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501 French Verbsby Christopher KendrisISBN 0812092813 (0-8120-9281-3)
Softcover, Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: '501 French Verbs'Book summary:What you see is what you get when it comes to this popular series of foreign-language grammar titles, and here what you get is 501 French Verbs, fully conjugated in every tense the French language has to offer. (That would be 28, in case you're counting.) You'll also find verb drills and tests as well as definitions of important grammatical terms, an index of irregular verb forms, lists of vernacular expressions and idioms, and much more. If you can't find the verb you're looking for in the 501 "model" verbs, author Christopher Kendris provides an index of 1,000 additional verbs that are conjugated in the same way as one of the 501. A lifesaver for anyone who does much writing in French, 501 French Verbs is an absolutely essential reference for every serious student of the language. [via]
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Softcover, Barron's Educational Series, inc. - 501 French Verbs: ISBN 0812043634 (0-8120-4363-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc - 501 French Verbs: ISBN 0812092813 (0-8120-9281-3)
Softcover, Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
- 501 French Verbs Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy to Learn Format: ISBN 0812026012 (0-8120-2601-2)
Alvin Journeymanby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812509234 (0-8125-0923-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 0809593998 (0-8095-9399-8)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesmanby Arthur Miller, Liza McAlister Williams, Kent PaulISBN 0812034104 (0-8120-3410-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman'Book summary:Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman has sold 11 million copies, and Willy Loman didn't make all those sales on a smile and a shoeshine. This play is the genuine article--it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. It's a sturdy bridge between kitchen-sink realism and spectral abstraction, the facts of particular hard times and universal themes. As Christopher Bigsby's mildly interesting afterword in this 50th-anniversary edition points out (as does Miller in his memoir, Timebends), Willy is closely based on the playwright's sad, absurd salesman uncle, Manny. But of course Miller made Manny into Everyman, and gave him the name of the crime commissioner Lohmann in Fritz Lang's angst-ridden 1932 Nazi parable, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
The tragedy of Loman the all-American dreamer and loser works eternally, on the page as on the stage. A lot of plays made history around 1949, but none have stepped out of history into the classic canon as Salesman has. Great as it was, Tennessee Williams's work can't be revived as vividly as this play still is, all over the world. (This edition has edifying pictures of Lee J. Cobb's 1949 and Brian Dennehy's 1999 performances.) It connects Aristotle, The Great Gatsby, On the Waterfront, David Mamet, and the archetypal American movie antihero. It even transcends its author's tragic flaw of pious preachiness (which undoes his snoozy The Crucible, unfortunately his most-produced play).
No doubt you've seen Willy Loman's story at least once. It's still worth reading. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Arthur Miller's the Crucibleby Arthur Miller, William BlyISBN 0812034082 (0-8120-3408-2)
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin Franklin, Peter Conn, Amy GutmannISBN 0812219295 (0-8122-1929-5)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity." The result is a classic of American literature.
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On the eve of the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, the university he founded has selected the Autobiography for the Penn Reading Project. Each year, for the past fifteen years, the University of Pennsylvania has chosen a single work that the entire incoming class, and a large segment of the faculty and staff, read and discuss together. For this occasion the University of Pennsylvania Press will publish a special edition of Franklin's Autobiography, including a new preface by University president Amy Gutmann and an introduction by distinguished scholar Peter Conn. The volume will also include four short essays by noted Penn professors as well as a chronology of Franklin's life and the text of Franklin's Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, a document resulting in the establishment of an institution of higher education that ultimately became the University of Pennsylvania.
No area of human endeavor escaped Franklin's keen attentions. His ideas and values, as Amy Gutmann notes in her remarks, have shaped the modern University of Pennsylvania profoundly, "more profoundly than have the founders of any other major university of college in the United States." Franklin believed that he had been born too soon. Readers will recognize that his spirit lives on at Penn today.
