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After You'd Goneby Maggie O'FarrellISBN 0670894486 (0-670-89448-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After You'd Gone'Book summary:A young woman named Alice Raikes boards a train to Scotland to visit her family. But when she arrives, she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London that very minute. Only a few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt.
With Alice's life hanging in the balance, her family gathers at her bedside. As they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions rise to the surface. The more they talk, the more, it seems, they conceal from each other. Alice, meanwhile, sliding between different levels of consciousness, recalls her past and a recent love affair. Skipping around in time, knitting together the different points of view with astonishing dexterity and beautiful prose, Maggie O'Farrell has created a story of love and family relationships that is reminiscent of the very best of Edna O'Brien and Mary Gordon. With one of the most heart-stopping openings in modern fiction, After You'd Gone is a work of extraordinary psychological depth and impressive maturity. [via]More editions of After You'd Gone:
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rapeby Susan BrownmillerISBN 0671220624 (0-671-22062-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape'Book summary:"The most comrpehensive study of rape ever offered to the public...It forces readers to take a fresh look at their own attitudes toward this devastating crime."
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As powerful and timely now as when it was first published, AGAINST OUR WILL stands as a unique document of the history of politics, the sociology of rape and the inherent and ingrained inequality of men and women under the law. In lucid, persuasive prose, Brownmiller has created a definitive, devastating work of lasting social importance.
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All but the Waltz: Essays on a Montana Familyby Mary Clearman BlewISBN 0670831085 (0-670-83108-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Almanac of the Deadby Leslie SilkoISBN 0671666088 (0-671-66608-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almanac of the Dead'Book summary:In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Author readings. [via]
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Amritaby Banana Yoshimoto, Russell F. WasdenISBN 0671532855 (0-671-53285-5)
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 067170608X (0-671-70608-X)
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne FrankISBN 0671690094 (0-671-69009-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl'Book summary:Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again. [via]
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Book of Common Prayerby Joan DidionISBN 0671638084 (0-671-63808-4)
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Bridget Jonesby Helen FieldingISBN 0670892963 (0-670-89296-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridget Jones'Book summary:Fans of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary will recall that at the end of that sly and funny version of Pride and Prejudice, singleton heroine Bridget landed her Mr. Darcy at last--Mark Darcy, that is. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks later, and already the honeymoon is over. In addition to discovering that the man of her dreams votes conservative, left-leaning Bridget is also feeling just a mite uncomfortable with the realities of sharing bed and board with another person:
V. complicated actually having man in house as cannot freely spend requisite amount of time in bathroom or turn into gas chamber as conscious of other person late for work, desperate for pee etc.; also disturbed by Mark folding up underpants at night, rendering it strangely embarrassing now simply to keep all own clothes in pile on floor.
But all of these problems pale to insignificance with the arrival on the scene of Rebecca, a beautiful, man-hunting arch-nemesis with "thighs like a baby giraffe" and absolutely no girlfriend code of ethics when it comes to poaching another woman's man. Before long, Rebecca's manipulations, Bridget's own insecurities, and a string of misunderstandings (starting with a naked Filipino boy in Mark Darcy's bed and ending with a suggestive valentine from Bridget's dry cleaner) result in "128 lbs. (good), alcohol units 0 (excellent), cigarettes 5 (a pleasant, healthy number), no. times driven past Mark Darcy's house 2 (v.g.), no. of times looked up Mark Darcy's name in phone book to prove still exists 18 (v.g.), 