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Aesop's Fablesby Zipes, Jack David (AFT), Aesop, Jack David Zipes, Sam PickeringISBN 0451529537 (0-451-52953-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:[via]203 of Aesop's most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with 50 classic woodcuts by the great French artist J.J. Grandville.
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Aesop's Fablesby Jack ZipesISBN 0451525655 (0-451-52565-5)
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Alexander's Bridgeby Willa CatherISBN 0452008751 (0-452-00875-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopinby Kate Chopin, Barbara H. SolomonISBN 0451524489 (0-451-52448-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin'Book summary:The Awakening tells of a wife who discovers the strength of her own sexuality and tries to wrench it from the hands of a patriarchal society- and her upper-class Cajun family.This and Chopin's other short stories are standard-setting masterpieces. [via]
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Billy Budd and Other Talesby Herman MelvilleISBN 0451522370 (0-451-52237-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens, Elizabeth McCrackenISBN 0451528697 (0-451-52869-7)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleak House'Book summary:Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]
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A Boy's Own Storyby Edmund WhiteISBN 0452254302 (0-452-25430-2)
Softcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Boy's Own Story'Book summary:The protagonist of this story is a homosexual, and his story is of a life in which homosexuality is a shaping force. Set in the American midwest of the 1950s, the book tells how the frustrated 15-year-old, whom the world would despise if it knew him, becomes the guardian of public morals. [via]
The Civilization of Romeby Donald R. DudleyISBN 0452010160 (0-452-01016-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Edgar JohnsonISBN 0451522923 (0-451-52292-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:Beginning in 1854 up through to his death in 1870, Charles Dickens abridged and adapted many of his more popular works and performed them as staged readings. This version, each page illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings, is a beautiful example of one of these adaptations.
Because it is quite seriously abridged, the story concentrates primarily on the extended family of Mr. Peggotty: his orphaned nephew, Ham; his adopted niece, Little Emily; and Mrs. Gummidge, self-described as "a lone lorn creetur and everythink went contrairy with her." When Little Emily runs away with Copperfield's former schoolmate, leaving Mr. Peggotty completely brokenhearted, the whole family is thrown into turmoil. But Dickens weaves some comic relief throughout the story with the introduction of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and David's love for his pretty, silly "child-wife," Dora. Dark nights, mysterious locations, and the final destructive storm provide classic Dickensian drama. Although this is not David Copperfield in its entirety, it is a great introduction to the world and the language of Charles Dickens. [via]
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Storiesby Leo TolstoyISBN 0451516761 (0-451-51676-1)
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0451523938 (0-451-52393-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Fanny Hill : Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John Cleland, Regina BarrecaISBN 0451526287 (0-451-52628-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill : Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:First published in London in 1749, the story of a country orphan's initiation into the urban world of prostitution offers a remarkably frank portrait of sexual awakening of a young girl and the society around her. Reissue. [via]
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 0451528565 (0-451-52856-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'Book summary:Bathsheba, a willful English beauty of the nineteenth century, finally recognizes her true love in Gabriel. [via]
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, George Reavey, Jane T. CostlowISBN 0451529693 (0-451-52969-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:When first published in 1862, this novel of a divided russia, with peasants set against masters and fathers set against sons, caused great outrage. But its enduring legacy of social insight and conscience mixed with drama has given it universal appeal. Features an introduction by anna tolstoy in an exciting new bantam classics' package [via]
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Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0451523636 (0-451-52363-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Three horror classicswith an introduction by Stephen King[via]
Some of literatures most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome.
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So sometimes you build something, and it gets away. Theyre gonna can me at the university if they find out about this.
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Germinalby Emile Zola, Eleanor Hochman, Stanley Hochman, Irving HoweISBN 0451519752 (0-451-51975-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Germinal'Book summary:Zola's 1885 masterpiece of everyday relationships and working life exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. The new film version stars Gerard Depardieu. An Oxford University Press World Classic. [via]
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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- Great Expectations: ISBN 0451517598 (0-451-51759-8)
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451523598 (0-451-52359-8)
Hardcover, New Amer Library - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0451526724 (0-451-52672-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Novel depicting Victorian industrial society. [via]
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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundlingby Henry FieldingISBN 0451523342 (0-451-52334-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling'Book summary:Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0451527917 (0-451-52791-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:An evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, is haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead and wracked by the fear of its frightened living. [via]
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Jacob's Roomby Virginia WoolfISBN 0451530055 (0-451-53005-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jacob's Room'Book summary:With its publication in 1922, Virginia Woolf revolutionized the modern novel with Jacob's Room. Based on the life of her own brother, this unforgettable book chronicles the life and times of Jacob Flanders, from childhood to his death in World War I. An untraditional tale focusing on a flow of random impressions through the minds of its characters, Jacob's Room remains an important work in the development of the novel form-and a shining example of Woolf's genius and literary daring. [via]
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A Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules VerneISBN 0451528964 (0-451-52896-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth'Book summary:In this fully dramatized adaptation of Jules Verne's classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, and cast members from Star Trek feature films and all four TV series take you on an incredible journey.
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is the story of Professor Lindenbrock, his nephew Axel and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, Lindenbrock and Axel descend deeper into the planet than anyone has ever gone before... but will they make it back to the surface alive?
Featuring virtuoso performaces from the entire cast, riveting sound effects and original music, Alien Voices' production of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an adventure in sound. [via]
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis Stevenson, John SeelyeISBN 0451527682 (0-451-52768-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:Story of young David Balfour, an orphan, whose miserly old uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and schemes to have him kidnapped, shanghaied, and sold into slavery. [via]
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Geoff DyerISBN 0451528883 (0-451-52888-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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- Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451515196 (0-451-51519-6)
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451522478 (0-451-52247-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451524985 (0-451-52498-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451528883 (0-451-52888-3)
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- Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451515196 (0-451-51519-6)
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0451529820 (0-451-52982-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Of The Mohicans'Book summary:The classic story set during the French and Indian war of a man with the moral courage to severe all relations with a society he no longer can agree with. [via]
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Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translationby Victor HugoISBN 0451525264 (0-451-52526-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation'Book summary:Victor Hugo's towering novel of Jean Valjean, his unjust imprisonment, and his lifelong flight from a relentless police officer.[via]More editions of Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation:
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Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas HardyISBN 0451525191 (0-451-52519-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:The Mayor of Casterbridge (1984) Signet Classic (Paperback) by Thomas Hardy, Rick Moody [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence SterneISBN 0451518683 (0-451-51868-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Susan StraightISBN 0451529308 (0-451-52930-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War. [via]
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Jay Parini, John SutherlandISBN 0451527356 (0-451-52735-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Thomas Hardy's exploration of his most tragic hero, Michael Henchard, is the classic tale of over-ambition. From his drunken sale of his wife and baby at a country fair to his subjugation of a farming village, Henchard's life is an epic attempt to bring the world to heel as he hides even from himself all vestiges of emotional vulnerability. [via]
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Memoirs of Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 0451524187 (0-451-52418-7)
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Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythologyby Edward TrippISBN 0452009278 (0-452-00927-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Middlemarchby George EliotISBN 0451529170 (0-451-52917-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:With sure and subtle touch, Eliot paints a luminous and spacious landscape of life in a provincial town, interweaving her themes with a proliferation of characters: an innocent idealist; a self-defeated young doctor; a naive young woman; and a cold man, who "lives too much with the dead". [via]
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Marilyn SidesISBN 0451529723 (0-451-52972-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 0451523474 (0-451-52347-4)
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Odd Womenby George GissingISBN 0452010144 (0-452-01014-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Odysseyby Homer, W. H. D. RouseISBN 0451527364 (0-451-52736-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:Odysseus, the most heroic of the ancient Greek warriors, journeys home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. [via]
