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The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughtersby Paul C. NagelISBN 0195059204 (0-19-505920-4)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, Stephen OrgelISBN 0192806629 (0-19-280662-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary: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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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in Americaby David Hackett FischerISBN 0195069056 (0-19-506905-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America'Book summary:This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins.
While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations. [via]More editions of Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America:
Before the Wind : The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833by Charles TyngISBN 0140291911 (0-14-029191-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Big Ifby Mark CostelloISBN 0156027798 (0-15-602779-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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The Blithedale Romanceby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0140390286 (0-14-039028-6)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blithedale Romance'Book summary:Renowned 19th-century author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes fully in his own time, not haunting his characters with the American past as in his more famous works THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES and THE SCARLET LETTER. Published in 1852, THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE remains a captivating work about politics, love, the supernatural, and idealism, written with Hawthorne's sharp wit and deep intelligence. [via]
Burt Dow Deep-Water Manby Robert McCloskeyISBN 014050978X (0-14-050978-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Storiesby H. P. Lovecraft, S. T. JoshiISBN 0141182342 (0-14-118234-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories'Book summary:Frequently imitated and widely influential, H. P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the twentieth century. Discarding witches and ghosts, he envisaged mankind as an outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi makes his selection from the early tales of nightmares and madness to the overpowering cosmic terror of 'The Call of Cthulhu'. This is the first paperback edition to include the definitive corrected texts of these classics of American fantasy fiction.[via]More editions of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories:
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard Kipling, John D. SeelyeISBN 0142437719 (0-14-243771-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captains Courageous'Book summary:Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner her is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captain's Courageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book, is thrown into an entirely alien environment. This is the only edition of the novel in print, and it offers a stimulating introduction and detailed notes which help readers navigate among the historical, geographical, and maritime references found in the book. [via]
Colonial New England: A Historical Geographyby Douglas R. McManisISBN 0195019083 (0-19-501908-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Country Doctorby Sarah Orne Jewett, Frederick WegenerISBN 0143039261 (0-14-303926-1)
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The Curse of the Bambinoby Dan ShaughnessyISBN 0142004766 (0-14-200476-6)
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Daniel Plainway or the Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath Leagueby Van ReidISBN 0141001909 (0-14-100190-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur MillerISBN 0140481346 (0-14-048134-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Salesman'Book summary:Arthur miller's pulitzer prize-winning play that forever changed the meaning of the american dream and won multiple tony awards for the 2012 broadway production directed by mike nichols and starring philip seymour hoffman as the tragic hero willy loman and andrew garfield as his son biff willy loman, the protagonist of death of a salesman, has spent his life following the american way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age sixty-three, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his marriage and destroyed his relationship with biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. arthur miller's masterpiece has steadily seen productions all over the world since its 1949 debut. As the noted miller scholar christopher bigsby states in his introduction, "if willy's is an american dream, it is also a dream shared by all those who are aware of the gap between what they might have been and what they are [via]
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Storiesby H. P. Lovecraft, S. T. JoshiISBN 0142437956 (0-14-243795-6)
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Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374566 (0-14-037456-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ethan Frome and Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 0192813668 (0-19-281366-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The European Discovery of America: The North Voyages A.D. 500-1600by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0195013778 (0-19-501377-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The European Discovery of America Vol. 1: The Northern Voyages, A. D. 500 - 1600by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0195082710 (0-19-508271-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The European Discovery of America Vol. 1: The Northern Voyages, A. D. 500 - 1600'Book summary:The late Samuel Eliot Morison, a former U.S. Navy admiral, was also one of America's premier historians. Combining a first-hand knowledge of the sea and transatlantic travel with a brilliantly readable narrative style, he produced what has become nothing less than the definitive account of the great age of European exploration. In his riveting and richly illustrated saga, Morison offers a comprehensive account of all the known voyages by Europeans to the New World from 500 A.D. to the seventeenth century. Together, the two volumes of The European Discovery of America tell the compelling stories of the many intrepid explorers who made what was then a journey frought with danger--figures as diverse as Leif Ericsson, Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Martin Frobisher, Magellan, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake to name but a few. They also follow the adventures of lesser-known but no less interesting mariners and offer a detailed look at those who set them forth on their travels.
