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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Lancelyn GreenISBN 0192823787 (0-19-282378-7)
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Allan Quatermainby H. Rider Haggard, Dennis ButtsISBN 0192822977 (0-19-282297-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Allan Quatermain'Book summary:This sequel to King Solomon's Mines is based on Rider Haggard's own experiences in Africa. During their search for a white race reputed to live near Mount Kenya, Allan Quatermain and his companions undergo a series of dangerous and thrilling adventures. The dramatic and often poetic story reveals Victorian preoccupations with evolution, race, sexuality, and the "New Woman." This is the only critical edition available, and the notes help clarify many of the contemporary references Haggard makes throughout the tale. [via]
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The Ambassadorsby Henry James, Christopher ButlerISBN 0192817035 (0-19-281703-5)
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American Notes and Pictures from Italyby Charles DickensISBN 0192545191 (0-19-254519-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Notes and Pictures from Italy'Book summary:"American Notes" was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as 'honest and true' was regarded in America as 'a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism', the product of 'the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial' writer ever to visit the country.
"Pictures from Italy" is a colourful account of a tour made in 1844.
This collectable series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings, many of which appeared in the first editons of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition, revised by the author in the 1860s. [via]
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An Autobiographyby Anthony Trollope, Frederick Page, Michael Sadleir, Peter David EdwardsISBN 0192815091 (0-19-281509-1)
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Ayala's Angelby Anthony Trollope, Julian Thompson-FurnivalISBN 0192817477 (0-19-281747-7)
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Beauchamp's Careerby George Meredith, Margaret HarrisISBN 0192817515 (0-19-281751-5)
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A Beleaguered City and Other Storiesby Merryn Williams, OliphantISBN 019281835X (0-19-281835-X)
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The Bertramsby Anthony Trollope, Geoffrey HarveyISBN 019282645X (0-19-282645-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bertrams'Book summary:Set in the Middle East, but informed by the ramifications of of the repeal of the Corn Laws and the rise of Tractarianism, The Bertrams is a tale of doomed love and a remarkable blend of psychological insight, trenchant satire, and deft social comedy. Published in the same year as Darwin's Origin of Species its story of the contrasting careers of three Oxford graduates echoes the idea of the survival of the fittest. This fully annotated edition of the novel Trollope hoped would secure him a reputation as a serious author uses the original 1859 text. This book is intended for trollope fans; students and teachers of nineteenth-century literature and history, general. [via]
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Bostoniansby Henry James, R. D. GooderISBN 019281639X (0-19-281639-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'Book summary:The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870's. F.R. Leavis called it one of "the 2 most brilliant novels in the language. "The novel's many allusions to the historical and social background of Boston society are explained in the editorial material. [via]
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes IIby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0192823744 (0-19-282374-4)
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Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Storiesby M. R. James, Michael CoxISBN 0192817191 (0-19-281719-1)
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The Castle of Otrantoby Horace Walpole, W.S. LewisISBN 0192816063 (0-19-281606-3)
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The Castle of Otranto/Vathek/the Monk/Frankenstein/4 Novels in 1 Volumeby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Matthew LewisISBN 0192823310 (0-19-282331-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle of Otranto/Vathek/the Monk/Frankenstein/4 Novels in 1 Volume'Book summary:Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numberous followers. These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to damnation. The Monk (1796), by Matthew Lewis, is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid. Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is Mary Shelley's disturbing and perennially popular tale of a young student who learns the secret of giving life to a creature made from human relics, with horrific consequences.
