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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Peter StoneleyISBN 0192806823 (0-19-280682-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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All's Well That Ends Wellby William Shakespeare, G. K. HunterISBN 0174435835 (0-17-443583-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All's Well That Ends Well'Book summary:Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and offers a fully reconsidered, annotated text for both readers and actors. [via]
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As You Like Itby Agnes LathamISBN 017443586X (0-17-443586-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As You Like It'Book summary:In addition to the complete text of "As You Like it", this book includes: activities; a synopsis at the beginning of each act; notes opposite the text; photographs showing various productions of the play; and an introduction which places Shakespeare in context. [via]
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As You Like Itby William ShakespeareISBN 0174436610 (0-17-443661-0)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning EMEA, Limited
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Being Good: A Short Introduction To Ethicsby Simon BlackburnISBN 0192100521 (0-19-210052-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Between the Actsby Virginia WoolfISBN 015611870X (0-15-611870-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between the Acts'Book summary:In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.
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Byronby George Gordon Byron Byron, Frederick Page, John JumpISBN 0192810685 (0-19-281068-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Byron'Book summary:A legend in his lifetime, Lord Byron was the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The text of this edition, which contains nearly all of Byron's published poems together with the poet's own Notes, was first published in The Oxford Poets in 1896, and has been reprinted numerous times. Fredrick Page's text has been revised by John Jump, who has made a number of substantive corrections, and added to Don Juan the fragment of a seventeenth canto that was previously unavailable. [via]
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Caleb Williamsby William GodwinISBN 0192553313 (0-19-255331-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Can You Forgive Herby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192546112 (0-19-254611-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Coleridge Poetical Worksby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 019254120X (0-19-254120-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Coriolanusby William ShakespeareISBN 0174436297 (0-17-443629-7)
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The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0156260255 (0-15-626025-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934'Book summary:This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.[via]More editions of The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934:
The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, John D. SinclairISBN 0192810960 (0-19-281096-0)
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The Doubleby Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156032589 (0-15-603258-9)
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Dusty Answerby Rosamond LehmannISBN 0156262908 (0-15-626290-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Echoing Groveby Rosamond LehmannISBN 0156274876 (0-15-627487-6)
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Eugenie Grandetby Honore De Balzac, Sylvia Raphael, Christopher PrendergastISBN 019280474X (0-19-280474-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugenie Grandet'Book summary:'Who is going to marry Eugénie Grandet?'
This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugénie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comédie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugénie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugénie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel.
Eugénie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age. [via]More editions of Eugenie Grandet:
The Female Quixoteby Charlotte LennoxISBN 0192553305 (0-19-255330-5)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P.
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c ..by Daniel DefoeISBN 0192553526 (0-19-255352-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 015603297X (0-15-603297-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foucault's Pendulum'Book summary:[via]Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlleda point located in Paris, France, at Foucaults Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.
Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.
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Frog Went A-Courtinby John Langstaff, Feodor RojankovskyISBN 0156339005 (0-15-633900-5)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Grimms' Fairy Talesby Peter CarterISBN 0192745298 (0-19-274529-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimms' Fairy Tales'Book summary:Grimms' Fairy Tales is a charming new edition of one of the best-known collections of children's stories of all times. Peter Carter brings a novelist's flair for narrative pace and vivid imagery to these familiar tales while remaining faithful to the spirit and tone of the original orally transmitted stories. The authentic rhythm of spoken English is captured in Carter's clear and resonant style.
