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9781441107206 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 15, 2011, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Marianne, Louisa, and Cassandra Knight (May, Lou, and Cass) were Jane Austen's nieces. She knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up. Often the subjects of her witty letters, they were still young girls when Jane died in 1817...read more

Hardcover:

9780856408687 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, December 15, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Marianne, Louisa, and Cassandra Knight (May, Lou, and Cass) were Jane Austen's nieces.

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Paperback:

9780143119920 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 29, 2011), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: As we near the 2012 bi-centenary of Dickens's birth, this lovingly abridged and lavishly illustrated edition of Foster's influential three-volume biography is the perfect way for fans to celebrate. Long out of print, it is now finally accessible to a new generation of Dickens enthusiasts, who will delight in the host of supplemental texts and images, including extracts from the author's own work and from recent criticism...read more

Hardcover:

9781402772856 | Ill abr edition (Sterling Pub Co Inc, October 4, 2011), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: As we near the 2012 bi-centenary of Dickens's birth, this lovingly abridged and lavishly illustrated edition of Foster's influential three-volume biography is the perfect way for fans to celebrate.

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Product Description: Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change — to save his country’s children.Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, but during his young life, Dickens witnessed terrible things that stayed with him: families starving in doorways, babies being “dropped” on streets by mothers too poor to care for them, and a stunning lack of compassion from the upper class...read more

School and Library:

9780547395746 | Houghton Mifflin, November 29, 2011, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change — to save his country’s children.

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Product Description: Jane's Fame tells the fascinating story of Jane Austen's renown, from the years of rejection the author faced during her lifetime to the global recognition and adoration she now enjoys. Almost two hundred years after her death, Austen remains a hot topic, constantly open to revival and reinterpretation and known to millions of people through film and television adaptations as much as through her books...read more

Hardcover:

9780805082586 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 2, 2010), cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9780312680657 | Picador USA, February 1, 2011, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Jane's Fame tells the fascinating story of Jane Austen's renown, from the years of rejection the author faced during her lifetime to the global recognition and adoration she now enjoys.

Miscellaneous:

9781429952637 | 1 edition (Henry Holth & Co, May 25, 2010), cover price $12.99

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Product Description: Spanning her entire life, the fully annotated selections in this volume include well known recollections of the great Victorian novelist plus a large assortment not found in her biographies. Altogether they provide a fresh, vivid, and sometimes startling portrait of a controversial genius...read more
By K. K. Collins (editor)

Hardcover:

9780333993637 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2010, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Spanning her entire life, the fully annotated selections in this volume include well known recollections of the great Victorian novelist plus a large assortment not found in her biographies.

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Product Description: George Eliot is one of the most celebrated novelists in history. Her books, including Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and Adam Bede, are as appreciated now as they were in the nineteenth century. Yet her nonconformist and captivating personal life―a compelling story in itself―is not well known...read more

Hardcover:

9780230105188 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, September 28, 2010), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: George Eliot is one of the most celebrated novelists in history.

Miscellaneous:

9780230112896 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 28, 2010, cover price $11.99

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Product Description: In this loving portrait by his son Borys, the author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim is observed at work and away from his desk, where he is described as a companionable father who was willing to take risky and decisive action at the outbreak of World War I in order to protect his family...read more

Hardcover:

9780714500188 | Riverrun Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this loving portrait by his son Borys, the author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim is observed at work and away from his desk, where he is described as a companionable father who was willing to take risky and decisive action at the outbreak of World War I in order to protect his family.

Paperback:

9781847491268 | Oneworld Classics, April 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this loving portrait by his son Borys, the author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim is observed at work and away from his desk, where he is described as a companionable father who was willing to take risky and decisive action at the outbreak of World War I in order to protect his family.

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This package contains the following components: -0136117023: Principles of Risk Management and Insurance -0136117945: Study Guide for Principles of Risk Management and Insurance

Hardcover:

9780132992916 | 12 edition (Prentice Hall, February 27, 2013), cover price $314.00
9780132543828 | 11 pck har edition (Prentice Hall, July 24, 2010), cover price $268.07 | About this edition: This package contains the following components: -0136117023: Principles of Risk Management and Insurance -0136117945: Study Guide for Principles of Risk Management and Insurance
9780136117025 | 11 edition (Prentice Hall, January 5, 2010), cover price $261.40 | About this edition: Complete and current coverage of major risk management and insurance topics.
9780321414939 | 10th edition (Addison-Wesley, January 12, 2007), cover price $194.00 | About this edition: Principles of Risk Management and Insurance focuses primarily on the consumers of insurance, and the text blends basic risk management and insurance principles with consumer considerations.
9780321236876 | 9 edition (Addison-Wesley, September 1, 2004), cover price $146.67
5 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

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9780136117940 | 11 stg edition (Prentice Hall, March 11, 2010), cover price $46.67 | About this edition: Prepared by Michael J.
9781428809468 | Academic Internet Pub Inc, October 30, 2006, cover price $33.95
9781428812314 | 9 edition (Academic Internet Pub Inc, October 30, 2006), cover price $34.95

Paperback:

9780787939427 | Stg edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, August 29, 1997), cover price $12.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780060612931 | Harperaudio, March 1, 1988, cover price $72.00 | also contains Jane Austen: A Life

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9781843919209 | Hesperus Pr, April 1, 2011, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence. Also, using parish records, marriage settlements, property transfers, wills, record office documents, letters, journals and private papers, John Chapple has recreated the background of one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists...read more

Paperback:

9780719082429 | Manchester Univ Pr, October 1, 2009, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence.

