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The Aleph and Other Storiesby Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew HurleyISBN 0142437883 (0-14-243788-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aleph and Other Stories'Book summary:[via]Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borgess most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her fathers killer, and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.
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August 1914by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynISBN 0370014650 (0-370-01465-0)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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› Find signed collectible books: 'August 1914'Book summary:Part of a sequence of novels about the Russian Revolution carrying the overall title of "The Red Wheel". The other titles in this series include "October 1916" and "Lenin in Zurich". Other books by Solzhenitsyn include "The Gulag Archipelago". [via]
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Aunts Aren't Gentlemenby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214200477 (0-214-20047-7)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunts Aren't Gentlemen'Book summary:A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster retires to the village of Maiden Eggesford for some rest and quiet, but the presence of Aunt Dahlia shatters the peace as a confused situation develops. From the author of JEEVES IN THE OFFING and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
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Behind the Scenes at the Museumby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0312150601 (0-312-15060-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum'Book summary:"I exist!" exclaims Ruby Lennox upon her conception in 1951, setting the tone for this humorous and poignant first novel in which Ruby at once celebrates and mercilessly skewers her middle-class English family. Peppered with tales of flawed family traits passed on from previous generations, Ruby's narrative examines the lives in her disjointed clan, which revolve around the family pet shop. But beneath the antics of her philandering father, her intensely irritable mother, her overly emotional sisters, and a gaggle of eccentric relatives are darker secrets--including an odd "feeling of something long forgotten"--that will haunt Ruby for the rest of her life. Kate Atkinson earned a Whitbread Prize in 1995 for this fine first effort. [via]
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Between the Actsby Virginia WoolfISBN 015611870X (0-15-611870-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between the Acts'Book summary:In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.
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The Book of Merlynby Terence Hanbury WhiteISBN 029270769X (0-292-70769-X)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Merlyn'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
Burmese Daysby George OrwellISBN 0156148501 (0-15-614850-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Childhood's Endby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0345347951 (0-345-34795-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Childhood's End'Book summary:The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.
But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning? [via]More editions of Childhood's End:
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - Childhood's End: ISBN 0345909887 (0-345-90988-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Childhood's End: ISBN 0151172056 (0-15-117205-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Childhood's End: ISBN 0345347951 (0-345-34795-1)
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Collected Stories.by Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0151189927 (0-15-118992-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories.'Book summary:495 pages - Including Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; The Leaning Tower, & Four Additional Stories. [via]
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Weltyby Eudora WeltyISBN 0156189216 (0-15-618921-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty'Book summary:This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition. [via]
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porterby Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0156188767 (0-15-618876-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter'Book summary:Porters reputation as one of americancas most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.[via]More editions of The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter:
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The Comediansby Graham GreeneISBN 0143039199 (0-14-303919-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedians'Book summary:[via]Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence manthese are the comedians of Greenes title. Hiding behind their actors masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. They are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...
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The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waughby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926604 (0-316-92660-4)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh'Book summary:Mordant, mirthful, and unrelenting in their lampoon of aristocratic mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novels have earned him a permanent place in the literary pantheon. But this cantankerous master--the scion, by the way, of a decidedly middle-class family of publishers and writers--was no less adept when it came to the short form. Indeed, Waugh first broke into print in 1926 with "The Balance: A Yarn of the Good Old Days of Broad Trousers and High Necked Jumpers," an early story that suggests a modernized and misanthropic P.G. Wodehouse. And he continued to write short fiction throughout the rest of his career, all of which has now been collected in the delectable Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh.
The first few entries in the collection capture a kinder, gentler author, not yet red at the verbal tooth and claw. But by 1932, when he wrote "Love in the Slump," Waugh's eye for the black-comic detail was firmly in place:
It rained heavily on the day of the wedding, and only the last-ditchers among the St. Margaret's crowd turned out to watch the melancholy succession of guests popping out of their dripping cars and plunging up the covered way into the church.... A doctor was summoned to attend the bridegroom's small nephew, who, after attracting considerable attention as a page at the ceremony by his outspoken comments, developed a high temperature and numerous disquieting symptoms of food poisoning.
