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Against the Grain: (A Reboursby Joris Karl HuysmansISBN 0486221903 (0-486-22190-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Grain: (A Rebours'Book summary:Because of his extreme sensitivity to the absurd and grotesque in human affairs, the protagonist of this masterpiece of decadence has estranged himself from society and savors the most bizarre aspects of human existence in his quest for novelty. This landmark novel is filled with weird images and biting wit. Introduction by Havelock Ellis.[via]More editions of Against the Grain: (A Rebours:
American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry Jamesby Charles Ryskamp, Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. LangeISBN 0486235483 (0-486-23548-3)
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Animals in Motionby Eadweard MuybridgeISBN 0486202038 (0-486-20203-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animals in Motion'Book summary:¡¡LIBRO NUEVO!! NEW BOOK!! Envio desde España entre 24 y 48 horas. ENTREGA MUY RÁPIDA....(4-6 Días Laborales) [via]
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Arms and the Manby George Bernard ShawISBN 0486264769 (0-486-26476-9)
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Best Short Stories/Les Meilleurs Contesby Guy De Maupassant, Steven JupiterISBN 0486289184 (0-486-28918-4)
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The Best Tales of Hoffmannby Ernst Theodor Amadues HoffmannISBN 0486217930 (0-486-21793-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Tales of Hoffmann'Book summary:Ten of Hoffmann's greatest tales, enormously popular in Europe but rarely seen in the United States: "The Golden Flower Pot," "Automata," "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," "The Sand Man," and 6 others. Edited and corrected by E. F. Bleiler. Features 7 drawings by Hoffmann.[via]More editions of The Best Tales of Hoffmann:
The Black Arrowby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486418200 (0-486-41820-0)
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The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895by Lewis MumfordISBN 0486202003 (0-486-20200-3)
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0486407861 (0-486-40786-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captains Courageous'Book summary:A pampered millionaire's son tumbles overboard from a luxury liner and falls into good fortune, disguised in the form of a fishing boat. The gruff and hearty crew teach the young man to be worth his salt as they fish the waters off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Brimming with adventure and humor.[via]More editions of Captains Courageous:
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The Common Lawby Oliver W. HolmesISBN 0486267466 (0-486-26746-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Common Law'Book summary:Only paperback edition of great legal classic by noted Supreme Court Justice. Lucid, accessible coverage, from a historical perspective, of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, many other aspects of civil and criminal law. Indispensable reading for lawyers, political scientists, interested general readers.[via]More editions of The Common Law:
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Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne JewettISBN 0486281965 (0-486-28196-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Country of the Pointed Firs'Book summary:A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners, and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England character.[via]More editions of Country of the Pointed Firs:
Cyrano De Bergeracby Edmond Rostand, Louis UntermeyerISBN 0486411192 (0-486-41119-2)
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The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawesby Robert A. SobieszekISBN 0486238415 (0-486-23841-5)
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Disasters of Warby Francisco GoyaISBN 0486218724 (0-486-21872-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disasters of War'Book summary:Visual indictment of war's horrors, modeled after Spanish insurrection (1808), the resultant Peninsular War and following famine. Miseries of war graphically demonstrated in 83 prints; includes veiled attacks on various people, the Church, and the State. Captions reprinted with new English translations plus the original title page and preface.[via]More editions of Disasters of War:
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A Doll's Houseby Henrik IbsenISBN 0486270629 (0-486-27062-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Doll's House'Book summary:One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, displaying Ibsen's genius for realistic prose drama. A classic expression of women's rights, the play builds to a climax in which the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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English Victorian Poetryby Paul NegriISBN 0486404250 (0-486-40425-0)
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Faust, Part Oneby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Anna SwanwickISBN 0486280462 (0-486-28046-2)
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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:
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Favorite Poemsby William WordsworthISBN 0486270734 (0-486-27073-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Favorite Poems'Book summary:Treasury of 39 works by influential English Romantic poet: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," the "Lucy" poems, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," many more all reprinted from an authoritative edition. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.[via]More editions of Favorite Poems:
First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Manby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486287750 (0-486-28775-0)
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 048627263X (0-486-27263-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thea KlirosISBN 0486280241 (0-486-28024-1)
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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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The Gamblerby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0486290816 (0-486-29081-6)
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Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierceby Ambrose BierceISBN 0486207676 (0-486-20767-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce'Book summary:23 modern horror stories by American master. "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Damned Thing," 21 more. "These pieces are not dated, nor are they lacking any of the narrative elements necessary to attract and hold the attention of anyone interested in the horror genre." - SF Booklog. [via]
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Goblin Market and Other Poemsby Christina RossettiISBN 0486280551 (0-486-28055-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goblin Market and Other Poems'Book summary:[via]This edition of 32 works combines a number of the English poet's best-known sonnets, ballads, and shorter works, along with her long masterpiece "Goblin Market." Others in this choice collection include "The Convent Threshold," "Up-hill," "Cousin Kate," "Winter: My Secret," "Maude Clare," "No, Thank You, John," and "After Death."More editions of Goblin Market and Other Poems:
Great Love Poemsby Shane WellerISBN 0486272842 (0-486-27284-2)
