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The Absenteeby Maria Edgeworth, W.J. Mc Cormack, Kim WalkerISBN 019283830X (0-19-283830-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Absentee'Book summary:Lord Clonbrony and his ambitious, worldly wife lead an extravagant social life in London on the proceeds of their estates in Ireland. Their son, Lord Colambre, refusing to marry the heiress arranged for him by his mother, decides instead to investigate, incognito, the management of the family estates in Ireland. Appalled by the corruption, mismanagement, and poverty he discovers, he sets about finding a solution to his father's debts and the family's wilful indifference. Maria Edgeworth's classic novel combines a fast-miving depiction of national manners with a brilliantly witty expose of the pernicious system of absentee landownership. [via]
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The Absenteeby W.J. Mc Cormack, Maria Edgeworth, Kim WalkerISBN 0192816829 (0-19-281682-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Absentee'Book summary:Set in London, this novel describes the attitudes of an Irish landowning family towards their tenants, emphasizing the pernicious consequences for Ireland and for the wider world of absentee landownership. The book includes appendices showing how Edgeworth revised the text from the 1st edition, and Edgeworth's "Notes for essay on the genius and style of Burke". "The absentee" (1812) is the second of Maria Edgeworth's novels, the first being "Castle Rackrent" (1800) and is aimed at the general reader as well as for students of early 19th century English and Irish literature, of women's literature and on the historical and the regional novel. [via]
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An Accidental Familyby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard FreebornISBN 0192828363 (0-19-282836-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Accidental Family'Book summary:Set in the 1870s, a time of social disorder in Russia, An Accidental Family is the story of Arkady Dolgoruky, an awkward, illegitimate twenty-year-old on a desperate search for his family. This new translation of Dostoevsky's last completed novel fully captures the raciness and youthful vigor of the original text, and expresses "the innermost spiritual world of someone on the eve of manhood at that tumultuous time." [via]
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Adeline Mowbrayby Shelley King, Amelia Alderson Opie, John Benjamin PierceISBN 0192833308 (0-19-283330-8)
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Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticismby Paul De ManISBN 0195013468 (0-19-501346-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Byronby George Gordon Byron Byron, Peter QuennellISBN 0192827545 (0-19-282754-5)
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Storiesby Jack London, Robert C. Leitz, Earle LaborISBN 019282709X (0-19-282709-X)
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Castle Rackrentby George Watson, Maria EdgeworthISBN 0192835637 (0-19-283563-7)
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Published in 1800, Castle Rackrent is regarded as the first family saga and first regional novel in English. It chronicles the lives of four generations of 18th-century Irish landlords, and how their negligent behaviour towards life and money takes them to the edge of bankruptcy and ruin. A stimulating satire!
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writingsby Thomas De Quincey, Grevel LindopISBN 0192836544 (0-19-283654-4)
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The Deerslayerby James Fenimore Cooper, H. Daniel PeckISBN 0192828118 (0-19-282811-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deerslayer'Book summary:The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero Natty Bumppo. This novel marks Cooper's return to historical romance after more than a decade given largely to social and political commentary. This edition provides the authoritative text of the novel and prefaces to The Deerslayer (1841 and 1850) and to the Leatherstocking Tales (1850). [via]
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Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher BettsISBN 0192827502 (0-19-282750-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract'Book summary:Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today. Also included in this edition is Rousseau's Discourse on Political Economy", a key transitional work between his Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. This new translation offers fresh insight into a cornerstone of political thought, which is further illuminated by a comprehensive introduction and notes. [via]
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Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract: And, the Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher BettsISBN 0192835971 (0-19-283597-1)
