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  • Lawrence, D. H.: Aaron's Rod
    Aaron's Rod
    by D. H. Lawrence
    ISBN 1595406182 (1-59540-618-2)
    Softcover, 1st World Library

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  • The Adventures of Peter Pan
    by J. M. Barrie
    ISBN 1595400362 (1-59540-036-2)
    Softcover, 1st World Library

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    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end. Of course they lived at 14 [their house number on their street], and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there is was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner. [via]

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  • Agnes Grey: Library Edition
    by Anne Bronte, Fred Schwarzbach
    ISBN 1593083238 (1-59308-323-8)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    Agnes Grey, by Anne Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

     

    Written when women—and workers generally—had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governesss life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under the snobbery and sadism of the selfish, self-indulgent upper-class adults and the shrieking insolence of their spoiled children. Worse, the unique social and economic position of a governess—“beneath her employers but “above their servants—condemns her to a life of loneliness.

     

    Less celebrated than her older sisters Charlotte and Emily, Anne Bronte was also less interested in spinning wildly symbolic, romantic tales and more determined to draw realistic images of conditions in Victorian England that need changing. While Charlottes Jane Eyre features a governess who eventually and improbably marries her employer, Agnes Grey deals with the actual experiences of middle-class working women, experiences Anne had herself endured during her hateful tenure as a governess.

     

    Fred Schwarzbach serves as Associate Dean and teaches in the General Studies Program of New York University. He is the author of Dickens and the City, the editor of Victorian Artists and the City and Dickenss American Notes, a contributor to the Oxford Readers Companion to Dickens, and the author of scores of articles, essays, and reviews on Victorian life and letters.

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  • Shaw, George Bernard: Arms and the Man
    Arms and the Man
    by George Bernard Shaw
    ISBN 1599869209 (1-59986-920-9)
    Softcover, Fq Classics

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  • Aurora Leigh
    by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    ISBN 1594624399 (1-59462-439-9)
    Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc

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    Aurora Leigh is an aspiring poet of independent spirit, rebelling against the stifling constraints of Victorian middle-class society and struggling for self expression. This story exposes the hypocrisy and repressive social attitudes of Victorian England. [via]

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  • Barchester Towers
    by Anthony Trollope, Edward Mendelson
    ISBN 1593083378 (1-59308-337-8)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]

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  • The Black Book (1596542853) by Durrell, Lawrence
    The Black Book
    by Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller
    ISBN 1596542853 (1-59654-285-3)
    Softcover, Disruptive Pub

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  • Bordeaux: Touring in Wine Country
    by Mitchell Beazley, Maureen Ashley, Hubrecht Duijker
    ISBN 1840002468 (1-84000-246-8)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    Starting in the north of the region, this guide explores the magic of Bordeaux, its grand chateaux and world-famous vineyards. Carefully planned wine routes, marked on detailed vineyard maps, lead the way through each of the region's main wine enclaves, and the tours can be followed as a whole or simply dipped into. Every section is complete with helpful lists of recommended wine producers, chateaux, hotels, restaurants and wine shops. Detours to charming villages and cultural sights that might otherwise easily be missed are another key feature. - Includes detailed, full-colour vineyard maps and wine routes to follow. - Recommends producers and cellars to visit. - Unveils the delights of the local cuisine. - Suggests local hotels and restaurants. - Highlights nearby cultural sights. - Series editor: Hugh Johnson. [via]

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  • Beazley, Mitchell: Burgundy
    Burgundy
    by Mitchell Beazley, Hubrecht Duijker, Hugh Johnson
    ISBN 184000245X (1-84000-245-X)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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  • Burmese Days
    by George Orwell
    ISBN 1595404309 (1-59540-430-9)
    Softcover, 1st World Library

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    Imagine crossing E.M. Forster with Jane Austen. Stir in a bit of socialist doctrine, a sprig of satire, strong Indian curry, and a couple quarts of good English gin and you get something close to the flavor of George Orwell's intensely readable and deftly plotted Burmese Days. In 1930, Kyauktada, Upper Burma, is one of the least auspicious postings in the ailing British Empire--and then the order comes that the European Club, previously for whites only, must elect one token native member. This edict brings out the worst in this woefully enclosed society, not to mention among the natives who would become the One. Orwell mines his own Anglo-Indian background to evoke both the suffocating heat and the stifling pettiness that are the central facts of colonial life: "Mr. MacGregor told his anecdote about Prome, which could be produced in almost any context. And then the conversation veered back to the old, never-palling subject--the insolence of the natives, the supineness of the Government, the dear dead days when the British Raj was the Raj and please give the bearer fifteen lashes. The topic was never let alone for long, partly because of Ellis's obsession. Besides, you could forgive the Europeans a great deal of their bitterness. Living and working among Orientals would try the temper of a saint."

    Protagonist James Flory is a timber merchant, whose facial birthmark serves as an outward expression of the ironic and left-leaning habits of mind that make him inwardly different from his coevals. Flory appreciates the local culture, has native allegiances, and detests the racist machinations of his fellow Club members. Alas, he doesn't always possess the moral courage, or the energy, to stand against them. His almost embarrassingly Anglophile friend, Dr. Veraswami, the highest-ranking native official, seems a shoo-in for Club membership, until Machiavellian magistrate U Po Kyin launches a campaign to discredit him that results, ultimately, in the loss not just of reputations but of lives. Whether to endorse Veraswami or to betray him becomes a kind of litmus test of Flory's character.