1471 calls 12 (better), no. of phone calls from Mark 0 (tragic).Fortunately, Bridget has plenty of other problems to distract her. Her mother has returned from a trip to Kenya with a young Masai in tow--to her father's consternation; her best friends Jude, Shazzer, and Tom are all trapped in dating hell themselves; her apartment is in shambles thanks to a dotty carpenter; an unreliable ex-boyfriend has just reentered her life; and now someone is sending Bridget death threats--could it be Mark Darcy? If Bridget Jones's Diary was a modern riff on Pride and Prejudice, its sequel borrows several themes and devices (not to mention a section heading) from another Austen novel, Persuasion. And as in Austen's fiction, here the journey is the destination. A happy ending for Bridget and her pals is a foregone conclusion; how they get there, however, will have you on the edge of your chair--if you haven't already fallen off of it laughing. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Buccaneersby Edith Wharton, Marion MainwaringISBN 0670852198 (0-670-85219-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Buccaneers'Book summary:Five American girls, denied access to 1870s New York society due to the newness of their wealth, go to England to marry into the cash-hungry aristocracy, in a meticulous rendering of Wharton's unfinished masterpiece. 50,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. BOMC Dual Main. [via]
Christina Rossetti: A Writer's Lifeby Jan MarshISBN 067083517X (0-670-83517-X)
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Crooked Little Heartby Anne LamottISBN 0679435212 (0-679-43521-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crooked Little Heart'Book summary:At 13, Rosie plays a gangly, pigeon-toed second fiddle to her juicy, sexy friend Simone. The two are junior tennis champs who often cart home trophies. But driven by the gnawing fear that she's a loser, Rosie starts to cheat. Meantime, boy-crazy Simone dabbles in off-court disaster. Up in the bleachers a weird loner named Luther obsessively follows Rosie's games, while at home her mother wrestles her own demons. Anne Lamott (Operating Instructions) has turned in a fair depiction of the blood and bones of adolescence that's thankfully leavened by sharp humor and transcendent moments. The novel is uneven and heavy-handed at times, but often rewarding. [via]
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The Custom of the Countryby Edith WhartonISBN 067942301X (0-679-42301-X)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Custom of the Country'Book summary:Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on Americas nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory. As Undine moves from Americas heartland to Manhattan, and then to Paris, Whartons critical eye leaves no social class unscathed.
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A Day Late and a Dollar Shortby Terry McMillanISBN 0670896764 (0-670-89676-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short'Book summary:Terry McMillan's novels feature chatty, catty narrators who have a story they're just busting to tell you. The dominant voice in A Day Late and a Dollar Short is Viola Price, whose asthma just sent her to the ICU. And who came to visit? The Jheri Curl-wearing Cecil, "a bad habit I've had for thirty-eight years, which would make him my husband." Viola doesn't think Cecil's such a catch: "His midlife crisis done lasted about 20 years now," and "to set the record straight, Cecil look like he about four months pregnant." But somebody did catch Cecil--he recently left Viola for "some welfare huzzy" with three kids. And, as we soon find out in Cecil's first-person chapter, Viola has abundant flaws of her own. McMillan deftly sketches the exasperated intimacy of the long and unsuccessfully married.
She also has great dish about family dynamics. Have Cecil and Viola's kids got problems! When lovable, luck-free Lewis turns up to visit his mom, he's drunk, broke, and still whining about his ex, Donnetta, who "didn't have as much sense as a Christmas turkey" (though she did have the sense to dump Lewis). Now Lewis consoles himself with his Bobbing Betty doll. "How could somebody with an IQ of 146 be so stupid?" marvels Viola. And that Charlotte! Viola's daughter is "a bossy wench from the word go." (Gee, where could she have gotten that trait?) Charlotte feels like she never got her fair share of attention, having been born 10 months after the eldest daughter, Paris (now the driven mom of a brilliant athlete whose white girlfriend claims she's pregnant). Charlotte took it out on younger Lewis and Janelle, who's been in college 15 years with no degree in sight.
