| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “UK”
books tagged “UK”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
-
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry MoserISBN 0688107826 (0-688-10782-6)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:The extraordinary adventures of the world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes, as faithfully recounted by his comrade, Dr. Watson, have captivated readers of all ages for over a century. The stories' blend of heartpounding, fast-paced action and mind-boggling deductive reasoning is as riveting today as it was when first published.
This deluxe illustrated edition contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first twelve stories and includes such famous cases as "The Red-headed League," in which Holmes uncovers a well-concealed, devilishly clever criminal plot; "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," in which Holmes must trap a jewel thief--with astonishing results; "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," in which Holmes and Watson find themselves dealing with treachery, violence, and deadly snakes; and nine more equally thrilling and puzzling mysteries.
Magnificently illustrated with twelve powerful watercolors by award-winning artist Barry Moser, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes features the complete text of the original collection of Doyle's short stories and is an ideal introduction to the fascinating world of this mesmerizing detective.
[via]More editions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
The Annotated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0681322608 (0-681-32260-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Shakespeare'More editions of The Annotated Shakespeare:
Arthur's Britain:History and Archaeology, AD367-634: History and Archaeology, AD367-634by Leslie AlcockISBN 0713902450 (0-7139-0245-0)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur's Britain:History and Archaeology, AD367-634: History and Archaeology, AD367-634'More editions of Arthur's Britain:History and Archaeology, AD367-634: History and Archaeology, AD367-634:
-
An Artist of the Floating Worldby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0679722661 (0-679-72266-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Artist of the Floating World'Book summary:In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono's wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What's left for Ono? Ishiguro's treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize. [via]
More editions of An Artist of the Floating World:
-
Ballet Shoesby Noel Streatfeild, Diane GoodeISBN 0679847596 (0-679-84759-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ballet Shoes'Book summary:Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent. [via]
-
The Blue Afternoonby William BoydISBN 067977260X (0-679-77260-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Afternoon'Book summary:"A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges readers into a tale of grisly murders and an illicit passion that still obsseses him 30 years later. 384 pp. Author tour. [via]
More editions of The Blue Afternoon:
Blues: The British Connectionby Bob BrunningISBN 0713718366 (0-7137-1836-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Blues: The British Connection'More editions of Blues: The British Connection:
The Cement Gardenby Ian McEwanISBN 0679750185 (0-679-75018-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cement Garden'More editions of The Cement Garden:
Cider With Rosieby Laurie LeeISBN 0701149736 (0-7011-4973-6)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider With Rosie'More editions of Cider With Rosie:
-
Classics of Horror: Dracula/Frankenstein/2 Books in 1by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0681411635 (0-681-41163-5)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Classics of Horror: Dracula/Frankenstein/2 Books in 1'More editions of Classics of Horror: Dracula/Frankenstein/2 Books in 1:
-
The Complete Works of William Shakespeareby John WilsonISBN 0706414004 (0-7064-1400-4)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare'Book summary:excellent hardcover book. great binding. soft cushiony cover. pages are excellent [via]
More editions of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare:
Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0681410035 (0-681-41003-5)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of William Shakespeare'More editions of Complete Works of William Shakespeare:
-
Corelli's Mandolinby Louis De Bernieres, Robin DesserISBN 067976397X (0-679-76397-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Corelli's Mandolin'Book summary:Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction [via]
More editions of Corelli's Mandolin:
-
The Dark Is Risingby Susan CooperISBN 0689829833 (0-689-82983-3)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Is Rising'Book summary:"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back,
With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no mere boy. He is the Sign-Seeker, last of the immortal Old Ones, destined to battle the powers of evil that trouble the land. His task is monumental: he must find and guard the six great Signs of the Light, which, when joined, will create a force strong enough to match and perhaps overcome that of the Dark. Embarking on this endeavor is dangerous as well as deeply rewarding; Will must work within a continuum of time and space much broader than he ever imagined.