    Against this backdrop of politics and ethics, Orwell throws the shadow of romance. The arrival of the bobbed blonde, marriageable, and resolutely anti-intellectual Elizabeth Lackersteen not only casts Flory as hapless suitor but gives Orwell the chance to show that he's as astute a reporter of nuanced social interactions as he is of political intrigues. In fact, his combination of an astringently populist sensibility, dead-on observations of human behavior, formidable conjuring skills, and no-frills prose make for historical fiction that stands triumphantly outside of time. --Joyce Thompson [via]

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  • The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London
    ISBN 1595400397 (1-59540-039-7)
    Softcover, Authorhouse

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    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost. Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller's place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants' cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miller's boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon. [via]

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  • Charlie Y LA Fabrica De Chocolate
    by Roald Dahl, Veronica Head, Quentin Blake
    ISBN 1598200593 (1-59820-059-3)
    Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

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    Charlie's tour through Willie Wonka's chocolate factory reveals marvelous creations more intriguing and delicious than Charlie had ever imagined. One of the most popular titles in juvenile literature, this selection was also listed as an ALA Notable Book. [via]

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  • Chomsky and Globalisation
    by Jeremy Fox
    ISBN 184046237X (1-84046-237-X)
    Softcover, Totem Books

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    Noam Chomsky, the 'Einstein of modern linguistics', is equally well- known as an uncompromising political dissident and social critic. This book summarises Chomsky's recently published views on Globalization and the New world Order. His position is an unusual one. Where Global Free Trade is today widely celebrated as a way to universal prosperity, and a means of allowing the indebted Third World to solve its economic problems, Chomsky see things very differently. For him, Free Trade is not 'free' at all, since the rich powers ignore its rules and subsidise their big companies. Only the impoverished Third World countries are obliged to obey the rules. Many get further in debt, fall into hands of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, see their schools and hospitals closed and their economies restructured to suit Western investment. Thus, on the unequal scales of the global economy, the favoured élites of Western and especially American societies must inevitably, grow richer, while the rest of the world could revert to the conditions of Blake's 'Dark Satanic Mills'. This is a clear, well-argued exposition of Chomsky's libertarian views on global economic hegemony, a central issue of the postmodern condition. [via]

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  • The Communist Manifesto (1599869950) by Engels, Friedrich
    The Communist Manifesto
    by Friedrich Engels, K. Marx
    ISBN 1599869950 (1-59986-995-0)
    Softcover, Filiquarian Pub Llc

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  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Kyle Freeman
    ISBN 1593082037 (1-59308-203-7)
    Hardcover, Fine Communications

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    The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
     

    The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worlds most popular and influential fictional detectivethe eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmess comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to exercise that unique combination of detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.

    Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes starts with Holmess first appearance, A Study in Scarlet, a chilling murder novel complete with bloodstained walls and cryptic clues, followed by the baffling The Sign of Four, which introduces Holmess cocaine problem and Watsons future wife. The story collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes feature such renowned tales as A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, and The Musgrave Ritual.

    Tired of writing stories about Holmes, his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, killed him off at the end of The Final Problem, the last tale in The Memoirs. But the public outcry was so great that eight years later he published the masterful The Hound of the Baskervilles, which supposedly takes place before Holmess death.

    The separate Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes collects the remaining accounts of Holmess exploits, including The Adventure of the Empty House, which reveals the elaborate circumstances behind Holmess literary resurrection.

     

    Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.
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  • Cross Bones
    by Kathy Reichs
    ISBN 1594131392 (1-59413-139-2)
    Softcover, Large Print Pr

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    A New York Times Bestselling Author

    In a gripping and explosive new thriller from Kathy Reichs, a murder victim becomes the first link in a trail that leads Temperance Brennan and Detective Andrew Ryan to an archaeological discovery that could upend 2,000 years of history. [via]

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  • Neillands, Robin: D-Day 1944: Voices from Normandy
    D-Day 1944: Voices from Normandy
    by Robin Neillands
    ISBN 1593600127 (1-59360-012-7)
    Softcover, Open Road Publishing

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  • Enchanted April
    by Elizabeth Von Arnim
    ISBN 1594623368 (1-59462-336-8)
    Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc

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    It began in a woman's club in London on a February afternoon,-an uncomfortable club, and a miserable afternoon-when Mrs. Wilkins, who had come down from Hampstead to shop and had lunched at her club, took up The Times from the table in the smoking-room, and running her Ustless eye down the Agony Column saw this: To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine, Small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be Let Furnished for the month of April. Necessary servants remain. Z, Box 1000, The Times That was its conception; yet, as in the case of many another, the conceiver was unaware of it at the moment. [via]

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  • The Enchanted April 1922
    by Elizabeth Von Arnim
    ISBN 1594621500 (1-59462-150-0)
    Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc

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    It began in a woman's club in London on a February afternoon-an uncomfortable club, and a miserable afternoon-when Mrs. Wilkins, who had come down from Hampstead to shop and had lunched at her club, took up The Times from the table in the smoking-room, and running her Ustless eye down the Agony Column saw this : [via]

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  • The Fanatic
    by James Robertson
    ISBN 1841151890 (1-84115-189-0)
    Softcover, Harper San Francisco

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    An impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice  a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland.

    It is Spring 1997 and Hugh Hardie needs a ghost for his Tours of Old Edinburgh. Andrew Carlin is the perfect candidate. So, with cape, stick and a plastic rat, Carlin is paid to pretend to be the spirit of Colonel Weir and to scare the tourists. But who is Colonel Weir, executed for witchcraft in 1670.

    In his research, Carlin is drawn into the past, in particular to James Mitchel, the fanatic and co-congregationist of Weirs, who was tried in 1676 for the attempted assassination of the Archbishop of St Andrews, James Sharp.

    Through the story of two moments in history, The Fanatic is an extraordinary history of Scotland. It is also the story of betrayals, witch hunts, Puritan exiles, stolen meetings, lost memories, smuggled journeys and talking mirrors which will confirm James Robertson as a distinctive and original Scottish writer.

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  • For The Term Of His Natural Life
    by Marcus Clarke
    ISBN 1594084815 (1-59408-481-5)
    Hardcover, Cork Hill Pr

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    So far the appearance of the vessel differed in nowise from that of an ordinary transport. But in the waist a curious sight presented itself. It was as though one had built a cattle-pen there. At the foot of the foremast, and at the quarter-deck, a strong barricade, loop-holed and furnished with doors for ingress and egress, ran across the deck from bulwark to bulwark. [via]

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  • The Ghost Map
    by Steven Johnson
    ISBN 1594489254 (1-59448-925-4)
    Hardcover, Riverhead Books

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    Steven Johnson, bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good for You, is fantastically gifted, and anyone who doubts it need only consider this: in The Ghost Map, Johnson manages to make filth, overpopulation, feces and death the cornerstones of one of the year's snappiest page-turners. On the simplest level, The Ghost Map is the true-life tale of the cholera scourge that slammed London in 1854 and the two passionate and whip-smart men who ferreted out its cause. But it's also a biography, a detective saga, a horror story, a history lesson, a sociological rumination on cities, an unlikely but gripping celebration of the modern sewer system and a vivid portrait of historic London life.
    "London's underground market of scavenging had its own system of rank and privilege, and near the top were the night-soil men," Johnson observes. "Like the beloved chimney sweeps of Mary Poppins, the night-soil men worked as independent contractors at the very edge of the legitimate economy, though their labor was significantly more revolting than the foraging of the mud-larks and toshers.

