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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, Hugh HaughtonISBN 0140433171 (0-14-043317-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Ancrene Wisseby Hugh WhiteISBN 0140445854 (0-14-044585-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancrene Wisse'Book summary:This classic of English devotional literature was written for three anchoresses by a chaplain in about 1230 and is divided into eight sections, each dealing in an accessible way with one division of the religious rule. As well as being of historical importance, it is also a work of great charm and expressiveness, and is regarded as one of the greatest prose work of the Middle Ages. [via]
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--ivby Aristotle, J. A. K. Thomson, Jonathan BarnesISBN 0140449493 (0-14-044949-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--iv'Book summary:[via]Of Aristotles works, few have had as lasting an influence on subsequent Western thought as The Nicomachean Ethics. In it, he argues that happiness consists in activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, defining virtue as both moral (courage, generosity, and justice) and intellectual (knowledge, wisdom, and insight). Aristotle also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue and the state. Featuring a lucid translation, a new introduction, updated suggestions for further reading, and a chronology of Aristotles life and works, this is the authoritative edition of a seminal intellectual masterpiece.
- New Introduction and bibliography by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Barnes
- New chronology of Aristotle's life and works
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Barchester Towersby Robin Gilmour, Anthony TrollopeISBN 0140432035 (0-14-043203-5)
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles Dickens, John BowenISBN 0140437282 (0-14-043728-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'Book summary:[via]The title character of Barnaby Rudge, a feeble minded individual, is a passive actor who is swept along by events. Based on Gordon Riots of June 1780, the riots reach a climax in the storming and destruction of the Newgate Prison. This work is famous for its descriptions of mob violence which shows Dickens' descriptive abilities. First published in 1841.
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Bostoniansby Henry James, Richard LansdownISBN 0140437665 (0-14-043766-5)
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Brandby Henrik Ibsen, Geoffrey HillISBN 0140446761 (0-14-044676-1)
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A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literaturesby Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone, Ed. and TrISBN 0140442472 (0-14-044247-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literatures'Book summary:Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton, and Manx, this "Celtic Miscellany" offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force. Skifully arranged by theme, from the hero-tales of Cu Chulainn, Bardic poetry and elegies, to the sensitive and intimate writings of early Celtic Christianity, this anthology provides a fascinating insight into a deeply creative literary tradition. [via]
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Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob Burckhardt, S.G.C. MiddlemoreISBN 014044534X (0-14-044534-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy'Book summary:For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, and traces the rise of the creative individual, from Dante to Michelangelo. A fascinating description of an era of cultural transition, this nineteenth-century masterpiece was to become the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance, and anticipated ideas such as Nietzsche's concept of the 'Ubermensch' in its portrayal of an age of genius. [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, Gareth Stedman Jones, K. MarxISBN 0140447571 (0-14-044757-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 0140444785 (0-14-044478-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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The Complete Essaysby Michel De Montaigne, M. A. ScreechISBN 0140446044 (0-14-044604-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Essays'Book summary:In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. Above all, Montaigne studied himself to find his own inner nature and that of humanity. The Essays are among the most idiosyncratic and personal works in all literature. An insight into a wise Renaissance mind, they continue to engage, enlighten and entertain modern readers. [via]
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The Complete Fablesby Aesop, Robert Temple, Olivia TempleISBN 0140446494 (0-14-044649-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fables'Book summary:[via]'Many people are not in the least disturbed at the harm that befalls them, provided they can see their enemies downfall first
In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock him. Each jewel-like fable provides a warning about the consequences of wrong-doing, as well as offering a glimpse into the everyday lives of Ancient Greeks.
This definitive edition is the first translation into English of the entire corpus of 358 unbowdlerized fables. It is fully annotated, with an introduction that rescues the fables from a tradition of moralistic interpretation.
