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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Thomas CooleyISBN 0393966402 (0-393-96640-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition reprints for the first time the definitive Iowa-California text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley. The text is accompanied by explanatory annotations.
"Contexts and Sources" provides readers with a rich selection of documents related to the historical background, language, composition, sale, reception, and newly discovered first half of the manuscript of Mark Twain's greatest work. Included are letters on the writing of the novel, excerpts from the author's autobiography, samples of bad poetry that inspired his satire (including an effort by young Sam Clemens himself), a section on the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by schools and libraries over a hundred-year period, and commentary by David Carkeet on dialects of the book and by Earl F. Briden on its "racist" illustrations. In addition, this section reprints the full texts of both "Sociable Jimmy," upon which is based the controversial theory that Huck speaks in a "black voice," and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It," the first significant attempt by Mark Twain to capture the speech of an African American in print.
"Criticism" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is divided into "Early Responses" (including the first negative review) and "Modern Views" by Victor A. Doyno, T. S. Eliot, Jane Smiley, David L. Smith, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (the "black voice" thesis), James R. Kincaid (a rebuttal of Fishkin), and David R. Sewell. Also included is Toni Morrison's moving personal "Introduction" to the troubling experience of reading and re-reading Mark Twain's masterpiece.
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Ali and Ninoby Kurban SaidISBN 0394469755 (0-394-46975-5)
Hardcover, Random House
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Donald J GreyISBN 0393958043 (0-393-95804-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Arabian Nightsby Husain HaddawyISBN 0393959066 (0-393-95906-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:Readers for more than three centuries have delighted in The Arabian Nights--a world wherein magic is woven into the fabric of everyday life; a touching, exhilarating mixture of flamboyance, pathos, beauty, and humor. This first serious English translation fully exploits the Middle-Eastern storyteller's art and the variety of levels at which the stories move. [via]
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A Bend in the Riverby V. S. NaipaulISBN 0394505735 (0-394-50573-5)
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Breakfast in the Ruinsby Michael MoorcockISBN 0394490681 (0-394-49068-1)
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Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Culturesby Marvin HarrisISBN 0394407652 (0-394-40765-2)
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The Caravanby Stephen GaskinISBN 0394480392 (0-394-48039-2)
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The Communist Manifestoby Frederic L. Bender, K. MarxISBN 0393956164 (0-393-95616-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party.
It will assist students making their first approach to Marx's thought as well as those ready to study the Manifesto in more depth. For beginning students, this edition provides a carefully annotated text of the Manifesto and two introductory sections by Frederic Bender, a "Chronology of Events Leading to the Communist Manifesto" and "Historical and Theoretical Backgrounds of the Communist Manifesto." More experienced students will benefit from selections on the sources of Marx's thought, the significance of the Manifesto in the history of Marxism, and recent interpretations of the work. [via]More editions of The Communist Manifesto:
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 0393951375 (0-393-95137-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:This edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court reprints the text of the first American edition, approved by Clemens and published by his own company. Accompanying the text are thirteen of the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard, many of which are caricatures of well-known figures of the day. Annotations point out significant textual problems and variants, as well as explaining unfamiliar references within the text.
"Backgrounds and Sources" includes selections on King Arthur from the Oxford Companion to English Literature; on the total eclipse from The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving; and on the "king's touch," the ascetic saints, and the financing of the Mansion House by W. E. H. Lecky. Selections from Clemens's letters, notebooks, autobiography, and other writings and newspaper reports of his 1886 manuscript reading at Governor's Island show how the novel developed. A section of the Beard illustrations includes material by Beard, Clemens, and Henry Nash Smith. The English edition is discussed by Dennis Welland.
Early critical views are by Sylvester Baxter, William Dean Howells, Andrew Lang, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Whibley, Albert Bigelow Paine, John B. Hoben, and anonymous reviewers in the London Daily Telegraph and the Boston Literary World. The later critical essays are by Howard G. Baetzhold, James D. Williams, Kenneth S. Lynn, James M. Cox, Louis J. Budd, Henry Nash Smith, David Ketterer, and Everett Carter.
A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]More editions of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:
Darwinby Philip ApplemanISBN 0393950093 (0-393-95009-3)
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Darwin: Texts Commentaryby Charles Darwin, Philip ApplemanISBN 0393958493 (0-393-95849-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin: Texts Commentary'Book summary:"The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.
The impact of Charles Darwins work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as anyone in the modern era, he changed human thought, and his influence is still felt in virtually all aspects of our lives. This new edition, larger and more varied than the previous ones, includes more of Darwin's own work and also presents the most recent research and scholarship on all aspects of Darwins legacy. The biological sciences, as well as social thought, philosophy, ethics, religion, and literature, have all been shaped and reshaped by evolutionary concepts.
