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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton, Michael Everett Nowlin

ISBN 1551113368 (1-55111-336-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York. With vivid power, Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets, formal dances held in the ballrooms of stately brownstones, and society people "who dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to many the docile May Welland. Then, suddenly, the mysterious, intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a long absence, turning Archer's world upside down.
This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart, as well as a literary achievement of the highest order. [via]
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The American Senator
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 1421902095 (1-4219-0209-5)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

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Aurora Leigh And Other Poems
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, F. C. Gordon

ISBN 1417918640 (1-4179-1864-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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1892. An English poet of the Romantic Movement, Aurora Leigh is Browning's novel in blank verse. The first-person narrative, which comprises some 11,000 lines, tells of the heroine's childhood and youth in Italy and England, her self-education in her father's hidden library, and her successful pursuit of a literary career. This volume also contains A Drama of Exile; The Seraphim and Prometheus Bound. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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An Autobiography
by Anthony Trollope, Frederick Page, Michael Sadleir, P. D. Edwards

ISBN 0192838458 (0-19-283845-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Belton Estate
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 1426419236 (1-4264-1923-6)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar

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Bluegate Fields
by Anne Perry

ISBN 1585470171 (1-58547-017-1)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub

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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt must discover the truth of a young gentlemans sordid murderor an innocent man will hang

The naked body of an aristocratic youth turns up in the sewers beneath Bluegate Fields, one of Londons most notorious slums. But Arthur Waybourne had been drowned in his bath, not in the Thames. More shocking still was that the boy had been sexually violated and infected with syphilis before he was murdered. Despite Inspector Thomas Pitts efforts to fully investigate the crime, the family closes ranks, stonewalling Pitt, leaving him to wonder what they are hiding. All evidence points to Arthurs tutor, Jerome, as the murderer. The courts agree and Jerome is sentenced to hang. Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, dont believe the answer is so simple. But if not Jerome, then who molested and infected the boy?

To learn the truth, Charlotte uses her familiarity with the upper classes to draw aside the curtain of lies, while Pitt defies his superior and the boys family to follow a trail that leads him into the foulest streets of London through a web of deceit involving male prostitution and pedophilia. In a race against time, Thomas and Charlotte must find the real killer to save Jerome from the hangmans noose.

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Death in the Devil's Acre
by Anne Perry

ISBN 1585470163 (1-58547-016-3)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub

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The Diary of a Nobody
by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

ISBN 1419159259 (1-4191-5925-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody" - Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age. [via]
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The Dress Lodger
by Sheri Holman

ISBN 0345436911 (0-345-43691-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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The Dress Lodger, a prostitute's passion for her vulnerable baby and the disgraced doctor who might save him, is engrossing historical fiction. As with all the best fictional history, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale of cholera-struck Sunderland in 1831 is based on fact. "Grave: A place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student": this epigraph casts the novel's thematic lodestone, steering the reader into a deathly plot pursued through streets emanating the sounds, insufferable smells, humour, adversities and disease of an early 19th-century industrial town.
Gustine--the dress lodger--is a potter's assistant by day, sex worker by night. Her overbearing pimp and landlord has her permanently shadowed by the indefatigable, mysterious old woman known only as Eye to guard his investment in the startling blue dress in which she rents herself, explaining that: "dress lodging works on this basic principle: a cheap whore is given a fancy dress as a higher class of prostitute, the higher the station of the clientèle; the higher the station, the higher the price." Gustine's dress beckons a high-class punter pursued by a dubious fallen past in the figure of Dr Henry Chiver, an ambitious young surgeon who has fled Edinburgh to escape the professional scandal attending on his implication in the convictions of infamous pioneer anatomists Burke and Hare for murder and graverobbing. The heart is the favourite organ, "the singular fascination of his life", for Henry Chiver, desperate to re-establish his tarnished reputation through medical discovery. For this, and his paying students restless for induction into the arts of the scalpel, Chiver requires dead bodies for dissection, to the horror of his naïve, philanthropic fiancée Audrey Place. But it is 1831: the Anatomy Act has yet to pass through parliament to enable medics to legally obtain the corpses so critical to their accurate practice, and a suspicious public is terrifying itself with stories of murderous "burkers".
Streetsmart Gustine, "a rented self", hostile pragmatist trapped in unrelenting poverty, is all heart for her nameless little son who wears--literally--his heart on the outside, a rare case of ectopia cordis; just the kind of anatomical anomaly whose study would make the name of the aspirant but stigmatised Henry. Amid the gathering momentum of cholera epidemic, the two strike up a fatal pact: life for Gustine's son in exchange for a fresh supply of dead bodies for Chiver's scientific dissection. With mordant Dickensian wit and Elizabeth Gaskell's deft touch for gutsy outcast women seizing control of their destiny, Holman carves out a richly imaginative adventure as incisive and gruesomely fascinating as a 19th-century operating theatre. --Rachel Holmes [via]
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Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842
by George MacDonald Fraser

ISBN 0257667997 (0-257-66799-7)
Hardcover, Jenkins

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The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of "Tom Brown's Schooldays", after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. The author has written several books about Flashman, and books of short stories, including "The General Danced at Dawn". [via]
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Island of Dr Moreau
by H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Steve Maclean, Margaret Eleanor Atwood

