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800 Years of Women's Lettersby Olga Kenyon, P. D. JamesISBN 014023389X (0-14-023389-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armiesby Elizabeth D. LeonardISBN 0140298584 (0-14-029858-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Ancrene Wisseby Hugh WhiteISBN 0140445854 (0-14-044585-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancrene Wisse'Book summary:This classic of English devotional literature was written for three anchoresses by a chaplain in about 1230 and is divided into eight sections, each dealing in an accessible way with one division of the religious rule. As well as being of historical importance, it is also a work of great charm and expressiveness, and is regarded as one of the greatest prose work of the Middle Ages. [via]
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Anna Kareninaby Leo TolstoyISBN 0140267433 (0-14-026743-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy's masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian soul, set against the fascinating panorama of life in nineteenth-century Russia.
With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production. [via] -
The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 0140390227 (0-14-039022-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories'Book summary:The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are the themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar, " "unhealthily introspective, " and "morbid, " the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. This edition also includes selected stories from Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, and an introduction and notes by Nina Baym. [via]
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Balm in Gilead : Journey of a Healerby Sara Lawrence-LightfootISBN 0140249672 (0-14-024967-2)
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Book of Margery Kempeby Margery KempeISBN 0140432515 (0-14-043251-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Margery Kempe'Book summary:The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373 c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her remarkable story late in life. It remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage. [via]
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The Book of the City of Ladiesby Christine, Rosalind Brown-GrantISBN 0140446893 (0-14-044689-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the City of Ladies'Book summary:Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtuesReason, Rectitude and Justiceappear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. The Book of the City of Ladies provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.[via]More editions of The Book of the City of Ladies:
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold : The History of a Lesbian Communityby Elizabeth L. Kennedy, Madeline D. DavisISBN 0140235507 (0-14-023550-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Burning of Bridget Clearly: A True Storyby Angela BourkeISBN 0141002026 (0-14-100202-6)
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The Bust Guide to the New Girl Orderby Debbie Stoller, Marcelle KarpISBN 0140277749 (0-14-027774-9)
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Byron - Selected Proseby George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 0140430806 (0-14-043080-6)
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The Diary of Alice Jamesby Leon Edel, Alice JamesISBN 0140390111 (0-14-039011-1)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Alice James'Book summary:Unlike her ubiquitous brothers, psychologist and philosopher William and novelist Henry, Jr., Alice James (1848-1892)-the youngest child and only daughter of the wealthy, mercurial, and eccentric New Englander Henry James, Sr.-passed much of her brief lifetime at home, largely isolated from society, unafforded the opportunity to receive extensive formal education or to attain the public success or recognition of her famous siblings. She was, in many ways, a victim of a society that severely circumscribed the lives of women, and that deprived even privileged and talented women like Alice of their intellectual, spiritual, and emotional-as well as physical-freedom. Indeed, James spent many of her years as an invalid, afflicted with a depressive malaise that left her constantly trying to recover a sense of identity and integrity.
Yet, within the pages of the journal she kept during the last four years of her life, Alice James emerges neither as a downtrodden casualty of her era nor as merely an interesting footnote to the illustrious James family saga, but rather as a formidable and triumphant individual in her own right. Far from displaying any wholesale acceptance of the ruling assumptions about her gender-or, for that matter, about anything else-James's diary reveals a vigorously opinionated, intellectually curious, extremely gifted writer renegotiating her position within the discourses of her time.
Long unavailable to students, scholars, and the general reader, this volume reprints Leon Edel's 1964 edition, which is widely accepted as the most faithful reproduction of the original diary. A new introduction by Linda Simon draws extensively on recent scholarship to illuminate James's role both in the context of her family and nineteenth-century culture. [via]More editions of The Diary of Alice James:
The Diary of Lady Murasakiby Richard Bowring, Murasaki ShikibuISBN 014043576X (0-14-043576-X)
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Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 0140432493 (0-14-043249-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:Memoirs of a woman of pleasure, commonly known as fanny hill, has been shrouded in mystery and controversy since john cleland completed it in 1749. The bishop of london called the work 'an open insult upon religion and good manners' and james boswell referred to it as 'a most licentious and inflaming book'. The story of a prostitute's rise to respectability, it has been recognized more recently as a unique combination of parody, sensual entertainment and a philosophical concept of sexuality borrowed from french libertine novels. Modern readers will appreciate it not only as an important contribution to revolutionary thought in the age of enlightenment, but also as a thoroughly entertaining and important work of erotic fiction, deserving of a place in the history of the english novel beside richardson, fielding and smollett [via]
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The Farming of Bonesby Edwidge DanticatISBN 0140280499 (0-14-028049-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Farming of Bones'Book summary:In a 1930s Dominican Republic village, the scream of a woman in labor rings out like the shot heard around Hispaniola. Every detail of the birth scene--the balance of power between the middle-aged Señora and her Haitian maid, the babies' skin color, not to mention which child is to survive--reverberates throughout Edwidge Danticat's Farming of Bones. In fact, rather than a celebration of fecundity, the unexpected double delivery gels into a metaphor for the military-sponsored mass murder of Haitian emigrants. As the Señora's doctor explains: "Many of us start out as twins in the belly and do away with the other."
