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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Lancelyn GreenISBN 0192835084 (0-19-283508-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:This popular series of readers has now been completely revised and updated, using a new syllabus and new word structure lists. Readability has been ensured by means of specially designed computer software. Words that are above level but essential to the story are explained within the text, illustrated, and then reused for maximum reinforcement. [via]
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Aesop's Fablesby AesopISBN 0192840509 (0-19-284050-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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All Grown Up and No Place to Go: Teenagers in Crisisby David ElkindISBN 0201483858 (0-201-48385-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Grown Up and No Place to Go: Teenagers in Crisis'Book summary:Elkind's classic on "hurried teens" condemns how society pushes adolescents to assume adult roles too soon. This thorough revision argues that new trends among teens--long work hours, rising violence, and pregnancies--make an even stronger case for protecting adolescents instead of pressuring them. "A valuable tour of adolescent thinking."--Ms. [via]
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Ardizzone's Hans Andersen: Fourteen Classic Talesby Edward Ardizzone, H.C. AndersenISBN 0233969969 (0-233-96996-9)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ardizzone's Hans Andersen: Fourteen Classic Tales'Book summary:A selection by Edward Ardizzone of his favorite Andersen fairy tales for which he provides numerous illustrations. [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0192837788 (0-19-283778-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Around the World in Eighty Days has been a bestseller for over a century, but it has never before appeared in a critical edition. While most translations misread or even abridge the original, this stylish new version is completely true to Verne's classic, moving as fast and as brilliantly as Phineas Fogg's own race against time. Around the World in Eighty Days offers a strong dose of post-romantic reality but not a shred of science fiction: its modernism lies instead in the experimental technique and Verne's unique twisting of space and time. [via]
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Beatrice and Vanessaby John Yeoman, Quentin BlakeISBN 0241890764 (0-241-89076-4)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Cultureby Michael Eric DysonISBN 0195115694 (0-19-511569-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture'Book summary:A former welfare father from the ghetto of Detroit, Michael Eric Dyson is today a critic, scholar, and ordained Baptist minister who has forged a unique role: he is a compelling spokesman for the concerns of the black community, and also a leader who has a genuine rapport with that community, particularly with urban youth. In his essays, lectures, sermons, and books, he has emerged as one of the leading African-American voices of our day.
Dyson's passion for contemporary black culture informs Between God and Gangsta' Rap, his latest foray into the ongoing debate about African-American identity which embraces the hopes of the church and the cool reality of hip-hop. Bringing together writings on music, religion, politics, and identity, and offering a multi-faceted view of black life, the book charts the progress of Dyson's own soul, from his roots in the Detroit ghetto, to his current status as a Baptist minister, professor, cultural critic, husband, and father. Dyson opens with a letter to his brother, who is serving life in prison on a murder charge. This painful piece reveals a violence in the author's own family that sets the tone for themes that will emerge throughout these writings: violence on the black body and soul; the redemptive power of hope through school, church, and family; sexuality as a source of anguish and of joy; and the struggle with entrenched white racism. There is a section of wonderful profiles Dyson calls "Testimonials"--studies of black men, from O.J. Simpson to Marion Barry, and from Baptist preacher Gardner Taylor to Michael Jordan and Sam Cooke. In "Obsessed with O.J.," Dyson offers an extremely personal and insightful series of reflections on the case. In "Lessons," Dyson takes up the subjects of politics and racial identity. Newt Gingrich and moral panic, Quabiliah Shabazz, Carol Moseley Braun, the NAACP, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X all figure in these insightful and accessible pieces. And "Songs of Celebration" draws from Dyson's writings for the popular press such as Rolling Stone and Vibe, and explores the joys and pitfalls of black expression, from the black vernacular bible to gospel music, R & B, and hip-hop. Dyson concludes with an essay framed as a letter to his wife, which offers a positive counterbalance to the opening address to his brother. The letter serves as a tribute to the redemptive powers of love, the black family, spirit, and change.
