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The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, Michael Everett NowlinISBN 1551113368 (1-55111-336-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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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 1588274659 (1-58827-465-9)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1593080743 (1-59308-074-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 159308143X (1-59308-143-X)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1568495854 (1-56849-585-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1582019703 (1-58201-970-3)
Hardcover, Classic Books - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1588274640 (1-58827-464-0)
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The Analects: Confuciusby David HintonISBN 1582430381 (1-58243-038-1)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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The Analects of Confuciusby Confucius, Emma Yu, Jack J. CaiISBN 1580755011 (1-58075-501-1)
Softcover, Americd-Rom Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Analects of Confucius'Book summary:The Analects of Confucius is one of the most influential books ever written, not only shaping Chinese thought and culture, but providing a template for the western world on how to blend the practical and the spiritual with a sense of social form and propriety. The translation by Arthur Waley is widely regarded as the best. [via]
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Arabellaby Georgette HeyerISBN 1560542047 (1-56054-204-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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As a Gentleman Would Say: Responses to Life's Important (And Sometimes Awkward) Situationsby John Bridges, Bryan CurtisISBN 1558538461 (1-55853-846-1)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As a Gentleman Would Say: Responses to Life's Important (And Sometimes Awkward) Situations'Book summary:This easily accessible book focuses on those moments when knowing exactly what to say is an absolutely necessary challenge. From the light-hearted "how to react when someone turns you down for a date" or "what to say when you notice someone's fly is open" to the more serious "what to say to a co-worker who has had a miscarriage or to a friend who has suffered the sudden death of a parent," As A Gentleman Would Say differs from other etiquette books in that it not only offers suggestions for the correct thing to say in more than 100 social situations-it also gives examples of the wrong thing to say! [via]
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Bad Kittyby Nick BruelISBN 1596430699 (1-59643-069-9)
Hardcover, Roaring Brook
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Badness For Beginners: A Little Wolf And Smellybreff Adventureby Ian Whybrow, Tony RossISBN 1575058618 (1-57505-861-8)
Hardcover, Carolrhoda Books
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Bel Amiby Henri Rene Guy De MaupassantISBN 159224422X (1-59224-422-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Bible Manners & Customsby George M. MacKieISBN 1557482136 (1-55748-213-6)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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The Book of Teaby K. Okakura, Sam HamillISBN 1570628289 (1-57062-828-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Tea'Book summary:That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist stylization, and its concentration of extreme subtleties of meaning into the simplest of actions. The Book of Tea is something of a curiosity: written in English by a Japanese scholar (and issued here in bilingual form), it was first published in 1906, in the wake of the naval victory over Russia with which Japan asserted its rapidly acquired status as a world-class military power. It was a peak moment of Westernization within Japan. Clearly, behind the publication was an agenda, or at least a mission to explain. Around its account of the ceremony, The Book of Tea folds an explication of the philosophy, first Taoist, later Zen Buddhist, that informs its oblique celebration of simplicity and directness--what Okakura calls, in a telling phrase, "moral geometry." And the ceremony itself? Its greatest practitioners have always been philosophers, but also artists, connoisseurs, collectors, gardeners, calligraphers, gourmets, flower arrangers. The greatest of them, Sen Rikyu, left a teasingly, maddeningly simple set of rules:
Make a delicious bowl of tea; lay the charcoal so that it heats the water; arrange the flowers as they are in the field; in summer suggest coolness; in winter, warmth; do everything ahead of time; prepare for rain; and give those with whom you find yourself every consideration.