But Danticat's powerful second novel is far from a currently modish victimization saga, and can hold its own with such modern classics as One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Color Purple. Its watchful narrator, the Señora's shy Haitian housemaid, describes herself as "one of those sea stones that sucks its colors inside and loses its translucence once it's taken out into the sun." An astute observer of human character, Amabelle Désir is also a conduit for the author's tart, poetic prose. Her lover, Sebastian, has "arms as wide as one of my bare thighs," while the Señora's complicit officer husband is "still shorter than the average man, even in his military boots."
The orphaned Amabelle comes to assume almost messianic proportions, but she is entirely fictional, as is the town of Alegría where the tale begins. The genocide and exodus, however, are factual. Indeed, the atrocities committed by Dominican president Rafael Trujillo's army back in 1937 rival those of Duvalier's Touton Macoutes. History has rendered Trujillo's carnage much less visible than Duvalier's, but no less painful. As Amabelle's father once told her, "Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of." Thanks to Danticat's stellar novel, the world will now know. --Jean Lenihan [via]
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Freedom from Fear and Other Writingsby Aung San Suu Kyi, Michael ArisISBN 0140253173 (0-14-025317-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom from Fear and Other Writings'Book summary:Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. . This collection of writings reflects Aung San Suu Kyi's greatest hopes and fears for her people and her concern about the need for international cooperation, and gives poignant and humorous reminiscences as well as independent assessments of her role in politics. Containing speeches, letters and interviews, these writings give a voice to Burma's 'woman of destiny', who was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. [via]
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The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck, Peter Lisca, Kevin HearleISBN 0140247750 (0-14-024775-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Hanoiby Mary McCarthyISBN 0140211144 (0-14-021114-4)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Herland, the Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writingsby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Denise D. KnightISBN 0141180625 (0-14-118062-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herland, the Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings'Book summary:A new collection of fiction and poetry from a major voice in American feminism and literature
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a turn-of-the-century American feminist and socialist thinker. In her works of fiction, Gilman sought to illustrate her ideas about the way American society squandered the talents and economic contributions of women. Based on the nervous breakdown she suffered during her own disastrous first marriage, The Yellow Wall-Paper is her classic story about a woman who goes mad when the rest-cure treatment she undergoes forbids her any kind of work.
Herland, Gilman's most famous novel, is a feminist utopian comedy in which three men stumble upon a society of women that has banished men. Also included in this Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition is a selection of Gilman's poetry and other short fiction. Gilman scholar Denise D. Knight has written an enlightening Introduction that explores Gilman's use of the utopian form, satire, and fantasy to provide a critique of women's place in society and to propose creative solutions. [via]More editions of Herland, the Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings:
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slaveby Mary Prince, Sara SalihISBN 0140437495 (0-14-043749-5)
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0140390375 (0-14-039037-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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I'Ve Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberationby Sara Lawrence-LightfootISBN 0140249702 (0-14-024970-2)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: With "a True Tale of Slavery"by Harriet Jacobs, John S. Jacobs, Nell Irvin PainterISBN 0140437959 (0-14-043795-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: With "a True Tale of Slavery"'Book summary:A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, which culminates in the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space in her grandmother's attic, Jacobs skillfully used the literary genres of her time, presenting a thoroughly feminist narrative that portrays the evils and traumas of slavery, particularly for women and children. [via]
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Intelligent Women's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascismby George Bernard ShawISBN 0140200010 (0-14-020001-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intelligent Women's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism'Book summary:A lucid and entertaining explanation of socialism and capitalism. Shaw at his best, and still relevant. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0140366784 (0-14-036678-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:As an orphan, Jane Eyre is far from happy. She endures the hatred of her aunt and cousins, but finally begins to find some pleasure as a teacher. When she becomes a governess working for Mr Rochester, Jane hopes she might at last have found love and kindness. [via]
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John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrathby Frank GalatiISBN 0140482326 (0-14-048232-6)
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Keeping Women and Children Last: America's War on the Poorby Ruth SidelISBN 0140246630 (0-14-024663-0)
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Other Storiesby Kikolai LeskovISBN 0140444912 (0-14-044491-2)
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Letters of Abelard and Heloiseby Michael Clanchy, Betty Radice, Peter Abelard, HeloiseISBN 0140448993 (0-14-044899-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters of Abelard and Heloise'Book summary:Abelard and Heloise are nearly as famous a pair of tragic lovers as the fictional Romeo and Juliet; their shared passion for knowledge, religious faith, and one another sealed their destiny. Abelard was a well-respected, 12th-century Parisian scholar and teacher, and Heloise was his talented young student. The two relate their story through a set of letters to one another and intimate acquaintances. Their ardor is unmistakable; as Abelard writes to his love, "So intense were the fires of lust which bound me to you that I set those wretched, obscene pleasures, which we blush even to name, above God as above myself..." This forbidden lust resulted in a pregnancy and secret marriage, and when their union could no longer withstand the challenges in its path, each lover sought refuge in the church--Abelard became a monk and Heloise an abbess. Their correspondence continued as both achieved success in their new careers but continued to struggle with their feelings for one another; the set of letters powerfully articulates the wide range of emotions they experienced. So timeless is their love story that--after eight centuries--their passion, their devotion, and their struggle still resonate with readers. [via]
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloiseby Pierre AbailardISBN 0140442979 (0-14-044297-9)
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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herselfby J.M. CohenISBN 0140440739 (0-14-044073-9)
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Look at My Ugly Face: Myths and Musings on Beauty and Other Perilous Obsessions With Women's Appearanceby Sara HalprinISBN 0140234926 (0-14-023492-6)
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Lord Byronby George Gordon Byron, Susan J. Wolfson, Peter J. ManningISBN 0140423818 (0-14-042381-8)
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Mary Bartonby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0140430539 (0-14-043053-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England. [via]
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Mary Bartonby Macdonald Daly, Elizabeth GaskellISBN 014043464X (0-14-043464-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:[via]O Jem, her father wont listen to me, and its you must save Mary! Youre like a brother to her
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owners son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Marys dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the hungry forties as personal tragedy. In its social and political setting, it looks towards Elizabeth Gaskells great novels of the industrial revolution, in particular North and South.
In his introduction Maconald Daly discusses Elizabeth Gaskells first novel as a pioneering book that made public the great division between rich and poor a theme that inspired much of her finest work.
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Mary/Maria/Matildaby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0140433716 (0-14-043371-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary/Maria/Matilda'Book summary:This book brings together three extraordinary novels by an extraordinary pair, Mary Wollstonecraft, radical feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and Mary Shelley, her daughter, author of Frankenstein.[via]In Mary (1788), Mary Wollstonecraft explores the position of an alienated intellectual woman and, in portraying her struggle against the constraints of a claustrophobic feminine world, began a line that would include the more substantial heroines of Jane Eyre and Villette. In the posthumously published Maria (1798) she continues in fiction the arguments of the Vindication. Mary Shelley wrote Matilda in 1819, while in mourning for her first son. William Godwin, Mary's father, found its subject of father-daughter incest so 'disgusting and detestable' that he refused to publish it and the work remained suppressed for over a century.
In her illuminating introduction to this edition Janet Todd explores how these novels are linked, not only through the mother-daughter relationship of their authors, but in their perceptions of feminism and female sexuality and in their autobiographical richness.
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The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and Why We Pretend It Doesn'tby Susan MaushartISBN 0140291784 (0-14-029178-4)
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Memoirs of a Beatnikby Diane Di PrimaISBN 0140235396 (0-14-023539-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Minor Charactersby Joyce JohnsonISBN 0140283579 (0-14-028357-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Minor Characters'Book summary:Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. But what about Joyce Johnson (nee Glassman), Edie Parker, Elise Cowen, Diane Di Prima, and dozens of others? These female friends and lovers of the famous iconoclasts are now beginning to be recognized for their own roles in forging the Beat movement and for their daring attempts to live as freely as did the men in their circle a decade before Women's Liberation. Twenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made Kerouac an instant celebrity. While Kerouac traveled to Tangiers, San Francisco, and Mexico City, Johnson roamed the streets of the East Village, where she found herself in the midst of the cultural revolution the Beats had created. Minor Characters portrays the turbulent years of her relationship with Kerouac with extraordinary wit and love and a cool, critical eye, introducing the reader to a lesser known but purely original American voice: her own.[via]More editions of Minor Characters:
Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoirby Elizabeth EhrlichISBN 014026759X (0-14-026759-X)
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Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folktales for Mothers and Daughters to Shareby Jane Yolen, Heidi Elizabet Yolen-StempleISBN 0140298355 (0-14-029835-5)
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The Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Myth of the Good Motherby Shari L. ThurerISBN 0140246835 (0-14-024683-5)
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Nanaby Emile ZolaISBN 0140442634 (0-14-044263-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life": Also, a Memorial Chapterby Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert, Nell Irvin PainterISBN 0140436782 (0-14-043678-2)
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Oroonokoby Aphra Behn, Janet M. ToddISBN 0140439889 (0-14-043988-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oroonoko'Book summary:[via]When Prince Oroonokos passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonokos noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behns visit to Surinam, Oroonoko reflects the authors romantic views of native peoples as being in the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin. The novel also reveals Behns ambiguous attitude toward slavery: while she favored it as a means to strengthen Englands power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.
- A new single-volume edition of this early anti-slavery novel
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The Pillow Bookby Sei Shonagon, Meredith McKinneyISBN 0140448063 (0-14-044806-3)
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Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of the Heian period, describing the exquisite pleasures of a confined world in which poetry, love, fashion, and whim dominated, while harsh reality was kept firmly at a distance. Moving elegantly across a wide range of themes including nature, society, and her own flirtations, Sei Shonagon provides a witty and intimate window on a woman's life at court in classical Japan.More editions of The Pillow Book:
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagonby Sei Shonagon, Ivan I. MorrisISBN 0140442367 (0-14-044236-7)
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The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Motherby Mary Frances BerryISBN 0140233601 (0-14-023360-1)
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Precious Baneby Mary WebbISBN 0140590099 (0-14-059009-9)
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonald, Arthur HughesISBN 0140367462 (0-14-036746-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Psychoanalysis and Feminismby Juliet MitchellISBN 0140217703 (0-14-021770-3)
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Pygmalionby George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, Feliks Topolski, Nicholas GreneISBN 0140437894 (0-14-043789-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion'Book summary:When George Bernard Shaw wrote "Pygmalion" more than a half century ago, it seemed unlikely that his little play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time, "My Fair Lady," and a motion picture that captured numerous Academy Awards. Yet such popularity should not have been surprising since succeeding generations of readers and playgoers find continual relevance in the story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society. The extraordinary wit of the master dramatist of the twentieth century has not lost its sharp edge as it cuts away at the artificially of class distinctions and the callousness of indifference to human worth. [via]
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The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornographyby Angela CarterISBN 0140298614 (0-14-029861-4)
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With brilliance and wit, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of de Sade's extreme imagination and transforms them into symbols of our time: The Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. [via]More editions of The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography:
Selected Poemsby Byron, Susan J. Wolfson, Peter J. ManningISBN 0140424504 (0-14-042450-4)
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A Separate Battleby Ina ChangISBN 0140381066 (0-14-038106-6)
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She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soulby Lucy O'BrienISBN 0140251553 (0-14-025155-3)
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Sister Carrieby Theodore Dreiser, Neda M. Westlake, James L. W. WestISBN 0140188282 (0-14-018828-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:This edition of Dreiser's novel is the first publication of the entire, unexpurgated, uncensored text. It includes a preface and acknowledgements, the text of the novel, historical/critical commentary and accompanying notes. [via]
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Sweet Thursdayby John SteinbeckISBN 0140187502 (0-14-018750-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweet Thursday'Book summary:Steinbeck's sequel to "Cannery Row". Times have changed. World War II has left Cannery Row rustier and dustier than even Doc can remember it. But the Palace Flop-house remains the institution and landmark it has always been, and Mack and the boys are only too pleased to welcome him home. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, David SkiltonISBN 0140431357 (0-14-043135-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:In a novel full of poetry and mysterious settings, Hardy unfolds the story of his beautiful, suffering Tess with unforgettable tenderness and intensity. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Tom DolinISBN 014043514X (0-14-043514-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. [via]
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925by Vera BrittainISBN 0140188444 (0-14-018844-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925'Book summary:When war broke out in August 1914, 21-year-old Vera Brittain was planning on enrolling at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father told her she wouldn't be able to go: "In a few months' time we should probably all find ourselves in the Workhouse!" he opined. Brittain had hoped to escape the Northern provinces, but the war seemingly dashed her plans. "It is not, perhaps, so very surprising that the War at first seemed to me an infuriating personal interruption rather than a world-wide catastrophe."
Her father eventually relented, however, and she was allowed to attend. By the end of her first year, she had fallen in love with a young soldier and resolved to become active in the war effort by volunteering as a nurse--turning her back on what she called her "provincial young-ladyhood." Brittain suffered through 12-hour days by reminding herself that nothing she endured was worse than what her fiancé, Roland, experienced in the trenches. Roland was expected home on leave for Christmas 1915; on December 26, Brittain received news that he had been killed at the front. Ten months later Brittain herself was sent to Malta and then to France to serve in the hospitals nearer the front, where she witnessed firsthand the horrors of battle. When peace finally came, Brittain had also lost her brother Edward and two close friends. As she walked the streets of London on November 11, 1918--Armistice Day--she felt alone in the crowds:
For the first time I realised, with all that full realisation meant, how completely everything that had hitherto made up my life had vanished with Edward and Roland, with Victor and Geoffrey. The War was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were dead and would never return.
First published in 1933, Testament of Youth established Brittain as one of the best-loved authors of her time. Her crisp, clear prose and searing honesty make this unsentimental memoir of a generation scarred by war a classic. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Through the Flower: My Struggle As a Woman Artistby Judy Chicago, Anais NinISBN 0140231226 (0-14-023122-6)
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Understanding Womenby Susie Orbach, Luise EichenbaumISBN 0140226281 (0-14-022628-1)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Womanby Mary Wollstonecraft, Miriam BrodyISBN 0140433821 (0-14-043382-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'Book summary:First published in 1792, this book was written in a spirit of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. Her book is both a sustained argument for emancipation and an attack on a social and economic system. As Miriam Brody points out in her introduction, subsequent feminists tended to lose sight of her radical objectives. For Mary Wollstonecraft all aspects of women's existence were interrelated, and any effective reform depended on the redistribution of political and economic power. [via]
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A Vocation and a Voiceby Kate Chopin, Emily TothISBN 0140390782 (0-14-039078-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vocation and a Voice'Book summary:First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening" has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul, " this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses "The Awakening," Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite, " "sensitive, " and "iridescent." This edition of "The Awakening" also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.
"This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. [via]
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Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experienceby Jill NelsonISBN 014023716X (0-14-023716-X)
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Ways of Seeingby John BergerISBN 0140216316 (0-14-021631-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ways of Seeing'Book summary:[via]John Bergers Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.
"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" Peter Fuller, Arts Review
"The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling
Winner of the 1972 Booker Prize for his novel, G., John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and author of many novels including A Painter of Our Time, From A to X and Bentos Sketchbook.More editions of Ways of Seeing:
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Weavers of Wisdom: Women of the Twentieth Centuryby Anne BancroftISBN 0140191933 (0-14-019193-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weavers of Wisdom: Women of the Twentieth Century'Book summary:Throughout history men and women have sought answers to questions about their existence and beyond -- yet most gurus, philosophers and religious leaders have been men. This book documents women's important contributions to mystic philosophy through an examination of fifteen noted mystics including Joanna Macy, Dadi Janki, and Evelyn Underhill. [via]
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When She Was Badby Patricia PearsonISBN 0140243887 (0-14-024388-7)
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth Gaskell, Pam MorrisISBN 014043478X (0-14-043478-X)
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The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother : Tales of Women in Transformationby Kim CherninISBN 0140284664 (0-14-028466-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother : Tales of Women in Transformation'Book summary:Kim Chernin, author of The Hungry Self and In My Mother's House, has already written extensively about her own mother. She has also collected countless mother stories--stories that have the force of myth that are told by women about their mothers. In this intriguing book, Chernin asserts that in order for daughters to become complete individuals, they must, in some sense, psychically "birth" their own mothers. In explaining this provocative theory, she presents characteristic elements of the mother story, including idealization, blame, guilt, forgiveness, and letting go ("giving birth"). She then challenges the reader to trace these elements and identify the themes in six "real but invented" portraits of women and their mothers. During this moving and sometimes confusing process, readers will eventually come to a new level of understanding about the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship--leaving any candy-coated, romanticized vision far behind. The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother--beautifully written and often painful to read--generates more questions about mothers and daughters than it answers, but you'll never look at a mother-daughter story in the same way again. --Ericka Lutz [via]
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Woman's Consciousness: Man's Worldby Sheila RowbothamISBN 0140217177 (0-14-021717-7)
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Women of Wisdomby Tsultrim AllioneISBN 0140190724 (0-14-019072-4)
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Landsby Mary Seacole, Sara SalihISBN 0140439021 (0-14-043902-1)
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Work: A Story of Experienceby Louisa May Alcott, Joy S. KassonISBN 014039091X (0-14-039091-X)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0140366946 (0-14-036694-6)
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