Waugh's wit only sharpened throughout the succeeding decades, and the very texture of his prose thickened (although it never took on much in the way of modernist adipose tissue). In "Compassion," a 1949 tale that belies the author's vaunted anti-Semitism, a mere glimpse of some Yugoslavian partisans leads to this superabundant sentence: "He passed ragged, swaggering partisans, all young, some scarcely more than children; girls in battle dress, bandaged, bemedalled, girdled with grenades, squat, chaste, cheerful, sexless, barely human, who had grown up in mountain bivouacs, singing patriotic songs, arm-in-arm along the pavements where a few years earlier rheumatics had crept with parasols and light, romantic novels." Nobody can accuse Waugh of squishy sentimentality--remember, romantic prose is strictly for convalescents. Still, The Complete Stories offers an accurate and stupendously entertaining vision of human folly, no less effective for being administered in smaller doses. [via]More editions of The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh:
Cosmosby Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta BorchardtISBN 0300108486 (0-300-10848-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Crashby J.G. BallardISBN 0312420331 (0-312-42033-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crash'Book summary:J. G. Ballard's graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com's own Web page! The book's characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology." Read this novel and learn why David Cronenberg, who had previously adapted Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch for the screen, fought to turn it into his latest film. [via]
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The Crow Roadby Iain BanksISBN 0349103232 (0-349-10323-2)
Hardcover, Abacus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crow Road'Book summary:TV trade edition paperback, fine in specially printed TV dw (fine (as new)) [via]
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The Custom of the Countryby Edith Wharton, Linda Wagner-MartinISBN 0143039709 (0-14-303970-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Custom of the Country'Book summary:Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had "assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel," but concluded that the book was "brilliantly written," and "should be read as a parable."
It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion.
Wharton was recreating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War America, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics. [via]More editions of The Custom of the Country:
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald Dahl, Jill BennettISBN 0224012010 (0-224-01201-0)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danny the Champion of the World'Book summary:"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Danny's mother died when he was four months old. Life is peaceful and wonderful... until he turns 9 and discovers his father's one vice. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world. Danny is right up to Roald Dahl's impishly brilliant standards. An intense and beautiful father-son relationship is balanced with sublegal high jinks that will have even the most rigid law-abider rooting them on. Dahl's inimitable way with words leaves the reader simultaneously satisfied and itching for more. (Ages 9 to 13) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Difficult Lovesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156260557 (0-15-626055-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Difficult Loves'Book summary:One of the warmest and gentlest collections of stories by Calvino, and one of the most grounded in the real world. Lovely and elegant prose that lolls in your imagination like a story whispered into your ear on late spring day. [via]
Dog Yearsby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 015626112X (0-15-626112-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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El Otono Del Patriarca / the Autumn of the Patriarchby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350525 (0-307-35052-5)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Ever Afterby Graham SwiftISBN 0330323318 (0-330-32331-8)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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Excellent Womenby Barbara Pym, A. N. WilsonISBN 014310487X (0-14-310487-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Excellent Women'Book summary:An unqualifiedly great novel from the writer most likely to be compared to Jane Austen, this is a very funny, perfectly written book that can rival any other in its ability to capture the essence of its characters on the page. Mildred Lathbury, the narrator of Pym's excellent book is a never-married woman in her 30s--which in 1950s England makes her a nearly-confirmed spinster. Hers is a pretty unexciting life, centered around her small church, and part-time job. But Mildred is far more perceptive and witty than even she seems to think, and when Helena and Rockingham Napier move into the flat below her, there seems to be a chance for her life to take a new direction. [via]
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Ferdydurkeby Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta BorchardtISBN 0300082401 (0-300-08240-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ferdydurke'Book summary:In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937, Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted the young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis, Stalinists, and the Polish Communist regime in turn, the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature.Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style, and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as "one of the great novelists of our century." [via]
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Flaubert's Parrotby Julian BarnesISBN 0224022229 (0-224-02222-9)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaubert's Parrot'Book summary:Just what sort of book is Flaubert's Parrot, anyway? A literary biography of 19th-century French novelist, radical, and intellectual impresario Gustave Flaubert? A meditation on the uses and misuses of language? A novel of obsession, denial, irritation, and underhanded connivery? A thriller complete with disguises, sleuthing, mysterious meetings, and unknowing targets? An extended essay on the nature of fiction itself?