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Hans Brinkerby Mary Mapes DodgeISBN 0486428427 (0-486-42842-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Brinker'Book summary:Set against a backdrop of frozen canals in a winter wonderland, the year's most exciting event in a little Dutch village is about to take place. But will Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel, with their hand-carved wooden skates, be able to compete against their well-trained young friends who own fine steel blades?[via]More editions of Hans Brinker:
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Herlandby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486404293 (0-486-40429-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herland'Book summary:Delightfully humorous account of a feminist utopia in which 3 male explorers stumble upon an all-female society isolated in a distant part of the earth. Early 20th-century vehicle for Gilman's then-unconventional views of male-female behavior, motherhood, individuality, sense of community, sexuality, and other topics. Mischievous, ironic approach used to telling effect.[via]More editions of Herland:
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0486420493 (0-486-42049-3)
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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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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0486424545 (0-486-42454-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Human, All-too-humanby Helen Zimmern, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul V. Cohn, J. M. KennedyISBN 0486445666 (0-486-44566-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human, All-too-human'Book summary:The philosopher reviews his usual morality, religion, government, society with his characteristic depth of perception, unflinching honesty, and iconoclastic wit. But Nietzsche's manner of expression takes a new, aphoristic turn. More than 1,400 incisive and poetic aphorisms appear here, expressing many themes developed in Nietzsche's later works.[via]More editions of Human, All-too-human:
An Ideal Husbandby Oscar WildeISBN 048641423X (0-486-41423-X)
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0486270718 (0-486-27071-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:One of the most famous scientific fantasies ever written, this highly imaginative tale focuses on the powers and bold ventures of a scientist, who, after discovering the means to make himself invisible, unleashes a bizarre streak of terror on the inhabitants of an English village. Filled with suspense and psychological nuances of plot.[via]More editions of The Invisible Man:
Jane Austen and Her Artby Mary LascellesISBN 0485121131 (0-485-12113-1)
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Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0486422267 (0-486-42226-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jo's Boys'Book summary:This sequel to Alcott's Little Women and Little Men chronicles the return of the classmates of Plumfield, Jo's school for boys. Readers reencounter Nat, the orphaned street musician, now a conservatory student; restless Dan, back from the gold mines of California; business-minded Tom; and other old friends.[via]More editions of Jo's Boys:
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0486419231 (0-486-41923-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page.[via]More editions of The Jungle:
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0486445089 (0-486-44508-9)
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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 Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africaby William MinterISBN 0465037232 (0-465-03723-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa'Book summary:"A superb book. I recommend it highly. Thorough research, erudite writing, and startling insights. Must reading." Randall Robinson, Founding Executive Director, TransAfrica
"Splendid... An invaluable work, elegantly organized and written. Nadine Gordimer
"A must for scholars and analysts of South Africa and the U.S. stance toward that country. Foreign Affairs
"This is the history of southern Africa that anti-apartheid militants have been waiting for. Its critics will be hard-pressed to match its cogency and depth of documentation. Geroge M. Fredrickson
"Impressive work. Lucid scholarship. Coherently presents the last hundred years as they directly lead to the unfolding cataclysm of South Africa. June Jordan
"The clearest comprehensive account of the political history of southern Africa I know. Committed, sober, and intelligent." Immanuel Wallerstein [via]More editions of King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa:
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Storiesby Leo TolstoyISBN 0486278050 (0-486-27805-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories'Book summary:"The Kreutzer Sonata" portrays an intense conflict between sexual desire and moral constraint. "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" is a simple, moving tale of peasant life with a moral lesson; the hero of "The Death of Ivan Ilych," after a lifetime of struggle, finds faith and love only as he faces death. Explanatory footnotes.[via]More editions of The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories:
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Lady Audley's Secret,by Mary Elizabeth Braddon MaxwellISBN 0486230112 (0-486-23011-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Audley's Secret,'Book summary:Great Victorian mystery classic, beautifully plotted, suspenseful; praised by Thackeray, Boucher, Starrett, others. What happened to beautiful, vicious Lady Audleys husband? New introduction by Norman Donaldson. "...a real find for the mystery buff."Savannah (GA) News.[via]More editions of Lady Audley's Secret,:
Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountainsby Isabella L. BirdISBN 0486428036 (0-486-42803-6)
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The Land-Leaguersby Anthony Trollope, R. H. SuperISBN 0472064851 (0-472-06485-1)
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Lavengroby George Henry BorrowISBN 0486269159 (0-486-26915-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lavengro'Book summary:Gypsies appeared in Europe in great numbers in the 15th century. The term "Gypsy" evolved from their claim that they were Egyptian by descent. (It is now believed these itinerant Caucasoid peoples originated in India.) Who they were, what they were like, and how they lived in England are the focal points of George Borrow's 19th-century literary and anthropological classic LAVENGRO. [via]
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0486414264 (0-486-41426-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:The popular 19th-century humorist offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice steamboat pilot on one of the world's greatest rivers to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Engrossing and entertaining anecdotes by a peerless storyteller from a now-finished chapter of American history.[via]More editions of Life on the Mississippi:
London Labour and the London Poorby Henry MayhewISBN 0486219348 (0-486-21934-8)
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 0486406504 (0-486-40650-4)
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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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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0486434117 (0-486-43411-7)
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The Mollie Maguires and the Detectivesby Allan PinkertonISBN 0486228983 (0-486-22898-3)
