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2001by Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0453002692 (0-453-00269-2)
Hardcover, New Amer Library
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The Advancement of Learningby Francis Bacon, G.W. KitchinISBN 046011719X (0-460-11719-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Advancement of Learning'Book summary:While he didn't exactly invent science, Francis Bacon is its best-known early promoter. The Advancement of Learning is his 1605 argument in favour of natural philosophy and inductive reasoning, and is just as vigorous and cogent today. Though using the language of Shakespeare, the book is still largely accessible to modern readers--still, a bit of classical knowledge is helpful. Shaking off the centuries-old domination of Aristotle, Bacon advocated building scientific theories on facts and observations rather than pure reason; little has changed in our approach to understanding the world since then. Of greatest interest to historians and philosophers of science, the book will also appeal to those curious about the underpinnings of today's naturalistic thinking. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Aesop's Fablesby AesopISBN 0460050494 (0-460-05049-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 046005029X (0-460-05029-X)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Animal Farmby George Orwell, C. M. WoodhouseISBN 0452277507 (0-452-27750-7)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0460050826 (0-460-05082-6)
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The Best of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0460871560 (0-460-87156-0)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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Chang and Engby Darin StraussISBN 0452281091 (0-452-28109-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Collected Poems, 1934-1953by Walford Davies, Dylan Thomas, Ralph MaudISBN 0460047477 (0-460-04747-7)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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Cranfordby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0460010832 (0-460-01083-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 046001501X (0-460-01501-X)
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Storiesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0460017675 (0-460-01767-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Early Prose Writingsby Dylan Thomas, Walford DaviesISBN 0460039903 (0-460-03990-3)
Hardcover, Dent
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An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John LockeISBN 0460103326 (0-460-10332-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Essaysby Francis BaconISBN 0460000101 (0-460-00010-1)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Essays and Poemsby Robert Louis Stevenson, Claire HarmanISBN 0460872249 (0-460-87224-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Essays Concerning Human Understandingby LockeISBN 0460003321 (0-460-00332-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Esther Watersby George MooreISBN 0460873261 (0-460-87326-1)
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0460051016 (0-460-05101-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The French Revolutionby CarlyleISBN 0460100319 (0-460-10031-9)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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From the Earth to the Moonby Jules VerneISBN 0460050885 (0-460-05088-5)
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The Golden Bowlby Henry JamesISBN 046011400X (0-460-11400-X)
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0460012347 (0-460-01234-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0460050184 (0-460-05018-4)
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0460012924 (0-460-01292-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:This edition of "Hard Times" contains an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. The novel tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and trapped in a loveless marriage. [via]
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia/Dinarbas; A Taleby Samuel Johnson, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lynne MeloccarroISBN 0460873083 (0-460-87308-3)
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Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellowby Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0460003410 (0-460-00341-0)
Hardcover, Dent
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The Jane Austen Book Clubby Karen Joy FowlerISBN 0452286530 (0-452-28653-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jane Austen Book Club'Book summary:In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships. Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0460012878 (0-460-01287-8)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly
handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Brontë , a young woman from a bleak Yorkshire parsonage. [via]
Jude the Obscureby Thomas Hardy, James GibsonISBN 0460017098 (0-460-01709-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Laxdaela Sagaby Muriel PressISBN 0460005979 (0-460-00597-9)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Like Life: Storiesby Lorrie MooreISBN 0452266378 (0-452-26637-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0460012487 (0-460-01248-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy manage to lead interesting lives despite Father's absence at war and the family's lack of money. Whether they're putting on a play or forming a secret society, their gaiety is infectious. Written from Louisa May Alcott's own experiences, this remarkable novel has been treasured for generations. [via]
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Little Women and Good Wivesby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0460871412 (0-460-87141-2)
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The Mabinogionby Gwyn Jones, Thomas JonesISBN 0460872974 (0-460-87297-4)
Softcover, Everyman
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Preface by John Updike
The 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.
Closely linked to the Arthurian legends--King Arthur himself is a character--they summon up a world of mystery and magic that is still evoked by the Welsh landscape they so vividly describe. Mingling fantasy with tales of chivalry, these stories not only prefigure the later medieval romances, but stand on their own as magnificent evocations of a golden age of Celtic civilization.
This translation of The Mabinogion has, since its first appearance in 1949, been recognized as a classic in its own right. It was last revised by Gwyn Jones and his wife, Mair, in 1993. [via] -
Mabinogionby J. Thomas, Gwyn JonesISBN 0460042289 (0-460-04228-9)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Preface by John Updike
The 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.
Closely linked to the Arthurian legends--King Arthur himself is a character--they summon up a world of mystery and magic that is still evoked by the Welsh landscape they so vividly describe. Mingling fantasy with tales of chivalry, these stories not only prefigure the later medieval romances, but stand on their own as magnificent evocations of a golden age of Celtic civilization.