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone;
Five will return, and one go alone."Susan Cooper, in her five-title Dark Is Rising sequence, creates a world where the conflict between good and evil reaches epic proportions. She ranks with C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien in her ability to deliver a moral vision in the context of breathtaking adventure. No one can stop at just one of her thrilling fantasy novels. Among many other prestigious awards, The Dark Is Rising is a Newbery Honor Book and a Carnegie Medal Honor Book. (Ages 8 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
More editions of The Dark Is Rising:
- The Dark Is Rising: ISBN 0689829892 (0-689-82989-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - The Dark Is Rising: ISBN 0689303173 (0-689-30317-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Dark Is Rising: ISBN 0689710879 (0-689-71087-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - The Dark Is Rising: ISBN 0689851952 (0-689-85195-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - The Dark Is Rising: ISBN 0689829833 (0-689-82983-3)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
- The Dark Is Rising: ISBN 0689829892 (0-689-82989-2)
The Daughter of Timeby Josephine Tey, Robert BarnardISBN 0684803860 (0-684-80386-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Daughter of Time'Book summary:Josephine Tey re-creates one of history's most famous -- and vicious -- crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains -- a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower. The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writing's most gifted masters. [via]
More editions of The Daughter of Time:
-
David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0679783415 (0-679-78341-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:
" Like so many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child," wrote Charles Dickens. "And his name is David Copperfield."
Of all of Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most closely reflects the events of his own life. The story of an abandoned waif who discovers life and love in an indifferent world, this classic tale of childhood is populated with a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains who number among the author's greatest creations.
"David Copperfield is filled with characters of the most astonishing variety, vividness, and originality," noted Somerset Maugham. "They are not realistic and yet they abound with life. There never were such people as the Micawbers, Pegotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination, but they have so much vigor, they are so consistent, they are presented with so much conviction, that you believe in them. They are extravagant, but not unreal, and when you have once to know them you can never quite forget them." T. S. Eliot agreed: "Dickens excelled in character; in the creation of characters of greater intensity than human beings." And Virginia Woolf concluded: "In David Copperfield, though char-
acters swarm and life flows into every creek and cranny, some common feelings--youth, gaiety, hope--envelops the tumult, brings the scattered parts together, and invests the most perfect of all the Dickens novels with an atmosphere of beauty."
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-
dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via] -
Eminent Victoriansby Lytton StracheyISBN 0679640126 (0-679-64012-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminent Victorians'Book summary:The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, some said, skewed) portraits. Rarely does Strachey explore the details of a subject's daily or family life unless they point directly to an issue of character. In short, he pioneered a deeply sardonic and often scathingly funny biographical style.
None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one." Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form." In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
-
The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0679745203 (0-679-74520-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions-and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. [via]
More editions of The English Patient:
The Evolution Man, Or, How I Ate My Fatherby Roy LewisISBN 0679750096 (0-679-75009-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution Man, Or, How I Ate My Father'More editions of The Evolution Man, Or, How I Ate My Father:
-
First Love, Last Rites/Storiesby Ian McEwanISBN 0679750193 (0-679-75019-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'First Love, Last Rites/Stories'Book summary:Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. These tales are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King, but they are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying. [via]
More editions of First Love, Last Rites/Stories:
-
Flaubert's Parrotby Julian BarnesISBN 0679731369 (0-679-73136-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaubert's Parrot'Book summary:Just what sort of book is Flaubert's Parrot, anyway? A literary biography of 19th-century French novelist, radical, and intellectual impresario Gustave Flaubert? A meditation on the uses and misuses of language? A novel of obsession, denial, irritation, and underhanded connivery? A thriller complete with disguises, sleuthing, mysterious meetings, and unknowing targets? An extended essay on the nature of fiction itself?
On the surface, at first, Julian Barnes's book is the tale of an elderly English doctor's search for some intriguing details of Flaubert's life. Geoffrey Braithwaite seems to be involved in an attempt to establish whether a particularly fine, lovely, and ancient stuffed parrot is in fact one originally "borrowed by G. Flaubert from the Museum of Rouen and placed on his worktable during the writing of Un coeur simple, where it is called Loulou, the parrot of Felicité, the principal character of the tale."
