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Agnes Grey and Poemsby Anne BronteISBN 0460871218 (0-460-87121-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Storyby H. G. Wells, Sylvia HardyISBN 0460873067 (0-460-87306-7)
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Arthurian Romancesby Chretien, W. W. ComfortISBN 0460006983 (0-460-00698-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthurian Romances'Book summary:Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen Guinevere, and in The Knight with the Lion Yvain neglects his bride in his quest for greater glory. Erec and Enide explores a knight's conflict between love and honour, Cliges exalts the possibility of pure love outside marriage, while the haunting The Story of the Grail chronicles the legendary quest. Rich in symbolism, these evocative tales combine closely observed detail with fantastic adventure to create a compelling world that profoundly influenced Malory, and are the basis of the Arthurian legends we know today. [via]
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Backpackby Emily BarrISBN 0452282934 (0-452-28293-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backpack'Book summary:Emily Barr's irrepressible first novel follows the trials and tribulations of Tansy, a Londoner who leaves behind her horrible boyfriend, too-trendy friends, and hotshot media job to find herself a continent away.
Adrift in the wake of her long-suffering mum's death, Tansy hopes her modest inheritance will help cast her in the role of glamorous "Englishwoman Abroad," as she flits from Vietnam to China. Instead, she finds ungrateful locals who treat her like the tourist she is, a climate that's hell on her skin, and a motley group of grimy back packers she likes more than she'll ever admit. But when blond Englishwomen in Asia start turning up dead, what began as a grand adventure suddenly becomes a real-life murder mystery . . . and blond Tansy wonders if she'll live long enough to tell the tale of her travels.
Brimming with romance, humor, and a slyly self-deprecating wit, Backpack is Lisa Jewell meets The Beach. [via]More editions of Backpack:
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Baggageby Emily BarrISBN 0452283825 (0-452-28382-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baggage'Book summary:At 29, you're backpacking in the Australian outback when you see her. She has a husband, a 10 year old son and a baby on the way. She claims to be someone else, but you know she is Daisy Fraser who was awaiting trial for the deaths of 4 people when she committed suicide by jumping off the Severn Bridge. And your boyfriend is a reporter... [via]
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Belindaby Maria EdgeworthISBN 0460872281 (0-460-87228-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Biographia Literaria: Chapters 1-4, 14-22; Prefaces and Essays on Poetry, 1800-1815by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0460100114 (0-460-10011-4)
Hardcover, J. M. Dent
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinionsby George Watson, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0460871080 (0-460-87108-0)
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 046005077X (0-460-05077-X)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, that was stolen, wound up in the Yukon Territory, and became leader of a wolf pack. [via]
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Churchill: A Biographyby Roy JenkinsISBN 0452283523 (0-452-28352-3)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Churchill: A Biography'Book summary:Book buyers will never tire of reading about Winston Churchill, for "the greatest adventurer of modern political history" (RA Butler's verdict) led a life of action-packed drama and global significance. Roy Jenkins' Churchill is the latest biography of this great Briton, following closely in the tailwind of Geoffrey Best's Churchill: A Study in Greatness. Where Best restores altitude to Churchill's dipping reputation, seeing off academic critics of the last decade or so, Jenkins provides a jumbo-size old-fashioned biography, lauding his subject's achievements, sympathising with his quirks, and stepping lightly over his well-known mistakes. As he did in his earlier biographies of Dilke, Asquith and Gladstone, Jenkins sticks closely to the published record, utilising in particular the definitive researches of Martin Gilbert, but he brings the authority and the inside knowledge of British politics to his book, slipping in his own memories of Churchill, and his own comparable experience sat the Cabinet table. It is all here, from the Boer Wars to the nuclear bomb, from the hustings in Oldham to the diplomacy of Yalta, with due coverage of the big moments--at the Board of Trade and at the Admiralty in Asquith's peacetime and wartime cabinets, taking on the appeasers in the 1930s and Hitler in the 1940s. All the books are here, and all the political relationships tetchy and touchy alike, from Lloyd George to Baldwin, Smuts to Stalin, and of course, the British people. Like its subject the book is bulky and at times indulgent, but impossible not to enjoy.--Miles Taylor [via]
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Cubaby Emily BarrISBN 0452285038 (0-452-28503-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Diary of a Nobodyby George Grossmith, Weedon GrossmithISBN 0460019635 (0-460-01963-5)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Falling Angels: Library Editionby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452283205 (0-452-28320-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Angels: Library Edition'Book summary:Set among the sweeping skirts and social upheavals of Edwardian London, Tracy Chevalier's Falling Angels is a meditation on change, loss, and recovery. Her central characters are two young girls of the same age, whose family plots are situated side-by-side in a cemetery modeled on Highgate. Lavinia Waterhouse is respectably middle-class, devoted, like her conventional, doting mother, to the right way to do things, although suspiciously well- schooled in subjects like funerary sculpture and the English practices of mourning. Her friend Maude Coleman comes from a slightly more privileged and free-thinking background. In contrast with Lavinia's mother, Maude's mother Kitty Coleman is well-educated by the standards of the day, and it has made her restless and irritable. But neither her reading, nor her gardening, nor her affair with the somber, high-thinking governor of the cemetery is enough for Kitty. She comes alive only when she discovers the women's suffrage movement, and her devotion to the cause takes her away from Maude in every sense.
