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All's Well That Ends Wellby William Shakespeare, Susan SnyderISBN 0192836048 (0-19-283604-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Ambassadorsby Henry James, Christopher ButlerISBN 0192836471 (0-19-283647-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The second of James's three late masterpieces, was, in its author's opinion, "the best, all round, of my productions".
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron, Mrs. Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is keeping her son Chad in the notorious city of pleasure, and to bring him home. But Strether finds Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman; and as the Parisian spring advances, he himself succumbs to the allure of the 'vast bright Babylon' and to the mysterious charm of Madame de Vionnet. [via]More editions of The Ambassadors:
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The Americanby Henry James, Adrian PooleISBN 0192833227 (0-19-283322-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American'Book summary:During a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintré to be his wife. To his dismay, he receives an icy reception from the heads of her family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the American privileged class. Brilliantly combining elements of comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama, this tale of thwarted desire vividly contrasts nineteenth-century American and European manners. Oxford's edition of The American, which was first published in 1877, is the only one that uses James' revised 1907 text. [via]
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Beautiful Losersby Leonard CohenISBN 0224618334 (0-224-61833-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beautiful Losers'Book summary:Leonard Cohen's 1966 Beautiful Losers is ambitiously filthy. Few Canadian novels before or since are as sexual, but there's more filth here than just squirming bodies. It is in fact the novel's psychological intimacy that will make you want a long, hot shower with astringent soap. Beautiful Losers is devoted exclusively to four characters, three of them points in a love triangle--the scholarly narrator, his Aboriginal wife Edith, and his lifelong "friend" and mentor F.--and the fourth a 17th-century Iroquois saint whose life the narrator obsessively researches. The protean, mercurial, and intense F. is a kind of artist of existence, one hopefully found more often in fiction than in reality. Though capable of buying a factory or winning an election, F. is often destitute and glad to rob sustenance and sex from his friends. He has taken the narrator as a protégé (or a victim) of his increasingly dangerous tests of desire. Surviving the hedonistic, self-destructive deaths of F. and the unfaithful Edith, the unnamed scholar even seems humiliated as narrator, as if he's cleaning up his own apartment after a party he didn't plan.
Canada has had a bumper crop of poet-novelist switch hitters: Margaret Atwood, Robert Kroetsch, Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje. Their novels are sure to dazzle with their language, but some readers may lower their expectations of plot and character. Similarly, Cohen the poet will snare you with his introverted, confessional prose, so easily lent to the aphorism. "Grief makes us precise." "What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate." "I am not enjoying sunsets, then for whom do they burn?" These dagger-like pensées, along with the sheer inscrutability of F., will sustain those readers who don't like sunshine (again, it's very claustrophobic inside this book), while plot purists may find the masturbatory plot, well, masturbatory. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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Black Dogsby Ian McEwanISBN 022403572X (0-224-03572-X)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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The Bourgeois Experience-Victoria to Freud Vol. II : The Tender Passionby Peter GayISBN 0195037413 (0-19-503741-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192833952 (0-19-283395-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great literary adventures, indeed William Thackeray was so enthralled he began reading 'at six one morning and never stopped till eleven at night'. The hero is Edmond Dantes, a young sailor who, falsely accused of treason, is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of Chateau d'If. After staging a dramatic escape he sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, Monte Cristo is also a tale of obsession and revenge, with Dantes, believing himself to be an 'Angel of Providence', pursuing his vengeance to the bitter end before realizing that he himself is a victim of fate. This new edition uses the classic, anonymous translation that has been in print since the nineteenth century. [via]