Excerpts from the most important books and articles of recent years confirm this Darwinian heritage. New work by Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, Kevin Padian, Eugene C. Scott, Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Michael Ruse, Frans de Waal, Noretta Koertge, George C. Williams, George Levine, Stephen Jay Gould, Gillian Beer, Ernst Mayr, and many others illuminates this exciting intellectual history. A wide-ranging new introduction by the editor provides context and coherence to this rich body of engaging material, much of which will be shaping human thought well into the new century.
This edition will be useful to scientists and historians alike: "The Norton Darwin explains Darwinian evolution and illustrates the social and intellectual conflicts of the past two centuries better than any other book that I am aware of." (Charles Taylor, Professor of Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles)
And it will be of great value to the humanities and social sciences as well: "The edition provides the sharpest and most exciting access to Darwin we have ever had. It shows all of us interested in the heart of our intellectual heritage how that heritage is sustained, manipulated, and honored." (James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California)
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Desperadoesby Ron HansenISBN 0394503503 (0-394-50350-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prisonby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394499425 (0-394-49942-5)
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The Dog of the Southby Charles PortisISBN 0394506146 (0-394-50614-6)
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The Earth Godsby Kahlil GibranISBN 0394403444 (0-394-40344-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Easter Vigil and Other Poemsby John Paul II, Karol WojxlaISBN 0394506286 (0-394-50628-6)
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Easter Vigilby Karol WojtylaISBN 0394506502 (0-394-50650-2)
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Eaters of the Deadby Michael CrichtonISBN 0394494008 (0-394-49400-8)
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Eighteenth Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789by Isser WolochISBN 0393952142 (0-393-95214-2)
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Eliot and His Age: T.S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Centuryby Russell KirkISBN 0394472365 (0-394-47236-5)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0394464354 (0-394-46435-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,'Book summary:Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.
On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Cultureby Carl E. SchorskeISBN 0394505964 (0-394-50596-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture'Book summary:A landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. [via]
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A Flag for Sunriseby Robert StoneISBN 0394407571 (0-394-40757-1)
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Flesh In The Age Of Reasonby Roy PorterISBN 0393326969 (0-393-32696-9)
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The Forerunner: His Parables and Poemsby Kahlil GibranISBN 0394403509 (0-394-40350-9)
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The Foundations of Early Modern Europe 1460-1559by Anthony Grafton, Eugene F. RiceISBN 0393963047 (0-393-96304-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foundations of Early Modern Europe 1460-1559'Book summary:Was the shift from old to new in this period a transition from medieval to modern?
Professor Rice, assisted in this edition by Professor Tony Grafton continues to argue, as in the first edition, that this century represents a shift from medieval to "early" modern. [via]More editions of The Foundations of Early Modern Europe 1460-1559:
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Holbrook GerzinaISBN 0393926354 (0-393-92635-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.
Born in England and transplanted to New York toward the end of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries, and today both countries claim her as their own. The Secret Garden, her best-known work, became an instant modern classic and world-wide bestseller upon its publication in 1911. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" and "Letters" illuminate important aspects of Burnetts life and work and include her own writings on gardens and their spiritual healing. Four illustrations point to Burnetts prominence in popular culture.
"Criticism" includes fourteen contemporary reviews and nine recent critical views of The Secret Garden, including Jerry Phillipss sociopolitical interpretation and Phyllis Bixlers comparative analysis of the Broadway musical adaptation of the novel.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden:
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The Good Soldierby Ford Madox FordISBN 0393966348 (0-393-96634-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition includes: 15 contemporary reviews; a chapter on literary impressionism with critiques by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford himself and others; critical essays that provide a variety of perspectives on the book; and Ford's letter to Stella Ford, published in 1927. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Albert J. RiveroISBN 0393957241 (0-393-95724-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 textthe edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative.
It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.
"Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels, and relevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel.
"Criticism" includes fourteen assessments of Gulliver's Travels by the Earl of Orrery, Sir Walter Scott, Pat Rogers, Michael McKen, J.A. Downie, J. Paul Hunter, Laura Brown, Douglas Lane Patey, Dennis Todd, Richard H. Rodino. Irvin Ehrenpreis, Janine Barchas, Claude Rawson, and Howard D. Weinbrot.
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 0393973867 (0-393-97386-7)
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Hawaiiby James A. MichenerISBN 0394427971 (0-394-42797-1)
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Paul B. ArmstrongISBN 0393926362 (0-393-92636-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and values but the nature and values of his society. [via]
A History of Israelby Howard M. SacharISBN 0394485645 (0-394-48564-5)
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The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394417755 (0-394-41775-5)
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Holy War in Belfastby Andrew BoydISBN 039417772X (0-394-17772-X)
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The Hour of Our Deathby Philippe AriesISBN 0394410742 (0-394-41074-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hour of Our Death'Book summary:This remarkable book--the fruit of almost two decades of study--traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature.