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The Complete Fairy Talesby George MacDonald, U. C. KnoepflmacherISBN 0140437371 (0-14-043737-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales'Book summary:George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dream worlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children's stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief. [via]
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The Damnedby J.K. Huysmans, Joris-Karl Huysman, Terry J. HaleISBN 0140447679 (0-14-044767-9)
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Decameronby Giovanni Boccaccio, G.H. McWilliamISBN 0140449302 (0-14-044930-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decameron'Book summary:A new translation of the fourteenth-century tales recounted by young citizens of Florence who have fled the city to escape the plague. [via]
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Diro A. SaundersISBN 0140431896 (0-14-043189-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:British parliamentarian and soldier Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) conceived of his plan for Decline and Fall while "musing amid the ruins of the Capitol" on a visit to Rome. For the next 10 years he worked away at his great history, which traces the decadence of the late empire from the time of the Antonines and the rise of Western Christianity. "The confusion of the times, and the scarcity of authentic memorials, pose equal difficulties to the historian, who attempts to preserve a clear and unbroken thread of narration," he writes. Despite these obstacles, Decline and Fall remains a model of historical exposition, and required reading for students of European history. [via]
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Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart Englandby David WoottonISBN 0140432507 (0-14-043250-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England'Book summary:An anthology of political thought drawn from England's 'century of revolution' that focuses on the writings of those English theorists, essayists, speech writers, tract writers, and pamphleteers to whom Hobbes and Locke were immediately responding in their respective masterpieces of political theory. [via]
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Domestic Manners of the Americansby Pamela Neville-Sington, Frances Milton TrollopeISBN 0140435611 (0-14-043561-1)
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Early Christian Livesby Carolinne WhiteISBN 0140435263 (0-14-043526-3)
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Early Irish Myths and Sagasby Jeffrey GantzISBN 0140443975 (0-14-044397-5)
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An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John Locke, R. S. WoolhouseISBN 0140434828 (0-14-043482-8)
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The Essays: A Selectionby Michel E. De Montaigne, M. A. ScreechISBN 0140446028 (0-14-044602-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essays: A Selection'Book summary:Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both a deep skepticism about human affairs and a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity reflective of the age. Having witnessed firsthand the bloody armed conflicts, fanaticism, and persecutions that arose out of religious differences between French Catholics and Protestant Huguenots, Montaigne was especially skeptical about human claims to knowledge. For this reason he published not systematic philosophy but mere attempts at knowledge, essays in understanding, or essais, as he called them in French. He thus inaugurated a new literary genre that proved to be very influential. Despite his skepticism, Montaigne realized that the intellectual horizon of his day was full of exciting new developments. The New World had only recently been discovered, and explorers to many parts of the hitherto undiscovered world were bringing back reports of strange lands, people, and customs. At the same time, the intellectual discoveries of the Renaissance had uncovered the powerful works of ancient Greek and Latin authors, and science, still in its infancy, was beginning to ask important new questions. The essays reflect all these interests, plus a refreshing honesty about the frailties of human nature. Montaigne writes about vanity, the value of friendship, constancy, idleness, liars, virtue, cowardice, prognostication, cannibals, the greatness of Rome, "That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die," and a host of other topics. Filled with insights and keen observations that have inspired later writers as diverse as Shakespeare,Bacon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Flaubert, Virginia Woolf, and Roland Barthes, the Essays of Montaigne should be on the shelf of every student, scholar, and book lover. [via]
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The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethicsby AristotelesISBN 0140440550 (0-14-044055-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics'Book summary:A vigorous polemicist as well as a rational philosopher, Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) has the task in his ethics of demonstrating how men become good and why happiness can, and should, be our goal. The success of Aristotle's endeavour may be measured by the enormous impact of his ethics on Western moral philosophy through the centuries. Composed as mere lecture notes, it possesses a startling boldness and represents an exacting, exciting challenge to the reader. By converting ethics from a theoretical to a practical science, and by introducing psychology into his study of behaviour, Aristotle both widens the field of moral philosophy and simultaneously makes it more accessible to anyone who seeks an understanding of human nature. [via]