At first, you'll make ample use of the family charts in the endpapers to figure out who's who, but pretty soon you'll feel right at home with the squabbling, multiply dysfunctional, ultimately loving Price clan. You may agree with Viola: "Some folks got some stuff that can top ours. Hell, look at the Kennedys." --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0679418601 (0-679-41860-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed'Book summary:Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984 classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep." [via]
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Dickinson: Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0679429077 (0-679-42907-7)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dickinson: Poems'Book summary:The everyman's library pocket poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: dickinson contains poems from the poet's art, the works of love, and death and resurrection, as well as an index of first lines [via]
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Dreaming in Cubanby Cristina GarcíaISBN 0679408835 (0-679-40883-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreaming in Cuban'Book summary:Three generations of women in the del Pino family, divided over conflicting political loyalties after the Cuban revolution, are reunited in Havana by a devoted granddaughter who has refused to sacrifice her family ideals. A first novel. 10,000 first printing. [via]
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Floating in My Mother's Palmby Ursula HegiISBN 0671689479 (0-671-68947-9)
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Fluddby Hilary MantelISBN 0670821187 (0-670-82118-7)
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Forest Houseby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0670844543 (0-670-84454-3)
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The Friendly Jane Austenby Natalie TylerISBN 0670874256 (0-670-87425-6)
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The Gates of Ivoryby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0670842702 (0-670-84270-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gates of Ivory'Book summary:One of England's most ferociously perceptive writers now widens her creative canvas to bring forth a novel that ranks with her classics The Ice Age and Realms of Gold. A London psychiatrist blessed with all the comforts of the modern world receives a cryptic package and is drawn into a horrific world of mystery and tragedy. [via]
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishingby Melissa BankISBN 067088300X (0-670-88300-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing'Book summary:Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Good Earthby Pearl S. BuckISBN 0671035770 (0-671-03577-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Earth'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
A poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country¹s last emperor.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: " A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
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" Detailed explanatory notes
" Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
" Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
" A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. [via]SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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Heroes and Villainsby Angela CarterISBN 0671206524 (0-671-20652-4)
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 067943335X (0-679-43335-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House on Mango Street'Book summary:In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. [via]
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A House Unlockedby Penelope LivelyISBN 0670899542 (0-670-89954-2)
Hardcover, Viking
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Icy Sparks: Library Editionby Gwyn Hyman RubioISBN 067087311X (0-670-87311-X)
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679410430 (0-679-41043-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via] 
May Sarton : A Biographyby Margot PetersISBN 0679415211 (0-679-41521-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Mooby Jane SmileyISBN 0679420231 (0-679-42023-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moo'Book summary:"DELECTABLY ENTERTAINING. . . . An uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest."
--The New York Times
Nestled in the heart of the Midwest, amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, lies Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the art and science of agriculture. Here, among an atmosphere rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors a secret fantasy to kill the dean; Mrs. Walker, the provost's right hand and campus information queen, knows where all the bodies are buried; Timothy Nonahan, associate professor of English, advocates eavesdropping for his creative writing assignments; and Bob Carlson, a sophomore, feeds and maintains his only friend: a hog named Earl Butz. In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, offers us a wickedly funny comedy that is also a darkly poignant slice of life.
"FAST, HILARIOUS, AND HEARTBREAKING . . . Not for a minute does Moo lose its perfect satiric pitch or its pacing. . . . Don't skip a page, don't skip a paragraph. It's going to be on the final."
--People
"SMART, IRREVERENT, AND WICKEDLY TENDER . . . Moo suggests a mix of Tom Wolfe's wit and John Updike's satiny reach . . . Engaging."
--The Boston Globe
"ENTERTAINING . . . Displays a wicked wit and an unerring eye for American foibles . . . Stuffed with memorable characters, sparkling with deliciously acid humor, Moo is a rare bird in today's literary menagerie: a great read that also makes you think."
--Chicago Sun-Times
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Mother of Pearlby Melinda HaynesISBN 0671774670 (0-671-77467-0)
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A Natural Curiosityby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0670828378 (0-670-82837-8)
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No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Changeby Elspeth CameronISBN 0670873764 (0-670-87376-4)
Hardcover, Viking
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NPby Banana Yoshimoto, Jane RosenmanISBN 0671898264 (0-671-89826-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'NP'Book summary:"Bananamania" has returned in an enchanting new novel of uncanny sulbtlety, style, magic, and mystery that Frank Ramirez of the South Bend Tribune declares is "every bit as good as Yoskimoto's first book ... perhaps better." A celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English, N.P. But the book may never be published in his native Japan: each translator who takes up the ninety-eighth story chooses death too -- including Kazami Kano's boyfriend, Shoji. Haunted by Shoji's death, Kazami is inexorably drawn to three young people whose lives are intimately bound to the late writer and his work. Over the course of an astonishing summer, she will discover the truth behind the ninety-eighth story -- and she will come to believe that "everytking that had happened was shockingly beautiful enough to make you crazy." [via]
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Old New Yorkby Edith WhartonISBN 0671023365 (0-671-02336-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old New York'Book summary:The four novellas collected here take place in the New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s. Each reveals the codes and customs that ruled society of that time, drawn with the perspicacious eye and style that is uniquely Wharton's. Novellas include "False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark" and "New Year's Day". [via]
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One True Thingby Anna QuindlenISBN 067940712X (0-679-40712-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One True Thing'Book summary:One True Thing is a film starring Meryl Streep as the cancer-stricken homemaker mother, Renee Zellweger as the daughter who quits her top-dog job to care for her, and William Hurt as the chilly professor who lets the women in the family do the heavy emotional lifting dying requires. But the real star of the project remains former New York Times everyday-life columnist Anna Quindlen, who quit her top-dog job to write novels (and who took time off from college to nurse her own dying mother).
Quindlen hit a nerve with One True Thing, which captures an experience seldom dealt with in popular culture. (One exception: the sensitive 1996 film with Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio of the play Marvin's Room.) Though the heroine of One True Thing, Ellen Gulden, is a golden girl with two brothers who'll lose her career the instant she steps off the fast track, society concurs with her dad, who says, "It seems to me another woman is what's wanted here."
The book is a mother-daughter tale that should please fans of, say, The Joy Luck Club. It's not flashy, but it has a deep feel for the way children often discover, just before it's too late, who their parents really are. "Our parents are never people to us," Ellen writes, "they're always character traits.... There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat." The mercy-killing subplot isn't gripping, but the palpable sense of deepening family intimacy certainly is. --Tim Appelo [via]
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One Writer's Beginningsby Eudora WeltyISBN 0674639278 (0-674-63927-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Writer's Beginnings'Book summary:Among the most beloved of American writers, Eudora Welty's stories and novels have entertained us for over half a century. Here, in her memoirs, she writes with her usual candor and grace about how a writer's sensibilities are shaped. As compelling as her stories, as witty as her personality, as finely honed as her fiction, Welty's account of her life is a powerful and fulfilling read. [via]
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Paradiseby Toni MorrisonISBN 0679433740 (0-679-43374-0)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:Paradise is a 1997 novel by Toni Morrison, and her first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. According to the author, it completes a "trilogy" that begins with Beloved and includes Jazz. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection January 1998. Morrison wanted to call the novel War but was overridden by her editor.[1] [via]
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Pearl Buck's the Good Earthby Pearl S. BuckISBN 0671006576 (0-671-00657-6)
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The Penelopiadby Margaret AtwoodISBN 067697418X (0-676-97418-X)
Hardcover, Knopf
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The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Storiesby Malcom BradburyISBN 0670819263 (0-670-81926-3)
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The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Womenby Richard Glyn Jones, A. Susan WilliamsISBN 0670859079 (0-670-85907-9)
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetryby Anne CarsonISBN 0679431780 (0-679-43178-0)
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Poems: Including Varient Readings Critically Compared with All Known Manuscriptsby Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. JohnsonISBN 0674676009 (0-674-67600-9)
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The Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0674676017 (0-674-67601-7)
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Dickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk--an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day.
Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson--1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a single reading of each poem--usually the latest version of the entire poem--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.
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The Poems Of Emily Dickinson: Reading Editionby Emily Dickinson, R.W. FranklinISBN 0674018249 (0-674-01824-9)
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Editionby Emily Dickinson, R.W. FranklinISBN 067467622X (0-674-67622-X)
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Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer--an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. Her family sought publication of Dickinson's poetry over the years, selecting verses, often altering her words or her punctuation, until, in 1955, the first important attempt was made to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas H. Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Now, after many years of preparation by Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, a new comprehensive edition is available. This three-volume work contains 1,789 poems, the largest number ever assembled. The poems, arranged chronologically, based on new dating, are drawn from a range of archives, most frequently from holographs, but also from various secondary sources representing lost manuscripts. The text of each manuscript is rendered individually, including, within the capacity of standard type, Dickinson's spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Franklin gives Dickinson's alternative readings for the poems, her revisions, and the line and page, or column, divisions in the source. Each entry identifies Franklin's editorial emendations and records the publication history, including variants. Fourteen appendices of tables and lists give additional information, including poems attributed to Emily Dickinson. The poems are indexed by numbers from the Johnson edition, as well as by first lines.
Franklin has provided an introduction that serves as a guide to this edition and surveys the history of the editing of Dickinson's poems. His account of how Dickinson conducted her workshop is a reconstruction of a remarkable poetic life.