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Storiesby Mark TwainISBN 0486270696 (0-486-27069-6)
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The Necklace and Other Short Storiesby Guy De MaupassantISBN 0486270645 (0-486-27064-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Necklace and Other Short Stories'Book summary:Nine memorable classics, characterized by ironic twists of plot, include "Ball of Fat," regarded by many as technically one of the finest short stories ever written, "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," "Mme. Tellier's Establishment," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Miss Harriet," "A Way to Wealth," "My Uncle Jules" and "The Horla."[via]More editions of The Necklace and Other Short Stories:
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News from Nowhereby William MorrisISBN 0486434273 (0-486-43427-3)
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 0486424529 (0-486-42452-9)
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Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil Warby Gavin WrightISBN 0465051944 (0-465-05194-4)
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Peer Gyntby Henrik IbsenISBN 0486426866 (0-486-42686-6)
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The Phenomenology of Mindby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, J. B. BaillieISBN 0486432513 (0-486-43251-3)
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486293831 (0-486-29383-1)
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Principles of Psychologyby William JamesISBN 0486203816 (0-486-20381-6)
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Talcott Parsons, Max WeberISBN 048642703X (0-486-42703-X)
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Psychology: The Briefer Courseby William JamesISBN 0486416046 (0-486-41604-6)
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark TwainISBN 048640885X (0-486-40885-X)
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The Queen of Spades and Other Storiesby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, T. KeaneISBN 0486280543 (0-486-28054-3)
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Rachel Rayby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0486239306 (0-486-23930-6)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0486264653 (0-486-26465-3)
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The Rime of the Ancient Marinerby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0486223051 (0-486-22305-1)
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Room With a Viewby Foester. E.M.ISBN 0486284670 (0-486-28467-0)
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0486421228 (0-486-42122-8)
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Selected Poemsby Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 0486272826 (0-486-27282-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Treasury of verse by the great Victorian poet includes the famous long narrative poem, Enoch Arden, plus "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Break, break, break," "Flower in the crannied Wall" and more. Also included are excerpts from three longer works: The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook."[via]More editions of Selected Poems:
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Selected Poemsby Walt WhitmanISBN 0486268780 (0-486-26878-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Generous sampling of 24 of Whitman's best and most representative poems from Leaves of Grass. Selections include "I Hear America Singing," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of the Open Road," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" all reprinted from an authoritative text.[via]More editions of Selected Poems:
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Selected Poems from "Flowers of Evilby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0486284506 (0-486-28450-6)
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Six Great Sherlock Holmes Storiesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0486270556 (0-486-27055-6)
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Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poemsby Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN 0486270521 (0-486-27052-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems'Book summary:Famed series of 44 love poems written to the poet's husband, Robert Browning, plus a selection of poems dealing with religion, art, social problems and political events. These include "Consolation," "The Cry of the Human," "A Curse for a Nation," "The Forced Recruit," "To Flush, My Dog," and others. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.[via]More editions of Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems:
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0486280624 (0-486-28062-4)
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Three Adventure Novelsby H. Rider HaggardISBN 0486206432 (0-486-20643-2)
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0486284727 (0-486-28472-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Machine'Book summary:[via]Classic science-fiction novel recounts the adventures of a hypothetical Time-Traveler who journeys into the future. While the novel is underpinned with both Darwinian and Marxist theory and offers fascinating food for thought about the world of the future, it also succeeds as an exciting blend of adventure and pseudo-scientific romance.More editions of Time Machine:
A Tramp Abroadby Mark TwainISBN 0486424456 (0-486-42445-6)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486275590 (0-486-27559-0)
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Trilbyby George Du MaurierISBN 0486283194 (0-486-28319-4)
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Twilight of the Idols and the Antichristby Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas CommonISBN 0486434605 (0-486-43460-5)
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0486287386 (0-486-28738-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up from Slavery: An Autobiography'Book summary:Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. [via]
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Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poetby Paul ZweigISBN 0465090605 (0-465-09060-5)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0486295060 (0-486-29506-0)
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Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 0486404315 (0-486-40431-5)
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The Way of All Fleshby Samuel ButlerISBN 0486434664 (0-486-43466-4)
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The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth Grahame, Thea Kliros, Robert BlaisdellISBN 0486286002 (0-486-28600-2)
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0486424588 (0-486-42458-8)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486298574 (0-486-29857-4)
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Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Storiesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0486270602 (0-486-27060-2)
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El Jardin Secretoby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Aurora Ulsamer, Rafael Diaz Santander, Thea KlirosISBN 0486291995 (0-486-29199-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Jardin Secreto'Book summary:In this abridged adaptation of the classic novel, a lonely orphan discovers the wonders of a mysterious garden and befriends her invalid cousin. [via]
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