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#182 FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD by Thomas Hardy     $7.95 (*)
#183 THE FEDERALIST PAPERS by A. Hamilton, et al    $9.95 (*)
#184 WALDEN & CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE by H. Thoreau      $5.95
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                        Spring List 1993
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                (* = available on 3.5" disk only)

                     ** Spectrum Classics ***

Bronte, Emily: WUTHERING HEIGHTS (*)
One of the great love stories of all time. A story with an almost
mystical intensity. Heathcliff remains unforgettable.
$7.95 Order #143

Buchan, John: THE 39 STEPS
The classic thriller. The book that set the tone for the modern
suspense story. The basis of Hitchcock's classic film.
$5.95 Order #130

Conrad, Joseph: HEART OF DARKNESS
Classic novel of obsession and imperialism in Africa. The basis of
the film Apocalypse Now.
$5.95 Order #128

Crane, Stephen: THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
Classic American Civil War story. New orthography for the
dialogue. Crane's psychological portrayal of fear and the grim
aspects of war in the life of an ordinary soldier. Henry Fleming
joins the army filled with romantic visions of battle that are
soon shattered by the realities of combat.
$5.95 Order #105

Dickens, Charles: A TALE OF TWO CITIES (*)
A Dickensian epic about the French Revolution and the cities of
London and Paris.
$9.95 Order #144

Douglass, Frederick: NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
The autobiography of an American slave. One of the major abolition-
ist documents of the 19th century. An intellectual tour de force.
$5.95 Order #174

Doyle, Arthur Conan: ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (*)
A major story collection. Incudes the complete text of the short
novel THE SCARLET LETTER.
$9.95 Order #107

Dumas, Alexandre: THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS
Story of a tragic affair. A man and woman lost to a deep love and
strangled by intrigue.
$5.95 Order #108

Hardy, Thomas: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (*)
Classic novel about the contrast of patient and generous love
with unscrupulous passion. A crescendo of love, hate, and murder.
$7.95 Order #182

Joyce, James: DUBLINERS (*)
The famous short story collection. A 20th century literary master-
piece.
$7.95 Order #172

Louys, Pierre: THE SONGS OF BILITIS
(tr. R.F.Santini) 19th century poetry, a true tour de force.
Classic poems about the love of women for women in Ancient Greece.
A remarkable enterprise by a well-known French writer.
$5.95 Order #123

Milton, John: PARADISE LOST (*)
The great epic on the Old Testament theme of Man's first
disobedience in the Garden of Eden, with Satan the dominant
character.
$7.95 Order #152

Orczy, Baroness: THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
Famous thriller about the French Revolution. The basis of several
classic films.
$5.95 Order #145

Poe, Edgar Allan: COLLECTED STORIES AND POEMS. (*)
A superb collection of works by the American master of suspense.
All the better known prose and poetry is included.
$5.95 Order #176

Shakespeare, William: HENRY VIII
A special scholar's edition of this historical play by Shakespeare.
John Fletcher may have written parts of it. A faithful rendering
of the original folio manuscript.
$5.95 Order #151

Shakespeare, William: TIMON OF ATHENS
A great tragedy. A benefactor finds his friends are not friends at
all. Based on a work by Plutarch.
$5.95 Order #164

Shakespeare, William: KING LEAR
One of the great tragic themes of all literature. A masterpiece.
$5.95 Order #165

Shakespeare, William: MACBETH
The great dramatist at his finest. Acclaimed in all languages.
$5.95 Order #166

Shakespeare, William: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
The history may be distorted, but the dramatic tragedy remains
universal.
$5.95 Order #167

Shakespeare, William: CORIOLANUS
Tragedy and politics in Ancient Rome.
$5.95 Order #168

Shakespeare, William: HAMLET
Perhaps the best known of Shakespeare's works; the universally
acclaimed tragedy.
$5.95 Order #171