This collection illustrates the range and attraction of the gothic novel. Extreme and sensational, each of the four printed here is alos a powerful psychological story of isolation and monomania. [via]More editions of The Castle of Otranto/Vathek/the Monk/Frankenstein/4 Novels in 1 Volume:
Castle Richmondby Anthony Trollope, Mary HamerISBN 0192821733 (0-19-282173-3)
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The Claveringsby Anthony Trollope, David SkiltonISBN 0192817272 (0-19-281727-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claverings'Book summary:Since its first appearance in 1867, this novel has been acclaimed as one of Trollope's most successful protrayals of mid-Victorian life. The Claverings is filled with contemporary detail and shows, as Trollope often does, the weakness of men and the emotional strength of women. [via]
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Complete Poetryby Oscar Wilde, Isobel MurrayISBN 0192825089 (0-19-282508-9)
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Complete Shorter Fictionby Oscar Wilde, Isobel MurrayISBN 0192815008 (0-19-281500-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Shorter Fiction'Book summary:For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known fairy tales as "The Happy Prince," "The Young King," and "The Fisherman and his Soul;" an imaginary portrait of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets entitled "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.;" and the parables Wilde referred to as "Poems in Prose," including "The Artist," "The House of Judgment," and "The Teacher of Wisdom." [via]
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The Coral Islandby Robert M. Ballantyne, Jacqueline S. BrattonISBN 0192826441 (0-19-282644-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coral Island'Book summary:Throughout his long career as a writer of adventure stories, Robert Michael Ballantyne remained a boy at heart; he was one of the first Victorian writers to identify himself with the young reader's point of view. Girls as well as boys looked forward to his annual Christmas volume, and when he died the boys of Harrow School subscribed to erect a memorial to him. The Coral Island is his best memorial today. Revisiting the potent myth of the castaway, it tells of three young sailors, sole survivors of a wreck, and their discovery of the enchanting beauties of the South Pacific. They learn how to live off their tropical paradise and its coral groves, but then they are swept into adventures with bloodthirsty pirates, before eventually sailing home to England. Ballantyne sold his story outright for less than #100 in 1858; it has never been out of print since. learn to hunt and fish, and to build a shelter. They gather This book is intended for student-teachers, readers of adventure stories, general readers. [via]
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Cousin Henryby Julian Thompson, Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192817841 (0-19-281784-1)
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Daisy Miller and Other Storiesby Henry James, Jean GooderISBN 0192816187 (0-19-281618-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Miller and Other Stories'Book summary:"Daisy Miller" is one of Henry James's most popular tales, it is the story of a young American woman who while traveling in Europe is courted by Frederick Winterbourne. Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878, "Daisy Miller" is a novel that plays upon the contrast between American and European society, a theme common to James's work. The title character's youthful innocence is sharply contrasted with the sophistication of European society in this fatefully tragic tale. Also included in this volume are three additional shorter works by Henry James. They include "Pandora", "The Patagonia", and "Four Meetings". [via]
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The Diary of a Nobodyby George Grossmith, Weedon GrossmithISBN 019282404X (0-19-282404-X)
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Eminent Victoriansby Lytton Strachey, John SutherlandISBN 0192801589 (0-19-280158-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminent Victorians'Book summary:The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, some said, skewed) portraits. Rarely does Strachey explore the details of a subject's daily or family life unless they point directly to an issue of character. In short, he pioneered a deeply sardonic and often scathingly funny biographical style.
None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one." Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form." In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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Esther Watersby George MooreISBN 0192815784 (0-19-281578-4)
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The Forsyte Sagaby John Galsworthy, Geoffrey HarveyISBN 0192822985 (0-19-282298-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forsyte Saga'Book summary:The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. This is the only critical edition of the work available, with Notes that explain contemporary artistic and literary allusions and define the slang of the time. [via]
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The Golden Bowlby Henry James, Virginia Llewellyn SmithISBN 0192816535 (0-19-281653-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bowl'Book summary:'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'
A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Prince's marriage they had discovered, in a Bloomsbury antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw. The superstitious Amerigo, fearing for his gilded future, refuses to accept it as a wedding gift from Charlotte. 'Don't you think too much of "cracks,"' she is later to say to him, 'aren't you too afraid of them? I risk the cracks...' When the golden bowl is broken, Maggie must leave the security of her childhood and try to reassemble the pieces of her shattered happiness.
In this, the last of his three great poetic masterpieces, James combined with a dazzling virtuosity elements of social comedy, of mystery, terror, and myth. "The Golden Bowl" is the most controversial, ambiguous, and sophisticated of James's novels.
