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Alas! the Love of Women: 1813-1814by George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. MarchandISBN 0674089421 (0-674-08942-1)
Hardcover, Belknap Pr
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Another Liberalism: Romanticism and the Reconstruction of Liberal Thoughtby Nancy L. RosenblumISBN 0674037650 (0-674-03765-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Babel Towerby A. S. ByattISBN 0679405135 (0-679-40513-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babel Tower'Book summary:Babel Tower follows The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life in tracing Frederica Potter, a lover of books who reflects the author's life and times. It centers around two lawsuits: in one, Frederica -- a young intellectual who has married outside her social set -- is challenging her wealthy and violent husband for custody of their child; in the other, an unkempt but charismatic rebel is charged with having written an obscene book, a novel-within-a-novel about a small band of revolutionaries who attempt to set up an ideal community. And in the background, rebellion gains a major toehold in the London of the Sixties, and society will never be the same. [via]
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Blackwood Farmby Anne RiceISBN 0676975429 (0-676-97542-9)
Hardcover, A.A. Knopf
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Brothers Karamazovby Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0679410031 (0-679-41003-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Dostoevskys towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtuesbrilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricalitythat made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. The Brothers Karamazov, his last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonskythe definitive version in Englishmagnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevskys masterpiece. [via]More editions of Brothers Karamazov:
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The Brothers Karamozovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0679601813 (0-679-60181-3)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamozov'Book summary:The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoy's bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky's own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries.
"The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of Dostoevsky's art--his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book," said The Washington Post Book World.
"Nothing is outside Dostoevsky's province," observed Virginia Woolf. "Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading."
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via]More editions of The Brothers Karamozov:
The Call of the Wildby Jack London, Earl J. Wilcox, Elizabeth H. Wilcox, Wilcox EarlISBN 0618300090 (0-618-30009-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Captain's Daughter and Other Storiesby Alexandr Pushkin, Paul DebreczenyISBN 0679413316 (0-679-41331-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Cenci: A Tragedy, in Five Actsby Percy Bysshe ShelleyISBN 0672603985 (0-672-60398-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Children of the Mireby Octavio PazISBN 0674116291 (0-674-11629-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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A Companion to Romanticismby Duncan WuISBN 0631218777 (0-631-21877-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorneby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Norman H. PearsonISBN 0679600736 (0-679-60073-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James HoggISBN 067941732X (0-679-41732-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Skyby Anna Gray, John GageISBN 0642541566 (0-642-54156-6)
Hardcover, Natl Gallery of Australia
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideasby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0679401318 (0-679-40131-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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David to Delacroixby Walter F. FriedlaenderISBN 0674194012 (0-674-19401-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0679433139 (0-679-43313-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.
Mandelbaums astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.
This Everymans editioncontaining in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisoincludes an introduction by Nobel Prizewinning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.
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The Divine Comedy: Text With Translation in the Metre of the Original by Geoffrey L. Bickerstethby Geoffrey BickerstethISBN 063112926X (0-631-12926-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The English Romantics: Major Poetry and Critical Theory with Selected Modern Critical Essaysby John L. MahoneyISBN 0669010308 (0-669-01030-8)
Hardcover, D. C. Heath
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Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790-1800by Frederick C. BeiserISBN 0674257278 (0-674-25727-8)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Charles Hepburn JohnstonISBN 0670298891 (0-670-29889-1)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Arthur RackhamISBN 0679417966 (0-679-41796-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Kay Rasmus NielsenISBN 0670305650 (0-670-30565-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0618574948 (0-618-57494-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit.
In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.More editions of Fellowship of the Ring:
French Painting: The Revolutionary Decades, 1760-1830by Virginia Spate, Arlette Serullaz, National Gallery of VictoriaISBN 064289969X (0-642-89969-X)
Hardcover, Australian Gallery Directors Council
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The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridgeby Adam SismanISBN 0670038229 (0-670-03822-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Ideaby Arthur Oncken LovejoyISBN 0674361539 (0-674-36153-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea'Book summary:From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world.
In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy points out the three principlesplenitude, continuity, and graduationwhich were combined in this conception; analyzes their origins in the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists; traces the most important of their diverse samifications in subsequent religious thought, in metaphysics, in ethics and aesthetics, and in astronomical and biological theories; and copiously illustrates the influence of the conception as a whole, and of the ideas out of which it was compounded, upon the imagination and feelings as expressed in literature.
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Arthur RackhamISBN 0670355321 (0-670-35532-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0679428011 (0-679-42801-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Heart of Darkness grew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River; the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power.