    "City landlords hired the men to remove the "night soil" from the overflowing cesspools of their buildings. The collecting of human excrement was a venerable occupation; in medieval times they were called rakers. [But] the work conditions could be deadly: in 1326, an ill-fated laborer by the name of Richard the Raker fell into a cesspool and literally drowned in human shit."
    Nice. Clearly much more than just a dry recitation of data--though the depth of Johnson's research is obvious--The Ghost Map is a hair-raiser that cooks from page one. A big reason is Johnson's ability to personify and animate what he terms "the invisible kingdom of microscopic bacteria," transforming cholera into a nefarious three-dimensional villain with a role to play and zest for the part.

    His work as biographer also impresses. Johnson gives us two protagonists all but forgotten by history who really should be feted: Dr. John Snow, who 150 years ago in an era of superstition and tenaciously held scientific notions, managed to work out the simple equation that excrement + drinking water = death. We also meet Reverend Henry Whitehead who similarly helped to crack the cholera riddle by flat-footing it through Soho, interviewing residents and survivors and eventually coming to believe that Snow was onto something with his water-borne disease theory. (The prevailing wisdom of the day held that disease was airborne and linked to smell).

    It is no exaggeration to say that Snow's efforts changed the world. Ditto engineer Joseph Bazalgette, whose sprawling, visionary English sewer system Johnson likens in stature and scope to the Eiffel Tower and Brooklyn Bridge. The Ghost Map is a great, great book, stuffed with cool factoids and told by a writer so conversant in his topic that it plays like an exquisite yarn shared over friendly beers. --Kim Hughes [via]

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  • Ghost World/ Mundo fantasmal
    by Daniel Clowes
    ISBN 1594971102 (1-59497-110-2)
    Softcover, Public Square Books

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    Dan Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish." From this perch comes a revelation about adolescence that is both subtle and coolly beautiful. Critics have pointed out Clowes's cynicism and vicious social commentary, but if you concentrate on those aspects, you'll miss the exquisite whole that Clowes has captured. Each chapter ends with melancholia that builds towards the amazing, detached, ghostlike ending. [via]

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  • The Good Soldier
    by Frank Kermode, Ford Madox Ford
    ISBN 1593082681 (1-59308-268-1)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical, historical, and literary-to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal "good soldier" and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues. But for his creator, Ford Madox Ford, he also represents the corruption at society's core. Beneath Ashburnham's charming, polished exterior lurks a soul well-versed in the arts of deception, hypocrisy, and betrayal. Throughout the nine years of his friendship with an equally privileged American, John Dowell, Ashburnham has been having an affair with Dowell's wife, Florence. Unlike Dowell, Ashburnham's own wife, Leonora, is well aware of it.When The Good Soldier was first published in 1915, its pitiless portrait of an amoral society dedicated to its own pleasure and convinced of its own superiority outraged many readers. Stylistically daring, The Good Soldier is narrated, unreliably, by the naïve Dowell, through whom Ford provides a level of bitter irony. Dowell's disjointed, stumbling storytelling not only subverts linear temporality to satisfying effect, it also reflects his struggle to accept a world without honor, order, or permanence. Called the best French novel in the English language, The Good Soldier is both tragic and darkly comic, and it established Ford as an important contributor to the development of literary modernism. [via]

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  • Gormenghast
    by Mervyn Laurence Peake, John Constable
    ISBN 1840026731 (1-84002-673-1)
    Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd

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    A gloriously impossible realization of Mervyn Peakes soaring flight of fancy.Guardian

    In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its very existence.

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  • The Harmony Silk Factory
    by TASH AW
    ISBN 1594481741 (1-59448-174-1)
    Softcover, Riverhead Books

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    The Harmony Silk Factory is the textiles store run by Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in rural Malay in the first half of the twentieth century. It is the most impressive and truly amazing structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny Lim is a heroa Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his father's illegal businesses. Centering on Johnny from three perspectivesthose of his grown son; his wife, Snow, the most beautiful woman in the Kinta Valley (through her diary entries); and his best and only friend, an Englishman adrift named Peter Wormwoodthe novel reveals the difficulty of knowing another human being, and how our assumptions about others also determine who we are.

    Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Anthony Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. Now, with The Harmony Silk Factory, we have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape. Through this examination of a compelling, mysterious, and larger-than-life character, Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis.

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  • Murphy, Bill: Home Truths: A Jaunt Around the Decaying Heart of England
    Home Truths: A Jaunt Around the Decaying Heart of England
    by Bill Murphy
    ISBN 1840183314 (1-84018-331-4)
    Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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  • [???]: Imap London
    Imap London
    ISBN 1841395277 (1-84139-527-7)
    Softcover, Rand McNally

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  • Clarke, Stephen: In the Merde for Love
    In the Merde for Love
    by Stephen Clarke
    ISBN 1596911905 (1-59691-190-5)
    Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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  • [???]: Inside Out London
    Inside Out London
    ISBN 1841398586 (1-84139-858-6)
    Softcover, Rand McNally

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  • The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition
    by H. G. Wells
    ISBN 1595400281 (1-59540-028-1)
    Softcover, Authorhouse

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    A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]

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  • Jamaica Inn
    by Lisa Evans, Daphne Du Maurier
    ISBN 1840024097 (1-84002-409-7)
    Softcover, Oberon Books, Limited

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    From the gothic story by Daphne du Maurier.
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  • Fleming, Ian: James Bond 007: Casino Royale
    James Bond 007: Casino Royale
    by Ian Fleming, Jim Lawrence, Yaroslav Horak
    ISBN 1840236906 (1-84023-690-6)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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  • Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
    by Carl Plasa, Nicolas Tredell
    ISBN 184046268X (1-84046-268-X)
    Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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    In this Reader's Guide, Carl Plasa provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the most stimulating critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea. The opening chapter outlines initial reactions to the novel from English and Caribbean critics, charting the differences between them. Chapter Two explores Wide Sargasso Sea 's dialogue with Jane Eyre and the theoretical questions it has raised. Succeeding chapters examine how critics have assessed the racial politics of Rhys's text, discuss the novel's African Caribbean cultural legacy, and explore how critics read the work both in terms of its moment of production and the early Victorian period in which it is set.
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  • Jimmy Corrigan
    by Chris Ware
    ISBN 1594972079 (1-59497-207-9)
    Hardcover, Public Square Books

