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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 1555760910 (1-55576-091-0)
Softcover, Edcon Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:Bring The Classics To Life. This novel has been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Key words are defined and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require the student to recall specific details sequence the events draw inferences from story context develop another name for the chapter and choose the main idea. Let the Classics introduce Kipling Stevenson and H.G. Wells. Your students will embrace the notion of Crusoe s lonely reflections the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. In our society knowledge of these Classics is a cultural necessity. Improves fluency vocabulary and comprehension. [via]
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Against the Grainby Joris Karl HuysmansISBN 1426460198 (1-4264-6019-8)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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An American Landscapeby Henry David Thoreau, Robert L. RothwellISBN 1557784914 (1-55778-491-4)
Hardcover, Marlowe & Co
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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitmanby Francis Otto MatthiessenISBN 1428637907 (1-4286-3790-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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As a Thief in the Night: The Mormon Quest for Millennial Deliveranceby Dan EricksonISBN 1560851007 (1-56085-100-7)
Hardcover, Signature Books
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At the Back of the North Windby George MacDonald, Michael R. PhillipsISBN 155661196X (1-55661-196-X)
Hardcover, Baker Pub Group
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Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Powerby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1557423660 (1-55742-366-0)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power'Book summary:Originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym "A. M. Barnard." Louisa May Alcott's novel of romance and sexual intrigue is one of her lesser-known gems. Its tone and characterizations strike a markedly different chord from her best-known works, such as "Little Women" and "Little Men," and it remains a popular addition to her oeuvre. [via]
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Bouvard and Pecuchetby Gustave Flaubert, Mark PolizzottiISBN 1564783936 (1-56478-393-6)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Caleb Williamsby William Godwin, Gary J. Handwerk, Arnold Markley, Arnold A. MarkleyISBN 1551112493 (1-55111-249-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caleb Williams'Book summary:William Godwin was one of the most popular novelists of the Romantic era; P.B. Shelley praised him, Byron drew heavily on his narrative style, and Mary Shelley, Godwin's daughter, dedicated Frankenstein to him. Caleb Williams is the riveting account of a young man whose curiosity leads him to pry into a murder from the past. The first novel of crime and detection in English literature, Caleb Williams is also a powerful exposé of the evils and inequities of the political and social system in 1790s Britain. In addition to the text itself, the editors have included an extensive selection of primary source materials from the period, ranging from Godwin's original manuscript ending and excerpts from his political writings to contemporary reviews, the political writings of Burke and Paine, and materials on criminals and the English prison system. [via]
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Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republicby Len TraversISBN 1558492038 (1-55849-203-8)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. Marx, L. M. FindlayISBN 1551113333 (1-55111-333-3)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:L.M. Findlay's elegant new translation is a work of textual and historical scholarship. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history as The Communist Manifesto. Since it was first published in 1848, it has become the rallying cry for revolutionary movements around the world. This new Broadview edition draws on the 1888 Samuel Moore translation supervised by Engelsthe standard English version in Marxist discourseand on the original Helen Macfarlane translation into English of 1850. Throughout, Findlay draws on a variety of disciplines and maintains a broad-ranging perspective. Among the appendices are Engels' "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith," correspondence and journalism of Marx and Engels, ten illustrations, and eight additional influential political manifestos from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [via]
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Customs in Commonby E.P. ThompsonISBN 1565840038 (1-56584-003-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Customs in Common'Book summary:Customs in Common is the remarkable companion to E. P. Thompson's landmark volume of social history The Making of the English Working Class. The product of years of research and debate, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working-class institutions emerged in England--a panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preserve well into Victorian times. [via]
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Customs in Common : Studies in Traditional Popular Cultureby E. P. ThompsonISBN 1565840747 (1-56584-074-7)
