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Age of Ideologyby AikenISBN 0451620631 (0-451-62063-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Betrothedby Alessandro ManzoniISBN 0460119990 (0-460-11999-0)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Betrothed'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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Billy Budd and Other Talesby Herman MelvilleISBN 0451524462 (0-451-52446-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Storiesby Herman Melville, A. Robert LeeISBN 0460872052 (0-460-87205-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'Book summary:If Melville had never written "Moby Dick," his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor, " his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener, " his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic--and ultimately disastrous--extreme; and in "Benito Cereno, " his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados, " the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza, " and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower." [via]
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Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, Manuel Komroff, John BayleyISBN 0451527348 (0-451-52734-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov'Book summary:The Brothers Karamazov is considered a supreme achievement in literature. Published near the end of the 19th century, it is one of the great works of world-renowned author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Brothers Karamazov tackles some of the most existential and important themes known to humankind--the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith--just to name a few. Readers around the globe have found their lives transformed by this layered and complex book. A deeply spiritual work, The Brothers Karamazov is a work that every person should read. [via]
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 046005077X (0-460-05077-X)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, that was stolen, wound up in the Yukon Territory, and became leader of a wolf pack. [via]
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Call of the Wild and Selected Storiesby Jack LondonISBN 0451513835 (0-451-51383-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call of the Wild and Selected Stories'Book summary:Buck, the dog hero, is sold into service in the Klondike. Abused by men and dogs, clubs and fangs, he becomes a ruthless fighter. A master that he deeply loves and respects saves him. But the actions of both humans and canines alike eventually force him to follow an instinct that he cannot resist. (Three CDs) [via]
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Captain's Daughter and Other Talesby Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0460008986 (0-460-00898-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Deerslayerby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0451524845 (0-451-52484-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deerslayer'Book summary:In this final volume in the Leatherstocking saga, the Indian-raised Deerslayer has become a man of courage and moral certainty-and he emerges from tribal warfare with nobility as pure and proud as the wilderness whose fierce beauty and freedom have claimed his heart. [via]
Die Neuen Leiden Des Jungenby Ulrich PlenzdorfISBN 047102855X (0-471-02855-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Disparates; Or, the Proverbios.by Francisco Jos±E De Goya Y LucientesISBN 0486223191 (0-486-22319-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, Ruth PiteISBN 0460875221 (0-460-87522-1)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This edition features all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - "Inferno", "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" - with explanatory notes on each canto. It includes Botticelli's illustrations of "The Divine Comedy", drawn in the 1480s. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451208633 (0-451-20863-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradisethe sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.
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The Essential Rousseauby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lowell Blair, Lowell BairISBN 0452010314 (0-452-01031-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Eugene Oneginby Douglas R. Hofstadter, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0465020941 (0-465-02094-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:The supreme poet of the Russian language, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin has had a checkered existence in English. His prose, to be sure, has presented his translators with a less formidable set of hurdles. But Pushkin composed his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, in a 14-line stanza of his own invention, with a slippery rhyme scheme and treacherously foursquare meter (i.e., iambic tetrameter, which tends to sound slightly singsong to English speakers). This has forced most of his translators--from Walter Arndt to James Falen to Charles Johnston--to shortchange form in favor of content. Vladimir Nabokov probably pushed this tendency as far as it could go, transforming Pushkin's poetry into perversely lumpy paragraphs (and enveloping the slim pickings of his translation in a jumbo-sized commentary). But nobody has managed to produce even a halfway-definitive version of Eugene Onegin.
Now Douglas Hofstadter, who's best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach, has taken a shot at it. Certainly he's no stranger to translation theory--his 1997 book, Le Ton Beau de Marot, was a brilliant and unbuttoned meditation on the translator's art, with numerous detours into the hinterlands of cognitive science. Theory and practice are two different matters, however, as Hofstadter is quick to admit: "The thought seemed quite ridiculous: me, with such sparse knowledge of Russian, hoping to clamber up this formidable Everest of translation, a book often said to be next to untranslatable, and square at the center of the inner circle of Russian literature!" Clamber he did, however--and the result is a charming if uneven version of the poem, more beholden to Cole Porter and Ogden Nash than the poet's 19th-century peers. Several of Hofstadter's slangier couplets might have Nabokov spinning in his grave: "Did thus our party boy exhaust / Himself at games, at zero cost?" Still, he manages some of Pushkin's loop-the-loops very nicely:
The air grew warm as days went flying,
Clearly Hofstadter's take on the poem goes heavy on the sizzle and fails to capture much of Pushkin's elegant gravity. Still, it's a welcome addition to the ranks, a handsome present to the poet on the occasion of his 200th birthday--and, rather winningly, a linguistic labor of love. --William Davies [via]
And winter knew to call it quits.
Eugene gave up his versifying,
But not the ghost, and not his wits.
He's lent new life by buds aborning,
And first thing on some clear spring morning
He leaves his cloistered, small château
Where, marmot-like, he'd braved the snow.
