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Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Scott McKowenISBN 1402726007 (1-4027-2600-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Oliver Ho, Dan AndreasenISBN 1402724993 (1-4027-2499-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:[via]We said there was no home like a raft. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery but you feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. Sail down the Mississippi with Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim. Twains beloved tale, with its folksy language, creates an indelible image of antebellum America with its sleepy river towns, con men, family feuds, and a variety of colorful characters.
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Alton Locke, Tailor and Poetby Charles Kingsley, Et AlISBN 1406814121 (1-4068-1412-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Lisa R. Church, Lucy CorvinoISBN 1402711441 (1-4027-1144-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Black Beautyby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714521 (1-4027-1452-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Bone Sharps, Cowboys, And Thunder Lizardsby Jim Ottaviani, Mark Schultz, Zander Cannon, Shad Petosky, Kevin CannonISBN 0966010663 (0-9660106-6-3)
Softcover, Gt Labs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bone Sharps, Cowboys, And Thunder Lizards'Book summary:The Wild West provided the setting for some famous battles, but the gunfight at O.K. Corral doesn't hold a candle to the Bone Wars. Following the Civil War, the (Re-)United States turned its attention to the unexplored territories between the Mississippi and the Pacific. The railroads led the way, and to build them we blasted through mountains and leveled valleys and exposed rock that hadn't seen the light of day for millions of years. This is the story of Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, two scientists who found and fought for those bones, and the artist Charles R. Knight who almost single-handedly brought dinosaurs back to life for an awestruck public. Guest starring Chief Red Cloud and hundreds of his Indian Braves, the gun-totin' and gamblin' Professor John Bell Hatcher, colossal and stupefying Dinosauria of the New World, and featuring special appearances by The Cardiff Giant, P.T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill Cody, Ulysses S. Grant, Alexander Graham Bell, and a plentiful supporting cast of Rogues and Gallants from the Eastern Scientific Establishment and The Old West, the colorful supporting cast makes for a rich blend of history, adventure, science, and art. [via]
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Catherineby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 1406500550 (1-4065-0055-0)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyondby Martha K. SmithISBN 0965034909 (0-9650349-0-9)
Softcover, Cuchipanda Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyond'Book summary:From the author of the critically acclaimed "The Handmaid's Tale" comes this 2000 novel-within-a-novel centering on entangled relationships in 1930s-40s Ontario, Canada. [via]
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The Club of Queer Tradesby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1406803081 (1-4068-0308-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Club of Queer Trades'Book summary:Chesterton has been called the Prince of Paradox. His works include journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, fantasy and detective stories. Chesterton has great fun satirizing the Victorian sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes in this novel. We are introduced to the detective Rupert Grant. Rupert and his brother attempt to solve a series of bizarre cases linked to the Club of Queer Trades much to the delight of the reader.
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Cold Mountainby Charles FrazierISBN 1405835672 (1-4058-3567-2)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Mountain'Book summary:Winner of the 1997 National Book Award
A New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year
Charles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land, a place where savagery coexists with splendour and human beings contend with the inhuman solitude of the wilderness. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving. [via] -
The Collector's Edition of the Lost Erotic Novelsby Anais Et Al NinISBN 0975533177 (0-9755331-7-7)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Collector's Edition of Victorian Eroticaby LacaritilieISBN 097553310X (0-9755331-0-X)
Softcover, Magic Carpet Books, Incorporated
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A Companion To The Victorian Novelby Patrick Brantlinger, William B. ThesingISBN 1405132914 (1-4051-3291-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856by Trevor RoyleISBN 1403964165 (1-4039-6416-5)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Darwin Conspiracyby John DarntonISBN 1400034833 (1-4000-3483-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Darwin Conspiracy'Book summary:In this riveting new novel, best-selling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the insights of fiction to explore the many mysteries attached to the life and work of Charles Darwin.
What led Darwin to the theory of evolution? Why did he wait twenty-two years to write On the Origin of Species? Why was he incapacitated by mysterious illnesses and frightened of travel? Who was his secret rival? These are some of the questions driving Darntons richly dramatic narrative, which unfolds through three vivid points of view: Darwins own as he sails around the world aboard the Beagle; his daughter Lizzies as she strives to understand the guilt and fear that struck her father at the height of his fame; and that of present-day anthropologist Hugh Kellem and Darwin scholar Beth Dulicmer, whose obsession with Darwin (and with each other) drives them beyond the accepted boundaries of scholarly research. What Hugh and Beth discoverLizzies diaries and letters lead them to a hidden chapter of Darwins autobiographyis a maze of bitter rivalries, petty deceptions, and jealously guarded secrets, at the heart of which lies the birth of the theory of evolution.
