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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0195852575 (0-19-585257-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Aesop's Fablesby AesopISBN 0192840509 (0-19-284050-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Anglo-saxon Primerby Henry Sweet, Norman DavisISBN 0198111789 (0-19-811178-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fictionby Paul SalzmanISBN 0192839012 (0-19-283901-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0192837788 (0-19-283778-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Charterhouse of Parmaby Margaret Mauldon, Henri StendhalISBN 0192839578 (0-19-283957-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Chaucer: Sources and Backgroundsby Robert P. MillerISBN 0195021673 (0-19-502167-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0195852583 (0-19-585258-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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Cranfordby Elizabeth Gaskell, Jennifer Basset, Kate MattockISBN 0194230295 (0-19-423029-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cranford'Book summary:Life in the small English town of Cranford seems very quiet and peaceful. The ladies of Cranford lead tidy, regular lives. They make their visits between the hours of twelve and three, give little evening parties, and worry about their maid-servants. But life is not always smooth - there are little arguments and jealousies, sudden deaths and unexpected marriages ...Mrs Gaskell's timeless picture of small-town life in the first half of the nineteenth century has delighted readers for nearly 150 years. [via]
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 019422709X (0-19-422709-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:Beginning in 1854 up through to his death in 1870, Charles Dickens abridged and adapted many of his more popular works and performed them as staged readings. This version, each page illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings, is a beautiful example of one of these adaptations.
Because it is quite seriously abridged, the story concentrates primarily on the extended family of Mr. Peggotty: his orphaned nephew, Ham; his adopted niece, Little Emily; and Mrs. Gummidge, self-described as "a lone lorn creetur and everythink went contrairy with her." When Little Emily runs away with Copperfield's former schoolmate, leaving Mr. Peggotty completely brokenhearted, the whole family is thrown into turmoil. But Dickens weaves some comic relief throughout the story with the introduction of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and David's love for his pretty, silly "child-wife," Dora. Dark nights, mysterious locations, and the final destructive storm provide classic Dickensian drama. Although this is not David Copperfield in its entirety, it is a great introduction to the world and the language of Charles Dickens. [via]
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Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito: Euthyphro ; Critoby Plato, David GallopISBN 0192838644 (0-19-283864-4)
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose BierceISBN 0195126270 (0-19-512627-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Dictionary'Book summary:These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today. [via]
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequalityby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0192839810 (0-19-283981-0)
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0195004124 (0-19-500412-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Alighieri Dante, Robert M. DurlingISBN 019508747X (0-19-508747-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Infernoby Robert M. Durling, Ronald L. Martinez, Alighieri DanteISBN 0195087402 (0-19-508740-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno'Book summary:This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central work of Western literature, Durling's is a prose translation (the first to appear in twenty-five years), and is thus free of the exigencies of meter and rhyme that hamper recent verse translations. As Durling notes, "the closely literal style is a conscious effort to convey in part the nature of Dante's Italian, notoriously craggy and difficult even for Italians." Rigorously accurate as to meaning, it is both clear and supple, while preserving to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's complex syntax. The Durling-Martinez Inferno is also user-friendly. The Italian text, newly edited, is printed on each verso page; the English mirrors it in such a way that readers can easily find themselves in relation to the original terza rima . Designed with the first-time reader of Dante in mind, the volume includes comprehensive notes and textual commentary by Martinez and Durling: both are life-long students of Dante and other medieval writers (their Purgatorio and Paradiso will appear next year). Their introduction is a small masterpiece of its kind in presenting lucidly and concisely the historical and conceptual background of the poem. Sixteen short essays are provided that offer new inquiry into such topics as the autobiographical nature of the poem, Dante's views on homosexuality, and the recurrent, problematic body analogy (Hell has a structure parallel to that of the human body). The extensive notes, containing much new material, explain the historical, literary, and doctrinal references, present what is known about the damned souls Dante meets --from the lovers who spend eternity in the whirlwind of their passion, to Count Ugolino, who perpetually gnaws at his enemy's skull--disentangle [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri, Robert M. Durling, Robert Turner, Ronald L. MartinezISBN 0195087453 (0-19-508745-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio'Book summary:The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno , is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness to Dante's syntax. Martinez' and Durling's notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages--often similarly numbered cantos--in the Inferno . Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. As in the Inferno , there is an extensive bibliography and four useful indexes. Robert Turner's illustrations include maps, diagrams of Purgatory and the cosmos, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem. [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorioby Robert M. Durling, Robert Turner, Ronald L. MartinezISBN 0195087410 (0-19-508741-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio'Book summary:The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno, is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness to Dante's syntax.