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Fountainheadby Ayn RandISBN 0451191153 (0-451-19115-3)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fountainhead'Book summary:The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence. [via]
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Softcover, Plume - Fountainhead: ISBN 0452286751 (0-452-28675-1)
Hardcover, Plume - Fountainhead: ISBN 0451175123 (0-451-17512-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Fountainhead: ISBN 0452283760 (0-452-28376-0)
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Glenarvonby Caroline P. Lamb, Frances WilsonISBN 0460874683 (0-460-87468-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Fritz Kredel, Marian Edwardes, E.V. Lucas, Lucy CraneISBN 0448409410 (0-448-40941-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. These wonderful tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not only to childrenwho unabashedly love thembut to readers of any age.[via]More editions of Grimm's Fairy Tales:
Grimms Fairy Tal/Specby Jacob GrimmISBN 0448424363 (0-448-42436-3)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Guy Mannering: Or, the Astrologerby Walter ScottISBN 0460001337 (0-460-00133-7)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:This is Conrad's most subtle, compressed and proleptic work. Acclaimed as a supreme literary achievement, it has also come under literary, historical, and political attack. The profoundly influential novel journeys toward the settlement of the demonic Mr. Kurtz, the genius who would represent the best of Europe-but who, turned by the colonial experience to abuses both psychological and social, horrifies his investigator Marlow and commits him to witness the repulsive profundity of his own soul and times. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Featuring a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, the author's two best-known stories tell of encounters with moral depravity in the wilds of the Congo and second selves on a voyage into the Gulf of Siam. Reprint." [via]
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Howards Endby E. M. Forster, Marler, Regina (AFT), Benjamin DemottISBN 0451530462 (0-451-53046-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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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, Henry Carlisle, Olga Andreyev CarlisleISBN 0451528387 (0-451-52838-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idiot'Book summary:Written by one of the greatest literary minds the world has ever known, this ambitious novel is the story of Prince Myshkin, an almost comically innocent Christ-figure who is Dostoyevsky's vision of salvation for a cynical Russia. [via]
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Jane Austen: Her Lifeby Park HonanISBN 0449903192 (0-449-90319-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen: Her Life'Book summary:Readers have long cherished the brilliant, ironic novels of Jane Austen and critics have ranked them with the masterpieces of world literature, but surprisingly, there has been no major biography of the novelist in over seventy years. Park Honan's highly accliamed "Jane Austen: Her Life" is the biography that Austen--and her readers--have long deserved. [via]
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John Clareby Kelsey ThortonISBN 0460878239 (0-460-87823-9)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Clare'Book summary:John Clare's verse is a celebration of country life. Clare ended his life in an asyum, yet his work expresses an innate wisdom and a profound understanding of nature and of his contemporary rural society.
Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has always tried to make the best books ever written available to the greatest number of people at the lowest possible price. Unique editorial features that help Everyman Paperback Classics stand out from the crowd include: a leading scholar or literary critic's introduction to the text, a biography of the author, a chronology of her or his life and times, a historical selection of criticism, and a concise plot summary. Each Everyman title offers these extensive materials at a price that competes with the most inexpensive editions on the market-but Everyman Paperbacks have durable binding, quality paper, and the highest editorial and scholarly standards. [via]
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John Keatsby Nicholas RoeISBN 0460878085 (0-460-87808-5)
Softcover, Everyman
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Kenilworthby Walter ScottISBN 0460001353 (0-460-00135-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0451521447 (0-451-52144-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0451529820 (0-451-52982-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington IrvingISBN 0451530128 (0-451-53012-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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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The Life of William Blakeby Alexander GilchristISBN 0460019716 (0-460-01971-6)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Literature And Revolutionby Leon TrotskyISBN 0472060430 (0-472-06043-0)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature And Revolution'Book summary:"Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky's vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture."-Mike Davis
"Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight."-Tariq Ali
Leon Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs- and can alter-our understanding of the world. Features new reader-friendly explanatory notes.
Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and is the author of My Life.
William Keach is a professor of English at Brown University. He is editor of Coleridge's Complete Poems.