Arguing that the richness of black culture today can be found in the interstices--between god and gangsta' rap--Dyson charts the progress and pain of African Americans over the past decade, showing that brilliance and beauty, pain and drudgery are components of this changing culture. As a compendium of his thinking about contemporary culture Between God and Gangsta' Rap will find a wide audience among black and white readers. [via]More editions of Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture:
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Peter HollindaleISBN 0192828126 (0-19-282812-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0224029851 (0-224-02985-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114000 (0-19-511400-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketchesby Mark Twain, Roy Blount, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195101316 (0-19-510131-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Child and Society: Essays in Applied Child Developmentby David ElkindISBN 0195023714 (0-19-502371-4)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0195852583 (0-19-585258-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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Coot Clubby Arthur RansomeISBN 0224606352 (0-224-60635-2)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Crisis on Conshelf Tenby Monica HughesISBN 0241892112 (0-241-89211-2)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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A Critical Edition of the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0253328535 (0-253-32853-5)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Damned And the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920sby Paula S. FassISBN 0195024923 (0-19-502492-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald Dahl, Jill BennettISBN 0224012010 (0-224-01201-0)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danny the Champion of the World'Book summary:"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Danny's mother died when he was four months old. Life is peaceful and wonderful... until he turns 9 and discovers his father's one vice. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world. Danny is right up to Roald Dahl's impishly brilliant standards. An intense and beautiful father-son relationship is balanced with sublegal high jinks that will have even the most rigid law-abider rooting them on. Dahl's inimitable way with words leaves the reader simultaneously satisfied and itching for more. (Ages 9 to 13) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Dirty Beastsby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224022938 (0-224-02293-8)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Maud EllmannISBN 0192833863 (0-19-283386-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:Take the papers that are with this, the diaries of harker and the rest, and read them, and then find the great un-dead, and cut off his head and burn his heart or drive a stake through it, so that the world may rest from him. Bram stoker's classics vampire story has haunted and disturbed the modern imagination for a hundred years. Set in transylvania, london, and whitby, it pits the sinister but seductive count dracula against a team of vampire-hunters armed only with typewriters, phonographs, and syringes. They must obstruct his plan to conquer london before the forces of madness and depravity overwhelm them all. Vividly presented in the form of diaries and letters, the narrative blends ancient superstitions with modern technologies, and pulsates with obsessive fears of foreignness and sexuality. Blood, information, and hypnotic energy circulate furiously among the characters until he tale reaches its violent climax. This new edition has an introduction and bibliography which draw on the latest scholarship, and detailed notes which explain literary, geographical, and technological allusions in the novel [via]
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Earthdarkby Monica HughesISBN 0241895448 (0-241-89544-8)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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Enchanted Worldby Bryan HolmeISBN 0195201272 (0-19-520127-2)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersenby Hans Christian Andersen, Isabelle Brent, Neil PhilipISBN 0276428307 (0-276-42830-7)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen'Book summary:"The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" is a magnificent collection of 40 of his most magical works, including "The Little Mermaid", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Tinderbox" as well as lesser-known delights such as "The Shepherdess and The Chimney Sweep", "The Teapot and The Goblin at the Grocer's". Unlike many other dull and stilted translations, this collection of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales captures the freshness and sparkle of Andersen's original Danish text. Beautifully illustrated with exquisite watercolours and edged and picked out in sumptuous gold, the "Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" is a book for both young and old to treasure and the perfect gift for children. The "Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" begins with an introduction that sets Andersen in the context of earlier and contemporary storytellers and those he has influenced, such as J. K. Rowling. This biographical introduction provides a fascinating account of 'the fairytale of my life' as Andersen described it, backed up with photographs and Andersen's own artworks. The publication date of the "Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" is set to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Andersen's birth. [via]
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First Love and Other Storiesby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard FreebornISBN 0192836897 (0-19-283689-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Love and Other Stories'Book summary:This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known 'long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarity of Turgenev's finest writing. Richard Freeborn was until recently Professor of Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London. [via]
