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American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginiaby Alden T. VaughanISBN 0316898082 (0-316-89808-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, George Gibian, Aylmer MaudeISBN 0393966429 (0-393-96642-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:The sensual, rebellious Anna renounces a respectable yet stifling marriage for an affair that offers passion even as it ensnares her for destruction. Her story contrasts with that of Levin, a young, self- doubting agnostic who takes a different path to fulfillment.[via]
@DoTheLocomotion Some gentleman danced with me the whole night. We got a little grinding on, but not too much. This is formal Russian society, mind you.
Apparently by dancing with Vronsky I pussy-blocked a girl called Kitty. I suppose thats ironic. Youd think with a name like that&
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- Anna Karenina: ISBN 0451528611 (0-451-52861-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic - Anna Karenina: ISBN 0451524497 (0-451-52449-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Anna Karenina: ISBN 0393042774 (0-393-04277-4)
Hardcover, W. W. Norton - Anna Karenina: ISBN 0393966429 (0-393-96642-9)
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Aristotle: Poeticsby D.W. LucasISBN 019814024X (0-19-814024-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Aristotle's on the Art of Poetryby AristotleISBN 0198141106 (0-19-814110-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle's on the Art of Poetry'Book summary:This book, "Aristotle, On the art of poetry (1920)", by Aristotle, Bywater, Ingram, 1840-1914, Murray Gilbert, is a replication of a book originally published before 1920. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature. [via]
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Aristotle's Poeticsby Aristotle, James HuttonISBN 0393952169 (0-393-95216-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bayby William W. WarnerISBN 0316923354 (0-316-92335-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Belle Prater's Boyby Ruth WhiteISBN 0440413729 (0-440-41372-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Belle Prater's Boy'Book summary:There's a mystery at the heart of this lyrical novel for young adults: what really happened to Belle Prater, the aunt of 12-year-old Gypsy Arbutus Leemaster? When Gypsy's cousin, Belle's son Woodrow, comes to live in tiny Coal Station, Virginia, he sets off a chain of events that precipitates a solution to this enigma, as well as the mystery of Gypsy's own father's death seven years earlier. Ruth White's characters, particularly the cross-eyed, brilliant Woodrow, are sharply drawn, and the small-town life of rural Virginia is wonderfully described. [via]
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in Americaby Giles MiltonISBN 0312420188 (0-312-42018-8)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America'Book summary:The follow up to his best-selling Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Giles Milton's Big Chief Elizabeth is a sprawling, ambitious tale of how the aristocrats and privateers of Elizabethan England reached and colonized the "wild and barbarous shores" of the New World. Milton's story ranges from John Cabot's voyage to America in 1497 to the painful but ultimately successful foundation of the English colony at Jamestown by 1611. However, the main focus of the book is Sir Walter Raleigh's elaborate and tortuous attempts to establish an English settlement on Roanoke Island, in present-day North Carolina, following the first English voyage there in 1584. Scouring contemporary travel accounts of the period, Milton creates a colorful and entertaining account of the greed, confusion, and misunderstanding that characterized English relations with the Native Americans, and the violent and tragic conflict that often ensued.
Milton has a good eye for a surreal or comical story, such as the colony's first encounter with Big Chief--or Weroanza Wingina, whose exotic title "quickly captured the imagination of the English colonists, and they began referring to their own queen as Weroanza Elizabeth." The Elizabethan cast is also dazzling: the flamboyant and ambitious Walter Raleigh, who provided the money behind the Roanoke ventures; the "sober" ascetic scholar Thomas Hariot, who provided the brains; and hardened adventurers, like Arthur Barlowe and Ralph Lane, who provided the muscle. The myths and stories also come thick and fast, from John Smith and Pocahontas, to the importation of the fashion of "drinking tobacco," but the problem with Big Chief Elizabeth is that it lacks a central driving story. In the end, it reads like an entertaining, but rather labored jog through early Anglo-American history, something that has been done with greater skill and originality by, for one, Charles Nicholl in his fascinating book The Creature in the Map. Those who enjoyed Nathaniel's Nutmeg will probably like Big Chief Elizabeth, but with some reservations. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment. -
Candideby Daniel Gordon, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
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Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
Candideby VoltaireISBN 0394605225 (0-394-60522-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Candide and Other Talesby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0460019368 (0-460-01936-8)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticismby VoltaireISBN 0393960587 (0-393-96058-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism'Book summary:Robert M. Adams's superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.
