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12 Classic Ghost Storiesby John GraftonISBN 0486404307 (0-486-40430-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0486280616 (0-486-28061-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486417808 (0-486-41780-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486439534 (0-486-43953-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486443221 (0-486-44322-1)
Hardcover, Dover Pubns - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0517081288 (0-517-08128-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0517385864 (0-517-38586-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486280616 (0-486-28061-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486417808 (0-486-41780-8)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517415100 (0-517-41510-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Adventures of Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Steven ConnorISBN 046087490X (0-460-87490-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Alice Through the Looking Glassby Crown, Lewis CarrollISBN 0517501368 (0-517-50136-8)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Alice's Abenteuer Im Wunderland German Translationby Carroll LISBN 0486206688 (0-486-20668-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Abenteuer Im Wunderland German Translation'Book summary:Supervised by Carroll himself, here is the first foreign language translation of the children's book classic after its original 1865 publication. While the humor, verses, songs, and puns made many consider the work untranslatable, translator Antonie Zimmermann solved that problem by substituting common German phrases for the English originals. Includes 42 John Tenniel illustrations.[via]More editions of Alice's Abenteuer Im Wunderland German Translation:
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 0486416585 (0-486-41658-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:This hardcover edition of the classic tale of ALICE IN WONDERLAND has been read and loved by children for generations. Start a new tradition of reading this timeless tale in your home today!
"Fully illustrated in color, bringing each tale to life
"Filled with humor, adventure and imagination for children of all ages
"Great first-time reading for children as well as reading again for parents and grandparents
"Beautiful story and unforgettable characters [via]More editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0517223627 (0-517-22362-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0517124203 (0-517-12420-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0517218658 (0-517-21865-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 0517555913 (0-517-55591-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0486416585 (0-486-41658-5)
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0517223627 (0-517-22362-7)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Outlet Book Company StaffISBN 0517255162 (0-517-25516-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Robert Blaisdell, Lewis Carroll, Marty NobleISBN 0486403459 (0-486-40345-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/With All the Original Illustrations by Sir John Tennielby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0486275434 (0-486-27543-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/With All the Original Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Anna of the Five Townsby Arnold Bennett, Peter PrestonISBN 0460876538 (0-460-87653-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Annotated Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0517530317 (0-517-53031-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Armadaleby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0486234290 (0-486-23429-0)
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Aventures d Alice Au Pays Des Merveillesby Lewis CarrollISBN 0486228363 (0-486-22836-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aventures d Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles'Book summary:This magnificent translation of Alice in Wonderland into French was supervised by Lewis Carroll himself. Remarkably fresh and original, it renders the English puns and parodies with French equivalents. A treat for students of French, it features no English text and all 42 of the original illustrations by John Tenniel.[via]More editions of Aventures d Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles:
Ayeshaby H. Rider Haggard, Maurice GreiffenhagenISBN 0486236498 (0-486-23649-8)
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Barchester Towersby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051762639X (0-517-62639-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barchester Towers'Book summary: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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Charlotte and Emily Bronteby Charlotte Bronte, Emily BronteISBN 0517147793 (0-517-14779-3)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlotte and Emily Bronte'Book summary:Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor by Charlotte Brontë and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë are included in this new addition to the Library of Literary Classics. [via]
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A Child of the Jagoby Arthur Morrison, Peter MilesISBN 0460877720 (0-460-87772-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
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Daniel Derondaby George Eliot, John RignallISBN 0460876864 (0-460-87686-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daniel Deronda'Book summary:Romola is a historical novel set in late 15th-century Florence and is the story of a high-minded girl who marries a self-indulgent and unscrupulous Greek, Tito Melma. [via]
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The Dead Secretby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0486237753 (0-486-23775-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dead Secret'Book summary:Collinss puzzle-romance. A secret has all but ruined the life of young Sarah Leeson; it must be uncovered, but when it is, there is a desastrous revelation.[via]More editions of The Dead Secret:
El Doradoby Baroness OrczyISBN 0486440265 (0-486-44026-5)
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The Elusive Pimpernelby Emma OrczyISBN 0486454649 (0-486-45464-9)
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The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter HainingISBN 0491026242 (0-491-02624-2)
Hardcover, W.H. Allen
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.[via] -