The text of this World's Classics paperback is that of the first English edition (1905). James's Preface is included, and a new introduction, notes, and selected variant readings. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and Other Tales'Book summary:Set in an atmosphere of mystery, this novel tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. The other three tales also appraise the glamour and rapacity of imperial adventure and display insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. [via]
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Hesterby Philip Davis, Brian Nellist, OliphantISBN 0192804111 (0-19-280411-1)
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His Last Bowby Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley EdwardsISBN 0192823817 (0-19-282381-7)
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An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress and Other Storiesby Thomas Hardy, Pamela DalzielISBN 0192823442 (0-19-282344-2)
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Kidnapped and Catrionaby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 0192817264 (0-19-281726-4)
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King Solomon's Minesby Henry Rider Haggard, Dennis ButtsISBN 0192822047 (0-19-282204-7)
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Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, Peter RabyISBN 0192822462 (0-19-282246-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest. [via]
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Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad, John BatchelorISBN 019281625X (0-19-281625-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:Lord Jim (1900): Jim is one of Conrad's most complex creations, and Conrad explores, along the vast horizon of this gorgeous novel, the phenomena of shame, guilt, retribution -- and redemption. How right it is for our times!
Originally published in 1904, Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrad's supreme achievement. Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, the novel reveals the effects of unbridled greed and imperialist interests on many different lives. V.S. Pritchett wrote, "Nostromo is the most strikingly modern of Conrad's novels. It is pervaded by a profound, even morbid sense of insecurity which is the very spirit of our age." [via]
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Lord Jim/Heart of Darkness/Nostromo/3 Books in 1 Volumeby Joseph ConradISBN 0192823361 (0-19-282336-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim/Heart of Darkness/Nostromo/3 Books in 1 Volume'Book summary:These three works of Conrad's middle years show him at the height of his powers. Each is an adventure story which also explores profound issues of identity and provides ironic insights into the bases of civilization. "Lord Jim" (1900) tells of a young, idealistic Englishman who is disgraced by an act of cowardice in "an Eastern port". Behind the story of ships and the sea is an involving study of a modern tragic hero's greatness and weakness. "Heart of Darkness" (1902) shares the narrator of "Lord Jim" , Marlow, who journeys up the Congo river to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. Set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, the tale appraises the glamour and folly of imperial adventure. "Nostromo" (1904) recreates the perilous history of a Latin American seaboard country through a series of personal stories. Each character is affected by the attempts of the heirs of a silver mine to rescue it from the hands of the latest revolutionary dictator. Conrad is a writer of great subtlety and sophistication; these three works display the technical brilliance and psychological depth which have established him as one of the first English Modernists. [via]
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The MacDermots of Ballycloranby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192821814 (0-19-282181-4)
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Mad Monkton and Other Storiesby Wilkie Collins, Norman PageISBN 0192822608 (0-19-282260-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mad Monkton and Other Stories'Book summary:Wilkie Collins established a reputation for himself as a highly readable storyteller. This engaging collection spanning thirty years displays his characteristic powers with twelve short stories from a number of genres. He explores the uncanny peculiarities of everyday life, as well as its underside, offers haunting ghost stories, and makes an important contribution to the newly emerging form of the detective novel. [via]
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Jane StablerISBN 019280264X (0-19-280264-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Marius the Epicureanby Walter Pater, Ian SmallISBN 0192817051 (0-19-281705-1)
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Matthew Arnoldby Matthew Arnold, Miriam Allott, R. H. Super, Robert SugarISBN 0192813765 (0-19-281376-5)
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Memoirs of Emma Courtneyby Mary Hays, Eleanor TyISBN 019282306X (0-19-282306-X)
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher RodenISBN 0192823752 (0-19-282375-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Penzler Pick, February 2000: What is there about the greatest series of short stories in the history of the world that hasn't already been said? This is the second (of five) story collections by Doyle about the greatest detective in literature--and a splendid volume it is, containing such superb puzzles as "The Greek Interpreter," in which readers are introduced to Mycroft Holmes; "The Musgrave Ritual"; "Silver Blaze"; and the earth-shattering "The Final Adventure," recounting the struggle between Holmes and the evil Professor Moriarty in which the two titans were apparently killed as they went over the edge of the Reichenbach Falls.