Martinez' and Durling's notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages--often similarly numbered cantos--in the Inferno. Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. As in the Inferno, there is an extensive bibliography and four useful indexes.
Robert Turner's illustrations include maps, diagrams of Purgatory and the cosmos, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem. [via]More editions of The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio:
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The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moralby Francis Bacon, Brian VickersISBN 0192838024 (0-19-283802-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral'Book summary:Published in 1625, Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral provides dispassionate observation of human life and powerfully expressed moral judgments. Bacon focuses on the ethical, political, and historical influences on human behavior and records observations on such diverse topics as beauty, deformity, fortune, adversity, truth, marriage, and atheism. Based on the Oxford Authors series, this edition contains substantial annotation and notes on Bacon's rich vocabulary. [via]
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Esther Watersby George Moore, David SkiltonISBN 0192837125 (0-19-283712-5)
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, James E. FalenISBN 0192838997 (0-19-283899-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. [via]
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Fourteenth Century Verse & Proseby J. R. R. Tolkien, Kenneth SisamISBN 0198113919 (0-19-811391-9)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebookby Gene H. Bell-VilladaISBN 0195144554 (0-19-514455-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook'Book summary:Casebooks in Criticism offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interview with the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts.
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the most important novel in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This Casebook features ten critical articles on García Márquez's great work. Carefully selected from the most important work on the novel over the past three decades, they include pieces by Carlos Fuentes, Iris Zavala, James Higgins, Jean Franco, Michael Wood, and Gene H. Bell-Villada. Among the intriguing aspects of the work discussed are its mythic dimension, its "magical" side, its representations of women, its relationship with past chronicles of exploration and discovery, its portrayals of Western power and imperialism, its astounding diffusion throughout the globe and the media, and its simple truth-telling, its fidelity to the tangled history of Latin America. The book incorporates several theoretical approaches--historical, feminist, postcolonial; the first English translation of Fuentes's renowned, oft-cited, eight page meditation on the work; a general introduction; and a 1982 interview with García Márquez. [via]More editions of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook:
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Goethe's Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0195004108 (0-19-500410-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goethe's Faust'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. 1903 Excerpt: ... the proper company for his Cadaverousness. In a letter of 1780, Goethe playfully applies the name £rad)e to his friend Merck, who was also a gaunt man. 5671. iBJnrlcrlol', 'wooden cross'; in sarcastic allusion to the Lean Person's appearance. 5678. bctUCflt, 'excitedly'; adv. with entfctltett. 5681. llmfrfjiipytc = befcfjupte, 'scaly.' 5685-6. J)o6cn... fycrnitiictraticn. The dragons (without hands, hence the marvel) take the box, with Mephistopheles sitting on it, out of the chariot and bring it to (heron) where Faust is standing. 5691. ft!) fief lit, 'motley.' 56g6. jur GtnfomfeU. Cf. the words of the Poet in the Prelude, 11. 59 ff. 5706. ticrrnftjcu. Poetry is self-revelation, i.e., self-betrayal. Cf. the lines in the West-Ostlicher Divan, IX, 19: ®rft ficfi im fflefjetmnifs toteflcn, £mn ter)I(mtetn friif) unb fpatl SUcfjter ift umfonft Berf(6wieflen, Sidjten fel&ft ift fdjott Serratfj. 5712. (loltmcnt SBlitte; figurative for the red-golden liquid which rises in the pots and threatens to dissolve the jewels. 5717. ftJimeljen fid), 'are melting,' i.e.,' are on the point of melting,'--whence the need of seizing them quickly. 5718. ©emiinte SRoHcn, 'minted rolls,' i.e., coins. 5719. $u!aten... gepragt = OotbftiidCe tote getorfigte £ufatcn, 'pieces like genuine ducats.' But Schroer says tote geprtigt = hrie lieu ge« torogt. 573-©olb unb 2Bertfy; i.e., roerthtjolle? (roirfltd)e«) ©olb. 5735-6. The meaning is: What 's the use of truth for such as you, ever the ready victims of stupid illusion?--9ln alien 3tyfeltt patfctl, 'to lay hold of by every tag,' i.e., to lay hold of with all one's might. 5753-Oil' UltS all', 'all together,' 'every one of us.' Cf. Sltt OTe in 1. 8483+. 5761-2. Plutus as magician draws an... [via]
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The Golden Assby Apuleius, P.G. WalshISBN 0192838881 (0-19-283888-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Ass'Book summary:Apuleius's Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately returned to human shape by the kindness of the goddess Isis. Simultaneously a blend of romantic adventure, fable, and religious testament, The Golden Ass is one of the truly seminal works of European literature, of intrinsic interest as a novel in its own right, and one of the earliest examples of the picaresque. This new translation is at once faithful to the meaning of the Latin, while reproducing all the exuberance of the original. [via]