What begins as a droll and intriguing excursion into the minutiae of Flaubert's life and intellect, along with an attempt to solve the small puzzle of the parrot--or rather parrots, for there are two competing for the title of Gustave's avian confrere--soon devolves into something obscure and worrisome, the exploration of an arcane Braithwaite obsession that is perhaps even pathological. The first hint we have that all is not as it seems comes almost halfway into the book, when after a humorously cantankerous account of the inadequacies of literary critics, Braithwaite closes a chapter by saying, "Now do you understand why I hate critics? I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment; but they are far too discoloured with rage." And from that point, things just get more and more curious, until they end in the most unexpected bang.
One passage perhaps best describes the overall effect of this extraordinary story: "You can define a net in one of two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally, you would say that it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string." Julian Barnes demonstrates that it is possible to catch quite an interesting fish no matter how you define the net. --Andrew Himes [via]
More editions of Flaubert's Parrot:
-
The Forsyte Sagaby John GalsworthyISBN 068417653X (0-684-17653-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forsyte Saga'Book summary:The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. This is the only critical edition of the work available, with Notes that explain contemporary artistic and literary allusions and define the slang of the time. [via]
-
Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Walter Cronkite, Charles Michener, Eugenie VinkISBN 0679749543 (0-679-74954-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
More editions of Frankenstein:
-
Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0679601880 (0-679-60188-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Swifts complex references and vocabulary. First published anonymously in 1727, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels created a storm of criticismfrom those who believed the stories to be true and knew exactly who Lemuel Gulliver was, to those who demanded that the writer of the seditious tales be hunted down and executed for high treason. Even today, Swifts vitriolic attacks on politics, culture, and human nature itself have earned him the reputation of a crazed misanthrope. Swift, through his hero, consistently rails against political whims, human follies, and the bestial behaviors of the human race: In Lilliput, Gulliver is twelve times the size of the European-like natives. In Brobdingnag, he is one-twelfth the size of the primitive but moral inhabitants. In Laputa, buildings collapse and clothing does not fit, although constructed by the most modern and reasonable means. Finally, in the land of the horse-like Houyhnhnms Gulliver realizes that he and his race are nothing but a brood of Yahoos. [via]
-
Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 2001 to February 2002ISBN 0707803012 (0-7078-0301-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This BookBook summary:[via]For more than a century, Britain's National Trust has worked for the preservation of places of historic interest and national beauty throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The National Trust Handbook is a visitor's guide to the National Trust properties that are open to the public, including stately homes, gardens, castles, barns, and lighthouses. The Handbook lists more than 300 properties, and each has a brief description, address, telephone number, opening times, admission fee, travel directions, and details of the facilities on site. The National Trust Handbook will open up a world of riches to those traveling in Britain.More editions of Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 2001 to February 2002:
-
Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 067964217X (0-679-64217-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.
Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the exploitative force he believed was destroying human creativity and joy. This edition includes new notes to the text. [via]More editions of Hard Times:
Highland Flingby Katie FfordeISBN 0712669914 (0-7126-6991-4)
Softcover, Century
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Highland Fling'More editions of Highland Fling:
-
Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679722556 (0-679-72255-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› 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]
More editions of Howards End:
-
I Don't Know How She Does Itby Allison PearsonISBN 0701173734 (0-7011-7373-4)
Softcover, Chatto & Windus
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'I Don't Know How She Does It'Book summary:Allison Pearson's debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, is a rare and beautiful hybrid: a devastatingly funny novel that's also a compelling fictional world. You want to climb inside this book and inhabit it. However, you might find it pretty messy once you're in there. Narrator Kate Reddy is the manager of a hedge fund and mother of two small children. The book opens with an emblematic scene as Kate "distresses" a store-bought mince pie to make it appear homemade. Her days are measured in increments of minutes and even seconds; her fund stays organized but her house and family are falling apart. The book is a pearly string of great lines. Here's Kate on lack of sleep: "They're right to call it a broken night.... You crawl back to bed and you lie there trying to do the jigsaw of sleep with half the pieces missing." On baby boys: "A mother of a one-year-old son is a movie star in a world without critics." On subtle office dynamics:
The women in the offices of EMF [Kate's firm] don't tend to display pictures of their kids. The higher they go up the ladder, the fewer the photographs. If a man has pictures of kids on his desk, it enhances his humanity; if a woman has them it decreases hers. Why? Because he's not supposed to be home with the children; she is.