Softcover, New Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Customs in Common : Studies in Traditional Popular Culture'Book summary:Customs in Common is the remarkable companion to E. P. Thompson's landmark volume of social history The Making of the English Working Class. The product of years of research and debate, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working-class institutions emerged in England--a panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preserve well into Victorian times. [via]
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Anthony Burgess, Edmond RostandISBN 1557832307 (1-55783-230-7)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyrano De Bergerac'Book summary:(Applause Books). This acclaimed adaptation for the stage has garnered such reviews as: "Emotional depth Rostand himself would surely have envied...Burgess' extravagant verse keeps its contours, yet trips off the tongue almost as though it were contemporary speech." London Times . Performance rights available from Applause. [via]
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D.H. Lawrence's Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1555460259 (1-55546-025-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Defend and Betrayby Anne PerryISBN 1560546255 (1-56054-625-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Defend and Betray'Book summary:When General Thaddeus Carlyon dies in a freak accident, his wife, Alexandria, insists she killed him, even though it means she will go to the gallows. Inspector William Monk works to break down the silence of the accused and her husband's proud family. A historical crime novel from the author of THE TWISTED ROOT and CAIN HIS BROTHER. [via]
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The Demon of the Eiffel Towerby Jacques Tardi, A. Delobel, R. LofficierISBN 1561630012 (1-56163-001-2)
Softcover, Nbm Pub Co
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The Early American Wilderness: As the Explorers Saw Itby Bill LawrenceISBN 1557781451 (1-55778-145-1)
Hardcover, Paragon House
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Emily Dickinson Collected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 1561380458 (1-56138-045-8)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The English Governess at the Siamese Couby Harriette LeonowensISBN 1421993503 (1-4219-9350-3)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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The Face of a Strangerby Anne PerryISBN 156054113X (1-56054-113-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Finney's Systematic Theology: Lectures on Classes of Truths, Moral Government, the Atonement, Moral and Physical Depravity, Natural, Moral, and Gracby Charles G. FinneyISBN 1556615140 (1-55661-514-0)
Softcover, Bethany House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finney's Systematic Theology: Lectures on Classes of Truths, Moral Government, the Atonement, Moral and Physical Depravity, Natural, Moral, and Grac'Book summary:True to Scripture, true to reason, and true to life.Discover why these writings have been the impetus for revivals around the world.Students of revival agree that Charles Grandison Finney spearheaded one of America's greatest revivals and influenced the course of history. Church rolls swelled in the wake of Finney's revivals. He is often directly or indirectly credited with the conversions of around 500,000 people.Finney's theological convictions were born in the fires of revival and shaped by a keen lawyer's mind committed to the full authority of the Bible. He gave his life to promote: "The return to and practice of Biblical Christianity in the power of the Holy Spirit for the sake of God's kingdom and glory." The distinctive truths that Finney preached brought such a deep conviction of sin that today's church does well when it studies his position on the moral government of God, the nature of man, the atonement, sovereignty, attributes of love, unity of moral action and regeneration.This expanded volume represents the complete 1878 edition, two lectures of truth from the earlier 1847 and 1851 editions, a comprehensive introduction from L.G. Parkhurst, Jr., plus appendixes, a glossary, and a scripture index. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 1421981734 (1-4219-8173-4)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil Warby Barbara J. Fields, Ira Berlin, Steven F. MillerISBN 1565841204 (1-56584-120-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Frigates of the Napoleonic Warsby Robert GardinerISBN 1557502889 (1-55750-288-9)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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The Gamblerby Fyodor Dostoevsky, C. J. HogarthISBN 1557423156 (1-55742-315-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworldby Herbert AsburyISBN 1560252758 (1-56025-275-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Germinal: Library Editionby Emile ZolaISBN 1426419708 (1-4264-1970-8)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Germinal: Library Edition'Book summary:Dans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans étoiles, dune obscurité et dune épaisseur dencre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes à Montsou, dix kilomètres de pavé coupant tout droit, à travers les champs de betteraves. [via]
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Goyaby Patricia WrightISBN 1564583333 (1-56458-333-3)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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The Greatest Thing in the Worldby Henry DrummondISBN 1557484228 (1-55748-422-8)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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The Greatest Thing in the World Loveby Henry DrummondISBN 155748547X (1-55748-547-X)
Hardcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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Guy Riversby William Gilmore Simms, John Caldwell GuildsISBN 1557282749 (1-55728-274-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Arkansas Pr
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, William King, Leon BaxterISBN 1561387657 (1-56138-765-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The House of Mirthby Janet Beer, Elizabeth NolanISBN 1551115670 (1-55111-567-0)
Softcover, Broadview 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]
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John Randolphby Henry Adams, Robert McColleyISBN 1563246538 (1-56324-653-8)
Softcover, M E Sharpe Inc
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Joseph Conrad's Lord Jimby Harold BloomISBN 155546016X (1-55546-016-X)
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Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne, Walter James Miller, Frederick Paul WalterISBN 1557508771 (1-55750-877-1)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:Based solely on the original French version, this edition contains "the lost 23%" of Verne's original manuscript and corrects hundreds of errors and mistranslations. [via]
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The Jungleby Emily Russell, Peter KuperISBN 1561634115 (1-56163-411-5)
Softcover, Nbm Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Peter Kupers Classics Illustrated adaptation of Upton Sinclair`s whistle-blowing novel on the conditions at the Chicago slaughter houses in the early 20th century is brought back to press in a beautiful larger size hardcover. One of his best and most poignant works. [via]
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The Jungleby Peter Kuper, Emily RussellISBN 1561634042 (1-56163-404-2)
Hardcover, Nbm Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Peter Kuper's Classics Illustrated adaptation of Upton Sinclair's whistle-blowing novel on the conditions at the Chicago slaughter houses in the early 20th century is brought back to press in a beautiful larger size hardcover. One of his best and most poignant works. [via]
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Killing Mister Watsonby Peter MatthiessenISBN 1560540990 (1-56054-099-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Kimby Maire Fhlathuin, Marie Ni FhlathuinISBN 1551115212 (1-55111-521-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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King Solomon's Minesby Henry Rider Haggard, Gerald MonsmanISBN 1551114399 (1-55111-439-9)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. Braddon, Natalie M. HoustonISBN 1551113570 (1-55111-357-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Audley's Secret'Book summary:Lady Audley's Secret (1862) was one of the most widely read novels in the Victorian period. The novel exemplifies "sensation fiction" in featuring a beautiful criminal heroine, an amateur detective, blackmail, arson, violence, and plenty of suspenseful action. To its contemporary readers, it also offered the thrill of uncovering blackmail and criminal violence within the homes of the upper class. The novel makes trenchant critiques of Victorian gender roles and social stereotypes, and it creates significant sympathy for the heroine, despite her criminal acts, as she suffers from the injustices of the "marriage market" and rebels against them. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a broad selection of primary source material, including reproductions of the twenty-two woodcut illustrations from the London Journal serialization of the novel, extracts from two Victorian dramatizations of the work, satirical commentaries, and contemporary reviews. [via]
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington IrvingISBN 1557429847 (1-55742-984-7)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Legends of the Madonna As Represented in the Fine Arts: Forming the Third Series of Sacred and Legendary Artby Anna JamesonISBN 1558882774 (1-55888-277-4)
Hardcover, Omnigraphics Inc
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Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 1551111721 (1-55111-172-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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Maggieby Stephen Crane, Adrian HunterISBN 1551115972 (1-55111-597-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maggie'Book summary:First published in 1893, when Stephen Crane was only twenty-one years old, Maggie is the harrowing tale of a young woman s fall into prostitution and destitution in New York City's notorious Bowery slum. In dazzlingly vivid prose and with a sexual candour remarkable for his day, Crane depicts an urban sub-culture awash with alcohol and patrolled by the swaggering gangland "tough." Presented here with its companion piece George s Mother and a selection of Crane s other Bowery stories, this edition of Maggie includes a detailed introduction that places the novel in its social, cultural, and literary contexts. The appendices provide an unrivalled range of documentary sources covering such topics as religious and civic reform writing, slum fiction, the "new journalism," and literary realism and naturalism. An up-to-date bibliography of scholarly work on Crane is also included. [via]