With The Darwin Conspiracy, John Darnton again delivers a stunning tapestry of history and imagination, a galvanizing novel. [via] -
Desert Queenby Janet WallachISBN 1400096197 (1-4000-9619-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desert Queen'Book summary:A biography of the woman who, indirectly, was the catalyst for many of the troubles in the Middle East, including the Gulf War. In 1918, Gertrude Bell drew the region's proposed boundaries on a piece of tracing paper. Her qualifications for doing so were her extensive travel, her fluency in both Persian and Arabic, and her relationships with sheiks and tribal and religious leaders. She also possessed an ability to understand the subtle and indirect politeness of the culture, something many of her colonialist comrades were oblivious to. As a self-made statesman her sex was an asset, enabling her to bypass the ladder of protocol and dive into the business of building an Empire. [via]
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Diana of the Crosswaysby George MeredithISBN 1404348433 (1-4043-4843-3)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who became prime ministerby Christopher HibbertISBN 1403972702 (1-4039-7270-2)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Doll's House: A Playby Henrik IbsenISBN 1406914835 (1-4069-1483-5)
Softcover, Hard Pr Inc
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Duty and Desire: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentlemanby Pamela AidanISBN 0972852913 (0-9728529-1-3)
Softcover, Wytherngate Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Duty and Desire: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman'Book summary:"The inferiority of her connections! Yet, never was he so bewitched!" When Fitzwilliam Darcy left Hertfordshire, he was a man conflictedbewitched by a woman of meagre fortune and vulgar relations. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen reveals little more about her creationhis past or present. During the months he is absent from Austens story, Darcy must come to terms with this invasion of his heart. Is there a woman of his own sphere who can banish Elizabeth Bennet from it?
Duty and Desire, the second book of the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, takes the reader into Darcys private world as he moves among his family, friends, and foes. Determined to forget Elizabeth Bennet, he returns to Pemberley to lose himself in work and family concerns. Then he accepts an invitation to an old friends house party where he meets the fascinatingly beautiful and mysterious Lady Sylvanie. [via]
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Elizabeth and Her German Gardenby Elizabeth Von ArnimISBN 1406807184 (1-4068-0718-4)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Emma 1by Kaoru MoriISBN 1401211321 (1-4012-1132-1)
Softcover, Cmx
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma 1'Book summary:Cute story of romanace between social classes in Victorian England. [via]
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Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupinby Maurice Le BlancISBN 1406500011 (1-4065-0001-1)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman: Book 1 An Assembly Such As Thisby Pamela AidanISBN 0972852905 (0-9728529-0-5)
Softcover, Wytherngate
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grewby Margaret SidneyISBN 1404303103 (1-4043-0310-3)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Little Peppers And How They Grew'Book summary:Mrs. Pepper, a widow, and her five children lived in a plain little brown house where she struggled to feed and clothe her lively brood. The family had little in the way of luxury and hardly any of the things that many of us today take for granted, But they had such fun and good times together and loved one another so dearly that when a very rich little boy discovered the warmth and happiness that flooded the little brown house he felt himself lucky to be in it. And as it turned out, his coming brought luck to the Five Little Peppers too.[via]More editions of Five Little Peppers And How They Grew:
Flashman On The March: From The Flashman Papers, 1867-8by George MacDonald FraserISBN 1400096464 (1-4000-9646-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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From Life: Julia Margaret Cameron & Victorian Photographyby Victoria C. OlsenISBN 1403960194 (1-4039-6019-4)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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George Eliotby George EliotISBN 1402718853 (1-4027-1885-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 1404304789 (1-4043-0478-9)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Grimms' Fairy TalesISBN 1404305378 (1-4043-0537-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Grimms' Fairy Talesby Brothers GrimmISBN 1406821411 (1-4068-2141-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimms' Fairy Tales'Book summary:This clear print title is set in Tiresias 13pt font for easy reading [via]
