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Absinthe: History in a Bottleby Barnaby ConradISBN 0811816508 (0-8118-1650-8)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0812504224 (0-8125-0422-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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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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After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian Englandby Elizabeth P. JohnISBN 0813527511 (0-8135-2751-1)
Softcover, Rutgers University Press
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Amberleighby Carole Nelson DouglasISBN 0812522648 (0-8125-2264-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Anne Herefordby Henry WoodISBN 0809595745 (0-8095-9574-5)
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Anne of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0812551966 (0-8125-5196-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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This edition of Anne of Avonlea includes a Foreword and Afterword by T.A. Barron
Avonlea is the prettiest little town on Prince Edward Island, which is the prettiest little island in all of Canada. Anne had come here as an orphan--a skinny redhead showing up on the steps of Green Gables with a shabby suitcase and a heart full of dreams.
Anne's dream of finding a home had come true. But now she is a young woman, with new dreams, She has a teaching job in the city, with a chance to become a published magazine writer.
And an even greater adventure awaits: Anne is about to begin her first romance--with a handsome Boston millionaire whose dreams are very different from hers....
Anne of Avonlea continues the story that began in Anne of Green gables. These beloved classics are among the most popular novels ever written; they have made their author, L.M. Montgomery, a legend in Canada and around the world.More editions of Anne of Avonlea:
Apes, Angels and Victorians.by William IrvineISBN 0809436752 (0-8094-3675-2)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby Richard Francis Burton, A. S. ByattISBN 0812972147 (0-8129-7214-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.
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Aubrey Beardsleyby Stephen Calloway, Aubrey BeardsleyISBN 0810940094 (0-8109-4009-4)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aubrey Beardsley'Book summary:There was little that fin-de-siècle artist Aubrey Beardsley's famous gold-nibbed pen could not illustrate--drawings, posters, bookbindings. Though he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25, he left an enormous body of work behind that found a willing audience during his lifetime in the more outré circles of the "naughty '90s" and now symbolizes the decadence of the 1890s. Beardsley possessed an astonishing range of expression, but he is perhaps most famous for his outrageous erotic drawings--many of which adorned such artistic magazines as the Savoy and the Yellow Book. He pushed public opinion to the limit with his sequence of graphic illustrations for Aristophanes's Lysistrata, which, deemed obscene, remained unpublished until 1966.
Biographer Stephen Calloway curated the centenary exhibition of Beardsley's work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London during autumn of 1998. He closely scrutinizes Beardsley's life in the light of his subversive drawings in this in-depth, superbly illustrated biography that coincides with the exhibition. [via]
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The Black Arrowby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0812565622 (0-8125-6562-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Black Beautyby Anna SewellISBN 0812504283 (0-8125-0428-3)
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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 Victorians--Black Victorianaby Gretchen Holbrook GerzinaISBN 0813532159 (0-8135-3215-9)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Bostoniansby Henry James, Pierre A. Walker, A. S. ByattISBN 0812969960 (0-8129-6996-0)
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The Brothers Karamazov: Library Editionby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0809598604 (0-8095-9860-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition'Book summary:The Brothers Karamazov was Fyodor Dostoevsky's last and greatest work, telling the tales the three brothers and their father, Fyodor it is, among many other things, a tale of patricide -- a love-hate struggle with profound psychological and spiritual implications. It is a search for faith, for God -- driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, the Karamozov brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. Exploring the secret depths of humanity's struggles and sins, Dostoevsky unfolds a grand epic which attempts to venture into mankind's darkest heart, and grasp the true meaning of existence. [via]
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The Callendar Papersby Cynthia VoigtISBN 0808559486 (0-8085-5948-6)
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Camilleby Alexandre Dumas filsISBN 080959501X (0-8095-9501-X)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0812504380 (0-8125-0438-0)
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This edition of Captains Courageous includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R.L. Fisher.