Apparently a sailors yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure story, in which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz and discovers that the relative values of the civilized and the primitive are not what they seem. Heart of Darkness is a model of economic storytelling, an indictment of the inner and outer turmoil caused by the European imperial misadventure, and a piercing account of the fragility of the human soul. [via] -
Henderson the Rain Kingby Sual BellowISBN 0670366552 (0-670-36655-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henderson the Rain King'Book summary:Henderson the Rain King, is seriocomic novel by Saul Bellow, first published in 1959. The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. The story concerns Henderson's search for meaning. A larger-than-life 55-year-old who has accumulated money, position, and a large family, he nonetheless feels unfulfilled. He makes a spiritual journey to Africa, where he draws emotional sustenance from experiences with African tribes. Deciding that his true destiny is as a healer, Henderson returns home, planning to enter medical school. A kind of wildly delirious dream made real by the force of Bellows rollicking prose and the offbeat inventiveness of his language. Chicago Tribune Bellows aura of fable is constantly washed over by humor, impulsive creation, and actual, turbulent detail. The Nation [via]
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Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1871by Adam ZamoyskiISBN 0670892718 (0-670-89271-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679722556 (0-679-72255-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black Garnett, Anna BrailovskyISBN 0679642420 (0-679-64242-0)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idiot'Book summary:Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two womenthe notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaiaboth involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkins honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnetts drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original. [via]
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Interview with the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 067945084X (0-679-45084-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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John Keatsby Walter Jackson BateISBN 0674478258 (0-674-47825-8)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0679443606 (0-679-44360-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England from the Puritans to the Transcendentalistsby Lowance, Mason I., Jr.ISBN 0674509498 (0-674-50949-8)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore Cooper, Sally PetersISBN 0671759310 (0-671-75931-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ringby Alan Lee, J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0618260587 (0-618-26058-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.
From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo dissapeared bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard, the hobbits Merry, Pippin and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.More editions of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ring:
The Manuscript Found in Saragossaby Ian MacLean, Jan PotockiISBN 0670834289 (0-670-83428-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankensteinby Theodore RoszakISBN 0679437320 (0-679-43732-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Monarch Great Gatsbyby Stanley CoopermanISBN 0671006673 (0-671-00667-3)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Monstrous Imaginationby Marie-Helene HuetISBN 0674586492 (0-674-58649-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Mountoliveby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0671451057 (0-671-45105-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 0679409904 (0-679-40990-4)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisersby F. Schleiermacher, John OmanISBN 0664255566 (0-664-25556-6)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0670874787 (0-670-87478-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Road'Book summary:On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. [via]
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On Warby Michael Howard, Peter Paret, Karl Von ClausewitzISBN 0679420436 (0-679-42043-6)
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Poems and Propheciesby William BlakeISBN 0679405526 (0-679-40552-6)
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Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry, 1630-1660by James TurnerISBN 0674689305 (0-674-68930-5)
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The Portable Emersonby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl BodeISBN 0670292745 (0-670-29274-5)
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Posies & Bouquetsby Malcolm HillierISBN 067178983X (0-671-78983-X)
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Possessionby A. S. ByattISBN 0679640304 (0-679-64030-4)
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Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being" and "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," A. S. Byatt writes some of the most engaging and skillful novels of our time. Time magazine calls her "a novelist of dazzling inventiveness."
Possession, for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1990. "On academic rivalry and obsession, Byatt is delicious. On the nature of possessionthe lover by the beloved, the biographer by his subjectshe is profound," said The Sunday Times (London). The New Yorker dubbed it "more fun to read than The Name of the Rose . . . Its prankish verve [and] monstrous richness of detail [make for] a one-woman variety show of literary styles and types." The novel traces a pair of young academicsRoland Michell and Maud Baileyas they uncover a clandestine love affair between two long-dead Victorian poets. Interwoven in a mesmerizing pastiche are love letters and fairytales, extracts from biographies and scholarly accounts, creating a sensuous and utterly delightful novel of ideas and passions.
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The Red and the Blackby Stendhal, Burton Raffel, Diane JohnsonISBN 0679642846 (0-679-64284-6)
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The Red and the Black, Stendhals masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorels quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way, are delineated with an unprecedented psychological depth and realism. At the same time, Stendhal weaves together the social life and fraught political intrigues of postNapoleonic France, bringing that world to unforgettable, full-color life. His portrait of Julien and early-nineteenth-century France remains an unsurpassed creation, one that brilliantly anticipates modern literature.
