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1	Brave New World more books like this by Aldous Huxley A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Emma more books like this by Jane Austen First published in 1816, Jane Austen's EMMA is about an unconventional heroine--and one whom Austen thought no one but herself would like. Emma Woodhouse is bright, beautiful, and rich; she is also snobbish and judgmental, and she can be cruel, with a tendency to interfere in other people's lives. The novel chronicles Emma's attempts to make a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ulysses more books like this by James Joyce The novel takes place in the course of one day (June 16, 1904) in the life of the city of Dublin, and follows the course of several interacting characters who embody a series of parallels to Homer's epic. The three main characters are Leopold Bloom, his faithless wife Molly, and Stephen Dedalus of PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. The novel ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Passage to India more books like this by E M Forster In Forster's beautifully written novel about British India at the turn of the century, a simple misunderstanding erupts into hostility. The plot centers on Aziz, a young doctor who is initially tolerant of the British presence in India. However, when he takes a group of Americans to the Caves of Marabar and an American woman accuses him of raping ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Hard Times more books like this by Charles Dickens A scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" is a daring novel of ideas--and ultimately a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination. Revised reissue. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Volumes A-C: The Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), M H Abrams (Editor), Alfred David (Editor) Read by millions of students over seven editions, "The Norton Anthology of English Literature" remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies--thorough and helpful introductory matter, ... see all copies from $38.75! new only from $44.21!
7	Beowulf more books like this by Burton Raffel The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, Beowulf was composed 400 years before the Norman Conquest. As a social document, this great epic poem reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death. As a work of art, it rings with a beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for more ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Pygmalion more books like this by George Bernard Shaw The story that became the basis for the hit musical My Fair Lady. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Norton Anthology of English Literature more books like this by M Abrams The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Sixth Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| first editions
10	Mayor of Casterbridge more books like this by Thomas Hardy Hardy's novel begins with the famous scene in which Michael Henchard, a young farmer, gets drunk at a village fair and sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor for five guineas. The consequences of this impulsive act are regrettable and far-reaching, and culminate in Henchard's ruin and his death in obscurity as a lonely old man. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Middlemarch more books like this by George Eliot George Eliot's masterpiece, portraying every level of society in a provincial English town, tells the story of the romantic idealist Dorothea Brooke, her misguided marriage to a dessicated scholar incapable of loving her, and the passionate love affair that ultimately brings meaning to her life. A parallel plot involves the plight of Lydgate, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.62! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Great War and Modern Memory more books like this by Paul Fussell Paul Fussell's great book explores World War I as a cultural phenomenon--a cataclysmic force that wrought indelible changes in patterns of thought, habits of trust, and the literary imagination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.45! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Bleak House more books like this by Charles Dickens The English legal system is the main object of Dickens's satire in BLEAK HOUSE, perhaps the first legal thriller, which centers on the interminable case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce as it makes its tortuous way over the generations through the Court of Chancery. The battle drags on, the litigants are ruined by the legal fees, and the case itself ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor) A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of "Beowulf," Milton's "Paradise Lost," and More's ... see all copies from $42.99! new only from $59.03! \| SVS
15 view cover	The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary more books like this by Simon Winchester Begun in 1857, the Oxford English Dictionary (fondly known as the O.E.D.) was not completed until the 1920s. Since then, it has been considered the definitive source for the meaning and, more importantly, the etymology of every English word ever recorded. Simon Winchester's entertaining account of its history begins with a look at the English ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Wives and Daughters more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell In Elizabeth Gaskell's warmhearted last novel, Molly Gibson's father is remarried to a shallow woman right out of Jane Austen, and becomes friends with her new stepsister, Cynthia, who is involved in a secret engagement to a man in a class below her own. Then Molly herself falls in love with a man who is drawn to the more beautiful Cynthia. As, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.19! \| first editions \| SVS
17	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Volume C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), M H Abrams (Editor), Lawrence Lipking (Editor) Read by millions of students over seven editions, "The Norton Anthology of English Literature" remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies--thorough and helpful introductory matter, ... see all copies from $3.94! new only from $15.30!
18 view cover	Behind the Scenes at the Museum more books like this by Kate Atkinson Kate Atkinson, winner of the Ian St. James award for her short stories, has written a first novel about the life of Ruby Lennox, a Yorkshirewoman, and her eccentric family. This novel won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1995. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley When her family set off to extend Britain's colonial settlements in Kenya to Thika, the author of this memoir was just a child, riding along in their cart. Her book recollects life growing up on her family's struggling farm, adventures in the jungle, and encounters with her family's Masai and Kikuyu neighbors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Can You Forgive Her? more books like this by Anthony Trollope Published in 1865, this is the first novel in Trollope's Palliser series. Alice Vavasor, a cousin of Trollope's beloved character Lady Glencora Palliser, is torn between two suitors, one a reckless politician. Engaged first to one, then to the other, Alice changes her mind yet a third time before she settles down--a radical departure from the way ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding more books like this by David Hume The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of truly practical and accessible guides to major philosophical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world up to modern times. Each book opens with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist which covers the philosopher's life, work, and influence. Endnotes, a full ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.24! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Moll Flanders more books like this by Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel about a spirited and oddly appealing ex-prostitute and thief, now reformed, is not only a disturbingly realistic look at London's underworld, but one of the first works of fiction to explore the interior consciousness of its main character. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Life of Charlotte Bronte more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mrs. Gaskell's celebrated book was the first biography of Charlotte Bronte. The two women were close friends, and Bronte was not unlike the self-sacrificing heroines of Gaskell's own novels. Gaskell drew closely on her own knowledge of Bronte in this affectionate evaluation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period Through the Twentieth Century more books like this by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor) A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of "Beowulf," Milton's "Paradise Lost," and More's ... see all copies from $29.97! new only from $52.00! \| SVS
25 view cover	Pamela or Virtue Rewarded more books like this by Samuel Richardson Richardson's novel is among the first English novels to explore the inner depths of human psychology. Told in a series of letters, his classic tale of a virginal serving maid pursued by her employer deals with matters that were unexplored when it was written in 1740, among them the transformation of sexual allure into power. Richardson's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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