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The Age of Innocence (014018970X) by Wharton, Edith

by Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Laura Dluzynski Quinn

ISBN 014018970X (0-14-018970-X)
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Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]

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The American

by Henry James, William Spengemann

ISBN 0140390820 (0-14-039082-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James's masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.

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American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush

by Kevin Phillips

ISBN 0143034316 (0-14-303431-6)
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Paraphrasing a passage from Machiavelli's The Prince, Kevin Phillips writes, "a ruler can ignore the mob and devote himself to the interests of the ruling class, gulling the inert majority who constitute the ruled." He then says, "Borgia references aside, 21st-century American readers of The Prince may feel that they have stumbled on a thinly disguised Bush White House political memo." These pointed words would sting regardless of who uttered them, but coming from Phillips, a former Republican strategist, they have an added piquancy. In American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, Phillips traces the rise of the Bush family from investment banking elites to political power brokers, using their Ivy League network, vast wealth, and questionable political maneuvering to obtain the White House and consequently, shake the foundation of constitutional American democracy. Citing the Bush family mainstays of finance, energy (oil), the military industrial complex, and national security and intelligence (the CIA), Phillips uses copious examples to show the dangerous alliance between the Bushes' business interests (huge corporations such as Enron and Haliburton) and the formation of national policy. No other family, Phillips says, that has fulfilled its presidential aspirations has been so involved in the ascendancy of the arms industry and of the 21st-century American imperium--often at the expense of regional and world peace and for their personal gain.

It is hard to tell what offends Phillips the most: the Bushes' systematic deceit and secrecy, their shady business dealings, their cronyism, or their family philosophy that privileges the very wealthy and utterly dismisses all the rest. It is clearly all of these things combined. But at the top of Phillips' list is the dynastic nature of their family power, for it is that concentration of power and influence that strikes at the heart of our democracy. Past administrations have transgressed, albeit not so egregiously, and other political families have had dynastic ambitions. But none have succeeded as thoroughly as the Bushes. Jefferson and Madison would be horrified, and according to Phillips, we should be too. --Silvana Tropea [via]

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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

by Kevin Phillips

ISBN 0143038281 (0-14-303828-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of American Dynasty

In his two most recent bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that ruleand imperilthe United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of the emerging Republican majoritys rise to power. Now Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the current age of global overreach, fundamentalist religion, diminishing resources, and ballooning debt under the GOP majority. With an eye to the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips confirms what too many Americans are still unwilling to admit about the depth of our misgovernment.

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The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN 0141180870 (0-14-118087-0)
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One of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known works, The Beautiful And Damned is a glittering novel set against an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this is a scathing, ironic tale whose fictional couple parallells the real-life relationship of Fitzgerald and his wife, from its romantic beginning to its tragic end. It remains tothis day a devastating portrait of insatiable greed, ruthless ambition, and wasted talent. [via]

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The Black Sheep

by Honore De Balzac, Donald Adamson

ISBN 0140442375 (0-14-044237-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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His elegantly-crafted tale of sibling rivalry, Honore de Balzac's "The Black Sheep" is translated from the French with an introduction by Donald Adamson in "Penguin Classics". Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career as Napoleon's aide-de-camp at the battle of Montereau. His younger brother Joseph, meanwhile, is fundamentally virtuous - but their mother is blinded to his kindness by her disapproval of his life as an artist. Foolish and prejudiced, Agathe lives on unaware that she is being cynically manipulated by her own favourite child - but will she ever discover which of her sons is truly the black sheep of the family? A dazzling depiction of the power of money and the cruelty of life in nineteenth-century France, "The Black Sheep" compellingly explores is a compelling exploration of the nature of deceit. Donald Adamson's translation captures the radical modernity of Balzac's style, while his introduction places "The Black Sheep" in its context as one of the great novels of Balzac's renowned "Comedie humaine". Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) failed at being a lawyer, publisher, printer, businessman, critic and politician before, at the age of thirty, turning his hand to writing. His life's work, "La Comedie humaine", is a series of ninety novels and short stories which offer a magnificent panorama of nineteenth-century life after the French Revolution. Balzac was an influence on innumerable writers who followed him, including Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe. If you enjoyed "The Black Sheep", you might like Balzac's "Eugenie Grandet", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]