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The Fables of Aesopby AesopISBN 0140440437 (0-14-044043-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fables of Aesop'Book summary:A collection of more than three hundred classic children's fables includes ""The Lion and the Mouse,"" ""The Dog in the Manger,"" and ""The Tortoise and the Hare,"" and is accompanied by twenty-three paintings and line drawings. [via]
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Faust Part 2by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0140440933 (0-14-044093-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Part 2'Book summary:The second part of goethe's masterpiece opens with faust struggling to recover from the death of his beloved gretchen. The quick-witted demon mephistopheles soon persuades him to look beyond his sorrow and enter the world of politics and power, but the great scholar is still eager for new sensations, and asks mephistopheles to reveal helen of troy to him in a vision. Overwhelmed by her beauty, faust demands she be brought back from the underworld - but even this fails to bring him contentment, and his appetite for knowledge remains unsated. Completed a few months before goethe's death, this rich and allusive work weaves together a wealth of diverse philosophical ideas and influences, reworking the medieval myth of dr. Faustus and speculating upon the search for truth in the age of enlightenment [via]
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The Fire of Loveby Clifton Wolters, Richard RolleISBN 0140442561 (0-14-044256-1)
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Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, M. A. ScreechISBN 0140445501 (0-14-044550-1)
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Robert Demaria, Peter Dixon, Michael FootISBN 0140437347 (0-14-043734-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Combining travel narrative and powerful satire, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was an immediate success when it was published in 1726. As soon as Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, Swift's distortion of reality begins and man is seen as a diminished, magnified, abstracted, and finally bestial species. Whether expurgated and adapted for children, or read as a biting and incisive satire on humanity, the novel continues to appeal to readers on a variety of levels. [via]
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Hesiod and Theognisby Dorothea WenderISBN 0140442839 (0-14-044283-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hesiod and Theognis'Book summary:Together the poetry of "Hesiod and Theognis" offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's "Theogoney" (c. 725 BCE) is a powerful creation myth: an epic, bloody tale of dark forces, sex and violence, tracing the history of the world from primeval Chaos to the establishment of Zeus as supreme king of the gods. In contrast, Hesiod's "Works and Days", written to advise his indolent brother Perseus, is an intriguing, sophisticated combination of ethical maxims, social and political comment and superstitious law. Elegiac rather than epic, the works of Theognis - written some two centuries after Hesiod - include theological speculations, love lyrics and moral advice for his protege Kurnos, reflecting the moods and themes of an aristocratic poet who mourned a changing Greek society. [via]
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Hindu Mythsby Wendy Oflaberty, Wendy DonigerISBN 0140443061 (0-14-044306-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hindu Myths'Book summary:Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna, alongside stories of the minor gods, demons, rivers and animals including boars, buffalo, serpents and monkeys. Immensely varied and bursting with colour and life, they demonstrate the Hindu belief in the limitless possibilities of the world - from the teeming miracles of creation to the origins of the incarnation of Death who eventually touches them all. [via]
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Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated From The Sanskritby Anonymous, Wendy DonigerISBN 0140449906 (0-14-044990-6)
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Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, J. M. CohenISBN 014044047X (0-14-044047-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel'Book summary:This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the story into which they are woven. [via]
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, David WomersleyISBN 0140433937 (0-14-043393-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the events that led to its disastrous collapse. Here, in volumes three and four, Gibbon vividly recounts the waves of barbarian invaders under commanders such as Alaric and Attila, who overran and eventually destroyed the West. He then turns his gaze to events in the East, where even the achievements of the Byzantine emperor Justinian and the campaigns of the brilliant military leader Belisarius could not conceal the fundamental weaknesses of their empire. [via]
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The House of Ulloaby Paul O'Prey, Emilia Pardo Bazan, Lucia GravesISBN 0140445021 (0-14-044502-1)
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas Hardy, Dennis TaylorISBN 0140435387 (0-14-043538-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:'I'm an outsider to the end of my days!' Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, Hardy's last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships. This edition uses the unbowdlerized text of the first volume edition of 1895, and also includes a list for further reading, appendices and a glossary. In his introduction, Dennis Taylor examines biblical allusions and the critique of religion in Jude the Obscure, and its critical reception that led Hardy to abandon novel writing. [via]
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Krishna: A Sourcebookby Edwin F. BryantISBN 0140447997 (0-14-044799-7)
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The Lais of Marie De Franceby Glyn S. Burgess, Keith BusbyISBN 0140447598 (0-14-044759-8)
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Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Luciliumby Robin Campbell, Lucius Annaeus SenecaISBN 0140442103 (0-14-044210-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium'Book summary:A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65) that the Stoics found their most eloquent advocate. Stoicism, as expressed in the Letters, helped ease pagan Rome's transition to Christianity, for it upholds upright ethical ideals and extols virtuous living, as well as expressing disgust for the harsh treatment of slaves and the inhumane slaughters witnessed in the Roman arenas. Seneca's major contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into a powerfully moving and inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind. [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Joan NewISBN 0140435050 (0-14-043505-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary:A comic masterpiece -- bawdy, profane, irreverent, brazenly illogical -- and one of the most entertaining and original works in English literature
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy is a brilliant pastiche of character sketches, obscene and hilarious vignettes, parodies of scholarly treatises on theology, art, and science, comments to the reader, blank pages, playful typography and graphics, narrative threads that appear, disappear, and reappear at whim, and incidents and images that relate, at one and the same time, to the characters and to the novel itself. The technical audacity and stylistic virtuosity Sterne brought to this eccentric fiction about fiction-writing redefined the form and scope of the novel forever. Both James Joyce and Thomas Mann acknowledged their debt to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, and its influence is apparent in the works of Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes, and other contemporary novelists. The text and notes in this edition are taken from the acclaimed (and definitive) Florida Edition of The Works of Laurence Sterne. [via]
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Major Barbaraby Bernard Shaw, Elizabeth T. Forter, Dan H. Laurence, Margery MorganISBN 0140437908 (0-14-043790-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Major Barbara'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing table, with the lady herself busy at it; a smaller writing table behind him on his left; the door behind him on Lady Britomart's side; and a window with a window seat directly on his left. Near the window is an armchair. Lady Britomart is a woman of fifty or thereabouts, well dressed and yet careless of her dress, well bred and quite reckless of her breeding, well mannered and yet appallingly outspoken and indifferent to the opinion of her interlocutory, amiable and yet perem-ptory, arbitrary, and high-tempered to the last bearable degree, and withal a very typical managing matron of the upper class, treated as a naughty child until she grew into a scolding mother, and finally settling down with plenty of practical ability and worldly experience, limited in the oddest way with domestic and class limitations, conceiving the universe exactly as if it were a large house in Wilton Crescent, though handling her corner of it very effectively on that assumption, and being quite enlightened and liberal as to the books in the library, the pictures on the walls, the music in the portfolios, and the articles in the papers. [via]
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophyby Bernard Shaw, Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0140437886 (0-14-043788-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy'Book summary:How tantalizing to hear Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler's List) but not be able to see him! And hear him one does in his role as Jack Tanner, the antihero of Shaw's 1905 classic drama Man and Superman. Fiennes is a veritable mouthpiece--and a frequently sarcastic one at that--for the burning issues on Shaw's philosophical and social laundry list: the state of the English working class, the arms race, women's rights, unwed mothers, the evils of industry and capitalism, and English morality in general. The seriousness of the discussions is tempered by delightful Shavian wit ("There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."), which prevents the dialogue from collapsing under its own weight, although it does teeter at times. The four-act play, directed by the esteemed Peter Hall for BBC Radio, begins in the English countryside and ends in the mountains of Spain after a curious detour to Hell, where, in act 3, the famous dream sequence unfolds and the main characters take on such roles as Don Juan and the Devil to further hash out the meaning of existence, the definition of life force, and the power of the female sex. This is a spirited production of Shaw's imperfect but intellectually challenging work. (Running time: 225 min; four cassettes) [via]
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, Kathryn SutherlandISBN 0140434143 (0-14-043414-3)
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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 Manuscript Found in Saragossaby Jan Potocki, Ian MacLeanISBN 0140445803 (0-14-044580-3)