In the first volume, The Nrthern Voyages--winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for History--Morison re-creates the lives and perilous times of those who claimed to have seen the shores of North America in the 600 years after the Norsemen first landed. He brings to his account a rare immediacy, making the drama and unpredictability of their voyages as significant in relation to the people of their era as the astronauts' journeys have been for our own times. Morison also offers a fascinating look at the imaginary lands reported by early travelers (such mythical places as Antilia and the Seven Cities, the glorious Kingdoms of Norumbega and Saguenay, and Hy-Brasil the Isle of the Blest) and examines as well the alleged discoverers of these lands. With warmth and wit he distinguishes fact from fiction, and imaginary explorers and their exploits from actual men and events.
In the second volume, Morison turns his attention to the navigators who negotiated the waters of the Caribbean and the treacherous coasts of South America, even following them as they ventured ashore to the dark inland of the southern continent. The Southern Voyages begins with the events leading up to Columbus's arrival in San Salvador in 1492 and concludes with the discovery of the southernmost bit of land, Cape Horn, by Dutch explorers in 1616. In between, Morison retraces the routes of all the great mariners, including a step-by-step account of Magellan's voyage that would take him around the world. Morison has enlivened his narrative with a wide range of source material from Italy, Spain, Portugal, and South America, in the process shedding new light on questions that have divided scholars througout history: Did Sir Francis Drake discover San Francisco Bay? Was Amerigo Vespucci a great explorer or a fraud--or a little of both? What role did the French have in the European discovery of Brazil?
Each volume brims with contemporary illustrations, maps (many of them specially drawn for this history) and photographs (often taken by Morison himself as he flew at low altitude along the coastal routes of explorers), which together identify virtually every allusion to land and sea made by the great European navigators in their ship logs and their later accounts.
With the 500th anniversary of the European arrival in America came much controversy over Columbus's true legacy. With its lively and engaging style, and with its unsurpassed understanding of the age, The European Discovery of America helps put the era of exploration in much-needed perspective. Anyone interested in the history of America, indeed, in the history of Western Civilization, will find these volumes absolutely essential. [via]More editions of The European Discovery of America Vol. 1: The Northern Voyages, A. D. 500 - 1600:
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The European Discovery of America Vol. 2: The Southern Voyages, A. D. 1492 - 1616by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0195082729 (0-19-508272-9)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The European Discovery of America Vol. 2 : The Southern Voyages, A. D. 1492 - 1616'Book summary:Completing Morison's monumental study of the explorers who discovered and journeyed through the coasts of the Americas, ths volume covers not only all of Latin America, including theCaribbean area and South America, but also Bermuda, Florida and California. [via]
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The Face on the Wallby Jane LangtonISBN 0140281576 (0-14-028157-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Geographer's Libraryby Jon FasmanISBN 0143036629 (0-14-303662-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Geographer's Library'Book summary:The literary history suspense novel has long been a genre appreciated by a small subset of general readers. It is currently enjoying a new vogue and a wider readership with the publication of such novels as The Da Vinci Code, The Rule of Four, and Codex. What these books have in common, and what The Geographer's Library can also claim, is a set of characters in the here and now grappling with questions about things that went on a very long time ago. Another characteristic is the unearthing or explanation of objects of great value. The trick is to weave these two realities together in a compelling way, one that will keep the reader involved in both stories.
Jon Fasman has taken a big chance with The Geographer's Library, his debut novel, setting out a complicated scenario in which a collection of priceless objects is stolen from the titular library and, eventually, scattered and re-collected a thousand years later--with very bad results for the final collector. The geographer is a real person, Al-Idrisi, a Spanish-Muslim philosopher, cartographer, linguist, and scholar who served in the court of King Roger of Sicily in Palermo in the year 1154. For the most part, Fasman's risk pays off, although there is a lot of meandering before we finally get to the final revelation.