Starting at the very foundations of Western culture, the eminent historian Phillipe Aries shows how, from Graeco-Roman times through the first ten centuries of the Common Era, death was too common to be frightening; each life was quietly subordinated to the community, which paid its respects and then moved on. Aries identifies the first major shift in attitude with the turn of the eleventh century when a sense of individuality began to rise and with it, profound consequences: death no longer meant merely the weakening of community, but rather the destruction of self. Hence the growing fear of the afterlife, new conceptions of the Last Judgment, and the first attempts (by Masses and other rituals) to guarantee a better life in the next world. In the 1500s attention shifted from the demise of the self to that of the loved one (as family supplants community), and by the nineteenth century death comes to be viewed as simply a staging post toward reunion in the hereafter. Finally, Aries shows why death has become such an unendurable truth in our own century--how it has been nearly banished from our daily lives--and points out what may be done to "re-tame" this secret terror.
The richness of Aries's source material and investigative work is breathtaking. While exploring everything from churches, religious rituals, and graveyards (with their often macabre headstones and monuments), to wills and testaments, love letters, literature, paintings, diaries, town plans, crime and sanitation reports, and grave robbing complaints, Aries ranges across Europe to Russia on the one hand and to England and America on the other. As he sorts out the tangled mysteries of our accumulated terrors and beliefs, we come to understand the history--indeed the pathology--of our intellectual and psychological tensions in the face of death. [via]More editions of The Hour of Our Death:
How to Read the Bibleby Richard HollowayISBN 0393329542 (0-393-32954-2)
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In a Dark Woodby Marina WarnerISBN 0394411447 (0-394-41144-7)
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Interview With the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0394498216 (0-394-49821-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interview With the Vampire'Book summary:In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.
While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Islam and Capitalismby Maxime RodinsonISBN 0394467191 (0-394-46719-1)
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Joseph and His Brothersby Thomas MannISBN 0394431324 (0-394-43132-4)
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This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winners great masterpiece is a major literary event.
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four partsThe Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provideras a unified narrative, a mythological novel of Josephs fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, emotion, psychological insight, and epic grandeur.
Now the award-winning translator John E. Woods gives us a definitive new English version of Joseph and His Brothers that is worthy of Manns achievement, revealing the novels exuberant polyphony of ancient and modern voices, a rich music that is by turns elegant, coarse, and sublime. [via]More editions of Joseph and His Brothers:
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas Hardy, Norman PageISBN 039397278X (0-393-97278-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:The text reprinted in this volume is based on Hardys final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition and includes his Preface and Postscript.
The novel is fully annotated and is accompanied by Hardys map of Wessex and a plan of late Victorian Oxford (the Christminster of the novel).
The textual history of Jude the Obscureincluding an account of the surviving manuscript showing Hardys major change of intention during its composition, of the pressure to bowdlerize the novel, and of the subsequent restoration and revisionsis traced in a series of extracts from Hardys writings as well as from those of his contemporaries and of modern scholars Richard Little Purdy, John Paterson, and Robert C. Slack.
Selections from Hardys poems, autobiography, letters, and journalistic writings provide a background to the novel. Autobiographical elements and the social climate of the period in which Hardy lived and wrote are discussed by C. J. Weber and W. R. Rutland, and Hardys use of locale is explored in a section prepared specially for this edition.
"Contemporary Reception" provides a selection of reviews. "Modern Criticism" is provided by Irving Howe, Arthur Mizener, A. Alvarez, J. I. M. Stewart, Harvey Curtis Webster, D. H. Lawrence, Albert J. Guerard, Robert Gittings, Frederick P. W. McDowell, and Emma Clifford.
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Juneteenth : A Novelby Ralph Ellison, John F. CallahanISBN 0394464575 (0-394-46457-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Juneteenth : A Novel'Book summary:Invisible Man, which Ralph Ellison published in 1952, was one of the great debuts in contemporary literature. Alternating phantasmagoria with rock-ribbed realism, it delved into the blackest (and whitest!) corners of the American psyche, and quickly attained the status of legend. Ellison's follow-up, however, seemed truly bedeviled--not only by its monumental predecessor, but by fate itself. First, a large section of the novel went up in flames when the author's house burned in 1967. Then he spent decades reconstructing, revising, and expanding his initial vision. When Ellison died in 1994, he left behind some 2,000 pages of manuscript. Yet this mythical mountain of prose was clearly unfinished, far too sketchy and disjointed to publish. Apparently Ellison's second novel would never appear.