Essay contributors: Richard R. Beeman, Paul Guyer, Michael Weisberg, and Michael Zuckerman.More editions of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:
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Barron's New Student's Concise EncyclopediaISBN 0812063295 (0-8120-6329-5)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
Find This BookBook summary:This one-volume reference contains a wide spectrum of useful information. Within each of the 24 general subject areas, materials are presented in either an A-Z format or by topics. The book includes hundreds of helpful cross-references, a comprehensive index, tables, charts, maps, diagrams, and illustrations, many in full color. [via]
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Body: Photographs of the Human Formby William A. EwingISBN 0811807622 (0-8118-0762-2)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Body: Photographs of the Human Form'Book summary:The sensual curve of the shoulder, the disturbing line of a scar, the magnetic pull of a lashed eye -- since the birth of photography, images of the human body have attracted, disturbed, fascinated, and obsessed us. The body has been scrutinized by medical and anatomical photographers; it has been celebrated by photographers of sport and dance; it has inspired a long tradition of photographing the nude; and it has been depicted in phantasmagoric terms. In this rich, involving archive of over 360 duotone and color images culled from worldwide collections, renowned photo curator William A. Ewing has compiled the most comprehensive and arresting visual survey ever published of the human form. From nineteenth-century erotica to the politicized images of the 1990s, The Body offers an exciting, elegantly packaged, provocative record of the camera's infatuation with the human figure. [via]
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The Brothers Karamazov: Library Editionby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0809598604 (0-8095-9860-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition'Book summary:The Brothers Karamazov was Fyodor Dostoevsky's last and greatest work, telling the tales the three brothers and their father, Fyodor it is, among many other things, a tale of patricide -- a love-hate struggle with profound psychological and spiritual implications. It is a search for faith, for God -- driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, the Karamozov brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. Exploring the secret depths of humanity's struggles and sins, Dostoevsky unfolds a grand epic which attempts to venture into mankind's darkest heart, and grasp the true meaning of existence. [via]
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Children of the Mindby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812522397 (0-8125-2239-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of the Mind'Book summary:Children of the Mind, fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book, Xenocide. The author unravels Ender's life and reweaves the threads into unexpected new patterns, including an apparent reincarnation of his threatening older brother, Peter, not to mention another "sister" Valentine. Multiple storylines entwine, as the threat of the Lusitania-bound fleet looms ever nearer. The self-aware computer, Jane, who has always been more than she seemed, faces death at human hands even as she approaches godhood. At the same time, the characters hurry to investigate the origins of the descolada virus before they lose their ability to travel instantaneously between the stars. There is plenty of action and romance to season the text's analyses of Japanese culture and the flux and ebb of civilizations. But does the author really mean to imply that Ender's wife literally bores him to death? --Brooks Peck [via]
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0812504348 (0-8125-0434-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. [via]
Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0809590646 (0-8095-9064-6)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Conanby Steve PerryISBN 0812506901 (0-8125-0690-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Conan the Triumphantby Robert JordanISBN 0812513983 (0-8125-1398-3)
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Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darknessby Fritz LeiberISBN 0812512960 (0-8125-1296-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness'Book summary:Conjure Wife is the classic and twice-filmed tale of a man who discovers that witchcraft is alive and well in modern times--and practiced by his own wife. In Our Lady of Darkness, a struggling horror writer discovers strange, elemental creatures inhabiting San Francisco. [via]
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Cupcakesby Elinor KlivansISBN 0811845451 (0-8118-4545-1)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Dante's Paradisoby Sandow Birk, Mary Campbell, Michael F. Meister, Peter S. HawkinsISBN 0811847209 (0-8118-4720-9)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Paradiso'Book summary:With the publication of Dante's Paradiso, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders complete their literary and artistic achievementthe retelling of The Divine Comedy in contemporary words and images. Hailed as "inspired" by the The London Review of Books, Birk and Sanders's adaptation of Dante's classic work is true to the spirit of the original and is as acerbic and shockingly funny today as in thirteenth-century Italy. With a text that incorporates modern slang and references to anachronistically recent public figures, Birk and Sanders pay tribute to Dante's linguistic approach and clever politics. Birk's striking spin on Gustave Dor's famous engravings accompany the cantos. Together they lend the timeless poem a postmodern edge. A major retrospective of all of Birk's illustrations and paintings for the trilogy will be held at the San Jose Museum of Art in August 2005 in tribute to a masterpiece for our times. [via]