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Keith WilsonISBN 0140435131 (0-14-043513-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Thomas Hardy's fascination with the dualities inherent in human nature is at the root of The Mayor of Casterbridge, now in a brand-new edition. In a drunken fit Michael Henchard sells his wife and infant daughter to a sailor at a country fair; when sobriety returns the following day, he is unable to find and reclaim his family. Vowing to transform his life, he settles in the town of Casterbridge, where he eventually rises to the position of mayor. Henchard is a man whose impulses are at war with one another, and when his wife and daughter, now a young woman, appear in Casterbridge, these internal contradictions drive him to commit acts that spell his final destruction. Employing the elements of classic tragedy Hardy took the English novel in a new direction, emerging as both the last Victorian novelist and the first modern one, and defines themes that would occupy such twentieth-century writers as Conrad and Lawrence. [via]
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Medieval English Verseby Brian StoneISBN 0140441441 (0-14-044144-1)
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Medieval Writings on Female Spiritualityby Elizabeth SpearingISBN 0140439250 (0-14-043925-0)
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Nibelungenliedby A.T. HattoISBN 0140441379 (0-14-044137-9)
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Notes on the State of Virginiaby Thomas Jefferson, Frank ShuffeltonISBN 0140436677 (0-14-043667-7)
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Frank Shuffleton includes in this edition with selections from relevant correspondence and discusses the work's origins, composition, and initial reception. He focuses particularly on Jefferson's response to contemporary scientific writings on "New World degeneracy"; his differing treatment of Blacks and Native Americans; and his influential (and problematic) role in creating a mythicized American self-image. [via]
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The Obedience of a Christian Manby David Daniell, William TyndaleISBN 0140434771 (0-14-043477-1)
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Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Philip HorneISBN 0140435220 (0-14-043522-0)
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0140432051 (0-14-043205-1)
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Ormond: A Taleby Maria Edgeworth, Claire ConnollyISBN 0140436448 (0-14-043644-8)
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The Owl and the Nightingale, Cleanness, st Erkenwaldby Brian StoneISBN 0140442456 (0-14-044245-6)
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Papers and Journals: A Selectionby Alastair Hannay, Sren KierkegaardISBN 0140445897 (0-14-044589-7)
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Philosophical Dictionaryby Voltaire, Theodore BestermanISBN 014044257X (0-14-044257-X)
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, George Anthony Bull, Anthony GraftonISBN 0140447520 (0-14-044752-0)
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The Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas & Philonousby George BerkeleyISBN 0140432930 (0-14-043293-0)
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The Psalmsby Peter LeviISBN 0140443193 (0-14-044319-3)
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The Psalms in Englishby Donald DavieISBN 0140446184 (0-14-044618-4)
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The Quest of the Holy Grailby Pauline Maud MatarassoISBN 0140442200 (0-14-044220-0)
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Red and the Blackby Stendhal, Roger GardISBN 0140447644 (0-14-044764-4)
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Romolaby George Eliot, Dorothea BarrettISBN 0140434704 (0-14-043470-4)
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Scarlet and Blackby StendhalISBN 0140440305 (0-14-044030-5)
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby David Carroll, George EliotISBN 0140434801 (0-14-043480-1)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby W. R. J. Barron, Brian StoneISBN 0140440925 (0-14-044092-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain; Seek faithfully till you find me ...' A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and decapitates the knight - but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his head with him. The following winter Gawain sets out to find the Knight in the wild Northern lands and to keep his side of the bargain. One of the great masterpieces of Middle English poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight magically combines elements of fairy tale and heroic sagas with the pageantry, chivalry and courtly love of medieval Romance. Brian Stone's evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction that examines the Romance genre, and the poem's epic and pagan sources. This edition also includes essays discussing the central characters and themes, theories about authorship and Arthurian legends, and suggestions for further reading and notes. @GawainsWorld So listen here, some green man came to the hall and wants someone to cut his head off. Some sort of dare? Could be fun, right? The deal is I cut off his head now, and he cuts off mine a year later. What a jester, doesn't he know he'll be dead? This goblin fellow is totally dead. All seemed fine until Ichabod Crane here fell to the floor, stood up, and picked up his head. His head, in his hands. In HIS HANDS! From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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The Sorrows of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 014044503X (0-14-044503-X)
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Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion for her and his infatuation torments him to the point of absolute despair. The first great confessional novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethes own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem. The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numerous imitations as well as violent criticism and even suppression for its apparent recommendation of suicide. Goethes sensitive exploration of the mind of a young artist at odds with society and ill-equipped to cope with life is now considered the first great tragic novel of European literature.
