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1919by John DOS PassosISBN 0451522486 (0-451-52248-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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American Gothic Talesby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452274893 (0-452-27489-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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An American Tragedyby Theodore DreiserISBN 0451527704 (0-451-52770-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Tragedy'Book summary:Theodore Dreiser set out to create an epic character and, in the form of Clyde Griffiths in An American Tragedy, he succeeded. Griffiths is just a Midwest kid, the son of a preacher in Kansas City, who tastes a little sophistication and then hits the road seeking pleasure and success. He has his moments, conducting more than one romantic affair, until that ill-advised pursuit ensnares him. Then he reads about an "accident" of a young woman and ponders a dastardly deed ... Dreiser spins these scenes with the eye of a master in control of his form. An American Tragedy stands as an American masterpiece. [via]
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Anne's House of Dreamsby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0451523199 (0-451-52319-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne's House of Dreams'Book summary:The newlyweds, Anne and Gilbert, move into their house of dreams where they share joys and sorrows with special neighbors Captain Jim, Leslie Moore and Cornelia. The births of the first children a moving part of the story. Five 90-minute cassettes. [via]
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Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, the Novel As Historyby Norman MailerISBN 0452272793 (0-452-27279-3)
Softcover, Plume
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Beauty's Punishmentby Rice AnneISBN 0452266629 (0-452-26662-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicagoby Mike RoykoISBN 0452261678 (0-452-26167-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago'Book summary:This is the story of the late Richard J. Daley, politician and self-promoter extraordinaire, from his inauspicious youth on Chicagos South Side through his rapid climb to the seat of power as mayor and boss of the Democratic Party machine. A bare-all account of Daleys cardinal sins as well as his milestone achievements, this scathing work by Chicago journalist Mike Royko brings to life the most powerful political figure of his time: his laissez-faire policy toward corruption, his unique brand of public relations, and the widespread influence that earned him the epithet of king maker. The politician, the machine, the cityRoyko reveals all with witty insight and unwavering honesty, in this incredible portrait of the last of the backroom Caesars. This new edition includes an Introduction in which the author reflects on Daleys death and the future of Chicago.[via]More editions of Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago:
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Bostoniansby Henry JamesISBN 0451525507 (0-451-52550-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'Book summary:From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women." She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, a veteran of the Civil War who holds rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil.The exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy. When it was first published in 1886, The Bostonians was not welcomed by Henry James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit. But over a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction and perhaps his comic masterpiece.[via]More editions of Bostonians:
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beautyby Rice AnneISBN 0452266564 (0-452-26656-4)
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Collected Storiesby Isaac BabelISBN 0452007984 (0-452-00798-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Twoby Allan BerubeISBN 0452265983 (0-452-26598-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. MarxISBN 0451527100 (0-451-52710-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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Contemporary American Poetsby Mark StrandISBN 0451527836 (0-451-52783-6)
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Country Girls Trilogyby Edna O'BrienISBN 0452259266 (0-452-25926-6)
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The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogueby Edna O'BrienISBN 0452263948 (0-452-26394-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue'Book summary:Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...captures the vigilance of childhood and reproduces, eerily intact, its heightened sensations.[via]
NewsdayKate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life: romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world. Under the big citys bright lights, they spin their lives into a whirl of comic and touching misadventures, wild flirtations, and reckless passions. But love changes everything. And as their lives take unexpected and separate turns, Baba and Kate must ultimately learn to go it alone.
A beautiful portrait of the pain and joy of youth, the ruin of marriage gone wrong, and the ache of lost friendship and love, this trilogy of Edna OBriens remarkable early novels is more than just a harbinger of the stunning and masterly writer she has become.