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Dante's Purgatorioby Marcus Sanders, Michael F. Meister, Marcia Tanner, Sandow BirkISBN 0811847195 (0-8118-4719-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Purgatorio'Book summary:Following the acclaim for their innovative edition of Dante's Inferno, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders guide us to the next level of the afterlife in Dante's Purgatorio. The second book of Dante Alighieri's classic poem The Divine Comedy, this version of Purgatorio couples a clever literary adaptation incorporating modern urban speech and contemporary references with powerful illustrations inspired by Gustave Dor's famous engravings. Whereas Inferno was primarily situated in a city that bears a curious resemblance to modern Los Angeles, Purgatorio is set in a surreal San Francisco Bay Area, an outlandish and hopeful milieu for those who have a chance to wash their sins away. Together, the sardonic yet playful combination of text and images comprise a vivid retelling of this masterpiece. [via]
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The Dead Secretby Wilkie CollinsISBN 080959482X (0-8095-9482-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dead Secret'Book summary:Having previously tried my hand at short serial stories (collected and reprinted in _After Dark,_ and _The Queen of Hearts),_ I ventured on my first attempt, in this book, to produce a sustained work of fiction, intended for periodical publication during many successive weeks. The experiment proved successful both in this country and in America. Two of the characters which appear in these pages -- "Rosamond," and "Uncle Joseph" -- had the good fortune to find friends everywhere who took a hearty liking to them. A more elaborately drawn personage in the story -- "Sarah Leeson" -- was, I think, less generally understood. The idea of tracing, in this character, the influence of a heavy responsibility on a naturally timid woman, whose mind was neither strong enough to bear it, nor bold enough to drop it altogether, was a favorite idea with me, at the time, and is so much a favorite still, that I privately give "Sarah Leeson" the place of honor in the little portrait-gallery which my story contains. Perhaps, in saying this, I am only acknowledging, in other words, that the parents of literary families share the well-known inconsistencies of parents in general, and are sometimes unreasonably fond of the child who has always given them the most trouble. -- Wilkie Collins, _January, 1861_ [via]
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Dictionary of 501 French Verbs, Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses.by Christopher KendrisISBN 0812060776 (0-8120-6077-6)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Discoverersby Daniel Joseph BoorstinISBN 0810932075 (0-8109-3207-5)
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0812504488 (0-8125-0448-8)
Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self. [via]
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0812523016 (0-8125-2301-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of Dracula includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R.L. Fisher.
Nosferatu, vrolok, demon. For centuries he has rules armies of wolves, hordes of rats, legions of walking undead. He becomes a bat, a shadow, a moonbeam. He corrupts the pure and destroys the innocent. He enters dreams and torments minds. Now he means to take our world and feast forever on our blood.
But six people have faced his horror--and lived. Six mortals desperate enough to hunt him, to dare his evil. Mina Harker, whose courage saved her husband from madness. Lawyer Jonathan Harker, who unwittingly set him loose, Millionaire adventurer Quincey Morris, Lord Godalming, and Dr. John Seward, who were forced to kill the woman they all loved...twice.
And Van Helsing. Prof. Abraham Van Helsing, who alone knows his immortal ways, who knows the true danger to the hunters' lives and souls, who alone knows what it means to challenge the evil of...DraculaMore editions of Dracula:
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Duino Elegiesby Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen CohnISBN 0810116480 (0-8101-1648-0)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Duino Elegies'Book summary:Poetry. Rainer Maria Rilke, along with Yeats, Mandelstam, and Pessoa, is regarded as one of the great European poets of his century, and by many as the outstanding German poet between Holderlin and Celan. DUINO ELEGIES is Rilke's masterpiece. This cycle of poems, language grasped at its speech-seed, was composed in a three-week blaze of creative energy in 1922, the annus mirabilis which saw the first publication of The Wasteland, Ulysses, and Pound's early Cantos. Rilke, the Santa Claus of loneliness, in Auden's cheeky phrase, said that the elegies were dictated to him, entrusted to him. Of all English versions of Rilke's elegaic symphony, these by the German scholar and poet Patrick Bridgwater may well incarnate the deepest reconciliation of that necessarily warring menage a trois: beauty, truth, and fidelity. [via]
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The Edge of Tomorrowby Isaac AsimovISBN 0812521323 (0-8125-2132-3)
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Einstein: A Hundred Years Of Relativityby Andrew RobinsonISBN 0810959232 (0-8109-5923-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Elvenbaneby Andre NortonISBN 0812511751 (0-8125-1175-1)
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Emile, Julie and Other Writingsby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0812000625 (0-8120-0062-5)
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A Fire upon the Deepby Vernor VingeISBN 0812515285 (0-8125-1528-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Fire upon the Deep'Book summary:In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense.
Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy's Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World.
Serious complications follow. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft Out of Band--heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named "individuals" are small packs of the doglike aliens. Primitive doesn't mean stupid, and opposed Tine leaders wheedle the young castaways for information about guns and radios. Low-tech war looms, with elaborately nested betrayals and schemes to seize Out of Band if it ever arrives. The tension becomes extreme... while half the Beyond debates the issues on galactic Usenet.
Vinge's climax is suitably mindboggling. This epic combines the flash and dazzle of old-style space opera with modern, polished thoughtfulness. Pham Nuwen also appears in the nifty prequel set 30,000 years earlier, A Deepness in the Sky. Both recommended. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The First Circleby Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. WhitneyISBN 0810115905 (0-8101-1590-5)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Circle'Book summary:A major literary event 50 years in the making:In the First Circle is the first complete English translation of Nobel Prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns best novel (Washington Post). With an introduction by Edward Erickson, this work by the author of The Gulag Archipelago is the story of a brilliant mathematician who finds himself locked in a Moscow prison filled with the countrys brightest minds and must decide whether to aid Stalins repressive state. [via]
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Fuck This Bookby Bodhi OserISBN 0811850722 (0-8118-5072-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fuck This Book'Book summary:Juvenile, profane, and timeless, Fuck This Book collects images of real public signs that have been mischieveously altered by stickers bearing the most expressive of all four-letter words. Addictively hilarious, the results show a world persuasively transformed. Please Don't Fuck the Pigeons, indeed. What happens if one triggers the Automatic Sprinkler Fuck Off Valve? And is it any wonder The Fuck Depot is so popular? All photographs are unretouchedthe result of countless hours on the hunt for the almost perfect sign, in need of just the slightest improvement. This is not social commentary. There is no message. It's not meant to offend, exploit, or embarrass anyone. All real stickers. All real signs. All in fun. [via]
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Gingerbread for All Seasonsby Teresa Layman, Randy O'RourkeISBN 0810982366 (0-8109-8236-6)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Versionby C. F. MacIntyreISBN 0811200566 (0-8112-0056-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Version'Book summary:Goethe said that all his works were "one long confession," and certainly into Faust, this greatest masterwork of German literature, on which he worked sixty years, he welded his own search for meaning of existence and of the soul.
From the wager between God and Mephistopheles and the pact Faust makes with the latterthat this genial, urbane devil could have his soul if ever Faust became satisfied with any experience or knowledge Mephistopheles could show himthe drama unfolds in scenes that are human and compelling, that hold the reader by their despair and ecstasy, their tender love, passionate desire and wisdom, but also by their gaiety, humor, and irony. As Faust proceeds with his devilish guide, it is his striving for understanding that becomes important, not the attainment, and in fact this is what saves him in the end.