Oedipus Plays of Sophoclesby Paul RocheISBN 0451628470 (0-451-62847-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, Paul RocheISBN 0452011671 (0-452-01167-1)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone'Book summary:Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. In vivid, poetic language, he presents the timeless story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down from wealth and power by pride, cursed with incest, suicide, and murder. [via]
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The Pickwick Papersby Charles Dickens, Fforde, Jasper (AFT)ISBN 0451529383 (0-451-52938-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pickwick Papers'Book summary:The adventures of the Pickwick Club-bumbling through duels, lawsuits, jails, and hilarious romantic imbroglios-rocketed their author to sudden fame. [via]
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The Pickwick Papers : The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Clubby Charles Dickens, Steven MarcusISBN 0451517563 (0-451-51756-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pickwick Papers : The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'Book summary:Relates the various activities and adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club. [via]
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Pierre, Or, the Ambiguitiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 0451518969 (0-451-51896-9)
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James Joyce, Langdon HammerISBN 0451530152 (0-451-53015-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Joyce's semi-autobiographical chronicle of Stephen Dedalus' passage from university student to "independent" artist is at once a richly detailed, amusing, and moving coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique, and a profound examination of the Irish psyche and society. [via]
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The Prisoner of Zendaby Anthony HopeISBN 0451511379 (0-451-51137-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Taleby Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. KarlISBN 0451524160 (0-451-52416-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale'Book summary:One one of the great detective novels of all time, "The Secret Conrad", written in 1903, is a magisterial thriller of terrorists and police in London in the early years of the 20th century. [via]
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George Eliot, Frederick R. KarlISBN 0451527216 (0-451-52721-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe'Book summary:A gentle linen weaver is accused of a heinous crime. Exiling himself, he becomes a recluse, only to find redemption in his love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears one day in his isolated cottage. Somber yet hopeful, Eliot's stirring tale continues to touch the human spirit.[via]More editions of Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe:
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- Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe: ISBN 0451530624 (0-451-53062-4)
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Sons And Loversby D. H. Lawrence, Jackson, Dennis (AFT)ISBN 0451530004 (0-451-53000-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons And Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Stephen Kingby Stephen KingISBN 0451931416 (0-451-93141-6)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Wilson, A. N. (AFT), Frederick BuschISBN 0451530578 (0-451-53057-8)
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Three by Flannery O'Connorby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0451525140 (0-451-52514-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, Clements, Marcelle (AFT), Thomas Flanagan, Eleanor HochmanISBN 0451530039 (0-451-53003-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel'Book summary:A young Gascon nobleman, d'Artagnan, sets off for Paris in hopes of joining the Musketeers. He proves himself fighting with them and earns a place in their ranks. With d'Artagnan the three preserve the honor of the king and thwart the schemes of Cardinal Richelieu. [via]
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Time Machineby H. G. Wells, Greg BearISBN 0451528557 (0-451-52855-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Machine'Book summary:"I've had a most amazing time...." So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era-and the story that launched H.G. Wells's successful career and earned him the reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine's lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth. There he discovers two bizarre races-the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks-who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well. Published in 1895, this masterpiece of invention captivated readers on the threshold of a new century. Thanks to Wells's expert storytelling and provocative insight, The Time Machine will continue to enthrall readers for generations to come. [via]
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Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 0452009456 (0-452-00945-6)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0451523024 (0-451-52302-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:From back cover: A powerful indictment of slavery by America's first major woman novelist, Uncle Tom's Cabin was hailed by Tolstoy as "one of the greatest productions of the human mind". [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabin : Or, Life among the Lowlyby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Darryl PinckneyISBN 0451526708 (0-451-52670-8)
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Under the Volcanoby Malcolm LowryISBN 0452255953 (0-452-25595-3)
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Under Western Eyes: Library Editionby Joseph ConradISBN 0451521145 (0-451-52114-5)
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The Voyage Outby Virginia Woolf, Louise A. DeSalvoISBN 0451525558 (0-451-52555-8)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0451522761 (0-451-52276-1)
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Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Brenda WineappleISBN 0451527283 (0-451-52728-3)
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Women in Loveby D. H. Lawrence, Louise A. DeSalvoISBN 0451525914 (0-451-52591-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:The erotic sequel to The Rainbow chronicles the lives, loves, obsessions, and struggles of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their lovers, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, as they search for fulfillment in post-World War I society. Reprint. [via]
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