The "wraparound" story is about a young journalist, Paul Tomm, who sets out to write a simple obituary about a professor who died in his office at Paul's Alma Mater. The man is Jaan Puhapaev, an Estonian perhaps, who is a terrible teacher, fires his gun out his office window twice, is odd, unavailable, and reclusive and yet is allowed to stay on for unknown reasons. He also collects only $1.00 a year in salary and has no other visible means of support. The core narrative is a description of the provenance and travels of each of the 15 objects--some or all of which may hold the secret of eternal life--stolen from Al-Idrisi.
A professor friend of Paul's, a policemen and a curious editor all get an investigation rolling regarding what really happened to Jaan, who is he, and is he perhaps much, much older than they think? Paul meets and falls for a neighbor and putative friend of Jaan's, a music teacher named Hannah Rowe, which moves the information curve upward. This is the least believable part of the story: it's easier to accept the alchemical power of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes than Hannah. That said, Fasman does bring it all home at the end with an expository chapter and two letters. A bit of a cheat, but at least the reader is neatly taken off the literary hook he has dangled on for 380 pages. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New Englandby Jane KamenskyISBN 0195130901 (0-19-513090-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of Americaby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0195042220 (0-19-504222-0)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America'Book summary:This is an abridgement of Samuel Morison's magnum opus, The European Discovery of America, in which he describes the early voyages that led to the discovery of the New World. All the acclaimed Morison touches are here - the meticulous research and authoritative scholarship, along with the personal and compelling narrative style that gives the reader the feeling of having been there. Morison, of course, has been there, and The Great Explorers is enriched with photographs and maps he made while personally retracing the great voyages. [via]
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Groupby Mary McCarthyISBN 0156372088 (0-15-637208-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Group'Book summary:Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars.
Mary McCarthys most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as the group. An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult livestraveling to Europe, tackling the worlds of nursing and publishing, and finding love and heartbreak in the streets of New York City. Through the years, some of the friends grow apart and some become entangled in each other's affairs, but all vow not to become like their mothers and fathers. It is only when one of them passes away that they all come back together again to mourn the loss of a friend, a confidante, and most importantly, a member of the group. [via]
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Hannahs Fancy Notions: A Story of Industrial New Englandby Pat Ross, Bert DodsonISBN 0140323899 (0-14-032389-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hannahs Fancy Notions: A Story of Industrial New England'Book summary:When Hannah sets out to make something special for her sister, who works to support the family, she doesn't suspect the far-reaching consequences of her gift. [via]
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The House of Mirthby Edith Wharton, Martha BantaISBN 0192835793 (0-19-283579-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North Americaby James AxtellISBN 0195041542 (0-19-504154-2)
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Letourneau's Used Auto Partsby Carolyn ChuteISBN 0156001896 (0-15-600189-6)
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Liberty and Freedomby David Hackett FischerISBN 0195162536 (0-19-516253-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Liberty and Freedom'Book summary:Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined strand that runs through the core of American life.
Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. Tocqueville called them "habits of the heart." From the earliest colonies, Americans have shared ideals of liberty and freedom, but with very different meanings. Like DNA these ideas have transformed and recombined in each generation.
The book arose from Fischer's discovery that the words themselves had differing origins: the Latinate "liberty" implied separation and independence. The root meaning of "freedom" (akin to "friend") connoted attachment: the rights of belonging in a community of freepeople. The tension between the two senses has been a source of conflict and creativity throughout American history.