Although the point of view shifts between many characters (with even the Coleman's maid and cook getting their say, sometimes unnecessarily), Falling Angels is essentially the children's story, since it is their lives that are most open to change. The narrative spans exactly the years of Edward VII's reign, from the morning after his mother Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 to his own death in May 1910. Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring) deftly uses the nation's dramatically different mourning for these two monarchs to signal the social transformations of the period. Readers at ease with English history will find Falling Angels an unusually subtle novel, with an emotional range that recalls the best of the Edwardian novelists, E.M. Forster, and his quintessential novel of Edwardian manners, Howard's End. --Regina Marler [via]
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Felix Holtby George EliotISBN 0460003534 (0-460-00353-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Flash for Freedom!by George MacDonald FraserISBN 0452260892 (0-452-26089-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flash for Freedom!'Book summary:A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the "Flashman Papers". When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future - would it lie in the House of Commons or the West African slave trade? Was there, for that matter, very much difference? Once again Flashman's charm, cowardice, treachery, lechery and fleetness of foot see the lovable rogue triumph by the skin of his chattering teeth.[via] -
Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842by George MacDonald FraserISBN 0452259614 (0-452-25961-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Flight of the Maidensby Jane GardamISBN 0452283345 (0-452-28334-5)
Softcover, Plume
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Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 046001837X (0-460-01837-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Framley Parsonageby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0460011812 (0-460-01181-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The French Revolutionby CarlyleISBN 0460100319 (0-460-10031-9)
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452282152 (0-452-28215-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl With a Pearl Earring:
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 0460871765 (0-460-87176-5)
Softcover, Everymans Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This book is part of the "Everyman Shakespeare" series, providing facing-page text and notes, a chronology of Shakespeare's life and times and a selection of critical and theatrical responses to "Hamlet" over the centuries. The "Everyman" texts preserve the way Shakespeare's lines were meant to be spoken as well as their meaning. Derived from the earliest authoritative printings, they retain original spellings and punctuations which preserve puns and and wordplay often lost. Sir John Gielgud, Zoe Caldwell, Ian Richardson, Jeremy Irons and other established actors, actresses and theatre directors have written forewards describing the plays in actual performance. John Andrews's introductions provide up-to-the-minute interpretation of the structure, atmosphere and content of each play and comment on sources and influences. [via]
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The Heart of Mid-Lothianby Walter ScottISBN 0460870904 (0-460-87090-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian'Book summary:The Heart of Mid-Lothian, set between the two Jacobean insurrections in 1736 and during the Porteous Riots, marks the peak of its author's achievement; many consider it to be Scott's national epic. [via]
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The History of Mr Pollyby H. G. Wells, Norman Ian MacKenzieISBN 0460872605 (0-460-87260-5)
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The Ice Ageby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0452256801 (0-452-25680-1)
Softcover, New American Library
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The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Editionby H. G. Wells, Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0460872583 (0-460-87258-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition'Book summary: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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Jerusalem the Goldenby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0452259355 (0-452-25935-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Join Meby Danny WallaceISBN 0452285011 (0-452-28501-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Join Me'Book summary:How could you refuse the polite invitation of begoggled Danny Wallace in Join Me? You don't know what you could be missing out on. It's all about living for the moment in this quirky, seemingly pointless yet addictive narrative. Finding himself with too much time on his hands after quitting his BBC job, Danny revels in "sitting around in his pants" and generally taking a break from the responsibilities of working life. Danny attends the funeral of his great uncle Gallus and finds out that he had set up a commune of like-minded people to escape Swiss small town small-mindedness in the 1940s. Intrigued by this idea, on his return to London Danny places a cryptic advert in the classified ads paper Loot and gets some surprising results.