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    One of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Chris Ware's epic story traces the lives of four generations of lonely, emotionally impaired everymen against the backdrop of Chicago's urban transformation over the course of the twentieth century. Winner of the American Book Award in 2001. [via]

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  • Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling
    ISBN 1593081928 (1-59308-192-8)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:

    Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
    From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"

    In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]

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  • The Ladies of Grace Adieu And Other Stories
    by Susanna Clarke, Charles Vess
    ISBN 1596912510 (1-59691-251-0)
    Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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    From the author of the award-winning, internationally bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an enchanting collection of stories. Set in versions of England that bear an uncanny resemblance to the world of Strange and Norrell, these stories are brimming with all the ingredients of good fairy tales: petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time in embroidering terrible fates, endless paths in deep, dark woods, and houses that never appear the same way twice. Their heroines and heroes include the Duke of Wellington, a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor, Mary, Queen of Scots, Jonathan Strange, and the Raven King himself. The Ladies of Grace Adieu is the perfect introduction to a world where charm is always tempered by eerieness, and picaresque comedy is always darkened by the disturbing shadow of Faerie. [via]

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  • Lady Chatterly's Lover
    by D. H. Lawrence, Susan Ostrov Weisser
    ISBN 1593082398 (1-59308-239-8)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]

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  • Bolchover, D.: The Living Dead: Switched Off Zoned Out the Shocking Truth About Office Life
    The Living Dead: Switched Off Zoned Out the Shocking Truth About Office Life
    by D. Bolchover
    ISBN 184112656X (1-84112-656-X)
    Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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  • Hughes, Martin: London
    London
    by Martin Hughes, Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, Neil Setchfield
    ISBN 1741040914 (1-74104-091-4)
    Softcover, Lonely Planet Publications

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  • London
    by Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters
    ISBN 1740598318 (1-74059-831-8)
    Softcover, Lonely Planet Publications

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    Local experts reveal London's cultural heritage, cutting-edge modern attractions, renowned restaurants, and unbeatable nightlife. Full color. 20 maps. [via]

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  • Johnstone, Sarah: Lonely Planet Best Of London
    Lonely Planet Best Of London
    by Sarah Johnstone
    ISBN 1740594770 (1-74059-477-0)
    Softcover, Lonely Planet

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  • Lonely Planet Edinburgh
    by Neil Wilson
    ISBN 174059830X (1-74059-830-X)
    Softcover, Lonely Planet

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    With a brooding castle at one end and the new Scottish Parliament at the other, Edinburghs Royal Mile is a walk through Scottish history. But no museum city this: the nonstop nightlife, cutting-edge shopping and packed festival programme makes Auld Reekie a compelling destination year round. Is it all fur coat and nae knickers? Why dont you find out!

    Explore  inspirational walking tours and full color maps guide you through Edinburghs winding streets and hidden corners

    Festival City  from jazz and blues to Hogmanay and the Fringe, our resident author explores Edinburghs festival calendar

    Eat, Drink & Be Merry  discerning reviews track down the citys finest eateries, coolest bars and good old-fashioned pubs

    Sleep In Style  friendly hostels, charming B&Bs, boutique hotels and romantic hideaways: the pick of Edinburghs accommodation

    Detailed Day Trips  go further with excursions to Glasgow, Stirling and St Andrews
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  • Wilson, Neil: Lonely Planet Edinburgh: City Guide
    Lonely Planet Edinburgh: City Guide
    by Neil Wilson
    ISBN 1740593820 (1-74059-382-0)
    Softcover, Lonely Planet

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  • Lonely Planet England
    by David Else
    ISBN 1741045673 (1-74104-567-3)
    Softcover, Lonely Planet

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    Discover England

    Enjoy the heavenly view of London from the Golden Gallery of St. Paul's Cathedral.
    Find a cosy nook for a well-earned drink in Ye Old Trip to Jersalem, one of the oldest pubs in the country.
    Join the locals queuing outside the Magpie Cafe in Whitby for superior fish and chips.
    Tube ride a Cornish wave in Newquay, the capital of English surfing.
    Learn shin-kicking techniques at the Cotswolds Olimpicks.

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    Seven authors, 2500 hours of research, 156 maps.
    Dozens of inspiring photos of England's heritage, people, culture and more.
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  • Lonely Planet England
    by Martin Hughes, David Else, Paul Bloomfield, Fionn Davenport, Abigail Hole
    ISBN 1740593421 (1-74059-342-1)
    Softcover, Lonely Planet

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    This guide to England contains information on the history and culture, accommodation, local cuisine, places and times to visit, language tips, maps, and health and safety advice. It is aimed at people on a variety of budgets. [via]

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  • Murphy, Alan: Lonely Planet Scotland
    Lonely Planet Scotland
    by Alan Murphy, Graeme Cornwallis
    ISBN 1741041562 (1-74104-156-2)
    Softcover, Lonely Planet

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  • Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easy
    by William Shakespeare, Tanya Grosz, Linda Wendler
    ISBN 1599051346 (1-59905-134-6)
    Softcover, Saddleback Pub

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    One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.

    However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]

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  • The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends
    by Peter Berresford Ellis
    ISBN 1841192481 (1-84119-248-1)
    Hardcover, Robinson

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    Developed from an early oral storytelling tradition dating back to the dawn of European culture, this is one of the oldest and most vibrant of Europe's mythologies. From all six Celtic cultures - Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx and Breton - Peter Berresford Ellishas included popular myths and legends, as well as bringing to light exciting new tales which have been lying in manuscript form, untranslated and unknown to the modern general reader. The author brings not only his extensive knowledge of source material but also his acclaimed skills of storytelling to produce an original, enthralling and definitive collection of Celtic myths and legends - tales of gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, magical weapons, fabulous beasts, and entities from the ancient Celtic world. [via]

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  • The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
    by G. K. Chesterton
    ISBN 1595970010 (1-59597-001-0)
    Softcover, Idylls Pr

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    In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."