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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens, Nicola Bradbury

ISBN 0141439726 (0-14-143972-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]

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Bunny Money

by Rosemary Wells

ISBN 014056750X (0-14-056750-X)
Softcover, Puffin

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Carry On, Jeeves

by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0140284087 (0-14-028408-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

ISBN 0156028352 (0-15-602835-2)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self. [via]

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Corduroy

by Don Freeman

ISBN 0140501738 (0-14-050173-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Have you ever dreamed of being locked in a department store at night? The endearing story of Corduroy paints a picture of the adventures that might unfold (for a teddy bear at least) in such a situation. When all the shoppers have gone home for the night, Corduroy climbs down from the shelf to look for his missing button. It's a brave new world! He accidentally gets on an elevator that he thinks must be a mountain and sees the furniture section that he thinks must be a palace. He tries to pull a button off the mattress, but he ends up falling off the bed and knocking over a lamp. The night watchman hears the crash, finds Corduroy, and puts him back on the shelf downstairs. The next morning, he finds that it's his lucky day! A little girl buys him with money she saved in her piggy bank and takes him home to her room. Corduroy decides that this must be home and that Lisa must be his friend. Youngsters will never get tired of this toy-comes-alive tale with a happy ending, so you may also want to seek out Dan Freeman's next creation, A Pocket for Corduroy. (Ages 3 to 8) [via]

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Cousin Pons

by Honore De Balzac, Herbert James Hunt

ISBN 0140442057 (0-14-044205-7)
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Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. When these relatives become aware of the true value of his art collection, however, their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls away as they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man's inheritance. Taking its place in the Human Comedy as a companion to Cousin Bette, the darkly humorous "Cousin Pons" is among of the last and greatest of Balzac's novels concerning French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature. [via]

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The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton, Linda Wagner-Martin

ISBN 0143039709 (0-14-303970-9)
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Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel', but concluded that the book was 'brilliantly written', and 'should be read as a parable'. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion. Wharton was re-creating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War America, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics. [via]

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Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller, Gerald Clifford Weales

ISBN 0140247734 (0-14-024773-4)
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Ever since it was first performed in 1949, death of a salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the american theater. In the person of willy loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, arthur miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity-and a play that compresses epic extremems of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an american living room. "by common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the american theater." -brooks atkinson, the new york times "so simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." -time [via]

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The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939

by Anais Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann

ISBN 0156260263 (0-15-626026-3)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand

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Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the artist in the modern world. "Sensitive and frank...[Nin's] diary is a dialogue between flesh and spirit" (Newsweek). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.

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Diary of Anais Nin 1939-1944

by Anais Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann

ISBN 0156260271 (0-15-626027-1)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Nin's years of struggle and final triumph as an author in America. "Transcending mere self-revelation... the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Proust...dream and fact are balanced and...in their joining lie the elements of masterpiece" (Washington Post). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.

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Diary of Anais Nin 1944-1947

by Anais Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann

ISBN 015626028X (0-15-626028-X)
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The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934

by Anais Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann

ISBN 0156260255 (0-15-626025-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.

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Economics Explained

by Lester C. Thurow, Robert L. Heilbroner

ISBN 013229690X (0-13-229690-X)
Softcover, Prentice-Hall

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Economics Explained

by R. Heilbromer

ISBN 0132297086 (0-13-229708-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Emma

by Jane Austen, Fiona J. Stafford

ISBN 0141439580 (0-14-143958-0)
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Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.

For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]

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The Financial Peace Planner: A Step-By-Step Guide to Restoring Your Family's Financial Health

by Dave Ramsey

ISBN 014026468X (0-14-026468-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Get out of debt and stay out with the help of Dave Ramsey, recently seen by millions of Today Show viewers. His practical regimen, first set forth by The Financial Peace Planner, which will be published by Penguin in January 1998. Loaded with inspirational insights that come from personal experience, this set of books is the most valuable purchase a debt-ridden reader can make.