There's inherent drama here: Kate is wildly appealing, and we want things to work out for her. In the end, the book isn't a just collection of clever lines on the theme of working motherhood; it's a real, rich novel about a character we come to cherish. --Claire Dederer [via]More editions of I Don't Know How She Does It:
In Place of Fearby Aneurin BevanISBN 0715811681 (0-7158-1168-1)
Hardcover, EP Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'In Place of Fear'More editions of In Place of Fear:
-
Ivanhoeby Scott, Walter, Sr.ISBN 0679602631 (0-679-60263-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ivanhoe'Book summary:Hailed by Victor Hugo as "the real epic of our age," Ivanhoe was an immensely popular bestseller when first published in 1819. The book inspired literary imitations as well as paintings, dramatizations, and even operas. Now Sir Walter Scott's sweeping romance of medieval England has prompted a lavish
new television production.
In the twelfth century, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns home to England from the Third Crusade to claim his inheritance and the love of the lady Rowena. The heroic adventures of this noble Saxon knight involve him in the struggle between Richard the Lion-Hearted and his malignant brother John: a conflict that brings Ivanhoe into alliance with the
mysterious outlaw Robin Hood and his legendary fight for the forces of good.
"Scott's characters, like Shakespeare's and Jane Austen's, have the seed of life in them," observed Virginia Woolf. "The emotions in which Scott excels are not those of human beings pitted against other human beings, but of man pitted against
Nature, of man in relation to fate. His romance is the romance of hunted men hiding in woods at night; of brigs standing out to sea; of waves breaking in the moonlight; of solitary sands and distant horsemen; of violence and suspense." For Henry James, "Scott was a born
storyteller. . . . Since Shakespeare, no writer has created so immense a gallery of portraits." [via]More editions of Ivanhoe:
-
Ivanhoeby Walter ScottISBN 0679642234 (0-679-64223-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ivanhoe'Book summary:Hailed by Victor Hugo as 'the real epic of our age,' Ivanhoe was an immensely popular bestseller when first published in 1819. The book inspired literary imitations as well as paintings, dramatizations, and even operas. Now Sir Walter Scott's sweeping romance of medieval England has prompted a lavish new television production.
In the twelfth century, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns home to England from the Third Crusade to claim his inheritance and the love of the lady Rowena. The heroic adventures of this noble Saxon knight involve him in the struggle between Richard the Lion-Hearted and his malignant brother John: a conflict that brings Ivanhoe into alliance with the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood and his legendary fight for the forces of good.
'Scott's characters, like Shakespeare's and Jane Austen's, have the seed of life in them,' observed Virginia Woolf. 'The emotions in which Scott excels are not those of human beings pitted against other human beings, but of man pitted against Nature, of man in relation to fate. His romance is the romance of hunted men hiding in woods at night; of brigs standing out to sea; of waves breaking in the moonlight; of solitary sands and distant horsemen; of violence and suspense.' For Henry James, 'Scott was a born storyteller. . . . Since Shakespeare, no writer has created so immense a gallery of portraits.' [via]More editions of Ivanhoe:
![[???]: Knopf Guide London](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679749179.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "[???]: Knopf Guide London")
Knopf Guide LondonISBN 0679749179 (0-679-74917-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This BookMore editions of Knopf Guide London:
-
The Kraken Wakesby John WyndhamISBN 0718102126 (0-7181-0212-6)
Hardcover, M. Joseph
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kraken Wakes'Book summary:It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people. For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water - one of the compounds upon which life depends - is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise. "The Kraken Wakes" is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive. [via]
More editions of The Kraken Wakes:
Let It Bleed: A John Rebus Mysteryby Ian RankinISBN 0684830558 (0-684-83055-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Let It Bleed: A John Rebus Mystery'More editions of Let It Bleed: A John Rebus Mystery:
-
Letters from Londonby Julian BarnesISBN 0679761616 (0-679-76161-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from London'Book summary:With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infinite variety of contemporary London life. [via]
More editions of Letters from London:
Living Dangerouslyby Katie FfordeISBN 0708934986 (0-7089-3498-6)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Living Dangerously'More editions of Living Dangerously:
Londonby Marianne MehlingISBN 0714825042 (0-7148-2504-2)
Hardcover, Seven Hills Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'London'More editions of London:
-
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Managementby Bridget JonesISBN 0706373200 (0-7063-7320-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management'Book summary:A household name for over 130 years, Mrs Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management has remained through its many editions an unrivalled, home reference and essential kitchen companion for every cook. The most comprehensive cookery book of its type, with over 2000 recipes tried and tested for the modern cook, this new edition preserves all the qualities of Mrs Beeton's original work yet brings it thoroughly up to date. Essential information is given on selection of ingredients together with sound advice on diet and menu planning. All basic methods and techniques are clearly described with the aid of step-by-step illustrations, and Mrs Beeton's invaluable hints and tips throughout will ensure success every time. Beautifully presented, with superb colour photographs of fininshed dishes, the wealth of recipes will provide ideas for all occasions. Mrs Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management is not however just a cookery book. Guidance is also given on cleaning, laundry, home maintainance, health, first aid, social custom, etiquette, money management and the law - up-to-date information on every aspect of modern housekeeping. [via]
More editions of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management:
The National Trust Handbook: for members and visitors, March 2005 to February 2006by Not AvailableISBN 0707803993 (0-7078-0399-3)
Softcover, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The National Trust Handbook: for members and visitors, March 2005 to February 2006'More editions of The National Trust Handbook: for members and visitors, March 2005 to February 2006:
-
Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracyby Nancy MitfordISBN 0689707045 (0-689-70704-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy'More editions of Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy:
-
Pack My Bagby Henry GreenISBN 0701200820 (0-7012-0082-0)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Pack My Bag'Book summary:A luminous autobiography by one of England's most original, delightful, writers.
In 1938 Henry Green, then thirty-three, dreaded the coming war and decided to "put down what comes to mind before one is killed." Pack My Bag was published in England in 1940. When he wrote it, Green had already published three of his nine novels and his style"a gathering web of insinuations"was fully developed.
Pack My Bag is a marvelously quirky, clear-eyed memoir: a mother who shot at mangle wurzels (turnips) bowled across the lawn for her by the servants; the stately home packed with wounded World War I soldiers; the miseries of Eton, oddities of Oxford, and work in the family factorythe making of a brilliantly original novelist. "We have inherited the greatest orchestra, the English language, to conduct," Green once wrote. "The means are there; things are going on in life all the time around us." His use of language and his account of things that went on in his life inform this delightful and idiosyncratic autobiography, which begins: "I was born a mouthbreather with a silver spoon." [via]More editions of Pack My Bag:
The Passionby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679724370 (0-679-72437-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passion'More editions of The Passion:
Peter's Pence; a Novelby Jon ClearyISBN 0688002528 (0-688-00252-8)
Hardcover, Morrow
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter's Pence; a Novel'More editions of Peter's Pence; a Novel:
Pict Gde/Lakeland Fells: Book 1by WainwrightISBN 0718140001 (0-7181-4000-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Pict Gde/Lakeland Fells: Book 1'More editions of Pict Gde/Lakeland Fells: Book 1:
Pict Gde/Lakeland Fells: Book 7by WainwrightISBN 0718140060 (0-7181-4006-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Pict Gde/Lakeland Fells: Book 7'More editions of Pict Gde/Lakeland Fells: Book 7:
Pictorial Gd/Lakeland Fellby WainwrightISBN 0718140028 (0-7181-4002-8)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Pictorial Gde/Lakeland Fell'More editions of Pictorial Gd/Lakeland Fell:
-
A Pictorial Guide To The Lakeland Fells: The Southern Fellsby Alfred WainwrightISBN 0711224579 (0-7112-2457-9)
Softcover, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pictorial Guide To The Lakeland Fells: The Southern Fells'Book summary:The original Pictorial Guide to the Southern Fells of Lakeland -- freshly reproduced from Wainwright's original pages [via]
More editions of A Pictorial Guide To The Lakeland Fells: The Southern Fells:
-
The Plague Dogsby Richard AdamsISBN 0713910550 (0-7139-1055-0)
Hardcover, Allen Lane : Collings
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plague Dogs'Book summary:Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf.
