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Pride and Prejudice (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen)
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN-10: 0521825148
ISBN-13: 9780521825146
Published: 2006-08-21
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book Description:
'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' With this famous declaration Jane Austen launches into the story of the five Bennet sisters. It is a story that on first reading is full of suspense, surprise and, ultimately, satisfaction, and which on re-reading commands, in addition, admiration for the author's supreme skill in managing a deceptively complex plot to its triumphant conclusion. First published in 1813, and Austen's most popular novel in her own lifetime, Pride and Prejudice has since been widely recognised as one of the finest novels in the English language. The volume provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life, and an authoritative textual apparatus. This edition is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen.
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Finders Keepers: Finders Keepers #1 (HeartQuest)
Author: Catherine Palmer
ISBN-10: 0842311645
ISBN-13: 9780842311649
Published: 1999-10-01
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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Series premiere special price! Award-winning author Catherine Palmer presents the first novel in another HeartQuest series. Fiery Elizabeth Hayes is determined to preserve Chalmers House, the Victorian mansion next to her growing antiques business. But Zachary Chalmers, heir to the mansion, has very different plans. Together they learn that God has the best plans of all-if we will only surrender to him.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
ISBN-10: 0618711651
ISBN-13: 9780618711659
Published: 2006-04-04
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history.Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.
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The Scarlet Letter (Signet Classics)
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN-10: 0451531353
ISBN-13: 9780451531353
Published: 2009-08-04
Publisher: Signet Classics
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A passionate young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world of seventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of sin and redemption addresses our Puritan past. Depicting the struggle between mind and heart, Hawthorne fashioned a masterpiece of American fiction.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Harriet Jacobs
ISBN-10: 0393976378
ISBN-13: 9780393976373
Published: 2000-12
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America.The text is that of the 1861 first edition. Contexts includes contemporary responses to Incidents, selections from Jacobs's other published writings, and extracts from her correspondence. Criticism includes eleven important assessments of the narrative, contributed by Jean Fagan Yellin, Ann Taves, Valerie Smith, Nellie Y. McKay, Harryette Mullen, Michelle Burnham, Nell Irvin Painter, Frances Smith Foster, Sandra Gunning, Elizabeth V. Spelman, and Christine Accomando. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
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Jane Eyre (Broadview Literary Texts)
Author: Charlotte Brontë
ISBN-10: 1551111802
ISBN-13: 9781551111803
Published: 1999-01-12
Publisher: Broadview Press
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Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic life and the hypocrisy behind religious enthusiasm drew both praise and bitter criticism, while Charlotte Brontë's striking expose of poor living conditions for children in charity schools as well as her poignant portrayal of the limitations faced by women who worked as governesses sparked great controversy and social debate. Jane Eyre, Brontë's best-known novel, remains an extraordinary coming-of-age narrative, and one of the great classics of literature.
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Little Women (Penguin Classics)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
ISBN-10: 0141192410
ISBN-13: 9780141192413
Published: 2010-09-28
Publisher: Penguin Classics Hardcover
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Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth- century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.
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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN-10: 1421808072
ISBN-13: 9781421808079
Published: 2006-02-20
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
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To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer-excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained teasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer (A Purnell de luxe classic)
Author: Mark Twain
ISBN-10: 0361031602
ISBN-13: 9780361031608
Published: 1975-06
Publisher: Purnell Books
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MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual - he is a combina tion of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of archi tecture.
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