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American Notesby Charles Dickens, Christopher HitchensISBN 0679601856 (0-679-60185-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Notes'Book summary:American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of 19th century America's most celebrated tourists--Charles Dickens. A lively chronicle of his five-month trip around the United States in 1842, the book records the author's adventures journeying by steamboat and stagecoach as well as his impressions of everything from schools and prisons to table manners and slavery. [via]
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The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experienceby Celeste OlalquiagaISBN 0679433937 (0-679-43393-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Bride Huntby Jane FeatherISBN 055358619X (0-553-58619-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Christina Rossetti: A Writer's Lifeby Jan MarshISBN 067083517X (0-670-83517-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. Marx, Vladimir PoznerISBN 0553214063 (0-553-21406-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:Check out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, free audiobook download link at the end of the book, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted. Browse our library collection by typing in ngims or ngims plus the title you're looking for, e.g. ngims Gulliver's Travels. Free ebooks on the web are not organized for easy reading, littered with text errors and often have missing contents. You will not find another beautifully formatted classic literature ebook that is well-designed with amazing artworks and illustrations and a link to download free audiobook for a very low price like this one. The nominal price of this ebook covers the time and effort in formatting the materials and putting everything together in one place for your convenience. As a reader, you would want everything readily available at your fingertips because you many not have the time, interest or know where to look for your favorite book. The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) is a short 1848 book written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League's purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. The book contains Marx and Engels' Marxist theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism. FEATURES ? Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 0671443879 (0-671-44387-9)
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The Complete Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Neil Philip, Isabelle BrentISBN 0670851965 (0-670-85196-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Just So Stories'Book summary:Presents twelve familiar stories--including the tale of the elephant child with the 'satiable curiosity who journeyed to the Limpopo river--along with two lesser-known pieces. [via]
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 0679601996 (0-679-60199-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browningby Julia MarkusISBN 0679416021 (0-679-41602-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning'Book summary:A Riveting and brilliant work of biography. The story of two great English poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whose work was immediately recognized and adored by their contemporaries, whose courtship ranks with the great love stories of all time -- and in whose marriage romance was not merely sustained but intensified.
We enter their story through the sealed Victorian world of the Barretts of Wimpole Street: Elizabeth, at thirty-nine, a poet of international fame, a child prodigy who had grown to be a middle-aged spinster, a woman for whom romantic love seemed not to be possible, confined by illness, morphine, and the tyranny of her father, scion of rich Jamaican slaveholders, rum and sugar traders.
It is to this fortress that Robert Browning, already an admired young poet and playwright, already a devotee of Elizabeth's, lays siege. ("I love your verses," he had written Elizabeth in his first letter to her, long before they met. "I love your verses with all my heart -- and I love you too.") And miraculously Elizabeth let life in.
Julia Markus chronicles their extraordinary courtship, their marriage in secret (Browning to Elizabeth: "How you have dared and done all this ... for my only sake?"), and their radiant honeymoon in Italy.
Markus shows us how the political events of the times inspired the great dramatic monologues of Robert's middle years and how Italy's stormy reunification inspired Elizabeth's later work.
We come to see Elizabeth as an artist with a fierce and final confidence in poetry and its effect on the poets' lives. We see husband and wife celebrate the birth of their son, Robert Wiedemann "Pen" Barrett Browning (Browning to her sisters: "I sate by [Elizabeth] as much as I was allowed, and I shall never forget what I saw, tho' I cannot speak about it").
We see them among their artist/writer friends: in London with Tennyson, Thackeray, Rossetti, and others; in Rome with William Story, the American lawyer, poet, sculptor; with Harriet Hosmer, the stonecutter, who was one of the models for Aurora Leigh; with Charlotte Cushman, the American actress, who held readings of Elizabeth's novel in verse. We see Elizabeth in Paris meeting her heroine George Sand, whose society of socialists and theatrical types Robert described as "ragged Red."
We come to understand Elizabeth's dependence on the ever-present drug in her life ("I should not be alive except by help of my morphine") and her constant battle with depression. And we see Elizabeth, encouraged by a woman with whom she was infatuated, move from interest to obsession with spiritualism, a cause that became the only source of serious dissension between the Brownings.