Harvey Cheyne fell oveboard off a luxury liner and was saved by the schooner We're Here. But instead of thanking his rescuers, the filthy rich, spoiled rotten kid demanded the Gloucester fishermen sail back to New York. Then Harvey got the shock of his life.
A punch in the mouth.
Capt. Disko Troop didn't know who Harvey's millionaire dad was. And didn't care. His ship would return to port when her holds were full--in about six months.
The world of Disko and Dan Troop, Long Jack, Salters and mad Penn. A world of struggle and backbreaking challenge, where honor meant more than money, and trust meant more than fame. Where men's minds, hearts, and strong muscles were pitted against the awesome majesty, fury, and terror of the unending depths: the world of wooden ships and high seas.
And if Harvey Cheyne survived, his life would never be the same.More editions of Captains Courageous:
Carmillaby Sheridan Le FanuISBN 0809510839 (0-8095-1083-9)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Classic Tales Of Jacques Futrelle: The Thinking Machineby Jacques FutrelleISBN 0809510561 (0-8095-1056-1)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy 1861-1889by Melvyn New, Amy LevyISBN 0813012007 (0-8130-1200-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin De Siecleby Elaine ShowalterISBN 0813520185 (0-8135-2018-5)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin De Siecle'Book summary:At the turn of the century, short stories by--and often about--"New Women" flooded the pages English and American magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Yellow Book. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form and courageous in its candid representations of female sexuality, marital discontent, and feminist protest, shocked Victorian critics, who denounced the authors as "literary degenerates" or "erotomaniacs." This collection brings together twenty of the most original and important stories from this period. The writers included in this highly readable volume are Kate Chopin, Victoria Cross, George Egerton, Julia Constance Fletcher, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand, Vernon Lee, Ada Leverson, Charlotte Mew, Olive Schreiner, Edith Wharton, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Mabel E. Wotton. As Elaine Showalter shows in her introduction, the short fiction of the Fin-de-Siecle is the missing link between the Golden Age of Victorian women writers and the new era of feminist modernism. Elaine Showalter is a professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of A Literature of Their Own, The Female Malady, and other books, and editor of Alternative Alcott, a volume in the American Women Writers Series[via]More editions of Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin De Siecle:
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The Death of Achillesby Andrew Bromfield, B. AkuninISBN 0812968808 (0-8129-6880-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of Achilles'Book summary:In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertinent manservant Masa are staying, Fandorins old war-hero friend General Michel Sobolev ( Achilles to the crowd) has been found dead, felled in his armchair by an apparent heart attack. But Fandorin suspects an unnatural cause. His suspicions lead him to the boudoir of the beautiful singer not exactly a courtesan known as Wanda. Apparently, in Wandas bed, the general secretly breathed his last. . . . [via]
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The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick: Victorian Maidservantby Liz Stanley, Hannah CullwickISBN 0813510708 (0-8135-1070-8)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Disraeli in Loveby Maurice EdelmanISBN 0812880404 (0-8128-8040-4)
Softcover, Stein & Day Paperback
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Disraeli Risingby Maurice EdelmanISBN 0812816757 (0-8128-1675-7)
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Disraeli's Reminiscencesby Benjamin Disraeli, Helen M. Swartz, Marvin SwatrzISBN 0812818679 (0-8128-1867-9)
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Donald and The...by Peter F. Neumeyer, Edward GoreyISBN 0810948362 (0-8109-4836-2)
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Donald Has a Difficultyby Peter F. Neumeyer, Edward GoreyISBN 0810948354 (0-8109-4835-4)
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The Dracula Tapeby Fred SaberhagenISBN 0812523830 (0-8125-2383-0)
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Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamerby John Christian, Stephen WildmanISBN 0810965224 (0-8109-6522-4)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Ellen Terry: Player in Her Timeby Nina AuerbachISBN 081221613X (0-8122-1613-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, James E. FalenISBN 0809316307 (0-8093-1630-7)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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The introduction includes Falens discussion of how his translation compares with those of his predecessors and a general analysis of the poem. Nearly one hundred notes annotate the text.