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Daniel Derondaby George Eliot, Graham HandleyISBN 0192834819 (0-19-283481-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daniel Deronda'Book summary:Daniel deronda, the last of eliot's novels, is the most complete expression of her idealism. Its main concerns are those of personal morality, of dedication to tradition and roots, and of spiritual identification and sympathy--all set in an era of considerable national and international awareness. The text is that of the clarendon edition [via]
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The Doctor's Wifeby Brian MooreISBN 022401322X (0-224-01322-X)
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The Economic Approach to Human Behaviorby Gary S. BeckerISBN 0226041123 (0-226-04112-3)
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Evelinaby Fanny Burney, Edward A. Bloom, Lillian D. BloomISBN 0192833960 (0-19-283396-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina'Book summary:Evelina, the first of Burney's novels, was published anonymously and brought her immediate fame. It tells the story of a young girl, fresh from the provinces, whose initiation into the ways of the world is frequently painful, though it leads to self-discovery, moral growth, and, finally, happiness. Hilarious comedy and moral gravity make the novel a fund of entertainment and wisdom. Out of the graceful shifts from the idyllic to the near-tragic and realistic, Evelina emerges as a fully realized character. And out of its treatment of contrasts - the peace of the countryside and the cultured and social excitement of London and Bristol, the crowd of life-like vulgarians and the elegant gentry - the novel reveals superbly the life and temper of eighteenth-century England, as seen through the curious eyes of its young heroine. Edward A. Bloom has edited the text from the rare first edition of 1778. [via]
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Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Edward A. Bloom, Frances Burney, Vivien JonesISBN 0192840312 (0-19-284031-2)
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Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850by Leonore Davidoff, Catherine HallISBN 0226137333 (0-226-13733-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"The book explores how the middle class constructed its own institutions, material culture and values during the industrial revolution, looking at two settingsurban manufacturing Birmingham and rural Essexboth centers of active capitalist development. The use of sources is dazzling: family business records, architectural designs, diaries, wills and trusts, newspapers, prescriptive literature, sermons, manuscript census tracts, the papers of philanthropic societies, popular fiction, and poetry.
"Family Fortunes occupies a place beside Mary Ryan's The Cradle of the Middle Class and Suzanne Lebsock's Free Women of Petersburg. It provides scholars with a definitive study of the middle class in England, and facilitates a comparative perspective on the history of middle-class women, property, and the family."Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins UniversityMore editions of Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850:
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Flaubert's Parrotby Julian BarnesISBN 0224022229 (0-224-02222-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaubert's Parrot'Book summary:Just what sort of book is Flaubert's Parrot, anyway? A literary biography of 19th-century French novelist, radical, and intellectual impresario Gustave Flaubert? A meditation on the uses and misuses of language? A novel of obsession, denial, irritation, and underhanded connivery? A thriller complete with disguises, sleuthing, mysterious meetings, and unknowing targets? An extended essay on the nature of fiction itself?
On the surface, at first, Julian Barnes's book is the tale of an elderly English doctor's search for some intriguing details of Flaubert's life. Geoffrey Braithwaite seems to be involved in an attempt to establish whether a particularly fine, lovely, and ancient stuffed parrot is in fact one originally "borrowed by G. Flaubert from the Museum of Rouen and placed on his worktable during the writing of Un coeur simple, where it is called Loulou, the parrot of Felicité, the principal character of the tale."
What begins as a droll and intriguing excursion into the minutiae of Flaubert's life and intellect, along with an attempt to solve the small puzzle of the parrot--or rather parrots, for there are two competing for the title of Gustave's avian confrere--soon devolves into something obscure and worrisome, the exploration of an arcane Braithwaite obsession that is perhaps even pathological. The first hint we have that all is not as it seems comes almost halfway into the book, when after a humorously cantankerous account of the inadequacies of literary critics, Braithwaite closes a chapter by saying, "Now do you understand why I hate critics? I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment; but they are far too discoloured with rage." And from that point, things just get more and more curious, until they end in the most unexpected bang.
