| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “marriage”
books tagged “marriage”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationshipby Joan Declaire, John Mordechai Gottman, Julie Schwartz GottmanISBN 1400050189 (1-4000-5018-9)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: '10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship'More editions of 10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship:
The 30 Secrets of Happily Married Couplesby Paul ColemanISBN 1558501665 (1-55850-166-5)
Softcover, Adams Media Corp
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The 30 Secrets of Happily Married Couples'More editions of The 30 Secrets of Happily Married Couples:
-
And Marries Another: Divorce and Remarriage in the Teaching of the New Testamentby Craig S. KeenerISBN 094357546X (0-943575-46-X)
Softcover, Hendrickson Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'And Marries Another: Divorce and Remarriage in the Teaching of the New Testament'More editions of And Marries Another: Divorce and Remarriage in the Teaching of the New Testament:
-
The Bar Sinisterby Linda BerdollISBN 0967481708 (0-9674817-0-8)
Softcover, Well There It Is Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bar Sinister'Book summary:This book is a furthering of the story of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice through the Napoleonic Wars. It is written in Jane Austen style, historically accurate, but sexy and somewhat tongue-in-cheek. [via]
More editions of The Bar Sinister:
Basilby Wilkie CollinsISBN 1426418116 (1-4264-1811-6)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Basil'More editions of Basil:
Be Fruitful And Multiply: What The Bible Says About Having Childrenby Nancy CampbellISBN 0972417354 (0-9724173-5-4)
Softcover, The Vision Forum Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Be Fruitful And Multiply: What The Bible Says About Having Children'More editions of Be Fruitful And Multiply: What The Bible Says About Having Children:
Becoming Heirs Together of the Grace of Life: A Study on Christian Marriageby Jeff Barth, Marge BarthISBN 0962406716 (0-9624067-1-6)
Hardcover, Parable Pub. House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming Heirs Together of the Grace of Life: A Study on Christian Marriage'More editions of Becoming Heirs Together of the Grace of Life: A Study on Christian Marriage:
Before the Ring: Questions Worth Askingby William L. ColemanISBN 0929239458 (0-929239-45-8)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Before the Ring: Questions Worth Asking'More editions of Before the Ring: Questions Worth Asking:
-
Best Friends for Lifeby Michael Phillips, Judy PhillipsISBN 155661943X (1-55661-943-X)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Best Friends for Life'Book summary:This unique approach to dating, courtship, and marriage offers young people a new strategy in finding lifetime mates. Ages 17 and up. [via]
More editions of Best Friends for Life:
Birth Control and Christian Discipleshipby John F. KippleyISBN 0926412108 (0-926412-10-8)
Softcover, Couple to Couple League
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Birth Control and Christian Discipleship'More editions of Birth Control and Christian Discipleship:
-
The Birth of Venusby Sarah DunantISBN 1400060737 (1-4000-6073-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Venus'Book summary:Sarah Dunant's gorgeous and mesmerizing novel, Birth of Venus, draws readers into a turbulent 15th-century Florence, a time when the lavish city, steeped in years of Medici family luxury, is suddenly besieged by plague, threat of invasion, and the righteous wrath of a fundamentalist monk. Dunant masterfully blends fact and fiction, seamlessly interweaving Florentine history with the coming-of-age story of a spirited 14-year-old girl. As Florence struggles in Savonarola's grip, a serial killer stalks the streets, the French invaders creep closer, and young Alessandra Cecchi must surrender her "childish" dreams and navigate her way into womanhood. Readers are quickly seduced by the simplicity of her unconventional passions that are more artistic than domestic:
Dancing is one of the many things I should be good at that I am not. Unlike my sister. Plautilla can move across the floor like water and sing a stave of music like a song bird, while I, who can translate both Latin and Greek faster than she or my brothers can read it, have club feet on the dance floor and a voice like a crow. Though I swear if I were to paint the scale I could do it in a flash: shining gold leaf for the top notes falling through ochres and reds into hot purple and deepest blue.
Alessandra's story, though central, is only one part of this multi-faceted and complex historical novel. Dunant paints a fascinating array of women onto her dark canvas, each representing the various fates of early Renaissance women: Alessandra's lovely (if simple) sister Plautilla is interested only in marrying rich and presiding over a household; the brave Erila, Alessandra's North African servant (and willing accomplice) has such a frank understanding of the limitations of her sex that she often escapes them; and Signora Cecchi, Alessandra's beautiful but weary mother tries to encourage yet temper the passions of her wayward daughter.