Shakespeare, William: TAMING OF THE SHREW
One of the great Shakespeare comedies about marriage.
$5.95 Order #180

Shelley, Mary: FRANKENSTEIN
Classic horror story. It still reads better than ever nearly two
hundred years later.
$5.95 Order #134

Stoker, Bram: DRACULA (*)
The original classic tale of vampires and werewolves. The source
for all the films and their sequels.
$7.95 Order #173

Twain, Mark: A CONNECTICUT YANKEE AT KING ARTHUR'S COURT (*)
Vintage Twain. A keen satire of the Old World, chivalry, religion,
castles, etc.
$7.95 Order #135

Twain, Mark: TOM SAWYER
The enduring classic, as delightful as ever. The book comes to life
again on a computer screen.
$5.95 Order #136

Twain, Mark: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (*)
Great American novel. A masterful creation by Twain.
$7.95 Order #137

Twain, Mark: THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
A Twain romp and a children's classic. A prince and a pauper
exchange lives.
$5.95 Order #138

Twain, Mark: COLLECTED SPEECHES (*)
A complete collection of Mark Twain's speeches. An incomparable
voyage of wit and wisdom.
$7.95 Order #170

Verne, Jules: 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (*)
The marvelous adventures of Captain Nemo, the undersea explorer.
A classic of imaginative science-fiction.
$5.95 Order #178

Verne, Jules: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (*)
Another Verne classic science-fiction novel, once again the basis
for a Hollywood film.
$5.95 Order #179

Wallace, Lew: BEN HUR (*)
The spectacular novel of Romans, chariots, Christians, slaves.
The basis of several films of the same name.
$9.95 Order #177

Wells, H.G.: THE TIME MACHINE
Classic science-fiction novel. Jules Verne for adults.
$5.95 Order #139

Wells, H.G.: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Classic science-fiction novel. The grandfather of Martian
invasions of Earth. An exciting chronicle.
$5.95 Order #140

Wharton, Edith: ETHAN FROME
An American classic. A deadly ménage à trois. Wharton is better
than Henry James, more readable and more interesting.
$5.95 Order #146

Wharton, Edith: THE TOUCHSTONE
An early novel by an important American writer. A man betrays one
woman in order to marry another. After the wedding, his secret
haunts him.
$5.95 Order #160



             ** Contemporary Fiction and Poetry **

Barton, D.J.: THE VICTORY OF B-POSTIVE
A wife, her husband, and her mother tear each other apart in a
classic family struggle. An artful story of a modern dysfunctional
nuclear family.
$5.95 Order #156

Brown, Tim W.: ON SANGAMON
Set in a post-industrial Chicago wasteland. A contemporary novel
depicting the lives of a rock drummer and his poet friend. A blend
of narrative and folklore by a skillful young writer.
$5.95 Order #147

Campbell, Ewing: THE TEX-MEX EXPRESS
An avant-garde novel of the Southwest. A pilgrimage by train from
the Gulf of Mexico to the Mexican border and back on the occasion of a
thirtieth anniversary class reunion. The novel reconstructs the
time, place, and lives of the participants through multiple voices in
which humor and sorrow coexist with unsettling effects.
$5.95 Order #142

Dittmeier, Ray: GOLIATH
A zany satire that reminds one of Alfred Jarry and UBU ROI. Only
this is us, here and now, one hundred years after King Ubu.
$5.95 Order #155

Fairburn, Laura: LENORE
A tale of obsession and love in the 19th century. Plague,
shipwrecks, war, jealousy, and a dying man lusting for revenge.
$5.95 Order #148

Fairburn, Laura: OVERRULED BY HEAVEN
A woman's struggle for freedom from a passionless marriage and a
loveless affair. A carefully crafted novel by a new Canadian writer.
$5.95 Order #149

Fitz Gerald, Gregory: OCTOBER BLOOD
Short stories. Exceedingly well-written fantasy tales illustrating
the vagaries of contemporary society.
$5.95 Order #158