On the surface, at first, Julian Barnes's book is the tale of an elderly English doctor's search for some intriguing details of Flaubert's life. Geoffrey Braithwaite seems to be involved in an attempt to establish whether a particularly fine, lovely, and ancient stuffed parrot is in fact one originally "borrowed by G. Flaubert from the Museum of Rouen and placed on his worktable during the writing of Un coeur simple, where it is called Loulou, the parrot of Felicité, the principal character of the tale."
What begins as a droll and intriguing excursion into the minutiae of Flaubert's life and intellect, along with an attempt to solve the small puzzle of the parrot--or rather parrots, for there are two competing for the title of Gustave's avian confrere--soon devolves into something obscure and worrisome, the exploration of an arcane Braithwaite obsession that is perhaps even pathological. The first hint we have that all is not as it seems comes almost halfway into the book, when after a humorously cantankerous account of the inadequacies of literary critics, Braithwaite closes a chapter by saying, "Now do you understand why I hate critics? I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment; but they are far too discoloured with rage." And from that point, things just get more and more curious, until they end in the most unexpected bang.
One passage perhaps best describes the overall effect of this extraordinary story: "You can define a net in one of two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally, you would say that it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string." Julian Barnes demonstrates that it is possible to catch quite an interesting fish no matter how you define the net. --Andrew Himes [via]
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Galapagosby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224028472 (0-224-02847-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galapagos'Book summary:The human survivors of the "Nature Crisis of the Century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. From the author of "Slaughterhouse 5". [via]
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The Go-Betweenby L. P. HartleyISBN 0241902088 (0-241-90208-8)
Hardcover, Dufour Editions
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Groupby Mary McCarthyISBN 0156372088 (0-15-637208-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Group'Book summary:Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars.
Mary McCarthys most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as the group. An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult livestraveling to Europe, tackling the worlds of nursing and publishing, and finding love and heartbreak in the streets of New York City. Through the years, some of the friends grow apart and some become entangled in each other's affairs, but all vow not to become like their mothers and fathers. It is only when one of them passes away that they all come back together again to mourn the loss of a friend, a confidante, and most importantly, a member of the group. [via]
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The Hotel New Hampshireby John IrvingISBN 034540047X (0-345-40047-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hotel New Hampshire'Book summary:The first of my fathers illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they dream on in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
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The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson, Or, An Oxford Love Storyby Max BeerbohmISBN 0300033893 (0-300-03389-3)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Inherit the Windby Robert E. Lee, Jerome LawrenceISBN 0345466276 (0-345-46627-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inherit the Wind'Book summary:One of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre--based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution--now on Broadway starring Tony Award® Winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, and Directed by Tony Award® Winner Doug Hughes
The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus, the chief gladiators being the two great legal giants of the century. Locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain themselves. At stake was the freedom of every American.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee were classic Broadway scribes who knew how to crank out serious plays for thinking Americans. . . . Inherit the Wind is a perpetually prescient courtroom battle over the legality of teaching evolution. . . . Were still arguing this caseall the way to the White House.
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Powerful . . . a crackling good courtroom play . . . [that] provides two of the juiciest roles in American theater.
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[This] historical drama . . . deserves respect.