ISBN 014144102X (0-14-144102-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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

ISBN 1870587456 (1-870587-45-6)
Hardcover, Ashgate Pub Co

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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne

ISBN 1420926802 (1-4209-2680-2)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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In this fully dramatized adaptation of Jules Verne's classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, and cast members from Star Trek feature films and all four TV series take you on an incredible journey.
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is the story of Professor Lindenbrock, his nephew Axel and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, Lindenbrock and Axel descend deeper into the planet than anyone has ever gone before... but will they make it back to the surface alive?
Featuring virtuoso performaces from the entire cast, riveting sound effects and original music, Alien Voices' production of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an adventure in sound. [via]
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Kim
by Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said

ISBN 0140183523 (0-14-018352-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"
In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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King Soloman's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard

ISBN 1576468208 (1-57646-820-8)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub

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King Solomon's Mines
by Henry Rider Haggard, Gerald Monsman

ISBN 1551114399 (1-55111-439-9)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

One of the best-selling novels of the nineteenth century, King Solomons Mines has inspired dozens of adventure stories, including Edgar Rice Burroughss Tarzan books and the Indiana Jones movies. Vivid and enormously action-packed, H. Rider Haggards tale of danger and discovery continues to shock and thrill, as it has since it was first presented to the public and heralded as the most amazing book ever written.

The story begins when renowned safari hunter Allan Quartermain agrees to help Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good search for King Solomons legendary cache of diamonds. Eager to find out what is true, what is myth, and what is really buried in the darkness of the mines, the tireless adventurers delve into the Saharas treacherous Veil of Sand, where they stumble upon a mysterious lost tribe of African warriors. Finding themselves in deadly peril from that countrys cruel king and the evil sorceress who conspires behind his throne, the explorers escape, but what they seek could be the most savage trap of allthe forbidden, impenetrable, and spectacular King Solomons Mines.

Benjamin Ivry is the author of biographies of Arthur Rimbaud, Francis Poulenc, and Maurice Ravel. His poetry collection Paradise for the Portuguese Queen appeared in 1998.
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Las Minas Del Rey Salomon / King Salomon's Mines
by Henry R. Haggard, Flora Casas

ISBN 8420639362 (84-206-3936-2)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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The Law and the Lady
by Wilkie Collins

ISBN 1592244068 (1-59224-406-8)
Softcover, Wildside Pr

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The Life and Times of Charles Dickens
by Peter Ackroyd

ISBN 0060922656 (0-06-092265-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Detailed and definitive, this profile of the Victorian writer explores the private life of the complicated, insecure, and wildly ambitious man who became the best-known author of his day. By the author of Hawksmoor and T. S. Eliot. Reprint. [via]
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Long Spoon Lane
by Anne Perry

ISBN 0345469275 (0-345-46927-5)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books

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Anne Perrys bestselling Victorian novels offer readers an elixir as addictively rich as Devonshire cream or English aleenticing millions into a literary world almost as real as the original. While flower sellers, costermongers, shopkeepers, and hansom drivers ply their trades, the London police watch over all. Or so people believe. . . .

Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where anarchists are plotting an attack. Bombs explode, destroying the homes of many poor people. After a chase, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot . . . but by whom?

As Pitt delves into the case, he finds that there is more to the terrorism than the destructive gestures of misguided idealists. The police are running a lucrative protection racket, and clues suggest that Inspector Wetron of Bow Street is the mastermind. As the shadowy leader of the Inner Circle, Wetron is using his influence with the press to whip up fears of more attacksand to rush a bill through Parliament that would severely curtail civil liberties. This would make him the most powerful man in the country.

To defeat Wetron, Pitt finds that he must run in harness with his old enemy, Sir Charles Voisey, and the unlikely allies are joined by Pitts clever wife, Charlotte, and her great aunt, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould. Can they prevail? As they strive to prevent future destruction, nothing less than the fate of the British Empire hangs in precarious balance.

From the first sentence to the last, Long Spoon Lane is a miracle of suspense, of plot and counterplot, bluff and counterbluff, in a take-no-prisoners battle between good and evil. It is possibly the very best of all the wonderful Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels. [via]
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Miss Mackenzie
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 1410103668 (1-4101-0366-8)
Softcover, Fredonia Books

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Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey

ISBN 1406831220 (1-4068-3122-0)
Softcover, Echo Library

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On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always longed for liberty; and she had [via]
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Queen Victoria : An Eminent Illustrated Biography
by Lytton Strachey

ISBN 1579120024 (1-57912-002-4)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated

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Called a 'brilliant masterpiece' by The London Times, the classic that changed the style of biographical writing has been re-cast in an elegant gift format. This newly illustrated edition shows the queen and her relations at home and abroad, and Lytton Strachey's magnificent prose describes Victoria's love for Albert, the great men and women of her era, the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the British Empire at its finest moment. [via]
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Rachel Ray
by Anthony Trollope, P. D. Edwards