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Five Children and Itby Edith Nesbit, Sandra KempISBN 0192831631 (0-19-283163-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Children and It'Book summary:When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said. But wishes are difficult things. They can get you into trouble ... [via]
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Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagersby Mark RegnerusISBN 0195320948 (0-19-532094-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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George's Marvellous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224019015 (0-224-01901-5)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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The Go-Betweenby L. P. HartleyISBN 0241902088 (0-241-90208-8)
Hardcover, Dufour Editions
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The Growth of the Mind : And the Endangered Origins of Intelligenceby Stanley L. Greenspan, Lawrence MerloydISBN 0201483025 (0-201-48302-5)
Hardcover, Pearson Education Canada
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Talesby L. W. Kingsland, H.C. Andersen, Vilhelm Pedersen, Lorenz Frlich, Naomi LewisISBN 0192835076 (0-19-283507-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:This collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich, especially photographed from the drawings in the Hans Andersen Museum at Odense. [via]
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A House for Mr. Biswasby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0233976388 (0-233-97638-8)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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Icebreakerby John E. GardnerISBN 0224029495 (0-224-02949-5)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Margaret Smith, Sally ShuttleworthISBN 0192839659 (0-19-283965-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door, warns her that her troubles are only beginning. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Margaret Smith, Charlotte BronteISBN 0192833561 (0-19-283356-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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Jane Eyreby UnkISBN 0194216322 (0-19-421632-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Journey to the Centre of the Earthby Jules Verne, William ButcherISBN 0192836757 (0-19-283675-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'Book summary:This new translation is faithful to the lyricism, verve, and humour of the original, and is the only annotated edition available. This book is intended for students of French literature; those taking courses in science fiction, the adventure novel. [via]
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Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0241024749 (0-241-02474-9)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198319711 (0-19-831971-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Keeper of the Isis Lightby Monica HughesISBN 024110405X (0-241-10405-X)
Hardcover, H. Hamish
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Kimby Rudyard Kipling, Alan SandisonISBN 0192835130 (0-19-283513-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissanceby John BoswellISBN 0226067122 (0-226-06712-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, Ralph SteadmanISBN 0261633325 (0-261-63332-5)
Hardcover, MacGibbon & Kee
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, James KinsleyISBN 019282757X (0-19-282757-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Dale Kramer, Pamela DalzielISBN 0192840711 (0-19-284071-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth in the historical town of Dorchester, and it is to these familiar surroundings that he turns for the setting of this novel. This edition is the first critically established text of The Mayor of Casterbridge, based on a detailed study of the manuscript and of Hardy's revised printed versions. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Mayor of Casterbridge: ISBN 0195851188 (0-19-585118-8)
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No Nameby Wilkie Collins, Virginia BlainISBN 019283388X (0-19-283388-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Name'Book summary:Condemned by Victorian critics as immoral, but regarded today as a novel of outstanding social insight, No Name shows William Wilkie Collins at the height of his literary powers. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover after the deaths of their dearly beloved parents that their parents were not married at the time of their births. Disinherited and ousted from their estate, they must fend for themselves and either resign themselves to their fate or determine to recover their wealth by whatever means. [via]
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Lessby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0224013092 (0-224-01309-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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One Old Oxford Oxby Nicola BayleyISBN 022401353X (0-224-01353-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Oxford Guide to Word Gamesby Tony AugardeISBN 0198662645 (0-19-866264-5)
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Alan Manford, Thomas Hardy, Tim DolinISBN 0192840738 (0-19-284073-8)
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Thomas Hardy, Alan ManfordISBN 0192834827 (0-19-283482-7)
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Pancakes, Pancakes!by Eric CarleISBN 0241018781 (0-241-01878-1)
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James Joyce, Jeri JohnsonISBN 0192839985 (0-19-283998-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life as indecorous, and its central character unappealing. Was it art or was it filth?
The novel charts the intellectual, moral, and sexual development of Stephen Dedalus, from his childhood listening to his father's stories through his schooldays and adolescence to the brink of adulthood and independence, and his awakening as an artist. Growing up in a Catholic family in Dublin in the final years of the nineteenth century, Stephen's consciousness is forged by Irish history and politics, by Catholicism and culture, language and art. Stephen's story mirrors that of Joyce himself, and the novel is both startlingly realistic and brilliantly crafted, not to mention that it is one of the founding texts of Modernism and the precursor of the acclaimed Ulysses.