House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0486408825 (0-486-40882-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. [via]
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor Hugo, Robert Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486285642 (0-486-28564-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:A tragic tale of love and human cruelty finds Quasimodo, a deformed and hearing impared bell-ringer in medieval Paris, hopelessly in love with the beautiful Esmerelda, a gypsy who is targeted by the treacherous local archdeacon. [via]
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary: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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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0486452433 (0-486-45243-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:Jude Fawley is intelligent, interested but poor and uneducated. Transfixed by his hope of attending "Christminster", he instead finds himself trapped by his class and his relationships with two women - Arabella Donn, whom he marries, and Sue Bridehead, whom he loves. The text is here accompanied by an introduction, notes, text summary, selected criticism and chronology of Hardy's life and times. [via]
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King Solomon's Minesby Henry Rider HaggardISBN 0486447820 (0-486-44782-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Solomon's Mines'Book summary:[via]Praised as "the most amazing story ever written," this 1885 story tells the tale in which Allan Quatermain, a gentleman adventurer, is hired to locate a man who has disappeared into the heart of Africa while hunting for the legendary lost diamond mines of King Solomon.More editions of King Solomon's Mines:
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King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africaby William MinterISBN 0465037232 (0-465-03723-2)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa'Book summary:"A superb book. I recommend it highly. Thorough research, erudite writing, and startling insights. Must reading." Randall Robinson, Founding Executive Director, TransAfrica
"Splendid... An invaluable work, elegantly organized and written. Nadine Gordimer
"A must for scholars and analysts of South Africa and the U.S. stance toward that country. Foreign Affairs
"This is the history of southern Africa that anti-apartheid militants have been waiting for. Its critics will be hard-pressed to match its cogency and depth of documentation. Geroge M. Fredrickson
"Impressive work. Lucid scholarship. Coherently presents the last hundred years as they directly lead to the unfolding cataclysm of South Africa. June Jordan
"The clearest comprehensive account of the political history of southern Africa I know. Committed, sober, and intelligent." Immanuel Wallerstein [via]More editions of King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa:
Lady Annaby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0486246698 (0-486-24669-8)
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Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0517147815 (0-517-14781-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snark'Book summary:This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.
Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.
Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection. [via]
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Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Ralph SteadmanISBN 051750135X (0-517-50135-X)
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence SterneISBN 048645648X (0-486-45648-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary:The comic masterpiece "Tristram Shandy" is generally regarded as the progenitor of the 20th-century novel, consisting of a plot frequently and flagrantly interrupted by digressions. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Robert Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486296342 (0-486-29634-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Timeless, heartwarming tale of the four young March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy their mother Marmee, and other memorable characters. Generations of readers have enjoyed this story of the joys, heartaches, and triumphs of a warm, close-knit family, poor in material wealth, but rich in love and devotion to one another. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Little Women:
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 0486406504 (0-486-40650-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0486280519 (0-486-28051-9)
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas HardyISBN 0486437493 (0-486-43749-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:A cruel joke at a country fair goes too far when a drunken laborer auctions off his wife and child to the highest bidder. Rich in descriptive powers and steeped in irony, Hardy's gripping tale unfolds amid a rural English community. It offers a spellbinding portrayal of ambition, rivalry, revenge, and repentance.[via]More editions of The Mayor of Casterbridge:
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No Nameby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0486236056 (0-486-23605-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Name'Book summary:Condemned by Victorian critics as immoral, but regarded today as a novel of outstanding social insight, No Name shows William Wilkie {ollins as the height of his literary powers. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover after the deaths of their dearly beloved parents that the parents were not married at the time of their births. Disinherited and ousted from their estate, they must fend for themselves and either resign themselves to their fate or determine to recover their wealth by whatever means. [via]