A disciple remarked that this seemed elementary. Rikyu replied, "Then if you can host a tea gathering without deviating from any of the rules I have just stated, I will become your disciple." A Zen reply. Fascinating. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk [via] 
Can I Help?by Marilyn JanovitzISBN 155858904X (1-55858-904-X)
Softcover, North South Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Can I Help?'Book summary:The winsome wolf cub from Is It Time? eagerly offers to help his father with the gardening chores. And his father gratefully accepts--even though sometimes the little wolf proves more a hindrance than a help. Marilyn Janovitz's gentle illustrations convey the loving relationship between an exuberant little wolf and his ever-so-patient father as together they experience the pleasures--and pratfalls--of gardening. Full color.[via]-
Carry On, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585673927 (1-58567-392-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Gentleman of Leisure is a comic novel dedicated to Douglas Fairbankswho starred in the film versionand concerns a young man, his love life, and a burglary. Famiiliar Wodehouse characters from both sides of the ocean make appearances. Meanwhile, in Hot Water, J. Wellington Gedge is the man who has everythingbut finds himself caught in a series of international events which will, if he doesn't put a stop to it, leave him wearing the sissy uniform of the American ambassador to Paris. Summer Moonshine involves Sir Buckstone Abbott trying to sell what is probably the ugliest home in England, as well as a complicated love quadrangle and Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of stories in which Jeeves take charge and a familiar bevy of individuals appeal to him to solve their problemsand are never disappointed. [via]
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The Complete Cheapskate: How to Break Free from Money Worries Forever, Without Sacrificing Your Quality of Lifeby Mary HuntISBN 1561795208 (1-56179-520-8)
Softcover, Focus on the Family Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Cheapskate: How to Break Free from Money Worries Forever, Without Sacrificing Your Quality of Life'Book summary:In need of a Money Makeover? Let America's most popular cheapskate show you how to go from financial chaos to freedom and security--painlessly and in less time than you ever imagined. Mary Hunt has helped thousands live a debt-free life with her popular newsletter, "The Cheapskate Monthly." In The Complete Cheapskate, Mary puts all the very best money advice she has in one place. Becoming a classy, dignified cheapskate is not all that difficult, and Mary shows how with her user-friendly principles of saving, restraint, and living debt-free. This book will teach you how to: - Create--and stick to--a monthly spending plan - Live well off 80% of your income - Climb out--and stay out--of debt's hole - Stretch every dollar to its absolute maximum - Manage savings and investments - Lower bills on clothes, food, and gifts without lowering living standards - Live within a financial plan that includes a margin for fun and spontaneity With hundreds of tips on cutting expenses, The Complete Cheapskate is the indispensable guide for people ready to regain control of their finances, relieve the stress money has created, and prepare for their future. [via]
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The Complete Idiot's Guide To Etiquetteby Mary MitchellISBN 1592572618 (1-59257-261-8)
Softcover, Alpha Books
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The Complete Plays, Poems, Novels and Stories of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1572151323 (1-57215-132-3)
Softcover, World Pubns
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Complete Works of Oscar WildeISBN 1566195624 (1-56619-562-4)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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The Custom of the Country: Adapted from the Novel by Edith Whartonby Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Edith Custom of Country WhartonISBN 1557832870 (1-55783-287-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Daisy Miller And Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 1593081057 (1-59308-105-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Miller And Washington Square'Book summary:[via]Daisy Miller and Washington Square, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Strikingly modern in its psychological insight, social observation and stylistic innovation, Henry Jamess fiction continues to attract and intrigue readers a century after its initial appearance. This volume offers two of his most popular and critically admired novellas: Daisy Miller and Washington Square.
In Daisy Miller, James paints a vivid portrait of a vibrant young American girl visiting Europe for the first time. Lovely, flirtatious, eager for experience, Daisy meets a wealthy American, Mr. Winterbourne, and a penniless but passionate Italian. Her complex encounters with them and others allow James to explore one of his favorite themes, the effect of Americans and Europeans on each other.
Washington Squares Catherine Sloper is Daisy Millers opposite. Neither pretty nor charming, she lives with her wealthy, widowed, tyrannical father, Dr. Austin Sloper, who can barely conceal his disdain for his shy, awkward daughter. When a handsome suitor, Morris Townsend, comes calling, Catherines father refuses to believe he is anything other than a heartless fortune hunter and sets out to destroy her romance.Jennie A. Kassanoff is Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College. Her articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly and PMLA. Her book, Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
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Encyclopaedia of Etiquette: A Book of Manners for Everyday Useby Emily HoltISBN 159605557X (1-59605-557-X)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Esquire's Handbook for Hosts: A Time-Honored Guide to the Perfect Partyby Esquire Magazine Staff, Black Dog Publishing StaffISBN 1579120431 (1-57912-043-1)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 1566196760 (1-56619-676-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Ethan Frome is a tale remembered because exactly it speaks to something inside so many of us. It's the tale of an old man, shriveled at the heart -- and how he got to be that way. It's a tale of love conflicted and compounded -- a tale of tragedy and a lifetime of its aftermath.