Neglected during its time, The Red and the Black has assumed its rightful place as one of the worlds great books, and Burton Raffels extraordinary new translation, coupled with an enlightening Introduction by Diane Johnson, helps it shine more brightly than ever before. [via]More editions of The Red and the Black:
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The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830by Stendhal, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0679601627 (0-679-60162-7)
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The Red and the Black, Stendhals masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorels quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way, are delineated with an unprecedented psychological depth and realism. At the same time, Stendhal weaves together the social life and fraught political intrigues of postNapoleonic France, bringing that world to unforgettable, full-color life. His portrait of Julien and early-nineteenth-century France remains an unsurpassed creation, one that brilliantly anticipates modern literature.
Neglected during its time, The Red and the Black has assumed its rightful place as one of the worlds great books, and Burton Raffels extraordinary new translation, coupled with an enlightening Introduction by Diane Johnson, helps it shine more brightly than ever before. [via]More editions of The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830:
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The Return of the Kingby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0618346279 (0-618-34627-9)
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No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkiens large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . . -
Rimbaudby Arthur RimbaudISBN 067943321X (0-679-43321-X)
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The Ruin of Kaschby Roberto Calasso, William Weaver, Stephen SartarelliISBN 0674780299 (0-674-78029-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ruin of Kasch'Book summary:The Ruin of Kasch examines the rise of the modern state and the origins of romantic nationalism, whose sick fruit has been harvested in places such as Bosnia, Chechnya, and East Timor. Roberto Calasso locates the transformation in the French Revolution, when a frivolous monarchy evaporated before a government that valued order, bureaucracy, and above all secrecy. He also attributes it to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), who was perhaps the first professional civil servant. Ever selfish, Talleyrand proved the perfect servant to the Napoleonic Era; as Napoleon said, "Principles are fine; they don't commit you to anything." The Ruin of Kasch is about Talleyrand, but also, Italo Calvino notes, "about everything else." It's a whirlwind of a book, sometimes maddeningly so. It is one to pick up, ponder, put down, argue with, and then resume reading until the next argument pops up a page or two later. [via]
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The Ruin of Kaschby William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli, Roberto CalassoISBN 0674780264 (0-674-78026-4)
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Russian Thinkersby Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Aileen KellyISBN 0670613711 (0-670-61371-1)
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Scarlet and Black : A Chronicle of 1830by Stendhal, Jonathan Keates, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0679405658 (0-679-40565-8)
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Shelley: A Defense of Poetryby Percy Bysshe ShelleyISBN 0679429093 (0-679-42909-3)
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Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographerby Richard HolmesISBN 0679438467 (0-679-43846-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer'Book summary:"Biography, like love, begins in passionate curiosity." So declares Richard Holmes--and as one of our most gifted biographers, with a half-dozen classic works under his belt, he ought to know. Yet Sidetracks is neither a close-focus chronicle (like Coleridge: Early Visions and Coleridge: Darker Reflections) nor a spirited, allusive slice of the author's life (like Footsteps). It is instead a miscellany with a difference. Introducing this collection of essays and sketches, Holmes describes it as "the fragmented tale of a single biographical quest, a thirty-year journey in search of the perfect Romantic subject, and the form to fit it."
Wishful thinking? Not in the least. Sidetracks does indeed lead the author all over the map, from Thomas Chatterton to Felix Nadar, Mary Wollstonecraft to F. Scott Fitzgerald, not to mention that superlative Regency swinger Scrope Berdmore Davies. But Holmes's continuing preoccupation with the biographical arts gives the book a real unity, and makes it required reading for any aspiring Boswell. His professional tips are invariably on the nose: "Empathy is the most powerful, the most necessary, and the most deceptive, of all biographical emotions." His critical judgments are no less acute, whether he's discussing Shelley's "quality of verbal helium" or the "intellectual physiognomy" of Voltaire's grin. Still, the best lessons here (and the purest pleasures) are supplied by Holmes's own sympathetic magic, which can bring so nondescript a figure as John Stuart Mill to vivid life:
His face was small, dry and circumstantial, deeply lined from early age, nose chiselled out and lips hydraulically compressed and narrow, the mouth drawn down at the corners by the imponderable weights of Utility.... The right eye never stood still at all: there was a permanent, perceptible twitch flickering the lid and eyebrow like a heliograph; and above it, strangest of all, a large inexplicable bump, a sort of dome, as if something alien had taken up occupation.
The best biographers are necessarily revisionists, and even in these short pieces Richard Holmes comes up with some startling interpretations. He argues, for example, that Chatterton's suicidal dose of arsenic was in fact an accident. What stays with the reader, however, are the fascinating and sometimes eerie intersections of past and present, life and art. It's enough to make you wonder whether biographers ultimately choose their subjects, or vice versa--and Sidetracks, in any case, suggests not six but at least a dozen characters in search of an author. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer:
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Ted NasmithISBN 0618391118 (0-618-39111-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:The tales of The Silmarillion were the underlying inspiration and source of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing; he worked on the book throughout his life but never brought it to a final form. Long preceding in its origins The Lord of the Rings, it is the story of the First Age of Tolkien's world, the ancient drama to which characters in The Lord of the RIngs look back and in which some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part.[via]
The title Silmarillion is shortened from Quenta Silmarillion, "The History of the Silmarils," the three great jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves, in which he imprisoned the light of the Two Trees that illumined Valinor, the land of the gods. When Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, destroyed the Trees, that light lived on only in the Silmarils; Morgoth seized them and set them in his crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his people against the gods, their exile in Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroisim of Elves and Men, against the great Enemy.
