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The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, Carol J. SingleyISBN 0395980798 (0-395-98079-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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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]
Age of Revolution 1789 1848by Eric J. HobsbawnISBN 0451627202 (0-451-62720-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles DickensISBN 0460000764 (0-460-00076-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'Book summary:Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mindless violence of the mob. Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices is interwoven with the murder mystery surrounding the father of the simple-minded Barnaby. The discovery of the murderer and his involvement in the riots put Barnaby's life in jeopardy. Culminating in the terrifying destruction of Newgate prison by the rampaging hordes, the brilliant descriptions of the riots are among Dickens's most powerful. Barnaby Rudge looks forward to the dark complexities of Dickens's later novels, whose characters also seek refuge from a chaotic and unstable world. This edition includes all the original illustrations, plus an illuminating Introduction and notes.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via]More editions of Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty:
Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0451156595 (0-451-15659-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Toni Morrison gently reads her own Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the unabridged version of this riveting tale of ex-slave Sethe and the beloved ghost that haunts her. While Morrison makes occasional odd pauses in her reading, what is lost in smoothness is more than made up for in quiet intensity as the author reads words obviously deeply felt. Her intimate knowledge of the characters and their motivations lends this reading an authority that helps the listener sort out the breaks in time and dialogue in this complex story of a woman coming to terms with her enslaved past and the loss of her husband and baby daughter. (Running time: 12 hours, eight cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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- Beloved: ISBN 0451161394 (0-451-16139-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Beloved: ISBN 045225230X (0-452-25230-X)
Softcover, Plume - Beloved: ISBN 0452261368 (0-452-26136-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Beloved: ISBN 0452264464 (0-452-26446-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Beloved: ISBN 0452280621 (0-452-28062-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Beloved: ISBN 0451156595 (0-451-15659-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Beloved: ISBN 0451161394 (0-451-16139-4)
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The Blithedale Romanceby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 048642684X (0-486-42684-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blithedale Romance'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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Collected Poemsby W. B. Yeats, William Blake, Tom PaulinISBN 041528984X (0-415-28984-X)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Collected Poemsby William Blake, W. B. Yeats, Tom PaulinISBN 0415289858 (0-415-28985-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems'Book summary:William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world.
This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats, who had previously been one of the pioneer editors of Blake's prophetic books. Yeats, one of the few poets whose work could be compared with that of Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings. There is no better way to encounter the work of one poetic genius than as it is presented by another, and Yeats understood Blake in a way few others did.
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0394718925 (0-394-71892-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Complete Poetry and Selected Proseby Walt WhitmanISBN 0395051320 (0-395-05132-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0486426823 (0-486-42682-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. Gogol's comic masterpiece offers a vast and satirical painting of 19th-century Russia. A work of great symbolism, it continues to inspire 21st-century authors and readers.[via]More editions of Dead Souls:
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, Richard D. HeffnerISBN 0451528123 (0-451-52812-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Classic analysis of america's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), a french aristocrat who visited the united states in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of america's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, i confess that in america i saw more than america; i sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress [via]
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- Democracy in America: ISBN 0451616200 (0-451-61620-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Democracy in America: ISBN 0451626974 (0-451-62697-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Democracy in America: ISBN 0451628012 (0-451-62801-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Democracy in America: ISBN 0451528123 (0-451-52812-3)
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- Democracy in America: ISBN 0451616200 (0-451-61620-0)
Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Helen McNeilISBN 0460878956 (0-460-87895-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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Eminent Victoriansby Lytton StracheyISBN 0486451364 (0-486-45136-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Erewhonby Samuel ButlerISBN 0486420485 (0-486-42048-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Erewhon'Book summary:[via]Erewhon (an anagram for "nowhere") is a faraway land where machinery is forbidden, sickness is a punishable crime, and criminals receive compassionate medical treatment. Butler's brilliant Utopian novel is an entertaining and thought-provoking work, taking aim at such hallowed institutions as family, church, and mechanical progress.More editions of Erewhon:
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The Essential Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston Leroux, Leonard WolfISBN 0452273862 (0-452-27386-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Phantom Of The Opera'Book summary:This edition of Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera" is fully annotated, and includes facts, bibliographical information and legends. It also features a full bibliography of works by and about Gaston Leroux, including critical works on "The Phantom of the Opera". [via]
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The Fall of the House of Usherby Edgar Allan Poe, Marler, Regina (AFT), Stephen MarloweISBN 0451530314 (0-451-53031-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the House of Usher And Other Tales'Book summary:This all-new adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's masterpiece of horror takes readers into the dark depths of the subconscious, unearthing hidden terrors of the human soul. [via]