ETHAN FROME [via]
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- Ethan Frome: ISBN 1598183028 (1-59818-302-8)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books - Ethan Frome: ISBN 1568496362 (1-56849-636-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Ethan Frome and Other Stories: ISBN 1561387630 (1-56138-763-0)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Ethan Frome: ISBN 1566196760 (1-56619-676-0)
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- Ethan Frome: ISBN 1598183028 (1-59818-302-8)
Etiquetteby Emily PostISBN 155709991X (1-55709-991-X)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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The Fair-share Pairby Valerie Tripp, Renate LohmannISBN 1584859938 (1-58485-993-8)
Softcover, Amer Girl Pub
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jill MullerISBN 1593082770 (1-59308-277-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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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 1561387134 (1-56138-713-4)
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Hardcover, Spotlight - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 1593082770 (1-59308-277-0)
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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 1561387134 (1-56138-713-4)
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George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversationby George WashingtonISBN 155709103X (1-55709-103-X)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation'Book summary:Copied out by hand as a young man aspiring to the status of Gentleman, George Washington's 110 rules were based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. The first English edition of these rules was available in Francis Hawkins' Youths Behavior, or Decency in Conversation Amongst Men, which appeared in 1640, and it is from work that Washington seems to have copied. The rules as Washington wrote them out are a simplified version of this text. However much he may have simplified them, these precepts had a strong influence on Washington, who aimed to always live by them. The rules focus on self-respect and respect for others through details of etiquette. The rules offer pointers on such issues as how to dress, walk, eat in public, and address one's superiors.[via]More editions of George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation:
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Germs Are Not for Sharingby Elizabeth Verdick, Marieka HeinlenISBN 1575421976 (1-57542-197-6)
Softcover, Free Spirit Pub
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The Girl's Own Bookby Lydia Maria ChildISBN 155709134X (1-55709-134-X)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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Goldilocks and the Three BearsISBN 1577592190 (1-57759-219-0)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Pr
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Good Sport Gwenby Valerie Tripp, Joy AllenISBN 1584859016 (1-58485-901-6)
Softcover, Amer Girl Pub
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A Guide to the Manners, Etiquette, and Deportment of the Most Refined Societyby John H. YoungISBN 1585742414 (1-58574-241-4)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Hallie's Horrible Handwritingby Valerie Tripp, Joy AllenISBN 1584857641 (1-58485-764-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 1593081537 (1-59308-153-7)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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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 Mirthby Janet Beer, Elizabeth NolanISBN 1551115670 (1-55111-567-0)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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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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How Rude!: The Teenagers' Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior, and Not Grossing People Outby Alex J. Packer, Pamela Espeland, Jeff TolbertISBN 1575420244 (1-57542-024-4)
Softcover, Free Spirit Pub
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How to Be a Good Dogby Gail PageISBN 1582346836 (1-58234-683-6)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury USA
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How to Be a Ladyby Candace Simpson-GilesISBN 1558539395 (1-55853-939-5)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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How to Raise a Gentlemanby Kay WestISBN 1558539409 (1-55853-940-9)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 1576466507 (1-57646-650-7)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers' entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.
Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gewndolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend, the rivals to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the Ernests to claim their beloved's pandemonium breaks loose.
Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day! [via]
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Indiscretions of Archieby P.G. WodehouseISBN 159540340X (1-59540-340-X)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Most Popular Authorby Maggie LaneISBN 1558507485 (1-55850-748-5)
Hardcover, Adams Media Corp
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrellby Susanna ClarkeISBN 1582346038 (1-58234-603-8)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'Book summary:It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the course of the Napoleonic wars? Susanna Clarke's ingenious first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, has the cleverness and lightness of touch of the Harry Potter series, but is less a fairy tale of good versus evil than a fantastic comedy of manners, complete with elaborate false footnotes, occasional period spellings, and a dense, lively mythology teeming beneath the narrative. Mr. Norrell moves to London to establish his influence in government circles, devising such powerful illusions as an 11-day blockade of French ports by English ships fabricated from rainwater. But however skillful his magic, his vanity provides an Achilles heel, and the differing ambitions of his more glamorous apprentice, Jonathan Strange, threaten to topple all that Mr. Norrell has achieved. A sparkling debut from Susanna Clarke--and it's not all fairy dust. --Regina Marler [via]
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Less Than Angelsby Barbara PymISBN 1559213884 (1-55921-388-4)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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Lindy's Happy Endingby Valerie Tripp, Joy AllenISBN 1584859911 (1-58485-991-1)
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The Line Of Beautyby Alan HollinghurstISBN 1582346100 (1-58234-610-0)
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Alan Hollinghurst's extraordinarily rich novel The Line of Beauty. has garnered a new level of acclaim for the author after winning the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Hollinghurst speaks about his work in our interview.More editions of The Line Of Beauty:
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Anne Hiebert AltonISBN 1551111918 (1-55111-191-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:[via]Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcotts most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.
It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with womans work, including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the girls book her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.Camille Cauti, Ph.D., is an editor and literary critic who lives in New York City. She is a specialist in the Catholic conversion trend among members of the avant-garde in London in the 1890s.More editions of Little Women:
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Little Women or Meg, Joe, Beth and Mayby Louisa May Alcott, Joe WheelerISBN 1561797448 (1-56179-744-8)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Manners Matter: Living the Golden Rule for Kids of All Agesby Hermine Hartley, Al HartleyISBN 1586607235 (1-58660-723-5)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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Nanaby Emile Zola, Luc Sante, Burton RascoeISBN 1593082924 (1-59308-292-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nana'Book summary:[via]Nana, by Emile Zola, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:One of the founders of literary naturalism, Émile Zola thought of his novels as a form of scientific research into the effects of heredity and environment. He created characters, gave them richly detailed histories, and placed them in carefully observed, precisely described environments, and his readers watch as they wriggle and thrash toward their inevitable destinies.
In Nana, the characters are a prostitute, who rises from the streets to become what Zola calls a high-class cocotte, and the menand womenwhom she loves, betrays, and destroys. Among the novels many ironies is the mutual envy felt by Nana and those around her. She yearns for their material possessions, while they admire her apparent independence and sexual self-confidence. And despite the chaos Nana causes, Zola imagines her as being essentially good-natured, a stupid, vain but beautiful creature who cant help drawing people into her web.
Not surprisingly, Nanas portrait of a decadent world in which a prostitute amasses great wealth and power provoked protests from polite society, and it became one of Zolas most controversial works. Today it is regarded as his masterpiece.
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts and coeditor, with Melissa Holbrook Pierson, of O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors. 
Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 1555047807 (1-55504-780-7)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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The One And Only Delaneyby Valerie Tripp, Joy AllenISBN 158485992X (1-58485-992-X)
Softcover, Amer Girl Pub
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The Peterkin Papersby Lucretia P. HaleISBN 1590172124 (1-59017-212-4)
Hardcover, Random House Distribution childrens
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 1557424292 (1-55742-429-2)
Softcover, Booksurge Llc
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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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A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 1566191440 (1-56619-144-0)
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A colorful gallery of characters, including Georges riotously funny father, Lucys sullen brother, the novelist Eleanor Lavish, and the reverend Mr. Beebe, line up on either side, and A Room with a View unfolds as a delightfully satiric comedy of manners and an immensely satisfying love story.Radhika Jones is a freelance writer and a Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Say Pleaseby Virginia AustinISBN 156402833X (1-56402-833-X)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr
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The Secret Gardenby Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 1577595556 (1-57759-555-6)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Garden'Book summary:Product Details Reading level: Ages 5 and up Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Dalmatian Press (November 2001) Language: English [via]
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Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrewby Harold BloomISBN 1594480907 (1-59448-090-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Sister Carrieby Theodore Dreiser, Herbert LeibowitzISBN 1593082266 (1-59308-226-6)
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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]
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Neil FreemanISBN 1557833818 (1-55783-381-8)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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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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Teasing Troubleby Valerie Tripp, Joy AllenISBN 1584857676 (1-58485-767-6)
Softcover, Amer Girl Pub
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Thank You, Loganby Valerie Tripp, Joy AllenISBN 158485765X (1-58485-765-X)
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What Puppies Teach Us: Life's Lessons Learned from Our Little Friendsby Glenn DromgooleISBN 1572236841 (1-57223-684-1)
Hardcover, Willow Creek Press, Incorporated
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth Gaskell, Amy M. KingISBN 1593082576 (1-59308-257-6)
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An enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in the gossipy English town of Hollingford around the 1830s, Wives and Daughters tells the story of Molly Gibson, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a widowed country doctor. When her father remarries, she forms a close friendship with her new stepsisterthe beautiful and worldly Cynthiauntil they become love rivals for the affections of Squire Hamleys sons, Osbourne and Roger. When sudden illness and death reveal some secrets while shrouding others in even deeper mystery, Molly feels that the world is out of joint and it is up to hertrusted by all but listened to by noneto set it right.Amy M. King is Assistant Professor of English at St. Johns University in New York City and the author of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel (Oxford University Press, 2003).
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