Lusk, Martha Larche: BODY AND SOUL (*)
Novel about a Texas town in 1939. Rape, adultery, heartbreak, and
death at the height of the Great Depression. An authentic rendering
of a troubled time.
$7.95 Order #129

Lusk, Martha Larche: IF BUTTERFLIES RETURN (*)
Murder and deception as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old
girl. A writer with exceptional talent tells a haunting provocative
story.
$7.95 Order #154

Miller, Marlene: ANNA GLORIA (*)
An honest and modern feminist novel. A former Hollywood beauty
queen finds a tragic old age.
$9.95 Order #116

O'Keefe, William: LOSING EVERYTHING
Short stories about life on the edge. A gritty collection by a
skillful writer.
$5.95 Order #157

Sheen, Barbara: RAINY SEASON
Short stories. A collection of new fiction by a fine-tuned literary
talent.
$5.95 Order #159

Spitzer, Mark: ALLEY LIFE
The Colorado poems of a young poet who stands as one of the more
promising figures on the American literary scene. Poems of irony
and anguish, the lines striking out with an incisive and gutsy
verbal clarity.
$5.95 Order #118

Vian, Daniel: THE CAGE
An avant-garde novel of lust and murder. Imagist and cinematic, the
style a powerful mix of Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon. On the
French Riviera, a confused tourist guide meets an American woman
who shows him the way to hell and destruction.
$5.95 Order #120



                  ** Nonfiction and Reference **

Hamilton, Alexander, et al: THE FEDERALIST PAPERS (*)
Certainly the most important source for anyone interested in
the ideas and intentions and hopes of the designers of the
U.S. Constitution. A massive enterprise.
$9.95 Order #183

Hartman, J.G. (ed.): A SHAKESPEARE GLOSSARY
A glossary of archaicisms, neologisms, poeticisms, and other
verbal puzzlements in the works of Shakespeare.
$5.95 Order #169

Olsen, Karen (ed.): U.S. DOCUMENTS
A compendium of important U.S. historical documents and speeches
ranging from the Mayflower Compact to J.F. Kennedy and Martin
Luther King.
$5.95 Order #131

Olsen, Karen (ed.): WORLD INFOBASE
Encyclopedic 1990 CIA world factbook. A massive array of factual
information organized alphabetically by country.
$27.95 Order #132

Olsen, Karen (ed.): NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INDEX
Extensive index of National Geographic Magazine articles grouped
according to various categories.
$5.95 Order #153

Olsen, Karen (ed.): ELECTION 1992 (*)
Complete texts of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates,
and the final victory and concession speaches by the candidates.
$5.95 Order #181

Olsen, Karen (ed.): ROE v. WADE U.S. SUPREME COURT TEXTS
Complete texts of all the decisions by the Supreme Court justices
in the landmark Roe v. Wade case.
$5.95 Order #185

Paine, Thomas: COMMON SENSE
Famous document calling for American independence. A small piece
of American history revivified on the screen.
$5.95 Order #117

Thoreau, Henry David: WALDEN & CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
The two most celebrated Thoreau works, still supremely relevant
in our time.
$5.95 Order #184



                     ** Artemis Books **

Fleming, Bren: CHARLY'S GAME
An erotic lesbian private-eye novel. Charly Quinn, tough, uncom-
promising, and committed to pleasure, solves a murder mystery
in Greenwich Village.
$5.95 Order #122

Perez, Rachel: AFFINITIES
Lesbian erotic short stories. This is lesbian sexual fiction at
its best. Stories of lesbian women confronting themselves and
the world.
$5.95 Order #125

Perez, Rachel: ODD WOMAN OUT
A lesbian erotic novel. The story of the dissolution of a lesbian
couple. The sex is hot and the people completely real.
$5.95 Order #126

Perez, Rachel: LINDA BABY
A contemporary lesbian novel. A searing story of a desperate New
York girl who gets torn apart by an unlucky life but yet somehow
survives it. The language is strong, but appropriate to the
character and the story.
$5.95 Order #124