We follow the course of their rich marriage, from the beginning when each saw the other as a brilliant poet, a compassionate and strangely similar heart, through the years in which they discovered each other's differences, each remaining a complex and thrilling human being to the other.
To tell their story, Markus for the first time makes use of much of Elizabeth's unpublished correspondence, amid a wealth of other documents. She delves fully into the Brownings' Creole background and shows how it affected their lives and their work (Elizabeth was the first of the Jamaican Barretts to be born in England in many generations).
Brilliantly interweaving the Brownings' own words with her authentic and perceptive narrative, Julia Markus brings these two great poets -- their marriage, their work, their times -- alive as never before. [via]More editions of Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning:
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0679423087 (0-679-42308-7)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Bury Text, in a boxed set. Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper [via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed Americaby Erik LarsonISBN 0609608444 (0-609-60844-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America'Book summary:Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. --John Moe [via]
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Edith Whartonby Edith WhartonISBN 068100570X (0-681-00570-X)
Softcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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A Fatal Passion : The Story of the Uncrowned Last Empress of Russiaby Michael SullivanISBN 0679424008 (0-679-42400-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Fathers and Childrenby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Avril PymanISBN 0679405364 (0-679-40536-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Alan Hodge, George ReaveyISBN 0613033310 (0-613-03331-0)
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Five Children and Itby Edith NesbitISBN 0590421468 (0-590-42146-8)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Stephen KingISBN 0613172388 (0-613-17238-8)
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The Golden Bowlby Henry James, Denis DonoghueISBN 0679417338 (0-679-41733-8)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 0679879242 (0-679-87924-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Compass'Book summary:Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal dæmon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had dæmons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey dæmon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Great Stinkby Clare ClarkISBN 0670915300 (0-670-91530-0)
Hardcover, Viking
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Heart of Darkness And the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 061399986X (0-613-99986-X)
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Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progressby Jan MorrisISBN 0571086454 (0-571-08645-4)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress'Book summary:The opening volume of Morriss Pax Britannica Trilogy, this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress:
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0679406670 (0-679-40667-0)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor HugoISBN 0582534941 (0-582-53494-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugos powerful historical romance The Hunchback of Notre-Dame has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, having fallen in love with the kindhearted Esmeralda, tries to save her by hiding her in the cathedrals tower. When a crowd of Parisian peasants, misunderstanding Quasimodos motives, attacks the church in an attempt to liberate her, the story ends in tragedy. [via]
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Softcover, Apple - The Hunchback of Notre- Dame: ISBN 0679602550 (0-679-60255-0)
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Jack Maggsby Peter CareyISBN 0679760377 (0-679-76037-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack Maggs'Book summary:"Jack Maggs is a dazzling tale of obsession, and Jack Maggs stands as a remarkable character, a resurrected antipodean lag returned to England for vengeance and reconciliation."
--Thomas Keneally
From the Booker Prize-winning author, a vivid and robust novel of Dickensian London--a place and a story teeming with mystery, science, and passion.
The time, the 1830s. Jack Maggs, a foundling trained in the fine arts of thievery, cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia, has now reversed his fortunes--and seeks to fulfill his well-concealed, innermost desire. Returning "home" under threat of execution, he inveigles his way into a household in Great Queen Street, where he's quickly embroiled in various emotional entanglements--and where he falls under the hypnotic scrutiny of Tobias Oates, a celebrated young writer fascinated by the process of mesmerism and obsessed with the criminal mind.
From this volatile milieu emerges a handful of vividly drawn characters in the dangerous pursuit of love, whether romantic or familial--each of them with secrets, and secret longings, that could spell certain ruin. And as their various schemes converge, the captivating figure at the center is Jack Maggs himself, at once frightening, mystifying, and utterly compelling.
"Imaginative and audacious . . . A twentieth-century, post-colonial Dickens novel . . . This strange, bold, gripping, and wonderful novel is the story of a power struggle, a double love story, a quest story, and a story of trickery and disguise. It's about taking possession--of an inheritance, of another person's soul, of your own destiny--and being taken possession of. Not least, it's the story of one writer's being possessed by another."