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A Fool and His Money

by John Rothchild

ISBN 0140119892 (0-14-011989-2)
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Armed with a modest nest egg and a sincere desire to get rich, amateur investor John Rothchild spent a year investing in a variety of financial opportunities. His story of modest profits and bigger losses will provide potential investors tips on what not to do while giving them a hearty laugh. [via]

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General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

by John Keynes

ISBN 0156347113 (0-15-634711-3)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Keynes profoundly influenced the New Deal and created the basis for classic economic theory. I can think of no single book that has so changed the conception held by economists as to the working of the capitalist system (Robert L. Heilbroner). Index.

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Granta 49

by Bill Buford

ISBN 0140140859 (0-14-014085-9)
Softcover, Granta Books

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The Hand Of Ethelberta

by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin

ISBN 0140435026 (0-14-043502-6)
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Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will she bestow her hand upon the richest of them, or on the man she loves? Ethelberta Petherwin, alias Berta Chickerel, moves with easy grace between her multiple identities, cleverly managing a tissue of lies to aid her meteoric rise. In "The Hand of Ethelberta" (1876), Hardy drew on conventions of popular romances, illustrated weeklies, plays, fashion plates and even his wife's diary in this comic story of a woman in control of her destiny. [via]

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History of the American Economy

by Ross M. Robertson

ISBN 0155365010 (0-15-536501-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton R. Stern

ISBN 0140390057 (0-14-039005-7)
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How the Stock Market Works

by John M. Dalton

ISBN 0130978663 (0-13-097866-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Press

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For the beginning financial professional and the sophisticated investor, here is a thoroughly updated edition of the classic guide to the inner workings of the stock market.

John M. (Jack) Dalton, formerly with the American Stock Exchange, explains the workings of the securities industry, including the initial public offering, types of stocks, whos who inside the brokerage firm, back-office operations, and investment analysis. This updated edition includes new chapters that cover ongoing changes at the NYSE, the AMEX, and Nasdaq, online trading and the globalization of the stock market. The book is also thoroughly updated to reflect changes that have taken place on Wall Street and in the way securities transactions are conducted since the publication of the second edition in 1993.

In addition, a comprehensive glossary that defines more than 600 financial termsfrom Advance-decline theory and Arbitrage to market-and-limit order and Zero plus tickenhances the relevance and accessibility of this book. [via]

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How to Have More Than Enough: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Abundance

by Dave Ramsey

ISBN 0140281932 (0-14-028193-2)
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Hunger

by Sverre Lyngstad, Knut Hamsun

ISBN 0141180641 (0-14-118064-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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First published in Norway in 1890, probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions.

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I Served the King of England

by Bohumil Hrabal, Paul Wilson

ISBN 015145745X (0-15-145745-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Education

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Ditie, a waiter, loves money, because he is short and money makes him feel six feet tall. So he follows his star from adventure to adventure, until he becomes a millionaire. But it is no dream come true, because along the way he troubles his conscience and ends up seeking a different kind of wealth. [via]

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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff, William Mills Todd

ISBN 014044792X (0-14-044792-X)
Softcover, Penguin Classics

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Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class. [via]

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires

ISBN 0140187863 (0-14-018786-3)
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Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]

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Letty Fox, Her Luck

by Christina Stead

ISBN 0156508850 (0-15-650885-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich

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Loving Trust: The Right Way to Provide for Yourself and Guarantee the Future of Your Loved Ones

by Robert A. Esperti, Renno L. Peterson

ISBN 0140104070 (0-14-010407-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall

ISBN 0140449124 (0-14-044912-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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This translation is Gerard Hopkins's 1949 classic rendition of Flaubert's great novel. It is supplemented by an luminous introduction by Anita Brookner. [via]

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Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Rosemary Ashton

ISBN 0141439548 (0-14-143954-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In a panoramic sweep of the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, George Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamund Vincy, beautiful and egoistic; Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar; Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally flawed physician; the passionate artist, Will Ladislaw; and Fred Vincy and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's comic vein. [via]

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Middlemarch

by A. S. Byatt, George Eliot

ISBN 0192100297 (0-19-210029-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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A. S. Byatt provides an introduction to one of the most popular novels in English literature, George Eliot's Middlemarch. [via]

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Middlemarch a Study of Provincial Life

by George Eliot

ISBN 0192504975 (0-19-250497-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Money Diet : Reaping the Rewards of Financial Fitness

by Virginia Applegarth

ISBN 0140247467 (0-14-024746-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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A personal financial planner integrates case studies, worksheets, and practical advice to help readers make day-to-day financial decisions that consider long-range goals and promote financial fitness. Reprint. [via]