His Norwegian radio-producer girlfriend Hanne is bemused and infuriated that this has become more than a transient interest; it takes over his life--and hers. The number of "joinees"--people replying to his ad--escalates as word gets out about this new "happy cult", but without a clue about what he wants to achieve, or do with all his newfound friends, Danny has to think fast as dissent rises in the ranks. Now the reluctant leader of a troop of random hopefuls, he maintains their interest with obscure e-mails and watches as his joinees meet and bond.
Whatever he had created, it was bigger than he had anticipated. From an initially puerile idea, it had grown into something of a social experiment--why were people willing to take the risk of replying to the advert? What was lacking in their lives that they thought they might get out of contacting a stranger? Taking risks, no matter how big or small, is the essential crux of the matter here, and, of course, nothing ventured, nothing gained. --Angela Boodoo [via]
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Journal of the Plague Yearby Daniel DefoeISBN 0452010527 (0-452-01052-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Kenilworthby Walter ScottISBN 0460001353 (0-460-00135-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Lady and the Unicornby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452285453 (0-452-28545-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady and the Unicorn'Book summary:A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier's answer to the mystery behind one of the art world's great masterpieces-a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown-until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house-mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting-before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries-his finest, most intricate work-on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives-lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn , Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry-an extraordinary story exquisitely told. [via]
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Last Chronicle of Barsetby Anthony Trollope, David SkiltonISBN 0460872346 (0-460-87234-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Chronicle of Barset'Book summary:The central drama of the book is that of Mr.Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock who, falsely accused of theft, suffers bitterly with his family. This deceptively simple plot, though, is given a twist, and the character of Mr. Crawley is more ambigious than would at first appear. It is he himself who seems to bring about the most of his suffering, and the portrait of his man--gloomy brooding, and proud, moving relentlessly from one humiliation to another--achieves tragic dimensions. [via]
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The Life of Samuel Johnsonby James BoswellISBN 0460000012 (0-460-00001-2)
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runnerby Alan SillitoeISBN 0452269083 (0-452-26908-3)
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 046087182X (0-460-87182-X)
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 0460871803 (0-460-87180-3)
Softcover, Everymans Library
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The Mill on the Flossby George EliotISBN 0460113259 (0-460-11325-9)
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 0460870955 (0-460-87095-5)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles DickensISBN 0452006880 (0-452-00688-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'Book summary:Dickens' marvelous tale of murder was left unfinished at his death in 1870. The novel has been all the more tantalizing for its lack of an ending to a mystifying puzzle that avid readers, over the years, have tried to solve. A gem for lovers of mysteries and the legions of Dickens fans.[via]More editions of The Mystery of Edwin Drood:
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The Naked Civil Servantby Quentin CrispISBN 0452254132 (0-452-25413-2)
Softcover, New American Library
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Natural History of Selborneby Gilbert White, Richard MabeyISBN 0460872699 (0-460-87269-9)
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460871919 (0-460-87191-9)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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A Philosophical Investigationby Philip KerrISBN 0452271401 (0-452-27140-1)
Softcover, Plume
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The Pickwick Papersby Charles DickensISBN 0460012355 (0-460-01235-5)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0460012045 (0-460-01204-5)
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The Poemsby Daniel Jones, Dylan ThomasISBN 0460041819 (0-460-04181-9)
Hardcover, Dent
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 0452255899 (0-452-25589-9)
Softcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Edition'Book summary:At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, andmost importantin her dedication to "her girls," the students she selects to be her crème de la crème. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie setEunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandyis "famous for something," and Miss Brodie strives to bring out the best in each one. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises her girls, "Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me."
