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Abracadaverby Peter LoveseyISBN 0396066275 (0-396-06627-5)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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Apologia Pro Vita Suaby John Henry NewmanISBN 0395051096 (0-395-05109-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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As You Desireby Connie BrockwayISBN 0440221994 (0-440-22199-4)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As You Desire'Book summary:He galloped across the midnight-shrouded landscape, racing toward her on his pure white steed. Her destiny...In her wildest fantasies Desdemona Carlisle could not have conjured a more dashing savior, and this was real. But an unlikelier hero was hard to find. Harry Braxton was a rouge, a scoundrel, and a born opportunist who had already broken her heart once. How could she ever trust a notorious rake who came with a warning: lover, beware...
With her bronze-gold hair and quicksilver grace, the sloe-eyed beauty was every man's desire and one man's sole passion. But the secret that had made Harry an exile also made it impossible for him to offer Desdemona more that friendship. Until his aristocratic cousin laid siege to Desdemona's heart and Harry, damning the consequences, vowed to do anything, give anything, to claim her for him own... [via]More editions of As You Desire:
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Autobiographyby John Stuart Mill, Jack StillingerISBN 0395051207 (0-395-05120-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography'Book summary:John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873), English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential Classical liberal thinker of the 19th century whose works on liberty justified freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He wrote the book Utilitarianism , a philosophical defense of utilitarianism in ethics. [via]
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Bertie and the Seven Bodiesby Peter LoveseyISBN 0445408588 (0-445-40858-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Bertie and the Tinmanby Peter LoveseyISBN 0445405929 (0-445-40592-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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A Case of Spiritsby Peter LoveseyISBN 0396072186 (0-396-07218-6)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mysteryby Nancy SpringerISBN 0399243046 (0-399-24304-6)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery'Book summary:[via]When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappearedon her 14th birthday nonethelessshe knows she alone can find her. Disguising herself as a grieving widow, Enola sets out to the heart of London to uncover her mothers whereaboutsbut not even the last name Holmes can prepare her for what awaits. Suddenly involved in the kidnapping of the young Marquess of Basilwether, Enola must escape murderous villains, free the spoiled Marquess, and perhaps hardest of all, elude her shrewd older brotherall while collecting clues to her mothers disappearance!
A remarkable debut of a new mystery series by two-time Edgar Awardwinning author Nancy Springer.
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0451522834 (0-451-52283-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Patricia C. WredeISBN 0439574293 (0-439-57429-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Curse of the Pharaohsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0445406488 (0-445-40648-8)
Softcover, Mysterious Pr
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Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanleyby John BiermanISBN 0394583426 (0-394-58342-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Darwinby James Moore, Adrian DesmondISBN 0446515892 (0-446-51589-2)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Death at Bishop's Keepby Robin PaigeISBN 0425164357 (0-425-16435-7)
Softcover, Prime Crime
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Death at Daisy's Follyby Robin PaigeISBN 0425156710 (0-425-15671-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Death at Glamis Castleby Robin PaigeISBN 0425192644 (0-425-19264-4)
Softcover, Prime Crime
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireISBN 0394320514 (0-394-32051-4)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Detective Wore Silk Drawersby Peter LoveseyISBN 0396063772 (0-396-06377-2)
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Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian Americanby Carroll Smith-RosenbergISBN 0394535456 (0-394-53545-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian American'Book summary:This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it examines the dramatic changes in male-female relations, family structure, sex, social custom, and ritual that occurred as colonial America was transformed by rapid industrialization. Included are two now classic essays on gender relations in 19th-century America, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America" and "The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Order and Gender Crisis, 1870-1936," as well as Smith-Rosenberg's more recent work, on abortion, homosexuality, religious fanatics, and revisionist history.
