Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Library Journal's Readers' Shelf

Classic Returns:
Masters of the 19th Century

Treasure Island

Treasure Island
By Stevenson, Robert Louis
Editor Letley, Emma
2008-06 - Oxford University Press, USA
9780199536078 Check Our Catalog

"Treasure Island will surely become--it must already have become, and will remain--in its way a classic."--Henry James. An absorbing tale of buccaneers and a romantic quest for treasure, Treasure Island is also the portrait of the briliantly drawn character, Long John Silver. …More


Oliver Twist



Oliver Twist
By Dickens, Charles
Illustrator Cruikshank, George
2008-06 - Random House (UK)
9780099511939 Check Our Catalog

An orphan living on the dangerous London streets, Oliver has no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. The capital's underworld--replete with prostitutes, thieves and lost and homeless children--are displayed in this realistic and gritty look at the disadvantaged and abused. …More


Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
By Verne, Jules
Translator Glencross, Michael
Introduction by Aldiss, Brian
2004-05 - Penguin Books
9780140449068 Check Our Catalog

This Penguin Classic offers a stirring, new tanslation of the ever-popular adventure story. …More


Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
By Thackeray, William Makepeace
Editor Sutherland, John
2009-07 - Oxford University Press, USA
9780199537624 Check Our Catalog

Essentially a commentary on hypocrisy and those ethical principles to which society pays lip-service, VANITY FAIR (1847-8) is a classic epic extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles. Considered one of the greatest social-satirical novels in English, this edition includes all of the author's own illustrations. …More


Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives

Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives
By Flaubert, Gustave
Translator Wall, Geoffrey
Preface by Roberts, Michele
2002-12 - Penguin Books
9780140449129 Check Our Catalog

This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. …More


Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass



Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
By Carroll, Lewis
Illustrator Tenniel, John
Introduction by Byatt, A. S.
2002-12 - Modern Library
9780375761386 Check Our Catalog

Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and "Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. "The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the "Alice books," writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction, "lies in language. . . . It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children." …More

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