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Possessing the Secret of Joyby Alice WalkerISBN 0671789422 (0-671-78942-2)
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Retreat From Loveby ColetteISBN 0672517671 (0-672-51767-1)
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The Second Sexby H.M. Parshley, Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0679420169 (0-679-42016-9)
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The Secret Historyby Donna TarttISBN 0679410325 (0-679-41032-5)
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Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
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Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk KiddISBN 0670894605 (0-670-89460-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Life of Bees'Book summary:In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler [via]
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Sexing the Cherryby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0676973485 (0-676-97348-5)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexing the Cherry'Book summary:Set in 17th century London, Sexing the Cherry is about the journeys taken by the boisterous Dog-Woman and her son Jordan: journeys across seas to find bananas and pineapples; journeys through time that weave snatches of the present with tales of Charles 1 and Oliver Cromwell; journeys in search of the self. As mothers go, the Dog-Woman takes some beating. She's a giant, wrapped in a skirt that could "serve as a sail for some wartorn ship" and strong enough to fling an elephant into the air. She's hideous too, with smallpox scars on her face where fleas live, a flat nose and black, broken teeth. To top it all, she's a "fantasist, a liar and a murderer". But her son, Jordan, is proud of her--who else has a mother who can hold a dozen oranges in her mouth at once?
Like the best of Winterson's writing, such as Oranges are not the Only Fruit and The Passion, the novel is engaging, ambitious and contrary. Alongside a hearty historical realism, young girls swoon in locked towers that don't exist, islands slip sideways in time and mysterious diseases wipe out towns and cities. Even though Sexing the Cherry is short, it is impossible to read it in a straight line--fairy tales and dreams run in and out of the text and it's hard to resist chasing them. There is an exceptional playfulness at work too--an unravelling of the most solid of historical facts and fantastically unconventional fairy tales in which princesses smash the skulls of their princes with silver candlesticks or become worn and grey "like old sweaters". --Jane Honey [via]
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Sexual Politicsby Kate MillettISBN 067170740X (0-671-70740-X)
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George EliotISBN 0679420304 (0-679-42030-4)
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Introduction by Rosemary Ashton
The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliots greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him.
When Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he vows to turn his back upon the world. He moves to the village of Raveloe, where he remains an outsider and an object of suspicion until an extraordinary sequence of events, including the theft of his gold and the appearance of a tiny, golden-haired child in his cottage, transforms his life. Part beautifully realized rural portraiture and part fairy tale, the story of Marners redemption and restoration to humanity has long been George Eliots most beloved and widely read work. [via]More editions of Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe:
Small Remediesby Shashi DeshpandeISBN 0670892513 (0-670-89251-3)
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A Spy in the House of Loveby Anais Nin, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671871390 (0-671-87139-0)
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The Stone Diariesby Carol ShieldsISBN 0670853097 (0-670-85309-7)
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Stones from the Riverby Ursula HegiISBN 0671780751 (0-671-78075-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stones from the River'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1997: Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River clamors for comparisons to Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum; her protagonist Trudi Montag--like the unforgettable Oskar Mazerath--is a dwarf living in Germany during the two World Wars. To its credit, Stones does not wilt from the comparison. Hegi's book has a distinctive, appealing flavor of its own. Stone's characters are off-center enough to hold your attention despite the inevitable dominance of the setting: There's Trudi's mother, who slowly goes insane living in an "earth nest" beneath the family house; Trudi's best friend Georg, whose parents dress him as the girl they always wanted; and, of course, Trudi herself, whose condition dooms her to long for an impossible normalcy. Futhermore, the reader's inevitable sympathy for Trudi, the dwarf, heightens the true grotesqueness of Nazi Germany. Stones from the River is a nightmare journey with an unforgettable guide. [via]
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The Summer of the Royal Visitby Isabel ColegateISBN 0679408800 (0-679-40880-0)
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Swannby Carol ShieldsISBN 067082822X (0-670-82822-X)
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Talk Before Sleepby Elizabeth BergISBN 067943299X (0-679-43299-X)
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Ann and Ruth have always talked as only great friends can--honestly, and about everything: husbands and marriages, sex lives and children, their work, their hopes, their disappointments, and their dreams. For Ann, cautious and conventional, her closeness to the outspoken and eccentric Ruth brings about discovery and liberation, a chance to say whatever she wants, and, most important, under the insistent tutelage of Ruth, to become herself. Over the years, the women have shared recipes, quilting patterns, child care, delicate and dangerous secrets. Each rests secure in the knowledge that they will be friends forever. Then something happens that will change their lives forever, and the women begin to share something more profound than either of them might have predicted.
Written with an unerring ear for how women talk, laugh, and cry together, and with a gift for capturing the uniqueness of personality, Talk Before Sleep is sure to find a place in readers' hearts.