The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major critical issues relevant to Candide and to the intellectual climate of the period. In addition to the reports of five English visitors to Ferney, essays by Haydn Mason, Erich Auerbach, Ernst Cassirer, and Robert M. Adams are included. The final section of the edition, "The Climate of Controversy," summarizes the debate surrounding Voltaire's works and includes essays by Peter Gay, Raymond Naves, Gustave Lanson, and John Morley. Also included are a series of quotations about Voltaire by such prominent figures as Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, and Stendhal, as well as the text of "Pangloss's Song," a ballad from the 1956 Candide-based operetta by Richard Wilbur. [via]More editions of Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism:
Captain John Smith: Jamestown And the Birth of the American Dreamby Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas HooblerISBN 0471485845 (0-471-48584-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dreamby Thomas HooblerISBN 0470128208 (0-470-12820-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loonby Donna AndrewsISBN 0312990014 (0-312-99001-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon'Book summary:[via]Poor Meg Langslow. She's blessed in so many ways. Michael, her boyfriend, is a handsome, delightful heartthrob who adores her. She's a successful blacksmith, known for her artistic wrought-iron creations. But somehow Meg's road to contentment is more rutted and filled with potholes than seems fair.
There are Michael's and Meg's doting but demanding mothers, for a start. And then there's the fruitless hunt for a place big enough for the couple to live together. And a succession of crises brought on by the well-meaning but utterly wacky demands of her friends and family. Demands that Meg has a hard time refusing---which is why she's tending the switchboard of Mutant Wizards, where her brother's computer games are created, and handling all the office management problems that no one else bothers with. For companionship, besides a crew of eccentric techies, she has a buzzard with one wing---who she must feed frozen mice thawed in the office microwave---and Michael's mother's nightmare dog. Not to mention the psychotherapists who refuse to give up their lease on half of the office space, and whose conflicting therapies cause continuing dissension. This is not what Meg had in mind when she agreed to help her brother move his staff to new offices.
In fact, the atmosphere is so consistently loony that the office mail cart makes several passes through the reception room, with the office practical joker lying on top of it pretending to be dead, before Meg realizes that he's become the victim of someone who wasn't joking at all. He's been murdered for real.
Donna Andrews's debut book, Murder with Peacocks, won the St. Martin's Malice Domestic best first novel contest and reaped a harvest of other honors as well. This is the fourth book in the Meg Langslow series, which features the intrepid Meg and her cast of oddball relatives. Their capers are a lighthearted joy to read.More editions of Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon:
Darconville's Catby Alexander TherouxISBN 038515951X (0-385-15951-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darconville's Cat'Book summary:The main story is a love affair between Alaric Darconville, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, and one of his students, Isabel. The style relies on complex syntax and unusual words. The satire is broad, and uses southern culture cliches but is often very funny. Some of the names of the girls at the school, for example, are Mimsy Borogoves, Barbara Celarent, and Pengwynn Custiss. The story is said to be based on Theroux's years of teaching at Longwood University, and places described in the book are easily recognized buildings on the campus.[citation needed] [via]
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De Arte Poetica Liberby Aristotle, Rudolf V. KasselISBN 0198145640 (0-19-814564-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Devil Waterby Anya SetonISBN 0449236331 (0-449-23633-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Hornet's Nestby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 042516098X (0-425-16098-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hornet's Nest'Book summary:Patricia Cornwell turns from forensics to police procedures in her latest novel, Hornet's Nest. This book is less a thriller than a character study of the main characters: Judy Hammer, chief of police in Charlotte, North Carolina; Hammer's deputy, Virginia West; and Andy Brazil, a young reporter assigned to ride with the police as they go about their jobs. [via]
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The Hot Zoneby Richard PrestonISBN 0385479565 (0-385-47956-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hot Zone'Book summary:The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. More hair-raising than anything Hollywood could think of, because it's all true. [via]
Houses of Stoneby Barbara MichaelsISBN 0425143066 (0-425-14306-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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In The Presence Of Mine Enemies: The Civil War In The Heart Of America, 1859 - 1863by Edward L. AyersISBN 0393326012 (0-393-32601-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863by Edward L. AyersISBN 0393057860 (0-393-05786-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the Warby Donald McCaigISBN 039304629X (0-393-04629-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Land As God Made It: Jamestown And The Birth Of Americaby James HornISBN 0465030947 (0-465-03094-7)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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The Lees of Virginia: Library Editionby Paul C. NagelISBN 0195305604 (0-19-530560-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Light-Horse Harry Lee: The Legacy of the American Revolutionby Charles RoysterISBN 0394513371 (0-394-51337-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Loire ValleyISBN 0395662028 (0-395-66202-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Love and Hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nationby David PriceISBN 0375415416 (0-375-41541-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love and Hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation'Book summary:A gripping narrative of one of the great survival stories of American history: the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Drawing on period letters and chronicles, and on the papers of the Virginia Companywhich financed the settlement of JamestownDavid Price tells a tale of cowardice and courage, stupidity and brilliance, tragedy and costly triumph. He takes us into the day-to-day existence of the English men and women whose charge was to find gold and a route to the Orient, and who found, instead, hardship and wretched misery. Death, in fact, became the settlers most faithful companion, and their infighting was ceaseless.
