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• Sweetwater Rescue: The Willie And Martin Handcart Story - In the mid nineteenth century, tens of thousands crowded the docks of Liverpool for a one-way voyage to America. In 1856, nearly two thousand of these emigrants were eager to begin a journey that would conclude with a thousand mile walk pushing their possessions in two-wheeled ...
• Common Ground: Reimagining American History by Gary Y. Okihiro, ISBN 0691070075 - In "Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. He examines a set of binaries--East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual--that have structured the ...
• Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson, ISBN 1400031206 - Our Nig is a classic of African American Literature that has proven to be an enduring contribution to our understanding of free blacks in the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1859, it was neglected for over a hundred years and is now the subject of renewed scholarly ...
• The Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their Work by Caedmon's Audio, ISBN 0694522783 - A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets - here available on CD A reawakened love for the sound of poetry has made modern poems subtly different from the poems of the...
• Cultivating Stillness: A Taoist Manual for Transforming Body and Mind by Eva Wong, ISBN 0877736871 - Equanimity, good health, peace of mind, and long life are the goals of the ancient Taoist tradition known as "internal alchemy," of which "Cultivating Stillness " is a key text. Written between the second and fifth centuries, the book is attributed to T'ai S...
• Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, ISBN 0394555090 - The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down from Mount Marcy, New York...
• The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice, ISBN 0345434803 - See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the st...
• A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, ISBN 0940322153 - The dreamlike action of this masterful narrative begins among the decaying plantations of late-nineteenth-century Jamaica. It then moves to the high seas, as Richard Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of down-at-the-heels pirates. A tale of sedu...
• Twain's a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. In "CliffsNotes on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, " you dig into Mark Twain's notably caustic account of a culture clash in medieval s...
• Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd, ISBN 0804102988 - In SARUM, Edward Rutherfurd creates a masterpiece of breathtaking scope -- a brilliantly conceived and superbly written epic novel that traces the entire turbulent course of English history. From primitive beginnings almost 10,000 years ago to the medieval world of knights and ...
• The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New Yor - This work tells the delightful, entertaining, and surprisingly true story of how, in the summer of 1835, a series of articles in the "Sun" newspaper convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. "The Sun and the Moon" offers the remarkable ...
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, ISBN 0375759239 - "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own." Thus begins one of the most terrifying and morally prescient science fiction...
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, ISBN 0375757805 - Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur's utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a...
• Ape To Man - It has long been considered the most compelling question in our history: Where do human beings come from? Although life has existed for millions of years, only in the past century-and-a-half have we begun to use science to explore the ancestral roots of our own species. The sea...
• Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, ISBN 0375751475 - For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known. The stories are divided into t...
• Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks by Ralph M. Kovel, ISBN 0517559145 - You may be the owner of a valuable piece of porcelain or pottery, but the cryptic symbol on the underside of the piece may be your only clue to its value. Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks: 1850 to the Present will help you identify your pieces. Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks ...
• Hawaii by James A. Michener, ISBN 0375760377 - In "Hawaii, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Michener weaves the classic saga that brought Hawaii's epic history vividly alive to the American public on its initial publication in 1959, and continues to mesmerize even today. The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiia...
• The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice, ISBN 0679454470 - In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand--eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interv...
• Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger, ISBN 0375700366 - No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions...
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ISBN 0440222281 - Born a slave in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential and distinguished African American of the nineteenth century. As an abolitionist, newspaper publisher, orator and statesman, Douglass dedicated his life to the triumph of freedom over...
• Alias Grace by Margaret Eleanor Atwood, ISBN 0385490445 - In "Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since "The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth ...
• I Am Madame X - Drawing on the sketchy facts of her life to recreate her tempestuous personality, Diliberto imagines the story behind the subject of a controversial nineteenth century painting.
• The Piano Tuner by Daniel Philippe Mason, ISBN 0375414657 - An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century. In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the...
• Middlemarch by George Eliot, ISBN 0553211803 - One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, "Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from th...
• Inventors by Martin W. Sandler, ISBN 0064467465 - The Library of Congress, located in Washington, DC, is often called "the storehouse of our national memory," and is home to the largest collection of knowledge on earth. Illustrated with over 100 vintage photographs, posters, and paintings from its archives, the Libra...
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, ISBN 0679420290 - (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Pet...
• Violin by Anne Rice, ISBN 0679433023 - In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of t...
• Prime Cut by Diane Mott Davidson, ISBN 0553574671 - A CATERER'S NIGHTMARE Caterer Goldy Schulz is convinced things couldn't get worse. An unscrupulous rival is driving her out of business. An incompetent contractor has left her precious kitchen in shambles. And she has just agreed to cater a fashion shoot at a nineteenth-century...
• Violin by Anne Rice, ISBN 0345425308 - In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two c...
• When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession - In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on...
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ISBN 0553212184 - Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. "Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery...
• Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, ISBN 0553211587 - At the beginning of "Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface...
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, ISBN 0553211684 - Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy' s immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he c...
• Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West 1846-1890 - The author of "Lonesome Dove" offers a brilliant and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. Photos & illustrations throughout.
• Middlemarch by George Eliot, ISBN 0679783318 - One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, "Middlemarch" is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance f...
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ISBN 0679443657 - (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was revolutionary in 1852 f...
• Crime and Punishment by James L. Roberts, ISBN 0764586556 - Explore the imagination    and share the murderous action    of Dostoevsky's chief "Crime and Punishment character, Raskolnikov. Gain a grasp of how this impoverished young man expected to enrich humanity by rising to a level above the law. The CliffsNotes perspective ...
• Anthony Trollope Collection - "The Anthony Trollope Collection" contains three masterpieces and over 15 hours of timeless film from one of the greatest nineteenth-century novelist. Visit the fascinating world of Victorian England through the eyes of Anthony Trollope, as the prolific and respected ...
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twain's tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy. It brings to life and array of irresistible characters--the awesomely self-confident Tom, his best buddy Huck Finn, indulgent Au...
• Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Cliffs Notes by James L. Roberts, ISBN 0822004089 - The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. "CliffsNotes on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" explores the double life of a man whose persona swings from honorable and distinguished to repugnant and re...
• Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller, ISBN 0471283622 - Based on recently discovered material, including newspapers believed to have been lost as well as personal accounts from Earp's friends, enemies, and acquaintances, this definitive biography paints a superbly balanced portrait of the man who helped shape the modern view of the ...
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - A story of friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.
• Cinders to Satin by Fern Michaels, ISBN 0345339525 - Before her Vegas trilogy and Texas saga soared onto bestseller lists, millions of readers were captivated by the thrilling historical romances written by Fern Michaels. Here is one of her all-time classics, a bold tale of a brave immigrant girl who in the late nineteenth centur...
• Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Celebration of African-American Prayer by The Schomburg Center for Research in Bla, ISBN 0743234669 - A celebration of African and African-American spirituality draws on the collections of the Schomburg Center to trace a broad spectrum of traditions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Red & White: Redwork Patterns/American Redwork Quilts by Deborah Harding, ISBN 0847822443 - "Red & White: American Redwork Quilts and Patterns" is the most comprehensive look at redwork available. Redwork, a type of needlework popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is once again the hottest trend in the quilting world. In this ...
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, ISBN 0679410007 - (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A famous legend surrounding the creation of "Anna Karenina" tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doe...
• Lonesome Dove: 2-Disc Collector's Edition (Blu-ray) (Widescreen) - Experience the Emmy Award-winning masterpiece as never before with "Lonesome Dove 2-Disc Collector's Edition". Presented for the first time in Widescreen and 5.1 surround sound, this all-time western classic is now digitally re-mastered with all-new bonus features. Ba...
• Here Come The Brides: The Complete First Season (Full Frame) - Robert Brown, pop music superstar Bobby Sherman and David Soul (TV's "Starsky And Hutch") star in the classic television series "Here Come The Brides," a delightful comedy that combines romance and adventure in the rugged landscape of the mid-nineteenth cent...
• First Films Of Samuel Fuller, The - His films have been called raw, outrageous, sensational, and daring. In four decades of directing, Samuel Fuller created a legendarily idiosyncratic oeuvre, examining U.S. history and mythmaking in westerns, film noirs, and war epics. And characteristically, it all began with a...
• Anna Karenina (1948) Cliff Notes EditionAnna Karenina (Cliff Notes Edition) (Full Frame) - Tolstoy's definitive nineteenth century romantic tragedy comes to life onscreen with deft direction by Julien Duvivier and a haunting performance by Vivien Leigh in the title role. Beautiful Anna Karenina is comfortably married to a distinguished Czarist statesman (Ralph Richar...
• Les Miserables: Cliff Notes Ultimate Study Guide (Full Frame) - Now, watch the finest film versions of literary classics available on DVD, and enjoy the benefits of the world-famous CliffsNotes(R) Study Guides as well! Included with this full-length feature film is the easy-to-follow companion guide for the novel, providing you with the ult...
• Little Dorrit (2008) (Widescreen) - This gripping new series brings to life Dickens's powerful story of struggle and hardship in 1820's London. When Arthur Clennam (Matthew Macfadyen) returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence in his mother's house of a young seamstress, A...
• Conduct Unbecoming (Widescreen) - Honor. Duty. Respect. The timeless moral and ethical code of our military- and the backbone of civilized Western society. All are at risk for this British regiment stationed in colonial India at the end of the nineteenth century. The conduct unbecoming: a beautiful widow (Acade...
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, ISBN 0679641041 - "The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "...
• Emma by Jane Austen, ISBN 0375757422 - Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpie...