A luminous and lush novel, The Birth of Venus, at its heart, is a mysterious and sensual story with razor-sharp teeth. Like Alessandra, Dunant has a painter's eye--her writing is rich and evocative, luxuriating in colors and textures of the city, the people, and the art of 15th-century Florence. Reminiscent of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, but with sensual splashes of color and the occasional thrill of fear, Dunant's novel is both exciting and enchanting. --Daphne Durham [via]
More editions of The Birth of Venus:
![[???]: Catechism of the Catholic Church](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0899422632.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "[???]: Catechism of the Catholic Church")
Catechism of the Catholic ChurchISBN 0899422632 (0-89942-263-2)
Softcover, Catholic Book Pub Co
Find This BookMore editions of Catechism of the Catholic Church:
Catechism of the Catholic Churchby Catholic ChurchISBN 0898704820 (0-89870-482-0)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Catechism of the Catholic Church'More editions of Catechism of the Catholic Church:
-
The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyondby Martha K. SmithISBN 0965034909 (0-9650349-0-9)
Softcover, Cuchipanda Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyond'Book summary:From the author of the critically acclaimed "The Handmaid's Tale" comes this 2000 novel-within-a-novel centering on entangled relationships in 1930s-40s Ontario, Canada. [via]
More editions of The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyond:
Complete Financial Guide for Young Couplesby Larry BurkettISBN 0896936341 (0-89693-634-1)
Hardcover, David C Cook
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Financial Guide for Young Couples'More editions of Complete Financial Guide for Young Couples:
-
The Constant Gardenerby John Le CarreISBN 1416503900 (1-4165-0390-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Constant Gardener'Book summary:There were those who feared that the end of the Cold War would deal a fatal blow to the creativity of many first-rate thriller writers who specialised in this territory. In the case of John le Carré, this would have meant the loss of not only Britain's finest thriller writer, but a serious novelist of quite as much literary gravitas as any of his mainstream contemporaries. Certainly, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold remains as utterly compelling today as when it was written, whereas such post-cold war le Carré themes as financial double-dealing seemed to inspire him less than the world of shifting identity he had dealt in so skilfully. But with The Constant Gardener, we have the author once again firing on all cylinders. The characterisation is as elegant and expressive as ever, the prose as limpid and forceful. But, most of all, le Carré has found a theme quite as pregnant as any he has handled in the past: the malign, deceptively ameliorative world of global pharmaceuticals. In the new novel, the customary themes of betrayal and danger are explored in a narrative that exerts a total grip throughout its considerable length. His protagonist, Justin Quayle, is an unreflective British diplomat whose job in the British High Commission in Nairobi suggests one of Graham Greene's dispossessed protagonists trying to survive in the sultry corruption of foreign climates. President Arap Moi's Kenya is a country in the grip of AIDS, while political machinations maintain a deadly status quo. When Quayle's wife (who has taken more interest in what is happening around her than her husband) is killed, his investigation of her murder leads him into a murky web of exploitation involving Kenyan greed and a major pharmaceutical company eager to promote its "wonder cure" for tuberculosis. As Quayle looks deeper into the company which his wife had been investigating, all he has carefully built around him begins to crumble. The steady accumulation of tension and rigorous delineation of character is emblematic of le Carré at his finest, and it is a tremendous pleasure to find the author so resolutely back on form, fired with a real sense of anger at the duplicity of the modern world:
"Specious, unadulterated, pompous Foreign Office bullshit, if you want its full name... trade isn't making the poor rich. Profits don't buy reforms. They buy corrupt government officials and Swiss bank accounts".