The book includes several other, shorter works beside The Silmarillion proper. Preceding it are "Ainulindale," the myth of Creation, and "Valaquenta," in which the nature and powers of each of the gods is set forth. After The Silmarillion is "Akallabeth," the story of the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age; completing the volume is "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age," in which the events of The Lord of the Rings are treated in the manner of The Silmarillion.
This new edition of The Silmarillion contains the revised and corrected "second edition" text and, by way of introduction, a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1951, which provides a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages. It also contains almost fifty full-color illustrations by the artist Ted Nasmith, many of which appear for the first time.More editions of Silmarillion:
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The Social Contract and Disclosures on the Origin of Inequalityby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lester G. CrockerISBN 0671689568 (0-671-68956-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Social Contract and Disclosures on the Origin of Inequality'Book summary:Jean Jacques Rousseau was born at Geneva, June 28, 1712, the son of a watchmaker of French origin. His education was irregular, and though he tried many professions-including engraving, music, and teaching-he found it difficult to support himself in any of them. The discovery of his talent as a writer came with the winning of a prize offered by the Academy of Dijon for a discourse on the question, "Whether the progress of the sciences and of letters has tended to corrupt or to elevate morals." He argued so brilliantly that the tendency of civilization was degrading that he became at once famous. The discourse here printed on the causes of inequality among men was written in a similar competition. He now concentrated his powers upon literature, producing two novels, "La Nouvelle Heloise," the forerunner and parent of endless sentimental and picturesque fictions; and "Emile, ou l'Education," a work which has had enormous influence on the theory and practise of pedagogy down to our own time and in which the Savoyard Vicar appears, who is used as the mouthpiece for Rousseau's own religious ideas. "Le Contrat Social" (1762) elaborated the doctrine of the discourse on inequality. Both historically and philosophically it is unsound; but it was the chief literary source of the enthusiasm for liberty, fraternity, and equality, which inspired the leaders of the French Revolution, and its effects passed far beyond France. His most famous work, the "Confessions," was published after his death. The book is a mine of information as to his life. It is one of the great autobiographies of the world. During Rousseau's later years he was the victim of the delusion of persecution; and although he was protected by a succession of good friends, he came to distrust and quarrel with each in turn. He died at Ermenonville, near Paris, July 2, 1778, the most widely influential French writer of his age. [via]
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The Social Contract and Discoursesby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.D.H. ColeISBN 0679423028 (0-679-42302-8)
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The Song of the Earthby Jonathan BateISBN 0674001680 (0-674-00168-0)
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth PrigozyISBN 0671535552 (0-671-53555-2)
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, Richard PevearISBN 0670037796 (0-670-03779-6)
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First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. He soon finds himself fighting alongside three
heroic comrades--Athos, Porthos, and Aramis--who seek to uphold the honor of the king by foiling the wicked plots of Cardinal Richelieu and the beautiful spy "Milady."
"Dumas will be read a hundred, nay, three hundred years on," wrote John Galsworthy. "His greatest creation is undoubtedly D'Artagnan, type at once of the fighting adventurer and of the trusty servant, whose wily blade is ever at the back of those whose hearts have neither his magnanimity nor his courage. Few, if any, characters in fiction inspire one with such belief in their
individual existences. . . . To one who made D'Artagnan all shall be forgiven." Clifton Fadiman agreed: "Dumas enjoyed writing his stories. . . . The pleasure he must have felt in
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flashes out of these pages. . . . Dumas rampaged through the history of France, inventing, changing, distorting--doing whatever was needed to produce a tale to hold the reader breathless." [via]More editions of The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel:
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0670869201 (0-670-86920-1)
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Two Towersby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0618346260 (0-618-34626-0)
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No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkiens large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . . 
Versions of Pygmalionby J. Hillis MillerISBN 0674934857 (0-674-93485-7)
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Walt Whitmanby Walt WhitmanISBN 0670010782 (0-670-01078-2)
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Wanderlust : A History of Walkingby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0670882097 (0-670-88209-7)
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life Innineteenth-Century Englandby Daniel PoolISBN 0671882368 (0-671-88236-8)
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