• The Concubine - Requirements for being a royal consort: 1) Exemplify purity. 2) Pass all demanding tests. 3) Gracefully withstand petty backstabbing. 4) Be chaste. Very chaste. Check to all! Chen Ji Yue is on her way to empress superstardom in nineteenth-century China. She only has to vanquish...
• The Shadow of the Wind - "If you thought the true gothic novel died with the nineteenth century, this will change your mind...This is one gorgeous read."--Stephen King. "Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic, and thrilling should pick up "The Shadow of th...
• Persian Poets by LuAnn Walther, ISBN 0375411267 - The Middle Ages saw an extraordinary flowering of Persian poetry. Though translations began appearing in Europe in the nineteenth century, these remarkable poets--Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafiz, and Jami--are still being discovered in the West. The great medie...
• Texas Woman by Joan Johnston, ISBN 0440236843 - "The New York Times bestselling author of The Cowboy, The Texan, and The Loner weaves her seductive magic once again as she journeys back to the lawless frontier of Nineteenth-century Texas to bring us the story of two warring hearts and a seduction that began amid the fir...
• National Geographic Guide to the Lewis & Clark Trail by Thomas Schmidt, ISBN 0792264711 - Richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, an updated and expanded edition of the distinctive travel guide retraces the historic route taken by Lewis and Clark on their early nineteenth-century expedition and notes points of interest and historical significance al...
• African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World by Roger D. Abrahams, ISBN 0375705392 - From the canefileds of the ante-bellum South, the villages of the Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary inner cities, here are more than one hundred tales from an "incredibly rich and affirmative storytelling tradition" ("Choice"). Full of lif...
• B Is for Big Ben: An England Alphabet - People living in North America owe much of their heritage, culture, and even style of living to England. In B is for Big Ben: An England Alphabet, young readers are given an armchair tour of a country that may be small in size (smaller than the state of New York!) but a giant i...
• Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster That Warns of a Warmer World - The riveting true story of the 1856 hurricane that hit New Orleans, "Island in a Storm" is also a cautionary environmental tale that reveals how global warming is spreading the unique hazards of river deltas to barrier islands around the world.
• Prisoner of Time by Caroline B. Cooney, ISBN 044022019X - Tod Lockwood has never wanted to be anyone's knight in shining armor. In fact, he wants to avoid having anything to do with girls, at least for the present. But that's before Devonny Stratton steps into his life out of the nineteenth century. As for sixteen-year-old Devonny, ...
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, ISBN 067978330X - Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, "Anna Karenina" is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of ...
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, ISBN 0679405380 - (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was a popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and it found its most brilliant realization in Robert Louis Stevenon's story of Dr Jekyll, whose reckless genius allows...
• Tom Sawyer: And, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, ISBN 0679405844 - (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: "Tom Sawyer" is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of bei...
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, ISBN 068807510X - Tells the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century
• Silas Marner by George Eliot, ISBN 055321229X - Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-hai...
• Darkest Hour - When the nineteenth--century ghost of Maria de Silva wakes her up in the middle of the night, Suze knows this is no ordinary visitation -- and not just from the knife at her throat, either. In life, Maria was the fiancee of Jesse -- the same Jesse who was murdered a hundred and...
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool, ISBN 0671882368 - Filled with lively essays and a glossary of obscure terms, this unique reference--organized by subject--is a practical and entertaining compendium of information and insight on this time of debtor prisons, bedlam, and that wonderful disease of sense and sensibility, "putri...
• Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, ISBN 0375757945 - Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is...
• Mark Of Zorro, The (Full Frame) - "The Mark Of Zorro" is the swashbuckling story of a nineteenth century Robin Hood intent on freeing his beloved San Juan Capistrano from an evil Governor and his lecherous Captain. Don Diego Vega (Douglas Fairbanks) must assume the masked identity of Zorro to convince...
• Lonesome Dove: 2-Disc Collector's Edition (Widescreen) - Experience the Emmy Award-winning masterpiece as never before with "Lonesome Dove: 2-Disc Collector's Edition". Presented for the first time in Widescreen and 5.1 surround sound, this all-time western classic is now digitally re-mastered with all-new bonus features. B...
• The Complete Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, ISBN 0679417400 - (Jacket Status: Jacketed) Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre- his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things-was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detect...
• Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney, ISBN 0743215362 - Explores the life and career of the eccentric, trailblazing nineteenth-century scientist and inventor, the man who introduced the fundamentals of robotry and computer and missile science and who harnessed the alternating electrical current used today. Reprint. 75,000 first prin...
• Little Cottage Company Small 4 x 6 Victorian Playhouse Kit with Floor - Playhouse comes unpainted LCC1003: Ships Via Truck Freight - Back of Truck Note: Unfortunately, we cannot accept returns for this item. If you have any questions prior to ordering, please contact our trained staff, so that we can ensure that you get exactly what you need. Thi...
• The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum, ISBN 0679740384 - "Fascinating." --The New York Times Book Review Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness...