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The Acharniansby AristophanesISBN 0140442871 (0-14-044287-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Aesop's Fablesby Heidi Holder, AesopISBN 0140548726 (0-14-054872-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:"The Country Mouse and the City Mouse," "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Hare and the Tortoise"--these and other well-loved fables are ilustrated with intricately detailed paintings that provide a perfect counterpoint. "(A) magnificent volume . . . illustrated with elegant paintings in opulent colors."--Publishers Weekly. Full color. [via]
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Against Natureby Joris Karl Huysmans, Robert Baldick, Patrick McGuinessISBN 0140447636 (0-14-044763-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against Nature'Book summary:[via]A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise), rich perfumes, and a kaleidoscope of sensual experiences. The original handbook of decadence, Against Nature exploded like a grenade (in the words of its author) and has enjoyed a cult readership from its publication to the present day.
- Features a new Introduction, chronology, and notes and reproduces Huysmans's 1903 preface
- Includes a section of contemporary reviews and responses from writers including Mallarmé, Zola, and Wilde
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Anna Kareninaby Richard Pevear, Leo Tolstoy, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0142000272 (0-14-200027-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:"Anna Karenina" tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This award-winning team's authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this "Anna Karenina" will be the definitive text for generations to come.
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy's 'characters, acts, situations.'" (James Wood, "The New Yorker") [via]More editions of Anna Karenina:
Aphorismsby George Christoph Lichtenberg, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 0140445196 (0-14-044519-6)
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The Art of Seductionby Robert GreeneISBN 0142001198 (0-14-200119-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Seduction'Book summary:From the creators of the New York Times-bestselling The 48 Laws of Power, comes a mesmerizing handbook on seduction: the most subtle and effective form of power[via]
Which sort of seducer could you be: Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead, and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer.
In part II, immerse yourself in the twenty-four maneuvers and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over his target. Understand how to Choose the Right Victim, Appear to Be an Object of Desire, and Confuse Desire and Reality. As in his other bestsellers, The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and most recently in Mastery, in The Art of Seduction, an international bestseller, Robert Greene deftly mines history and literature to create an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip.More editions of The Art of Seduction:
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The Bacchae and Other Playsby Trans. John Davie Euripides, John Davie, Richard RutherfordISBN 0140447261 (0-14-044726-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bacchae and Other Plays'Book summary:[via]The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesus
completes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.- Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography, and glossary
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The Bellby Iris Murdoch, A. S. ByattISBN 0141186690 (0-14-118669-0)
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Bible Code II: The Countdownby Michael DrosninISBN 0142003506 (0-14-200350-6)
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The Bible: King James Version With the Apocryphaby David NortonISBN 0141441518 (0-14-144151-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bible: King James Version With the Apocrypha'Book summary:A major new edition of the King James Bible-faithfully presented for the twenty-first century[via]
Although it is the most important book in the religious life and culture of the English-speaking world, the King James Bible, or Authorized Version of 1611, has never been perfectly represented in print. This edition makes available the translators' intended work with a fidelity never before achievedallowing the most read, heard, and loved book in the English language to speak with new vigor to modern readers.The work we have long read as the King James Bible contains numerous changes, both deliberate and accidental, to the text. David Norton has scrupulously collated the established text with the translators' original manuscripts to create this new authoritative edition. In addition, he has modernized and standardized the spelling but left intact the words and grammatical forms, and he has restored most of the original punctuation, which, unlike the standard version, largely adheres to modern practices. Finally, he presents the text in paragraph format, making this King James Bible a fully comprehensible and gratifying read.
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Birthright: The Guide to Search and Reunion for Adoptees, Birthparents, and Adoptive Parentsby Jean A. S. StraussISBN 0140512950 (0-14-051295-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Cannery Rowby John SteinbeckISBN 014200068X (0-14-200068-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cannery Row'Book summary:Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Floods bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values.[via]First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it isboth the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, and interweaves their stories in this world where only the fittest survivecreating what is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck returns to the setting of Tortilla Flat to create another evocative portrait of life as it is lived by those who unabashedly put the highest value on the intangibleshuman warmth, camaraderie, and love.
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Chocolatby Joanne HarrisISBN 014100018X (0-14-100018-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chocolat'Book summary:Greeted as "an amazement of riches ... few readers will be able to resist" by The New York Times, Chocolat is an enchanting novel about a small French town turned upside down by the arrival of a bewitching chocolate confectioner, Vianne Rocher, and her spirited young daughter. [via]
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The Complete English Poems of John Donneby John Donne, A.J. SmithISBN 0140802363 (0-14-080236-3)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Robin BussISBN 014044615X (0-14-044615-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss.[via]More editions of Count of Monte Cristo:
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Count of Monte Cristo: ISBN 0141309342 (0-14-130934-2)
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Cultural Action for Freedomby FreireISBN 0140803327 (0-14-080332-7)
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Death in Venice and Other Talesby Thomas Mann, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0141181737 (0-14-118173-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice and Other Tales'Book summary:Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this new collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In this new, widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were cut out of the original English version, "Death in Venice" tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor. Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. Spellbound by a beautiful Polish boy, he finds himself fettered to this hypnotic city of sun-drenched sensuality and eerie physical decay.[via]
Also included in this volume are eleven other stories by Mann: "Tonio Kroger," "Gladius Dei," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "The Will for Happiness," "Little Herr Friedmann," "Tobias Mindernickel," "Little Lizzy," "Tristan," "The Starvelings," "The Wunderkind," and "Harsh Hour." All of the stories collected here display Mann's inimitable use of irony, his subtle characterizations, and superb, complex plots.
@GustavaelJackson While walking in the hotel lobby, saw a little kid dressed in a sailors uniform. Went from six to midnight. No Viagra needed.
I worry that his parents have noticed me. They might issue an amber alert if the child goes missing. Look out for gondola and child.
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Decameronby Giovanni Boccaccio, G.H. McWilliamISBN 0140449302 (0-14-044930-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decameron'Book summary:A new translation of the fourteenth-century tales recounted by young citizens of Florence who have fled the city to escape the plague. [via]
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A Dictionary of Literary Termsby J.A. CuddonISBN 0140511121 (0-14-051112-1)
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The Drinking Denby Emile Zola, Robin BussISBN 014044954X (0-14-044954-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drinking Den'Book summary:Previously published as L'assommoir ("The Dram Shop"), Emile Zola's "The Drinking Den" is an unflinching study of a desperate young woman struggling against the ravages of vice. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated from the French with an introduction by Robin Buss. Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on the path to a decent, respectable life at last. But with her husband's drinking and the unexpected appearance of a figure from her past, Gervaise's plans begin to unravel tragically. "The Drinking Den" caused a sensation when it was first published, with its gritty depiction of the poverty and squalor, slums and drinking houses of the Parisian underclass. The seventh novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle, it was the work that made his reputation. And, in his moving portrayal of Gervaise's struggle for happiness, Zola created one of the most sympathetic heroines in nineteenth-century literature. Robin Buss' translation renders Zola's street argot into clear, contemporary English. This edition also includes an introduction discussing Zola's Naturalistic method, with maps of Paris, Zola's preface responding to his critics, notes, a chronology and further reading. Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including "Au Bonheur des Dames" (1883), "The Beast Within" (1890), "Nana" (1880), and "The Drinking Den" (1877). If you enjoyed "The Drinking Den", you might like Zola's "The Beast Within", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathersby Andrew Louth, Maxwell StaniforthISBN 0140444750 (0-14-044475-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers'Book summary:The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form of early Christianity still drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Included here are the first "Epistle of Bishop Clement of Rome", an impassioned plea for harmony; "The Epistle of Polycarp"; "The Epistle of Barnabas"; "The Didache"; and, the Seven Epistles written by Ignatius of Antioch - among them his moving appeal to the Romans that they grant him a martyr's death. [via]
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthberts Letter on the Death of Bedeby Bede, David Hugh FarmerISBN 014044565X (0-14-044565-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthberts Letter on the Death of Bede'Book summary:Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price's translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document. This edition now includes Bede's Letter to Egbert concerning pastoral care in early Anglo-Saxon England, at the heart of which lay Bede's denunciation of the false monasteries; and The Death of Bede, an admirable eye-witness account by Cuthbert, monk and later Abbot of Jarrow, both translated by D. H. Farmer. [via]
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Ecloguesby VirgilISBN 014044419X (0-14-044419-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eclogues'Book summary:Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's "Eclogues" combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their phrasing, the poems in Virgil's first collection are also grounded in reality. Shepherds are overwhelmed by the torments of poetic love - but they must also endure such real-life events as the tragic consequences of Julius Caesar's murder in 44 bc and a civil war. In giving unforgettable expression to the disasters of the day through poetry, the "Eclogues" paved the way for the "Georgics" and the "Aeneid", the two greatest works of Latin literature, and are also a major masterpiece in their own right. [via]
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Encounter With Anthropologyby Robin FoxISBN 014055095X (0-14-055095-X)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Essaysby Plutarch, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0140445641 (0-14-044564-1)
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The Essays: A Selectionby Michel E. De Montaigne, M. A. ScreechISBN 0140446028 (0-14-044602-8)
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The First International and After: Political Writingsby Karl Marx, David FernbachISBN 0140445730 (0-14-044573-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First International and After: Political Writings'Book summary:In 1864, after more than a decade, Karl Marx (1818-83) put aside theoretical writing and returned to active politics. Yet the crucial texts of his later years - notably "The Civil War In France" and "Critique of the Gotha Programme" - count among his most important work. All go beyond "The Communist Manifesto" and apply the insights of "Capital" to major international events. Some offer analysis of the tragic but inspiring failure of the Paris Commune, German unification, the Irish question, the Polish national movement and the possibility of revolution in Russia. The founding documents of the First International and polemical pieces attacking the disciplines of Proudhon and Bakunin and the advocates of reformism, by contrast, reveal a tactical mastery that has influenced revolutionary movements ever since. [via]
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German Idealist Philosophyby Rudiger BubnerISBN 0140446605 (0-14-044660-5)
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Charlotte MitchellISBN 0141439564 (0-14-143956-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:The orphan Pip's terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prelude to his "great expectations." How Pip comes into a fortune, what he does with it, and what he discovers through his secret benefactor are the ingredients of his struggle for moral redemption. @piMp The walk was a bad idea. I met a prisoner who demanded bread and a file. He looks like a pederast. And a murderer. Amber alert? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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Greek Literature: An Anthology; Translations from Greek Prose and Poetryby Michael GrantISBN 0140443231 (0-14-044323-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Literature: An Anthology; Translations from Greek Prose and Poetry'Book summary:This volume displays the whole range of Greek poetry and prose - epics, lyrics and drama, history, biography and oratory, philosophy, critism and satire, and works of fundamental scientific thought. [via]
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolutionby Steven LevyISBN 0141000511 (0-14-100051-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution'Book summary:Steven Levy's classic book explains why the misuse of the word "hackers" to describe computer criminals does a terrible disservice to many important shapers of the digital revolution. Levy follows members of an MIT model railroad club--a group of brilliant budding electrical engineers and computer innovators--from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. These eccentric characters used the term "hack" to describe a clever way of improving the electronic system that ran their massive railroad. And as they started designing clever ways to improve computer systems, "hack" moved over with them. These maverick characters were often fanatics who did not always restrict themselves to the letter of the law and who devoted themselves to what became known as "The Hacker Ethic." The book traces the history of hackers, from finagling access to clunky computer-card-punching machines to uncovering the inner secrets of what would become the Internet. This story of brilliant, eccentric, flawed, and often funny people devoted to their dream of a better world will appeal to a wide audience. [via]
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Willard FarnhamISBN 0140714057 (0-14-071405-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Hard Timesby Charles Dickens, Kate FlintISBN 014143967X (0-14-143967-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery. [via]
Hiero the Tyrant: And Other Treatisesby Xenophon, Robin Waterfield, Paul CartledgeISBN 0140446826 (0-14-044682-6)
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The Historical Novelby Georg LukacsISBN 014055081X (0-14-055081-X)
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Howards Endby E. M. Forster, David LodgeISBN 014118213X (0-14-118213-X)
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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 Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospectby Paul R. EhrlichISBN 0142000531 (0-14-200053-1)
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Junkyby William Burroughs, Oliver HarrisISBN 0142003166 (0-14-200316-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Junky'Book summary:[via]Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of Junk's text and places its contents against a lively historical background.
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L'Assommoirby Emile ZolaISBN 0140442316 (0-14-044231-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Assommoir'Book summary:This title is part of the "Les Rougon-Macquart" series which tells about two branches of a French family traced through several generations. The behaviour of the two families is shown to be conditioned by environment and inherited characteristics, chiefly drunkenness and mental instability. [via]
Lettres D'UN Voyageurby Patricia Thomson, George Sand, Sacha RabinovitchISBN 0140444114 (0-14-044411-4)
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandyby Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Joan NewISBN 0141439777 (0-14-143977-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy'Book summary:The comic masterpiece Tristram Shandy is often regarded as a progenitor of the twentieth century novel. Within the resolutely tangled strands of this narrative is the life, from conception, of a gentleman cursed at birth with the name Tristram. Though everything occurs between parlor and garden, Tristram's excitable father, bewildered mother, and Uncle Toby provide ample opportunity for the digressions and madcap events that structure this seminal novel.[via]
@ACockAndBallsStory Ive just been born, and I had a tragic accident. A windowpane fell on me, and flattened my dic NOSE. My nose! That was almost embarrassing.
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Life Is So Goodby George Dawson, Richard GlaubmanISBN 0141001682 (0-14-100168-2)
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The Longest Journeyby E. M. Forster, Elizabeth Heine, Gilbert AdairISBN 0141441488 (0-14-144148-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longest Journey'Book summary:E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer, but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.[via]More editions of The Longest Journey:
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Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, Stephen Coote, G. HanscombeISBN 0140772863 (0-14-077286-3)
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Loveby Marie Henri BeyleISBN 014044307X (0-14-044307-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love'Book summary:A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's "Love" is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. "Knight" in "Penguin Classics". In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to exorcise his love and explain his feelings. The result is an intensely personal dissection of the process of falling - and being - in love: a unique blend of poetry, anecdote, philosophy, psychology and social observation. Bringing together the conflicting sides of his nature, the deeply emotional and the coolly analytical, Stendhal created a work that is both acutely personal and universally applicable. This translation retains all the colour and passion of the original and is accompanied buy the author's original prefaces and appendices. In their introduction, Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. "Knight" discuss the relationship between Stendhal and his beloved and explore his views on feminism, education and society. Stendhal (1783-1842) was the pseudonym of Henri Marie Beyle, born and raised in Grenoble. Offered a post in the Ministry of War, from 1800 onwards he followed Napoleon's campaigns throughout Europe before retiring to Italy. Here, as 'Stendhal', he began writing on art, music and travel. Though not well-received during his lifetime, his work, including "The Red and the Black" (1830) and "The Charterhouse of Parma" (1839), now places him among the pioneers of nineteenth-century literary realism. If you enjoyed "Love", you might like Gustave Flaubert's "Sentimental Education", also available in "Penguin Classics". "The single most insightful book on the role of imagination on love". (John Armstrong, author of "Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy"). [via]
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossaby Jan Potocki, Ian MacLeanISBN 0140445803 (0-14-044580-3)
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Maxims and Reflectionsby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Peter Hutchinson, Elisabeth StoppISBN 0140447202 (0-14-044720-2)
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Medea and Other Playsby Euripides, R. B. Rutherford, John N. DavieISBN 0140449299 (0-14-044929-9)
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Middlemarchby George Eliot, Rosemary AshtonISBN 0141439548 (0-14-143954-8)
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Miss Rumphiusby Barbara CooneyISBN 0140505393 (0-14-050539-3)
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Moral Essaysby Plutarch, Rex WarnerISBN 0140442359 (0-14-044235-9)
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Murder Trialsby Marcus Tullius Cicero, Michael GrantISBN 014044288X (0-14-044288-X)
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Mythology; Selected Readingsby Pierre MarandaISBN 0140801588 (0-14-080158-8)
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The Nature of the Godsby Marcus Tullius Cicero, John MacDonald RossISBN 0140442650 (0-14-044265-0)
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Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 0142000671 (0-14-200067-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Mice and Men'Book summary:They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him. "A thriller, a gripping tale . . . that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick." - The New York Times [via]
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On Governmentby Cicero, Michael GrantISBN 0140445951 (0-14-044595-1)
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On Love and Barley Haiku of Bashoby Basho, Lucien StyrkISBN 0140444599 (0-14-044459-9)
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Ordinary Peopleby Judith GuestISBN 0140997180 (0-14-099718-0)
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The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theoryby J.A. Cuddon, Claire PrestonISBN 0140513639 (0-14-051363-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory'Book summary:This edition of an established dictionary of literary terms, is brought up-to-date by the inclusion of new terms from literary theory and structuralist, post-structuralist and deconstructuralist criticism. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Greyby Oscar Wilde, Robert MighallISBN 0141439572 (0-14-143957-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Grey'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Preludeby William Wordsworth, J.C. MaxwellISBN 0140801057 (0-14-080105-7)
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Psychedelic Drugs: Psychological, Medical and Social Issuesby Brian WellsISBN 0140803424 (0-14-080342-4)
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Psychology and Epistemology:towards a Theory of Knowledge: Towards a Theory of Knowledgeby Jean PiagetISBN 0140600116 (0-14-060011-6)
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Red and the Blackby Stendhal, Roger GardISBN 0140447644 (0-14-044764-4)
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The Reveries of a Solitary Walkerby Jean J. RousseauISBN 0140443630 (0-14-044363-0)
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Rules and Meanings: The Anthropology of Everyday Knowledgeby Mary DouglasISBN 0140807128 (0-14-080712-8)
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Science in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, 13th to 17th Centuriesby Alistair Cameron CrombieISBN 0140550755 (0-14-055075-5)
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The Sea, the Seaby Iris Murdoch, Mary KinzieISBN 014118616X (0-14-118616-X)
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Selected Poemsby Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander ColemanISBN 0140587217 (0-14-058721-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:During his life, Jorge Luis Borges wore many hats. He was, variously, a poet, an essayist, a short-story writer, a librarian, and, for a short time, a poultry inspector. Born in Argentina in 1899, he lived for several years in Europe before eventually returning home to Buenos Aires in the early 1920s. It was here that Borges started his career as a writer. At the age of 24, he published his first volume of poetry, and though he would go on to garner considerable acclaim as an essayist and crafter of fiction, he always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This bilingual edition of Selected Poems, edited by Alexander Coleman, gathers together 200 poems from different periods of Borges's life, including some that will be appearing in English for the first time.
Whether he was writing fiction, essays, or poetry, there were certain themes and subjects that Borges returned to time and again. His home town became a favorite topic--in his first collection, Fervor de Buenos Aires, he wrote: "My soul is in the streets / of Buenos Aires," a sentiment that remained constant throughout his life. This collection reveals other preoccupations as well--with history in all its permutations, Borges's own ancestry, and his fascination with metaphysics, mazes, mirror images, and the blurry line between parallel realities:
The celibate white cat surveys himself
This companion volume to Andrew Hurley's new translation of Collected Fictions boasts a stellar cast of translators, including W.S. Merwin, Mark Strand, and John Updike among others. Admirers of Borges will find Selected Poems a fitting memorial to the great man; and for those have never had the pleasure of reading him before, this book is a wonderful introduction. --Alix Wilber [via]
in the mirror's clear-eyed glass,
not suspecting that the whiteness facing him
and those gold eyes that he's not seen before
in ramblings through the house are his own likeness.
Who is to tell him the cat observing him
is only the mirror's way of dreaming?
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Selected Writings on Art & Literatureby Denis Diderot, Geoffrey BremnerISBN 0140445889 (0-14-044588-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings on Art & Literature'Book summary:In this selection of writings, largely unpublished during Diderot's lifetime, the reader encounters the private man, an engaging character who uses his intellect critically to explore the relationship between Enlightenment thought and the arts. Often using a dialogue format, Diderot's critiques encompass an enormous range of interests in a duality of styles, spontaneous and subversive one moment, methodical and sober the next. He discusses the role of an audience with a character in his own fictitious play whilst his reflections on art and reality are illustrated by a stroll through one of his favourite landscape paintings. [via]
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The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Edification and Awakeningby Soren Kierkegaard, Anti-Climacus, Alastair HannayISBN 0140445331 (0-14-044533-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Edification and Awakening'Book summary:One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, "The Sickness Unto Death" is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of bleak abandonment - including some that may seem just the opposite - and offering a much-discussed formula for the eradication of despair. With its penetrating account of the self, this late work by Kierkegaard was hugely influential upon twentieth-century philosophers including Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. "The Sickness unto Death" can be regarded as one of the key works of theistic existentialist thought - a brilliant and revelatory answer to one man's struggle to fill the spiritual void. [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert MighallISBN 0141439734 (0-14-143973-4)
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Surveys from Exile: Political Writingsby Karl Marx, David FernbachISBN 0140445722 (0-14-044572-2)
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Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung: (the Highest Order of Cultivation and on the Practice of the Mean)by Andrew Plaks, Andrew H. Plaks, Xinzhong YaoISBN 0140447849 (0-14-044784-9)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Richard MaxwellISBN 0141439602 (0-14-143960-2)
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Theory of Literatureby Austin Warren, Rene WellekISBN 0140600272 (0-14-060027-2)
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Thinksby David LodgeISBN 0142000868 (0-14-200086-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinks'Book summary:In Thinks..., David Lodge writes another witty satire on the vagaries and triumphs of contemporary British academic life and achieves a fine balance between multiple points of narrative interest. He gains much momentum from psychologically nuanced romantic intrigue, and also manages to offer intelligent speculation on the state of play in the scientific and philosophical investigations into the nature and workings of human consciousness, without preaching or becoming ponderous.
Thinks... recounts the experiences of Helen Reed, distinguished novelist, who accepts a creative writing teaching gig at the fictional University of Gloucester after the sudden death of her husband. Here she meets Ralph Messenger, scholar, spin doctor, philanderer and head of the illustrious Colt Belling Centre for Cognitive Science. Scientist and novelist spar:
She asks them what they were working on. Jim says robotics, Carl says affective modelling. Kenji says something indistinct that Ralph repeats for her benefit--genetic algorithms. "I can guess what robotics is," says Helen, "but what on earth are the others?"
The form of the novel carefully mirrors its intellectual concerns. We are given Ralph's attempts to tape-record his random thoughts; Helen's more introspective diary and the often hilarious writing assignments of Helen's motley crew of students, who attempt literary solutions to the problems Ralph poses Helen. Written with enviable deftness, Thinks... manages to be generous to its characters and serious about the intellectual and ethical questions it poses for itself without losing satiric bite. --Neville Hoad [via]
Carl explains that affective modelling is computer simulation of the way emotions affect human behaviour.
"Like grief?" Helen says, glancing at Ralph.
"Exactly so," he says. "Though Carl is actually working on a program for mother-love."
"I'd like to see it," says Helen.
"I am not able to give a demonstration, I'm afraid," says Carl. "I am rewriting the program."More editions of Thinks:
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, G. B. HarrisonISBN 0140701028 (0-14-070102-8)
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The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, A. R. BraunmullerISBN 0140714545 (0-14-071454-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0141305452 (0-14-130545-2)
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Twenty Years at Hull-House : With Autobiographical Notesby Jane Addams, Ruth Sidel, Norah HamiltonISBN 0141180994 (0-14-118099-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Years at Hull-House : With Autobiographical Notes'Book summary:While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else.
Their pale faces were dominated by that most unlovely of human expressions, the cunning and shrewdness of the bargain-hunter who starves if he cannot make a successful trade, and yet the final impression was not of ragged, tawdry clothing nor of pinched and sallow faces, but of myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat.
This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago.
Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps.
Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Upanisadsby Valerie J. RoebuckISBN 0140447490 (0-14-044749-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Upanisads'Book summary:An "Upanisad" is a teaching session with a guru, and the thirteen texts of the "Principal Upanis.ads"which comprise this volumeform a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world. Composed beginning around the eighth century bce, the Upanisads have been central to the development of Hinduism, exploring its central doctrines: rebirth, karma, overcoming death, and achieving detachment, equilibrium, and spiritual bliss. Speaking to the reader in direct, unadorned prose or lucid verse, the Upanisads collected here embody humanitys perennial search for truth and knowledge. Valerie Roebucks powerful new translation blends accuracy with readability and retains the oral style of these stirring and profound philosophical explorations. [via]
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0140444173 (0-14-044417-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War and Peace'Book summary:Few would dispute the claim of "War and Peace" to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war. Tolstoy's faith in life and his piercing insight lend universality to a work which holds the mirror up to nature as truly as those of Shakespeare or Homer. [via]
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The War in the Airby H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Andy Sawyer, Jay WinterISBN 0141441305 (0-14-144130-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War in the Air'Book summary:This thrilling tale is H. G. Wells at his modernist, visionary best. In 1907, a naive Londoner named Bert Smallways finds himself an unwitting passenger on a fleet of German airships heading over the Atlantic to attack New York. What unfolds in characteristically Wellsian fashion is a clash of early flying machines that leaves Gotham in shambles and unleashes the terrible age of Total War. Uncannily relevant to our own era, The War in the Air remains a cornerstone of early science fiction.[via]More editions of The War in the Air:
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The Wild Ass's Skinby Honore De BalzacISBN 0140443304 (0-14-044330-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wild Ass's Skin'Book summary:Balzac is concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipation and restraint, in a novel that is powerful in its symbolism and realistic depiction of decadence. [via]
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