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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0451526538 (0-451-52653-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The classic novel of a mischievous boys escapades in a 19th-century river townwhitewashing the fence, seeking buried treasure, and more. Good-natured humor and vivid characterizations make the tale a longstanding favorite with readers of all ages.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

ISBN 0451527747 (0-451-52774-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Anton Chekhov Selected Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

ISBN 0451525116 (0-451-52511-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Selected Stories, by Chekhov, Anton; tr. by Ann Dunnigan [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne, Jacqueline Rogers

ISBN 0451525450 (0-451-52545-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompaned by his hot-blooded manservant Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard -- who believes that Fogg has robbed the Bank of England -- to win the extraordinary wager. Around the World in 80 Days gripped audiences on its publication and remains hugely popular, combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time.

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Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0451518810 (0-451-51881-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]
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Billy Budd and Other Tales
by Herman Melville

ISBN 0451522370 (0-451-52237-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The Castle of Otranto and Hieroglyphic Tales
by Horace Walpole, Robert L. MacK

ISBN 0460871986 (0-460-87198-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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The Chekhov Omnibus
by Donald Rayfield, Constance Garnett

ISBN 0460874721 (0-460-87472-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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Complete Poems and Selected Essays
by Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Gray

ISBN 0460872613 (0-460-87261-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, a plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response. This selection presents all of Poe's poetry, and includes the less well known poems written before he was 20, among them "To Helen", which Poe said was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him "with half his heart to inhabit other worlds". The selected essays are illuminating in relation to Poe's life and times. [via]
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
by Thomas De Quincey

ISBN 0460002236 (0-460-00223-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions, he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, and paved the way for later generations of literary drug-takers from Baudelaire to Burroughs. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. [via]
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Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell

ISBN 0460010832 (0-460-01083-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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This work provides a timeless portrait of life in a peaceful English village in the early years of the 19th century. It is the most enduringly popular of Mrs Gaskell's works. [via]
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Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0448170159 (0-448-17015-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

ISBN 0451523938 (0-451-52393-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Leonard Wolf

ISBN 0452269695 (0-452-26969-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature has given voice to our own fears of the depravity within all of us. Wolf's extensive annotations throughout the text reveal the psychological depths of the Jekyll and Hyde story and bring the tale's intricate details to light. [via]
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The Everyman Book of Victorian Verse: The Post-Romantics
by Donald Thomas

ISBN 0460873105 (0-460-87310-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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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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Fathers and Children
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

ISBN 0460007424 (0-460-00742-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, George Reavey, Jane T. Costlow

ISBN 0451529693 (0-451-52969-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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When first published in 1862, this novel of a divided russia, with peasants set against masters and fathers set against sons, caused great outrage. But its enduring legacy of social insight and conscience mixed with drama has given it universal appeal. Features an introduction by anna tolstoy in an exciting new bantam classics' package [via]
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Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker

ISBN 0451523636 (0-451-52363-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Three horror classicswith an introduction by Stephen King

Some of literatures most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome.

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The Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad, Cedric Watts

ISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
Softcover, Everyman

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This is Conrad's most subtle, compressed and proleptic work. Acclaimed as a supreme literary achievement, it has also come under literary, historical, and political attack. The profoundly influential novel journeys toward the settlement of the demonic Mr. Kurtz, the genius who would represent the best of Europe-but who, turned by the colonial experience to abuses both psychological and social, horrifies his investigator Marlow and commits him to witness the repulsive profundity of his own soul and times. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

Two of Joseph Conrad's most compelling and haunting works, in which the deepest perceptions and desires of the human heart and mind are explored.

EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
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" A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
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Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

ISBN 0451528751 (0-451-52875-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0451518993 (0-451-51899-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This book includes "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", which appears in full with the 'Grigsby' scene which originally made up the fourth act. [via]
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne

ISBN 0451528964 (0-451-52896-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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In this fully dramatized adaptation of Jules Verne's classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, and cast members from Star Trek feature films and all four TV series take you on an incredible journey.
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is the story of Professor Lindenbrock, his nephew Axel and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, Lindenbrock and Axel descend deeper into the planet than anyone has ever gone before... but will they make it back to the surface alive?
Featuring virtuoso performaces from the entire cast, riveting sound effects and original music, Alien Voices' production of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an adventure in sound. [via]
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 0448169401 (0-448-16940-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the 'Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling's abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the 'Law'. [via]
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The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 0451529820 (0-451-52982-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The classic story set during the French and Indian war of a man with the moral courage to severe all relations with a society he no longer can agree with. [via]
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A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jamichael Henterly, Stephen Armes