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Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen/Classic Illustrated Editionby Russell Ash, Bernard Higton, H.C. AndersenISBN 0811802302 (0-8118-0230-2)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen/Classic Illustrated Edition'Book summary:The entrancing world of toys, animals, magical kingdoms, and mystical beings is magnificently brought to life by master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen in this, the fourth title in Chronicle Books' extremely successful Classic Illustrated Edition series. Beautifully illustrated with charming turn of the century pictures by such notable artists as Arthur Rackham, Maxwell Armfield, and Edmund Dulac, this stunning book is a visual feast for children and adults alike.
This collection contains the following stories:
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- The Little Mermaid
- The Little Match Girl
- The Nightingale
- The Princess and the Pea
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- Thumbelina
- The Tinderbox
- The Ugly Duckling
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Foreign Mud: Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War That Followedby Maurice CollisISBN 0811215067 (0-8112-1506-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Goblin Marketby Christina Rossetti, William Morris, Laurence Housman, Dante Gabriel RossettiISBN 0811816494 (0-8118-1649-4)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goblin Market'Book summary:Experience the temptation, pleasure, punishment, and redemption of Christina Rossetti's brilliant poetic masterpiece in this classic keepsake edition, gorgeously illustrated with Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Christina's brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Published in 1862, this phantasmagoric tale of two maidens seduced by lewd goblin men provides a startling glimpse into the depths of the Victorian psyche. Full color throughout. [via]
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Grimm's Grimmestby Maria TatarISBN 0811850463 (0-8118-5046-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Grimmest'Book summary:A scholar of fairy tales, Maria Tatar, provides a fascinating introduction about the history and meaning of the stories assembled by the Brothers Grimm. She writes, for example, "We now know that the stories collected in the nineteenth-century folktale anthologies ...had their origins in an irreverent peasant culture that arose in conscious opposition to the feudal state's ruling class. By overdoing it in the realm of storytelling, these narrators were able to alleviate--if only temporarily--some of the tedium that marked the daily life of their audience ... [These tales] can be seen as the ancestors of our urban legends about vanishing hitchhikers and cats accidentally caught in the dryer or as the preliterate equivalents of tabloid tales describing headless bodies found in topless bars. But in many ways, it is the horror film to which the matter and manner of these folktales has most conspicuously migrated. Like horror films, folktales trade in the sensational--breaking taboos and enacting the forbidden with uninhibited energy."
The text of the 19 tales in this collection is based on the 1822 edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Nursery and Household Tales) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm--before the tales were expurgated and rewritten to make them more "suitable" for children. It's bound in a handsome faux-antique format, and lavishly illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray (15 full-page color paintings, and a black-and-white drawing on nearly every page). Most of the tales will be unfamiliar to American and English readers, who may be surprised by the graphic descriptions of incest, murder, mutilation, and cannibalism. Chronicle Books has done us a service in helping restore to our adult culture these vivid, evocative folktales. --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Grimms' German Folk Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Francis P. Magoun, Grimm Brothers, Alexander Haggerty KrappeISBN 0809303566 (0-8093-0356-6)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Haroldby Edward Bulwer-LyttonISBN 0809599015 (0-8095-9901-5)
Hardcover, Wildside Press
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Haunted Houseby Charles Dickens, Wesley StaceISBN 0812973062 (0-8129-7306-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Historical Novel and Other Essaysby Brander MatthewsISBN 0810332183 (0-8103-3218-3)
Hardcover, Gale Group
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0809594110 (0-8095-9411-0)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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This edition of The House of the Seven Gables includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Andre Norton.
Built on land taken from a dead wizard, The Pyncheon's seven-gabled mansion was the focus for two centuries' secrets and legends: legends of hauntings and undying curses, secrets of madness and missing fortunes. Age and poverty now claimed the house and its residents--old, reclusive Miss Hepzibah; her strange, troubled brother Clifford; and the mysterious young artist Holgrave.
Then, suddenly the house as transformed by the arrival of the Pyncheons' beautiful young cousin, Phoebe. She brought life, laughter, and love into the tiny world of dusty, dark despair.