Part I of Faust, which Goethe published twenty-four years before its sequel, deals with Faust's journey through the everyday world and his love for Gretchen. It is made especially memorable in this translation, which Victor Lange, Chairman of the Department of German at Princeton, has called "certainly the most usable and most appealing Faust translation in English. It is modern without losing the dignity of the original and is perhaps the only translation that conveys something of the freshness and poetic vitality of Goethe's own speech." [via]More editions of Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Version:
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Going Down : Great Writing on Oral Sexby Anais Nin, John Updike, Oscar WildeISBN 0811822451 (0-8118-2245-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going Down : Great Writing on Oral Sex'Book summary:Heading south? Is it the pleasure? The power? The giving? The taking? Finally you can plumb the depths of oral maneuvers in good company. This conveniently portable, stimulating volume fits easily in glove box, brief case, or evening clutch and is the perfect companion to or substitute for those private, climactic moments. Fiction, essay, poetry; here is an adventuresome literary collection to take you to provocative new heights. Sexy to shocking, dark musings to hilarious tales, Going Down is guaranteed to satisfy. Today, it's practically required reading in both the public and private sectors. Scores of notorious sexperts, including John Updike, Ana"s Nin, and Oscar Wilde, have given readers their views on oral encounters, as have Frank Zappa, Erica Jong, Harold Brodkey, Cynthia Heimel, and a host of other fresh and frank contemporary voices. Now we get the best writing, the hot low-down, all in one place. And why not? It's the topic on everyone's lips. [via]
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Grimm's Grimmestby Maria TatarISBN 0811850463 (0-8118-5046-3)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Grimmest'Book summary:A scholar of fairy tales, Maria Tatar, provides a fascinating introduction about the history and meaning of the stories assembled by the Brothers Grimm. She writes, for example, "We now know that the stories collected in the nineteenth-century folktale anthologies ...had their origins in an irreverent peasant culture that arose in conscious opposition to the feudal state's ruling class. By overdoing it in the realm of storytelling, these narrators were able to alleviate--if only temporarily--some of the tedium that marked the daily life of their audience ... [These tales] can be seen as the ancestors of our urban legends about vanishing hitchhikers and cats accidentally caught in the dryer or as the preliterate equivalents of tabloid tales describing headless bodies found in topless bars. But in many ways, it is the horror film to which the matter and manner of these folktales has most conspicuously migrated. Like horror films, folktales trade in the sensational--breaking taboos and enacting the forbidden with uninhibited energy."
The text of the 19 tales in this collection is based on the 1822 edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Nursery and Household Tales) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm--before the tales were expurgated and rewritten to make them more "suitable" for children. It's bound in a handsome faux-antique format, and lavishly illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray (15 full-page color paintings, and a black-and-white drawing on nearly every page). Most of the tales will be unfamiliar to American and English readers, who may be surprised by the graphic descriptions of incest, murder, mutilation, and cannibalism. Chronicle Books has done us a service in helping restore to our adult culture these vivid, evocative folktales. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Heartfireby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812509242 (0-8125-0924-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heartfire'Book summary:Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. She can follow the paths of each person's future, and know each person's most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him.[via]
Now they are married, and Peggy is a part of Alvin's heart as well as his life.
But Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin has gone north into New England, where knacks are considered witchcraft, and their use is punished with death.
Peggy has been drawn south, to the British Crown Colonies and the court of King Arthur Stuart in exile. For she has seen a terrible future bloom in the heartfires of every person in America, a future of war and destruction. One slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy's quest to set the world on the path to peace.More editions of Heartfire:
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The Inflatable Crown Balloon Hat Kitby Addi Somekh, Charlie EckertISBN 0811829944 (0-8118-2994-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inflatable Crown Balloon Hat Kit'Book summary:When "certified balloonatic" Addi Somekh and his photographer friend, Charlie Eckert, got a bee in their bonnet to travel the world, spreading good cheer through... balloon hats, they had only a vague idea where this madness would lead. Three years and six incredible journeys later, the creative pair had brought smiles to the faces of thousands of people--and they had the makings of this book and balloon hat-making kit. The small, imaginative book describes Somekh and Eckert's experiences of showing up in towns and rural areas of Europe, Africa, Central America, the Balkans, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States, and making balloon hats for people in their natural, everyday environments. The bulk of the book, however, is a step-by-step pictorial guide to creating fantastic headpieces out of balloons. Numbered boxes with black backgrounds reveal crisp photos of hands twisting, pinching, and squeezing colorful balloons to create swirlies, ballies, dingies, teddy bear twists, loops, locks, and other cleverly named techniques that ultimately result in latex tiaras, polar bear loungers, unicorn hats, Martian helmets, and the spectacular Dysfunctionally Large Hat. Three international balloon photo galleries showcase gorgeous snapshots of people (and a camel or two) wearing or playing with Somekh's balloon creations.
