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In Jane Austen’s works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine is not as stupid as she seems: according to legend, cunning Wiltshire residents caught hiding contraband in a pond capitalized on a reputation for ignorance by claiming they were digging up a “big cheese”―the moon’s reflection on the water’s surface. It worked. In Jane Austen’s Names, Margaret Doody offers a fascinating and comprehensive study of all the names of people and places―real and imaginary―in Austen’s fiction. Austen’s creative choice of names reveals not only her virtuosic talent for riddles and puns. Her names also pick up deep stories from English history, especially the various civil wars, and the blood-tinged differences that played out in the reign of Henry VIII, a period to which she often returns. Considering the major novels alongside unfinished works and juvenilia, Doody shows how Austen’s names signal class tensions as well as regional, ethnic, and religious differences. We gain a new understanding of Austen’s technique of creative anachronism, which plays with and against her skillfully deployed realism―in her books, the conflicts of the past swirl into the tensions of the present, transporting readers beyond the Regency. Full of insight and surprises for even the most devoted Janeite, Jane Austen’s Names will revolutionize how we read Austen’s fiction.
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9780226157832 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 14, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In Jane Austen’s works, a name is never just a name.
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9780226419107 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 26, 2016), cover price $22.50
9780373642908, titled "Pursued" | Gold Eagle, January 1, 2003, cover price $4.75 | also contains Pursued | About this edition: Mack Bolan must race against time to deliver Al' alim Abd al Sami, the world's most dangerous terrorist, to an international trial in the Netherlands before they are both killed by the legions of hit teams that have been deployed to destroy them.
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9780314068392, titled "Professional Responsibility: Standards, Rules & Statutes 1995-96" | 95-96 edit edition (West Group, July 1, 1995), cover price $13.95
Product Description: Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy. But in the skilled hands of Margaret Doody, the pairing could not be more logical. With her Aristotle Detective novels, Margaret Doody brings a Holmesian hero to the bloodied streets of ancient Greece, trading the pipe and deerstalker of Sherlock for the woolen chiton and sandals of Aristotle...read more
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9780226132174 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 10, 2014), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy.
Product Description: Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy. But in the skilled hands of Margaret Doody, the pairing could not be more logical. With her Aristotle Detective novels, Margaret Doody brings a Holmesian hero to the bloodied streets of ancient Greece, trading the pipe and deerstalker of Sherlock for the woolen chiton and sandals of Aristotle...read more
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9780226131986 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 10, 2014), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy.
9780099435587 | New edition (Random House Uk Ltd, July 1, 2003), cover price $11.99 | About this edition: It is 330 BC, the year that Alexander the Great sacked Persepolis and gained a fortune.
Product Description: Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy. But in the skilled hands of Margaret Doody, the pairing could not be more logical. With her Aristotle Detective novels, Margaret Doody brings a Holmesian hero to the bloodied streets of ancient Greece, trading the pipe and deerstalker of Sherlock for the woolen chiton and sandals of Aristotle...read more
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9780226131702 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 10, 2014), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy.
9780314068408, titled "Selected Commercial Statutes 1995" | West Group, December 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | also contains Selected Commercial Statutes 1995
Product Description: Named one of the "Big Ten Outstanding Books from University Presses for 2006" by ForeWord magazineFor Margaret Doody, Venice, poised between East and West, earth and sea, sacred and profane, occupies a place only its own. Appearances confound...read more
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9780812239843 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 4, 2007, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Named one of the "Big Ten Outstanding Books from University Presses for 2006" by ForeWord magazineFor Margaret Doody, Venice, poised between East and West, earth and sea, sacred and profane, occupies a place only its own.
Hardcover:
9781844134632 | Gardners Books, May 5, 2005, cover price $29.35
Product Description: Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy. But in the skilled hands of Margaret Doody, the pairing could not be more logical. With her Aristotle Detective novels, Margaret Doody brings a Holmesian hero to the bloodied streets of ancient Greece, trading the pipe and deerstalker of Sherlock for the woolen chiton and sandals of Aristotle...read more
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9780745186979 | Black Dagger Crime, November 1, 1996, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy.
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