This edition includes notes and an introduction by Michael Hulse who explores the origins of the novel in the authors life and examines its impact on European culture.
@SourKraut Met a new girl today! Need to avoid being trapped in the friend zone this time.
She is engaged to some dweeb named Albert. What kind of a name is Al?
Truly, I am so sad. I am overcome with despair. I feel nothing but sorrow.
Have I noted how upset I am? I am very upset. #pain #angst #suffering #sexdep
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Story of the Stoneby Cao Xuequin, David HawkesISBN 0140443266 (0-14-044326-6)
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Tales from the Kathasaritsagaraby Somadeva, Arshia SattarISBN 0140446982 (0-14-044698-2)
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Tales from the Thousand and One Nightsby N. J. DawoodISBN 0140442898 (0-14-044289-8)
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The Temptation of st Anthonyby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0140444106 (0-14-044410-6)
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Herbert Rosengarten, Anne Bronte, Stevie DaviesISBN 0140434747 (0-14-043474-7)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Tom DolinISBN 014043514X (0-14-043514-X)
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Fantastic 14th-century Account of a Journey to the Eastby John MandevilleISBN 0140444351 (0-14-044435-1)
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The Treasure of the City of Ladiesby Christine De PizanISBN 0140449507 (0-14-044950-7)
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The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtuesby Christine De PisanISBN 014044453X (0-14-044453-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues'Book summary:[via]If she wants to win, she must adopt a mans heart (in other words, constant, strong and wise) to consider and to pursue the best course of action
Written by Europes first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizans book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a womans position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
This revised edition of Sarah Lawsons landmark translation contains an introduction covering the life and work of Christine de Pizan and an overview of the recent scholarly reappraisal of her writing.
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- Introduction and bibliography have been updated
- Includes a new note on translation and recent scholarship, explanatory notes, and a glossary of names
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Twilight of the Idols and the Anti Christby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Dean A. Grennell, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 0140445145 (0-14-044514-5)
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In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a grand declaration of war on reason, psychology and theology that combines highly charged personal attacks on his contemporaries with a lightning tour of his own philosophy. It also paves the way for The Anti-Christ, Nietzches final assault on institutional Christianity, in which he identifies himself with the Dionysian artist and confronts Christ; the only opponent he feels worthy of him.
In his introduction Michael Tanner discussed the themes of Nietzches argument and places the works in their historical and philosophical context.
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Two Lives of Charlemagneby Einhard, and Nofker Stammerer Einhard, Balbulus Notker, Lewis G. M. ThorpeISBN 0140442138 (0-14-044213-8)
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Unto This Last: And Other Writingsby John Ruskin, Clive WilmerISBN 0140432116 (0-14-043211-6)
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The Upanisadsby Valerie J. RoebuckISBN 0140447490 (0-14-044749-0)
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Upanishadsby Juan MascaroISBN 0140441638 (0-14-044163-8)
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The Wardenby Robin Gilmour, Anthony TrollopeISBN 0140432140 (0-14-043214-0)
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riversby Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel PeckISBN 0140434429 (0-14-043442-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers'Book summary:A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, an account of a boat trip Thoreau took in 1839, is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Alternating between observation and reflection, Thoreau interweaves day-by-day descriptions of natural phenomenon, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritan histories of New England, the Bhagavad-Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects.
An invaluable companion to Walden, it stands alone as one of the most remarkable literary achievements of the nineteenth century. [via]
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