And they do. But one of them will betray her.
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Quartet in Autumnby Barbara PymISBN 0452269342 (0-452-26934-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Regenerationby Pat BarkerISBN 0452270073 (0-452-27007-3)
Softcover, Plume
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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Serviceby Erskine ChildersISBN 0460050834 (0-460-05083-4)
Hardcover, Dent
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 046001059X (0-460-01059-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Romany Ryeby George Henry BorrowISBN 0460001205 (0-460-00120-5)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Royal Flashby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0452261120 (0-452-26112-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Royal Flash'Book summary:In Volume II of the Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardly Otto Von Bismarck in a battle of wits which will decide the destiny of a continent. In this volume of The Flashman Papers, Flashman, the arch-cad and toady, matches his wits, his talents for deceit and malice, and above all his speed in evasion against the most brilliant European statesman and against the most beauiful and unscrupulous adventuress of the era. From London gaming-halls and English hunting-fields to European dungeons and throne-rooms, he is involved in a desperate succession of escapes, disguises, amours and (when he cannot avoid them) hand-to-hand combats. All the while, the destiny of a continent rests on his broad and failing shoulders.[via] 
Ruthby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0460006738 (0-460-00673-8)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Shirleyby Charlotte BronteISBN 0460002880 (0-460-00288-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shirley'Book summary:Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of them; they are young enough to be very active, and ought to be doing a great deal of good. But not of late years are we about to speak; we are going back to the beginning of this century: late years -- present years are dusty, sunburned, hot, arid; we will evade the noon, forget it in siesta, pass the midday in slumber, and dream of dawn. If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard. Something real, cool and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. It is not positively affirmed that you shall not have a taste of the exciting. . . . [via]
Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers 1833-39by Charles Dickens, Michael Slater, George CruikshankISBN 0460860763 (0-460-86076-3)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day Peopleby Charles DickensISBN 0460002376 (0-460-00237-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Soloby Emily BarrISBN 0452285364 (0-452-28536-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0460873296 (0-460-87329-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sonnets'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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A Summer Bird-Cageby Margret DrabbleISBN 0452257611 (0-452-25761-1)
Softcover, New American Library
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Thieves' Kitchen: The Regency Underworldby Donald A. LowISBN 0460044389 (0-460-04438-9)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4by John BuchanISBN 0460050648 (0-460-05064-8)
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Three Men On The Bummelby Jerome K. JeromeISBN 0460001884 (0-460-00188-4)
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis CarrollISBN 0460010182 (0-460-01018-2)
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Transmissionby Hari KunzruISBN 0452286514 (0-452-28651-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Transmission'Book summary:[via]In Transmission, award-winning writer Hari Kunzru takes an ultra-contemporary turn with the story of an Indian computer programmer whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.
Lonely and naïve, Arjun spends his days as a lowly assistant virus- tester, pining away for his free-spirited colleague Christine. Arjun gets laid off like so many of his Silicon Valley peers, and in an act of desperation to keep his job, he releases a mischievous but destructive virus around the globe that has major unintended consequences. As world order unravels, so does Arjuns sanity, in a rollicking cataclysm that reaches Bollywood and, not so coincidentally, the glamorous star of Arjuns favorite Indian movie.
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Trilbyby George Du MaurierISBN 0460018639 (0-460-01863-9)
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Under Milkwoodby Dylan ThomasISBN 046004270X (0-460-04270-X)
Hardcover, Dent
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Vicar of Wakefieldby Oliver GoldsmithISBN 0460002953 (0-460-00295-3)
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The Virgin Blue: Library Editionby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452284449 (0-452-28444-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Virgin Blue: Library Edition'Book summary:[via]Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulintwo women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her familys French ancestry. As the novel unfoldsalternating between Ellas story and that of Isabelle du Moulin four hundred years earliera common thread emerges that unexpectedly links the two women. Part detective story, part historical fiction, The Virgin Blue is a novel of passion and intrigue that compels readers to the very last page.
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Waverleyby Walter ScottISBN 0460010751 (0-460-01075-1)
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The Way of All Fleshby Samuel ButlerISBN 0460008951 (0-460-00895-1)
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0460011103 (0-460-01110-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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