But one rich, powerful, corrupt man--Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon--coveting the mansion's hidden secrets. And his plot to find them meant destroying all hope and happiness in The House of the Seven Gables. 
Impressionismby Pierre CourthionISBN 0810920670 (0-8109-2067-0)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Impressionism'Book summary:The concise edition of a book on Impressionism, the name given to the major artistic phenomenon of the 19th century and the first of the Modern Movements. [via]
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In the Family Way: Childbearing in the British Aristocracy, 1760-1860by Judith Schneid LewisISBN 081351116X (0-8135-1116-X)
Hardcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Jacques Futrelle's "the Thinking Machine"by Harlan Ellison, Jacques FutrelleISBN 0812970144 (0-8129-7014-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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James McNeill Whistlerby Richard Dorment, Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill WhistlerISBN 0810939762 (0-8109-3976-2)
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The Jewel of Seven Starsby Bram StokerISBN 0812568958 (0-8125-6895-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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John Ruskin and Victorian Architectureby Michael W. BrooksISBN 0813512050 (0-8135-1205-0)
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0812504690 (0-8125-0469-0)
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This edition of The Jungle Book includes a Biographical Note, Foreward, Preface, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.
Run with them. Or fear them--
Bagheera the Panther: A silken shadow of boldness and cunning.
Kaa the Python: A thirty foot battering ram driven by a cool, hungry mind.
Baloo the Bear: who keeps the lore and the Law, and teaches the Secret Words.
Rikki the Mongoose: The young protector who sings as he slays.
Akela and Raksha the Wolves: Demon warriors of the Free People.
Shere Khan the Tiger: The dreaded enemy of all.
And Mowgli the Man-cub: The orphan baby raised by the wolves, taught by Baloo, trained by Bagheera and Kaa. The sorcerer who knows the ways of the jungle and speaks the language of the wild...More editions of The Jungle Book:
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The Jungle Book IIby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0812522788 (0-8125-2278-8)
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This edition of The Jungle Book II includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.
Mowgli was once the little man-cub raised by Mother Wolf. Now Mowgli is the Jungle Lord ruling over the elephant and the panther, the python and the crocodile. All obey him and he fears no one...not even Man....
Jungle Book II tells of the further adventures of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in the jungle. Through his cunning and fearlessness, Mowgli earns the respect of the animals of the jungle. He leads his wolf-brothers into battle against a threatening pack of red dogs. And when Mowgli's human parents are persecuted by a violent group of villagers, he comes to their aid. This is the story of how Mowgli must come face-to-face with himself as a man and decide whether he will leave his jungle kingdom to join the society of man.More editions of The Jungle Book II:
The Last of the Baronsby Edward Bulwer-LyttonISBN 0809596237 (0-8095-9623-7)
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Letters to a Tutor: The Tennyson Family Letters to Henry Graham Dakyns/1861-1911 With the Audrey Tennyson Death-Bed Diaryby Robert PetersISBN 0810821036 (0-8108-2103-6)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyby Charles Dickens, Michael SlaterISBN 0812211359 (0-8122-1135-9)
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Lion in the Valleyby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0812512421 (0-8125-1242-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lion in the Valley'Book summary:The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and their precocious (some might say rambunctious) eight-year-old son, Ramses. The long-denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor has finally been granted, and the much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid is now theirs for the exploring.
Before the young family exchanges the relative comfort of Cairo for the more rudimentary quarters near the excavation site, they engage a young Englishman, Donald Fraser, as a tutor and companion for Ramses, and Amelia takes a wayward young woman, Enid Debenham, under her protective wing.
But there is danger and deception in the wind that blows across the hot Egyptian sands. A brazen kidnapping attempt, a gruesome murder, and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and deathall serve to alert Amelia to the likely presence of her arch nemesis, the "Master Criminal," notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivate the man known as Sethos. The evil genius has a score to settle with the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice . . . and he's got her dead-on in his sights.