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sidney Monas, James D. Hardy, Leonard J. StantonISBN 0451527232 (0-451-52723-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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The Custom of the Countryby Edith WhartonISBN 0451523679 (0-451-52367-9)
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Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton, Anita ShreveISBN 0451527666 (0-451-52766-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Set against the bleak winter landscape of new england, ethan frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting mattie silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, edith wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her introduction, the distinguished critic elaine showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success. About the series: for over 100 years oxford world's classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more [via]
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The Eye in the Doorby Pat BarkerISBN 0452272726 (0-452-27272-6)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eye in the Door'Book summary:The Eye in the Door is the second installation of Pat Barker's acclaimed and haunting historical fiction trilogy about British soldiers traumatized by World War I trench warfare and the methods used by psychiatrist William Rivers to treat them. As with the other two, the book was recognized with awards, winning the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize. Here, Lieutenant Billy Prior is tormented by figuring out which side of several coins does he live -- coward or hero, crazy or sane, homosexual or heterosexual, upper class or lower. He represents the upheaval in Britain during the war and the severe trauma felt by its soldiers. The writing is sparse yet multilayered; Barker uses the lives of a few to capture an entire society during a tumultuous period. [via]
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Fag Hagby Robert RodiISBN 0452269407 (0-452-26940-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fountainheadby Ayn RandISBN 0452273331 (0-452-27333-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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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The Garrick Yearby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0452262828 (0-452-26282-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Ghost Roadby Pat BarkerISBN 0452276721 (0-452-27672-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ghost Road'Book summary:The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize[via]
The Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again. One of these, Billy Prior, risen to the officer class from the working class, both courageous and sardonic, decides to return to France with his fellow officer, poet Wilfred Owen, to fight a war he no longer believes in. Meanwhile, Rivers, enfevered by influenza, returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death. Across the gulf between his society and theirs, Rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his--and our--understanding of war.
Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, blending biting humor with tragic drama, moving toward a denouement as inevitable as it is devastating, The Ghost Road both encapsulates history and transcends it. It is a modern masterpiece
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The Glimpses of the Moonby Edith Wharton, Regina BarrecaISBN 0451526686 (0-451-52668-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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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:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Two of Joseph Conrad's most compelling and haunting works, in which the deepest perceptions and desires of the human heart and mind are explored.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: " A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
" A chronology of the author's life and work
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" Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
" A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. [via]SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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Heartbreak Houseby George Bernard Shaw, Daniel J. LearyISBN 0451526139 (0-451-52613-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heartbreak House'Book summary:Written at the height of the first World War in Europe, an impassioned satire of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century bourgeoisie offers a scathing portrait of a household of independent eccentrics. Reissue. [via]
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The High Roadby Edna O'BrienISBN 0452263069 (0-452-26306-9)
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0451528018 (0-451-52801-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The House on Brooke Streetby Neil BartlettISBN 0452277817 (0-452-27781-7)
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Howards Endby E. M. Forster, Marler, Regina (AFT), Benjamin DemottISBN 0451530462 (0-451-53046-2)
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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]
The Ice Ageby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0452256801 (0-452-25680-1)
Softcover, New American Library
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It Can't Happen Here: Library Editionby Sinclair Lewis, Michael MeyerISBN 0451529294 (0-451-52929-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Jacob's Roomby Virginia WoolfISBN 0451530055 (0-451-53005-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jacob's Room'Book summary:With its publication in 1922, Virginia Woolf revolutionized the modern novel with Jacob's Room. Based on the life of her own brother, this unforgettable book chronicles the life and times of Jacob Flanders, from childhood to his death in World War I. An untraditional tale focusing on a flow of random impressions through the minds of its characters, Jacob's Room remains an important work in the development of the novel form-and a shining example of Woolf's genius and literary daring. [via]
Jerusalem the Goldenby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0452259355 (0-452-25935-5)
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0451528360 (0-451-52836-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Special 100th anniversary edtion includes the author's original illustrations and a new introduction.
Drawn from the wondrous tales told to the author as a child, Just So Stories creates the magical enchantment of the dawn of the world when animals could talk and think like people. [via]More editions of Just So Stories:
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Just So Stories Set : For Little Childrenby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0451524330 (0-451-52433-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories Set : For Little Children'Book summary:Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Alphabet Was Made", "How the Camel Got His Hump", and "The Elephant's Child". [via]
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Kaffir Boyby Mark MathabaneISBN 0452259436 (0-452-25943-6)
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Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africaby Mark MathabaneISBN 0452264715 (0-452-26471-5)
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0451521447 (0-451-52144-7)
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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]
Landlockedby Doris May LessingISBN 0452257751 (0-452-25775-1)
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lynne Sharon SchwartzISBN 0451525094 (0-451-52509-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:[via]Written by British-born author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1905, A Little Princess tells the story of young Sara Crewe, privileged daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant. All the other girls at Miss Minchin's school treat Sara as if she truly were a princess. But when Captain Crewe's fortune is sadly lost, Sara's luck changes. Suddenly she is treated no better than a scullery maid. Her own fierce determination to maintain her dignity and remain a princess inside has intrigued and delighted readers for almost a hundred years, even inspiring a recent popular feature film. 