One passage perhaps best describes the overall effect of this extraordinary story: "You can define a net in one of two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally, you would say that it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string." Julian Barnes demonstrates that it is possible to catch quite an interesting fish no matter how you define the net. --Andrew Himes [via]
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For Better, for Worse: British Marriages 1600 to the Presentby John R. GillisISBN 019503614X (0-19-503614-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Forsyte Sagaby John Galsworthy, Geoffrey HarveyISBN 0192838628 (0-19-283862-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forsyte Saga'Book summary:The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. This is the only critical edition of the work available, with Notes that explain contemporary artistic and literary allusions and define the slang of the time. [via]
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebookby Gene H. Bell-VilladaISBN 0195144554 (0-19-514455-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook'Book summary:Casebooks in Criticism offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interview with the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts.
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the most important novel in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This Casebook features ten critical articles on García Márquez's great work. Carefully selected from the most important work on the novel over the past three decades, they include pieces by Carlos Fuentes, Iris Zavala, James Higgins, Jean Franco, Michael Wood, and Gene H. Bell-Villada. Among the intriguing aspects of the work discussed are its mythic dimension, its "magical" side, its representations of women, its relationship with past chronicles of exploration and discovery, its portrayals of Western power and imperialism, its astounding diffusion throughout the globe and the media, and its simple truth-telling, its fidelity to the tangled history of Latin America. The book incorporates several theoretical approaches--historical, feminist, postcolonial; the first English translation of Fuentes's renowned, oft-cited, eight page meditation on the work; a general introduction; and a 1982 interview with García Márquez. [via]More editions of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook:
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Hard Timesby Charles Dickens, Paul SchlickeISBN 0192833677 (0-19-283367-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. [via]
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He Knew He Was Rightby Anthony Trollope, John SutherlandISBN 0192835408 (0-19-283540-8)
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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adamsby Henry Fielding, Douglas Brooks-Davies, Tom KeymerISBN 019283343X (0-19-283343-X)
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Indianaby George Sand, Sylvia RaphaelISBN 0192837974 (0-19-283797-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indiana'Book summary:The first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, this is not only a vivid romance, but also an impassioned plea for change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, and for a new view of women. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. She falls in love with her handsome, frivolous neighbor, but discovers too late that his love is quite different from her own. This new translation, the first since 1900, does full justice to the passion and conviction of Sand's writing, and the introduction fully explores the response to Sand in her own time as well as contemporary feminist treatments. [via]
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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in Americaby John D'Emilio, Estelle B. FreedmanISBN 0226142647 (0-226-14264-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America'Book summary:The first full length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offers trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans, from colonial times to today. D'Emilio and Freedman give us a deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramatically influenced politics and culture throughout our history.[via]
"The book John D'Emilio co-wrote with Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters, was cited by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy when, writing for a majority of court on July 26, he and his colleagues struck down a Texas law criminalizing sodomy. The decision was widely hailed as a victory for gay rights--and it derived in part, according to Kennedy's written comments, from the information he gleaned from D'Emilio's book, which traces the history of American perspectives on sexual relationships from the nation's founding through the present day. The justice mentioned Intimate Matters specifically in the court's decision."--Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
"Fascinating. . . . [D'Emilio and Freedman] marshall their material to chart a gradual but decisive shift in the way Americans have understood sex and its meaning in their lives." --Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review
"[With] comprehensiveness and care . . . D'Emilio and Freedman have surveyed the sexual patters for an entire nation across four centuries." --Martin Bauml Duberman, Nation
"Intimate Matters is comprehensive, meticulous and intelligent." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"This book is remarkable. . . . [Intimate Matters] is bound to become the definitive survey of American sexual history for years to come." --Roy Porter, Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesMore editions of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America:
Joseph Andrews and Shamelaby Henry Fielding, Martin C. Ballestin, Douglas Brook-DaviesISBN 0192834282 (0-19-283428-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Just Marriageby Joshua Cohen, Deborah Chasman, Mary Lyndon ShanleyISBN 019517626X (0-19-517626-X)