Or would it? Ellison's literary executor, John Callahan, has now quarried a smaller, more coherent work from all that raw material. Gone are the epic proportions that Ellison so clearly envisioned. Instead, Juneteenth revolves around just two characters: Adam Sunraider, a white, race-baiting New England senator, and Alonzo "Daddy" Hickman, a black Baptist minister who turns out to have a paradoxical (and paternal) relationship to his opposite number. As the book opens, Sunraider is delivering a typically bigoted peroration on the Senate floor when he's peppered by an assassin's bullets. Mortally wounded, he summons the elderly Hickman to his bedside. There the two commence a journey into their shared past, which (unlike the rest of 1950s America) represents a true model of racial integration.
Adam, we discover, was born Bliss, and raised by Hickman in the bosom of the black community. What's more, this rabble-rouser was being groomed as a boy minister. ("I tell you, Bliss," says Hickman, "you're going to make a fine preacher and you're starting at just the right age. You're just a little over six and Jesus Christ himself didn't start until he was twelve.") The portion of Juneteenth that covers Bliss's ecclesiastical education--perhaps a third of the entire book--is as electrifying as anything in Invisible Man. Ellison juggles the multiple ironies of race and religion with effortless brilliance, and his delight in Hickman's house-wrecking rhetoric is contagious:
Bliss, I've heard you cutting some fancy didoes on the radio, but son, Eatmore was romping and rampaging and walking through Jerusalem just like John! Oh, but wasn't he romping! Maybe you were too young to get it all, but that night that mister was ten thousand misters and his voice was pure gold.
In comparison, though, the rest of the novel seems like pretty slim pickings. For one thing, much of the plot--including Bliss's transformation from pint-sized preacher to United States senator--is absent. For another, Ellison's confinement of the two top-billed players to a hospital room makes for an awfully static narrative. Granted, he intended their dialogue to exist "on a borderline between the folk poetry and religious rhetoric" (or so he wrote in his notes). But this is a dicey recipe for a novel, and Juneteenth veers between naturalism and hallucination much less effectively than its predecessor did.None of this is to assail Ellison's artistry, which remains on ample display. The problem is that Callahan's splice job--which well may be the best one possible--remains weak at the seams. So should readers give Juneteenth a miss? The answer would still have to be no. The best parts are as powerful and necessary as anything in our literature, evoking Daddy Hickman's own brand of verbal enchantment. "I was talking like I always talk," he recalls at one point, "in the same old down-home voice, that is, in the beloved idiom... [and] I preached those five thousand folks into silence." Ellison, too, is capable of preaching the reader into silence--and that's not something we can afford to overlook. --James Marcus [via]
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The Key to Heaven:Edifing Tales from Holy Scripture to Serve as Teaching and Warning: Edifing Tales from Holy Scripture to Serve as Teaching and Warningby Leszek KoakowskiISBN 0394482735 (0-394-48273-5)
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Kimby Rudyard Kipling, Zohreh T. SullivanISBN 039396650X (0-393-96650-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Kristin Lavransdatterby Sigrid UndsetISBN 0394432622 (0-394-43262-2)
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-- Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs
"As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." -- Montreal Star
"Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously... than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. It is also very probably the noblest work of fiction ever to have been inspired by the Catholic art of life." -- Commonweal
"No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius.... One of the finest minds in European literature."
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"This trilogy is the first great story founded upon the normal events of a normal woman's existence. It is as great and as rich, as simple and as profound, as such a story should be."
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas Malory, Stephen H. A. ShepherdISBN 0393974642 (0-393-97464-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes.
No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnessesCaxtons 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester Manuscript. The Winchester Manuscript is now generally agreed to be the more authentic of the two earlier texts. The Norton Critical Edition is the first edition of Malory to recover important elements of this manuscript: paragraphing marginal annotations hierarchies of narrative division as signaled by size and decorative intricacy of initial capitals and font changes The Norton Critical Edition also represents, in black-letter font, the striking rubrication of proper names in the Winchester Manuscript, reconstructing for readers something of an authentic medieval reading experience, one which gives visual support to Malorys extraordinary representation, in character and setting, of a chivalric ideal. No other student edition of Malory contains such extensive contextual and critical support. [via]More editions of Le Morte D'Arthur:
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K. PhillipsISBN 0393976149 (0-393-97614-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (186869) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.
Backgrounds and Contexts includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcotts own precursors to Little Women. Criticism reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Barbara Sicherman). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via] 
Lost Country Lifeby Dorothy HartleyISBN 0394510364 (0-394-51036-4)
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, Claudia L. JohnsonISBN 0393967913 (0-393-96791-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Phillip MallettISBN 0393974987 (0-393-97498-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:The text of this edition is based on the Wessex Edition of 1912, which was revised and corrected by the author.