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Money International

by Fred Hirsch

ISBN 0140210423 (0-14-021042-3)
Hardcover, Penguin

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Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy, from Brooklyn to Bangkog and Back

by Barbara Garson

ISBN 0142000507 (0-14-200050-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Not in Front of the Children...: How to Talk to Your Child About Tough Family Matters

by Lawrence Balter, Peggy Jo Donahue

ISBN 0140158332 (0-14-015833-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Only Daughter

by Jessica Anderson

ISBN 0140063331 (0-14-006333-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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The Oxford Book of Money

by Kevin Jackson

ISBN 0192142003 (0-19-214200-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen

by Jane Austen

ISBN 0192547046 (0-19-254704-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma.

Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage. [via]

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Personal Finance: Turning Money into Wealth

by Arthur J. Keown

ISBN 0130556130 (0-13-055613-0)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall

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The Pillow Book

by Sei Shonagon, Meredith McKinney

ISBN 0140448063 (0-14-044806-3)
Softcover, Penguin Classics

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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon

by Sei Shonagon, Ivan I. Morris

ISBN 0140442367 (0-14-044236-7)
Hardcover, Penguin

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'The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon', an informal diary of the reminiscences of a lady-in-waiting at the court of a Heian Empress. [via]

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The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James, Geoffrey Moore

ISBN 0141439637 (0-14-143963-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. [via]

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Roxana

by Daniel Defoe, David Blewett

ISBN 0140431497 (0-14-043149-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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Roxana the Fortunate Mistress

by Defoe D

ISBN 0192553046 (0-19-255304-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0140024794 (0-14-002479-4)
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Gussie Fink-Nottle must marry Madeleine Bassett or Bertie will be obliged to proffer the ring in his stead, so Jeeves and Bertie visit Totleigh Towers, a rural leper colony. It's suicide, but Gussie's engagement to that drip, Madeleine, must somehow be saved. [via]

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Three Guineas

by Virginia Woolf, Jane Marcus, Mark Hussey

ISBN 0156031639 (0-15-603163-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation.

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Three-Penny Novel

by Bertolt Brecht

ISBN 0140015159 (0-14-001515-9)
Hardcover, Penguin

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Translated by Desmond I Vesey. Verses Translated by Christopher Isherwood. Ex-library Sticker on the Front..Softback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in fair to good all-round condition, ,365pages. [via]

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Ulysses

by James Joyce

ISBN 014003000X (0-14-003000-X)
Hardcover, Penguin

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Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.

Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.

Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]

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An Unofficial Rose

by Iris Murdoch

ISBN 014002154X (0-14-002154-X)
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The nine characters in this novel are all looking for love; and so closely is the web woven that the actions and passions of each are constantly affecting the others. The irony and pathos of this tangled situation has extended Iris Murdoch's powers to the full, but her mastery of it is complete. Impelled by affection, lust, lost scruple, illusion and disillusion, wanting to be free yet needing to be involved, these characters perform the linked figures of their destiny. [via]

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Ursule Mirouet

by Honore De Balzac, Donald Adamson

ISBN 0140443169 (0-14-044316-9)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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An essentially simple tale about the struggles and triumph of innocence reviled, "Ursule Mirouet" is characterized by that wealth of penetrating observation so readily associated with Balzac's work. The twin themes of redemption and rebirth are illumianted by a consistently passionate rejection of both philosophic and practical materialsm is favor of love. In this case love is aided by supernatural intervention, which itself effectively illustrated Balzac's lifelong fascination with the occult. [via]

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The Vagabond

by Colette, Enid McLeod

ISBN 0140183256 (0-14-018325-6)
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After a shattering marriage and divorce, Renee Nere is supporting herself as a music-hall artist and confronting the conflicting passions of sex, love, and career. One of the best, most passionate, funniest, saddest, and richly romantic of the great Colette's novels. She's timeless and a must read! [via]

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The Wild Ass's Skin

by Honore De Balzac

ISBN 0140443304 (0-14-044330-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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Balzac is concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipation and restraint, in a novel that is powerful in its symbolism and realistic depiction of decadence. [via]

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