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The Good Soldierby Thomas C. Moser, Ford Madox FordISBN 019283620X (0-19-283620-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier'Book summary:First published in 1915, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier begins, famously and ominously, "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." The book then proceeds to confute this pronouncement at every turn, exposing a world less sad than pathetic, and more shot through with hypocrisy and deceit than its incredulous narrator, John Dowell, cares to imagine. Somewhat forgotten as a classic, The Good Soldier has been called everything from the consummate novelist's novel to one of the greatest English works of the century. And although its narrative hook--the philandering of an otherwise noble man--no longer shocks, its unerring cadences and doleful inevitabilities proclaim an enduring appeal.
Ford's novel revolves around two couples: Edward Ashburnham--the title's soldier--and his capable if off-putting wife, Leonora; and long-transplanted Americans John and Florence Dowell. The foursome's ostensible amiability, on display as they pass parts of a dozen pre-World War I summers together in Germany, conceals the fissures in each marriage. John is miserably mismatched with the garrulous, cuckolding Florence; and Edward, dashing and sentimental, can't refrain from falling in love with women whose charms exceed Leonora's. Predictably, Edward and Florence conduct their affair, an indiscretion only John seems not to notice. After the deaths of the two lovers, and after Leonora explains much of the truth to John, he recounts the events of their four lives with an extended inflection of outrage. From his retrospective perch, his recollections simmer with a bitter skepticism even as he expresses amazement at how much he overlooked.
Dowell's resigned narration is flawlessly conversational--haphazard, sprawling, lusting for sympathy. He exudes self-preservation even as he alternately condemns and lionizes Edward: "If I had had the courage and the virility and possibly also the physique of Edward Ashburnham I should, I fancy, have done much what he did." Stunningly, Edward's adultery comes to seem not merely excusable, but almost sublime. "Perhaps he could not bear to see a woman and not give her the comfort of his physical attractions," John surmises. Ford's novel deserves its reputation if for no other reason than the elegance with which it divulges hidden lives. --Ben Guterson [via]
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0194226824 (0-19-422682-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: 'Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!' [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Clare West, Jennifer BassetISBN 0194230341 (0-19-423034-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Swifts complex references and vocabulary. First published anonymously in 1727, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels created a storm of criticismfrom those who believed the stories to be true and knew exactly who Lemuel Gulliver was, to those who demanded that the writer of the seditious tales be hunted down and executed for high treason. Even today, Swifts vitriolic attacks on politics, culture, and human nature itself have earned him the reputation of a crazed misanthrope. Swift, through his hero, consistently rails against political whims, human follies, and the bestial behaviors of the human race: In Lilliput, Gulliver is twelve times the size of the European-like natives. In Brobdingnag, he is one-twelfth the size of the primitive but moral inhabitants. In Laputa, buildings collapse and clothing does not fit, although constructed by the most modern and reasonable means. Finally, in the land of the horse-like Houyhnhnms Gulliver realizes that he and his race are nothing but a brood of Yahoos. [via]
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissiniaby Samuel JohnsonISBN 0192839136 (0-19-283913-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia'Book summary:Rasselas--regarded as Johnson's most creative work--presents the story of the journey of Rasselas and his companions in search of "the choice of life." Its charm lies not in its plot, but rather in its wise and humane look at man's constant search for happiness. The text is based on the second edition as Samuel Johnson revised it. [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Stage 4 1,400 Headwordsby Arthur Conan Doyle, Patrick Nobes, Jennifer BassetISBN 019423035X (0-19-423035-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles: Stage 4 1,400 Headwords'Book summary:Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the Southwest of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Margaret Smith, Sally ShuttleworthISBN 0192839659 (0-19-283965-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door, warns her that her troubles are only beginning. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Margaret Smith, Charlotte Bronte, Jane JackISBN 0198114907 (0-19-811490-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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Jane Eyreby UnkISBN 0194216322 (0-19-421632-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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John Donne: The Major Worksby John CareyISBN 019284041X (0-19-284041-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Donne: The Major Works'Book summary:John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the founder of the metaphysical genre. His poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of tones, images, forms, and personae. This collection of Donne's verse includes a wide selection from both his secular and divine poems, including such well-known poems as "Air and Angels," "The Flea," the "Holy Sonnets", and "The Progress of the Soul." The poems are provided with full Notes and a useful Introduction to Donne's life and poetry. [via]