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Jakob Von Guntenby Robert WalserISBN 0292700156 (0-292-70015-6)
Hardcover, University of Texas Press
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Keep the Aspidistra Flyingby George OrwellISBN 0156468999 (0-15-646899-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'Book summary:London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary. Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Rosemary to bed because (or so he believes), "If you have no money ... women won't love you." On the windowsill of Gordon's shabby rooming-house room is a sickly but unkillable aspidistra--a plant he abhors as the banner of the sort of "mingy, lower-middle-class decency" he is fleeing in his downward flight. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell has created a darkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the lack of brass, or by the need to make it, will all too easily relate. He etches the ugly insanity of what Gordon calls "the money-world" in unflinching detail, but the satire has a second edge, too, and Gordon himself is scarcely heroic. In the course of his misadventures, we become grindingly aware that his radical solution to the problem of the money-world is no solution at all--that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system, he has become something of a monster himself. Orwell keeps both of his edges sharp to the very end--a "happy" ending that poses tough questions about just how happy it really is. That the book itself is not sour, but constantly fresh and frequently funny, is the result of Orwell's steady, unsentimental attention to the telling detail; his dry, quiet humor; his fascination with both the follies and the excellences of his characters; and his courageous refusal to embrace the comforts of any easy answer. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
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A Maggotby John FowlesISBN 0316290491 (0-316-29049-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Maggot'Book summary:In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that "A Maggot" began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre. [via]
A Month in the Countryby J. L. CarrISBN 0312546807 (0-312-54680-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Mostly Harmlessby Douglas AdamsISBN 0345379330 (0-345-37933-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mostly Harmless'Book summary:Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings.
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Much Obliged, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214653609 (0-214-65360-9)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Obliged, Jeeves'Book summary:A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster is dismayed by the prospect of a lifetime spent with Madeleine Bassett. If only Jeeves could come to his help. From the author of CARRY ON JEEVES, THE INIMITABLE JEEVES and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
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The Napoleon of Notting Hillby G. K. Chesterton, Bernard BergonziISBN 0192831453 (0-19-283145-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Napoleon of Notting Hill'Book summary:The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Chesterton's first novel (1904), is set in London at the end of the twentieth century. It is still a city of gaslamps and horse-drawn carriages, but democratic government has withered away. When a government clerk, something of an aesthete and even more of a joker, is simply chosen from a list to be king, he sets the stage for arguments about the nature of human loyalties, glorifying the little man, and attacks on big business and the monolithic state. [via]
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Nicholas and Alexandraby Robert K. MassieISBN 0345438310 (0-345-43831-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs lives: Nicholass political naïveté, Alexandras obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexiss brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and historythe story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.More editions of Nicholas and Alexandra:
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Papillonby Henri CharriereISBN 0246639873 (0-246-63987-3)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Papillon'Book summary:Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.
Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.
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The Passion of New Eveby CarterISBN 0151712859 (0-15-171285-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Poems of Akhmatovaby Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Max Hayward, Stanley KunitzISBN 0316507008 (0-316-50700-8)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Poems of Akhmatovaby Stanley KunitzISBN 0316506990 (0-316-50699-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Riddley Walkerby Russell HobanISBN 0253212340 (0-253-21234-0)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riddley Walker'Book summary:'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.' Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece. [via]
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The Romanovs: The Final Chapterby Robert K. MassieISBN 0345406400 (0-345-40640-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Romanovs: The Final Chapter'Book summary:In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains, where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the rest of the family? Was Anna Anderson, celebrated for more than sixty years in newspapers, books, and film, really Grand Duchess Anastasia? The Romanovs provides the answers, describing in suspenseful detail the dramatic efforts to discover the truth. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters, illuminating the major scientific dispute between Russian experts and a team of Americans, whose findings, along with those of DNA scientists from Russia, America, and Great Britain, all contributed to solving one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century.
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Slapstickby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224013424 (0-224-01342-4)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fishby Douglas AdamsISBN 0345391837 (0-345-39183-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'Book summary:Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earths dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.