Price offers a rare balanced view of the relationship between the settlers and the natives. He unravels the crucial role of Pocahontas, a young woman whose reality has been obscured by centuries of legend and misinformation (and, more recently, animation). He paints indelible portraits of Chief Powhatan, the aged monarch who came close to ending the colonys existence, and Captain John Smith, the former mercenary and slave, whose disdain for class distinctions infuriated many around himeven as his resourcefulness made him essential to the colonys success.
Love and Hate in Jamestown is a superb work of popular history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation. [via]More editions of Love and Hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation:
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A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trialby Suzanne LebsockISBN 0393326063 (0-393-32606-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial'Book summary:It's 1895 in Virginia, and a white woman lies in her farmyard, murdered with an ax. Suspicion soon falls on a young black sawmill hand, who tries to flee the county. Captured, he implicates three women, accusing them of plotting the murder and wielding the ax. In vivid courtroom scenes, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Suzanne Lebsock recounts their dramatic trials and brings us close to women we would never otherwise know: a devout (and pregnant) mother of nine; another hard-working mother (also of nine); and her plucky, quick-tempered daughter. All claim to be innocent. With the danger of lynching high, can they get justice?
Lebsock takes us deep into this contentious, often surprising world, where blacks struggle to hold on to their post -- Civil War gains against a rising tide of white privilege. A sensation in its own time, this case offers the modern reader a riveting encounter with a South in the throes of change. [via]
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Murder With Puffinsby Donna AndrewsISBN 0312978863 (0-312-97886-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Kathleen NorrisISBN 039575514X (0-395-75514-X)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - My Antonia: ISBN 0451525795 (0-451-52579-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - My Antonia: ISBN 0460877232 (0-460-87723-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - My Antonia: ISBN 0395075149 (0-395-07514-9)
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Prince Edwardby Dennis McFarlandISBN 0312421222 (0-312-42122-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0393319547 (0-393-31954-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'Book summary:First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by me under fire. Ernest Hemingway called the novel an American classic, and Crane's genius is as much apparent in his sharp, colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episode of war so intense, so immediate, so real that the terror of battle becomes our own ... in a masterpiece so unique that many believe modern American fiction began with Stephen Crane.
"The Red Badge Of Courage" has long been considered the first great 'modern' novel of war by an American--the first novel of literary distinction to present war without heroics and this in a spirit of total irony and skepticism." -- Alfred Kazin [via]
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- The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0393964302 (0-393-96430-2)
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Softcover, Harpercollins - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0380704323 (0-380-70432-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0440372844 (0-440-37284-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0460873814 (0-460-87381-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0307122263 (0-307-12226-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0393013456 (0-393-01345-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0394604938 (0-394-60493-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0448025531 (0-448-02553-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0460050907 (0-460-05090-7)
Hardcover, Dent - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0393319547 (0-393-31954-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0393964302 (0-393-96430-2)
The Red Badge of Courageby Sculley Bradley, Stephen Crane, E. Hudson Long, Donald Pizer, Richmond Croom BeattyISBN 0393044351 (0-393-04435-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Storiesby Stephen Crane, R. W. StallmanISBN 0451515927 (0-451-51592-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ross C. MurfinISBN 0312256930 (0-312-25693-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:[via]Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an illustrated introduction to the contexts and major issues of the text in its time and ours; an annotated bibliography for further reading (contexts, criticism, and Internet resources); and a concise glossary of literary terms. This title is available in print or as a Bedford e-Book to Go.
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- The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0312446497 (0-312-44649-7)
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0460011227 (0-460-01122-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0312035462 (0-312-03546-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0393090736 (0-393-09073-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0393956539 (0-393-95653-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0395051428 (0-395-05142-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0440376408 (0-440-37640-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0451523504 (0-451-52350-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0451525221 (0-451-52522-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0460871838 (0-460-87183-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0460877852 (0-460-87785-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0393044955 (0-393-04495-5)
Hardcover, Norton - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0312256930 (0-312-25693-0)
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- The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0312446497 (0-312-44649-7)
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Scarlet Letter and Other Tales of the Puritansby Hawthorne LevinISBN 0395051533 (0-395-05153-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Scarlet Letter And Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticismby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leland S. PersonISBN 0393979539 (0-393-97953-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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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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Southern Crossby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0425172546 (0-425-17254-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Southern Cross'Book summary:In their first appearance (Hornet's Nest, 1997), Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Virginia West, and reporter-turned-rookie-cop Andy Brazil battled a serial killer in Charlotte, North Carolina. Now, in Patricia Cornwell's Southern Cross, the trio are dispatched to Richmond, Virginia--via an NIJ (National Institute of Justice) grant--to quell the growing gang problem and modernize the beleaguered Richmond PD. They bring with them a sophisticated computer program for tracking criminal activity and a tried-and-true methodology for reforming Richmond's men and women in blue. Unfortunately, Hammer, Brazil, and West could not have been prepared for the resentment they would confront... or the bizarre cast of characters they would find upon their arrival: Lelia Ehrhart--wealthy (and nosey) chair of the Blue Ribbon Crime Commission--whose heavy European accent renders her English dangerously hilarious; Butner "Bubba" Flunk IV--tobacco industry worker, gun collector, and UFO aficionado; Smoke--the sociopathic leader of the Pikes gang; and Weed Gardener--14-year-old painter turned master graffiti artist.
