American family family life in the 20th century. The authors, Chiara Saraceno, Ingeborg Weber-Kellerman and Elaine Tyler May enlarge the European and Atlantic canvas that depicts the modern identity. [via]
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The House of Mirthby Edith Wharton, Anita BrooknerISBN 068480123X (0-684-80123-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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- The House of Mirth: ISBN 0679406670 (0-679-40667-0)
Hardcover, Everymans Library - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0684146584 (0-684-14658-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0684842203 (0-684-84220-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0679725393 (0-679-72539-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0684719282 (0-684-71928-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The House of Mirth: ISBN 068480123X (0-684-80123-X)
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- The House of Mirth: ISBN 0679406670 (0-679-40667-0)
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It's a Spoon, Not a Shovelby Caralyn Buehner, Mark BuehnerISBN 0613104226 (0-613-10422-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It's a Spoon, Not a Shovel'Book summary:When a crocodile is eating an armadillo, should she put her napkin (a) on her head, (b) in her ear, or (c) on her lap? If you can't figure out the answer to this silly etiquette quiz, peer into the color-rich full-page illustration, where you'll find the subtly hidden letter c. Each page of this delightful book poses one or two quiz questions, designed to test whether your child's manners are monstrous or marvelous. When Mother Cobra is busy talking to Mrs. Python, for example, how should Cory Cobra get her attention? Should he (a) hiss, (b) eat a rabbit, or (c) wait quietly? No doubt your child will answer "Hiss" and then erupt into giggles, but will know that (sigh) "Wait quietly" is probably the real answer. Caralyn and Mark Buehner--creators of A Job for Wittilda and The Escape of Marvin the Ape--have succeeded again with this lighthearted alternative to the usual persistent parental nudging. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Societyby Lionel TrillingISBN 0684147319 (0-684-14731-9)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, James PrunierISBN 0670877069 (0-670-87706-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:"Little Women" is an American classic, adored for Louisa May Alcott's lively and vivid portraits of the endearing March sisters: talented tomboy Jo, pretty Meg, shy Beth, temperamental Amy. Millions have shared in their joys, hardships, and adventures as they grow up in Civil War New England, separated by the war from their father and beloved mother, "Marmee", blossoming from "little women" into adults. Jo searches for her writer's voice and finds unexpected love... Meg prepares for marriage and a family... Beth reaches out to the less fortunate, tragically... and Amy travels to Europe to become a painter. Based on Louisa May Alcott's own Yankee childhood, "Little Women" is a treasure-- a story whose enduring values of patience, loyalty, and love have kept this extraordinary family close to the hearts of generation after generation of delighted readers. [via]
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- Little Women: ISBN 0671517643 (0-671-51764-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Little Women: ISBN 0679861750 (0-679-86175-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Little Women: ISBN 0606009744 (0-606-00974-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Little Women: ISBN 0670877050 (0-670-87705-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Little Women: ISBN 0671456512 (0-671-45651-2)
Hardcover, Silver Burdett Pr - Little Women: ISBN 0681007672 (0-681-00767-2)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Little Women: ISBN 0681400552 (0-681-40055-2)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Little Women: ISBN 0670877069 (0-670-87706-9)
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Little Womenby Janet Allison Brown, Dinah DryhurstISBN 0670899127 (0-670-89912-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:A simple retelling of the adventures of the four March sisters living in New England during the time of the Civil War. [via]
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Little Womenby Laurie Lawlor, Louisa May AlcottISBN 0671519026 (0-671-51902-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:An American classic portrays a lively family of four sisters, as they grow up--serious Meg, quiet, sweet Beth, Amy who wants everything her way, and Jo, who makes up her own mind no matter what. Reprint. Movie tie-in. [via]
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Little Women, Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amyby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0679436421 (0-679-43642-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Madeline Says Merciby Ludwig Bemelmans, John Bemelmans MarcianoISBN 067003505X (0-670-03505-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Max Cleans Upby Rosemary WellsISBN 0670892181 (0-670-89218-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Miss Manners : Citizens Guide to Civilityby Judith MartinISBN 0609801589 (0-609-80158-9)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Monarch Notes on Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 0671006932 (0-671-00693-2)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Noisy Noraby Rosemary WellsISBN 0670887226 (0-670-88722-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Noisy Nora'Book summary:Rosemary Wells' tales of animals with very human problems make her a favorite from the board-book years on. Now one old Wells friend, Nora, that noisy mouse, returns with all her middle-child problems still on display. What's a mouse to do when little brother and big sister take up all mom and dad's time? Yup. Plenty of noise. Look at these new pictures and you can almost hear the racket. With all that clatter, it might be better to read this one before dinner, not before bed! [via]