All the favorite characters are here--Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood--along with others less well-known in gripping tales such as The Singing Bone and The Carrion Crows. Haunting and powerful, sad and humorous, these stories remain as fresh and fascinating as the first day they were told. [via]More editions of Grimms' Fairy Tales:
Helga's Dowry : A Troll Love Storyby Tomie de PaolaISBN 0156400103 (0-15-640010-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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Henry Vby William Shakespeare, Roger WarrenISBN 0192804146 (0-19-280414-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry VI'Book summary:The editor takes a broad look at the different meanings which have been attributed to "King Henry V", through a discussion of its various critical and theatrical interpretations. Craik discusses the choices made in presenting an edited text, and enables readers to think about what their own decisions might be. Source material is accessibly presented with the text in the notes. Illustrations record production history on stage and screen, and the text also includes maps, a genealogical table and a doubling chart. [via]
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- King Henry V: ISBN 0174434804 (0-17-443480-4)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - Henry VI. Part 2: ISBN 0174436076 (0-17-443607-6)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - King Henry IV: ISBN 0174436521 (0-17-443652-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - Henry V: ISBN 0192814389 (0-19-281438-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Henry IV: ISBN 0192814494 (0-19-281449-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Henry VI: ISBN 0192804146 (0-19-280414-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- King Henry V: ISBN 0174434804 (0-17-443480-4)
Jacob's Roomby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156457423 (0-15-645742-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Julius Caesarby Arthur HumphreysISBN 0192814451 (0-19-281445-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:The most famous of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Julius Caesar was written and first performed in 1599, and was apparently one the plays his contemporaries enjoyed most. Recounting the death of Caesar on the steps of the Senate house, the play offers some of Shakespeare's finest scenes: Antony's skillful speech at Caesar's funeral, and the quarrel and reconciliation between Brutus and Cassius with the news of Portia's death. This edition includes a fresh consideration of the play's date and its place in the Shakespeare canon and examines how Shakespeare reshaped his sources (primarily North's translation of Plutarch's Lives). [via]
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Julius Caesarby David DaniellISBN 0174435479 (0-17-443547-9)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Keep the Aspidistra Flyingby George OrwellISBN 0156468999 (0-15-646899-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'Book summary:London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary. Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Rosemary to bed because (or so he believes), "If you have no money ... women won't love you." On the windowsill of Gordon's shabby rooming-house room is a sickly but unkillable aspidistra--a plant he abhors as the banner of the sort of "mingy, lower-middle-class decency" he is fleeing in his downward flight. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell has created a darkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the lack of brass, or by the need to make it, will all too easily relate. He etches the ugly insanity of what Gordon calls "the money-world" in unflinching detail, but the satire has a second edge, too, and Gordon himself is scarcely heroic. In the course of his misadventures, we become grindingly aware that his radical solution to the problem of the money-world is no solution at all--that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system, he has become something of a monster himself. Orwell keeps both of his edges sharp to the very end--a "happy" ending that poses tough questions about just how happy it really is. That the book itself is not sour, but constantly fresh and frequently funny, is the result of Orwell's steady, unsentimental attention to the telling detail; his dry, quiet humor; his fascination with both the follies and the excellences of his characters; and his courageous refusal to embrace the comforts of any easy answer. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
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King Henry IVby A.R. HumphreysISBN 0174436106 (0-17-443610-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry IV'Book summary:This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare's The First Part of King Henry IV and the history of its interpretation. The introduction clarifies the play's surprising, de-centred dramatic structure, questioning the dominant assumption that the drama focuses on the education of Prince Hal. It calls attention to the effects of civil war upon a broad range of relationships. Falstaff's unpredictable vitality is explored, together with important contemporary values of honour, friendship, festivity and reformation. Extensive lexical glosses of obscure, ambiguous or archaic meanings make the rich wordplay accessible. The notes also provide a thorough commentary on Shakespeare's transformation of his sources (particularly Holinshed's Chronicles) and suggest alternative stagings. This updated edition contains a new introductory section by Katharine A. Craik, which describes recent stage, film and critical interpretations, and an updated reading list. [via]
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King Henry VIby Ron KnowlesISBN 0174434944 (0-17-443494-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry VI'Book summary:This edition celebrates "King Henry VI Part 2" as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theatre, with its exploration of power politics and social revolution and its focus on the relationship between divine justice and sin. An extensive discussion of performance history traces the play's progress on stage from abridgement and adaptation to full historical epic. A survey of criticism discusses the wide range of responses provoked by the play's handling of its historical theme, and concludes by focusing on the element of burlesque in the attempted social revolution portrayed. [via]
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King Learby William Shakespeare, R. A. FoakesISBN 017443460X (0-17-443460-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:This edition of King Lear provides a clear a nd authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of sc holarship, and includes an in-depth survey of critical appro aches to the play. ' [via]
L'americaby Martha McPheeISBN 0156032368 (0-15-603236-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Marinerby Daniel Defoe, Joseph Donald CrowleyISBN 0192553593 (0-19-255359-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner'Book summary:Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure. And find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for thirty-five years. After scavenging his broken ship for useful items, he had only his skills and ingenuity to keep him alive as there was to be no one else on the island for the next twenty-four years. In the middle of that twenty-fourth year he rescued a native about to be eaten by cannibals who were using his island for a place of feasting. Crusoe named this man Friday, after the day of his rescue. Friday became his faithful servant and friend, even returning with him to England after their deliverance by an English ship. Listeners will enjoy Crusoe's determination for survival against all odds and admire the spirituality that gave him the strength to survive. A hero through the ages, he richly deserves the admiration that has endured over three centuries. [via]
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The Life of Timon of Athensby Thomas Middleton, John JowettISBN 0192814974 (0-19-281497-4)
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller 1932-1953by Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 015652791X (0-15-652791-X)
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The Little Princeby Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Katherine WoodsISBN 0156465116 (0-15-646511-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Prince'Book summary:A lovely story....which covers a poetic, yearning philosophy--not the sort of fable that can be tacked down neatly at its four corners but rather reflections on what are real matters of consequence. --The New York Times Book Review. [via]
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434669 (0-17-443466-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. It also contains comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of "Macbeth", then and now. [via]
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Mary Bartonby Shirley Foster, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192805622 (0-19-280562-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:Set in Manchester in the 1840s, Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself--a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, who becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances.
This new edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Gaskell. The introduction provides historical and biographical context to the novel, a survey of critical responses to Mary Barton, and argues that Gaskell was chiefly concerned with the importance of communication as a means of healing breaches between people. In addition, the book contains an up-to-date critical biography, revised notes and appendixes that include Gaskell's rough draft and outline of the novel's conclusion. [via]More editions of Mary Barton:
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The Merchant of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434758 (0-17-443475-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:This edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introduction which addresses Shakespeare's attitude toward Semitism and establishes the cultural, historical, and literary context in which Shakespeare wrote the play. An interesting range of production photographs and drawings of Renaissance merchants and Jews, and a survey of the play's stage history ranging from discussions of its early staging to important twentieth-century productions and performances outside England, particularly Israel, makes this an ideal edition for students, actors, and the general reader. [via]
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, E.J. KenneyISBN 0192510339 (0-19-251033-9)
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Missusby Ruth ParkISBN 0170065944 (0-17-006594-4)
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0192781537 (0-19-278153-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
Mrs. Miniverby Jan StrutherISBN 0156631407 (0-15-663140-7)
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A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romanceby Northrop FryeISBN 0156654148 (0-15-665414-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Education
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0192553437 (0-19-255343-7)
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Northanger Abbey and Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0192547054 (0-19-254705-4)
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Jane Austen, John N. DavieISBN 0192815253 (0-19-281525-3)
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The Nunby Denis Diderot, Russell GoulbourneISBN 0192804308 (0-19-280430-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nun'Book summary:Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succès de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.
This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction. [via]More editions of The Nun:
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Oedipus Cycleby Dudley FittsISBN 0156838389 (0-15-683838-9)
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The Old Curiosity Shopby Charles DickensISBN 019254506X (0-19-254506-X)
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Orlando Furiosoby Ludvico Aristo, Guido WaldmanISBN 0192811614 (0-19-281161-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orlando Furioso'Book summary:The only unabridged prose translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso--a witty parody of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France--this version faithfully recaptures the entire narrative and the subtle meanings behind it. [via]
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Oxford Worlds Classics Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0192100335 (0-19-210033-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxford Worlds Classics Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:Robinson Crusoe (1719) is one of the most famous adventure stories ever written. The account of a sailor shipwrecked on a desert island for twenty-eight years, it is also a tale of mythic proportions, an allegory, and a spiritual autobiography. [via]
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Playing Beatie Bowby Ruth ParkISBN 0170058794 (0-17-005879-4)
Hardcover, Nelson
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Poetical Worksby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley ColeridgeISBN 0192810510 (0-19-281051-0)
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0192815148 (0-19-281514-8)
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella, Maurizio ViroliISBN 019280426X (0-19-280426-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. Machiavelli added a dimension of incisive realism to one of the major philosophical and political issues of his time, especially the relationship between public deeds and private morality. His book provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter in what era or by whom it is exercised.