After being horribly mistreated at a government animal research facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation--and terror--of the wilderness. Aided only by a fox they call ''the Tod,'' the two dogs must struggle to survive in their new environment. When the starving dogs attack some sheep, they are labeled ferocious man-eating monsters, setting off a great dog hunt that is later intensified by the fear that the dogs could be carriers of the bubonic plague. [via]More editions of The Plague Dogs:
The Plumed Serpentby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0679734937 (0-679-73493-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plumed Serpent'More editions of The Plumed Serpent:
-
The Professorby Charlotte BrontëISBN 0679602739 (0-679-60273-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor'Book summary:The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846--Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights--it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontë's death. Like Villette (1853), The Professor is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator that she used, the work formulated a new aesthetic that questioned many of the presuppositions of Victorian society. Brontë's hero escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium, where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher, who is perhaps the author's most realistic feminist heroine. The Professor endures today as both a harbinger of Brontë's later novels and a compelling read in its own right.
"The middle and latter portion of The Professor is as good as I can write," proclaimed Brontë. "It contains more pith, more substance, more reality, in my judgment, than much of Jane Eyre."
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via] 
Ratkingby Michael DibdinISBN 0679768548 (0-679-76854-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ratking'More editions of Ratking:
Religion in Victorian Britain: Controversiesby Gerald ParsonsISBN 0719025133 (0-7190-2513-3)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Religion in Victorian Britain: Controversies'More editions of Religion in Victorian Britain: Controversies:
Religion in Victorian Britain: Traditionsby Gerald ParsonsISBN 0719025117 (0-7190-2511-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Religion in Victorian Britain: Traditions'More editions of Religion in Victorian Britain: Traditions:
Religion in Victorian Britain Vol. IV: Interpretationsby Gerald ParsonsISBN 0719029465 (0-7190-2946-5)
Hardcover, Manchester University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Religion in Victorian Britain Vol. IV: Interpretations'More editions of Religion in Victorian Britain Vol. IV: Interpretations:
Sexing the Cherryby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679733167 (0-679-73316-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexing the Cherry'More editions of Sexing the Cherry:
Shardikby Richard AdamsISBN 0713909528 (0-7139-0952-8)
Hardcover, Allen Lane in association with Rex Collings
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Shardik'More editions of Shardik:
A Shilling for Candlesby Josephine TeyISBN 0684842386 (0-684-84238-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Shilling for Candles'More editions of A Shilling for Candles:
-
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George EliotISBN 0701112476 (0-7011-1247-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. [via]
More editions of Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe:
-
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0706415663 (0-7064-1566-3)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookMore editions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:
-
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0679734767 (0-679-73476-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
More editions of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0719529468 (0-7195-2946-8)
Hardcover, J. Murray : Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Study in Scarlet'More editions of A Study in Scarlet:
The Thought Gangby Tibor FischerISBN 0684830795 (0-684-83079-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thought Gang'More editions of The Thought Gang:
-
Time's Arrowby Martin AmisISBN 0679735720 (0-679-73572-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Time's Arrow'Book summary:Amis attempts here to write a path into and through the inverted morality of the Nazis: how can a writer tell about something that's fundamentally unspeakable? Amis' solution is a deft literary conceit of narrative inversion. He puts two separate consciousnesses into the person of one man, ex-Nazi doctor Tod T. Friendly. One identity wakes at the moment of Friendly's death and runs backwards in time, like a movie played in reverse, (e.g., factory smokestacks scrub the air clean,) unaware of the terrible past he approaches. The "normal" consciousness runs in time's regular direction, fleeing his ignominious history. [via]
More editions of Time's Arrow:
Two Is Lonelyby Lynne Reid BanksISBN 0701120118 (0-7011-2011-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Is Lonely'More editions of Two Is Lonely:
-
The Unconsoledby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0679735879 (0-679-73587-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unconsoled'Book summary:The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.
"A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before."--The New Yorker [via]More editions of The Unconsoled:
-
Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0701112409 (0-7011-1240-9)
Hardcover, Zodiac Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'More editions of Villette: Library Edition:
-
The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Tom KiddISBN 0688131379 (0-688-13137-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
More editions of The War of the Worlds:
The War of the Worlds/the Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0706430182 (0-7064-3018-2)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds/the Invisible Man'More editions of The War of the Worlds/the Invisible Man:
-
The Wasp Factoryby Iain BanksISBN 0684853159 (0-684-85315-9)
Softcover, Scribner
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wasp Factory'Book summary:"I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped. I already knew something was going to happen; the Factory told me."