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Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 0670520713 (0-670-52071-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Mice and Men'Book summary:Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, offers a powerful but tragic tale in "Of Mice and Men". 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place'. George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can just stay out of trouble, George promises Lennie, then one day they might be able to get some land of their own and settle down some place. But kind-hearted, childlike Lennie is a victim of his own strength. Seen by others as a threat, he finds it impossible to control his emotions. And one day not even George will be able to save him from trouble. "Of Mice and Men" is a tragic and moving story of friendship, loneliness and the dispossessed. "A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick". ("New York Times"). Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works are published by Penguin and include "Cannery Row", "The Pearl", "The Winter of Our Discontent" and "The Grapes of Wrath". [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Tony RossISBN 067089494X (0-670-89494-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Richard Scarry's Pig Will and Pig Won'tby Richard ScarryISBN 0679866531 (0-679-86653-1)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Richard Scarry's Pig Will/Richard Scarry's Pig Won'tby Richard ScarryISBN 0679800670 (0-679-80067-0)
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A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679724761 (0-679-72476-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Room With a View'Book summary:The graded readers in this series aim to provide learners of English with a pleasurable reading experience. The series, which should appeal to a wide age range, exposes students to a variety of styles and kinds of English and the books contain puzzles and exercises based on the text. The grading system is based on lexical controls, structural controls and guidelines on sentence length and complexity. Books in Level 3 have a vocabulary of 1000 words. [via]
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Say the Magic Wordby Marc BrownISBN 0679867368 (0-679-86736-8)
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The Secret Gardenby James Howe, Nancy CarpenterISBN 0679947515 (0-679-94751-5)
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Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 0671006541 (0-671-00654-1)
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She Stoops to Conquerby Oliver Goldsmith, Harry ShefterISBN 0671509985 (0-671-50998-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0613175131 (0-613-17513-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
Social Studiesby Fran LebowitzISBN 0671450476 (0-671-45047-6)
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Sorcery And Cecilia, Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Potby Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline StevermerISBN 0606328343 (0-606-32834-3)
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Stand Up, Shake Hands, Say How Do You Do: What Boys Need to Know About Today's Mannersby Ann Buchwald, Marjabelle Young StewartISBN 0679507949 (0-679-50794-9)
Hardcover, D. McKay Co
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Tale of Genjiby Murasaki ShikubuISBN 0679729534 (0-679-72953-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the worlds first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era (7941185) is recognized as one of the very greatest periods in Japanese literature, and The Tale of Genji is not only the unquestioned prose masterpiece of that period but also the most lively and absorbing account we have of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture that made such a masterpiece possible.
Genji is the favorite son of the emperor but also a man of dangerously passionate impulses. In his highly refined world, where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, his shifting alliances and secret love affairs create great turmoil and very nearly destroy him.
Edward Seidenstickers translation of Lady Murasakis splendid romance has been honored throughout the English-speaking world for its fluency, scholarly depth, and deep literary tact and sensitivity. [via] -
The Tale Of Genjiby Royall Tyler, Murasaki ShikibuISBN 0670030201 (0-670-03020-1)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale Of Genji'Book summary:In the tradition of Robert Fagles's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Viking presents a stunning translation of Lady Murasaki's exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan. Written in the eleventh century, The Tale of Genji is widely celebrated as the world's first novel, but as Donald Keene has observed, it is also "one of its greatest." Genji the Shining Prince, the son of an emperor, is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs, alliances, and shifting political fortunes form the core of this magnificent epic. Throughout, The Tale of Genji offers a lively and well-rounded glimpse of golden age Japan with a cast of characters as richly conceived and nuanced as those of Proust. Royall Tyler's superb translation, detailed and poetic, is scrupulously true to the Japanese original but appeals immediately to the modern reader as well. Tyler includes detailed notes, glossaries, character lists, and chronologies to help the reader navigate the multigenerational narrative and its references. Magnificently packaged in a two-volume set with a slipcase, this is a literary event comparable to Seamus Heaney's bestselling translation of Beowulf. It will spark interest in this masterpiece of world literature and serve as the standard edition for many years to come.
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The Tale of Genjiby Shikibu Murasaki, Arthur WaleyISBN 0679424679 (0-679-42467-9)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722891 (0-671-72289-1)
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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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Where Angels Fear to Treadby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679736344 (0-679-73634-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where Angels Fear to Tread'Book summary:"Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. He's mysterious and terrible. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world."
When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have had a baby -- and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! -- are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.
In his first novel, E. M. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry. [via]More editions of Where Angels Fear to Tread:
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The Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0600393720 (0-600-39372-0)
Hardcover, Spring Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:This single volume contains all his work, and demonstrates his range as playwright, story-teller poet and essayist [via]
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