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequalityby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Franklin PhilipISBN 0192829475 (0-19-282947-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourse on the Origin of Inequality'Book summary:In Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. His sweeping account of humanity's social and political development epitomizes the innovative boldness of the Enlightenment, and it is one of the most provocative and influential works of the eighteenth century. This new translation by prize-winning translator Franklin Philip includes all of Rousseau's own notes, and Patrick Coleman's introduction builds on recent key scholarship, considering particularly the relationship between political and aesthetic thought. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, David H. Higgins, C. H. SissonISBN 0192835025 (0-19-283502-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Alighieri Dante, David H. Higgins, SissonISBN 0192830732 (0-19-283073-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages. [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0195004124 (0-19-500412-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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Don Carlos and Mary Stuartby Friedrich SchillerISBN 0192839853 (0-19-283985-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Carlos and Mary Stuart'Book summary:Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatize periods of crisis in sixteenth-century Europe, and in doing so reflect Schiller's passionate engagement with the great themes of his own age - justice, power, freedom of conscience, legitimacy of government. A youthful work, Don Carlos shows the victory of the forces of reaction over the representatives of a new age. Mary Stuart shows the struggle of the Scottish queen in her last days of her life, not only for her freedom, but also for peace with her conscience, and that of her English rival, Elizabeth I, with the challenge of ruling justly. A vivid imaginative experience when read, these plays, with their starkly contrasting characters and thrilling confrontations, also demonstrate Schiller's brilliant stagecraft. These new translations into blank verse are accurate, elegant, and playable.The introduction, notes, and chronology set the plays in their cultural and intellectual background, while a family tree explains the historical relationship bewteen Don Carlos and Mary Stuart. [via]
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English Romantic Poetry and Proseby Russell NoyesISBN 0195010078 (0-19-501007-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticismby M. H. AbramsISBN 0195019466 (0-19-501946-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism'Book summary:This highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonathan Wordsworth, and Jack Stillinger. Covering the major poems by each of the important Romantic poets, the contributors present many significant perspectives in modern criticism--old and new, discursive and explicative, mimetic and rhetorical, literal and mythical, archetypal and phenomenological, pro and con. [via]
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, James E. FalenISBN 0192838997 (0-19-283899-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. [via]
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Eugene Oneginby James E. Falen, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0192824910 (0-19-282491-0)
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Five Romantic Plays 1768-1821by Robert Southey, Inchbald, George Gordon Byron Byron, Joanna Baillie, Horace Walpole, Edward Burns, Paul BainesISBN 0192833162 (0-19-283316-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Romantic Plays 1768-1821'Book summary:Thriving during a period of profound revolution in Europe, the British Romantic theatre found itself re-examining social and sexual relations in English society. The five plays collected in this edition--the only one of its kind--represent some of the most radical and unusual examples of the drama created during this period. Horace invented gothic melodrama with his incest tragedy, The Mysterious Mother; Robert Southey imagined the theatre as a site of revolutionary protest in Wat Tyler (1794); Joanna Baillie's psychological case study in aristocratic hatred in De Monfort (1768) was thought too alarming to have been written by a woman, while Elizabeth Inchbald's hugely successful Lover's Vows (1798) was sufficiently subversive for Jane Austen to analyze some of its illicit potential in Mansfield Park (1814); Byron's strenuous tragedy The Two Foscari (1821) explores an inescapable conflict between parental love and political authority. The stage imagined by these writers is an arena of culturally charged issues--political, sexual, and socia--paralleling the ones being debated and decided in society at large. [via]
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The Flight to Italy: Dairy and Selected Lettersby T.J. Reed, Johann Wolfgang GoetheISBN 0192838865 (0-19-283886-5)
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The Flowers of Evilby Charles Baudelaire, James McGowanISBN 0192835459 (0-19-283545-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flowers of Evil'Book summary:This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection. This book is intended for general readers interested in Baudelaire, French poetry and 19th-century French culture. Students of Baudelaire, French literature. [via]
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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journalsby Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela WoofISBN 0192840622 (0-19-284062-2)
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth PrigozyISBN 0192832697 (0-19-283269-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Grimms' Fairy Talesby Peter CarterISBN 0192745298 (0-19-274529-8)
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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:
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and Other Tales'Book summary:Set in an atmosphere of mystery, this novel tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. The other three tales also appraise the glamour and rapacity of imperial adventure and display insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. [via]