Unlike Cornwell's usual fare, Southern Cross is driven almost exclusively by an interest in these strange personalities and their surreal hometown, rather than in fast-paced thrills. The novel becomes a satire on city politics, Southern culture, the ever-tense relationship between the police and the public, and the struggles of the average man and woman with computer technology. Cornwell does fall down in a few places. First, her description of the computer virus that somehow infects police department Web sites from Richmond to New York seems a bit far-fetched. Also, her narrative, divided among three major characters, loses its focus and sags at several points. In the end, though, Southern Cross is redeemed by Cornwell's inimitable renderings of police work and the quotidian life of Richmond's many odd denizens. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderlandby Teddy Slater, Walt Disney Company, Francese MateuISBN 0307623416 (0-307-62341-6)
Hardcover, Goldencraft
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We'll Always Have Parrotsby Donna AndrewsISBN 0312996756 (0-312-99675-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We'll Always Have Parrots'Book summary:Meg Langslow knew the fan convention for her actor-boyfriend's hit television series was going to be the ultimate in weird. But she came along because she figured Michael could use an occasional dose of sanity-and because it was an inspired place to sell her hand-crafted weapons. And so far, she was dealing pretty well with the costumed fans camped outside, the batch of escaped parrots and monkeys frolicking throughout the hotel...and the minefield of egos lurking behind the show's success.[via]
But soon after Meg goes head-to-head with egomaniacal series star Tamerlaine Wynncliffe-Jones, the "Queen B" turns up brutally murdered. Now, with Michael in the running as prime suspect, Meg will go up against an all-star cast of not-even-innocent parties, hidden identities, and buried motives. And she'll cross swords with a deviously obsessed murderer determined to write her out of this picture for good.More editions of We'll Always Have Parrots:
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Western Writings of Stephen Craneby Frank BergonISBN 0451511891 (0-451-51189-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Wish You Wellby David BaldacciISBN 0446610100 (0-446-61010-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wish You Well'Book summary:David Baldacci has made a name for himself crafting big, burly legal thrillers with larger-than-life plots. However, Wish You Well, set in his native Virginia, is a tale of hope and wonder and "something of a miracle" just itching to happen. This shift from contentious urbanites to homespun hill families may come as a surprise to some of Baldacci's fans--but they can rest assured: the author's sense of pacing and exuberant prose have made the leap as well.
The year is 1940. After a car accident kills 12-year-old Lou's and 7-year-old Oz's father and leaves their mother Amanda in a catatonic trance, the children find themselves sent from New York City to their great-grandmother Louisa's farm in Virginia. Louisa's hardscrabble existence comes as a profound shock to precocious Lou and her shy brother. Still struggling to absorb their abandonment, they enter gamely into a life that tests them at every turn--and offers unimaginable rewards. For Lou, who dreams of following in her father's literary footsteps, the misty, craggy Appalachians and the equally rugged individuals who make the mountains their home quickly become invested with an almost mythic significance:
They took metal cups from nails on the wall and dipped them in the water, and then sat outside and drank. Louisa picked up the green leaves of a mountain spurge growing next to the springhouse, which revealed beautiful purple blossoms completely hidden underneath. "One of God's little secrets," she explained. Lou sat there, cup cradled between her dimpled knees, watching and listening to her great-grandmother in the pleasant shade...
Baldacci switches deftly between lovingly detailed character description (an area in which his debt to Laura Ingalls Wilder and Harper Lee seems evident) and patient development of the novel's central plot. If that plot is a trifle transparent--no one will be surprised by Amanda's miraculous recovery or by the children's eventual battle with the nefarious forces of industry in an attempt to save their great-grandmother's farm--neither reader nor character is the worse for it. After all, nostalgia is about remembering things one already knows. --Kelly Flynn [via]More editions of Wish You Well:
- Wish You Well: ISBN 0446699489 (0-446-69948-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - Wish You Well: ISBN 0375430911 (0-375-43091-1)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - Wish You Well: ISBN 0446527165 (0-446-52716-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub - Wish You Well: ISBN 0446610100 (0-446-61010-0)
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