    But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:

    He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
    Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]

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  • Evans, G. R.: Managing the Church?: Order and Organization in a Secular Age
    Managing the Church?: Order and Organization in a Secular Age
    by G. R. Evans, Martyn Percy
    ISBN 1841270628 (1-84127-062-8)
    Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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  • Manifesto of the Communist Party
    by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
    ISBN 1596057882 (1-59605-788-2)
    Softcover, Cosimo Inc

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    "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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  • Alexander, Jack: Mccrae's Battalion: The Story Of The 16th Royal Scots
    McCrae's Battalion
    by Jack Alexander
    ISBN 1840189320 (1-84018-932-0)
    Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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    McCrae's Own was the "Heart of Midlothian Battalion", mentioned all too briefly in Martin Middlebrook's classic book "The First Day on the Somme". Raised in Edinburgh shortly after the start of the Great War, it was perhaps the finest unit in Lord Kitchener's volunteer army - a brotherhood of sportsmen, bound together by their extraordinary colonel and their loyalty to a quaintly named Association Football club, the famous Gorgie "Hearts". McCrae's were blooded in the Battle of the Somme, losing three-quarters of their strength on the first day alone. The Colonel himself was invalided home. In time, the battalion recovered. It came of age at Arras, endured the muddy horror of Passchendaele, and held the line unbroken in the face of furious German attacks on the Lys in 1918. For almost a century, their story has remained untold. It was all but lost forever. Now, after 12 years of exacting historical detective work, Jack Alexander has reclaimed the 16th Royal Scots for posterity. In this book, he draws upon interviews with veterans and a unique archive of letters, diaries and photographs, assembled from the families of more than 1000 of Sir George McCrae's men. Who was the Colonel? How did the players come to enlist? Where did they fight? Where did they die? What became of the survivors? Why were they forgotten? Who was the handsomest man in the world? All these questions and many more are finally answered: the truth proves more remarkable than legend. [via]

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  • The Merchant of Venice
    by William Shakespeare, Cedric Watts
    ISBN 1840224312 (1-84022-431-2)
    Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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    Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often triumphs in the theatre. He is a character so intense that he can dominate the play, challenging abrasively its romantic and lyrical affirmations. [via]

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  • Moll Flanders
    by Daniel Defoe, Michael Seidel
    ISBN 1593082169 (1-59308-216-9)
    Softcover, Barnes & Noble

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    The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.

    The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.

    E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]

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  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    by Agatha Christie
    ISBN 1595406018 (1-59540-601-8)
    Softcover, 1st World Library

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    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist. I will therefore briefly set down the circumstances which led to my being connected with the affair. I had been invalided home from the Front; and, after spending some months in a rather depressing Convale-scent Home, was given a month's sick leave. Having no near relations or friends, I was trying to make up my mind what to do, when I ran across John Cavendish. I had seen very little of him for some years. Indeed, I had never known him particularly well. He was a good fifteen years my senior, for one thing, though he hardly looked his forty-five years. As a boy, though, I had often stayed at Styles, his mother's place in Essex. [via]

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  • Taylor, David: The Naked Leader: The True Paths to Success Are Finally Revealed
    The Naked Leader: The True Paths to Success Are Finally Revealed
    by David Taylor
    ISBN 1841124230 (1-84112-423-0)
    Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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  • Night and Day
    by Virginia Woolf, Rachel Wetzsteon
    ISBN 1593082126 (1-59308-212-6)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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    A long neglected masterpiece, Night and Day reveals Virginia Woolfs mastery of the traditional English novel. With its classic comic structure, minutely observed characters, and delicate irony, Woolfs second novel has invited comparison to the works of Shakespeare, Mozart, and Jane Austen.

    Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the lives of two friends, Katherine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. Katherine is the bored, frustrated granddaughter of an eminent English poet. She lives at her parents home and is engaged to a prig who exemplifies the stultifying life from which she wishes to be free, until she meets a possible avenue of escape in the person of Ralph Denham. Mary Datchet, on the other hand, represents an alternative to marriage—she has been to college, lives on her own, and finds fulfillment in working for the womens rights movement.

    As the story dances delightfully among the novels brilliantly drawn characters, serious questions about the nature of romance arise. Is love real or illusory? Can love and marriage coexist? Is love necessary for happiness?

    Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.

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  • Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
    by Joseph Conrad
    ISBN 1593081936 (1-59308-193-6)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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    One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrads Nostromo is an immensely exciting tale of love, revolution, and politics set in the mythical South American country of Costaguana during the 1890s.

    Ten years after his father is murdered by a brutal dictator, Englishman Charles Gould arrives in Costaguana to reopen the family silver mine. But instead of ushering in a shining era of prosperity and progress, the return of the silver engenders a new cycle of violence as Costaguana erupts in civil war, initiated by rival warlords determined to seize the mine and its riches. In desperation, Gould turns to the only man who can save the mines treasure—Nostromo, the incorruptible head of the local dockworkers, who protects the silver from rebel forces by taking it out to sea. But disaster strikes, burdening Nostromo with a terrible secret that forever alters the fate of everyone involved with the mine.

    A stunning monument to futility, Nostromo reveals how honor, idealism, and loyalty are inadequate defenses against the inexorable assault of corruption and evil.

    Brent Edwards is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers University.  He is author of The Practice of Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Uptown Conservation: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia University Press, 2004).

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  • Of Human Bondage
    by W. Somerset Maugham, Carin Companick
    ISBN 159308238X (1-59308-238-X)
    Softcover, Fine Communications

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    Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He was very happy in the large, warm bed, with those soft arms about him. He tried to make himself smaller still as he cuddled up against his mother, and he kissed her sleepily. In a moment he closed his eyes and was fast asleep. The doctor came forwards and stood by the bedside. "Oh, don't take him away yet," she moaned. [via]

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  • Irving, Washington: Old Christmas
    Old Christmas
    by Washington Irving
    ISBN 1596057262 (1-59605-726-2)
    Softcover, Cosimo Inc

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  • Tomkins, Adam: Our Republican Constitution
    Our Republican Constitution
    by Adam Tomkins
    ISBN 1841135224 (1-84113-522-4)
    Softcover, Hart Pub

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  • The Oxford Murders
    by Guillermo Martinez, Sonia Soto
    ISBN 1596921501 (1-59692-150-1)
    Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub

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    Two mathematicians must join forces to stop a serial killer in this spellbinding international bestseller

    A paperback sensation in Argentina, Spain, and the United Kingdom, The Oxford Murders has been hailed as "a remarkable feat" (Time Out London) and its author as "one of Argentinas most distinctive voices" (The Times Literary Supplement). It begins on a summer day in Oxford, when a young Argentine graduate student finds his landladyan elderly woman who helped crack the Enigma Code during World War II murdered in cold blood. Meanwhile, a renowned Oxford logician receives an anonymous note bearing a circle and the words "the first of a series." As the murders begin to pile up and more symbols are revealed, it is up to this unlikely pair to decipher the pattern before the killer strikes again. [via]

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  • Paradise Lost
    by John Milton, David Hawkes
    ISBN 1593083645 (1-59308-364-5)
    Hardcover, Barnes & Noble

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    Paradise Lost, by John Milton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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    As a young student, John Milton fantasized about bringing the poetic elocution of Homer and Virgil to the English language. Milton realized this dream with his graceful, sonorous Paradise Lost, now considered the most influential epic poem in English literature.