But every mystery reader already knows this. I'm pointing out this marvelous book because it has been extensively annotated by a fine Sherlockian scholar, Les Klinger, who has brought to all serious students of the Holmesian canon a level of erudition seldom encountered. In addition to the expected illustrations from The Strand magazine and meticulous scrutiny of chronological evidence of various events, there are references to primary sources and a staggering helping of information from the thousands of works about Sherlock Holmes by others.
More than 30 years ago, another great Sherlockian scholar, William S. Baring-Gould, produced a ground-breaking volume that enjoyed more than 35 printings in its original two-volume format and probably sold just as many copies in a slightly less elaborate one-volume size. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes became the single most essential volume in the library of any true Sherlockian, of which the world has far more than you think.
Les Klinger has acknowledged Baring-Gould in every way imaginable, and it was an act of extraordinary courage to attempt to supercede that monumental work. But that is exactly what he appears to be doing. The first volume, his annotated edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, was introduced by the same publisher last year. There are seven yet to come.
If you want to master just about everything there is to know about The Great Detective and The Good Doctor, to understand what Holmes meant when he referred to "a comet vintage" of wine, and to know what discrepancies there are between the English and American editions of the works, plus a thousand other things relating to Holmes, Watson, and the England of the Victorian era, you must have this volume, as well as all the others in the series as they become available over the next few years. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Miss Mackenzieby Anthony Trollope, A.O.J. CockshutISBN 0192818465 (0-19-281846-5)
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The Moorland Cottage and Other Storiesby Elizabeth Gaskell, Suzanne LewisISBN 0192823213 (0-19-282321-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moorland Cottage and Other Stories'Book summary:This selection of one short novel and eight stories shows Mrs. Gaskell working in different genres and with a wide range of material. As in her novels she explores different kinds of love, and her observations about human nature are as acute here as in her longer works. In addition to the title tale, this edition includes The Sexton's Hero, Christmas Storms and Sunshine: The Well of Pen-Morfa, The Heart of John Middleton, Morton Hall, My French Master, The Manchester Marriage, and Crowley Castle. There is no other edition of these works available. [via]
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Mr. Scarborough's Familyby Anthony Trollope, Geoffrey HarveyISBN 0192818082 (0-19-281808-2)
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Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tourby Robert Smith SurteesISBN 0192815210 (0-19-281521-0)
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My Lady Ludlow and Other Storiesby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192818384 (0-19-281838-4)
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The Nether Worldby George Gissing, Stephen GillISBN 0192817698 (0-19-281769-8)
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Nina Balatka/Linda Tresselby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192827235 (0-19-282723-5)
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An Old Man's Loveby Anthony Trollope, John SutherlandISBN 0192826468 (0-19-282646-8)
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverelby George Meredith, John HalperinISBN 0192816373 (0-19-281637-3)
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Orley Farmby Anthony Trollope, David SkiltonISBN 0192817132 (0-19-281713-2)
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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Storiesby Michael Cox, R.A. GilbertISBN 0192826662 (0-19-282666-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories'Book summary:With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this marvelous anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories combines a serious literary purpose with the simple intention of arousing a pleasurable fear of the doings of the dead.
As the first volume to present the full range and vitality of the ghost fiction tradition, this selection of forty-two stories, written between 1829 and 1968, demonstrates the tradition's historical development, as well as its major themes and characteristics. Though the genre reached its peak in the nineteenth century, it enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and even now still attracts dedicated practitioners and readers. The anthology includes stories by Walter Scott, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, T. H. White, and many others.