It has been collated with the Mellstock Edition of 1920, for which Hardy submitted final corrections.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides new and invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset and, in particular, Dorchester, Hardys native home and the town upon which Casterbridge is based. Included are six of Hardys nonfiction writings, notably excerpts from his essay "The Dorsetshire Laboure" (1883), in which he frankly comments on the social changes he has witnessed in the county. Hardys Wessex is further examined in an essay by Michael Millgate, by maps of Casterbridge and Wessex, and by a key to local place names. Christine Winfield discusses the novels manuscript and its complicated history.
"Criticism" collects seventeen wide-ranging assessments of the novel--six new to the Second Edition--from both contemporary and modern critics, including Virginia Woolf, Albert J. Guerard, Julian Moynahan, John Paterson, Michael Millgate, Irving Howe, J. Hillis Miller, Ian Gregor, Elaine Showalter, George Levine, William Greenslade, H. M. Daleski, and Suzanne Keen.
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Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of A Black Buddhist Nunby Faith AdieleISBN 039332673X (0-393-32673-X)
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Leah S. MarcusISBN 0393925293 (0-393-92529-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeares most beautiful plays and, conversely, his ugliest. Juxtaposed within the same conceptual frame are heavenly and musical harmonies, romantic love, materialism, and racism.
This Norton Critical Edition has been carefully edited to make The Merchant of Venice, its surrounding history, and the history of its critical reception and rewritings accessible to readers. The text of this edition is based on the 1600 First Quarto, with light editing and substantial explanatory annotations by Leah S. Marcus.
"Sources and Contexts" largely focuses on the character of Shylock and the issue of anti-Semitism in the play. Materials included are diverse, and at times contradictory, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. Examples include seventeenth-century anti-Semitic literature, an essay from the same period defending Jews and arguing for their repatriation in England, an examination of the Christian theology of the play, and readings of The Merchant of Venice as exclusionary for Jews, women, and people of color.
"Criticism" collects twenty-one diverse interpretations. In addition to Shylock and the question of anti-Semitism, these essays address The Merchant of Venice in the context of postcolonial, feminist, and queer theory and explore relevant issues of economic status and organization.
"Rewritings and Appropriations" includes excerpts from dramatic, musical, and other literary adaptations of The Merchant of Venice, as well as a selection of poems, most of them from the twentieth century, on the character of Shylock.
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The Middle Agesby Brian TierneyISBN 0394318021 (0-394-31802-1)
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The Moviegoerby Walker PercyISBN 0394437039 (0-394-43703-9)
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essaysby Albert CamusISBN 0394437608 (0-394-43760-8)
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The Norton Anthology of American Literatureby Nina BaymISBN 039395871X (0-393-95871-X)
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The Norton Anthology of American Literatureby Ronald GottesmanISBN 0393950263 (0-393-95026-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of American Literature'Book summary:The Norton Anthology of English Literature is an anthology of English literature published by the W. W. Norton & Company. First published in 1962, it has gone through nine editions in a half-century; as of 2006 there are over eight million copies in print, making it the publisher's best-selling anthology. M. H. Abrams, a critic and scholar of Romanticism, served as General Editor for its first seven editions, before handing the job to Stephen Greenblatt, a Shakespeare scholar and Harvard professor. Spread across six volumes and divided into two sets, the anthology provides an overview of poetry, drama, prose fiction, essays and letters from Beowulf to the beginning of the 21st century. [via]
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The Norton Anthology Of Children's Literature: The Traditions In Englishby Jack Zipes, Peter Hunt, Gillian Avery, Lynne Vallone, Lissa PaulISBN 039397538X (0-393-97538-X)
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The Norton Anthology Of Children's Literature: The Traditions In Englishby Peter Hunt, Gillian Avery, Lynne Vallone, Jack Zipes, Lissa PaulISBN 0393327760 (0-393-32776-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology Of Children's Literature: The Traditions In English'Book summary:Comprehensive and visually rich, this new Norton Anthology, in a beautiful slipcased gift edition, traces the remarkable innovation and enduring pleasures of children's literature.The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature celebrates the richness and variety of over 350 years of literary works for children. This groundbreaking anthology includes 170 authors and illustrators of alphabets and animal fables, fairy tales and fantasy, picture books and nursery verse, among many other genres. Here readers will find beloved works by Charles Perrault, Lewis Carroll, J. M. Barrie, L. M. Montgomery, and Dr. Seuss along with historical classics-The New-England Primer and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses-and major voices from the multicultural and global contemporary scene. Over 40 longer complete works and over 400 illustrations, including 60 in color, enhance this comprehensive and visually rich anthology.With introductions that offer fresh insights into the cultural contexts of children's literature and childhood itself over four centuries, author headnotes, annotations, bibliographies, and a timeline, The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature illuminates a literary tradition whose power to instruct and delight is both centuries old and startlingly new. 60 color and 375 black-and-white illustrations [via]
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The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Editionby William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr, Jean E. Howard, Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Katharine Eisaman MausISBN 0393970876 (0-393-97087-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition'Book summary:Comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition, this book has been edited and annotated to provide a single-column text. Each play has an introduction aimed at encouraging a fresh approach to the work. In the general introduction, the editor draws a picture of everyday life in Elizabethan England: the culture, the people, commerce, politics and religion. He describes Shakespeare's family life and his professional career as a working man of the theatre. He also discusses the printing and publishing of the plays, and recent developments in textual scholarship. Lastly, he considers questions affecting Shakespeare criticism. An essay by Andrew Gurr (University of Reading), on the staging of Shakespeare's plays explains, for example, how the plays were performed at the "Globe" theatre. An accompanying CD-ROM, "The Norton Shakespeare Workshop" is also available. [via]
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Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Fred KaplanISBN 039396292X (0-393-96292-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846 text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickens and the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intentions.
The editor has corrected printers errors and annotated unfamiliar terms and allusions.
Three illustrations by George Cruikshank and a map of Oliver's London accompany the text.
"Backgrounds and Sources" focuses on The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, central both to Dickens and to the characters in Oliver Twist. The acts far-reaching implications are considered in source materials that include parlimentary debates on The Poor Laws, a harrowing account of an 1835 Bedfordshire riot, and "An Appeal to Fallen Women," Dickens 1847 open letter to Londons prostitutes urging them to turn their backs on "debauchery and neglect."
Ten letters on Oliver Twist, written between 1837 and 1864, are reprinted, including those to the novels publisher, the novels illustrator, and John Forster, Dickens close friend and future biographer.
In addition, readers can trace the evolution of the novel by examining Dickens installment and chapter-division plans and enjoy "Sikes and Nancy," the text of a public reading Dickens composed and performed often to large audiences.
"Early Reviews" provides eight witty, insightful, and at times impassioned responses to the novel and to Olivers plight by William Makepeace Thackeray and John Forster (anonymously), among others.
"Criticism" includes twenty of the most significant interpretations of Oliver Twist published in this century. Included are essays by Henry James, George Gissing, Graham Greene, J. Hillis Miller, Harry Stone, Philip Collins, John Bayley, Keith Hollingsworth, Steven Marcus, Monroe Engel, James R. Kincaid, Michael Slater, Dennis Walder, Burton M. Wheeler, Janet Larson, Fred Kaplan, Robert Tracy, David Miller, John O. Jordan, and Gary Wills.
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert Darwin, Philip ApplemanISBN 0393978672 (0-393-97867-2)
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As much as anyone in the modern era, Charles Darwin changed the course of human thought. The impact on Western civilization of his seminal work has been broad and deep: not only the biological sciences but also social thought, philosophy, ethics, religion, and literature have all been shaped and reshaped by evolutionary concepts. Here, in what Paul Moody (writing in Victorian Studies) has called "a masterly condensation," is a classic edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species . It retains all of the substance of the original book, but only the essential elements of its profuse detail. Philip Appleman, the editor of Darwin, a Norton Critical Edition ("the best Darwin anthology on the market," according to Stephen Jay Gould), has cut deftly to the essence of Darwin's classic, losing none of the continuity or flavor of the original and making available an edition that modern readers will not find overpowering. This revision includes a new introduction by Professor Appleman that perceptively traces Darwin's influence on the world of ideas as well as three additional chapters from Darwin's work. [via]More editions of The Origin of Species: Library Edition:
Philosophy in the Twentieth Centuryby Alfred Jules AyerISBN 0394504542 (0-394-50454-2)
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Robert M. AdamsISBN 0393962202 (0-393-96220-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:Robert M. Adamss superb translation of Machiavellis best-known work is again the basis for this Norton Critical Edition.
Accurate, highly readable, and thoroughly revised for the Second Edition, this translation renders Machiavellis 1513 political tract into clear and concise English.
"Backgrounds" relies entirely upon Machiavellis other writings to place this central Florentine in his proper political and historical context. Included are excerpts from The Discourses, a report from a diplomatic mission, a collection of private letters, and two poems from Carnival Songs.
"Interpretations" retains three of the previous editions seminal essays while adding five selections by Felix Gilbert, Federico Chabod, J. H. Whitfield, Isaiah Berlin, and Robert M. Adams.