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"Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream. Through its discussions, expanded canon, variety of critical perspectives, and juxtapositions of similar works by authors from different periods or traditions, the book encourages investigations of literature.

Hardcover:

9780132197342, titled "Discovering Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama" | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993, cover price $40.90 | also contains Discovering Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen | About this edition: "Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream.

Paperback:

9780826429339 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2008, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: "Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream. Through its discussions, expanded canon, variety of critical perspectives, and juxtapositions of similar works by authors from different periods or traditions, the book encourages investigations of literature...read more

Hardcover:

9780132197342, titled "Discovering Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama" | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993, cover price $40.90 | also contains Discovering Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen | About this edition: "Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream.

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Product Description: Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship inspired Pride and Prejudice, one of the most celebrated works of fiction ever written...read more

Hardcover:

9781852853945 | Hambledon Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Jane Austen was a great novelist and one of the central figures of English literature, but she herself lived a quiet and uneventful life, mostly in the two Hampshire villages of Steventon and Chawton.
9780125976404, titled "Immunobiology of the Complement System: An Introduction for Research and Clinical Medicine" | Academic Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $76.00 | also contains Immunobiology of the Complement System: An Introduction for Research and Clinical Medicine

Paperback:

9781847250469 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 5, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist.
9781852855611 | Hambledon Pr, December 15, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Jane Austen was a very great novelist and one of the central figures of English literature, but she herself lived a quiet and uneventful life, mostly in the two Hampshire villages of Steventon and Chawton.

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Bram Stoker was a larger-than-life individual with more than a hint of the Transylvanian Count in his own personality. This biography describes a multi-faceted man of extraordinary creativity. His dark masterpiece, 'Dracula' is presented in the context of Stoker's life and entire fictional output.

Hardcover:

9780224044622 | Ill edition (Vintage Uk, July 29, 2004), cover price $31.80 | About this edition: In this meticulously researched new biography of Bram Stoker, Paul Murray illuminates a multi-faceted man of extraordinary creativity.

Paperback:

9780712673112 | Vintage Uk, November 3, 2005, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: Bram Stoker was a larger-than-life individual with more than a hint of the Transylvanian Count in his own personality.

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This is an enchanting and evocative memoir of Anny Thackeray, daughter of the author of 'Vanity Fair' and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf.

Hardcover:

9780701171292 | Gardners Books, January 15, 2004, cover price $31.65 | About this edition: This is an enchanting and evocative memoir of Anny Thackeray, daughter of the author of 'Vanity Fair' and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf.

This literary biographical study of mid-Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work.

Paperback:

9780333695821 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 7, 2002, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: This literary biographical study of mid-Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work.

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Product Description: In this acclaimed biography of the 19th-century author of Vanity Fair, the first major study in twenty years, D.J. Taylor paints a compelling portrait of the endearing, exasperating, paradoxical figure.

Hardcover:

9780701162313 | Vintage Uk, September 30, 1999, cover price $41.10 | About this edition: Using a variety of unpublished and little-known sources, the author portrays Thackeray as an endearing, exasperating and paradoxical individual.

Paperback:

9780099563259 | Vintage Uk, April 7, 2011, cover price $24.85 | About this edition: In this acclaimed biography of the 19th-century author of Vanity Fair, the first major study in twenty years, D.

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Drawing on unpublished sources, the author offers an intimate, psychological portrait of the novelist, revealing the truth behind many disturbing Austen family secrets

Hardcover:

9780374113261 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Drawing on unpublished sources, the author offers an intimate, psychological portrait of the novelist, revealing the truth behind many disturbing Austen family secrets

Paperback:

9780520216068 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, November 1, 1998), cover price $36.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780060612931, titled "Twelve Keys to an Effective Church" | Harperaudio, March 1, 1988, cover price $72.00 | also contains Twelve Keys to an Effective Church

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Uses Jane Austen's letters and novels and her family's memories of her to portray her personality and trace the events of her life

Paperback:

9781611458138 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, April 1, 2013), cover price $16.95
9781559704359 | Arcade Pub, May 1, 1998, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Uses Jane Austen's letters and novels and her family's memories of her to portray her personality and trace the events of her life

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Describes Mary Anne Evans's childhood in nineteenth century Coventry, her lifelong resistance to enforced women's roles, intellectual prowess, elopement with George Henry Lewes, and literary successes.

Hardcover:

9780393037852 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Offers a view of the Victorian era novelist as both a ceaseless intellect and a woman, exploring her childhood, progressive education, intellectual development, nontraditional relationships with men, and depressive personality
9780029413463, titled "Macmillan Encyclopedia of Science" | Free Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $325.00 | also contains Macmillan Encyclopedia of Science | About this edition: An encyclopedia of science and technology, covering such areas as the Earth, the ocean, plants and animals, medicine, agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation.

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Product Description: "Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream. Through its discussions, expanded canon, variety of critical perspectives, and juxtapositions of similar works by authors from different periods or traditions, the book encourages investigations of literature...read more

Hardcover:

9780132197342 | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993, cover price $40.90 | also contains The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen | About this edition: "Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream.

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