Putnam, Emily James: THE LADY (*)
Classic feminist study of women in history. An era by era
revelation, from the Ancient Greeks to the Antebellum South,
the style readable and the material fascinating.
$7.95 Order #127



                ** Spectrum Obelisk Library **

Anselmo, Peter: THE JAZZ AGE
Flappers and gigolos in the Roaring Twenties. A romp of erotic
realism. Sex, speakeasies, and saxophones, with cameo roles by
Libby Holman, George Raft, and Calvin Coolidge.
$5.95 Order #102

Anselmo, Peter: DEMON HEAT
The story of a female vampire whose desperate needs force the
destruction of one victim after another. A tour de force of sex
and vampirism. A book that may well become a classic of
eroticism.
$5.95 Order #103

Baeder, Claire: JADE EAST
An American beauty is brought by her husband to the Orient and
placed into sexual bondage. Hong Kong and Kowloon provide the
backdrop for this erotic tale of love and masochism.
$5.95 Order #104

Cleland, John: FANNY HILL
An erotic classic, complete and unexpurgated.
$5.95 Order #141

Darcy, Marlene: LOVE AND SURRENDER
Love, sex, and politics in New York. The sex is torrid, the
setting authentic, the characters believable.
$5.95 Order #106

Flandre, Nicole: EROS IN PARIS
(tr.J.Herter) Steamy novel of adultery and decadence in modern
Parisian society. Sexually explicit with a captivating Gallic
finesse.
$5.95 Order #109

Flandre, Nicole: PRIVATE LIVES
(tr. J.Herter) Amorous intrigue in a French suburb. A French
version of Peyton Place, but with unblushing candor and no
curtains drawn.
$5.95 Order #110

Flandre, Nicole: THE LOVES OF ODETTE
(tr. J.Herter) A French woman seeks erotic fulfillment. A young
Parisian suburbanite, bourgeois, married, finds a solution to
the boredom that plagues her.
$5.95 Order #111

Gage, Rosemary: CLAUDINE
Novel about a high class call girl. A sophisticated New York
woman chooses to live a clandestine life as a high priced
courtesan. Torrid and erotic.
$5.95 Order #112

Gage, Rosemary: THREE WOMEN
Passion and adultery in Ohio. Three women, including a female
psychiatrist, find themselves enmeshed in erotic intrigue and
sexual excess.
$5.95 Order #113

Jones, E.N.: ON THE TOWN
Erotic tales of Old New York. The secret lives of the Manhattan
aristocracy at the turn of the century.
$5.95 Order #161

Joyce, Jocelyn: THE LONDON SEASON
Edwardian erotic novel. A spellbinding look at the sexual
underpinnings of turn-of-the century London. The heroine is
completely riveting.
$5.95 Order #150

Joyce, Jocelyn: KIM'S PASSION
Edwardian erotic novel. An English girl arrives from India to
live in Edwardian London. A detailed account of the erotic life
of a beautiful English lesbian.
$5.95 Order #114

Joyce, Jocelyn: HAREM SONG
An English girl sold to a harem. The scenes of sexual life in a
Moroccan harem are both fascinating and seductive.
$5.95 Order #115

Olsen, Karen (ed.): THE OBELISK READER
Selections from recent and forthcoming Obelisk fiction. A book-
length anthology of quality erotica.
$5.95 Order #162

Van Heller, Marcus: ADAM AND EVE
One of the great modern erotic novels. An explosive account of the
London theater and art scene in the Fifties. High-caliber sex and
high-caliber writing. Van Heller at his best.
$5.95 Order #175

Winter, Madeline: THE WILD HEART
Steamy sex in a European resort hotel. A Grand Hotel with nothing
hidden from the reader. Are the Swedes more interesting than the
the Germans? Winter examines the nuances with a literate style.
$5.95 Order #121

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