--Barry Forshaw (This Review refers to the hardback edition of this title) [via]More editions of The Constant Gardener:
Covenanted Happiness: Love and Commitment in Marriageby Cormac BurkeISBN 0898703131 (0-89870-313-1)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Covenanted Happiness: Love and Commitment in Marriage'More editions of Covenanted Happiness: Love and Commitment in Marriage:
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
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Custom of the Country: Adapted from the Novel by Edith Wharton'More editions of The Custom of the Country: Adapted from the Novel by Edith Wharton:
D.H. Lawrence's the Rainbowby Harold BloomISBN 1555460232 (1-55546-023-2)
Hardcover, Facts on File
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'D.H. Lawrence's the Rainbow'More editions of D.H. Lawrence's the Rainbow:
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1555460259 (1-55546-025-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love'More editions of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love:
-
The Doll's House: A Playby Henrik IbsenISBN 1406914835 (1-4069-1483-5)
Softcover, Hard Pr Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doll's House: A Play'Book summary:(SCENE. - A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance-hall, another to the left leads to Helmer's study. Between the doors stands a piano. In the middle of the left-hand wall is a door, and beyond it a window. Near the window are a round table, arm-chairs and a small sofa. In the right-hand wall, at the farther end, another door; and on the same side, nearer the footlights, a stove, two easy chairs and a rocking-chair; between the stove and the door, a small table. [via]
More editions of The Doll's House: A Play:
Effi Briestby Theordor FontaneISBN 1406802212 (1-4068-0221-2)
Softcover, Echo Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Effi Briest'More editions of Effi Briest:
Elvis and Meby Sandra Harmon, Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyISBN 0896216926 (0-89621-692-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Elvis and Me'More editions of Elvis and Me:
Every Woman's Marriage: Igniting the Joy And Passion You Both Desireby Shannon Ethridge, Greg EthridgeISBN 1400071194 (1-4000-7119-4)
Softcover, Waterbrook Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Woman's Marriage: Igniting the Joy And Passion You Both Desire'More editions of Every Woman's Marriage: Igniting the Joy And Passion You Both Desire:
-
Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 1404362983 (1-4043-6298-3)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'More editions of Far from the Madding Crowd:
A Full Quiver: Family Planning and the Lordship of Christby Rick Hess, Jan HessISBN 0943497833 (0-943497-83-3)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Full Quiver: Family Planning and the Lordship of Christ'More editions of A Full Quiver: Family Planning and the Lordship of Christ:
-
The Good Soldierby Ford Madox FordISBN 1406502081 (1-4065-0208-1)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier'Book summary:"The Good Soldier" is the story of two couples. The first couple is English, Edward Ashburnham, the good soldier referenced in the title, and his wife Leonora. The second couple is American, John and Florence Dowell, who have been living abroad for quite some time. In a German spa prior to World War I the two couples meet and subsequently Edward and Florence become engaged in an affair. "The Good Soldier" is a tragic tale of passion. As John Dowell laments at the beginning of the book, it is "the saddest story I have ever heard." [via]
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passionby Ford Madox FordISBN 1404305890 (1-4043-0589-0)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion'More editions of The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion:
-
Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Graham Law, Adrian PinningtonISBN 1551111748 (1-55111-174-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:Originally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectations is the autobiography of Pip, as he transformed from apprentice village blacksmith to a London gentleman. Unlike many of Dickenss earlier works, the novel is not so much a protest against social evils as a sustained mediation upon the process of social reform in Victorian England. It is this which gives such importance to the books handling of the theme of the gentleman, a theme central both to Dickenss society and to his own life story. [via]
More editions of Great Expectations:
The High-impact Infidelity Diet: A Novelby Lou Harry, Eric PfeffingerISBN 1400098459 (1-4000-9845-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The High-impact Infidelity Diet: A Novel'More editions of The High-impact Infidelity Diet: A Novel:
Lady into Foxby David GarnettISBN 1406831859 (1-4068-3185-9)
Softcover, Echo Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady into Fox'
Liturgy for Marriage: Some Guidelines with Reference to the Series 3 Serviceby Charles H. HutchinsISBN 0905422015 (0-905422-01-5)
Softcover, Grove Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Liturgy for Marriage: Some Guidelines with Reference to the Series 3 Service'More editions of Liturgy for Marriage: Some Guidelines with Reference to the Series 3 Service:
-
The Longest Journeyby E. M. ForsterISBN 141917066X (1-4191-7066-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longest Journey'Book summary:More from our friend Forster. [via]
-
Macbethby William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, David BevingtonISBN 1402206887 (1-4022-0688-7)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
More editions of Macbeth:
Made in Heaven: A Jewish Wedding Guideby Aryeh KaplanISBN 0940118114 (0-940118-11-4)
Hardcover, Moznaim Pub Corp
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Made in Heaven: A Jewish Wedding Guide'More editions of Made in Heaven: A Jewish Wedding Guide:
The Man in the Mirror: Solving the Twenty-Four Problems Men Faceby Patrick M. MorleyISBN 0943497469 (0-943497-46-9)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man in the Mirror: Solving the Twenty-Four Problems Men Face'More editions of The Man in the Mirror: Solving the Twenty-Four Problems Men Face:
Men, Women and Relationships: Making Peace With the Opposite Sexby John GrayISBN 0941831507 (0-941831-50-7)
Softcover, Beyond Words Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Men, Women and Relationships: Making Peace With the Opposite Sex'More editions of Men, Women and Relationships: Making Peace With the Opposite Sex:
-
Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 1404303855 (1-4043-0385-5)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and dies a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums . . . [via]
More editions of Moll Flanders:
-
Moll Flandersby Paul A. Scanlon, Paul Ed ScanlonISBN 1551114518 (1-55111-451-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
More editions of Moll Flanders:
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continuesby Linda BerdollISBN 1402202733 (1-4022-0273-3)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc Landmark
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues'More editions of Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues:
-
Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 155111397X (1-55111-397-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
More editions of Mrs Dalloway:
-
Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 1420925334 (1-4209-2533-4)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
Find This Book
› 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]
More editions of Northanger Abbey:
- Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1426455062 (1-4264-5506-2)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1551114798 (1-55111-479-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1421800608 (1-4218-0060-8)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Northhanger Abbey: ISBN 0899665349 (0-89966-534-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1420925334 (1-4209-2533-4)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
- Northanger Abbey: ISBN 1426455062 (1-4264-5506-2)
-
Northanger Abbeyby Claire GroganISBN 1551110784 (1-55111-078-4)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
Find This Book
› 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]
More editions of Northanger Abbey:
On Marriage and Family Lifeby John Chrysostom, David Anderson, Catharine RothISBN 0913836869 (0-913836-86-9)
Softcover, St Vladimirs Seminary Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'On Marriage and Family Life'More editions of On Marriage and Family Life:
-
Once And Alwaysby Judith McNaughtISBN 1416530738 (1-4165-3073-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Once And Always'Book summary:When American orphan Victoria Seaton journeys to England to claim an inheritance, she meets and falls in love with her troubled cousin, Lord Jason Fielding. (Romance). [via]
More editions of Once And Always:
-
Our Mutual Friendby Charles DickensISBN 1417906618 (1-4179-0661-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Mutual Friend'Book summary:ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.
This is Volume Volume 1 of 5-Volume Set. To purchase the complete set, you will need to order the other volumes separately: to find them, search for the following ISBNs: 9781427043580, 9781427043627, 9781427043634, 9781427043665
A novel with diverse sub-plots that are intricately and ingeniously linked together. Like all other fine works of Dickens, this novel also has a brooding atmosphere and the characters are put to severe moral tests. Centering on the theme of money and how the power of money can change and shape lives, it is an intricate mystery that unravels revealing the true characters.
To find more titles in your format, Search in Books using EasyRead and the size of the font that makes reading easier and more enjoyable for you.
[via] -
The Owl and the Pussy-Catby Edward Lear, Paul GaldoneISBN 0899198546 (0-89919-854-6)
Softcover, Clarion Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'Book summary:Lear's nonsense classic about the unlikely romance between a pussycat and an owl.This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades K-1, Read-Aloud Poetry). [via]More editions of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat:
-
Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 1417687703 (1-4176-8770-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of Poisonwood Bible:
-
The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 1404325794 (1-4043-2579-4)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady' -
Queen Of Dreamsby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 1400030447 (1-4000-3044-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen Of Dreams'Book summary:From the bestselling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity. Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area DJ, and with her dream-teller mother, who has rarely spoken about her past or her native India. Rakhi has her hands full, juggling a creative dry spell, raising her daughter, and trying to save the Berkeley teahouse she and her best friend Belle own. But greater challenges are to come. When a national tragedy turns her world upside down and Rakhi needs her mothers strength and wisdom more than ever, she loses her in a freak car accident. But uncovering her mothers dream journals allows Rakhi to discover her mothers long-kept secrets and sacrificesand ultimately to confront her fears, forge a new relationship with her father, and revisit Sonnys place in her heart. [via]
More editions of Queen Of Dreams:
-
The Rainbowby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1417927313 (1-4179-2731-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rainbow'Book summary:1915. Controversial English novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist, Lawrence is known for his frequently misunderstood, but basically idealistic theories about sexual relations and for his interest in primitive religions and nature mysticism. Lawrence regarded sex, the primitive subconscious, and nature as cures for what he considered modern man's maladjustment to industrial society. His philosophy, life history and prejudices are inextricably entwined in his writings. Lawrence's fourth novel, The Rainbow, was about two sisters growing up in the north of England. The book begins: The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Two miles away, a church-tower stood on a hill, the houses of the country town climbing assiduously up to it. Whenever one of the Brangwens in the fields lifted his head from his work, he saw the church-tower at Ilkeston in the empty sky. So that as he turned again to the horizontal land, he was aware of something standing above him and beyond him in the distance. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
Real Love: Answers to Your Questions on Dating, Marriage and the Real Meaning of Sexby Mary Beth BonacciISBN 0898706130 (0-89870-613-0)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Real Love: Answers to Your Questions on Dating, Marriage and the Real Meaning of Sex'More editions of Real Love: Answers to Your Questions on Dating, Marriage and the Real Meaning of Sex:
-
The Return of the Nativeby Thomas HardyISBN 1404327320 (1-4043-2732-0)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the Native'More editions of The Return of the Native:
-
Same Sex Marriage: Pro and Con a Readerby Andrew Sullivan, Joseph LandauISBN 1400078660 (1-4000-7866-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Same Sex Marriage: Pro and Con a Reader'Book summary:At the end of Virtually Normal, Andrew Sullivan called for the legalization of gay and lesbian marriages as a recognition of an individual's right to enter into a committed relationship with the person he or she loves. Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con is, as the title suggests, a collection of arguments for and against such unions. Sullivan provides little commentary, allowing the various authors gathered here to speak for themselves. No matter which side one supports on this issue, this anthology will enable both an intellectual support of one's own beliefs and a better, fuller understanding of the contrary position. [via]
More editions of Same Sex Marriage: Pro and Con a Reader:
-
The Scarlet Pimpernelby Emmuska OrczyISBN 1404332154 (1-4043-3215-4)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:During the French Revolution's reign of terror, the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel rescues helpless men, women, and children from their doom in this unique, wonderfully colorful adventure classic. [via]
Sex and the Marriage Covenant: A Basis for Moralityby John F. KippleyISBN 0898709733 (0-89870-973-3)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sex And The Marriage Covenant: A Basis for Morality'More editions of Sex and the Marriage Covenant: A Basis for Morality:
The Sheltering Skyby Paul BowlesISBN 0912946431 (0-912946-43-1)
Softcover, Natl Book Network
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sheltering Sky'More editions of The Sheltering Sky:
-
Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1417906898 (1-4179-0689-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons And Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
-
SparkNotes The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Sparknotes, John CrowtherISBN 141140100X (1-4114-0100-X)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'SparkNotes The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:[via]No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Taming of the Shrew on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
Each No Fear Shakespeare contains
More editions of SparkNotes The Taming of the Shrew:
-
The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Neil FreemanISBN 1557833818 (1-55783-381-8)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A comedy of Petruchio's determination to subdue the irascible Katherine and make her his wife. [via]
More editions of The Taming of the Shrew:
Time for a Better Marriageby Jon Carlson, Don DinkmeyerISBN 0913476641 (0-913476-64-1)
Softcover, Ags Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Time for a Better Marriage'More editions of Time for a Better Marriage:
-
The Tragedie of Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 1419185551 (1-4191-8555-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedie of Macbeth'Book summary:FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND WITCH. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. THIRD WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun. FIRST WITCH. Where the place? SECOND WITCH. Upon the heath. THIRD WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth. FIRST WITCH. I come, Graymalkin. [via]
-
A Virtuous Womanby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0945575092 (0-945575-09-2)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Virtuous Woman'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Gibbons's novel, A Virtuous Woman, takes place in the same hardscrabble part of the world as Ellen Foster. The virtuous woman is Ruby Pitt Woodrow, a woman who might have ended up like Ellen Foster's mother if fate, in the shape of Jack Stokes, hadn't crossed her path. The daughter of prosperous farmers, Ruby runs off with a migrant worker who treats her badly, then abandons her far from home. When she meets Jack, a man 20 years her senior, she's working as a cleaning woman in another prosperous farmer's house. Jack is a man women don't look at even once, let alone twice; Ruby is a woman who needs someone to take care of her. Out of this unlikely union grows a quiet kind of love that is no less powerful for being unstated.
Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman share more than just location and a few characters in common. Though each is a complete novel in and of itself, taken together the two books resonate one another: Ellen Foster and Ruby Pitt Woodrow are both damaged people who find the kind of love they need to heal. These multilayered novels are tough-minded and resolutely unsentimental, just like their protagonists. Yet like Ellen and Ruby, each contains a nut of sweetness at its core that takes the bitter edge off the hard lives and hard stories Kaye Gibbons has to tell. [via]
More editions of A Virtuous Woman:
-
Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 1420925199 (1-4209-2519-9)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Washington Square'Book summary:"Washington Square" is the story of Catherine Sloper, a young heiress who is wooed by Morris Townsend, a handsome gentleman who is more interested in Catherine's inheritance than he is in her. When the two get engaged against the wishes of her stubborn father Catherine must make a choice between the only man she will ever love and the wealth that she will inherit. Named for the upscale area of New York in which the novel is set, "Washington Square" is a classic examination of social class in mid-19th century New York. [via]
-
A Widow for One Year: A Novelby John IrvingISBN 0966466101 (0-9664661-0-1)
Hardcover, Unicycle Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Widow for One Year: A Novel'Book summary:John Irving fans will not be startled to find that A Widow for One Year is a sprawling farce-tragedy crawling with characters who are writers. In the opening scene, 4-year-old Ruth Cole walks in on her melancholy mother, Marion, who is in flagrante with 16-year-old Eddie, the driver for drunken Ted (Ruth's dad and Marion's estranged, womanizing husband).
Eddie spends the rest of his life obsessively writing novels like Sixty Times, his roman à clef about his 60 seductions by Marion. Ted is a failed novelist who gets rich and famous writing creepy children's stories based on tales he tells Ruth (such as The Mouse Crawling Between the Walls). Marion abandons Ruth, Ted, and Eddie and becomes a successful pseudonymous novelist. And Ruth becomes the most richly celebrated writer of them all because of her early training by Ted, who not only told her stories, but also helped her craft narratives to explain their home's many photographs of her brothers, who died in a gory car wreck the year before she was born. Grief over the boys is why Ruth's mother does not dare to love her.
Ruth, Irving's first female main character, works brilliantly, first as an imaginative, almost Salingeresque child coming to terms with her bewildering family, then as a grownup striving to understand her mother's motives--or at least to track her down. Ted is a mordantly funny caricature, interestingly sinister and plausibly self-justifying when most inexcusable. Eddie is a lovable schlemiel, yet not too sentimentally drawn. And what set pieces Irving can write! The story of the boys' death is horrific and effective in dramatizing the character of Ted, who narrates it. Ted's attempted murder by a spurned lover is as hilarious as the VW-down-the-marble-stairway scene in A Prayer for Owen Meany (which has been adapted by Disney Studios), though not quite on a par with the celebrated "Pension Grillparzer" episode in The World According to Garp (reissued in a 20th anniversary edition by Modern Library).
Irving has the effrontery to get away with practically any scene that comes into his head--Ruth winds up an eyewitness to a hooker's murder in Amsterdam, a Dutch detective starts tracking her down (just as Ruth is hunting Marion), and the multiple plot strands all converge in a finale that neatly echoes the opening scene. It's all done with the outrageously coincidental yet minutely realistic brio of Charles Dickens, with a sad, self-conscious jokiness like that of Irving's mentor, Kurt Vonnegut. --Tim Appelo [via]
More editions of A Widow for One Year: A Novel:
Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 1419194658 (1-4191-9465-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Wives and Daughters'Book summary:1865 novel from the English novelist and short story writer, whose writings can be seen as critiques of Victorian era attitudes, particularly those toward women, with complex narratives and dynamic women characters. [via]
-
Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1419194801 (1-4191-9480-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:He knew that Ursula was referred back to him. He knew his life rested with her. But he would rather not live than accept the love she proffered. The old way of love seemed a dreadful bondage, a sort of conscription. What it was in him he did not know, but the thought of love, marriage, and children, and a life lived together, in the horrible privacy of domestic and connubial satisfaction, was repulsive. [via]
More editions of Women in Love:
-
Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, F. H. Cornish, John MilneISBN 1405077093 (1-4050-7709-3)
Softcover, Delta Systems Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire s limestone north and moorland south, drawing out the importance of the region's slaveholding society. Heywood also makes an important contribution to scholarship arguing persuasively for a re-structuring of the chapter and section breaks. Finally, this edition includes a variety of appendices that help to illuminate the novel s historical background. [via]
More editions of Wuthering Heights:
- Wuthering Heights: ISBN 1551112477 (1-55111-247-7)
Softcover, Broadview Pr - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 1421823225 (1-4218-2322-5)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 1404338780 (1-4043-3878-0)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0896731715 (0-89673-171-5)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 1405077093 (1-4050-7709-3)
Softcover, Delta Systems Co Inc
- Wuthering Heights: ISBN 1551112477 (1-55111-247-7)
Spanish
-
Por los Pelosby Marian KeyesISBN 1400002214 (1-4000-0221-4)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Por los Pelos'More editions of Por los Pelos:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}