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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0452010128 (0-452-01012-8)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marble Faun'Book summary:This novel tells the story of Donarells, an Italian Count bearing an uncanny resemblance to the faun of Praxiteles, the sculptor Kenyon and two young art students, Miriam and Hilda. The author also wrote "Scarlet Letter". [via]
Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865 Comprising His Travels in Germany Italy Russia and England: From 1803 to 1865, Comprising His Travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and Englandby Ernest Newman, Hector BerliozISBN 0486215636 (0-486-21563-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty: Library Editionby William BlighISBN 0451524225 (0-451-52422-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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My Heart Laid Bareby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452280060 (0-452-28006-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 0451523474 (0-451-52347-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Paradise Lost and Other Poemsby John B. Milloni, Edward Le Comte, John MiltonISBN 0451628268 (0-451-62826-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost and Other Poems'Book summary:With the three works included in this volume-- Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Lycidas --Milton placed himself next to Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer as one of the greatest literary genius in history. [via]
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Poems and Propheciesby William BlakeISBN 0460007920 (0-460-00792-0)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Princess De Clevesby Madame De LafayetteISBN 0452009863 (0-452-00986-3)
Softcover, Meridian Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess De Cleves'Book summary:Though the Congress of Cercamp had been broken off, the negotiations for the peace were continued, and things were so disposed, that towards the latter end of February the conferences were reassumed at Chateau-Cambresis; the same plenipotentiaries were sent as before, and the Mareschal de St. Andre being one, his absence freed the Duke de Nemours from a rival, who was formidable rather from his curiosity in observing those who addressed to Madam de Cleves, than from any advances he was capable of making himself in her favour. [via]
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, Cuddon J.A.ISBN 0460874713 (0-460-87471-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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Red and the Blackby Stendhal, Ann JeffersonISBN 0460876430 (0-460-87643-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red and the Black'Book summary:among th great French novels of the 19 th centur, it follows the rise and fall of the young, provincial Julien sorel in the france of restoration. The author pays paricular attention to pychological observation and an awareness of the political situatio in his writing. His principle characters have characteristically high energy and passion. [via]
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The Red And the Black: A chronicle of the Nineteenth Centuryby Donald M. Frame, Frame, Donald Murdoch (AFT), Jonathan Keates, Lloyd C. ParksISBN 0451530284 (0-451-53028-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red And the Black: A chronicle of the Nineteenth Century'Book summary:[via]In December 1827, a French newspaper ran a story about a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. The article fired the imagination of Marie Henri Beyle, and under the pen name Stendhal, he set to writing what was to become one of the great psychological novels of all time. I will be famous around 1880, he predicted in one of his many diaries. I shall not go out of style, nor my glory go out of style.
Set in a provincial French town and in Paris, The Red and the Black tells the story of Julien Sorel, a handsome and brilliant young tutor who is both hero and villain. Cold, opportunistic, and uncompromising with othersincluding his influential mistresshe follows his lust for power and wealth. At the same time, he is tortured by his uncontrollable passions, and by the military and religious forcesthe enigmatic Red and Black that dominate French society in the years following the Revolution.
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The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Centuryby Stendhal, Lloyd C. Parks, Donald M. FrameISBN 0451517938 (0-451-51793-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century'Book summary:One of the great novels of the century, The Red and the Black is a powerful character study of Julien Sorel, a clever and idealistic young opportunist who attempts to rise above his station through a combination of talent, deception, and hypocrisy. He uses his powers of seduction and charm to secure advancement, only to find himself betrayed by his own passions and outwitted by the larger political and social intrigues of post-Napoleonic France. His doomed quest for fortune and love is both heroic and satirical, reflecting the inner tensions and outer pretensions that result from desiring what is not ours. Stendhal's complex portrayal of his characters' thoughts and feelings was far ahead of his time, earning The Red and the Black recognition as the first modern psychological novel, with Julien as his most brilliant creation and one of the greatest characters in all of literature. [via]
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Reminiscencesby Thomas Carlyle, Charles Eliot NortonISBN 0460008757 (0-460-00875-7)
Hardcover, Dent
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reminiscences'Book summary:Originally published in 1881. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. [via]
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Season in Hell: The Illuminationsby Jean Nicolas Arthur RimbaudISBN 0460879847 (0-460-87984-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Selected Poemsby Robert Browning, Margaret ForsterISBN 046087425X (0-460-87425-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:By turns trenchant,yearning,serious and irreverent,Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew-love and death,politics and patriotism,religion and nature,and just what it is like to be a thinking woman in a society that wants women to be weak. [via]
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Selected Poemsby William Blake, Peter ButterISBN 0460873091 (0-460-87309-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Byronby George Gordon Byron Byron, W. H. AudenISBN 0452006589 (0-452-00658-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Selected Poetry of Blakeby David V. ErdmanISBN 0452005698 (0-452-00569-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.by Washington IrvingISBN 046087151X (0-460-87151-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Social Contract and Discoursesby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.D.H. ColeISBN 0460873571 (0-460-87357-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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Social Contract and Discoursesby J. RoussearISBN 0460016601 (0-460-01660-1)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph BruccoliISBN 0451530349 (0-451-53034-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Three Musketeers Specialby Alexandre DumasISBN 0448424460 (0-448-42446-0)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0451527046 (0-451-52704-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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We the Livingby Ayn RandISBN 0451187849 (0-451-18784-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Diplomacy, 1800-1860by William H. GoetzmannISBN 0471310018 (0-471-31001-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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White Fang and Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0451525582 (0-451-52558-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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William Blakeby Peter ButterISBN 046087800X (0-460-87800-X)
Softcover, Everyman
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Wreck of the Medusa: Tragic Story of the Death Raftby Alexander McKeeISBN 0451200446 (0-451-20044-6)
Softcover, Signet
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Yevgeny Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, A. D. P. BriggsISBN 0460875957 (0-460-87595-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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