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The Haunted Priory; Or, the Fortunes of the House of Rayoby Stephen Cullen, Franz J. PotterISBN 0976721228 (0-9767212-2-8)
Softcover, Zittaw Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haunted Priory; Or, the Fortunes of the House of Rayo'Book summary:Stephen Cullen's The Haunted Priory; or, The Fortunes of the House of Rayo was first published in 1794, the same year Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. One of the first Gothic novels set in medieval Spain, it recounts the fall of the House of Rayo during the politically dangerous period of Peter the Cruel. Alphonso, son of Don Isidor, nephew of Baron de Rayo, is led to a ruinous chapel by a cowled spectre where he begins to unearth the mysteries surrounding his family. Skilled at utilizing familiar Gothic conventions, Cullen proves a master of Gothic horror in this early example of the historical Gothic. This new edition of The Haunted Priory includes the nineteenth century chapbook version of the novel, notes on the text and chapbook as well as contextual information on the Gothic novel in the late 18th century. [via]
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A Hazard of New Fortunesby William Dean HowellsISBN 1404309675 (1-4043-0967-5)
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The Heart of Mid-Lothianby Walter ScottISBN 1406501964 (1-4065-0196-4)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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Hottentot Venusby Barbara Chase-RiboudISBN 1400032083 (1-4000-3208-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1404366342 (1-4043-6634-2)
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An Ideal Husbandby Oscar WildeISBN 140650243X (1-4065-0243-X)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 1406510017 (1-4065-1001-7)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:By the American abolitionist and writer who was born to slaves in North Carolina. Her autobiographical accounts started being published in serial form in the New York Tribune. However, her reports of sexual abuse were considered too shocking to the average newspaper reader of the day, and publication ceased before the completion of the narrative. In 1861, she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, under the pseudonym Linda Brent. Much of the book is devoted to her struggle to free her two children. She changed the names of all characters, including her own, in order to conceal true identities. Jacobs argued that the cruelty of slavery destroyed the virtue of an entire society, and "is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks". [via]
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An Island Gardenby Celia ThaxterISBN 0961261005 (0-9612610-0-5)
Softcover, Bullbrier Pr
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Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Historyby Paul BeggISBN 1405807121 (1-4058-0712-1)
Softcover, Pearson P T R
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History'Book summary:In 1888 the Whitechapel area of London was the scene of some of the most brutal murders ever recorded in history - and yet the case of Jack the Ripper remains unsolved. Steering clear of wild conspiracy theories, and spurious attempts to advance new theories about the identity of the culprit, Paul Begg instead provides the facts behind one of the most infamous and grisly episodes of the Victorian era.
The book is a social history of Victorian East London as it is about the murders themselves. Begg argues that the case excited such interest precisely because of the notoriety of the East End at the time. Chronological coverage includes detailed accounts of the lives of each of the victims and an examination of the police investigation.
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The Jewel of Seven Starsby Bram StokerISBN 1404311181 (1-4043-1118-1)
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Jezebel's Daughterby Wilkie CollinsISBN 1404310770 (1-4043-1077-0)
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The Joss: A Reversion a Novelby Richard MarshISBN 0979233232 (0-9792332-3-2)
Hardcover, Valancourt Books
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Key Concepts in Victorian Literatureby Sean PurchaseISBN 1403948070 (1-4039-4807-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Key Concepts in Victorian Literature'Book summary:This text contains major facts, ideas, and contemporary theories, and is packed with close and detailed readings of a variety of novels, poems, and plays. Structured into three easy-to-use sections, this text book guides readers through all the major concepts, themes and issues that characterize Victorian literature; offers an overview of the historical and cultural context in which this literature was produced; and introduces readers to all of the significant critical and theoretical perspectives that underpin modern research into the period.[via]More editions of Key Concepts in Victorian Literature:
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Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Bookby Terry JonesISBN 1402720335 (1-4027-2033-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book'Book summary:This perennial bestseller never loses its charm. It really happened-a hoax perpetrated by two girls who claimed to have photographed actual "fairies"; among the people caught up in the popular hysteria were Arthur Conan Doyle (who fell for it) and Harry Houdini (who did not). This remarkable parody, written by a former member of the Monty Python troupe, takes a riotously witty, visually extraordinary, and wildly original look at what went on. In every respect, this "handwritten diary" captures the look of the age-though the fairies, it is true, do sometimes have a more malevolent aspect than one might expect...[via]
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Little Lord Fauntleroyby Frances H. BurnettISBN 1406505609 (1-4065-0560-9)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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Little Lord Fauntleroyby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 1404313419 (1-4043-1341-9)
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The Magic Skinby Honore De BalzacISBN 140435381X (1-4043-5381-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Skin'Book summary:Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities." [via]
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The Man of Propertyby John GalsworthyISBN 1404316345 (1-4043-1634-5)
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The Man Who Would Be Kingby Rudyard KipingISBN 1406503177 (1-4065-0317-7)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventuresby J. H. PattersonISBN 1406830003 (1-4068-3000-3)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideasby Walter PaterISBN 0948166029 (0-948166-02-9)
Softcover, Soho Book Company
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Murder on the Leviathanby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1400060516 (1-4000-6051-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Following the 1878 murders of British aristocrat Lord Littleby and his servants on Paris's fashionable Rue de Grenelle, Gustave Gauche, "Investigator for Especially Important Crimes," boards the double-engined, six-masted Leviathan on its maiden voyage from England to India. He's on the lookout for first-class passengers missing their specially made gold whale badges--one of which Littleby had yanked from his attacker before he died. However, this trap fails: several travelers are badgeless, and still others make equally good candidates for Littleby's slayer, including a demented baronet, a dubious Japanese army officer, a pregnant and loquacious Swiss banker's wife, and a suave Russian diplomat headed for Japan. That last is of course Fandorin, still recovering two years later from the events related in The Winter Queen. Like a lesser Hercule Poirot, "papa" Gauche grills these suspects, all of whom harbor secrets, and occasionally lays blame for Paris's "crime of the century" before one or another of them--only to have the hyper-perceptive Fandorin deflate his arguments. It takes many leagues of ocean, several more deaths, and a superfluity of overlong recollections by the shipmates before a solution to this twisted case emerges from the facts of Littleby's killing and the concurrent theft of a valuable Indian artifact from his mansion.
Like the best Golden Age nautical mysteries, Murder on the Leviathan finds its drama in the escalating tensions between a small circle of too-tight-quartered passengers, and draws its humor from their over-mannered behavior and individual eccentricities. Trouble is, Akunin (the pseudonym of Russian philologist Grigory Chkhartishvili) doesn't exceed expectations of what can be done within those traditions. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cabby Fergus W. HumeISBN 0947533427 (0-947533-42-7)
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Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardustby Neil Gaiman, Charles VessISBN 1401211909 (1-4012-1190-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust'Book summary:De Féerie, le pays magique, les habitants du petit village de Wall savent peu de choses. Il faut dire qu'un grand mur les en séparent. Un mur dans lequel est ouvert une brèche, une brèche bien gardée, par laquelle ils n'ont droit de passer qu'une fois l'an, le jour de la grande foire de Wall. C'est ce jour-là, justement, que le jeune Tristram Thorn, décidé à conquérir le cSur de sa belle, part pour le pays de fée afin de lui ramener une étoile filante. Mais dans un pays magique, rien n'est comme ailleurs. Les distances sont immenses, on y croise nains et licornes, des chasseurs d'éclairs naviguent sur des bateaux volants et l'on est jamais à l'abri d'un mauvais sort qui pourra vous transformer en arbre, en chèvre ou en rat. Un monde plein de dangers et de merveilles que Tristram est loin d'imaginer, comme il est loin d'imaginer que son étoile filante est une belle et pure jeune fille, dont la présence ici-bas va éveiller la concupiscence des sept seigneurs de Sromhold comme de quelques vilaines sorcières...