"Marginalia" is an eclectic collection of writings germane to both Machiavelli and The Prince. Of the eight selections represented, five of them are new to the Second Edition, including Pasquale Villaris comic portrayal of Machiavellis first diplomatic post in 1499, Francesco Guicciardinis lofty rebuttal to Machiavelli, and a collection of Tuscan Sayings to further the readers understanding of this timeless text.
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The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early Americaby Philip J. GrevenISBN 0394404238 (0-394-40423-8)
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Remembering Babylonby David MaloufISBN 0394280431 (0-394-28043-1)
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Rockdale: The Growth Of An American Village In The Early Industrial Revolutionby Anthony F. C. WallaceISBN 0394421205 (0-394-42120-5)
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Madeby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0394491319 (0-394-49131-9)
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Russian Fairy Talesby Roman Jakobson, Norbert Guterman, A. N. Afanasev, Alexandre AlexeieffISBN 039449914X (0-394-49914-X)
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The Second Sexby Simone de Beauvoir, H. M. ParshleyISBN 0394444159 (0-394-44415-9)
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Seeing With the Mind's Eye: The History, Techniques, and Uses of Visualizationby Mike Samuels, Nancy SamuelsISBN 0394497457 (0-394-49745-7)
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The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan: New Translations, Criticismby Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, De Pisan Christine, Kevin BrownleeISBN 0393970108 (0-393-97010-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan: New Translations, Criticism'Book summary:Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1421) is Europes first professional woman writer. She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres, including lyric poetry, allegorical dream visions, history, political treatises, and biography.
This Norton Critical Edition presents selections from eighteen of Christines major works in fresh, contemporary translations. Each text is fully annotated and is accompanied by an introduction placing it in the context of Christines oeuvre and tracing the literary developments and the historical situation of the period. The Book of Fortunes Transformation and The Book of the City of Ladies include manuscript illuminations.
"Criticism" collects seven important interpretations of the literary and historical aspects of Christines work, by Jacqueline Cerquiglini, Beatrice Gottlieb, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Sheila Delany, Patricia A. Phillippy, Joel Blanchard, and Kevin Brownlee. A Selected Bibliography is included. [via]More editions of The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan: New Translations, Criticism:
Song Of Solomonby Toni MorrisonISBN 0394497848 (0-394-49784-8)
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The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novellaby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Louise Bogan, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth MayerISBN 0394470249 (0-394-47024-9)
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States of Irelandby Conor Cruise O'BrienISBN 0394471172 (0-394-47117-2)
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The Study of American Folklore: An Introductionby Jan Harold BrunvandISBN 0393972232 (0-393-97223-2)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, Scott ElledgeISBN 0393959031 (0-393-95903-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:This Third Edition of Tess of the D'Urbervilles introduces the highly praised 1983 Clarendon text edited by Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell.
The text is fully annotated and includes a separate table of contents for the novel to assist readers in locating specific episodes or passages.
Hardy's hand-drawn map of Wessex and the manuscript title page for the first edition of his novel are also included.
Hardy and the Novel includes seven poems by Hardy that provide greater insight into his ethos; selections from Michael Millgate's biography of Hardy that depict the relationship between episodes in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and events in the author's life; and excerpts from Grindle and Gatrell's introduction to the 1983 edition that discuss Hardy's revision process in both manuscripts and early printed editions of the novel.
Criticism features three contemporary reviews of the novel not printed in the earlier Norton editions, including the first feminist review of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Also new are "A Chat with Mr. Hardy," a hitherto unprinted post-publication interview with the author about his new novel, and five carefully selected critical interpretations.
Essays by Elliot B. Gose, Jr., Peter R. Morton, and Gillian Beer address Hardy's debt to Charles Darwin, perhaps the single most important influence on Hardy's thought and imagination; Raymond Williams's essay presents a Marxist perspective; and Adrian Poole discusses the significance of Hardy's wisdom concerning "the trouble men's words have with women and the trouble women have with men's words."
A Chronology, new to this edition, and a Selected Bibliography are included. [via]More editions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles:
Threeby Alan WattsISBN 0394419049 (0-394-41904-9)
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Train to Pakistanby Khushwant SinghISBN 0394178874 (0-394-17887-4)
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The Trialby Franz KafkaISBN 039444955X (0-394-44955-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial'Book summary:Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.
In his brilliant translation, Breon Mitchell masterfully reproduces the distinctive poetics of Kafka's prose, revealing a novel that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written.
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Tristram Shandyby Laurence Sterne, Howard AndersonISBN 0393950344 (0-393-95034-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tristram Shandy'Book summary:This edition of "the most modern of eighteenth-century novels" reprints the text of the first edition of the volumes of Tristram Shandy as they appeared from December 1759 to January 1767, including the two illustrations by Hogarth.