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Storiesby Leo Tolstoy, Richard F. Gustafson, J. D. Duff, Aylmer Maude, Louise Shanks MaudeISBN 0192838091 (0-19-283809-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories'Book summary:These four novellas--Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Cossacks, and Hadji Murad--each unique in form, show Tolstoy at his creative height. This edition uses the acclaimed Maude translations, (except for Family Happiness, translated by J.D. Huff), modernized and corrected against modern Russian editions to create this English language version. While the Afterword to The Kreutzer Sonata appears for the first time in English with the story. The explanatory notes and substantial introduction use the most recent scholarship in the field to further illuminate Tolstoy's works of shorter fiction. [via]
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A Laodicean: A Story of Todayby Thomas Hardy, Jane GatewoodISBN 0192827839 (0-19-282783-9)
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Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Choderlos De Laclos, Douglas ParmeeISBN 0192838679 (0-19-283867-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'Book summary:Au petit jeu du libertinage, l'adorable Valmont et la délicieuse Madame de Merteuil se livrent à une compétition amicale et néanmoins acharnée : c'est à celui qui aura le plus de succès galants, et le moins de scrupules. Peu importent les sentiments, seule la jouissance compte. Les conquêtes se succèdent de part et d'autre, jusqu'à ce que Valmont rencontre la vertu incarnée : la présidente de Tourvel. Elle est belle, douce, mariée et chaste : en un mot, intouchable. Voilà une proie de choix pour Valmont : saura-t-il relever ce défi sans tomber dans les pièges de l'amour ? De lettre en lettre, les héros dévoilent leurs aventures, échangent leurs impressions et nous entraînent dans un tourbillon de plaisirs qui semble n'avoir pas de fin.
Ce sulfureux roman a longtemps été censuré, ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de fasciner des générations de lecteurs et, plus près de nous, de captiver bon nombre de cinéastes : Les Liaisons Dangereuses de Stephen Frears mais aussi les adaptations de Roger Vadim, et de Milos Forman. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without Godby A. C. GraylingISBN 019517755X (0-19-517755-X)
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The Lime Worksby Thomas BernhardISBN 0226043975 (0-226-04397-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit De Cuissageby Alain BoureauISBN 0226067432 (0-226-06743-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Making Families Work: A New Search for Christian Valuesby Margaret GrimerISBN 0225667223 (0-225-66722-3)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1500by Martha C. HowellISBN 0226355160 (0-226-35516-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550by Martha C. HowellISBN 0226355152 (0-226-35515-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Dale Kramer, Pamela DalzielISBN 0192840711 (0-19-284071-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth in the historical town of Dorchester, and it is to these familiar surroundings that he turns for the setting of this novel. This edition is the first critically established text of The Mayor of Casterbridge, based on a detailed study of the manuscript and of Hardy's revised printed versions. [via]
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Men and Womenby Robert BrowningISBN 0199110190 (0-19-911019-0)
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Jay L. HalioISBN 019283424X (0-19-283424-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. In this edition of The Merchant of Venice, illustrations have been extended and updated; the preliminary notes have been expanded; reading lists have been updated, and include websites; and the classroom notes have been brought in line with recent practice. The Merchant of Venice is a set text for 11-14 year olds in England and remains one of the most accessible and popular of Shakespeare's plays for secondary students the world over. [via]
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. ZitnerISBN 0192834185 (0-19-283418-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:Authoritative and accessible editions for schools and colleges, offering:
Complete and unabridged text
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Social, historical, and literary context
Insights into the play, and its characters and themes
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0198320566 (0-19-832056-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0195217977 (0-19-521797-7)
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Much Obliged, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214653609 (0-214-65360-9)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Obliged, Jeeves'Book summary:A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster is dismayed by the prospect of a lifetime spent with Madeleine Bassett. If only Jeeves could come to his help. From the author of CARRY ON JEEVES, THE INIMITABLE JEEVES and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
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North and Southby Angus Easson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sally ShuttleworthISBN 0192831941 (0-19-283194-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:Mary Gaskell's North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skillfully explores issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers conflicts with her growing attraction to the mill owner, John Thornton. This new and revised expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate. [via]
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Claude Rawson, Jane Austen, John DavieISBN 0192833685 (0-19-283368-5)
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Claudia L. Johnson, John N. DavieISBN 0192840827 (0-19-284082-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon'Book summary:Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque.
Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition shows her to be as innovative at the start of her career as at its close. [via]More editions of Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon:
Nuptial Blessing: A Study of Christian Marriage Ritesby Kenneth StevensonISBN 0195204190 (0-19-520419-0)
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The Odysseyby Homer, Walter ShewringISBN 0192833758 (0-19-283375-8)
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The Odyssey of Homerby Bernard Knox, T. E. LawrenceISBN 0195068181 (0-19-506818-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'Book summary:Colonel T.E. Lawrence was one of the most flamboyant figures of his era, known throughout the Western world as Lawrence of Arabia. Glory-seeking yet self-effacing, this soldier, archaeologist, spy, and scholar was a war hero whom Winston Churchill called "one of the greatest men of our time." Less well known were his abilities as historian and author, which won him the admiration of such writers as Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, and Robert Graves.
While stationed on a desolate R.A.F. outpost on the fringes of the Karachi desert in India, Lawrence began his acclaimed translation of The Odyssey. He devoted himself to the project for four years, and during that time he came to feel that he was uniquely suited to the task. "I have hunted wild boars and watched wild lions," he wrote. "Built boats and killed many men. So I have odd knowledges that qualify me to understand The Odyssey, and odd experiences that interpret it to me." Relying on an innate sense of language and truly gifted abilities at translation, Lawrence transformed Homer's Odyssey into mellifluous prose. The result was an overnight bestseller. The New York Herald Tribune hailed it "perhaps the most interesting translation of the world's most interesting book," and The New York Times called it "ruggedly and roughly masculine" and added that it "gives a vividness to the story beyond any other text familiar to us."
Lawrence breathes new life into the adventures of Odysseus, smoothing the reader's path through a fantastic array of monsters, temptresses, gods, and goddesses. For a generation of readers accustomed to verse translations of Homer, this bold and vivid prose version is well worth rediscovery. [via]More editions of The Odyssey of Homer:
One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224032356 (0-224-03235-6)
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 0192834738 (0-19-283473-8)
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Perspectives on Marriage: A Readerby Michael Warren, Kieran ScottISBN 0195313461 (0-19-531346-1)
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Procedures in Marriage and Family Therapyby Charles P. Barnard, Gregory W. BrockISBN 0205287824 (0-205-28782-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Procedures in Marriage and Family Therapy'Book summary:Most writing in marriage and family therapy presents readers with an established system of how to change families so as to relieve the symptoms of the stress they are suffering. The reader is encouraged to follow a rigid system and adopt one particular theoretical basis for bringing about change. The authors, two hands-on teachers, offer something different. They are sharing a "clinical anthropologist's" view of what happens when a family interacts with a professional who has dallied with the fads but finds success in doing what works. The authors have gathered data and organized it into a multifaceted notebook with value for both the novice and more experienced therapist. Hidden behind the descriptions of what to do and when readers can see the message of gentle care offered to families in pain. Topics covered include: first contact procedures, assessment, initial and middle stage treatment procedures, procedures for challenging sessions, and more. A resource all clinicians can draw upon, especially those early in their careers and those just beginning as marriage and family therapists.
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Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-Stateby Richard SeafordISBN 0198150369 (0-19-815036-9)
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 019832149X (0-19-832149-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Romolaby George Eliot, Andrew BrownISBN 0192829645 (0-19-282964-5)
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Save Me the Waltzby Zelda FitzgeraldISBN 0224615297 (0-224-61529-7)
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Brian HardingISBN 0192833715 (0-19-283371-5)
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The Scarlet Letterby Not Available, Escott, John (RTL), Thomas SperlingISBN 0194230430 (0-19-423043-0)
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Searching the Heart : Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth Century America, 1830-1900by Karen LystraISBN 0195058178 (0-19-505817-8)
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Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century Americaby Karen LystraISBN 0195074769 (0-19-507476-9)
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Shirleyby Charlotte Bronte, Margaret Smith, Herbert RosengartenISBN 0198125658 (0-19-812565-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shirley'Book summary:Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of them; they are young enough to be very active, and ought to be doing a great deal of good. But not of late years are we about to speak; we are going back to the beginning of this century: late years -- present years are dusty, sunburned, hot, arid; we will evade the noon, forget it in siesta, pass the midday in slumber, and dream of dawn. If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard. Something real, cool and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. It is not positively affirmed that you shall not have a taste of the exciting. . . . [via]
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Shirleyby Margaret Smith, Charlotte Bronte, Herbert RosengartenISBN 0192833782 (0-19-283378-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shirley'Book summary:With an introduction and notes by: Smith, Margaret; [via]
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The Shooting Partyby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0226102416 (0-226-10241-6)
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The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriageby Ferdinand MountISBN 0224019996 (0-224-01999-6)
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The Tender Passionby Peter GayISBN 0195051831 (0-19-505183-1)
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Tess Of The d'Urbervillesby Simon Gatrell, Penny Boumelha, Juliet Grindle, Thomas HardyISBN 019284069X (0-19-284069-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess Of The d'Urbervilles'Book summary:Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.
Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions. [via]More editions of Tess Of The d'Urbervilles:
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell, Juliet GrindleISBN 0192833626 (0-19-283362-6)
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: Stage 6 2,500 Headwordsby Thomas Hardy, Jennifer BassettISBN 0194230945 (0-19-423094-5)
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Uncertain Unions and Broken Lives: Marriage and Divorce in England 1660-1857by Lawrence StoneISBN 0192853082 (0-19-285308-2)
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Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England, 1660-1753by Lawrence StoneISBN 0198202539 (0-19-820253-9)
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Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationshipsby Diane VaughanISBN 0195039106 (0-19-503910-6)
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Under the Greenwood Treeby Thomas Hardy, Simon GatrellISBN 0192835173 (0-19-283517-3)
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte Bronte, Margaret Smith, Herbert RosengartenISBN 0192834339 (0-19-283433-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. Thus was George Eliot's response to Charlotte Bronte's dramatic Gothic exploration of a woman's rebellion against her constricting social environment. Set in a Belgian girls' school, it tells of Lucy Snowe's attraction to fiery, autocratic master Paul Emmanuel and headmistress, Madame Beck's jealous interference in their romance. The novel's blend of sombre vision and ironic and exuberant comedy make it especially appealing to the modern reader. [via]
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Villette: Library Editionby Margaret Smith, Charlotte Bronte, Herbert Rosengarten, Tim DolinISBN 0192839640 (0-19-283964-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:First published in 1853, Villette draws from Charlotte Brontë's experiences in Brussels in the 1840's. In this emotionally charged tale, we see Lucy Snowe's response to the challenges of her restrictive social environment as she flees from her unhappy past in England to a new life as a teacher at Madame Beck's school in Villette.
This new edition features the definitive Clarendon edition of Villette which is derived from the earliest printings of Brontë's great work. The text is supplemented with a newly commissioned introduction, which gives a thorough and in depth analysis of the context of this fine example of the nineteenth century novel. [via]More editions of Villette: Library Edition:
The Voyage Outby Virginia Woolf, Lorna SageISBN 0192837117 (0-19-283711-7)
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What Binds Marriage?: Roman Catholic Theology in Practiceby Timothy J. BuckleyISBN 0225668459 (0-225-66845-9)
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The White Peacockby D. H. Lawrence, David BradshawISBN 0192830872 (0-19-283087-2)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry JamesISBN 019283861X (0-19-283861-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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Womankind--beyond the Stereotypesby Nancy ReevesISBN 0202301702 (0-202-30170-2)
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