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The 1,000 Point Pro Sports Quiz Book, Baseballby Mel CebulashISBN 0394620526 (0-394-62052-6)
Softcover, Random House
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The Accidental Touristby Anne TylerISBN 039454689X (0-394-54689-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Alice James: A Biographyby Jean StrouseISBN 0395361478 (0-395-36147-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice James: A Biography'Book summary:Alice James was the sister of William and Henry, the only daughter in a family of brilliant and not a little eccentric men, and representative of the intellectually repressed nineteenth-century woman whose grief finds an outlet in neurotic illness. She kept a withering journal of her life, wrote letters, and left behind a trail needing only modern signposts. She was an integral part of a family firm of scholars and writers. But she could never seize the opportunities that a few other women of her age did. There was no air to breathe in the intoxicating atmosphere where Henry was already writing spellbinding novels and William was professing at Harvard and reinventing psychology and philosophy. Her life, then, is a singular portrait embedded in a family history that dazzled her age and still interests ours.
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Anywhere But Hereby Mona SimpsonISBN 0394755596 (0-394-75559-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Aurora Leighby Margaret Reynolds, Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN 0393962989 (0-393-96298-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aurora Leigh'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.
The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace Aurora Leighs inception, evolution, and publication.
Seven contemporary documentson the "woman question," prostitution, socialism, and poetic theoryplace the text historically.
"Criticism" collects twenty-five assessments of Aurora Leigh from the period 18991993.
A wide range of opinion is provided by George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ellen Moers, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Angela Leighton, Deirdre David, Dorothy Mermin, and Margaret Reynolds, among others.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Aurora Leigh:
Black Women in White America: A Documentary Historyby Gerda LernerISBN 0394718801 (0-394-71880-1)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Bluebeard's Egg and Other Storiesby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 039540424X (0-395-40424-X)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Celestial Navigationby Anne TylerISBN 039449038X (0-394-49038-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Clarissaby Samuel RichardsonISBN 0395051649 (0-395-05164-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical Worldby Greg Child, Lynn Hill, John LongISBN 0393324338 (0-393-32433-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Combat in the Erogenous Zoneby Ingrid BengisISBN 039447550X (0-394-47550-X)
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The Company of Womenby Mary GordonISBN 0394505085 (0-394-50508-5)
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Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian Americanby Carroll Smith-RosenbergISBN 0394535456 (0-394-53545-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian American'Book summary:This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it examines the dramatic changes in male-female relations, family structure, sex, social custom, and ritual that occurred as colonial America was transformed by rapid industrialization. Included are two now classic essays on gender relations in 19th-century America, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America" and "The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Order and Gender Crisis, 1870-1936," as well as Smith-Rosenberg's more recent work, on abortion, homosexuality, religious fanatics, and revisionist history.
Throughout Disorderly Conduct, Smith-Rosenberg startles and convinces, making us re-evaluate a society we thought we understood, a society whose outward behavior and inner emotional life now take on a new meaning. [via]More editions of Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian American:
Edie: An American Biographyby Jean Stein, George PlimptonISBN 0394488199 (0-394-48819-9)
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Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton, Kristin O. Lauer, Cynthia Griffin WolffISBN 0393966356 (0-393-96635-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's celebrated novella is based on the first edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1911.
It is fully annotated for undergraduate readers.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a rich selection of materials, some previously unavailable, for the study of contemporary psychological, social, and economic issues, as well as Wharton's private correspondence and writings and biographical accounts of the author.
Arranged under two headings, "Criticism" reveals Ethan Frome's impact as both a literary work and a social commentary. "Contemporary Reviews" consists of eight prominent assessments of Ethan Frome, including reviews from the New York Times Book Review, Outlook, The Nation, the Saturday Review, and those penned by Frederic Taber Cooper and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, among others. "Modern Criticism" (1956-1991) includes seven interpretations of the novella by Lionel Trilling, Elizabeth Ammons, Judith Fryer, Jean Frantz Blackall, Lev Raphael, Candace Waid, and Cynthia Griffin Wolff.