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- The Fall of the House of Usher: ISBN 0425121402 (0-425-12140-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories: ISBN 0451524632 (0-451-52463-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales: ISBN 0451526759 (0-451-52675-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Fall of the House of Usher And Other Tales: ISBN 0451530314 (0-451-53031-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
- The Fall of the House of Usher: ISBN 0425121402 (0-425-12140-2)
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Faust, Part Oneby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Anna SwanwickISBN 0486280462 (0-486-28046-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust, Part One'Book summary:The story of the old philosopher who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power constitutes one of Western folklore's most enduring legends. Incorporating themes from theology, ancient myth, and philosophy, Goethe renders his dramatic poem in styles ranging from epic and lyric to operatic and balletic.[via]More editions of Faust, Part One:
Felix Holtby George EliotISBN 0460003534 (0-460-00353-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Hero of Our Timeby Mikhail Lermontov, Neil CornwellISBN 0460875663 (0-460-87566-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Henry Carlisle, Olga Andreyev CarlisleISBN 0451528387 (0-451-52838-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idiot'Book summary:A towering figure of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky depicted with remarkable insight the depth and complexity of the human soul. In this literary classic, he focuses on a nobleman, whose gentle, child-like nature has earned him the nickname of "the idiot."A superb, panoramic view of mid-19th-century Russian manners, morals and philosophy.[via]More editions of The Idiot:
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The Illustrated Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Howard ChapnickISBN 0448020742 (0-448-02074-2)
Hardcover, Madison Square Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Introduction by William Carlos Williams. [via]
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J.S. Mill on Liberty in Focusby John Gray, G.W. SmithISBN 0415010012 (0-415-01001-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.S. Mill on Liberty in Focus'Book summary:This volume brings together J.S. Mills On Liberty and a selection of important essays by such eminent scholars as Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, John Rees, C.L. Ten and Richard Wollheim. As well as providing authoritative commentary upon On Liberty, the essays reflect a broader debate about the philosophical foundations of Mill's liberalism, particularly the question of the connection betweenMill's professed utilitarianism and his commitment to individual liberty. Introduced and edited by John Gray and G.W. Smith, the book will be of interest to students of Mill, to ethical and political philosophers and to anyone interested in the contemporary status of liberalism. [via]
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Peter Davison, Billy Collins, Gay Wilson AllenISBN 0451529731 (0-451-52973-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
- Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0460005731 (0-460-00573-1)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0451524853 (0-451-52485-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0451527585 (0-451-52758-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0451529731 (0-451-52973-1)
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- Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0460005731 (0-460-00573-1)
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Letters from the Underworldby Feodor DostoevskyISBN 0460006541 (0-460-00654-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from the Underworld'Book summary:This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher. [via]
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewitby Charles Dickens, Michael SlaterISBN 0460873679 (0-460-87367-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Major Playsby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ann DunniganISBN 0451530373 (0-451-53037-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Major Plays'Book summary:"What makes his work great is that it can be felt and understood...by anybody," said Leo Tolstoy of Chekhov's plays, which express life through subtle construction, everyday dialogue, and an electrically charged atmosphere. [via]
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0451528298 (0-451-52829-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moonstone'Book summary:Stolen from the forehead of a Hindu idol, the dazzling gem known as "The Moonstone" resurfaces at a birthday party in an English country home with an enigmatic trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail. Laced with superstitions, suspicion, humor, and romance, this 1868 mystery draws readers into a compelling tale with numerous twists and turns.[via] -
The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles Dickens, G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486444996 (0-486-44499-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'Book summary:Dickens' marvelous tale of murder was left unfinished at his death in 1870. The novel has been all the more tantalizing for its lack of an ending to a mystifying puzzle that avid readers, over the years, have tried to solve. A gem for lovers of mysteries and the legions of Dickens fans.[via] 
Nikolai Gogol's Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0451525205 (0-451-52520-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane Austen, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451526368 (0-451-52636-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0460018930 (0-460-01893-0)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0486414124 (0-486-41412-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0451523725 (0-451-52372-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0460874349 (0-460-87434-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0451526368 (0-451-52636-8)
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- Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0460018930 (0-460-01893-0)
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Andrew Robert MacAndrewISBN 0451529553 (0-451-52955-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground'Book summary:Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes that dominated Dostoyevsky's later masterworks. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction. [via]
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Notes from Underground White Nights the Dream of a Ridiculous Man and Selections from the House of the Deadby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0451523768 (0-451-52376-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Old Curiosity Shopby Charles DickensISBN 0486426793 (0-486-42679-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Curiosity Shop'Book summary:The sound of Little Nell clattering hurriedly over cobblestones immediately sets the stage by bringing to mind the narrow and dangerous streets of Victorian London. No fewer than 20 performers are called upon to conjure up the Dickensian world of wanderers, ne'er-do-wells, con artists, and kind Samaritans--and each performance is excellent. Tom Courtenay plays the sadistic Quilp, "the ugliest dwarf that could be seen anywhere for a penny" with magnificent sarcastic glee, and Teresa Gallagher's silvery, childlike voice is ideally suited for the role of the angelic Little Nell.