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0486414124 (0-486-41412-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0486424537 (0-486-42453-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...and soft-hearted a mood by the very first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion; and I wish I were a young fellow that I might avail myself on the spot of such a favourable opportunity for doing so, as the present. You are as great a boy as poor Brittles himself, returned Rose, blushing. Well, said the doctor, laughing heartily, that is no very ditficult matter. But to return to this boy: the great point of our agreement is yet to come. He will wake in an hour or so, I dare say; and although I have told that thick-headed constablefellow down stairs that he mustnt be moved or spoken to, on peril of his life, I think we may converse with him without, danger. Now, I make this stipulation---that I shall examine him in your presence, and that if from what he says, we judge, and I can show to the satisfaction of your cool reason, that he is a real and thorough bad one (which is more than possible), he shall be left to his fate, without any further interference on my part, at all events. Oh no, aunt l entreated Rose. Oh yes, aunt! said the doctor. Is it a bargain? _ He cannot be hardened in vice, said Rose; it is impossible. Very good, retorted the doctor; then so much th6 more reason for acceding to my proposition. Finally the treaty was entered into, and the parties thereto sat down to wait with some impatience until Oliver should awake. The patience of the two ladies was destined to undergo a longer trial than Mr. Losberne had led them to expect, for hour alter hour passed on, and still Oliver slumbered heavily. It was evening, indeed, before th_e kind-hearted doctor brought... [via]
The Ordeal of Richard Feverelby George MeredithISBN 0486244636 (0-486-24463-6)
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The Passenger from Scotland Yardby H. F. WoodISBN 0486235238 (0-486-23523-8)
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Peter Panby J. M. BarrieISBN 0486407837 (0-486-40783-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, the lost boys, and Tinker Bell have filled the hearts of children ever since Barrie's play first opened in London in 1904 and became an immediate sensation. Now this funny, haunting modern myth is presented with Bedford's wonderful illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own day, have long been out of print, and have never been equaled. [via]
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- Peter Pan: ISBN 0517205777 (0-517-20577-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Peter Pan: ISBN 0486414213 (0-486-41421-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Peter Pan: ISBN 0517141515 (0-517-14151-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Peter Pan: ISBN 0517632225 (0-517-63222-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Peter Pan: ISBN 0486407837 (0-486-40783-7)
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Peter Pan and Wendyby J. M. BarrieISBN 051722366X (0-517-22366-X)
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Peter Pan and Wendyby Michael Foreman, J. M. BarrieISBN 0517568373 (0-517-56837-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan and Wendy'Book summary:The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. [via]
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Phineas Finnby Anthony Trollope, W. J. MacCormackISBN 0460874977 (0-460-87497-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0486452417 (0-486-45241-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. [via]
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Rachel Rayby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0486239306 (0-486-23930-6)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0486264653 (0-486-26465-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'Book summary:Young Civil War soldier Henry Fielding endures the nightmare of battle as he comes to grips with his fears and feelings of cowardice. Stephen Crane's powerful, imaginative, emotionally compelling description of war established him as a major American writer and propelled him to immediate international celebrity.[via]More editions of The Red Badge of Courage:
- The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0486434222 (0-486-43422-2)
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Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0517436280 (0-517-43628-0)
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Return of Sherlock Holmes Inc.by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051720214X (0-517-20214-X)
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A Rogue's Lifeby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0486249476 (0-486-24947-6)
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The Small House at Allingtonby David Skilton, Anthony TrollopeISBN 0460877941 (0-460-87794-1)
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 0486401650 (0-486-40165-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of an African Farm'Book summary:A searing indictment of the rigid Boer social conventions of the 19th century, the first great South African novel chronicles the adventures of 3 childhood friends who defy societal repression. The novel's unorthodox views on religion and marriage aroused widespread controversy upon its 1883 publication.[via]More editions of Story of an African Farm:
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0486415899 (0-486-41589-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.[via]More editions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles:
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Three Adventure Novelsby H. Rider HaggardISBN 0486206432 (0-486-20643-2)
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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dogby Jerome K. JeromeISBN 0486451100 (0-486-45110-0)
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0460877356 (0-460-87735-6)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0486440281 (0-486-44028-1)
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Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 0486404315 (0-486-40431-5)
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The White Companyby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0486437639 (0-486-43763-9)
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Wives and Daughtersby Pam Morris, Elizabeth Gaskell, Graham HandleyISBN 0460876511 (0-460-87651-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wives and Daughters'Book summary:Molly seems fated to suffer, firstly from her father's ill-conceived remarriage, and then from seeing her friend Roger Hamley infatuated with Molly's stepsister Cynthia. Everyone relies on Molly, but when will she have a fulfilling life of her own? This study edition contains commentary. [via]
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The Woodlandersby Thomas Hardy, Norman PageISBN 0460874594 (0-460-87459-4)
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Works of HG Wellsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517371537 (0-517-37153-7)
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Le Avventure D'Alice Nel Paese Delle Meraviglieby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0486232778 (0-486-23277-8)
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Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0486233162 (0-486-23316-2)
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