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The Magisterial Gaze: Manifest Destiny and American Landscape Painting C. 1830-1865by Albert BoimeISBN 1560980958 (1-56098-095-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Mary Bartonby Elizabeth Gaskell, Jennifer FosterISBN 1551111691 (1-55111-169-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:Mary Barton first appeared in 1848, and has since become one of the best known novels on the 'condition of England,' part of a nineteenth-century British trend to understand the enormous cultural, economic and social changes wrought by industrialization. Gaskell's work had great importance to the labour and reform movements, and it influenced writers such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle and Charlotte Brontë. The plot of Mary Barton concerns the poverty and desperation of England's industrial workers. Fundamentally, however, it revolves around Mary's personal conflicts. She is already divided between an affection for an industrialist's son, Henry Carson, and for a man of her own class, Jem Wilson. But Mary's conflict escalates when her father, a committed trade unionist, is asked to assassinate Henry, who is the son of his unjust employer. [via]
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A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollectionsby James Edward Austen-LeighISBN 1428014721 (1-4280-1472-1)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Memoranda During the Warby Walt WhitmanISBN 1557091323 (1-55709-132-3)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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The Mother's Bookby Lydia Maria ChildISBN 1557091242 (1-55709-124-2)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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My Kinsman Major Molineuxby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1425456820 (1-4254-5682-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Ladyby Edith HoldenISBN 1559700440 (1-55970-044-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics, 1650-1815by Brian Tunstall, Nicholas TracyISBN 1557506019 (1-55750-601-9)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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News from Nowhereby William Morris, Stephen ArataISBN 1551112671 (1-55111-267-1)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'News from Nowhere'Book summary:Written in 1890, at the close of William Morriss most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of his mature views on art, work, community, family, and the nature and structure of the ideal society. A utopian narrative of a future society, it is also an immensely entertaining novel. This Broadview edition includes a wide variety of contextualizing documents, including portions of Morriss essays, lectures, and journalism; excerpts from precursor utopian texts; writings on Bloody Sunday, art, work, and revolution; and contemporary reviews. [via]
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Nineteenth-Century American Playsby Myron MatlawISBN 1557830185 (1-55783-018-5)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rightsby Martha Sonntag BradleyISBN 1560851899 (1-56085-189-9)
Hardcover, Signature Books
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Peer Gyntby Henrik Ibsen, Irene B. Berman, Gerry BammanISBN 1559360453 (1-55936-045-3)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Penguin Islandby Anatole FranceISBN 1426404050 (1-4264-0405-0)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poeby Daniel HoffmanISBN 1557782741 (1-55778-274-1)
Hardcover, Paragon House
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The Prince and the Pauperby Samuel L. ClemensISBN 1561563110 (1-56156-311-0)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, Adrian HunterISBN 1551112264 (1-55111-226-4)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, James Hogg's masterpiece is a brilliant psychological study of religious fanaticism and the power of evil. Led on by his sinister companion, Gil-Martin, Robert Wringhim commits a series of atrocious crimes. As the novel progresses, however, and the complexity of Wringhim's mind is revealed, the reader begins to doubt whether Gil-Martin even exists. This edition of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner places the work within the context of Calvinism, Scottish political and constitutional history, and early psychological theories of "double consciousness." A wide-ranging introduction discusses the novel in relation to its setting as well as to the period in which it was composed. [via]
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The Raven: With the Philosophy of Compositionby Edgar Allan Poe, Alan J. RobinsonISBN 1559211784 (1-55921-178-4)
Softcover, Moyer Bell
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 1561381152 (1-56138-115-2)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The Rime of the Ancient Marinerby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gustave DoreISBN 1562650165 (1-56265-016-5)
Hardcover, School of Tomorrow
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The Romantics: England in a Revolutionary Ageby E.P. ThompsonISBN 1565845102 (1-56584-510-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 1566191440 (1-56619-144-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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Sarah, Plain and Tallby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 1557360804 (1-55736-080-4)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Selections from the Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1907by Terry DoughtyISBN 155111528X (1-55111-528-X)
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Sheby H. Rider Haggard, Andrew M. StaufferISBN 1551116472 (1-55111-647-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She'Book summary:Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.
Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." [via]
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1551113929 (1-55111-392-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sign of Four'Book summary:It is in this, the second Holmes novel, that the great detective comes fully to life not only as a melancholic and an inscrutable master of deduction, but also as an incurable drug addict. "Which is it today?" Watson asks Holmes matter-of-factly on the opening page of the novel, "morphine or cocaine?" "It is cocaine," Holmes famously replies. "A seven-per-cent solution. Would you like to try it?" Mary Morstan comes to Holmes in the hope that he will be able to solve a mystery. Ten years earlier her father, Captain Arthur Morstan, had returned to London on leave from his regiment in India where it is said that he and one Thadeus Sholto, "came into possession of a considerable treasure." By the time his daughter arrived at his hotel, he had vanished without a trace. The Sign of Four remains a small masterpiece of suspense, and the novel has enjoyed a steady readership ever since its first publication in 1890. In recent years, however, it has not been readily available except as a part of larger omnibus Holmes anthologies. This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction. [via]
Tara Revisited : Women, War, and the Plantation Legendby Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Catherine ClintonISBN 1558594914 (1-55859-491-4)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein Veblen, C. Wright MillsISBN 1560005629 (1-56000-562-9)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Time Machineby H. G. Wells, Nicholas RuddickISBN 1551113058 (1-55111-305-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, N. C. WyethISBN 1561382647 (1-56138-264-7)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Trilbyby George Du MaurierISBN 1551115743 (1-55111-574-3)
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyleby Avi, Ruth E. MurrayISBN 1560545925 (1-56054-592-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Trueloveby Patrick O'BrianISBN 1560545224 (1-56054-522-4)
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Utilitarianismby John Stuart MillISBN 1551113554 (1-55111-355-4)
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Vitalogy: An Encyclopedia of Health and Homeby E.H. RuddockISBN 1557094047 (1-55709-404-7)
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War of the Worldsby Martin A. DanahayISBN 1551113538 (1-55111-353-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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What Maisie Knewby Henry JamesISBN 1421994240 (1-4219-9424-0)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Mrs. Wix's, during these hours, Sir Claude was--and most of all through long pauses--the perpetual, the insurmountable theme. It all took them back to the first flush of his marriage and to the place he held in the schoolroom at that crisis of love and pain; only he had himself blown to a much bigger balloon the large consciousness he then filled out. They went through it all again, and indeed while the interval dragged by the very weight of its charm they went, in spite of defences and suspicions, through everything. Their intensified clutch of the future throbbed like a clock ticking seconds; but this was a timepiece that inevitably, as well, at the best, rang occasionally a portentous hour. Oh there were several of these, and two or three of the worst on the old city-wall where everything else so made for peace. There was nothing in the world Maisie more wanted than to be as nice to Mrs. Wix as Sir Claude had desired; but it was exactly because this fell in with her inveterate instinct of keeping the peace that the instinct itself was quickened. From the moment it was quickened, however, it found other work, and that was how, to begin with, she produced the very complication she most sought to avert. What she had essentially done, these days, had been to read the unspoken into the spoken; so that thus, with accumulations, it had become more definite to her that the unspoken was, unspeakably, the completeness of the sacrifice of Mrs. Beale. There were times when every minute that Sir Claude stayed away was like a nail in Mrs. Beale's coffin. That brought back to Maisie--it was a roundabout way--the beauty and antiquity of her connexion with the flower of the Overmores as well as that lady's own grace and charm, her peculiar prettiness and... [via]
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The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth Grahame, A. A. MilneISBN 1561384550 (1-56138-455-0)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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This review refers to ISBN 1561631965. [via]
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine HedgesISBN 1558611584 (1-55861-158-4)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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Suggested for course use in:
Family studies
Feminist thought
History of medicine
19th-century U.S. literature
Psychology
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) was a feminist writer, lecturer, and activist. Her many other works include Herland and Women and Economics.More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition:
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Young Goodman Brownby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1557423628 (1-55742-362-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Young Goodman Brown'Book summary:In the interval of silence he stole forward until the light glared full upon his eyes. At one extremity of an open space, hemmed in by the dark wall of the forest, arose a rock, bearing some rude, natural resemblance either to an alter or a pulpit, and surrounded by four blazing pines, their tops aflame, their stems untouched, like candles at an evening meeting. The mass of foliage that had overgrown the summit of the rock was all on fire, blazing high into the night and fitfully illuminating the whole field. Each pendent twig and leafy festoon was in a blaze. As the red light arose and fell, a numerous congregation alternately shone forth, then disappeared in shadow, and again grew, as it were, out of the darkness, peopling the heart of the solitary woods at once. "A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown. In truth they were such. [via]
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