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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
 Arthur Conan Doyle
 9626341521
 Feb 1998
 Audio Compact Disc - Abridged
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From AudioFile
This is a perfect audiobook for fans of British drama who also love the classic British investigator. David Timson embodies Holmes in a style that takes him to the top but never over. His Watson is equally correct--sturdy and rather protective of Holmes. But Timson's skills really shine in the secondary characters--the loathsome stepfather in "The Speckled Band," the conspirators in "The Red-Headed League." They're perfect character-actor interpretations. His interpretation of the narrative sections, read in Watson's voice, revels in the drama without overplaying it. As always with Naxos AudioBooks, a fine selection of classical pieces introduces and ends the stories. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen (Six Volume Set)
Jane Austen, R. W. Chapman
0192547070
November 17, 1988
Hardcover
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"R.W. Chapman's fine new edition has, among its other merits, the advantage of waking the Jane Austenite up.... The novels continue to live their own wonderful internal life...freshened and enriched by contact with the life of facts. His illustrations are beyond all praise."--E.M. Forster,
Abinger Harvest. This beautiful set provides the definitive text of Austen's six great comic masterpieces and her minor works (the latter include three high-spirited efforts written at about age fifteen; a charming fragment, The Watsons, which has been thought to be a sketch for Emma; and a
tantalizing fragment, Sanditon, written in the last year of her life). All six volumes feature splendid early 19th-century illustrations as well as Chapman's detailed explanatory notes. Chapman has collated all the editions published in... |
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Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini
0486436543
January 2005
Paperback
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From Library Journal
This title is immediately recognizable as the basis for Michael Curtiz's 1935 film starring Errol Flynn. At the time of its 1922 debut, however, the book was a smash hit and was followed up with additional adventures of swashbuckler Peter Blood in numerous sequels. A salty dose of high-seas adventure for all fiction collections, this is the most affordable edition currently available.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the
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George MacDonald Fraser
One of the great unrecognized novels of the twentieth century, and as close as any modern writer has come to a prose epic.
--This text refers to the
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Tuscany in Mind
Alice Leccese Powers
1400076757
May 2005
Paperback
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From Booklist
As this anthology amply demonstrates, the first-person account of Tuscan living is not merely a contemporary phenomenon but has a noble lineage. Tuscan geography, food, history, and culture have prompted all manner of literary responses. Robert Browning versified over paintings encountered in Florence's galleries. D. H. Lawrence reveled in the pre-Roman Etruscan city of Volterra with its steep streets. In Florence, Mary McCarthy discovered a "masculine" aesthetic, contrasting with Tuscany's "feminine" city, Siena. Elizabeth Romer praised Tuscan cooking in her luscious description of a Tuscan wedding banquet. Eric Newby detailed the architectural glories of a small Tuscan church. Versifying in quatrains, John Ormond extolled the regal beauty of Tuscan (and Umbrian) cypresses. But no one captures the essence of Renaissance... |
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The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, et al
0393059162
November 30, 2004
Hardcover
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From Publishers Weekly
Sherlockians and more casual Holmes fans alike will delight in this comprehensive edition of the 56 original short adventures featuring the world's first private consulting detective. Modeling his efforts on William S. Baring-Gould's 1968 Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Klinger (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library) packs as many extras into these two volumes as a special director's cut DVD: detailed essays on subjects as diverse as the Boer War and the history of rugby, illuminating citations to early drafts of Doyle's original manuscripts,and full discussions of the numerous theories developed over more than a century concerning ambiguities, contradictions and unresolved issues in the stories. Those new to such scholarship will be fascinated by the sophisticated multidisciplined approach, much of it based on close... |
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Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon
Lana A. Whited (Editor)
0826215491
July 2004
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Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Pottter is the first book-length analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors, including magic and fantasy works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Monica Furlong, Jill Murphy, and others, as well as previous works about the British boarding school experience. Other chapters explore the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. In her new epilogue, Lana A. Whited brings this volume up to date by covering Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. "Whited's collection of lively, well-written essays... |
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Breaking Into Japnese Literature
Giles Murray
4770028997
May 2003
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Reading great books in the original should be the culmination of language study, but reading Japanese literature unassisted is a daunting task that can defeat even the most able of students. Breaking into Japanese Literature is specially designed to help you bypass all the frustration and actually enjoy classics of Japanese literature. Breaking into Japanese Literature features seven graded stories covering a variety of genres: whether it's the spellbinding surrealism of Natsume Soseki's Ten Nights of Dreams, the humor of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's fable of temple life ("The Nose"), or the excitement of his historic thrillers ("In a Grove" and "Rashomon"), you are sure to find a story that appeals to you in this collection. The unique layout -- with the original Japanese story in large print, an easy-to-follow English... |