This translation of The Mabinogion has, since its first appearance in 1949, been recognized as a classic in its own right. It was last revised by Gwyn Jones and his wife, Mair, in 1993. [via] -
Macbethby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 046087182X (0-460-87182-X)
Softcover, Everyman
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Matthew Arnoldby Matthew ArnoldISBN 0460119516 (0-460-11951-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Mill on the Flossby George EliotISBN 0460113259 (0-460-11325-9)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Nicholas Nickleby: Library Editionby Charles DickensISBN 046001238X (0-460-01238-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Nigger of the "Narcissus" Typhoon Amy Foster Falk To-Morrowby Joseph ConradISBN 0460019805 (0-460-01980-5)
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Nigger of the Narcissus, Typhoon, Falk, and Other Storiesby Joseph ConradISBN 0460109804 (0-460-10980-4)
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0460018930 (0-460-01893-0)
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460871919 (0-460-87191-9)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Malcolm AndrewsISBN 0460872362 (0-460-87236-2)
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0460018949 (0-460-01894-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey. [via]
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Phantastes: A Faerie Romanceby George MacDonaldISBN 0460017322 (0-460-01732-2)
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The Pickwick Papersby Charles DickensISBN 0460012355 (0-460-01235-5)
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0460011987 (0-460-01198-7)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0460012045 (0-460-01204-5)
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The Pillars of the Earthby Ken FollettISBN 0452280109 (0-452-28010-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pillars of the Earth'Book summary:Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then came The Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly hailed as his crowning achievement. Now, The Pillars of the Earth is available for the first time to a new audience of readers, in this attractive new trade paperback edition.
In 12th-century England, the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral signals the dawn of a new age. This majestic creation will bond clergy and kings, knights and peasants together in a story of toil, faith, ambition and rivalry. A sweeping tale of the turbulent middle ages, The Pillars of the Earth is a masterpiece from one of the world's most popular authors.
"A novel of majesty and power...Will hold you, fascinate you, surround you." --Chicago Sun-Times
"A towering tale...There's murder, arson, treachery, torture, love, and lust...A good time can be had by all." --New York Daily News
"Touches all human emotions...truly a novel to get lost in." --Cosmopolitan [via]More editions of The Pillars of the Earth:
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0460013203 (0-460-01320-3)
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Puritanism and Liberty: Being the Army Debatesby William Clarke, A.S. WoodhouseISBN 0460872060 (0-460-87206-0)
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Puritanism and Liberty: Being the Army Debates 1647-9 from the Clarke Manuscripts With Supplementary Documentsby William Clarke, A.P.S. WoodhouseISBN 0460010573 (0-460-01057-3)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 046001059X (0-460-01059-X)
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Sartor Resartus and on Heroes and Hero Wby Thomas CarlyleISBN 0460002783 (0-460-00278-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0460011227 (0-460-01122-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly-ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labor for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith. About this period, however, the health of Mr. Dimmesdale had evidently' begun to fail. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp. Some declared, that, if Mr. Dimmesdale were really going to die, it was cause enough, that the world was not worthy to be any onger trodden by his feet. He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief, that, if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth. With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact. His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain. Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Koger Chillingworth made his advent to the town. His first entry on the scene, few people... [via]
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Secret Agentby Joseph Conrad, C. WattsISBN 0460871900 (0-460-87190-0)
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Shirleyby Charlotte BronteISBN 0460002880 (0-460-00288-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shirley'Book summary:Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of them; they are young enough to be very active, and ought to be doing a great deal of good. But not of late years are we about to speak; we are going back to the beginning of this century: late years -- present years are dusty, sunburned, hot, arid; we will evade the noon, forget it in siesta, pass the midday in slumber, and dream of dawn. If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard. Something real, cool and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. It is not positively affirmed that you shall not have a taste of the exciting. . . . [via]
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Storiesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Claire HarmanISBN 0460871978 (0-460-87197-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 0452283868 (0-452-28386-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sula'Book summary:Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." Her new novel has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes. Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour...at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it. Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate. Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them. Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home (the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance)...that a child drowned in the river years ago...that there was a plague of robins when she first returned... In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and [via]
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0460041428 (0-460-04142-8)
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Three Men in a Boatby Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0460001183 (0-460-00118-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Three Men in a Boat: (to Say Nothing of the Dog)by Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 046002504X (0-460-02504-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Three Men On The Bummelby Jerome K. JeromeISBN 0460001884 (0-460-00188-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Men On The Bummel'Book summary:"No," I said, "the thing is to be frank and manly. I shall tell Ethelbertha that I have come to the conclusion a man never values happiness that is always with him. I shall tell her that, for the sake of learning to appreciate my own advantages as I know they should be appreciated, I intend to tear myself away from her and the children for at least three weeks. [via]
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A Treatise of Human Natureby David HumeISBN 0460005480 (0-460-00548-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 0460016172 (0-460-01617-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tristram Shandy'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Under Milkwoodby Dylan ThomasISBN 046004270X (0-460-04270-X)
Hardcover, Dent
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Milkwood'Book summary:In 1951, two years before his death, Dylan Thomas wrote of his plan to complete a radio play, 'an impression for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness, of the town I live in, and to write it simply and warmly and comically with lots of movement and varieties of moods, so that, at many levels...you come to know the town as an inhabitant of it'. The work was UNDER MILK WOOD - an orchestration of voices, sights and sounds that conjure up the dreams and waking hours of an imagined Welsh seaside village within the cycle of one day. Includes an introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of Thomas's life and times. [via]
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0460872478 (0-460-87247-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Wuthering Heights and Poemsby Emily BronteISBN 0460002430 (0-460-00243-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights and Poems'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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