Liberty & Freedom studies the folk history of those ideas through more than 400 visions, images, and symbols. It begins with the American Revolution, and explores the meaning of New England's Liberty Tree, Pennsylvania's Liberty Bells, Carolina's Liberty Crescent, and "Don't Tread on Me" rattlesnakes. In the new republic, the search for a common American symbol gave new meaning to Yankee Doodle, Uncle Sam, Miss Liberty, and many other icons. In the Civil War, Americans divided over liberty and freedom. Afterward, new universal visions were invented by people who had formerly been excluded from a free society--African Americans, American Indians, and immigrants. The twentieth century saw liberty and freedom tested by enemies and contested at home, yet it brought the greatest outpouring of new visions, from Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms to Martin Luther King's "dream" to Janis Joplin's "nothin' left to lose."
Illustrated in full color with a rich variety of images, Liberty and Freedom is, literally, an eye-opening work of history--stimulating, large-spirited, and ultimately, inspiring. [via]More editions of Liberty and Freedom:
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontierby Colin WoodwardISBN 0143035347 (0-14-303534-7)
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward Bellamy, Cecelia TichiISBN 0140390189 (0-14-039018-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward, 2000-1887'Book summary:It is the year 2000 - and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere. This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions - electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, electronic broadcasting - ensured the mass popularity of this 1888 novel. But, however rich in fantasy and romance, "Looking Backward" is a passionate attach on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal. In her introduction, Cecelia Tichi discusses how the novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it embodies a sustaining myth of the American literary tradition - that man's perfectibility is attainable in the New World. [via]
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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whaleby Chase Nickerson, Thomas Philbrick, Nathaniel Philbrick, Thomas NickersonISBN 0140437967 (0-14-043796-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale'Book summary:In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex, thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific, was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members floating in three small boats for ninety days. The incident was the Titanic story of its day, and provided the inspiration for Melville's Moby-Dick. The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by the ship's first mate, Owen Chase, has long been the fundamental account of the Essex's doomed voyage. But in 1980, a new account of the disaster was discovered, penned by Thomas Nickerson, the fifteen-year-old cabin boy who was steering the ship when the whale attacked. Now, Nickerson's harrowing tale can be read alongside Chase's in one authoritative edition, which includes more than a dozen other accounts from articles and newspapers, many of which have never appeared in book form. [via]
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Lyddieby Katherine PatersonISBN 0140349812 (0-14-034981-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lyddie'Book summary:[via]When Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm's debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family once again. Hearing about all the money a girl can make working in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, she makes her way there, only to find that her dreams of returning home may never come true.
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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard H. BrodheadISBN 0140390774 (0-14-039077-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marble Faun'Book summary:The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy.
Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society. [via]
Merry Menby Carolyn ChuteISBN 0156001918 (0-15-600191-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Moffats: Library Editionby Eleanor Estes, Louis SlobodkinISBN 0152025413 (0-15-202541-3)
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This charming book has been making readers smile for over half a century. It reflects a gentler era, when the jolly chief of police had time to sit on the curb to hear a little girl's "crimes" and a little boy's escapade on a train was not cause for media panic, just a simple redirecting by the agreeable engineer. Eleanor Estes, author of the Newbery Honor book The Hundred Dresses, and Caldecott medalist Louis Slobodkin (Many Moons) make a lovely team in this story of benign humor and sweet times. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Mrs. Roberto, Or, The Widowy Worries of the Moosepath Leagueby Van ReidISBN 0142004537 (0-14-200453-7)
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucketby Edgar Allan Poe, Richard KopleyISBN 0140437487 (0-14-043748-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'Book summary:This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ************ The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe's only complete novel, published in 1838. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym including shipwreck, mutiny and cannibalism. The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes increasingly strange and hard to classify in later chapters, involving religious symbolism and the Hollow Earth. - Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. More e-Books from MobileReference - Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation (TM) All fiction books are only $0.99. All collections are only $5.99Designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices Search for any title: enter mobi (shortened MobileReference) and a keyword; for example: mobi ShakespeareTo view all books, click on the MobileReference link next to a book title Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one-time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library. [via]
