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The Autograph Man: A Novel
by Zadie Smith

ISBN 037570387X (0-375-70387-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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When Alex-Li Tandem is 12 years old, his father takes him and his friends Adam and Rubinfine to a wrestling match at the Albert Hall in London. By the end of the evening, the pivotal events of Alex-Li's youth have occurred: he has met Joseph Klein, a boy whose fascination with autographs proves infectious; his friendships with Adam and Rubinfine are cemented; and his father has dropped dead. This is enough action for an entire book, and in fact things slow down dramatically after page 35 of Zadie Smith's sophomore novel The Autograph Man. When we meet Alex again, he is a grown man, an autograph dealer and devoted slacker, suffering the physical and spiritual after-effects of a three-day romance with a drug called "Superstar." While under its malign influence, Alex has managed to wreck his sports car, alienate his girlfriend Esther, and--possibly--forge the rare autograph of his idol, the 1950s movie star Kitty Alexander. Will his friends save him from the embarrassment of trying to sell this suspect autograph? Will they pull him together in time to perform Kaddish on the 15th anniversary of his father's death? Although not as enthralling or politically resonant as White Teeth, Smith's hallowed debut, The Autograph Man amply demonstrates her ability to juggle several main characters, several themes, and a host of plots and subplots, with the occasional purely comic episode thrown up in the air beside them like a chainsaw or a cheesecake. Readers will want to step away to a safe distance during the chaotic final scenes. --Regina Marler [via]
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- The Autograph Man : A Novel: ISBN 037550186X (0-375-50186-X)
  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
- The Autograph Man: A Novel: ISBN 037570387X (0-375-70387-X)
  Softcover, Vintage Books
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

ISBN 0582530334 (0-582-53033-4)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group

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"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. [via]
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- Brave New World: ISBN 0606001662 (0-606-00166-2)
  Hardcover, Demco Media
- Brave New World: ISBN 0582530334 (0-582-53033-4)
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The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Maurice Hussey

ISBN 0521046238 (0-521-04623-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, V.A. Kolve, Glending Olson

ISBN 0393925870 (0-393-92587-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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David Wright's prose version of Chaucer's classic. [via]
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The Canterbury Tales : A Selection
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Donald R. Howard, James M. Dean

ISBN 0451524004 (0-451-52400-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Here are tales told by members from all parts of English society of the 14th century, reflecting on life as they travel the road from Southwark to Canterbury. [via]
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- The Canterbury Tales : A Selection: ISBN 0451524004 (0-451-52400-4)
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Canterbury Tales and Related Readings
by Geoffery Chaucer

ISBN 0395893283 (0-395-89328-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School

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NEW...NEW...NEW...Did I say New? Very New [via]
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- Canterbury Tales and Related Readings: ISBN 0395893283 (0-395-89328-3)
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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt

ISBN 0404015506 (0-404-01550-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc

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Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer

ISBN 0385098693 (0-385-09869-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
by Steve Ellis

ISBN 0582248817 (0-582-24881-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological theories to name but a few.

The book provides an introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the most important work in the field, including excerpts from book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen as reflecting them all.

This convenient single volume collection of key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.

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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess

ISBN 0393312836 (0-393-31283-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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A famous fiction about a deranged personality. [via]
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A Clockwork Orange: Play with Music
by Anthony Burgess

ISBN 0345354435 (0-345-35443-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange" was published in 1962 and has been controversial ever since. It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Alex - whose chief preoccupations are Beethoven's Ninth and ultra-violence - as he and his droogs rampage though a dystopian future seeking thrills, until they come under the control of the state's sinister apparatus. [via]
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- A Clockwork Orange: Play with Music: ISBN 0345354435 (0-345-35443-5)
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The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny, Maurice Hussey, A. C. Spearing, J. E. Spearing

ISBN 0521046297 (0-521-04629-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press

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A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings. [via]
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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
by Winthrop Wetherbee

ISBN 0521323312 (0-521-32331-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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The Isles: A History
by Norman Davies

ISBN 0195148312 (0-19-514831-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated

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When did British history begin, and where will it all end? These controversial issues are tackled head-on in Norman Davies's polemical and persuasive survey of the four countries that in modern times have become known as the British Isles. Covering 10 millennia in just over a thousand pages, from "Cheddar Man" to New Labour, Davies shows how relatively recently the English state was formed--no earlier than Tudor times--and shows, too, how a sense of Britishness emerged only with the coming of empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. A historian of Poland, and the author of an acclaimed history of Europe, Davies is especially sensitive to the complex mixing and merging of tribes and races, languages and traditions, conquerors and colonized that has gone on throughout British history and that in many ways makes "our island story" much more like that of the rest of Europe than we usually think. Many myths of the English are dispelled in this book, and many historians are taken to task for their blinkered Anglocentrism. But the book ends on an upbeat note, with Davies welcoming Britain's return to the heart of Europe at the dawn of the new millennium. --Miles Taylor, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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- The Isles: A History: ISBN 0195134427 (0-19-513442-7)
  Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Jane Austen
by Jane Austen

ISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy

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Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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The Line Of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst

ISBN 0330427377 (0-330-42737-7)
Softcover, Picador

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Interview with Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst's extraordinarily rich novel The Line of Beauty. has garnered a new level of acclaim for the author after winning the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Hollinghurst speaks about his work in our interview.
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- The Line Of Beauty: ISBN 033048320X (0-330-48320-X)
  Hardcover, Picador
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A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby

ISBN 0670888249 (0-670-88824-9)
Hardcover, Viking

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Narrated in turns by a dowdy, middle-aged woman, a half-crazed adolescent, a disgraced breakfast TV presenter and an American rock star cum pizza delivery boy, A Long Way Down is the story of the Toppers House Four, aka Maureen, Jess, Martin and JJ. A low-rent crowd with absolutely nothing in common - save where they end up that New Year's Eve night. And what they do next, of course. Funny, sad, and wonderfully humane, Nick Hornby's new novel asks some of the big questions: about life and death, strangers and friendship, love and pain, and whether a slice of pizza can really see you through a long, dark night of the soul. [via]
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding, E. L. Epstein

ISBN 0399501487 (0-399-50148-7)
Softcover, Perigee

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William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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On Beauty
by Zadie Smith

ISBN 0670045276 (0-670-04527-6)
Hardcover, Viking Canada

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Good binding with dust cover [via]
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- On Beauty: ISBN 0241142938 (0-241-14293-8)
  Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Persuasion
by Jane Austen

ISBN 0375757295 (0-375-75729-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey. [via]
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Persuasion
by Claude Rawson, Jane Austen, John N. Davie, John Davie

ISBN 0192833618 (0-19-283361-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had for ever put an end to such a prospect. [via]
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Persuasion
by Pat Rogers

ISBN 0460875299 (0-460-87529-9)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.

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'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had for ever put an end to such a prospect. [via]
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The Riverside Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson

ISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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This peerless new edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study, and replaces Robinson's famous edition, long regarded as the standard text. Freshly edited and annotated, the "Riverside Chaucer" is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer. [via]
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The Tales of Canterbury: Complete
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert A. Pratt

ISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Tales of Canterbury, The: Complete by Chaucer, Geoffrey; ed. by Robert A. Pratt. 8vo. [via]
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William Golding's Lord of the Flies
by William Golding

ISBN 0399506438 (0-399-50643-8)
Softcover, Perigee

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The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures. [via]
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  Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte, Linda H. Peterson

ISBN 0312256868 (0-312-25686-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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The text of this new edition is based on the first edition of 1847, but, collating it with two modern texts, the editor found a great number of variants that led to changes in the text of the novel. New to this fourth edition are an explanatory preface, a chronology and three critical essays. [via]
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Wuthering Heights
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517415119 (0-517-41511-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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