ISBN 0448409496 (0-448-40949-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Written by British-born author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1905, A Little Princess tells the story of young Sara Crewe, privileged daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant. All the other girls at Miss Minchin's school treat Sara as if she truly were a princess. But when Captain Crewe's fortune is sadly lost, Sara's luck changes. Suddenly she is treated no better than a scullery maid. Her own fierce determination to maintain her dignity and remain a princess inside has intrigued and delighted readers for almost a hundred years, even inspiring a recent popular feature film.

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Looking Backward
by Edward Bellamy

ISBN 0451527631 (0-451-52763-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is the most widely read novel of its time. A young Boston gentleman is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century--from a world of war and want to one of peace and plenty. This brilliant vision became the blueprint of utopia that stimulated some of the greatest thinkers of our age. [via]
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887
by Edward Bellamy, Erich Fromm

ISBN 0451524128 (0-451-52412-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Originally published in 1888, Looking Backward is Edward Bellamy's most famous work. The story revolves around Julian West, a man who falls asleep near the end of the 19th century and wakes up in the year 2000. During the time he slept, the United States became a socialist utopia. The majority of the book is a vehicle for Bellamy to expound upon his ideas about societal improvement. Americans in his year 2000 work fewer hours, retire early, and receive all they need from the government. Entertaining and oddly prophetic in some ways, Bellamy's vision of the future from the perspective of the late 19th century is highly engaging. American author EDWARD BELLAMY (1850-1898) also wrote Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (1880), Equality (1897), and The Duke of Stockbridge (1900). [via]
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The Man in the Iron Mask
by Alexandre Dumas, Roger Celestin

ISBN 0451530136 (0-451-53013-6)
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Isolated since infancy, the rightful heir to the throne of England escapes from his iron mask and sets out to seek revenge on his enemies and reclaim the throne. Reprint. [via]
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Pere Goriot
by Honore De Balzac, Henry Reed, Peter Brooks

ISBN 0451529596 (0-451-52959-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Nobody writes about money like Balzac, and his classic chronicle of a young man from the provinces clawing his way to success in 19th century Paris, even as an older man is victimized by the same milieu, shrewdly captures the financial dimension of so much that goes on between people. The boarding house in which the two protagonists live is a microcosm of their world, and Goriot's treatment by his daughters would make Lear blanch. [via]
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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance
by George MacDonald

ISBN 0460017322 (0-460-01732-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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The Pioneers
by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 0451525213 (0-451-52521-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PIONEERS, on Tub SOUECES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA. CHAPTER I. Hoc, Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train ; Vapors, and clouds, and storms. Tbomiox. Near the centre of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whoso surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys. It is among these hills that the Delaware takes its rise ; and flowing from the limpid lakes and thousand springs of this region, the numerous sources of the Susquehanna meander through the valleys, until, uniting their streams, they form one of the proudest rivers of the United States. The mountains are generally arable to the tops, although instances are not wanting where the sides are jutted with rocks, that aid greatly in giving to the country that romantic and picturesque character which it so eminently possesses. The vales are narrow, rich, and cultivated; with a stream uniformly winding through each. Beautiful and thriving villages are found interspersed along the margins of the small lakes, or situated at those points of the streams which are favorable to manufacturing; and neat and comfortable farms, with every indication of wealth about them, are scattered profusely through the vales, and even to the mountain tops. Roads diverge in every direction, from the even and gracefulbottoms of tbe valleys, to the most rugged and intricate passes of the hills. Academies, and minor edifices of learning, meet the eye of the stranger at every few miles, as he winds his way through this uneven territory; and places for the worship of God abound with that frequency which characterizes a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical g... [via]
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Poems
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

ISBN 0460110438 (0-460-11043-8)
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"Kubla Khan." "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." "The Eolian Harp." Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a genius who wrote some of the greatest poems in the history of the English language. Together with his friend William Wordsworth, he provided the best articulation of Romanticism, as well as some of the most powerful examples of that aesthetic. This collection, from the excellent Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series, includes not only Coleridge's poetry, but also some selections from his insightful essays and letters about poetry. But of course, it's the poems that count the most, as evidenced by this excerpt from one of Coleridge's less legendary works, his beautiful tribute "To William Wordsworth," which was written after hearing his friend give an especially moving reading. These sentiments could easily apply to the author himself: "The tumult rose and ceased: for Peace is nigh / Where Wisdom's voice has found a listening heart." [via]
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The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald, Joseph A. Smith