A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Evelinaby Fanny Burney, Stewart J. CookeISBN 0393971589 (0-393-97158-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Fannyby Erica JongISBN 0393324354 (0-393-32435-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravished by her libertine stepfather. Fleeing to London, Fanny falls in with idealistic witches and highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. After toiling in a London brothel that caters to literati, Fanny embarks on a series of adventures that teach her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman. Soon to be a major Broadway musical. Reading group guide included. [via]More editions of Fanny:
Far Cry from Kensingtonby Muriel SparkISBN 0395476941 (0-395-47694-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830 to 1980by Elaine ShowalterISBN 0394520211 (0-394-52021-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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First Lady from Plainsby Rosalynn CarterISBN 0395352940 (0-395-35294-0)
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The Fit-Or-Fat Womanby Covert Bailey, Lea BishopISBN 0395510104 (0-395-51010-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Holbrook GerzinaISBN 0393926354 (0-393-92635-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.
Born in England and transplanted to New York toward the end of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries, and today both countries claim her as their own. The Secret Garden, her best-known work, became an instant modern classic and world-wide bestseller upon its publication in 1911. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" and "Letters" illuminate important aspects of Burnetts life and work and include her own writings on gardens and their spiritual healing. Four illustrations point to Burnetts prominence in popular culture.
"Criticism" includes fourteen contemporary reviews and nine recent critical views of The Secret Garden, including Jerry Phillipss sociopolitical interpretation and Phyllis Bixlers comparative analysis of the Broadway musical adaptation of the novel.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden:
The Free Women of Petersburgby Suzanne LebsockISBN 0393952649 (0-393-95264-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Friend from Englandby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394563875 (0-394-56387-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Friend from England'Book summary:When Rachel became involved in the lives of the Livingstones it was with an acute appreciation of the engulfing warmth of their home - rooted, furnished and nourished as if it was by an opulent domesticity, fuelled by ferocious central heating. Uxorious Oscar watched appreciatively as solicitous Dorrie served tea in elegant cups, their daughter Heather in attendance, as if impenetrably complacent. The attitude of all three towards the good fortune of their wealth was one of melancholy submission: a sadness seemed to go with every acquisition. Their conversation was largely meaningless, and this Rachel found restful. Although the two young women had nothing in common, the Livingstones seemed to encourage Rachel's association with their daughter, as if it were a precaution against anyone taking advantage of |Heather. They looked to Rachel as the true adult, sturdily independent and in command of her fate - self-reliant with her own small business and her discreet worldliness. No one knew much of the affairs of Rachel's heart, of the reasons for her vigilant self-control, of her cynicism - of her fear of drowning. She had long ago decided to live her life on the surface, to avoid entanglements and dangerous friendships. She was aware of her limitations. If the truth were known, Rachel found the privileged childishness and opacity of Heather exasperating, though she had her own reasons to continue to seek the family's hospitality. She stood by while Heather was swept into an unsuitable marriage followed by a second which Rachel deemed just as ill-advised in its own way. She would measure her own unencumbered, carefully gauged liberty against what she saw as Heather's irresponsible abandon and take it upon herself as a duty to force an unforgettable confrontation. From London to Venice this elegant, revealing, beautifully controlled study builds to a startling unmasking of its protagonists and their motives. Rachel, for all her ken observation and assumptions about others, is destined for a self-exposure she does not foresee. Powerful in conception, rich in execution, A Friend from England is Anita Brookner at her most poignant and thought-provoking. [via]
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Getting Clear: Body Work for Womenby Anne Kent RushISBN 0394709705 (0-394-70970-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Getting Clear:Body Work for Women: Body Work for Womenby Anne Kent RushISBN 0394483820 (0-394-48382-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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Good Morning, Midnightby Jean RhysISBN 0394710428 (0-394-71042-8)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullersISBN 0395079780 (0-395-07978-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Heartburnby Nora EphronISBN 0394531809 (0-394-53180-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heartburn'Book summary:Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes. HEARTBURN is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and - most satisfyingly - revenge. This is Nora Ephron's (screenwriter of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE) roman a clef: 'I always thought during the pain of the marriage that one day it would make a funny book,' she once said - And it is! [via]
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Homecomingby Julia AlvarezISBN 0394538552 (0-394-53855-2)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian Englandby Judith FlandersISBN 0393327639 (0-393-32763-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such drudgery was routine for the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Following the daily life of a middle-class Victorian house from room to room; from childbirth in the master bedroom through the kitchen, scullery, dining room, and parlor, all the way to the sickroom; Judith Flanders draws on diaries, advice books, and other sources to resurrect an age so close in time yet so alien to our own. 100 illustrations, 32 pages of color. [via]More editions of Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England:
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickensby Claire TomalinISBN 0394579593 (0-394-57959-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?by Susan SheehanISBN 0394713788 (0-394-71378-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is There No Place on Earth for Me?'Book summary:" A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia."
-- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic
"Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent young girl, became a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of the next seventeen years in anti out of mental institutions. Susan Sheehan, a talented reporter followed "Sylvia" for almost a year talking with and observing her listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors, even for a period sleeping in the bed next to her in a mental hospital.
"Susan Sheehan has committed an extraordinary act of journalism....She brings relentless intelligent attention to bear on a particular case, a journalistic practice that almost always results in new and disturbing insights into those mindless generalities and prejudice and certitudes we tend to carry around with us." -- Meg Greenfield, front page Washington Post Book World
"Sheehan is tenacious, observant and unsentimental. The history of a single patient leads us into a maze of understaffed institutions, bureaucratic fumbling, trial-and-error treatment and familial incomprehension. Though Sheehan keeps herself invisible, her sympathy is palpable."
-- Walter Clemons, Newsweek
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Issues in Feminism: A First Course in Women's Studiesby Sheila RuthISBN 0395286913 (0-395-28691-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Jacob's Roomby Virginia Woolf, Suzanne RaittISBN 039392632X (0-393-92632-X)
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The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval Franceby Georges DubyISBN 0394524454 (0-394-52445-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France'Book summary:This ambitious study sets out to discover what marriage meant in the daily lives of the nobles of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. Through entertaining anecdotes, family dramas, and striking quotations, Duby succeeds in bringing his subjects to life, making us feel as if we understand the motives and conflicts of those who inhabited the distant past.[via]
"It is typical of Duby's modest spirit and his book-long concern with the ancient status of beleaguered wives that he ends his study with a plea: 'We must not forget the women. Much has already been said about them. But how much do we really know?' Not everything, certainly, but far more than we did before the author began these charmingly erudite investigations."Ken Turan, Time
"It is refreshing to find a historian who is always conscious that we simply do not know what or how people thought 1000 years ago. . . . Duby explains the complicated machinations of the medieval churchman and the paterfamilias in a scholarly but lively style."Sarah Lawson, New Statesman
"Duby has written an extraordinarily rich booka panoramic view of medieval marriage and the relations between men and women, full of arresting insights and human detail. . . . It is the work of a master historian at the peak of his powers on a subject of central relevance, compulsive and essential reading."P. Stafford, British History
Georges Duby (1919-1996) was a member of the Académie française and for many years held the distinguished chair in medieval history at the Collège de France. His books include The Three Orders; The Age of Cathedrals; The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest; Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages; and History Continues, all published by the University of Chicago Press.More editions of The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France:
Kristin Lavransdatterby Sigrid UndsetISBN 0394752910 (0-394-75291-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kristin Lavransdatter'Book summary:The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin-beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate-stands with the world's great literary figures. Volume 1, The Bridal Wreath , describes young Kristin's stormy romance with the dashing Erlend Nikulausson, a young man perhaps overly fond of women, of whom her father strongly disapproves. [via]
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L' Amante Anglaiseby Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 0394750225 (0-394-75022-5)
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Leaving Earthby Helen HumphreysISBN 0393326756 (0-393-32675-6)
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Living in the Openby Marge PiercyISBN 0394731719 (0-394-73171-9)
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Look at Meby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394529448 (0-394-52944-8)
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Losing Battlesby Eudora WeltyISBN 0394726685 (0-394-72668-5)
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Louise Brooksby Barry ParisISBN 0394559231 (0-394-55923-1)
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Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0394561619 (0-394-56161-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in the Time of Cholera'Book summary:Nobel prize winner and author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez" tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece "Love in the Time of Cholera". "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love". Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives? "The most important writer of fiction in any language." Bill Clinton . "An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny." "Sunday Telegraph" . "An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women." "The Times" . As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include "Autumn of the Patriarch", "Bon Voyage Mr.President", "Collected Stories", "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", "The General in his Labyrinth", "Innocent Erendira and Other Stories", "In the Evil Hour", "Leaf Storm", "Living to Tell the Tale", "Memories of My Melancholy Whores", "News of a Kidnapping", "No-one Writes to the Colonel", "Of Love and Other Demons", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" and "Strange Pilgrims". [via]
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The Loverby Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 0394545885 (0-394-54588-5)
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Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.
Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today. [via]More editions of The Lover:
Maggie, a Girl of the Streetsby Stephen Crane, Thomas A. GullasonISBN 0393950247 (0-393-95024-7)
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The Misallianceby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394553403 (0-394-55340-3)
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More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes by Women about Womenby Pamela SargentISBN 0394718763 (0-394-71876-3)
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Myth America: Picturing Women, 1865-1945by Judith Papachristou, Carol WaldISBN 0394498402 (0-394-49840-2)
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The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexualityby Mary Jane SherfeyISBN 0394465393 (0-394-46539-3)
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The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theoryby Elaine ShowalterISBN 0394726472 (0-394-72647-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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North and Southby Alan Shelston, Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN 0393979083 (0-393-97908-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskells place in the company of Victorian Englands finest novelists.
This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text of Gaskells 1850 short story "Lizzie Leigh," which, like North and South, is set in industrial Manchester and deals with strong working women. This topic is further addressed in Bessie Rayner Parkess essay on Victorian working women. "Criticism" collects eleven assessments of the novel, among them Louis Cazamians 1904 study of industrial fiction and Hilary Schors recent study of North and South in the context of discourse analysis. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of North and South:
Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Aloneby Mary MorrisISBN 0395446376 (0-395-44637-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Offshoreby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395478049 (0-395-47804-9)
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Other Womenby Lisa AltherISBN 0394539362 (0-394-53936-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other Women'Book summary:The novel from bestselling author Lisa Alther-now available as an ebook Caroline is a giver-as an ER nurse, as devoted lover to her partner, Diane, as a divorced mother of two boys, and as the daughter of world-class do-gooders-but can she accept help from others and still be herself? When trauma cases in the ER leave Caroline emotionally paralyzed and her relationship with her partner, Diane, breaks down, she knows its time to take a look at her life and do something she'd never imagined: go to therapy. Her therapist, Hannah, knows a thing or two about sacrifice and pain. A former war bride, Hannah may live a seemingly cozy domestic life with her beloved husband and two grown children, but she can't forget her own harrowing past. As she and Caroline work together, each comes to understand and admire the resilient woman sitting before her. A poignant look at the human need for acceptance, Other Women is a thoughtful novel about how a life examined is worth living. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lisa Alther, including rare photos from the author's personal collection. [via]
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticismby Megan MarshallISBN 0395389925 (0-395-38992-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Rainbowby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0394604911 (0-394-60491-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Rich Rewardsby Alice AdamsISBN 0394511018 (0-394-51101-8)
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes:Early Detective Storiesby Hugh GreeneISBN 0394714873 (0-394-71487-3)
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Rosalind Franklin and DNAby Anne SayreISBN 0393320448 (0-393-32044-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Seafaring Womenby Linda G. DepauwISBN 0395324343 (0-395-32434-3)
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Searching for Calebby Anne TylerISBN 0394498488 (0-394-49848-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Storyby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas B. Allen, James HoweISBN 0394864670 (0-394-86467-0)
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Selected Poems II: Poems Selected & New 1976-1986by Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 0395454069 (0-395-45406-9)
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The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan: New Translations, Criticismby Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, De Pisan Christine, Kevin BrownleeISBN 0393970108 (0-393-97010-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan: New Translations, Criticism'Book summary:Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1421) is Europes first professional woman writer. She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres, including lyric poetry, allegorical dream visions, history, political treatises, and biography.
This Norton Critical Edition presents selections from eighteen of Christines major works in fresh, contemporary translations. Each text is fully annotated and is accompanied by an introduction placing it in the context of Christines oeuvre and tracing the literary developments and the historical situation of the period. The Book of Fortunes Transformation and The Book of the City of Ladies include manuscript illuminations.
"Criticism" collects seven important interpretations of the literary and historical aspects of Christines work, by Jacqueline Cerquiglini, Beatrice Gottlieb, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Sheila Delany, Patricia A. Phillippy, Joel Blanchard, and Kevin Brownlee. A Selected Bibliography is included. [via]More editions of The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan: New Translations, Criticism:
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The Seven Daughters of Eveby Bryan SykesISBN 0393323145 (0-393-32314-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seven Daughters of Eve'Book summary:The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women.
One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to examine the remains of a five-thousand-year-old man, Bryan Sykes ultimately was able to prove not only that the man was a European but also that he has living relatives in England today. In this lucid, absorbing account, Sykes reveals how the identification of a particular strand of DNA that passes unbroken through the maternal line allows scientists to trace our genetic makeup all the way back to prehistoric times, to seven primeval women, the Seven Daughters of Eve. illustrated and includes a map [via]More editions of The Seven Daughters of Eve:
Sisterhood Is Powerful : An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movementby Robin MorganISBN 0394705394 (0-394-70539-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Sleepless Nightsby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0394505271 (0-394-50527-1)
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The Tale Of Genjiby Murasaki ShikubuISBN 0394735307 (0-394-73530-7)
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In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the worlds first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era (7941185) is recognized as one of the very greatest periods in Japanese literature, and The Tale of Genji is not only the unquestioned prose masterpiece of that period but also the most lively and absorbing account we have of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture that made such a masterpiece possible.