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, J. Gerald KennedyISBN 0192837710 (0-19-283771-0)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slaveby Frederick Douglass, Houston A. BakerISBN 014039012X (0-14-039012-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave'Book summary:"I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant." So begins the now-classic personal account of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), who was born into slavery in Maryland and after his escape to Massachusetts in 1838 became an ardent abolitionist and campaigner for women's rights. His Narrative , which was an instant bestseller upon publication in 1845, relates his experience as a slave, the cruelty he suffered at the hands of his masters, his struggle to educate himself, and his fight for freedom. Written with much passion, and with no small degree of striking biblical imagery, the Narrative came to assume epic proportions as a fundamental anti-slavery text, an accessible record in which the author had carefully crafted both his life story and his persona. The introduction and notes for this new edition fully examine Douglass--the man and the myth--while also considering both his complex relationship with women and the enduring power of his autobiography. Other highlights include extracts from Douglass's primary sources and examples of his writing on women's rights. [via]
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New England Nun and Other Storiesby Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sandra A. ZagraellISBN 0140437398 (0-14-043739-8)
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New England Taleby Catharine Maria Sedgewick, Emily E. Vandette, Susan K. HarrisISBN 0142437123 (0-14-243712-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New England Tale'Book summary:[via]Jane Elton, orphaned as a young girl, goes to live with her aunt Mrs. Wilson, a selfish and overbearing woman who practices a repressive Calvinism. In their rural New England village, Jane grows up yearning to break free from Mrs. Wilson's tyranny and find her place as a citizen of the evolving American Republic. She is helped by her encounters with characters who embody various shadings of moral, religious, and civic virtue: the affectionate servant Mary Hull, a pious Methodist; Mr. Lloyd, a kind Quaker; Crazy Bet, emotional, sympathetic, but deeply unstable; and Old John, bereaved but wise. Ultimately, A New-England Tale is about the connection between parenting and governing, and the key role women play in shaping a fledgling nation.
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New England Taleby Victoria Clements, Catharine Maria SedgewickISBN 0195093275 (0-19-509327-5)
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An Old-fashioned Thanksgiving and Other Storiesby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0146001109 (0-14-600110-9)
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Our Nigby Harriet E. Wilson, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Reginald H. PittsISBN 0142437778 (0-14-243777-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Nig'Book summary:"Our Nig" is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household. Frado's story is a tragic one; having left the Bellmonts, she eventually marries a black fugitive slave, who later abandons her. [via]
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The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Origins of Empire British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Centuryby Alaine Low, Nicholas P. Canny, William Roger Louis, Marshall. P. J.ISBN 0198205627 (0-19-820562-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Origins of Empire British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century'Book summary:Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on every part of the world that was substantially affected by British colonial activity. As late as 1630, involvement with regions beyond the traditional confines of Europe was still tentative; by 1690 it had [via]
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Paul Revere's Rideby Ted Rand, Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 0140556125 (0-14-055612-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul Revere's Ride'Book summary:"Listen, my children, and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere ..." So begins one of the most stirring poems in American literature. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" in 1861, nearly 100 years after the actual midnight ride that began on April 18, in 1775. The poem creates a suspenseful story as American colonist Paul Revere decides with his friend Robert Newman and others to avert a British attack on Concord, Massachusetts. The British had come from Boston in search of the colonists' arms supply. What Revere and his friends didn't know was whether the Redcoats would come by land (around the mouth of the Charles River) or by sea (across the river). Newman spotted the British "by sea" and signaled from the Old North Church tower to Revere, who was "Ready to ride and spread the alarm/Through every Middlesex village and farm,/For the country folk to be up and to arm." And, by morning, the country folk were ready, indeed. "Chasing the red-coats down the lane,/Then crossing the fields to emerge again/Under the trees at the turn of the road,/And only pausing to fire and load." This battle, the first of the American Revolution, drove the British back to Boston.