Obvious errors have been corrected, but most of the conventions of eighteenth-century printing and all of Sterne's brilliant exploitations and expansions of those conventions have been retained. Background information includes a chronology of Sterne's life and comments from his letters pertaining to the composition of the novel and to his theory of fiction. Responses by Sterne's contemporariesamong them Walpole, Goldsmith, Richardson, and Johnsonbegin the selection of critical materials. Early-nineteenth-century assessments by Coleridge, Hazlitt, Scott, and Thackeray are followed by twentieth-century critical essays by Lodwick Hartley, D. W. Jefferson, Toby A. Olshin, Wayne Booth, William Bowman Piper, Martin Price, Jean Jacques Mayoux, Richard A. Lanham, Sigurd Burkhardt, J. Paul Hunter, Charles Parish, and Howard Anderson. Original illustratons by Hogarth included [via]More editions of Tristram Shandy:
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth AmmonsISBN 0393963039 (0-393-96303-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.
It was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. The book had a far-reaching impact and deeply affected the national conscience of antebellum America. The Norton Critical Edition text is that of the 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston; original illustrations are included. Annotations are provided to assist the reader with obscure historical terms and biblical allusions. Backgrounds and Contexts includes a wealth of historical material relevant to slavery and abolitionism. Among the documents presented are Josiah Henson's 1849 slave narrative (named by Stowe as one of the sources for the novel); Solomon Northup's eyewitness account of an 1841 slave auction; Harriet Jacobs's narrative of her life as a fifteen-year-old slave; two epistolary accounts by ex-slave and abolitionist William Wells Brown, which document events in Uncle Tom's Cabin; two crucial excerpts from Stowe's Key to "Uncle Tom's Cabin " which provide the real-life basis for characters and events in the novel; and accounts of Tom-Shows and the anti-Uncle Tom literature that sprang up in response to the novel's publication. Illustrative material includes slave advertisements, runaway slave posters, and illustrations for the first British edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Britain's premier illustrator, George Cruikshank, as well as popular illustrations from American editions of the novel. Criticism is arranged under two headings. "Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reception" includes critiques by George Sand, William G. Allen and Ethiop (both from Frederick Douglass' Paper), George F. Holmes, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others. Twentieth-Century Criticism collects five of the best critical assessments of the novel's continuing impact on American society. With the exception of James Baldwin's groundbreaking essay, "Everybody's Protest Novel," the critical essays date from the years 1985 to 1992. Jane P. Tompkins investigates why the text was excluded from the canon for most of the twentieth century. Robert S. Levine provides an overview of the text's popular reception and influence since publication, including current critical schools and critics. Hortense J. Spillers takes a textual/linguistic view in her comparison between Stowe and Ishmael Reed as "impression points in the literary imagination of slavery." And Christina Zwarg traces the influence Stowe's feminism had on her treatment of fatherhood and its effect on the home. A Chronology of Stowe's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
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W. H. Auden Collected Poemsby Edward Mendelson, W. H. AudenISBN 0394408950 (0-394-40895-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'W. H. Auden Collected Poems'Book summary:This collection of the poems of W.H. Auden includes three poems referred to by Auden as "posthumous poems", and others that he omitted from the "Collected Shorter Poems" of 1966, printed here in revised versions found among his papers. [via]
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau, William L. HowarthISBN 0394326660 (0-394-32666-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Other Writings'Book summary:With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! , for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature.
The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--is recorded in selections from A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods and The Journal. [via]More editions of Walden and Other Writings:
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Walden and Resistance to Civil Governmentby Henry David Thoreau, Owen Thomas, William RossiISBN 0393959058 (0-393-95905-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Resistance to Civil Government'Book summary:On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a new edition of Walden, annotated by the distinguished Thoreau scholar Walter Harding and illustrated with Thoreau's own drawings. Even those who have read Walden many times will find much that is new in this edition, and those reading the book for the first time will discover why it has changed the lives of generations of readers. [via]
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Warriors of Peace: Writings on the Technique of Nonviolenceby Joseph Jean Lanza del VastoISBN 0394489276 (0-394-48927-6)
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Wheat That Springeth Greenby J. F. PowersISBN 0394496094 (0-394-49609-4)
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghostsby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0394400674 (0-394-40067-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts'Book summary:The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward. The author's America is a landscape of confounding white "ghosts"--the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost--with equally rigid, but very different rules. Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain. [via]
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The World of Late Antiquity Ad 150-750: Ad 150-750by Peter Robert Lamont BrownISBN 0393958035 (0-393-95803-5)
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