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis Stevenson, Clare West, William RowsellISBN 0194230066 (0-19-423006-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:'I ran to the side of the ship. "Help, help! Murder!" I screamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my head; I saw a great flash of fire, and fell to the ground ...' And so begin David Balfour's adventures. He is kidnapped, taken to sea, and meets many dangers. He also meets a friend, Alan Breck. But Alan is in danger himself, on the run from the English army across the wild Highlands of Scotland ... [via]
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The Ladies' Paradiseby Emile ZolaISBN 0192836021 (0-19-283602-1)
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Les Murray: A Life in Progressby Peter F. AlexanderISBN 0195535014 (0-19-553501-4)
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0194229440 (0-19-422944-0)
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0195852710 (0-19-585271-0)
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Lord Byron: The Major Worksby Jerome J. McGannISBN 0192840401 (0-19-284040-1)
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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0192836293 (0-19-283629-3)
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninusby Marcus Aurelius, R. B. Rutherford, A.S.L. Farquharson, Marcus Cornelius FrontoISBN 0192839071 (0-19-283907-1)
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher RodenISBN 0192838113 (0-19-283811-3)
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The Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerusby Charles Kerby-MillerISBN 0195206487 (0-19-520648-7)
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblowerby Rosemary Border, Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0194230414 (0-19-423041-4)
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, Jan Dean, Chris MouldISBN 0195217977 (0-19-521797-7)
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Nicholas Nickleby: Library Editionby Charles Dickens, Paul SchlickeISBN 0192836234 (0-19-283623-4)
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Claudia L. Johnson, John N. DavieISBN 0192840827 (0-19-284082-7)
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Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition shows her to be as innovative at the start of her career as at its close. [via]More editions of Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon:
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Notre-Dame De Parisby Victor Hugo, Alban KrailsheimerISBN 019283701X (0-19-283701-X)
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Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors. [via]More editions of Notre-Dame De Paris:
On Obligationsby Cicero, P.G. WalshISBN 0192839683 (0-19-283968-3)
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Oxford Anthology of English Literature: 1800 To the Presentby Frank Kermode, John HollanderISBN 0195016580 (0-19-501658-0)
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Poemes, Pieces, Prose: Introduction a L'Analyse De Texes Litteraires Francaisby Peter Schofer, Donald RiceISBN 0195016432 (0-19-501643-2)
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, L. G. MitchellISBN 0192839780 (0-19-283978-0)
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Restoration and the Eighteenth Centuryby Martin PriceISBN 0195016149 (0-19-501614-9)
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Robinson CrusoeISBN 0195853369 (0-19-585336-9)
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Find This BookBook summary:This popular series of readers has now been completely revised and updated, using a new syllabus and new word structure lists. Readability has been ensured by means of specially designed computer software. Words that are above level but essential to the story are explained within the text, illustrated, and then reused for maximum reinforcement. [via]
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, Diane Mowat, Jonathon HeapISBN 019422984X (0-19-422984-X)
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Samuel Johnson: The Major Worksby Donald GreeneISBN 0192840428 (0-19-284042-8)
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This volume celebrates Johnson's astonishing talent by selecting widely across the full range of his work. It includes "London" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes" among other poems, and many of his essays for the Rambler and Idler. The prefaces to his edition of Shakespeare and his famous Dictionary, together with samples from the texts, are given, as well as selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, the Lives of the Poets, and Rasselas in its entirety. There is also a substantial representation of lesser-known prose, and of his poetry, letters, and journals. [via]More editions of Samuel Johnson: The Major Works:
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservationby Aldo Leopold, Michael SewellISBN 0195146174 (0-19-514617-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation'Book summary:Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and Thereby Aldo Leopold, Charles W. SchwartzISBN 019505928X (0-19-505928-X)
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round Riverby Aldo LeopoldISBN 0195007778 (0-19-500777-8)
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A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round Riverby Aldo LeopoldISBN 0195006194 (0-19-500619-4)
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockhby Kerry McSweeney, Peter Sabor, Thomas CarlyleISBN 0192836730 (0-19-283673-0)