Replete with edge-of-the-seat suspense and scrupulous archaeological and historical detail, all delivered in Amelia Peabody's unique, wry voice, Lion in the Valley is a classic installment in Elizabeth Peters's beloved mystery-adventure series.
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The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914by Theodore E. StebbinsISBN 0810935619 (0-8109-3561-9)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture and Victorian Sensationalismby Ann CvetkovichISBN 0813518571 (0-8135-1857-1)
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Mrs. Halliburton's Troublesby Mrs Henry WoodISBN 0809595761 (0-8095-9576-1)
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Murder on the Leviathanby Andrew Bromfield, Boris AkuninISBN 0812968794 (0-8129-6879-4)
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Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pymby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0809000296 (0-8090-0029-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Oscar Wilde: A Certain Geniusby Barbara BelfordISBN 081299261X (0-8129-9261-X)
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Paternalism in Early Victorian Englandby David RobertsISBN 0813508681 (0-8135-0868-1)
Hardcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 0808581678 (0-8085-8167-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantom Of The Opera'Book summary:First published in French as a serial in 1909, "The Phantom of the Opera" is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster. Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows. [via]
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 0809438372 (0-8094-3837-2)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Autobiographical novel by James Joyce, published serially in The Egoist in 1914-15 and in book form in 1916; considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language. The novel portrays the early years of Stephen Dedalus, who later reappeared as one of the main characters in Joyce's Ulysses (1922). Each of the novel's five sections is written in a third-person voice that reflects the age and emotional state of its protagonist, from the first childhood memories written in simple, childlike language to Stephen's final decision to leave Dublin for Paris to devote his life to art, written in abstruse, Latin-sprinkled, stream-of-consciousness prose. The novel's rich, symbolic language and brilliant use of stream-of-consciousness foreshadowed Joyce's later work. The work is a drastic revision of an earlier version entitled Stephen Hero and is the second part of Joyce's cycle of works chronicling the spiritual history of humans from Adam's Fall through the Redemption. The cycle began with the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and continued with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (1939). [via]
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The Pre-Raphaelites: Romance and Realismby Laurence Des CarsISBN 0810928914 (0-8109-2891-4)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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The Reason Whyby Cecil Woodham-SmithISBN 0809437198 (0-8094-3719-8)
Softcover, Time-Life Books Inc.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reason Why'Book summary:Nothing in British campaign history has ever equalled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal, the author gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an immortality impossible in a more cynical age. [via]
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Serviceby Erskine ChildersISBN 0812966147 (0-8129-6614-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Roderick Hudsonby Henry JamesISBN 080959398X (0-8095-9398-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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The Sacred Fountby Henry JamesISBN 0811212793 (0-8112-1279-3)
Softcover, New Directions
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San Francisco Victoriansby Mike Blumensaadt, Randolph DelehantyISBN 0811827712 (0-8118-2771-2)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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The Sea-Wolfby Jack LondonISBN 0812522761 (0-8125-2276-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea-Wolf'Book summary:I glanced up. The captain had thrust his head and shoulders out of the pilot-house, and was staring intently into the fog as though by sheer force of will he could penetrate it. His face was anxious, as was the face of my companion, who had stumped over to the rail and was gazing with a like intentness in the direction of the invisible danger. Then everything happened, and with inconceivable rapidity. The fog seemed to break away as though split by a wedge, and the bow of a steamboat emerged, trailing fog-wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan. I could see the pilot-house and a white-bearded man leaning partly out of it, on his elbows. He was clad in a blue uniform, and I remember noting how trim and quiet he was. His quietness, under the circumstances, was terrible. He accepted Destiny, marched hand in hand with it, and coolly measured the stroke. As he leaned there, he ran a calm and speculative eye over us, as though to determine the precise point of the collision, and took no notice whatever when our pilot, white with rage, shouted, "Now you've done it!" [via]
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Secret Agentby Joseph ConradISBN 0809594706 (0-8095-9470-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Agent'Book summary:Edited and with Notes by Peter Lancelot Mallios
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
In reexamining The Secret Agent in a post-9/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrads surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism, calling the book a fine example of how a savvy novelist may detect the future long before a social scientist does.