ISBN 0448189739 (0-448-18973-9)
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The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy, Jane Smiley

ISBN 0451527380 (0-451-52738-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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A poetic and compassionate novel of 19th Century England. [via]
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Romola
by George Eliot

ISBN 0460875639 (0-460-87563-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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Set in the late 15th-century Italy, in the Renaissance Florence of Macchiavelli and the Medicis, this story reconstructs a turning-point in the intellectual history of Europe by charting the career and martyrdom of the charismatic religious leader Savanarola. This is a study edition. [via]
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- Romola: ISBN 0460875639 (0-460-87563-9)
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Ruth
by Elizabeth Gaskell

ISBN 0460006738 (0-460-00673-8)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Scenes of Clerical Life
by George Eliot, Graham Handley

ISBN 0460874632 (0-460-87463-2)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.

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Selected Stories
by Anton Chekhov, Ann Dunnigan

ISBN 0451528794 (0-451-52879-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
by George Eliot, Frederick R. Karl

ISBN 0451527216 (0-451-52721-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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A gentle linen weaver is accused of a heinous crime. Exiling himself, he becomes a recluse, only to find redemption in his love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears one day in his isolated cottage. Somber yet hopeful, Eliot's stirring tale continues to touch the human spirit.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Claire Harman

ISBN 0460871978 (0-460-87197-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0450018431 (0-450-01843-1)
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- The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories: ISBN 0460871978 (0-460-87197-8)
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Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 0460010182 (0-460-01018-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain, Wright Morris

ISBN 0451523741 (0-451-52374-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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A slave of mixed blood substitutes her son with her master's son. [via]
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Turn of the Screw
by Henry James

ISBN 0451526066 (0-451-52606-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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For lucidity and compactness of style, James's short novels, or novelles, are shining examples of his genius. Few other writings of the century have so captured the American imagination. When "Daisy Miller," the tale of the girl from Schenectady, first appeared in 1878, it was an extraordinary success. James had discovered nothing less than "the American girl"--free spirited, flirtatious, an innocent abroad determined to defy European convention even if it meant scandal . . . or tragedy. But the subtle danger lurking beneath the surface in "Daisy Miller" evolves into a classic tale of terror and obsession in "The Turn Of The Screw." "The imagination, " Henry James said to Bernard Shaw, "has a life if its own." In this blood-curdling story, that imagination weaves the lives of two children, a governess in love with her employer, and a sprawling country house into a flawless story, still unsurpassed as the prototype of modern horror fiction.
" "The Turn Of The Screw" seems to have proved more fascinating to the general reading public than anything else of James's except "Daisy Miller.""--Edmund Wilson [via]
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Typee
by Herman Melville

ISBN 0451525183 (0-451-52518-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology, notes and selected criticism. This book contains "Typee" and "Omoo" (published as a sequel), both tales of sailors, mutiny, island life and friendship. [via]
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Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Robert Darwin

ISBN 0460111043 (0-460-11104-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Inviting in its lavish detail, this is Darwin's fascinating account of his five-year journey aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle (1831-1836) as it surveyed the coasts of South America, New Zealand, Australia, and the now famous Galapagos Archipelago. One of the most important voyages of the 19th century, this is where Darwin made the observations that led to his theory of evolution by means of natural selection, which emerged two decades later. The Voyage of the Beagle (1840-43) has delighted and enlightened millions because of Darwin's loving and insightful observations of the plants, animals, people, and locations he explored. These journals provide striking examples of the great scientist's reasoning ability and intriguing glimpses into his thought processes. They are the precursor to The Descent of Man (1871, 1874), a controversial leap in evolutionary theory from nature to humanity. [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Darwin, Walter Sullivan

ISBN 0452011639 (0-452-01163-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Walden And Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau, Miller, Perry (AFT), W.S. Merwin

ISBN 0451529456 (0-451-52945-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musingsas well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil libertyhave inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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A philosophy of life and observations on government included in these famous books. [via]
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- Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience": ISBN 0451523776 (0-451-52377-6)
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