--Hermione Lee, The Observer
"Uncommonly exciting and engaging. As much as anyone now writing, Peter Carey is a master of storytelling. His empathy with his characters, combined with his psychological sharp-sightedness, has them almost jumping off the page in full human complexity. An especial bonus is his style . . . Vivid, exact, unexpected images and language match the quick, witty intelligence flickering through this novel, and make it a triumph of ebullient indictment, humane insight, and creative generosity."
--Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London)
"Writing and philosophical contemplations of the highest order . . . On a par with, and more interesting than, his two earlier masterpieces . . . An absorbing, beautifully written novel finished off with a most satisfactory happy ending, and with incidents, an atmosphere, and ideas that linger in the mind."
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0613524179 (0-613-52417-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere. [via]
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Archibald Macleish, Mark SchorerISBN 0679600655 (0-679-60065-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most controversial of Lawrence's books, Lady Chatterly's Lover joyously affirms the author's vision of individual regeneration through sexual love. The book's power, complexity, and psychological intricacy make this a completely original worka triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life.
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The Light Princess, and Other Tales Being the Complete Fairy Stories of George Macdonaldby George MacDonaldISBN 0575010614 (0-575-01061-4)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Little Themeby Philip PullmanISBN 0590541781 (0-590-54178-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Theme'Book summary:This is the first in a trilogy in which a new universe has been created. A world where daemons swoop and scuttle along the streets of Oxford and London, where the mysterious Dust swirls invisibly through the air, and where one child knows secrets the adults would kill for. [via]
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 0679405488 (0-679-40548-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonderby Lawrence WeschlerISBN 0679764895 (0-679-76489-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder'Book summary:In the non-Aristotelian, non-Euclidean, non-Newtonian space between the walls of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles exist bats that can fly through lead barriers, spore-ingesting pronged ants, elaborate theories of memory, and a host of other off-kilter scientific oddities that challenge the traditional notions of truth and fiction. Lawrence Weschler's book, expanded from an article for Harper's, is, at turns, a tour of the museum, a profile of its founder and curator, David Wilson, and a meditation on the role of imagination and authority in all museums, in science and in life. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder is an exquisite piece of "magic realist nonfiction" that will prove utterly captivating. [via]
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder : Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technologyby Lawrence WeschlerISBN 0679439986 (0-679-43998-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder : Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology'Book summary:In the non-Aristotelian, non-Euclidean, non-Newtonian space between the walls of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles exist bats that can fly through lead barriers, spore-ingesting pronged ants, elaborate theories of memory, and a host of other off-kilter scientific oddities that challenge the traditional notions of truth and fiction. Lawrence Weschler's book, expanded from an article for Harper's, is, at turns, a tour of the museum, a profile of its founder and curator, David Wilson, and a meditation on the role of imagination and authority in all museums, in science and in life. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder is an exquisite piece of "magic realist nonfiction" that will prove utterly captivating. [via]
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The Mysterious Islandby Jules Verne, Jordan Stump, Caleb Carr, Jules-Descartes FeratISBN 0679642366 (0-679-64236-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysterious Island'Book summary:The five castaways, having landed from a balloon on an island in the Pacific, begin their struggle for survival and the adventures that will lead them to the mysterious Captain Nemo.