ISBN 0192837389 (0-19-283738-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The heroine of the novel, Rachel Ray, meets and falls in love with dashing Luke Rowan, who is striving to make his fortune in the Devon brewery trade. However, their love affair is not destined to be straightforward, and there is the forceful clergyman, Mr Prong, to contend with. [via]
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Ralph the Heir
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 1410104184 (1-4101-0418-4)
Softcover, Fredonia Books

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Nicholas Meyer

ISBN 0345327136 (0-345-32713-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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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 Students
by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 0140057080 (0-14-005708-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But with the appearance of a dangerous individual with an air gun, the capital has never been in greater need of its protector. And so it is that Dr Watson meets a mysterious deformed man who reveals the truth behind the fateful final conflict between Holmes and Moriarty, and paves the way for the extraordinary return of the world's greatest sleuth in thirteen new tales of mystery and deduction. [via]
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Robert Browning
by Robert Browning, Daniel Karlin

ISBN 0140586156 (0-14-058615-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A selection of Browning's poetry containing complete poems including examples from the early "Dramatic Lyrics" and "Dramatic Romances and Lyrics", "Men and Women", "Dramatis Personae" and from later less familiar works. [via]
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Selected Poems
by Robert Browning, Daniel Karlin

ISBN 0140437266 (0-14-043726-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Silence in Hanover Close
by Anne Perry

ISBN 031201824X (0-312-01824-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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The Small House at Allington
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0140438165 (0-14-043816-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Small House at Allington
by Julian Thompson, Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0140433252 (0-14-043325-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his faithlessness, Lily still believes she is bound to her unworthy former fiance for life and therefore condemned to remain single after his betrayal. And when a more deserving suitor pays his addresses, she is unable to see past her feelings for Crosbie. Written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity, The Small House at Allington (1864) contains his most admired heroine in Lily Dale a young woman of independent spirit who nonetheless longs to be loved and is a moving dramatization of the ways in which personal dilemmas are affected by social pressures. [via]
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
by Thomas Hughes

ISBN 1417916907 (1-4179-1690-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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"Tom Brown is an early, well-drawn character in what was to become a familiar genre in English fiction: a chronicle of life at an English boys' boarding school. In the novel, Tom, a student at Rugby School in the time of Thomas Arnold's headmastership, is harassed by the school bully, Flashman, but overcomes his trials. During his school career, Tom does very well academically and on the playing fields." -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature [via]
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Trilby
by George Du Maurier

ISBN 1417902418 (1-4179-0241-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-haugh
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

ISBN 159224324X (1-59224-324-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr

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Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra / Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne, Trinidad Garcia Del Cid

ISBN 842399063X (84-239-9063-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Viaje al centro de la Tierra de Verne, Julio

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The Vicar of Bullhampton
by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 0140438270 (0-14-043827-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 1416523693 (1-4165-2369-3)
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This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The War Of The Worlds
by Edward Gorey, H. G. Wells

ISBN 1590171586 (1-59017-158-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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War of the Worlds
by Martin A. Danahay

ISBN 1551113538 (1-55111-353-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The War of the Worlds: Level 5, Penguin Readers
by Orson Wells

ISBN 1405806389 (1-4058-0638-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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A metal object falls from the sky over the south of England, and strange creatures come out. But they are not human - they are fighting machines from Mars. When another object falls, and then another, people start to worry. Are the Martians trying to take over the Earth? [via]
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La Guerra De Los Mundos/ The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells, Ramiro de Maeztu

ISBN 840805922X (84-08-05922-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Han legado del espacio exterior. De Marte, para ser exactos. Equipados con terribles máquinas, los invasores aterrizan en nuestro planeta y empiezan a sembrar el terror y la destrucción. Su único objetivo es conquistar la Tierra y convertir a los humanos en sus esclavos, y parece que nada ni nadie podrá detenerlos. Éste es el inicio de una de las guerras más importantes en la historia de la humanidad cuyas repercusiones harán que la Tierra nunca más vuelva a ser la misma. [via]
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Voyage au Centre de la Terre: Level 1
by Jules Verne

ISBN 2090319178 (2-09-031917-8)
Hardcover, Creations loisirs enseignement International

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Jules Verne s'amuse. La littérature est un jeu pour lui, chaque livre l'occasion d'un nouveau pari, plus insensé que le précédent. Un fou de savant (il en produira par dizaines, de ces illuminés, tous plus extravagants les uns que les autres) descend en compagnie d'un adolescent candide et d'un guide muet, jusqu'au centre (enfin, presque) de la Terre, pour y créer une mer libre (eh oui, docteur Freud) avec ses tempêtes, son climat "méditerranéen", ses monstres antédiluviens, ses forêts pétrifiées puis remonte illico, à cent à l'heure, poussé par un torrent de lave en fusion... Sur les traces de son maître Edgar Poe (il avait lu ses oeuvres traduites par Baudelaire), Jules Verne prend le canular scientifique pour prétexte, et refaçonne un univers électrique, volcanique, traversé d'énergies furieuses, où sa puissance visionnaire éclate, à la mesure d'une folie créatrice insatiable et sans limites. --Scarbo [via]
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