According to Edith Wharton, we can judge the success of a story by what she called its "thermometrical quality; if it sends a cold shiver down the spine, it has done its job and done it well." A host of writers have taken up the challenge of succeeding at this most demanding form of literary art, including both "specialists" such as J.S. Le Fanu and Algernon Blackwood, and other writers such as Henry James and H.G. Wells, for whom ghost stories constituted only a portion of their literary output. Stressing the important contribution women writers have made to the genre, the collection also offers eight stories by women, ranging from Amelia Edward's "The Phantom Ghost" (1864) to Elizabeth Bowen's "Hand in Glove" (1952). [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories:
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The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Storiesby Michael Cox, R.A. GilbertISBN 0192804472 (0-19-280447-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories'Book summary:The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond it. Though they were as much a part of the cultural and literary fabric of the age as imperial confidence, the best of the stories still retain their original power to surprise and unsettle.
In Victorian Ghost Stories, the editors map out the development of the ghost story from 1850 to the early years of the twentieth century and demonstrate the importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture. As well as reprinting stories by supernatural specialists such as J. S. Le Fanu and M. R. James, this selection emphasizes the key role played by women writers--including Elizabeth Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, and Charlotte Riddell--and offers one or two genuine rarities. Other writers represented include Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and R. L. Stevenson. There is also a fascinating Introduction and a chronological list of ghost story collections from 1850 to 1910. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories:
Oxford Illustrated Dickensby Charles DickensISBN 0192545221 (0-19-254522-1)
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane Austen, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192547038 (0-19-254703-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Persuasionby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Diedre LynchISBN 0192802631 (0-19-280263-1)
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Poems and Plays of Tennysonby Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 0192811150 (0-19-281115-0)
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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroftby George GissingISBN 0192817493 (0-19-281749-3)
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Ralph the Heirby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192818058 (0-19-281805-8)
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Studentsby Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Lancelyn GreenISBN 0192823760 (0-19-282376-0)
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Roderick Hudsonby Henry JamesISBN 0192815474 (0-19-281547-4)
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Ruthby Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan ShelstonISBN 0192816691 (0-19-281669-1)
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Selected Writingsby John Ruskin, Dinah BirchISBN 0192802623 (0-19-280262-3)
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This new selection includes wide-ranging extracts of Ruskin's texts, from the early 1840s to the late 1880s, as well as representative material from each of his major works. Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice, and Sesame and Lilies are juxtaposed with less familiar writing on science and myth. An authoritative introduction outlines Ruskin's life and thought, making it clear why his writing is still relevant today. This new edition also includes a selection of Ruskin's own illustrations. [via]More editions of Selected Writings:
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher RodenISBN 0192823795 (0-19-282379-5)
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South Sea Talesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Roslyn JollyISBN 0192824392 (0-19-282439-2)
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The Spoils of Poyntonby Henry James, Bernard Arthur RichardsISBN 0192816055 (0-19-281605-5)
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermistonby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 019281740X (0-19-281740-X)
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley EdwardsISBN 0192823809 (0-19-282380-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Study in Scarlet'Book summary:Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes's Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.
Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.
Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.