Those lines begin one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels. The narrator, Frank Cauldhame, is a weird teenager who lives on a tiny island connected to mainland Scotland by a bridge. He maintains grisly Sacrifice Poles to serve as his early warning system and deterrent against anyone who might invade his territory.
Few novelists have ever burst onto the literary scene with as much controversy as Iain Banks in 1984. The Wasp Factory was reviled by many reviewers on account of its violence and sadism, but applauded by others as a new and Scottish voice--that is, a departure from the English literary tradition. The controversy is a bit puzzling in retrospect, because there is little to object to in this novel, if you're familiar with genre horror.
The Wasp Factory is distinguished by an authentically felt and deftly written first-person style, delicious dark humor, a sense of the surreal, and a serious examination of the psyche of a childhood psychopath. Most readers will find that they sympathize with and even like Frank, despite his three murders (each of which is hilarious in an Edward Gorey fashion). It's a classic of contemporary horror. --Fiona Webster [via]
More editions of The Wasp Factory:
-
Waterlandby Graham SwiftISBN 0679739793 (0-679-73979-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Waterland'Book summary:Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.
"Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."--Los Angeles Times [via]More editions of Waterland:
-
Whip Handby Dick FrancisISBN 0718118456 (0-7181-1845-6)
Hardcover, M. Joseph
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Whip Hand'Book summary:[via]Sid Halley's glory days as a jockey are over, but he still finds a certain satisfaction in successfully solving a case. His latest one, though, could prove to be his undoing.
More editions of Whip Hand:
-
William Shakespeare Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, Eric Rasmusse N, Heloise SenechalISBN 0679642951 (0-679-64295-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare Complete Works'Book summary:FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES.Skillfully assembled by Shakespeare's fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day, Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, gradually corrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflated textual variations.Now Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today's most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, have edited the First Folio as a complete book, resulting in a definitive Complete Works for the twenty-first century.Combining innovative scholarship with brilliant commentary and textual analysis that emphasizes performance history and values, this landmark edition will be indispensable to students, theater professionals, and general readers alike.For more information on this Modern Library edition, visit www.therscshakespeare.com [via]
More editions of William Shakespeare Complete Works:
-
The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth Grahame, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 068971310X (0-689-71310-X)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind in the Willows'Book summary:"[Mole] thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before--this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again." Such is the cautious, agreeable Mole's first introduction to the river and the Life Adventurous. Emerging from his home at Mole End one spring, his whole world changes when he hooks up with the good-natured, boat-loving Water Rat, the boastful Toad of Toad Hall, the society- hating Badger who lives in the frightening Wild Wood, and countless other mostly well-meaning creatures. Michael Hague's exquisitely detailed, breathtaking color illustrations on almost every generous spread--along with Kenneth Grahame's elegant, delightfully old-fashioned characterizations of the animals--make this book a wonderful read-aloud. Grahame's The Wind in the Willows has enchanted readers for four generations, and this lavishly illustrated gift edition is perhaps the finest around. (All ages, or 9 to 12) [via]
More editions of The Wind in the Willows:
- The Wind in the Willows: ISBN 0689831404 (0-689-83140-4)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks - The Wind in the Willows: ISBN 0684128195 (0-684-12819-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - The Wind in the Willows: ISBN 0684179571 (0-684-17957-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - The Wind in the Willows: ISBN 0684193450 (0-684-19345-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - The Wind in the Willows: ISBN 0684717883 (0-684-71788-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise & - The Wind in the Willows: ISBN 0681007680 (0-681-00768-0)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - The Wind in the Willows: ISBN 068971310X (0-689-71310-X)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
- The Wind in the Willows: ISBN 0689831404 (0-689-83140-4)
The Wooden Shepherdessby Richard HughesISBN 0701119462 (0-7011-1946-2)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wooden Shepherdess'More editions of The Wooden Shepherdess:
-
The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
More editions of The World's Great Classics:
-
Written on the Bodyby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679744479 (0-679-74447-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Written on the Body'Book summary:The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
More editions of Written on the Body:
Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101-127 NEXT
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}