Genji is the favorite son of the emperor but also a man of dangerously passionate impulses. In his highly refined world, where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, his shifting alliances and secret love affairs create great turmoil and very nearly destroy him.
Edward Seidenstickers translation of Lady Murasakis splendid romance has been honored throughout the English-speaking world for its fluency, scholarly depth, and deep literary tact and sensitivity. [via] -
Teresa of Avila : The Progress of a Soulby Cathleen MedwickISBN 0394547942 (0-394-54794-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teresa of Avila : The Progress of a Soul'Book summary:Saint Teresa (1515-1582) is widely considered one of the greatest mystics and woman reformers of the Renaissance. Author Cathleen Medwick (a former editor at Vanity Fair and Mirabella) clearly invested an enormous amount of research into this impressive biography of a brazen and complicated woman. Although she broke many of the social rules for nuns and even women of her day (for instance, she slept under the stars, traveled at whim, and spoke her mind freely), it was her ecstatic raptures that made her so controversial. "Sometimes she dropped to the floor and was frozen in position for hours, unable to speak," writes Medwick. "At other times she conversed with God directly, a dangerous practice, the Inquisition often having its ear to the door." Readers will find a fascinating character in this fully flawed and charismatic Spanish saint. More delightfully, readers will appreciate Medwick's strong narration and sense of story that sustains us through Teresa's trials and tribulations--and expertly leads us to her final rapture. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Toward a Recognition of Androgynyby Carolyn HeilbrunISBN 0394461754 (0-394-46175-4)
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A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsleyby Kathrine FrankISBN 0395353157 (0-395-35315-7)
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The Weedkiller's Daughterby Harriette Louisa ArnowISBN 0394451333 (0-394-45133-3)
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When She Was Badby Patricia PearsonISBN 0394224302 (0-394-22430-2)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When She Was Bad'Book summary:"Women commit the majority of child homicides in the United States; more than 80 percent of neonaticides; an equal or greater share of severe physical child abuse; an equal rate of spousal assault; about a quarter of child sexual molestations; and a large proportion of elder abuse... The rate at which infants are murdered by women in the U.S. is higher than the rate at which women are murdered by men." With carefully researched facts, fascinating case histories, and incisive argument, Patricia Pearson succeeds in demolishing the myth that women are not naturally violent. When She Was Bad considers two different issues: (1) how we see violent women--that we either excuse their behavior with a "syndrome defense" such as battered woman syndrome, or else see them as the passive partners of violent men; (2) how we see aggression itself--that we perceive it as physical and blatant, thus missing the ways in which women more commonly use verbal assaults and indirect strategies. Ultimately, Pearson argues, the failure of women to take responsibility for their violent behavior undermines the good that can come from aggressiveness, and sabotages the credibility of female police officers and soldiers. [via]
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The Witching Hourby Anne RiceISBN 0394587863 (0-394-58786-3)
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The Woman Destroyedby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0394711033 (0-394-71103-3)
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Woman's Estateby Juliet MitchellISBN 0394473426 (0-394-47342-6)
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A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960by Jeanine BasingerISBN 0394563514 (0-394-56351-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Women and Love: A Cultural Revolution in Progressby Shere HiteISBN 0394530527 (0-394-53052-7)
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Women Artists, 1550-1950by Ann Sutherland HarrisISBN 0394733266 (0-394-73326-6)
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Women Lawyers : Rewriting the Rulesby Mona HarringtonISBN 0394580257 (0-394-58025-7)
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Women of the Shadowsby Ann CornelisenISBN 0394723457 (0-394-72345-7)
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Women of the World: The Great Foreign Correspondentsby Julia EdwardsISBN 0395444861 (0-395-44486-1)
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Women Writing about Menby Jane MillerISBN 039474425X (0-394-74425-X)
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The World Split Open: Four Centuries of Women Poets in England and America, 1552-1950.by Bernikow, Louise, CompISBN 039471072X (0-394-71072-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Writer on Her Workby Janet SternbergISBN 0393320553 (0-393-32055-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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