This fluent new translation is accompanied by an introduction that considers the true purpose of The Prince and dispels some of the myths associated with it. It has the most comprehensive explanatory and critical notes found in any currently available English translation and the most comprehensive bibliography in any edition of the work. It also contains a helpful Glossary of Proper Names, an Index and a map. [via]More editions of The Prince:
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Regulus Vel Pueri Soli Sapiunt/the Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156763001 (0-15-676300-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Roxana the Fortunate Mistressby Defoe DISBN 0192553046 (0-19-255304-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Seeingby Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156032732 (0-15-603273-2)
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Selected Lettersby Jane Austen, Vivien JonesISBN 0192801848 (0-19-280184-8)
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Selected Letters, 1796-1817by Jane AustenISBN 0192814850 (0-19-281485-0)
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Katherine Duncan-JonesISBN 017443474X (0-17-443474-X)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets'Book summary:This Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates, this text was authorized by Shakespeare himself, and may be based on an authorial manuscript. The whole carefully-ordered sequence, including "A Lover's Complaint", is read in the context of Shakespeare's career and of the poems' historical setting within early Jacobean culture. A clear-eyed analysis of homoerotic elements in the sonnets puts an end to the century of homophobic readings initiated by Sir Sidney Lee in 1897. Succinct and accessible notes guide the reader through complex vocabulary and syntax, as well as the poems' literary and cultural background. For ease of reference, these are printed on the same page-opening as the text. [via]
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Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 0156837501 (0-15-683750-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Tales from Perraultby Charles Perrault, Ann Lawrence, Tony James ChanceISBN 0192741756 (0-19-274175-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from Perrault'Book summary:A captivating retelling of the best-loved tales of master storyteller Charles Perrault. In this edition, cleverly set as stories within a story, Perrault writes for a little girl during her summer in the country. Old favorites--"Tom Thumb," "Sleeping Beauty," "Puss in Boots," and "Bluebeard," among others--are joined by tales about fairies and giants, about wishes come true, and about why little girls with red hoods shouldn't walk through the woods alone. Lawrence adds insights into the life and times of Perrault, and stunning illustrations bring the tales vividly to life. [via]
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Timon of Athensby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434766 (0-17-443476-6)
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Titus Andronicusby William Shakespeare, Jonathan BateISBN 0174435754 (0-17-443575-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Titus Andronicus'Book summary:Shakespeare's most violent and gory play, Titus Andronicus was written in 1592, and represents the dramatist's first foray into the popular genre of revenge tragedy (many editors argue with at least one other collaborator). The result was spectacular, including scenes of murder, human sacrifice, rape, bodily mutilation and cannibalism. Set in late-imperial Rome, the action begins with the Roman general Titus Andronicus and his triumphant return from wars with the Goths. Leading Queen Tamora and her sons as prisoners, Titus stumbles into a power struggle between Saturninus and his brother Bassianus. Titus fatally backs Saturninus, who rapidly turns on the old general and marries Tamora. The implications for the Andronicus family are disastrous. More of Titus' sons are killed, his daughter Lavinia is brutally raped by Tamora's sons, and as Titus begins his descent into madness and despair he even has his own hand cut off in an act of awful trickery. As Titus plots his bloody revenge, he reflects that "Rome is but a wilderness of tigers". The ending is one of the most gruesome conclusions to any dramatic tragedy, and leaves Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs looking quite restrained. Although the play has put audiences off for centuries due to its apparently gratuitous violence, more recently critics have discerned something more to it than pure shock, but that might say more about us than the Elizabethans. .--Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, David DaniellISBN 0174434901 (0-17-443490-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: With Related Readingsby Dom Saliani, Chris Ferguson, Tim ScottISBN 0176066152 (0-17-606615-2)
Softcover, South-Western Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: With Related Readings'Book summary:In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March"--and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead. [via]
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William Shakespeare, Clifford LeechISBN 0174435819 (0-17-443581-9)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Vathekby William Beckford, Roger H. LonsdaleISBN 0192553372 (0-19-255337-2)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vathek'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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Vicar of Wakefieldby Oliver Goldsmith, Arthur Friedman, Robert L. MacKISBN 0192805126 (0-19-280512-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vicar of Wakefield'Book summary:Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction of domestic life and loving family relationships.
New to this edition is an introduction by Robert L. Mack that examines the reasons for the novels enduring popularity, as well as the critical debates over whether it is a straightforward novel of sentiment or a satire on the social and economic inequalities of the period and the very literary conventions and morality it seems to embody. This edition also includes a new, up-to-date bibliography and expanded notes, and contains reprints of Arthur Friedman's authoritative Oxford English Novels text of the corrected first edition of 1766. [via] 
Waiting for the Sky to Fallby Jacqueline WilsonISBN 0192714856 (0-19-271485-6)
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Wavesby Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey, Molly HiteISBN 0156031574 (0-15-603157-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Works of Jane Austenby Jane AustinISBN 0192547062 (0-19-254706-2)
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reisby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0156996936 (0-15-699693-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis'Book summary:The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.[via]More editions of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis:
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The Yearsby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156997010 (0-15-699701-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Years'Book summary:The principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet, talk, think, dream, grow older, in a continuous ritual of life that eludes meaning.[via]More editions of The Years:
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Le Petit Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 015650300X (0-15-650300-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Petit Prince'Book summary:Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
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Der Kleine Prinzby Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Grete Leitgeb, Josef LeitgebISBN 0156252856 (0-15-625285-6)
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El Principitoby Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Bonifacio Del CarrilISBN 0156284502 (0-15-628450-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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