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The Temple of My Familiarby Alice WalkerISBN 0671003763 (0-671-00376-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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The Temple of My Familiar Exportby John N. WalkerISBN 0671686801 (0-671-68680-1)
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To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs, 1908-1929by M. F. K. FisherISBN 0679415769 (0-679-41576-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Unafraid of the Dark : A Memoirby Rosemary L. BrayISBN 0679425551 (0-679-42555-1)
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The Underpainterby Jane UrquhartISBN 0670877263 (0-670-87726-3)
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An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Fieldby Terry T. WilliamsISBN 0679432442 (0-679-43244-2)
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Veraby Elizabeth von Arnim, Donna NgISBN 0671883917 (0-671-88391-7)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0679413375 (0-679-41337-5)
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The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous authorities to search for the aforementioned Molloy. In the trilogy's second novel, Malone, who might or might not be Molloy himself, addresses us with his ruminations while in the act of dying. The third novel consists of the fragmented monologue -- delivered, like the monologues of the previous novels, in a mournful rhetoric that possesses the utmost splendor and beauty -- of what might or might not be an armless and legless creature living in an urn outside an eating house. Taken together, these three novels represent the high-water mark of the literary movement we call Modernism. Within their linguistic terrain, where stories are taken up, broken off, and taken up again. where voices rise and crumble and are resurrected, we can discern the essential lineaments of our modern condition, and encounter an awesome vision, tragic yet always compelling and always mysteriously invigorating, of consciousness trapped and struggling inside the boundaries of nature. [via]More editions of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:
Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-Westby Jane BrownISBN 0670801631 (0-670-80163-1)
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Waiting To Exhaleby Terry McMillanISBN 0671501488 (0-671-50148-8)
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The Wellby Elizabeth JolleyISBN 0670811033 (0-670-81103-3)
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Willa Catherby Sharon O'BrienISBN 0674953223 (0-674-95322-3)
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The Witch of Exmoorby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0670872407 (0-670-87240-7)
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A Woman's Worthby Marianne WilliamsonISBN 0679422188 (0-679-42218-8)
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The Women of Brewster Placeby Gloria NaylorISBN 0670778559 (0-670-77855-9)
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The Works of Anne Bradstreetby Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley, Adrienne Cecile RichISBN 067495999X (0-674-95999-X)
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Writing and Beingby Nadine GordimerISBN 067496232X (0-674-96232-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing and Being'Book summary:Whether talking about her own writing, interpreting the works of others, or giving us a window on the world that "we in South Africa are attempting to reconstruct," Nadine Gordimer has much to tell us about the art of fiction and the art of life.
In this deeply resonant book Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations. She asks first, where do characters come from--to what extent are they drawn from real life? We are touching on this question whenever we insist on the facts behind the fiction, Gordimer suggests, and here she tries to unravel the mysterious process that breathes "real" life into fiction. Exploring the writings of revolutionaries in South Africa, she shows how their struggle is contrastingly expressed in factual accounts and in lyrical poetry. Gordimer next turns to three writers linked by their search for a life that transcends their own time and place: in distinctive and telling ways, Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe, and Amos Oz defy accepted norms of loyalty to the mores and politics of their countries. Their search in Egypt, Nigeria, and Israel for a meaningful definition of home testifies to what it must be: the destination of the human spirit beyond national boundaries. Ending on a personal note, Gordimer reveals her own experience of "writing her way out of" the confines of a dying colonialism.
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Writing Fictionby Janet BurrowayISBN 0673521192 (0-673-52119-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Writing Women in Jacobean Englandby Barbara Kiefer LewalskiISBN 0674962435 (0-674-96243-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Women in Jacobean England'Book summary:When was feminism born - in the 1960s, or in the 1660s? For England, the answer might be the early decades of the 17th century. James I was King of England, and women were expected to be chaste, obedient, subordinate and silent. Some, however, were not, and these are the women who interest Barbara Lewalski, those who, as petitioners and patrons, historians and poets took up the pen to challenge and subvert the repressive patriarchal ideology of Jacobean England. Setting out to show how these women wrote themselves into their culture, Lewalski rewrites Renaissance history to include some of its most compelling - and neglected - voices. In these women, Lewalski identifies an early challenge to the dominant culture - and an ongoing challenge to our understanding of the Renaissance world. [via]
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