Verne's remarkable novel, originally published in 1875 and by Scribners in 1918 with N.C. Wyeth's magnificent illustrations, is the latest of the Scribner Illustrated Classics to be reissued. The original canvases have been newly photographed and reproduced with exceptional fidelity for this edition, and the text has been reset in the original typeface. [via]
Once and Alwaysby Judith McNaughtISBN 0671737627 (0-671-73762-7)
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The Portable Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Stanley Weintraub, Richard AldingtonISBN 0670767433 (0-670-76743-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals: A Selectionby Christopher Hibbert, VictoriaISBN 0670804304 (0-670-80430-4)
Hardcover, Viking
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Rossettiby Christina Georgina RossettiISBN 0679429085 (0-679-42908-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rossetti'Book summary:These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Rossetti contains a full selection of Rossetti's work, including her lyric poems, dramatic and narrative poems, rhymes and riddles, sonnet sequences, prayers and meditations, and an index of first lines. [via]
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0582421764 (0-582-42176-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:In addition to the text of the first edition of the novel, the New Riverside Edition of The Scarlet Letter contains a wide variety of contextual materials and scholarly essays. "Contexts" includes additional writings and letters by Hawthorne, as well as essays on the New England sources of the novel and the novel's publication history. "Criticism" contains early reviews of the novel and critical readings from the 19th century (such as an excerpt from Henry James' book Hawthorne) to the present. [via]
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- The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0618107347 (0-618-10734-7)
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Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0671510118 (0-671-51011-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0671724673 (0-671-72467-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0679725261 (0-679-72526-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0606130276 (0-606-13027-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0681103604 (0-681-10360-4)
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Seduction in Mindby Susan JohnsonISBN 0553582542 (0-553-58254-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Three Musketeersby Alexandre Dumas, Deborah G. FelderISBN 0679860177 (0-679-86017-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, Richard PevearISBN 0670037796 (0-670-03779-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. He soon finds himself fighting alongside three
heroic comrades--Athos, Porthos, and Aramis--who seek to uphold the honor of the king by foiling the wicked plots of Cardinal Richelieu and the beautiful spy "Milady."
"Dumas will be read a hundred, nay, three hundred years on," wrote John Galsworthy. "His greatest creation is undoubtedly D'Artagnan, type at once of the fighting adventurer and of the trusty servant, whose wily blade is ever at the back of those whose hearts have neither his magnanimity nor his courage. Few, if any, characters in fiction inspire one with such belief in their
individual existences. . . . To one who made D'Artagnan all shall be forgiven." Clifton Fadiman agreed: "Dumas enjoyed writing his stories. . . . The pleasure he must have felt in
creating D'Artagnan's troubles and triumphs
flashes out of these pages. . . . Dumas rampaged through the history of France, inventing, changing, distorting--doing whatever was needed to produce a tale to hold the reader breathless." [via]More editions of The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel:
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The Victorian Kitchenby Jennifer DaviesISBN 0563362812 (0-563-36281-2)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns
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Victorian Poetryby Valentine CunninghamISBN 0631230769 (0-631-23076-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Societyby Gordon MarsdenISBN 0582036852 (0-582-03685-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry & Poeticsby Valentine CunninghamISBN 0631199160 (0-631-19916-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Victorians and Ancient Greeceby Richard JenkynsISBN 0674936876 (0-674-93687-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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What Maisie Knewby Henry JamesISBN 0678028117 (0-678-02811-7)
Hardcover, Scholars Book Shelf
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The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskinby John Dixon HuntISBN 0670765783 (0-670-76578-3)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth GrahameISBN 0613934709 (0-613-93470-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wind In The Willows'Book summary:"[Mole] thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before--this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again." Such is the cautious, agreeable Mole's first introduction to the river and the Life Adventurous. Emerging from his home at Mole End one spring, his whole world changes when he hooks up with the good-natured, boat-loving Water Rat, the boastful Toad of Toad Hall, the society- hating Badger who lives in the frightening Wild Wood, and countless other mostly well-meaning creatures. Michael Hague's exquisitely detailed, breathtaking color illustrations on almost every generous spread--along with Kenneth Grahame's elegant, delightfully old-fashioned characterizations of the animals--make this book a wonderful read-aloud. Grahame's The Wind in the Willows has enchanted readers for four generations, and this lavishly illustrated gift edition is perhaps the finest around. (All ages, or 9 to 12) [via]
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Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - The Wind in the Willows: ISBN 0582541425 (0-582-54142-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - The Wind in the Willows: ISBN 0590447742 (0-590-44774-2)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry JamesISBN 0678028206 (0-678-02820-6)
Hardcover, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
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Works of Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0681410566 (0-681-41056-6)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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The World of Charles Dickensby Angus WilsonISBN 0670785768 (0-670-78576-8)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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