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The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alan MyersISBN 0192834118 (0-19-283411-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idiot'Book summary:The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accomodate his moral idealism. Meticulously faithful to the original, this new translation includes explanatory notes and a critical introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow. [via]
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Sciecle Cultureby Bram DijkstraISBN 0195037790 (0-19-503779-0)
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Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939by Stephen ReganISBN 019284038X (0-19-284038-X)
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The Italianby Ann RadcliffeISBN 0192815725 (0-19-281572-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Italian'Book summary:This is Ann Radcliffe's most complete success in fiction, and a fine example of Gothic romance. In it, primarily through the character of its extraordinary hero, Schedoni, the book becomes more than just a thriller. The elements of tragedy are there and sustained so as to take it beyond the artifices of the Gothic. [via]
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The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitentsby Ann Radcliffe, Frederick Garber, E. J. CleryISBN 0192832549 (0-19-283254-9)
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John Clareby John ClareISBN 0192813951 (0-19-281395-1)
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John Keatsby John Keats, Elizabeth CookISBN 0192840630 (0-19-284063-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Keats'Book summary:Originally trained in medicine and becoming a pharmaceutical salesman at twenty-one, Keats soon abandoned the profession in order to live for and by his poetry. He published three volumes of poetry before his death of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. This authoritative new collection contains the majority of Keats's non-dramatic poetry, including "Endymion" in its entirety, and a substantial selection of letters that provide important background material to the poet's life. Offering both prose and verse in an accessible, chronological order, this collection also includes useful appendices on "St. Agnes' Eve" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," and provides a handy glossary of classical names. Keats poetry and his letters reveal a spirit of questing vitality and profound understanding. This remarkable volume attests to an astonishing maturity of power. [via]
Journal of a West India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaicaby Judith Terry, M. G. LewisISBN 0192832611 (0-19-283261-1)
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The Karamazov Brothersby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat AvseyISBN 0192835092 (0-19-283509-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Karamazov Brothers'Book summary:Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work. [via]
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Kimby Rudyard Kipling, Alan SandisonISBN 0192835130 (0-19-283513-0)
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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]
La Princesse De Clevesby Madame De LafayetteISBN 0192826875 (0-19-282687-5)
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore Cooper, John P. McWilliamsISBN 019283505X (0-19-283505-X)
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Letters of John Keats: A Selectionby John KeatsISBN 0192810812 (0-19-281081-2)
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. Chesterton, Stephen MedcalfISBN 0192823590 (0-19-282359-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:
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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan ManningISBN 0192839764 (0-19-283976-4)
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Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society. [via]More editions of The Marble Faun:
Mary: A Fictionby Mary Wollstonecraft, Gary KellyISBN 019283536X (0-19-283536-X)
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Mary, a Fiction and the Wrongs of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0192553674 (0-19-255367-4)
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The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verseby Jerome J. McGannISBN 0192823299 (0-19-282329-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse'Book summary:The poets whom we call the Romantics - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns and Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Keats - belonged to an age that saw many other kinds of poetry written and published. In this new anthology, Jerome McGann explores the full range of verse that was published in Britain between the years 1785 and 1832. Selections from all the major and minor Romantic poets are included, as well as important political and satiric verse of the period, the continuing tradition of `sentimental' verse, regional and dialect verse, and verse in translation. Organizing his material by date of first appearance, and not by author grouping, Professor McGann calls attention to the historical and cultural contexts in which the poetry is embedded. Old familiar poems are thrown into new relationships, and traditional views of the poetry of the period challenged. An important feature of this anthology is the space it devotes to women poets. Felica Dorothea Hemans was one of the most widely published and read poets of the nineteenth century, and here she takes her rightful place together with Ann Yearsley, Laeticia Borbauld, Mary Tighe, Lady Morgan, Laeticia Elizabeth Landon, and other distinguished female writers. In his introduction the editor discusses the concept of romantic writing, and the true diversity it contains. The manifesto of the romantic movement, Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads , is here printed in an appendix. This book is intended for lovers of English Romantic Verse; students of Romantic literature, undergraduate level and up. [via]