     

    A retelling of the biblical story of mankinds fall from grace, Miltons epic opens shortly after the dramatic expulsion of Satan and his army of angels from Heaven. What follows is a cosmic battle between good and evil that ranges across vast, splendid tracts of time and space, from the wild abyss of Chaos and the fiery lake of Hell to the Gate of Heaven and Gods newly created paradise, the Garden of Eden. Controversy still swirls around Miltons magnificent and sympathetic characterization of Satan, a portrait so compelling that many critics have maintained that he is the true hero of the story.
     
    David Hawkes is Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University. His books include Idols of the Marketplace (2001) and Ideology (second edition, 2003), and he has contributed articles to The Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Journal of the History of Ideas. 
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  • Peter Pan
    by J. M. Barrie, Amy Billone
    ISBN 1593082134 (1-59308-213-4)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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    Peter Pan first flew across a London stage in 1904, overwhelming audiences with its tale of a magical boy who never grows up, who lures young Wendy and her brothers to Neverland where they meet pirates, Indians, fairies, and the Lost Boys. Following the plays astonishing success, J. M. Barrie revised and expanded the story and published it as this novel, originally titled Peter and Wendy when it appeared in 1911. For children, it remains a marvelous mix of fantasy and adventure, featuring unique, imaginative characters, who frisk and frolic in an enchanting land.

    For adults, the story of Peter and the Lost Boys works on a much deeper level, speaking to them about the inevitable loss of childhood and the ability “to fly. The climactic duel between the “proud and insolent youth (Peter Pan) and the “dark and sinister man (Captain Hook) is both a swashbuckling romp and a moving metaphor for the complex, poignant struggle between innocent but irresponsible youth and tainted but dependable maturity. Neither side wins, for the one inevitably becomes the other. Of course, the ageless Peter Pan is the happy exception.
     

    Amy Billone teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she wrote her dissertation on womens involvement with the nineteenth-century sonnet.

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  • The Pilgrim's Progress
    by David Hawkes, John Bunyan
    ISBN 1593082541 (1-59308-254-1)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.


    Faith, Hope, Mercy, Envy, Ignorance, Guilt: These are not abstract concepts, but the names of vividly imagined, sharply drawn human characters encountered by Christian, the hero of The Pilgrims Progress. In John Bunyans seventeenth-century allegory of the souls search for salvation, each step along the way becomes a dramatic rendering of an inner state of the human psyche. As Christian journeys from the wilderness of this world to the glory of the Celestial City, he confronts a seemingly endless array of temptations, threats, and dangers, including the nearly irresistible allure of material splendor at Vanity Fair; the crushing psychological burden of depression and despair in the Slough of Despond; and the fear and uncertainty that eats away at faith in Doubting Castle.



    This edition includes both the first and second parts of The Pilgrims Progress, which collectively reflect the feverish intensity of Bunyans religious beliefs. What remains significant is Bunyans ability to transform this intensity into an allegory that speaks to people of all faiths and all eras.

    David Hawkes is Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University. His books include Idols of the Marketplace (2001) and Ideology (second edition 2003), and he has contributed articles to The Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Journal of the History of Ideas.
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  • The Pilgrim's Progress
    by John Bunyan
    ISBN 159310684X (1-59310-684-X)
    Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc

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    Few books besides the Bible have been translated, printed, and read as often as The Pilgrim's Progress. John Bunyan's classic allegory of Christian, the Pilgrim, on his perilous journey to the Celestial City has touched hearts and minds for more than three hundred years-and still the demand continues. Barbour's new trade paperback editiont features an easy-to-read typesetting with marginal notes. Introduce a new generation to this memorable story, filled with memorable characters-Evangelist, Charity, Hypocrisy, Goodwill, Obstinate, and Mr. Worldly Wiseman. Look to Barbour for classic Christian books-at a classic value! [via]

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  • Thomas, Scarlett: Popco
    Popco
    by Scarlett Thomas
    ISBN 1841157635 (1-84115-763-5)
    Softcover, Fourth Estate

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  • Routledge, Paul: Public Servant, Secret Agent : The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave
    Public Servant, Secret Agent : The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave
    by Paul Routledge
    ISBN 1841152447 (1-84115-244-7)
    Hardcover, Zondervan

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  • Matthews, Patrick: Real Wine: The Rediscovery of Natural Winemaking
    Real Wine: The Rediscovery of Natural Winemaking
    by Patrick Matthews
    ISBN 1840002573 (1-84000-257-3)
    Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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  • Boyd, William: Restless
    Restless
    by William Boyd
    ISBN 1596912367 (1-59691-236-7)
    Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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  • Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe, L.J. Swingle
    ISBN 1593083602 (1-59308-360-2)
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    Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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    Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719 and has inspired countless imitations.

    In his own words, Robinson Crusoe tells of the terrible storm that drowned all his shipmates and left him marooned on a deserted island. Forced to overcome despair, doubt, and self-pity, he struggles to create a life for himself in the wilderness. From practically nothing, Crusoe painstakingly learns how to make pottery, grow crops, domesticate livestock, and build a house. His many adventures are recounted in vivid detail, including a fierce battle with cannibals and his rescue of Friday, the man who becomes his trusted companion.

    Full of enchanting detail and daring heroics, Robinson Crusoe is a celebration of courage, patience, ingenuity, and hard work.

    L. J. Swingle is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Kentucky, where his primary field of study is the intellectual contexts of British Romanticism as reflected in the works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets and novelists.