Long Day's Journey into War: December 7, 1941by Stanley WeintraubISBN 0452269172 (0-452-26917-2)
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Making of the President 1960by Theodore H. WhiteISBN 0451627164 (0-451-62716-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Millstoneby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0452261260 (0-452-26126-0)
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 0451523474 (0-451-52347-4)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 0451526015 (0-451-52601-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories'Book summary:"Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin." In their ideal of an exquisitely sensitive temperament that thrills to fine shadings in sensation, the principles of the aesthetic (or "decadent") movement are well suited to the tale of terror. No story exemplifies this better than Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The sparkling wit and zest for life of Wilde's characters combine with cold-blooded acts of horror to generate a deliciously twisted sense of elegance and evil, civilization and degradation. Oscar Wilde, like Edgar Allan Poe, shows us that what we find loathsome and frightening can also be beautiful. [via]
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Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 0451523849 (0-451-52384-9)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0451523997 (0-451-52399-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:The great religious allegory of Christian's journey, through the Slough of Despond to the Celestial City, in search of the truth. [via]
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Poems by Robert Frostby Robert Frost, William PritchardISBN 0451527879 (0-451-52787-9)
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Poems by Robert Frost A Boys Will and North of Boston
The publication of A Boys Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part of the American national heritage.
This is the only edition to present these two classics in their original form. A Boys Will introduced readers to Frosts unmistakable poetic voice, and in North of Boston, we find two of his most famous poems, Mending Wall and The Death of the Hired Man. With an introduction by distinguished critic and Amherst professor William H. Pritchard and an afterword by poet and critic Peter Davison, this centennial edition stands as a complete and vital introduction to the work of the quintessential modern American poet.
Introduction by William H. Pritchard
Afterword by Peter Davison
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 0452255899 (0-452-25589-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Edition'Book summary:At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, andmost importantin her dedication to "her girls," the students she selects to be her crème de la crème. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie setEunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandyis "famous for something," and Miss Brodie strives to bring out the best in each one. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises her girls, "Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me."
And they do. But one of them will betray her.
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452275709 (0-452-27570-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:An account of the interrelated lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvements with period notables is set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century American history. Reprint. [via]
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The Railway Childrenby E. Nesbit, Elizabeth JanewayISBN 0451525612 (0-451-52561-2)
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Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine Hansberry, Robert NemiroffISBN 0452267765 (0-452-26776-5)
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A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window: And, the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Windowby Lorraine Hansberry, Robert NemiroffISBN 0452259428 (0-452-25942-8)
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Regenerationby Pat BarkerISBN 0452270073 (0-452-27007-3)
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0451527623 (0-451-52762-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:An Englishman assumes many disguises in order to rescue members of the French royalty from the terrorists during the French Revolution. [via]
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Taleby Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. KarlISBN 0451524160 (0-451-52416-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale'Book summary:One one of the great detective novels of all time, "The Secret Conrad", written in 1903, is a magisterial thriller of terrorists and police in London in the early years of the 20th century. [via]
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Sister Carrieby Theodore Dreiser, Richard LingemanISBN 0451527607 (0-451-52760-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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The Song of the Larkby Willa CatherISBN 0451525337 (0-451-52533-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of the Lark'Book summary:[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]
In this semiautobiographical portrait of a young artist in the making, Willa Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self.
Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, has dreams and gifts that her humble hometown will not satisfy. With the support of a few allies who recognize her rare qualities, she follows her ambitions to the big city, determined to be an opera diva. As she moves through a series of music teachers in Chicago, Thea finds that the attitudes and standards of those around her rarely match her own. It is only when she reconnects with pure nature in a brilliant Arizona desert canyon that Thea rediscovers the sensuous, mystical openness that is the source of her art. Realizing she must protect this experience at all costs, she resolves to shed all relationships that don't serve her higher purpose. [via]More editions of The Song of the Lark:
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0451526031 (0-451-52603-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Stonewallby Martin DubermanISBN 0452272068 (0-452-27206-8)
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Tar Babyby Toni MorrisonISBN 045225258X (0-452-25258-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tar Baby'Book summary:Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity... [via]
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Three by Flannery O'Connorby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0451525140 (0-451-52514-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three by Flannery O'Connor'Book summary:The quintessential Southern writer, O'Connor wrote fiercely comic, powerful fiction. This anthology includes the masterpieces Wise Blood, The Violent Bear it Away, and Everything that Rises Must Converge. [via]
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Tropic of Cancerby Henry MillerISBN 0451526058 (0-451-52605-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tropic of Cancer'Book summary:No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate American in Paris was deemed obscene and banned from publication in this country for years. When you read this, you see immediately how much modern writers owe Miller. [via]
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Under the Volcanoby Malcolm LowryISBN 0452255953 (0-452-25595-3)
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The Voyage Outby Virginia Woolf, Louise A. DeSalvoISBN 0451525558 (0-451-52555-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage Out'Book summary:Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market to-day. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com [via]
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Wandererby Henri Alain-FournierISBN 0452010101 (0-452-01010-1)
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The Waterfallby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0452260175 (0-452-26017-5)
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When Heaven & Earth Changed Placesby Jay Wurts, Le Ly HayslipISBN 0452271681 (0-452-27168-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Heaven & Earth Changed Places'Book summary:A memoir of the Vietnam war from a woman's point of view - seen through the eyes of a child who survived the horror. Le Ly Hayslip, the inspiration for the musical "Miss Saigon", tells the story of a young peasant girl's struggle to survive. Pressed into service at the age of 12 by the Vietcong, Le Ly Hayslip was captured and tortured by government forces. She found sanctuary at last with an American soldier and after affairs with several GIs, she fled to America to escape the horrors of the war. But as the traumas of the war years lingered on in painful nightmares, Le Ly Hayslip returned to her homeland in 1986. Horrified and shocked to discover the country and the people still profoundly scarred by the war, she took the biggest decision of her life - selling her property to start a foundation dedicated to building health clinics jointly staffed by Americans and Vietnamese. [via]
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White Fang and Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0451525582 (0-451-52558-2)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Brenda WineappleISBN 0451527283 (0-451-52728-3)
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Women in Loveby D. H. Lawrence, Louise A. DeSalvoISBN 0451525914 (0-451-52591-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:The erotic sequel to The Rainbow chronicles the lives, loves, obsessions, and struggles of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their lovers, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, as they search for fulfillment in post-World War I society. Reprint. [via]
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Regina BarrecaISBN 0451530292 (0-451-53029-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CLASIC FILM "Follow the yellow brick road!" Since it first appeared in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has brought joy to generations. In it, a girl's dream world comes to life as the cyclone lifts Dorothy from Kansas, depositing her in the enchanted land of the Munchkins. H ere she meets the famous Oz characters: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West. Her adventures along the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City and the Wizard himself evoke the rich, universal appeal of a classic fairy tale. [via]
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Zombieby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452275008 (0-452-27500-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zombie'Book summary:A hero who gets into the mind of a serial killer is a fixture of television crime shows, but such stories are usually disappointing, because the viewer knows it's just a gimmick. Not so with this unusual little novel, which The New York Times called a "note-perfect, horror-comic ventriloquization of a half-bright, infantile serial killer." Joyce Carol Oates has so convincingly written through the voice of a killer, you will feel nervous while reading at how familiar, how human, he is. Part of how she achieves the effect is through sparing use of bizarre capitalization (e.g., "MOON" and "FRAGMENT") and crude drawings done with a felt-tip pen. But the language is what makes it come alive, as in such weird statements as "My whole body is a numb tongue." This book was winner of the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. [via]
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