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  • Cuentos De Canterbury
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Ivana Mollo
    ISBN 849764803X (84-9764-803-X)
    Softcover, Edimat Libros

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    For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.
     
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  • The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny, Maurice Hussey, A. C. Spearing, J. E. Spearing
    ISBN 0521046297 (0-521-04629-7)
    Softcover, Cambridge University Press

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    A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings. [via]

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  • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
    by Winthrop Wetherbee
    ISBN 0521323312 (0-521-32331-2)
    Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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    On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.

    From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]

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  • Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov
    ISBN 0679723161 (0-679-72316-1)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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    Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.

    Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:

    She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
    Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]

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  • Bloom, Harold: Lolita
    Lolita
    by Harold Bloom
    ISBN 0791009610 (0-7910-0961-0)
    Hardcover, Facts on File

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  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature
    by Meyer Howard Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt
    ISBN 0393151085 (0-393-15108-5)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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    Majors authors edition. This book presents a rich selection of the best and most characteristic writings of thirty-one masters of English literature. [via]

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  • Norton Anthology of English Literature
    by M. H. Abrams
    ISBN 0393950514 (0-393-95051-4)
    Softcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

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    This anthology covers writers and works of English literature. Among the major works included are the complete texts of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"; Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"; Beckett's tragicomic "Endgame"; and Achebe's "Things Fall Apart". The 7th edition features works by 60 women writers, 21 writers new to the "Norton Anthology", 20 represented with additional selections or reselected works. Fourteen new and expanded thematic clusters gather short texts that illuminate cultural, historical, and literary concerns within each period. Examining 20th-century literature in English, this edition reflects the global reach of literature in English with ten new authors - Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, V. S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Eavan Boland, and Paul Muldoon. "The Persistence of English", a new essay by Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, provides a lively exploration of the English language - its emergence and spread, and its apparent "triumph" as a world language. Visual materials are included from several periods - Hogarth's satiric "Marriage A-la-Mode", engravings by Blake, and illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Period introductions, author headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies have been thoroughly revised, many completely rewritten, for the 7th Edition. New pedagogical features include timelines for each period and revised endpaper maps. The text is accompanied by 2 audio CDs. [via]

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  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature
    by Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. Abrams
    ISBN 0393925315 (0-393-92531-5)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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  • Adams, M. H.: Norton Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors
    Norton Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors
    by M. H. Adams
    ISBN 039395563X (0-393-95563-X)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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  • Norton Anthology of English Literature Package
    by Greenblatt
    ISBN 0393928330 (0-393-92833-0)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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    Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.

    Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologiesthorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possibleThe Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.
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  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors
    by M. Abrams
    ISBN 0393947513 (0-393-94751-3)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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    This anthology aims to enable the reader to gauge the achievement of principal authors of English literature by providing examples of their most characteristic work. Works featured range from Beowulf written in the 15th century to contemporary literature from the likes of Larkin and Rushdie. [via]

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  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1 : 16th/17th Century
    by M. H. Abrams, Greenblatt
    ISBN 0393975665 (0-393-97566-5)
    Softcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

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    With adoptions at over 1,300 colleges and universities in its first semester; the Seventh Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Seventh Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings and apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship make the Seventh Edition the choice for breadth, depth, and quality.

    For the first time ever, the acclaimed Norton Anthology of English Literature is available in six separate volumes, each of which cover a specific period of English lit and focus on the wide range of writers and literature, with full annotation and commentary. Adapted unabridged from the full Norton Anthology, this volume is ideal for focused study or specific coursework in the period. [via]

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  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature, the Major Authors: The Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
    by Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. Abrams
    ISBN 0393963381 (0-393-96338-1)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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    The acclaimed Norton Anthology of English Literature, Major Authors Edition is now available in two paperbound volumes. Volume A begins with Seamus Heaney's brilliant new translation of Beowulf and continuing through the sixteen, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This new Major Authors edition is a library between two coversan indispensable addition to the family bookshelf. [via]

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    The Norton Anthology of English: The Major Authors
    ISBN 0393969363 (0-393-96936-3)
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  • Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places
    by Peter Nabokov
    ISBN 0670034320 (0-670-03432-0)
    Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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    From the author of Native American Testimony comes a revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian

    For thousands of years Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious locations in their homelands. In Where the Lightning Strikes, Peter Nabokov offers sixteen "biographies of place" that dramatize the rich diversity of Indian cultures and their religious systems across North America. From the mountains of Maine to Tennessees Tellico Valley, from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Rainbow Canyon in Arizona to the high country of northwestern California, each chapter explores a host of relationships between Indian cultures and their environments and describes the myths, legends, practices, and rituals that sustained them.

    Based on years of research and personal experience, Where the Lightning Strikes reveals a range of holy lands containing beneficial as well as malevolent forces and reminds us of the stubborn persistence of Indian beliefs in the sacredness of the American earth. [via]

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