God only knows what it all means. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since its light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new? [via]More editions of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish:
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0224017578 (0-224-01757-8)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophie's Choice'Book summary:Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make. [via]
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Speaker for the Deadby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312853254 (0-312-85325-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speaker for the Dead'Book summary:Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. [via]
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The Spireby William Gerald GoldingISBN 0156027828 (0-15-602782-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spire'Book summary:The vision that drives Dean Jocelin to construct an immense new spire above his cathedral tests the limits of all who surround him. The foundationless stone pillars shriek and the earth beneath them heaves under the structures weight as the Deans will weighs down his collapsing faith.[via]-
The Stone Diariesby Carol ShieldsISBN 0143036394 (0-14-303639-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stone Diaries'Book summary:The Stone Diaries is Carol Shields's most celebrated work and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful novels of the past two decades. A fictional autobiography of an ordinary woman, this multi-award-winning book (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Governor-General's Award) serves as a record of the last century. Daisy Goodwill is on a journey of self-discovery. From her last days in a Florida nursing home she looks back in an attempt to make sense of her life story. Her birth in a turn of the century farmhouse is a shock, born to a woman so obese she doesn't even realize she is pregnant. Widowed on her honeymoon after her husband takes his own life, there is another marriage, children and a beloved hobby that becomes a career, of sorts. It is a life like any other, filled with the richness of human relations and the sting of disappointments both big and small. The beauty of this work lies in the details, the tiny brushstrokes of character and setting, at which Carol Shields is the undisputed master. This engrossing abridged recording was first broadcast on CBC Radio in 1995. Carol Shields both reviewed and approved the abridgement and the recording. [via]
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The Stories of John Cheeverby John CheeverISBN 0345335678 (0-345-33567-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stories of John Cheever'Book summary:"These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of stories, "seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationary store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. Here is the last of that generation of chain smokers who woke the world in the morning with their coughing, who used to get stoned at cocktail parties and perform obsolete dance steps like 'the Cleveland Chicken,' set sail for Europe on ships, who were truly nostalgic for love and happiness, and whose gods were as ancient as yours and mine, whoever you are." [via]
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Sword of Honor a Trilogyby E. WaughISBN 0316925985 (0-316-92598-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Three Guineasby Virginia Woolf, Jane Marcus, Mark HusseyISBN 0156031639 (0-15-603163-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Guineas'Book summary:Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation.[via]
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Time Out of Jointby Philip K. DickISBN 0312944276 (0-312-94427-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Titus Groanby Mervyn Laurence PeakeISBN 0345270967 (0-345-27096-7)
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Typhoon and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801732 (0-19-280173-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Under the Jaguar Sunby Italo Calvino, William WeaverISBN 0156927942 (0-15-692794-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Jaguar Sun'Book summary:Three senses-taste, hearing, and smell-dominate the lives of the characters in these witty, fantastical stories. But the senses, promising the fulfillment of desire and an exit from the self, only lead back to their source: the savoring palate, the listening ear, the smelling nose. A sumptuous small gem of a book (Publishers Weekly). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Under the Jaguar Sun:
View With a Grain of Sandby Wislawa Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh, Stanisaw BaranczakISBN 0156002167 (0-15-600216-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'View With a Grain of Sand'Book summary:True, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy have made more than their share of bloopers. But when they bestowed the Nobel Prize upon Wislawa Szymborska in 1996, they got it right, rescuing a major poet from minor obscurity. Two previous collections of her work had appeared in English, of course. Yet View with a Grain of Sand is by far the best introduction to the Polish writer, conveying not only the fantastic lightness of her touch but the entire worlds she manages to pack into, as it were, a grain of sand. Miniscule wonders are her specialty, such as the tableau she records in "Miracle Fair": "The usual miracle: / invisible dogs barking / in the dead of night. / One of many miracles: / a small and airy cloud / is able to upstage the massive moon." Yet Szymborska is also a love poet of peculiar tartness:
True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
like a scandal in Life's highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn't populate the planet in a million years,
it comes along so rarely.