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The Scarlet Letterby Not Available, Escott, John (RTL), Thomas SperlingISBN 0194230430 (0-19-423043-0)
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Season in Hell: The Illuminationsby Jean Nicolas Arthur RimbaudISBN 0195017609 (0-19-501760-9)
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Selections from the Female Spectatorby Eliza Haywood, Patricia Ann Meyer SpacksISBN 0195109228 (0-19-510922-8)
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Sir Philip Sidneyby Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-JonesISBN 0192840800 (0-19-284080-0)
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0192837656 (0-19-283765-6)
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Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verseby Henry SweetISBN 019811169X (0-19-811169-X)
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Sweets Anglo-Saxon Primerby H. SweetISBN 019811110X (0-19-811110-X)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 0192836099 (0-19-283609-9)
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Tess Of The d'Urbervillesby Simon Gatrell, Penny Boumelha, Juliet Grindle, Thomas HardyISBN 019284069X (0-19-284069-X)
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Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions. [via]More editions of Tess Of The d'Urbervilles:
Tess of the D'urbervilles: Stage 6 2,500 Headwordsby Thomas Hardy, Jennifer BassettISBN 0194230945 (0-19-423094-5)
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Three Men in a BoatISBN 0194216543 (0-19-421654-3)
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Three Men in a Boatby Geoffrey Harvey, Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0192880330 (0-19-288033-0)
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Three Men in a Boatby Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 019423049X (0-19-423049-X)
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Three Talesby Gustave Flaubert, A.J. KrailsheimerISBN 0192836315 (0-19-283631-5)
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The Tragedy of King Richard IIIby William Shakespeare, John JowettISBN 0192839934 (0-19-283993-4)
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Documentation of the extensive textual variants is organized for maximum clarity: the readings of the Folio and the Quarto are presented in separate sections, and more specific information is given at the back of the book. Appendices also include selected passages from the main source and a special index of actors and other theatrical personnel. [via]More editions of The Tragedy of King Richard III:
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Victorian Prose and Poetryby Lionel Trilling, Harold BloomISBN 0195016165 (0-19-501616-5)
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Villette: Library Editionby Margaret Smith, Charlotte Bronte, Herbert Rosengarten, Tim DolinISBN 0192839640 (0-19-283964-0)
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This new edition features the definitive Clarendon edition of Villette which is derived from the earliest printings of Brontë's great work. The text is supplemented with a newly commissioned introduction, which gives a thorough and in depth analysis of the context of this fine example of the nineteenth century novel. [via]More editions of Villette: Library Edition:
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A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: An Historical And Moral View Of The French Revolutionby Janet Todd, Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0192836528 (0-19-283652-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: An Historical And Moral View Of The French Revolution'Book summary:This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in the political and social life of the nation and her growing awareness of the relationship between politics and economics and between political institutions and the individual. In personal terms, the works show her struggling with a belief in the perfectibility of human nature through rational education, a doctrine that became weaker under the onslaught of her own miserable experience and the revolutionary massacres.
Janet Todd's introduction illuminates the progress of Wollstonecraft's thought, showing that a reading of all three works allows her to emerge as a more substantial political writer than a study of The Rights of Woman alone can reveal. [via]More editions of A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: An Historical And Moral View Of The French Revolution:
The Voyage Outby Virginia Woolf, Lorna SageISBN 0192837117 (0-19-283711-7)
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The Winter's Taleby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0192838776 (0-19-283877-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. DenslowISBN 0192839306 (0-19-283930-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0194230759 (0-19-423075-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Darakhshanda Asghar KhokharISBN 0195798767 (0-19-579876-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:This is an Urdu translation of the international best-seller, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J. K. Rowling. [via]
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stoneby J. K. Rowling, Darakhshanda Asghar KhokharISBN 0195798589 (0-19-579858-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'Book summary:This is the first Urdu translation of J. K. Rowling's immensely successful Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. An Urdu translation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets will publish next year. [via]
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