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The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, Stephen OrgelISBN 0192806629 (0-19-280662-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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The Americanby Henry James, Adrian PooleISBN 0192833227 (0-19-283322-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American'Book summary:During a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintré to be his wife. To his dismay, he receives an icy reception from the heads of her family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the American privileged class. Brilliantly combining elements of comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama, this tale of thwarted desire vividly contrasts nineteenth-century American and European manners. Oxford's edition of The American, which was first published in 1877, is the only one that uses James' revised 1907 text. [via]
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American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bushby Kevin PhillipsISBN 0143034316 (0-14-303431-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush'Book summary:Paraphrasing a passage from Machiavelli's The Prince, Kevin Phillips writes, "a ruler can ignore the mob and devote himself to the interests of the ruling class, gulling the inert majority who constitute the ruled." He then says, "Borgia references aside, 21st-century American readers of The Prince may feel that they have stumbled on a thinly disguised Bush White House political memo." These pointed words would sting regardless of who uttered them, but coming from Phillips, a former Republican strategist, they have an added piquancy. In American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, Phillips traces the rise of the Bush family from investment banking elites to political power brokers, using their Ivy League network, vast wealth, and questionable political maneuvering to obtain the White House and consequently, shake the foundation of constitutional American democracy. Citing the Bush family mainstays of finance, energy (oil), the military industrial complex, and national security and intelligence (the CIA), Phillips uses copious examples to show the dangerous alliance between the Bushes' business interests (huge corporations such as Enron and Haliburton) and the formation of national policy. No other family, Phillips says, that has fulfilled its presidential aspirations has been so involved in the ascendancy of the arms industry and of the 21st-century American imperium--often at the expense of regional and world peace and for their personal gain.
It is hard to tell what offends Phillips the most: the Bushes' systematic deceit and secrecy, their shady business dealings, their cronyism, or their family philosophy that privileges the very wealthy and utterly dismisses all the rest. It is clearly all of these things combined. But at the top of Phillips' list is the dynastic nature of their family power, for it is that concentration of power and influence that strikes at the heart of our democracy. Past administrations have transgressed, albeit not so egregiously, and other political families have had dynastic ambitions. But none have succeeded as thoroughly as the Bushes. Jefferson and Madison would be horrified, and according to Phillips, we should be too. --Silvana Tropea [via]More editions of American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush:
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Centuryby Kevin PhillipsISBN 0143038281 (0-14-303828-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century'Book summary:An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of American Dynasty[via]In his two most recent bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that ruleand imperilthe United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of the emerging Republican majoritys rise to power. Now Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the current age of global overreach, fundamentalist religion, diminishing resources, and ballooning debt under the GOP majority. With an eye to the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips confirms what too many Americans are still unwilling to admit about the depth of our misgovernment.
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Bel Amiby Guy De Maupassant, Robert Lethbridge, Margaret MauldonISBN 0192836838 (0-19-283683-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bel Ami'Book summary:Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism.
Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behavior and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist.
This new translation is complemented by fullest introduction and notes of any edition currently available. [via]More editions of Bel Ami:
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926345 (0-316-92634-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brideshead Revisited'Book summary:A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book. [via]
The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagramby Nicholas FaithISBN 031233219X (0-312-33219-X)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Candideby Francois M. Voltaire, Michael Wood, Theo CuffeISBN 0143039423 (0-14-303942-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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- Candide: ISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Candide: ISBN 0300119879 (0-300-11987-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr - Candide and Other Stories: ISBN 0192817302 (0-19-281730-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Candide: ISBN 0312851901 (0-312-85190-1)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan - Candide: ISBN 0143039423 (0-14-303942-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Candide: ISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
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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:
Casanova in Loveby Andrew MillerISBN 0151004099 (0-15-100409-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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Christianity, Poverty and Wealth in the 21st Centuryby Michael TaylorISBN 0281055475 (0-281-05547-5)
Softcover, Pilgrim Pr
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A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, Mark PeppeISBN 0142300551 (0-14-230055-1)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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Classby Paul FussellISBN 0345318161 (0-345-31816-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Class'Book summary:In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom and everybody -- you'll surely recognize yourself -- in between. Class is guaranteed to amuse and infuriate, whether your class is so high it's out of sight (literally) or you are, alas, a sinking victim of prole drift [via]
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Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Payby James K. GalbraithISBN 0226278794 (0-226-27879-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Damnation Gameby Clive BarkerISBN 0297787209 (0-297-78720-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Exit to Edenby Anne RiceISBN 0345401964 (0-345-40196-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Fortunate Sonby Walter MosleyISBN 0316114715 (0-316-11471-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Hidden Cost of Being African-American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequalityby Thomas M. ShapiroISBN 0195181387 (0-19-518138-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Cost of Being African-American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality'Book summary:Over the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these encouraging signs, Thomas Shapiro argues in The Hidden Cost of Being African American, fundamental levels of racial inequality persist, particularly in the area of asset accumulation--inheritance, savings accounts, stocks, bonds, home equity, and other investments-. Shapiro reveals how the lack of these family assets along with continuing racial discrimination in crucial areas like homeownership dramatically impact the everyday lives of many black families, reversing gains earned in schools and on jobs, and perpetuating the cycle of poverty in which far too many find themselves trapped.
Shapiro uses a combination of in-depth interviews with almost 200 families from Los Angeles, Boston, and St. Louis, and national survey data with 10,000 families to show how racial inequality is transmitted across generations. We see how those families with private wealth are able to move up from generation to generation, relocating to safer communities with better schools and passing along the accompanying advantages to their children. At the same time those without significant wealth remain trapped in communities that don't allow them to move up, no matter how hard they work. Shapiro challenges white middle class families to consider how the privileges that wealth brings not only improve their own chances but also hold back people who don't have them. This "wealthfare" is a legacy of inequality that, if unchanged, will project social injustice far into the future.
Showing that over half of black families fall below the asset poverty line at the beginning of the new century, The Hidden Cost of Being African American will challenge all Americans to reconsider what must be done to end racial inequality. [via]More editions of The Hidden Cost of Being African-American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality:
House of Hilton, from Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilegeby Jerry OppenheimerISBN 0307337227 (0-307-33722-7)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
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How Class Works: Power And Social Movementby Stanley AronowitzISBN 0300105045 (0-300-10504-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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I Like It Like That: A Gossip Girl Novelby Cecily Von ZiegesarISBN 0316735183 (0-316-73518-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Like It Like That: A Gossip Girl Novel'Book summary:It's spring break and love is in the air. Or is that a blend of Chanel no. 9 and Gucci Rush? Is there a difference?Blair moves in with Serena and they're back to being best friends. But will the love-fest last or will they end up tearing out one anothers newly highlighted hair? And speaking of new, Nate is on the straight and narrow, playing Nate-in-shining-armor to his crazy new girlfriend, Georgie. But he will definitely get more than he bargained for when he, Georgie, Blair, and Serena end up hanging out together in Sun Valley, Idaho. Back in Manhattan, Jenny is spending time with a mysteriously nice new boyfriend and Dan is spending time crying in the office of the Red Letter literary journal. And Vanessa, wait, is that Vanessa shopping at Barneys with a guy in a Lacoste shirt?The long cold winter is over and the sun is finally shining along Fifth Avenue. The trees are in bloom and NYC's most fabulous are ready for a truly outrageous vacation! [via]
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The Illustrated Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, DarcyISBN 0142005142 (0-14-200514-2)
Softcover, Studio
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A devoted readership will recognize Dame Darcy as the creator of highly original and off-kilter comic books. Here she uses her lavishly detailed illustrations to bring the best-loved Victorian novel Jane Eyre back into the spotlight. Darkly elegant illustrations draw back the novels curtain, revealing the depths of human depravity, despair, and ultimate redemption. Sure to impress traditional fans and newcomers alike, The Illustrated Jane Eyre updates the classic for a new era.
@ToEyreIsHuman Romance, romance, this poppa Rochester wants to get in my pants!
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Margaret Smith, Sally ShuttleworthISBN 0192839659 (0-19-283965-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.[via]More editions of Jane Eyre:
- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0312095457 (0-312-09545-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0142437204 (0-14-243720-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0142500909 (0-14-250090-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Jane Eyre: ISBN 019281513X (0-19-281513-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0194230880 (0-19-423088-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0192100424 (0-19-210042-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0312127952 (0-312-12795-2)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0192839659 (0-19-283965-9)
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- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0312095457 (0-312-09545-7)
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Jane Eyreby Margaret Smith, Charlotte BronteISBN 0192833561 (0-19-283356-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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Jane Eyreby Heather GlenISBN 0312165803 (0-312-16580-3)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Romantic melodrama or feminist classic, Jane Eyre is one of the most enduringly popular and compelling novels in the literary canon. Overlooked or dismissed by critics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it first began to attract serious critical attention in the 1970s as New Critical, formalist and feminist critics began to re-evaluate Charlotte Bronte's achievement. This New Casebook brings together essays by leading scholars over the past twenty years, mapping Jane Eyre's progress through the literary and theoretical establishment and encouraging the student to consider these different critical approaches and how they shape the novel and our reading of it. [via]
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Jane Eyreby UnkISBN 0194216322 (0-19-421632-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:This book is intended for Prizes won etc. [via]
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The Kill: (La Curee)by Emile Zola, Brian NelsonISBN 0192804642 (0-19-280464-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The King of Liesby John HartISBN 0312363753 (0-312-36375-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King of Lies'Book summary:John Hart creates a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is poignant, a riveting murder mystery layered beneath the southern drawl of a humble North Carolina lawyer. When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack.[via]
Work's troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel.
Hart's mastery of prose and plot belie his newcomer status as he explores the true heart of a man. An illuminating anatomy of a murder and the ripple effect it produces within a family and a community, The King of Lies is a stunning debut. 
Kippsby H. G. WellsISBN 019281477X (0-19-281477-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Little Dorrit: Library Editionby Charles Dickens, Harvey Peter SucksmithISBN 0192835661 (0-19-283566-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Dorrit: Library Edition'Book summary:This complex, sombre work, haunted by the symbol of the prison, is more than any other Dickens novel a study of society. George Bernard Shaw called it 'a masterpiece among many masterpieces' and claimed it converted him to socialism. Although many of the social conditions to which it refers have passed into history, Lionel Trilling asserts in his Introduction that "'Little Dorrit," one of the most profound of Dickens's novels and one of the most significant works of the nineteenth century, will not fail to be thought of as speaking with a peculiar passion and intimacy to our own time.' [via]
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- Little Dorrit: Library Edition: ISBN 019281592X (0-19-281592-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Little Dorrit: Library Edition: ISBN 0192545124 (0-19-254512-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Little Dorrit: Library Edition: ISBN 0198125135 (0-19-812513-5)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press - Little Dorrit: Library Edition: ISBN 0192835661 (0-19-283566-1)
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Men and Wealth in the United States, 1850-1870by Lee SoltowISBN 0300018142 (0-300-01814-2)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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The Needle's Eyeby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0156029359 (0-15-602935-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Nothing Can Keep Us Togetherby Cecily Von ZiegesarISBN 0316735094 (0-316-73509-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Only in Your Dreamsby Cecily Von ZiegesarISBN 0316011827 (0-316-01182-7)
Softcover, Poppy
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Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0321427130 (0-321-42713-0)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Patterns of Wealthholding in Wisconsin since 1850by Lee SoltowISBN 0299055302 (0-299-05530-2)
Hardcover, University of Wisconsin Press
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Pere Goriotby Honore De Balzac, A.J. KrailsheimerISBN 0192835696 (0-19-283569-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pere Goriot'Book summary:Nobody writes about money like Balzac, and his classic chronicle of a young man from the provinces clawing his way to success in 19th century Paris, even as an older man is victimized by the same milieu, shrewdly captures the financial dimension of so much that goes on between people. The boarding house in which the two protagonists live is a microcosm of their world, and Goriot's treatment by his daughters would make Lear blanch. [via]
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Persuasionby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Diedre LynchISBN 0192802631 (0-19-280263-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey. [via]
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Persuasionby Claude Rawson, Jane Austen, John N. Davie, John DavieISBN 0192833618 (0-19-283361-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had for ever put an end to such a prospect. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Joseph BristowISBN 0192807293 (0-19-280729-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Robber Baronsby Matthew JosephsonISBN 0156767902 (0-15-676790-2)
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Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Powerby Derek A. WilsonISBN 0233979999 (0-233-97999-9)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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The Rules of Wealth: A Personal Code for Prosperityby Richard TemplarISBN 0273710192 (0-273-71019-2)
Hardcover, Pearson / Prentice Hall
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The Sorrows of Satanby Marie Corelli, Peter KeatingISBN 0192832204 (0-19-283220-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, John Paul RiquelmeISBN 0312106882 (0-312-10688-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:One of a selection of Thomas Hardy's best-known novels with introductions by critics, notes, a bibliography, a map of Hardy's Wessex, a chronology of his life and the New Wessex Edition text. [via]
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Tess Of The d'Urbervillesby Simon Gatrell, Penny Boumelha, Juliet Grindle, Thomas HardyISBN 019284069X (0-19-284069-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess Of The d'Urbervilles'Book summary:Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.
Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions. [via]More editions of Tess Of The d'Urbervilles:
Tess of the D'urbervilles: Stage 6 2,500 Headwordsby Thomas Hardy, Jennifer BassettISBN 0194230945 (0-19-423094-5)
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardyby Peter WiddowsonISBN 0312090927 (0-312-09092-7)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey NiffeneggerISBN 015602943X (0-15-602943-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Traveler's Wife'Book summary:A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come. [via]
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Under the Greenwood Treeby Thomas Hardy, Simon GatrellISBN 0192835173 (0-19-283517-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Greenwood Tree'Book summary:This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work. [via]
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The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich are Rich, the Poor are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!by Tim HarfordISBN 0195189779 (0-19-518977-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich are Rich, the Poor are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!'Book summary:An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices.
The Undercover Economist is for anyone who's wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why they can't seem to find a decent second-hand car, or how to outwit Starbucks. This book offers the hidden story behind these and other questions, as economist Tim Harford ranges from Africa, Asia, Europe, and of course the United States to reveal how supermarkets, airlines, and coffee chains--to name just a few--are vacuuming money from our wallets. Harford punctures the myths surrounding some of today's biggest controversies, including the high cost of health-care; he reveals why certain environmental laws can put a smile on a landlord's face; and he explains why some industries can have high profits for innocent reasons, while in other industries something sinister is going on. Covering an array of economic concepts including scarce resources, market power, efficiency, price gouging, market failure, inside information, and game theory, Harford sheds light on how these forces shape our day-to-day lives, often without our knowing it.
Showing us the world through the eyes of an economist, Tim Harford reveals that everyday events are intricate games of negotiations, contests of strength, and battles of wits. Written with a light touch and sly wit, The Undercover Economist turns "the dismal science" into a true delight. [via]More editions of The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich are Rich, the Poor are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!:
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Worldly Goods : A New History of the Renaissanceby Lisa JardineISBN 0333674464 (0-333-67446-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worldly Goods : A New History of the Renaissance'Book summary:Drawing from her earlier and more academic studies, Lisa Jardine approaches the challenge of creating a new history of the Renaissance with remarkable bravura and all the boldness required to deliver a fresh and highly readable story of an age we think we know so well. In Worldly Goods, Jardine argues that while the Renaissance was indeed marked by a flourishing cultural identity, it was the material and commercial spirit of the 15th and 16th centuries that set the tone. Commerce and international trade provided the enormous fortunes that funded artistic production, and luxury goods, including great works of art, became important as means of displaying newly acquired wealth and status. It was an urge to own, a ceaseless quest for new horizons and exotic treasures, that fueled the cultural output of the Renaissance, according to Jardine, and that taste for conspicuous displays of opulence characterizes the Western experience of the arts and culture to this day.
That Worldly Goods succeeds in telling a captivating new story of the Renaissance is testimony to Jardine's literary and scholarly success at a difficult task. That her book, richly illustrated and well written, makes contemplation of its subject a thrill is testimony of a very good read. [via]
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You're The One That I Want: A Gossip Girlby Cecily Von ZiegesarISBN 0316735167 (0-316-73516-7)
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Mujer Del Viajero en el Tiempoby Audrey NiffeneggerISBN 0307344835 (0-307-34483-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mujer Del Viajero en el Tiempo'Book summary:Clare y Henry son en apariencia una pareja normal que lleva una vida corriente en Chicago. Él es bibliotecario y ella artista, pero la terrible verdad es que Henry sufre una extraña enfermedad que lo hace viajar en el tiempo, al pasado o al futuro sin previo aviso, normalmente fruto de una situación de estrés previa. Lo transporta desnudo, con desagradables malestares y vulnerable.
Cuando Henry tiene 31 años y Clare 23 se encuentran por primera vez. Y allí nace en tiempo presente su historia de amor, su vida en común de la que ocasionalmente Henry se ausenta propulsado a otras épocas de su vida y revisitando otros momentos felices o tristes, a veces encontrándose a sí mismo cuando era niño, con el temor de Clare de que no regrese de uno de esos viajes.
La historia se va desplegando contada a dos voces, bajo los puntos de vista de Clare y Henry, y enfoca las consecuencias de esta particularidad en su matrimonio y el amor apasionado que se tienen. Clare y Henry intentar llevar vidas normales, buscar una cura médica para la disfunción de Henry, ponerse objetivos a futuro, disfrutar de sus amigos y familia; aunque a veces se presenta la tentación de utilizar su capacidad de conocer el futuro para manejar el presente o evitar algún peligro... Pero todo ello está amenazado por algo que no pueden controlar ni prevenir: Henry puede viajar un día al futuro y descubrir que él ya no forma parte de ese tiempo, descubrir su propia muerte o la de sus seres queridos, ver a una Clare sola y envejecida, conocer a una hija que todavía no ha tenido y que heredará su extraña disfunción. [via]More editions of Mujer Del Viajero en el Tiempo:
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