What comes along so rarely, in fact, is a writer of this quality--and a translation that does her justice. Szymborska's brilliance would probably overpower even a second-rate rendering into English. But thanks to the efforts of Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, she is not only brilliant but supremely readable--an intellectual comedian for whom "there's nothing more debauched than thinking." [via]
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Visitby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0224009176 (0-224-00917-6)
Hardcover, Cape
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider As Insiderby Peter GayISBN 0313229724 (0-313-22972-4)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weimar Culture: The Outsider As Insider'Book summary:A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles, now reissued with a new introduction.
First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Despite the ephemeral nature of the Weimar democracy, the influence of its culture was profound and far-reaching, ushering in a modern sensibility in the arts that dominated Western culture for most of the twentieth century. Vivid and eminently readable, Weimar Culture is the finest introduction for the casual reader and historian alike. "[A]n enormously rich, intriguing, and exciting essay.... A major contribution to the study..."The New York Times 16 black and white illustrations [via]More editions of Weimar Culture: The Outsider As Insider:
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A Wind in the Doorby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0312368542 (0-312-36854-2)
Softcover, Feiwel & Friends
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wind in the Door'Book summary:"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing) and wings (in constant motion) is actually a benevolent cherubim (of a singularly plural sort) named Proginoskes who has come to help save Charles Wallace from a serious illness.
In her usual masterful way, Madeleine L'Engle jumps seamlessly from a child's world of liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches to deeply sinister, cosmic battles between good and evil. Children will revel in the delectably chilling details--including hideous scenes in which a school principal named Mr. Jenkins is impersonated by the Echthroi (the evil forces that tear skies, snuff out light, and darken planets). When it becomes clear that the Echthroi are putting Charles Wallace in danger, the only logical course of action is for Meg and her dear friend Calvin O'Keefe to become small enough to go inside Charles Wallace's body--into one of his mitochondria--to see what's going wrong with his farandolae. In an illuminating flash on the interconnectedness of all things and the relativity of size, we realize that the tiniest problem can have mammoth, even intergalactic ramifications. Can this intrepid group voyage through time and space and muster all their strength of character to save Charles Wallace? It's an exhilarating, enlightening, suspenseful journey that no child should miss.
The other books of the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are A Wrinkle in Time; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award; and Many Waters. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Witchesby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224021656 (0-224-02165-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witches'Book summary:"This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches." So begins one of Roald Dahl's best books ever, and, ironically, it is such a great story because the premise is perfectly plausible from the outset. When the narrator's parents die in a car crash on page two (contrast this terribly real demise with that of James's parents who are devoured by an escaped rhinoceros in James and the Giant Peach), he is taken in by his cigar-smoking Norwegian grandmother, who has learned a storyteller's respect for witches and is wise to their ways.
The bond between the boy and his grandmother becomes the centrepiece of the tale--a partnership of love and understanding that survives even the boy's unfortunate transformation into a mouse. And once the two have teamed up to outwitch the witches, the boy's declaration that he's glad he's a mouse because he will now live only as long as his grandmother is far more poignant than eerie.
Of course, there's adventure here along with Dahl's trademark cleverness and sense of the grotesque. Dahl also communicates some essential truths to children: if they smoke cigars, they'll never catch cold, and, most importantly, they should never bathe, because a clean child is far, far easier for a witch to smell than a dirty one. (Ages 7 to 10, or read aloud to younger children) [via]
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Youth, Heart of Darkness, the End of the Tetherby Joseph Conrad, Robert KimbroughISBN 0192816268 (0-19-281626-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Youth, Heart of Darkness, the End of the Tether'Book summary:"The three stories in this volume lay no claim to unity of artistic purpose. The only bond between them is that of the time in which they were written." Thus Conrad, in his Author's Note of 1917, qualifies his later statement that the stories represent the three ages of man--youth, maturity and age. Together on one volume we see that he did not set out to write about three separate periods of life, but rather that he wrote about life from three separate points of view. [via]
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Harry Potter Et L'ordre De Phenix / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixby J. K. RowlingISBN 032004839X (0-320-04839-X)
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LA Symphonie Pastoraleby Andre GideISBN 0318636018 (0-318-63601-8)
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