Neil Gaiman est aussi à l'aise dans la BD (Sandman), que dans le roman (Neverwhere). Un talent inépuisable qu'il confirme une fois de plus ici en revisitant avec bonheur l'univers des contes de fées. À la fois drôle, merveilleux et volontairement naïf, Stardust est une réussite. --Georges Louhans [via]
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Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses: The Case of Charlotte Brontdby Diana PeschierISBN 1403943028 (1-4039-4302-8)
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On Heroes, Hero-worship & the Heroic in Historyby Thomas CarlyleISBN 1406795321 (1-4067-9532-1)
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Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studiesby Robert Patten, Robert L. PattenISBN 1403912858 (1-4039-1285-8)
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 1404324232 (1-4043-2423-2)
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Physics and Politicsby Walter BagehotISBN 1404324364 (1-4043-2436-4)
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Precious Baneby Mary WebbISBN 1406794724 (1-4067-9472-4)
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Pygmalionby George Bernard ShawISBN 1404325506 (1-4043-2550-6)
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Riddle of the Sandsby Erskine ChildersISBN 1404327584 (1-4043-2758-4)
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Robbery Under Armsby Rolf BoldrewoodISBN 1404328920 (1-4043-2892-0)
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A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 140432755X (1-4043-2755-X)
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The Sea-Wolfby Jack LondonISBN 1404330623 (1-4043-3062-3)
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The Second Jungle Bookby Rudyard KipingISBN 1406503223 (1-4065-0322-3)
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A Slight Trick of the Mindby Mitch CullinISBN 1400078229 (1-4000-7822-9)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Space 1889by Frank Chadwick, Tim Bradstreet, Rick HarrisISBN 0966892690 (0-9668926-9-0)
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The Subjection of Womenby John Stuart MillISBN 1406502545 (1-4065-0254-5)
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allen PoeISBN 1406793019 (1-4067-9301-9)
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These Three Remain: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentlemanby Pamela AidanISBN 0972852921 (0-9728529-2-1)
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With those devastating words, Fitzwilliam Darcys proposal to Elizabeth Bennet is thoroughly rejected and his character wholly condemned. These Three Remain traces Darcys painful journey of self-discovery in his quest to become the man he always hoped be would be. A chance meeting with Elizabeth at his Derbyshire estate offers Darcy a new opportunity, but the activities of his nemesis, George Wickham, interfere once more in a way that may ruin everyones hopes for happiness. [via]
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Three Novels: Headlong Hall - Nightmare Abbey - Crotchet Castleby Thomas Love PeacockISBN 140679502X (1-4067-9502-X)
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Thyrzaby George GissingISBN 1404335226 (1-4043-3522-6)
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The Turkish Gambit: A Novelby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1400060508 (1-4000-6050-8)
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Two on a Towerby Thomas HardyISBN 140673487X (1-4067-3487-X)
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Two Years Before the Mastby Richard Henry DanaISBN 1404335072 (1-4043-3507-2)
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailing Lifeby R. H. DanaISBN 1406799556 (1-4067-9955-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailing Life'Book summary:A detailed, almost daily, record giving an accurate and authentic narrative of over two years in the life of a common sailor before the mast in the American merchant service of the early 1800s. The book is written in journal fashion in the words of an ordinary sailor on the brig "Pilgrim" on her voyage from Boston, round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Victorian Costumingby Janet WinterISBN 0963022016 (0-9630220-1-6)
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Victorian Fiction : Writers, Publishers, Readersby John SutherlandISBN 1403939853 (1-4039-3985-3)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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Victoryby Joseph ConradISBN 1406789135 (1-4067-8913-5)
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1404339884 (1-4043-3988-4)
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The Well at the World's Endby William MorrisISBN 1404338861 (1-4043-3886-1)
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What Katy Did at Schoolby Susan CoolidgeISBN 1404340130 (1-4043-4013-0)
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The Winter Queen: A Novelby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1400060494 (1-4000-6049-4)
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Fandorin is not satisfied with the conclusion that this is an open-and-shut case, nor with the preliminary detective work the precinct has doneand for good reason: The bizarre and tragic suicide is soon connected to a clear case of murder, witnessed firsthand by Fandorin. There are many unresolved questions. Why, for instance, have both victims left their fortunes to an orphanage run by the English Lady Astair? And who is the beautiful A.B., whose signed photograph is found in the apparent suicides apartment? Relying on his keen intuition, the eager sleuth plunges into an investigation that leads him across Europe, landing him at the deadly center of a terrorist conspiracy of worldwide proportions.
In this thrilling mystery that brings nineteenth-century Russia to vivid life, Akunin has created one of the most eagerly anticipated novels in years. [via]More editions of The Winter Queen: A Novel:
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Wise Childrenby Angela CarterISBN 140583563X (1-4058-3563-X)
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The Woman Who Didby Grant AllenISBN 1406507660 (1-4065-0766-0)
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The Wouldbegoodsby E. NesbitISBN 1406835080 (1-4068-3508-0)
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The Magic Skin/la Peau De Chagrinby Honori De Balzac, Ellen MarriageISBN 1406506605 (1-4065-0660-5)
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