Throughout Disorderly Conduct, Smith-Rosenberg startles and convinces, making us re-evaluate a society we thought we understood, a society whose outward behavior and inner emotional life now take on a new meaning. [via]More editions of Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian American:
Eight Cousinsby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0448023598 (0-448-02359-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Eight Cousins or Aunt Hillby Louisa May Alcott, Joan AikenISBN 0440422310 (0-440-42231-0)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Fathers and Childrenby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard HareISBN 0404019048 (0-404-01904-8)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Michael R. KatzISBN 0393967522 (0-393-96752-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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First Men in the Moonby H. G. WellsISBN 0425044114 (0-425-04411-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Five Children and Itby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0440425867 (0-440-42586-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Flash for Freedom!by George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394479475 (0-394-47947-5)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Flashman at the Chargeby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394487567 (0-394-48756-7)
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The French Revolution: A Historyby Thomas CarlyleISBN 0404014127 (0-404-01412-7)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Lifeby Robert Bernard MartinISBN 039913610X (0-399-13610-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Gibbon's the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby M. HadasISBN 0449300560 (0-449-30056-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 0440238137 (0-440-23813-7)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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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 daemon, 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 daemons 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 daemon, 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 daemon, 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]
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Grammar of Ornamentby O. JonesISBN 0442241755 (0-442-24175-5)
Hardcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grammar of Ornament'Book summary:Architect and decorator Owen Jones supervised the works at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, and his decoration of the Crystal Palace was hailed as one of the great achievements of the exhibition. In 1856, Jones published his indispensable reference work, The Grammar of Ornament. Organized into twenty chapters with introductory text, its encyclopedic approach offers a unique vision of decorative styles throughout time. The richly detailed and varied illustrations make the Grammar of Ornament a must-have volume for curious-minded scholars, contemporary craftsmen, and artists. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph Conrad, Albert J. GuerardISBN 0451523210 (0-451-52321-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Two of Joseph Conrad's most compelling and haunting works, in which the deepest perceptions and desires of the human heart and mind are explored.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: " A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
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Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. [via]SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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The House of Mirthby Edith Wharton, Elizabeth AmmonsISBN 0393959015 (0-393-95901-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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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 0440226759 (0-440-22675-9)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffriesby Emily BrightwellISBN 0425136221 (0-425-13622-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebookby Donald RumbelowISBN 042511869X (0-425-11869-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology: Of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Capt Fitz Roy, R.N.by Charles DarwinISBN 040408401X (0-404-08401-X)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0451515196 (0-451-51519-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0394601483 (0-394-60148-3)
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Lorna Dooneby R. D. BlackmoreISBN 0396066046 (0-396-06604-6)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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The Making of the English Working Classby E.P. ThompsonISBN 0394703227 (0-394-70322-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of the English Working Class'Book summary:"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most important study of those days since the classic work of the Hammonds."--Commentary
"Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination and controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms and illusions of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of the English people should fail to read his book."--London Times Literary Supplement [via]More editions of The Making of the English Working Class:
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The Making of Victorian Englandby G. Kitson ClarkISBN 0415065917 (0-415-06591-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Moll Flandersby Daniel Defoe, Albert J. RiveroISBN 0393978621 (0-393-97862-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Mummy Caseby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0446601934 (0-446-60193-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Painting Women: Victorian Women Artistsby Deborah CherryISBN 0415060532 (0-415-06053-2)
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A Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordonby Katherine FrankISBN 0395546885 (0-395-54688-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Phoenix and the Carpetby Edith NesbitISBN 0440470358 (0-440-47035-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Poems of Robert Browningby Robert BrowningISBN 0395051037 (0-395-05103-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems of Robert Browning'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. 1896 Excerpt: ...dying whims, And soothe her with the idle hope They'd say their prayers and sing their hymns As if her husband were the Pope! And she did die--believing just This privilege was purchased! Dead In comfort thro' her foolish trust! "Stiff-necked ones," well Esaias said! XXVIII. So, Sabbath morning, out of gate And on to way, what sees our arch Good Farmer? Why, they hoist their freight--The corpse--on shoulder, and so, march! "Now for it, Buti!" In the nick Of time't is pully-hauly, hence With hoarding! O'er the wayside quick There's Mary plain in evidence! XXIX. And here's the convoy halting: right! O they are bent on howling psalms And growling prayers, when opposite! And yet they glance, for all their qualms, Approve that promptitude of his, The Farmer's--duly at his post 330 To take due thanks from every phiz, Sour smirk--nay, surly smile almost! xxx. Then earthward drops each brow again; The solemn task's resumed; they reach Their holy field--the unholy train: Enter its precinct, all and each, Wrapt somehow in their godless rites; Till, rites at end, up-waking, lo They lift their faces! What delights The mourners as they turn to go? 240 XXXI. Ha, ha! he, he! On just the side They drew their purse-strings to make quit Of Mary,--Christ the Crucified Fronted them now--these biters bit! Never was such a hiss and snort, Such screwing nose and shooting lip! Their purchase--honey in report--Proved gall and verjuice at first sip! XXXII. Out they break, on they bustle, where, A-top of wall, the Farmer waits 250 With Buti: never fun so rare! The Farmer has the best: he rates The rascal, as the old High Priest Takes on himself to sermonize--Nay, sneer " We Jews supposed, at least, Theft was a crime in Christian eyes!" XXXIII. "Thef... [via]
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Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnoldby Matthew ArnoldISBN 0395051525 (0-395-05152-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0395051428 (0-395-05142-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'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. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly-ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labor for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith. About this period, however, the health of Mr. Dimmesdale had evidently' begun to fail. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp. Some declared, that, if Mr. Dimmesdale were really going to die, it was cause enough, that the world was not worthy to be any onger trodden by his feet. He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief, that, if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth. With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact. His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain. Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Koger Chillingworth made his advent to the town. His first entry on the scene, few people... [via]
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Scarlet Letter and Other Tales of the Puritansby Hawthorne LevinISBN 0395051533 (0-395-05153-3)
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The Scarlet Letter And Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticismby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leland S. PersonISBN 0393979539 (0-393-97953-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter And Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most widely read novel appears during the bicentennial anniversary year of his birth.The text of The Scarlet Letter is based on the 1850 third edition, the first set in stereotype plates and the basis of subsequent printings in Hawthorne's lifetime. An invaluable selection of contextual material includes five Hawthorne stories that are closely related to The Scarlet Letter, along with relevant letters and notebook entries. A substantial excerpt from Hawthorne's campaign biography of Franklin Pierce offers a revealing glimpse at Hawthorne's political thought, especially regarding slavery and abolition. "Criticism" provides a comprehensive overview of early and modern commentary on The Scarlet Letter and the stories in this edition, including nineteenth-century reviews of the novel and critical essays by Robert S. Levine, Nina Baym, Larry J. Reynolds, and Jean Fagan Yellin. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0440402204 (0-440-40220-4)
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Second Sightby Amanda QuickISBN 0399153527 (0-399-15352-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Selected Poemsby Christina RossettiISBN 0415942977 (0-415-94297-7)
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Six Notable Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0448130467 (0-448-13046-7)
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, Norman Price, Jacques Le Clercq, E. C. Van SwearingenISBN 0448060248 (0-448-06024-8)
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Three Musketeers Specialby Alexandre DumasISBN 0448424460 (0-448-42446-0)
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The Time Machine and the Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0451518772 (0-451-51877-2)
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The Time Machine and the Invisible Manby Paul Youngquist, John Calvin BatchelorISBN 0451522389 (0-451-52238-9)
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The Time Machine and the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0449300439 (0-449-30043-9)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Machine and the War of the Worlds'Book summary:H. G. Wells
Scientific visionary. Social prophet. Master storyteller. Few novelists have captivated generations of readers like H. G. Wells. In enduring, electrifying detail, he takes us to dimensions of time and space that have haunted our dreams for centuries -- and shows us ourselves as we really are.
The time machine
In the heart of Victorian England, an inquisitve gentleman known only as the Time Traveler constructs an elaborate invention that hurtles him hundreds of thousands of years into the future. There he finds himself in the violent center of the ultimate conflict between beings of light and creatures of darkness.
The war of the worlds
Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-century London. This tale of conquest by superior beings with superadvanced technology is so nightmarishly real that an adaptation by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater sent hundreds of impressionable radio listeners into panicked flight forty years after the story's original publication. [via]More editions of The Time Machine and the War of the Worlds:
A Victorian Christmasby Betina Krahn, Edith Layton, Patricia Gaffney, Mary Jo PutneyISBN 0451174429 (0-451-17442-9)
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Victorian Fairy Talesby Jack David ZipesISBN 0415901405 (0-415-90140-5)
Softcover, Routledge Kegan & Paul
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Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politicsby Isobel ArmstronISBN 0415144256 (0-415-14425-6)
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A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsleyby Kathrine FrankISBN 0395353157 (0-395-35315-7)
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William Morris: A Life for Our Timeby Fiona MacCarthyISBN 0394585313 (0-394-58531-3)
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The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth GrahameISBN 0448171880 (0-448-17188-0)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, J. Donald Crowley, Richard A. HocksISBN 0393978818 (0-393-97881-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The text of this 1902 novel is again that of the fully corrected and annotated reprint of the New York Edition (1909), together with Jamess preface and the two frontispieces he commissioned for the New York Edition of The Wings of the Dove.
The "Textual Appendix" includes notes on the novels textual history and lists all substantive revisions that James made to the novel, both in 1902 and in1909. "The Author and the Novel," introduced by editorial commentary and new to the Second Edition, includes selections from Jamess notebooks, letters, travel books, and autobiographical writings, which illuminate his conception and assessment of The Wings of the Dove. "Criticism" reflects the lively interpretive and theoretical writing that The Wings of the Dove has enjoyed since the previous edition was published in 1978. Eleven essays are included, seven of them new to the Second Edition, including Anthony J. Mazzellas piece on film adaptation. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. Illustrations, maps [via]More editions of The Wings of the Dove:
The World of Charles Dickensby Angus WilsonISBN 0436575132 (0-436-57513-2)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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The Wyvern Mysteryby Joseph S. Le FanuISBN 0405092504 (0-405-09250-4)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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