This intense 1907 thrillera precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carréconcerns a British double agent who infiltrates a cabal of anarchists. Conrad explores political and criminal intrigue in a modern society, building to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis deemed one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction. [via] 
Sir Lawrence Alma Tademaby Russell AshISBN 0810918986 (0-8109-1898-6)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0812211103 (0-8122-1110-3)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
The Spoils of Poyntonby Henry JamesISBN 0809594048 (0-8095-9404-8)
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That Darn Squid Godby Nick PollottaISBN 0809515512 (0-8095-1551-2)
Softcover, Wildside Press
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Tom Brown's Universe: The Development of the English Public School in the Nineteenth Centuryby John Raymond de Symons HoneyISBN 0812906896 (0-8129-0689-6)
Hardcover, Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co
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The Turkish Gambitby Andrew Bromfield, Boris AkuninISBN 0812968786 (0-8129-6878-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turkish Gambit'Book summary:Russian author Boris Akunin clearly delights in literary experimentation. The Winter Queen, his first novel to win U.S. release, was a police procedural, introducing a young but brilliant detective named Erast Petrovich Fandorin, serving in 1876 Moscow. However, Murder on the Leviathan (actually the third entry in the Fandorin series, but published second in the States) was quite different--an homage to formulaic Golden Age whodunits, taking place on a luxurious steamship. Now comes The Turkish Gambit, which is more a combination of war novel and romance, rather than crime fiction, with the majority of its mysteries so transparent as to barely merit the label.
The action here takes place in 1877 and 1878, on the Balkan front of a military conflict pitting tsarist Russia against the Ottoman Empire. Into this realm of posturing commanders and the foreign journalists whose florid prose makes those officers look better (or worse) than they really are ride Fandorin, now with the diplomatic corps, and Varya Suvorova, a strong-willed 22-year-old telegraphist hoping to reunite on the battlefield with her "future fiancé," an army volunteer. But Varya's efforts are frustrated when her intended is accused of espionage. His release can only be won by identifying the real informant-cum-saboteur, in which task Varya is willing to cooperate with Fandorin, despite her dislike of the stuttering and apparently "cold, disagreeable" former policeman. Amid profuse digressions concerning Turkish politics, female suffrage, and the harem system ("without it many women would quite simply starve to death"), Varya--trailed by lustful correspondents--investigates a suspicious colonel in Bucharest, only to become party to a deadly duel. A pair of officers are subsequently murdered, a guilt-ridden soldier hangs himself, and a British plot against Russia is alleged.
Akunin (the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili) nimbly portrays the tumultuous atmosphere of 19th-century combat, complete with ear-splitting cannon blasts and hard-charging cossacks. His dialogue is frequently clever, and in Varya he has created a woman fully capable of steering yarns and stopping hearts. Yet The Turkish Gambit is so laden with expendable exchanges, trivial players, and hieings off to hither and yon, that the reader's interest may wane well short of this story's dramatic climax. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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Victorian Feminism 1850-1900by Philippa LevineISBN 0813013216 (0-8130-1321-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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The Waterloo Companion: The Complete Guide to History's Most Famous Land Battleby Mark AdkinISBN 0811718549 (0-8117-1854-9)
Hardcover, Stackpole Books
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Who's Who in Victorian Britain: 1851-1901by Roger EllisISBN 0811716406 (0-8117-1640-6)
Hardcover, Stackpole Books
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The Winter Queenby B. Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 0812968778 (0-8129-6877-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Wonder Book for Boys and Girlsby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0812565231 (0-8125-6523-1)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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The World of Edward Goreyby Clifford Ross, Karen WilkinISBN 0810990830 (0-8109-9083-0)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Worlds of Art: Painters in Victorian Societyby Paula GillettISBN 0813514592 (0-8135-1459-2)
Hardcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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