Conan Doyle quickly learned that it was Holmes's deductions that were of most interest to his readers. The lengthy flashback, while a convention of popular fiction, simply distracted from readers' real focus. It is when Holmes and Watson gather before the coal fire and Holmes sums up the deductions that led him to the successful apprehension of the criminal that we are most captivated. Subsequent Holmes stories--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes--rightly plunge the twosome directly into the middle of a baffling crime, piling mystery upon mystery until Holmes's denouement once more leaves the dazzled Watson murmuring, "You are wonderful, Holmes!" Generations of readers agree. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Sylvia's Loversby Andrew Sanders, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0192815717 (0-19-281571-7)
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Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazineby Chris Baldick, Robert MorrisonISBN 0192823663 (0-19-282366-3)
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The Three Clerksby Anthony Trollope, Graham HandleyISBN 0192818295 (0-19-281829-5)
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0192818163 (0-19-281816-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Lighthouse'Book summary:"Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that remains for ever after. This would remain." So reflects the beautiful, middle-aged Mrs Ramsay, mother of eight, as she surveys her family and guests at her dinner table, and sees their fleeting harmony, a fleeting reflection of eternity. This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever. For the children, it is an earthly Paradise. In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight, and the shifting complexity of adult relationships. From an acute awareness of transcience, she creates an enduring work of art. "To The Lighthouse" is one of ten World's Classics by Virginia Woolf, and includes an introduction and notes to provide guidance for readers new to this author. [via]
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 0192816810 (0-19-281681-0)
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Trilbyby George Du MaurierISBN 019282323X (0-19-282323-X)
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The Trumpet-majorby Thomas Hardy, Richard NemesvariISBN 0192827189 (0-19-282718-9)
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The Valley of Fear: Library Editionby Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley EdwardsISBN 0192823825 (0-19-282382-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Valley of Fear: Library Edition'Book summary:A cipher message and a horrible murder in a Sussex village begin this dark and powerful tale in which Holmes battles with the forces of the criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarity. In an investigation involving a terrorist brotherhood and one that brings Holmes to wit's end, it is the professor who has the final word. [via]
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The Vicar of Bullhamptonby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0192821636 (0-19-282163-6)
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Vicar of Wakefieldby Oliver Goldsmith, Arthur Friedman, Robert L. MacKISBN 0192805126 (0-19-280512-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vicar of Wakefield'Book summary:Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction of domestic life and loving family relationships.
New to this edition is an introduction by Robert L. Mack that examines the reasons for the novels enduring popularity, as well as the critical debates over whether it is a straightforward novel of sentiment or a satire on the social and economic inequalities of the period and the very literary conventions and morality it seems to embody. This edition also includes a new, up-to-date bibliography and expanded notes, and contains reprints of Arthur Friedman's authoritative Oxford English Novels text of the corrected first edition of 1766. [via] 
Victoryby Joseph Conrad, Mara KalninsISBN 0192801759 (0-19-280175-9)
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Washington Squareby Henry James, Mark Le FanuISBN 019281611X (0-19-281611-X)
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The Water Babiesby Charles Kingsley, Brian AldersonISBN 0192822381 (0-19-282238-1)
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Wessex Tales: The Three Strangers; a Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; the Melancholy Hussar; the Withered Armby Thomas Hardy, Kathryn R. KingISBN 0192827200 (0-19-282720-0)
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What Maisie Knewby Henry JamesISBN 0192815334 (0-19-281533-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Mrs. Wix's, during these hours, Sir Claude was--and most of all through long pauses--the perpetual, the insurmountable theme. It all took them back to the first flush of his marriage and to the place he held in the schoolroom at that crisis of love and pain; only he had himself blown to a much bigger balloon the large consciousness he then filled out. They went through it all again, and indeed while the interval dragged by the very weight of its charm they went, in spite of defences and suspicions, through everything. Their intensified clutch of the future throbbed like a clock ticking seconds; but this was a timepiece that inevitably, as well, at the best, rang occasionally a portentous hour. Oh there were several of these, and two or three of the worst on the old city-wall where everything else so made for peace. There was nothing in the world Maisie more wanted than to be as nice to Mrs. Wix as Sir Claude had desired; but it was exactly because this fell in with her inveterate instinct of keeping the peace that the instinct itself was quickened. From the moment it was quickened, however, it found other work, and that was how, to begin with, she produced the very complication she most sought to avert. What she had essentially done, these days, had been to read the unspoken into the spoken; so that thus, with accumulations, it had become more definite to her that the unspoken was, unspeakably, the completeness of the sacrifice of Mrs. Beale. There were times when every minute that Sir Claude stayed away was like a nail in Mrs. Beale's coffin. That brought back to Maisie--it was a roundabout way--the beauty and antiquity of her connexion with the flower of the Overmores as well as that lady's own grace and charm, her peculiar prettiness and... [via]
The Woman Who Didby Grant AllenISBN 0192823124 (0-19-282312-4)
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The Wood Beyond the Worldby William MorrisISBN 0192813013 (0-19-281301-3)
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