Ted Rand--well-loved illustrator of The Hullabaloo ABC, Mailing May, Knots on a Counting Rope, and many other critically acclaimed titles--masters the mood and movement of the famous midnight ride, and children will love the power and drama of this historic American event. (Great read-aloud, ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Peter Loon: A Novelby Van ReidISBN 0142003115 (0-14-200311-5)
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Precious Baneby Mary WebbISBN 0140590099 (0-14-059009-9)
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Preserving Historic New England: Preservation, Progressivism, and the Remaking of Memoryby James M. LindgrenISBN 0195093631 (0-19-509363-1)
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The Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England 1675-1678by Russell BourneISBN 0195069765 (0-19-506976-5)
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The Roots of American Racism: Essays on the Colonial Experienceby Alden T. VaughanISBN 0195086872 (0-19-508687-2)
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Rose in Bloomby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374515 (0-14-037451-5)
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Selected Poemsby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lawrence BuellISBN 0140390642 (0-14-039064-2)
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Selected Tales and Sketchesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michael J. ColacurcioISBN 014039057X (0-14-039057-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Tales and Sketches'Book summary:A collection of short fiction from a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Selected Tales and Sketches" is introduced by Michael J. Colacurcio in "Penguin Classics". With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Collected here are stories such as "Young Goodman Brown", in which a young Puritan man is haunted by a vision of satanic rituals, gradually losing his faith; "The Haunted Mind", which contemplates the surreal nature of dreams as a gateway to supernatural realms; "Ethan Brand", an eerie meditation on the nature of sin; and "The Minister's Black Veil", in which a small-town clergyman undergoes a frightening transformation. Written from the 1820s-to the 1850s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: "The Scarlet Letter", "The House of the Seven Gables" and "The Blithedale Romance". And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1825 he graduated from Bowdoin College, Maine, and returned to Salem determined to become a writer. He joined Brook Farm, a utopian experiment in communal living, before marrying in 1842. His writing had already secured some success with his "Twice-Told Tales", but it was the publication of "The Scarlet Letter in 1850" that brought him immediate recognition, followed a year later by "The House of the Seven Gables". If you enjoyed "Selected Tales" and "Sketches", you might like Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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Shakeressby Kimberly HeustonISBN 0142400548 (0-14-240054-8)
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Snow Manby Carolyn ChuteISBN 0156011409 (0-15-601140-9)
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Stillwaterby William F. WeldISBN 0156027232 (0-15-602723-2)
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Time of Wonderby Robert McCloskeyISBN 0140502017 (0-14-050201-7)
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Town & the Cityby John KerouacISBN 0156907909 (0-15-690790-9)
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Travels With Charleyby John SteinbeckISBN 0142000701 (0-14-200070-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With Charley'Book summary:In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders through scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley in Search of America is animated by Steinbeck's attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature-to weather, geography, the cycle of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way. Travels with Charley in Search of America, originally published in 1962, provides an intimate and personal look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life-a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. It was written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South-which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand-and is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. [via]
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Unravellingby Elizabeth GraverISBN 0156006103 (0-15-600610-3)
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White Pine: Poems and Prose Poemsby Mary OliverISBN 0156001209 (0-15-600120-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems'Book summary:Wherein the poet continues her literary program with much the same sort of excellent poems about nature, the connection between the natural and the physical, and the tug-of-war between the familiar and the mysterious. I Found A Dead Fox, seemingly influenced by William Carlos Williams, gives one a good sense of the imagery in this fine collection. Oliver writes: "I found a dead fox / beside the gravel road,/ curled up inside the big/ iron wheel/ of an old tractor." Toads, mockingbirds, and afternoons of chopping wood fill these pages, as do beautiful, provocative images. Highly recommended. [via]
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The Winter of Our Discontentby John Steinbeck, Susan ShillinglawISBN 0143039482 (0-14-303948-2)
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A Wonder Book for Girls & Boysby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walter CraneISBN 0195107187 (0-19-510718-7)
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