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  • The Rule Of Four
    by Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
    ISBN 1594130779 (1-59413-077-9)
    Softcover, Large Print Pr

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    A New York Times Bestseller

    An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide - a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries.

    Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the book may finally reveal its secrets - to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with it, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it - when an ancient diary surfaces. Armed with the final clue, the two friends delve into a world of forgotten erudition, strange sexual appetites, and terrible violence. But just as they begin to realize the magnitude of their discovery, the campus is rocked: a longtime student of the book has been murdered.

    Ian Caldwell was Phi Beta Kappa in history at Princeton University. He lives in Newport News, Virginia. Dustin Thomason won the Hoopes Prize at Harvard University. He lives in New York City. They began writing The Rule of Four after graduating in 1998. The two have been best friends since they were eight years old. [via]

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  • Wilson, Neil: Scotland
    Scotland
    by Neil Wilson, Alan Murphy
    ISBN 1741044375 (1-74104-437-5)
    Softcover, Lonely Planet Publications

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  • The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
    by Arthur Herman
    ISBN 1841152765 (1-84115-276-5)
    Softcover, Fourth Estate

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    'Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.' Irvine Welsh, Guardian A dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. Arthur Herman argues that Scotland's turbulent history, from William Wallace to the Presbyterian Lords of the Covenant, laid the foundations for 'the Scottish miracle'. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the eighteenth century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it. He follows the lives and work of thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume, writers such as Burns and Boswell, as well as architects, technicians and inventors, and traces their legacy into the twentieth century. Written with wit, erudition and clarity, The Scottish Enlightenment claims the Scots' rightful place in the history of the western world. [via]

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  • Shakespeare's Macbeth
    by Harold Bloom
    ISBN 1594480087 (1-59448-008-7)
    Softcover, Riverhead Books

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    Introducing the Harold Bloom Shakespeare Editions from Riverhead [via]

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  • Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice
    by Harold Bloom, William Aldis Wright
    ISBN 1594480915 (1-59448-091-5)
    Softcover, Riverhead Books

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    Harold Bloom on The Merchant of Venice: "Shylock's prose is Shakespeare's best before Falstaff's...His utterances manifest a spirit so potent, malign, and negative as to be unforgettable."

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  • Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew
    by Harold Bloom
    ISBN 1594480907 (1-59448-090-7)
    Softcover, Riverhead Books

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    Shakespeare, who clearly preferred his women characters to his men (always excepting Falstaff and Hamlet), enlarges the human from the start, by subtly suggesting that women have the truer sense of reality. [via]

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  • Dickens, Charles: Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People
    Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People
    by Charles Dickens
    ISBN 1840224045 (1-84022-404-5)
    Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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  • Dangerfield, George: The Strange Death of Liberal England
    The Strange Death of Liberal England
    by George Dangerfield
    ISBN 1597400335 (1-59740-033-5)
    Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project

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  • Time And the Gods
    by Edward J. Plunkett
    ISBN 1598188763 (1-59818-876-3)
    Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books

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    These tales are of the things that befell gods and men in Yarnith, Averon, and Zarkandhu, and in the other countries of my dreams. . . . -- LORD DUNSANY [via]

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  • The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger
    ISBN 1596921536 (1-59692-153-6)
    Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub

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    It is Vintage's 21st birthday and we are celebrating by publishing twenty-one of our most iconic books in a rainbow of beautiful colours. Treat yourself and make your bookshelves happy. This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this uncontrollable force, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable. [via]

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  • Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger (1841152897) by Slater, Nigel
    Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
    by Nigel Slater
    ISBN 1841152897 (1-84115-289-7)
    Hardcover, Fourth Estate

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  • The Trumpet-major
    by Thomas Hardy
    ISBN 1595405232 (1-59540-523-2)
    Softcover, 1st World Library

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    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The present tale is founded more largely on testimony - oral and written - than any other in this series. The external incidents which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of the recollections of old persons well known to the author in childhood, but now long dead, who were eye-witnesses of those scenes. If wholly transcribed their recollections would have filled a volume thrice the length of 'The Trumpet-Major.' Down to the middle of this century, and later, there were not wanting, in the neighbourhood of the places more or less clearly indicated herein, casual relics of the circumstances amid which the action moves - our preparations for defence against the threatened invasion of England by Buonaparte. An outhouse door riddled with bullet-holes, which had been extempo-rized by a solitary man as a target for firelock practice when the landing was hourly expected, a heap of bricks and clods on a beacon-hill, which had formed the chimney and walls of the hut occupied by the beacon-keeper, worm-eaten shafts and iron heads of pikes for the use of those who had no better weapons, ridges on the down thrown up during the encampment, fragments of volunteer uniform, and other such lingering remains, brought to my imagination in early childhood the state of affairs at the date of the war more vividly than volumes of history could have done. [via]

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  • Ross, Christopher: Tunnel Visions
    Tunnel Visions
    by Christopher Ross
    ISBN 1841155675 (1-84115-567-5)
    Softcover, Harper Uk

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  • Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
    by Christopher Ross
    ISBN 1841155667 (1-84115-566-7)
    Hardcover, Trafalgar Square

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    Itinerant philosopher Christopher Ross' debut book Tunnel Visions--a deftly observant sideways glance at human nature when in transit or, more often, not--sprung from 16 months working as a Station Assistant for London Underground. Or Platform 6, northbound Victoria Line, at Oxford Circus station, to be precise. A series of notes from the Underground, it provides a placatory centre of calm and rationale in our increasingly eddying lives as Ross, previously a corporate lawyer, oriental carpet smuggler and Japanese soap actor, takes the McJob to find a personal space in which to ruminate. After the surreal procedures of the training school, he is allocated his own patch, of which he grows quickly proprietorial. In a collection of precise tableaux, he neither leans upon nor ignores the inevitable anecdotal luggage that accumulates, but relates it with philosophical detachment and, when necessary, an engaged moral probity. He observes the archetypal gaits of his commuters, sings harmonies with a busking act, witnesses the spit and polish applied for a visit by John Prescott, and a man emerge from a train tunnel after being told at the previous station that it would be quicker to walk. Green grapes, he learns, are more deadly than banana skins, though not as lethal as suicidal "one-unders" (or "track pizza", in unforgiving New York parlance). A captured mosquito turns out to be unknown in Britain, an ugly, beswaddled baby turns out to be a monkey, and a dog on a lead a domesticated fox. Nothing is what it seems, but only if you look.

    Like the best travel literature, Tunnel Visions chooses internal rather than external landscapes, and describes them with a steady calm eye. From the autopilot of the Victoria Line trains to the sheep-like, but never sheepish, autopilot of his gaggles of passengers, the wisdom, and man-hours, Ross invests in this woefully under-resourced utility rewards with the best view from the other side of the Tube tracks since John Wain's novel The Smaller Sky, now sadly out-of-print. In the end the pessimism ground Ross down, but the Oxford Circus' loss was literature's gain, with this terrific, humane, utterly original legacy.--David Vincent [via]

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  • Unframed Originals: Recollections
    by W.S. Merwin
    ISBN 1593760345 (1-59376-034-5)
    Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard

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    In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait of a family without language or history transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writers conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins. Unframed Originals brings the reader complex and intimate family portraits from an award-winning poet.
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  • Wells, H. G.: The War in the Air
    The War in the Air
    by H. G. Wells
    ISBN 1598186817 (1-59818-681-7)
    Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books

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  • What You Wear Can Change Your Life
    by Robin Matthews, Susannah Constantine, Trinny Woodall
    ISBN 1594481482 (1-59448-148-2)
    Softcover, Riverhead Books

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    FROM THE STYLE GURUS WHO TAUGHT YOU WHAT NOT TO WEAR...

    TRINNY AND SUSANNAH ARE BACK--AND THIS TIME THEY'RE NOT FOOLING AROUND. THEY'RE OUT TO CHANGE LIVES.

    Here is the "bible" from the authors of the New York Times bestseller What Not to Wear. What You Wear Can Change Your Life shows you how to redefine your look and style from head to toe.

    Trinny and Susannah go over the basics of choosing colors that suit you best, what underwear to buy, which accessories to look for, how to store clothing, how to revamp your wardrobe at no cost, and how to make the sartorial most of being pregnant.

    This is a gorgeous, lavishly illustrated package--a resource to consult again and again. Trinny and Susannah anticipate the needs and questions of every woman and address them with the surefire style, self-deprecating wit, and friendly but firm empathy that have made them the last word in looking better.

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    - Defining the Shape
    - Underwear
    - How to Wear Color
    - What to Keep, What to Toss
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    - Make-up
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  • Follett, Ken: Whiteout
    Whiteout
    by Ken Follett
    ISBN 1594131090 (1-59413-109-0)
    Softcover, Thorndike Press

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  • The Wings of the Dove
    by Henry James, Bruce L. R. Smith
    ISBN 1593082967 (1-59308-296-7)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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    One of three masterpieces from Henry Jamess final, “major phase, The Wings of the Dove dramatizes the conflict between nineteenth-century values and twentieth-century passions. Born to wealth and privilege, Kate Croys mother threw it all away to marry a penniless opium addict. After her mothers death, Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the opulent lifestyle her mother gave up—on one condition. Kate must renounce the man she loves: the witty, good-looking, but poor, Merton Densher. Reluctantly agreeing, Kate finds herself becoming friends with “the worlds richest orphan, Millie Theale. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she devises a plan of dizzying possibility for herself and Merton that should solve all their problems, but instead leads them down a path strewn with tragic, unexpected consequences.

    First published in 1902, this rich and intriguing novel has lost none of its fascination and relevance a century later.

    Bruce L. R. Smith is a Fellow of the Heyman Center for the Humanities of Columbia University. He has served as Professor of Public Law and Government at Columbia, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and as an official in the U. S. State Department. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and lectures widely on public affairs and literary topics.

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  • Wives and Daughters
    by Elizabeth Gaskell, Amy M. King
    ISBN 1593082576 (1-59308-257-6)
    Softcover, Barnes & Noble

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    Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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    Tremendously popular in her lifetime, Elizabeth Gaskell has often been overshadowed by her contemporaries the Brontës and George Eliot. Yet the reputation of her long-neglected masterpiece Wives and Daughters continues to grow, fulfilling Henry Jamess prophecy that the novel would “continue for years to come to be read and relished . . .so delicately, so elaborately, so artistically, so truthfully, and heartily is the story wrought out.

    An enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in the gossipy English town of Hollingford around the 1830s, Wives and Daughters tells the story of Molly Gibson, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a widowed country doctor. When her father remarries, she forms a close friendship with her new stepsister—the beautiful and worldly Cynthia—until they become love rivals for the affections of Squire Hamleys sons, Osbourne and Roger. When sudden illness and death reveal some secrets while shrouding others in even deeper mystery, Molly feels that the world is out of joint and it is up to her—trusted by all but listened to by none—to set it right.

    Amy M. King is Assistant Professor of English at St. Johns University in New York City and the author of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel (Oxford University Press, 2003).

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  • Johnson, Hugh: The World Atlas of Wine
    The World Atlas of Wine
    by Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson
    ISBN 1840003324 (1-84000-332-4)
    Hardcover, Octopus Publishing Group

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    by ERNEST RIERA
    ISBN 1594970971 (1-59497-097-1)
    Softcover, Public Square Books

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    De Féerie, le pays magique, les habitants du petit village de Wall savent peu de choses. Il faut dire qu'un grand mur les en séparent. Un mur dans lequel est ouvert une brèche, une brèche bien gardée, par laquelle ils n'ont droit de passer qu'une fois l'an, le jour de la grande foire de Wall. C'est ce jour-là, justement, que le jeune Tristram Thorn, décidé à conquérir le cSur de sa belle, part pour le pays de fée afin de lui ramener une étoile filante. Mais dans un pays magique, rien n'est comme ailleurs. Les distances sont immenses, on y croise nains et licornes, des chasseurs d'éclairs naviguent sur des bateaux volants et l'on est jamais à l'abri d'un mauvais sort qui pourra vous transformer en arbre, en chèvre ou en rat. Un monde plein de dangers et de merveilles que Tristram est loin d'imaginer, comme il est loin d'imaginer que son étoile filante est une belle et pure jeune fille, dont la présence ici-bas va éveiller la concupiscence des sept seigneurs de Sromhold comme de quelques vilaines sorcières...

    Neil Gaiman est aussi à l'aise dans la BD (Sandman), que dans le roman (Neverwhere). Un talent inépuisable qu'il confirme une fois de plus ici en revisitant avec bonheur l'univers des contes de fées. À la fois drôle, merveilleux et volontairement naïf, Stardust est une réussite. --Georges Louhans [via]

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