For this edition Jeri Johnson, an eminent Joyce scholar, has written an introduction and notes which together provide a comprehensive and illuminating appreciation of Joyce's artistry. [via]More editions of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man:
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Pride & Prejudiceby UnkISBN 0194227103 (0-19-422710-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride & Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 019282760X (0-19-282760-X)
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Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairiesby Rudyard Kipling, Donald MackenzieISBN 0192825755 (0-19-282575-5)
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Rachel Papersby Martin AmisISBN 0224009125 (0-224-00912-5)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Rain Womanby Charlotte MorrowISBN 0216903807 (0-216-90380-7)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen Crane, Fiona Robertson, Anthony Matthew MellorsISBN 0192833154 (0-19-283315-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'Book summary:Oxford offers the most generously annotated edition of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience fighting in the American Civil War based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. This volume also includes the short stories "The Open Boat"(1898), "The Monster"(1899), and "The Blue Hotel". The editors explore Crane's work from a fresh critical perspective, focusing on his role as an experimental writer, his modernist legacy, and his social as well as literary revisionism. [via]
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The Rites of Passageby Arnold Van GennepISBN 0226848493 (0-226-84849-3)
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Sentimental Educationby Gustave Flaubert, Douglas ParmeeISBN 0192836226 (0-19-283622-6)
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul 1789-1794by William Blake, Geoffrey KeynesISBN 0195199774 (0-19-519977-4)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Soul Searching: The Religious And Spiritual Lives Of American Teenagersby Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist DentonISBN 019518095X (0-19-518095-X)
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Swallowdaleby Arthur RansomeISBN 0224606328 (0-224-60632-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swallowdale'Book summary:The second title in Arthur Ransomes classic series for children, for grownups, for anyone captivated by the world of adventure and imagination. Swallowdale (originally published in 1931) follows the Walker family and friends through a shipwreck, a camp on the mainland, a secret valley and cave, and a trek through the mountains. Swallows and Amazons Forever! The story is crowded with useful hints on sailing and camping; is exciting but not sensational, funny but never ludicrous; in fact it is a perfect book for children of all ages, and better reading for the rest of us than are most novels. Times Literary Supplement Anyone over seven and under seventy who loves the real country will enjoy the book, and it is an excellent read-aloud book for various ages. The Boston Transcript [via]
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Swallows And Amazonsby Arthur RansomeISBN 022460631X (0-224-60631-X)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kidsby Donna GainesISBN 0226278727 (0-226-27872-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Tess Of The d'Urbervillesby Simon Gatrell, Penny Boumelha, Juliet Grindle, Thomas HardyISBN 019284069X (0-19-284069-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions. [via]More editions of Tess Of The d'Urbervilles:
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell, Juliet GrindleISBN 0192833626 (0-19-283362-6)
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: Stage 6 2,500 Headwordsby Thomas Hardy, Jennifer BassettISBN 0194230945 (0-19-423094-5)
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0194227499 (0-19-422749-9)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Arthur HumphreysISBN 0192836064 (0-19-283606-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play is presented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare's plays and a brief chronology of the Bard's life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text--no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes!
The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare's plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to make them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations. [via]More editions of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar:
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The Twitsby Roald DahlISBN 0224018558 (0-224-01855-8)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jean Fagan YellinISBN 0192827871 (0-19-282787-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:There may be no other novel in American history as significant as Uncle Tom's Cabin. A feat of gripping storytelling--the first American work of fiction to become an international bestseller--no other book so effectively expressed the moral case against the "peculiar institution" of slavery.
Oxford University Press is pleased to announce a special 150th anniversary edition of this American classic. This volume features a new introduction by Charles Johnson, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and winner of the National Book Award for his 1990 novel Middle Passage. Johnson examines Uncle Tom's Cabin with an eye that is at once appreciative and critical, discussing its considerable craft, its impact on its 1852 audience, and its "ineluctably racist" view of African Americans. He describes how Stowe created vibrant and dramatic characters from all levels of Southern society--the mulatto genius George Harris, his light-skinned wife Eliza, the vicious slave trader Dan Haley, the guilt-ridden Augustine St. Clare--hurling them along truly exciting plotlines. She also infused her book with her then-controversial awareness of the humanity of black men and women, giving her audience a sense of the personal reality of the horrors of slavery. But even as sympathetic an author as Stowe, Johnson observes, substituted one kind of racism for another, depicting her black characters with a patronizing condescension.
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Under the Greenwood Treeby Thomas Hardy, Simon GatrellISBN 0192835173 (0-19-283517-3)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, David Y. HughesISBN 0192828266 (0-19-282826-6)
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Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Wavesby Virginia WoolfISBN 0192838121 (0-19-283812-1)
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The Way of All Fleshby Samuel Butler, Michael MasonISBN 0192829807 (0-19-282980-7)
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Butler's satire centers on Ernest Pontifex, an orthodox young man who suddenly sees the falseness of the rules and expectations forced on him by parents and teachers, an epiphany which leads him to renounce the moral, religious, and social values he once held. [via]More editions of The Way of All Flesh:
When I Was Puerto Ricanby Esmeralda SantiagoISBN 0201581175 (0-201-58117-5)
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The Whispering Mountainby Joan AikenISBN 0224615742 (0-224-61574-2)
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Moreby Roald DahlISBN 0224015478 (0-224-01547-8)
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