Nell is on her way home to the dusty shop where she and her grandfather live a rather mysterious life. The old man disappears every night--visiting gambling dens with the naive hope of winning a fortune. Instead he sinks deeper and deeper into debt. Enter Daniel Quilp, moneylender, who becomes furious upon learning that the grandfather is a pauper and will never be able to repay his tremendous debt. Quilp seizes the curiosity shop and begins making lecherous overtures to Nell, so she and her grandfather steal away one morning to seek their fortunes elsewhere. But the demonic dwarf is never far behind.
Sound effects are employed judiciously and serve mainly as a springboard for the listener's imagination. The sound of a crying baby is enough to convey the image of crowded lodgings and genteel Victorian poverty, while raucous laughter and high-pitched squawks evoke the barely controlled chaos of an outdoor Punch and Judy show. The dramatization pares Dickens's weighty novel down to two and one-half hours, but does so skillfully, retaining Dickens's wit, marvelous dialogue, and delightful characterizations. (Running time: 155 minutes, 2 cassettes) --Elizabeth Laskey [via]
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0486421309 (0-486-42130-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Liberty'Book summary:In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty. This new edition offers students of political science and philosophy, in an inexpensive volume, one of the most influential studies on the nature of individual liberty and its role in a democratic society.[via]More editions of On Liberty:
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston Leroux, Kate McMullan, Paul JennisISBN 0394838475 (0-394-83847-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantom Of The Opera'Book summary:Filled with all the color and spectacle of the Paris Opera House in the nineteenth century, and the ageless fascination of love transformed into murderous obsession, this classic work of mystery and suspense remains a riveting journey into the darkest regions of the human heart. [via]
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- Phantom Of The Opera: ISBN 0451528158 (0-451-52815-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Phantom Of The Opera: ISBN 0486434583 (0-486-43458-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Phantom of the Opera: ISBN 0440227747 (0-440-22774-7)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books - Phantom Of The Opera: ISBN 0446301205 (0-446-30120-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - The Phantom of the Opera: ISBN 0451524829 (0-451-52482-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Phantom Of The Opera: ISBN 0394838475 (0-394-83847-5)
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- Phantom Of The Opera: ISBN 0451528158 (0-451-52815-8)
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Playsby Michael Frayn, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 041318160X (0-413-18160-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays'Book summary:[via]This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster; Three Sisters in which three siblings wrestle with their futures and The Cherry Orchard where the old must inevitably give way to the new. Haunting and elusive, these four great late masterpieces have found in Michael Frayn a translator who perfectly captures their delicate balance of the tragic and the absurd. The volume also contains four of Chekhov's early short 'vaudevilles' as well as a substantial introduction by Michael Frayn.
"The critical clamour for a Complete Chekhov in Michael Frayn's translation has borne fruit"Sunday Times
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0395051061 (0-395-05106-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:"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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Professor and Emmaby Charlotte BronteISBN 0460004174 (0-460-00417-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetryby Walter PaterISBN 0486440257 (0-486-44025-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0486264661 (0-486-26466-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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A Sportsman's Sketchesby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0404019080 (0-404-01908-0)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Statistics for Decisions; An Elementary Introductionby Gerald E. ThompsonISBN 046001417X (0-460-01417-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Subjection of Womenby John Stuart MillISBN 0486296016 (0-486-29601-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Thomas Hardyby Andrew MotionISBN 0460874586 (0-460-87458-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Vaudevillesby Ann Dunnigan, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Robert BrusteinISBN 0451527763 (0-451-52776-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Vaudevillesby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ann DunniganISBN 0451522702 (0-451-52270-2)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/the Subjection of Women/2 Books in 1by John Stuart Mill, Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0460871730 (0-460-87173-0)
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0486424723 (0-486-42472-3)
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0395051134 (0-395-05113-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"by Henry David ThoreauISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 046087635X (0-460-87635-X)
Softcover, Everyman
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woodsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0486284956 (0-486-28495-6)
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William Blakeby Peter ButterISBN 046087800X (0-460-87800-X)
Softcover, Everyman
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