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Claudia L. Johnson, John N. DavieISBN 0192840827 (0-19-284082-7)
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Claude Rawson, Jane Austen, John DavieISBN 0192833685 (0-19-283368-5)
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph Conrad, Keith CarabineISBN 0192816241 (0-19-281624-1)
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The Old Manor Houseby Charlotte Turner Smith, Anne Henry EhrenpreisISBN 0192822020 (0-19-282202-0)
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On Warby Karl Von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Beatrice Heuser, Peter ParetISBN 0192807161 (0-19-280716-1)
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This abridged edition by Beatrice Heuser, using the acclaimed translation by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, selects the central books in which Clausewitz's views on the nature and theory of war are developed. Heuser's introduction explains the originality of Clausewitz's ideas, his education and background, and summarizes his key theories, while explanatory notes provide further information on the historical examples Clausewitz cites. [via]More editions of On War:
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, Stephen Orgel, Jonathan GoldbergISBN 0192833197 (0-19-283319-7)
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This marvelous edition boasts an introduction by one of Milton's most famous modern admirers, the best-selling novelist Philip Pullman. Indeed, Pullman not only provides a general introduction, but also introduces each of the twelve books of the poem. In these commentaries, Pullman illuminates the power of the poem and its achievement as a story, suggests how we should read it today, and describes its influence on him and his acclaimed trilogy His Dark Materials, which takes its title from a line in the poem. His observations offer a tribute that is both personal and insightful, and his enthusiasm for Milton's language, skill, and supreme gifts as a storyteller is infectious. He encourages readers above all to experience the poem for themselves, and surrender to its enchantment.
Pullman's tremendous admiration and passion for Paradise Lost will attract a whole new generation of readers to this classic of English literature. An ideal gift, the book is beautifully produced, printed in two colors throughout, illustrated with the twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition published in 1688, with ribbon marker. [via] 
The Plays of Georg Buchnerby Georg Buchner, Victor PriceISBN 0192811207 (0-19-281120-7)
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Princesse De Cleves:The Princesse De Montpensier; The Comtesse De Tendeby Terence Cave, LA FayetteISBN 0192837265 (0-19-283726-5)
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, John CareyISBN 0192835904 (0-19-283590-4)
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby John Carey, James HoggISBN 0192553194 (0-19-255319-4)
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THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS
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OTHER EVIDENCE, BY THE EDITOR
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Red and the Blackby Stendhal, Catherine SlaterISBN 0192838717 (0-19-283871-7)
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Reminiscences: A New and Complete Editionby Thomas Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding, Ian CampbellISBN 0192817485 (0-19-281748-5)
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Romantic Poetry and Proseby H. BloomISBN 0195016157 (0-19-501615-7)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridgeby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H.J. JacksonISBN 0192813838 (0-19-281383-8)
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Selected Poems and Prose of John Clareby John ClareISBN 0192812327 (0-19-281232-7)
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A Sicilian Romanceby Ann Ward Radcliffe, Alison MilbankISBN 0192836668 (0-19-283666-8)
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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.by Washington Irving, Susan ManningISBN 0192838873 (0-19-283887-3)
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St. Leonby William Godwin, Pamela ClemitISBN 0192828339 (0-19-282833-9)
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Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkinby Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0192839543 (0-19-283954-3)
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192835750 (0-19-283575-0)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 0192833804 (0-19-283380-4)
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Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize With a Hammerby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Duncan LargeISBN 0192831380 (0-19-283138-0)
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The Wild Irish Girlby Morgan, (Sydney), Kathryn J. KirkpatrickISBN 0192832832 (0-19-283283-2)
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Women's Writing, 1778-1838: An Anthologyby Fiona RobertsonISBN 0192833138 (0-19-283313-8)
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Wordsworthby William WordsworthISBN 0192810529 (0-19-281052-9)
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Zastrozzi and st Irvyneby Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stephen C. BehrendtISBN 0192817248 (0-19-281724-8)
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