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
0517220784
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This volume, authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is a perfect gift for budding amateur sleuths, and it is an ideal companion for a long stay on a desert island (or a leisurely trip through the English countryside). As the reader wades past the tense introductions of A Study in Scarlet and moves towards such classic tales as The Hound of the Baskervilles, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Final Problem," she is sure to draw her own conclusions about Holmes's veiled past and his quirky relationship with his "Boswell," Watson. Doyle never revealed much about Holmes's early life, but the joy of reading the complete Holmes is assembling the trivia of each story into something... |
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Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
0486406504
February 1999
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Book Review
When Lord Jim first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation--a ripping good yarn, if you like. (One critic in The Academy complained that the narrator "was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven solid hours.") Conrad defended his method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, and listen as well. In fact his chatty masterwork requires no defense--it offers up not only linguistic pleasures but a timeless exploration of morality. The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and... |
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The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown/the Day of the Scorpion/the Towers of Silence/a Division of the Spoils
Paul Scott
0688042120
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The Greatest Dog Stories Ever Told
Patricia M. Sherwood
0517222914
Mar 2004
Hardcover
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Book Description
The perfect gift for any dog lover, The Greatest Dog Stories Ever Told is a compulsively readable collection of 36 of the most moving and illuminating stories ever penned on the subject of our canine companions. The remarkable range of contributors includes the likes of P.G. Wodehouse, Ray Bradbury, Thomas Mann, M.F.K. Fisher, and Mark Twain. And the dogs they write about—sled dogs, herding dogs, family pets, and even movie stars—will make you laugh and make you cry, but most of all they will make you realize just why humans adore their dogs.
Inside Flap Copy
The perfect gift for any dog lover, The Greatest Dog Stories Ever Told is a compulsively readable collection of 36 of the most moving and illuminating stories ever penned on the subject of our... |
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Dubliners: Text, Criticism, and Notes
James Joyce
0140247742
August 1996
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Great Girl Stories
Rosemary Sandberg
0753452073
Sept 1999
Hardcover
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From Library Journal
Grade 3-6-Sixteen excerpts from classic stories that feature girls as protagonists. The selections, each illustrated by a contemporary British illustrator, are from classics such as Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess, Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna, and Katherine Paterson's The Great Gilly Hopkins. In spite of the brief introductions, most of the stories don't provide enough context for readers to understand their circumstances and characters. Only a few, such as Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, stand alone. Joyce Lankester Brisley's "Milly-Molly-Mandy," with its archly sweet tone and simple plot, seems a quirky individual choice. Each story has several illustrations set into the text and pages bordered with strips of small, simple pictures. Among... |
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Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini
0142180106
January 2003
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From Library Journal
This title is immediately recognizable as the basis for Michael Curtiz's 1935 film starring Errol Flynn. At the time of its 1922 debut, however, the book was a smash hit and was followed up with additional adventures of swashbuckler Peter Blood in numerous sequels. A salty dose of high-seas adventure for all fiction collections, this is the most affordable edition currently available.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Norman Mailer
Glorious . . . I never enjoyed a novel more than Captain Blood.
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Kwaidan
Lafcadio Hearn
0804836620
Feb 2005
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Book Description
Kwaidan translates from the Japanese as weird tales, which perfectly describes these haunting stories.
This collection of supernatural tales includes a musician called upon to perform for the dead, man-eating goblins, and insects who uncannily mimic human behavior. A perfect treat for fans of the strange and otherworldly.
From the Publisher
COSIMO CLASSICS offers distinctive titles by the great authors and thinkers who have inspired, informed and engaged readers throughout the ages. Covering a diverse range of subjects that include Health & Science, Eastern Philosophy, Mythology & Sacred Texts, Philosophy & Spirituality, and Business & Economics these newly revitalized treasures are now available to contemporary readers.
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Jane Austen and the War of Ideas
Marilyn Butler
0198129688
March 10, 1988
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Book Description
It is often said that Jane Austen in the countryside remained isolated from the great events of her time. But as Marilyn Butler points out in Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, Austen was not isolated from reading novels, and novels carried controversy. The sentimental novel of the previous
generation, the Jacobin novel of William Godwin, the philosophical comedy of Robert Bage and Maria Edgeworth--all conveyed their own kind of ideological meaning. By recognizing Austen's relationship to the literature of ideas, Butler offers acute readings of each of the novels and an intellectual
context in which to see them as a whole.
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Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English
Erin C. Fallon (Editor)
0313291047
December 2000
Hardcover
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From Booklist
These two titles share the topic of short stories. There is an overlap of 16 writers who are represented in both books, but there are also important differences between the covers.The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story begins with 11 essays on broad topics such as "The American Short Story, 1807-1900," "The African American Short Story," and "American Short Stories of the Holocaust." After the general essays, some 113 author essays are arranged alphabetically, from Adams, Alice to Yezierska, Anzia. Each contains a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the writer's career and major contributions, an analysis of some stories, and a selected bibliography. Essays range in length from four pages to a maximum of eight pages. Many of the writers covered--among them James Baldwin, Raymond Carver,... |
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Short Fiction by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers
Gwenn Davis (Editor)
0720120942
October 1999
Hardcover
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Drinking, Smoking and Screwing
Sara Nickles
0811807843
Aug 1994
Paperback
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Book Review
Here's to the three greatest pleasures in life: a cigarette before and a martini after. Drinking, Smoking & Screwing celebrates these less-than-holy pursuits and unlocks the sweet mystery of sin with a sordid selection of essays, stories, excerpts, and poetry from noted libertines such as Mark Twain, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Spalding Gray, and Dorothy Parker. Also deliciously wicked is the introduction, penned by Bob Shacochis, author of Swimming the Volcano and not one to shy away from a drink, a smoke, and a... Well, you get the point. He writes, "Not to defend smokers, drinkers, and fuckers would be a terrible mistake.... The world might be simple and clean, but it wouldn't be deliciously, fascinatingly, pathetically human, would it? Nor would it be much fun." And, damn, is this book fun. --Tod... |
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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Rudyard Kipling, Louis L. Cornell
0192836293
July 22, 1999
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Book Description
Arranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kipling's time as a journalist in India, these seventeen short stories explore the themes of isolation and abandonment and the effects of the Indian caste system on society. Along with the title piece, the volume includes
"Gemini," "A Wayside Comedy," "The Hill of Illusion," "Only a Subaltern," "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," "Black Jack," and others.
Download Description
Also includes "The Phanton Rickshaw."
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The Mammoth Book of International Erotica
Maxim Jakubowski
0786703733
Oct 1996
Paperback
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Book Description
Ever since the collapse of the Tower of Babel, sex has been the common language uniting men and women throughout the world. Erotic prose is a universal phenomenon — as this revised new edition of the influential Mammoth volume gloriously demonstrates.
Editor Maxim Jakubowski has cherry-picked the finest new writing from countries such France and Italy, both so fertile right now that they could fill their own volumes. This anthology features stories by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, Orange Prize-shortlisted Stella Duffy, plus ten previously uncollected tales.
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Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
M. R. James, Michael Cox
0192837737
June 3, 1999
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Book Description
This selection of twenty-one short stories by M.R. James--a first-class writer of supernatural fiction--represents his best work, including "Count Magnus," "The Rose Garden," "The Uncommon Prayer-book," "Rats," "The Malice of Inanimate Objects," and "A Vignette," as well as the title
story.
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The Garden Party and Other Stories (Library of Essential Reading Series)
Katherine Mansfield
0760765790
April 2005
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British Short Fiction Writers, 1915-1945, Vol. 162
Mary Bruccoli
0810393573
March 1996
Textbook Hardcover
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War Stories and Poems (Oxford World's Classics)
Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Rutherford
0192836862
June 10, 1999
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Book Description
This unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems provides critical comment on the ineptitude of the British in the Boer War. Including such stories as "Barrack-Room Ballads," this work provides tales of courage and adventure, as well as shameful episodes of retreat and failure.
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The Harlequin Tea Set
Agatha Christie
0425165159
Nov 2003
Paperback
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From School Library Journal
YA. These nine short stories, never before published in the U.S., offer a variety of mysterious doings, intriguing characters, and odd circumstances. Christie's complex plots, her historical and moral perspectives, and her strong interest in human psychology are the major factors setting the tone of these selections. "The Harlequin Tea Set" weaves psychological drama with a ghost story, creating a surreal atmosphere and an extraordinary ending. Several of the stories, while interesting, are familiar in plot and character and offer no real surprises. "The Lonely God" is a love story typical of the sentimental writing of the period. "Manx Gold" is a grand adventure with several murders spicing up the plot. Christie captures cultural and period details in a way that readers can easily assimilate, making these... |
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Classic American Short Stories (Dover Large Print Classics) [LARGE PRINT]
Clarence C. Strowbridge (Editor)
0486422518
May 13, 2002
Paperback
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Book Description
Seventeen short masterpieces, chosen for their timeless relevance and enduring popularity, include Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Herman Melville's "Bartleby," "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte, as well as works by O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Henry James, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Kate Chopin.
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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, Vol. 2
Arthur Conan Doyle
0194229858
January 2004
Paperback
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Twelve North Carolina Christmas Stories
Ruth Moose
1878086618
Dec 1997
Hardcover
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