Part sociological study, part entertainment, part how-to book, this kit, which includes the 152-page book, 30 colorful balloons, and a super piston-action pump (as well as a very convincing list of 7 reasons to make balloon hats), is pure fun. (Ages 8 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Editionby H. G. WellsISBN 0809593114 (0-8095-9311-4)
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The Jackal's Headby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0812500024 (0-8125-0002-4)
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Joan Wulff's Fly Fishing: Expert Advice from a Woman's Perspectiveby Joan Salvato WulffISBN 0811716546 (0-8117-1654-6)
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Julius CaesarISBN 0811468313 (0-8114-6831-3)
Softcover, Steck-Vaughn Co
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King Solomon's Minesby Henry Rider HaggardISBN 0809595672 (0-8095-9567-2)
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writingsby Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, William GibsonISBN 0811216993 (0-8112-1699-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings'Book summary:If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web.
Instead, being a librarian and one of the world's most widely read people, he became the leading practitioner of a densely layered imaginistic writing style that has been imitated throughout this century, but has no peer (although Umberto Eco sometimes comes close, especially in Name of the Rose).
Borges's stories are redolent with an intelligence, wealth of invention, and a tight, almost mathematically formal style that challenge with mysteries and paradoxes revealed only slowly after several readings. Highly recommended to anyone who wants their imagination and intellect to be aswarm with philosophical plots, compelling conundrums, and a wealth of real and imagined literary references derived from an infinitely imaginary library. [via]
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Last Evenings on Earthby Chris Andrews, Roberto BolanoISBN 0811216349 (0-8112-1634-9)
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Last Evenings on Earthby Roberto BolanoISBN 0811216888 (0-8112-1688-8)
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Lion in the Valleyby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0812512421 (0-8125-1242-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lion in the Valley'Book summary:The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and their precocious (some might say rambunctious) eight-year-old son, Ramses. The long-denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor has finally been granted, and the much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid is now theirs for the exploring.
Before the young family exchanges the relative comfort of Cairo for the more rudimentary quarters near the excavation site, they engage a young Englishman, Donald Fraser, as a tutor and companion for Ramses, and Amelia takes a wayward young woman, Enid Debenham, under her protective wing.
But there is danger and deception in the wind that blows across the hot Egyptian sands. A brazen kidnapping attempt, a gruesome murder, and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and deathall serve to alert Amelia to the likely presence of her arch nemesis, the "Master Criminal," notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivate the man known as Sethos. The evil genius has a score to settle with the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice . . . and he's got her dead-on in his sights.
Replete with edge-of-the-seat suspense and scrupulous archaeological and historical detail, all delivered in Amelia Peabody's unique, wry voice, Lion in the Valley is a classic installment in Elizabeth Peters's beloved mystery-adventure series.
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Alan DurbandISBN 0812035712 (0-8120-3571-2)
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MacHiavelli's the Prince: Text and Commentaryby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0812005244 (0-8120-0524-4)
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The Member of the Weddingby Carson McCullersISBN 0811200930 (0-8112-0093-0)
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The Member of the Wedding: A Playby Carson McCullersISBN 0811216551 (0-8112-1655-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Member of the Wedding: A Play'Book summary:Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella The Member of the Wedding into a touching and poignant play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950, and has long since become a classic of the American theater.
With compassion, veracity and wit, in The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers depicts the intrinsically enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the American South. Julie Harris became a star playing the awkward, twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Adams, who falls deeply in love with her older brother and his fiance. Exhilarated by her naive conviction that being a member of their wedding means she will become what she calls the "we of me," Frankie is devastated when she learns she is not invited on the honeymoon. Bernice Sadie Brown, who has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, is a surrogate mother for Frankie. Portrayed on stage and in the film versions by the great Ethel Waters, Bernice is an epic character, fiercely loyal, down-to-earth, and centered by deep faith. [via]More editions of The Member of the Wedding: A Play:
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Alan DurbandISBN 0812035844 (0-8120-3584-4)
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The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles DickensISBN 0809597683 (0-8095-9768-3)
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Niccolo Machiavelli's the Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Gerald Lee RatliffISBN 0812035364 (0-8120-3536-4)
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Nightwoodby Djuna Barnes, Jeanette Winterson, T. S. EliotISBN 0811216713 (0-8112-1671-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightwood'Book summary:Nightwood is not only a classic of lesbian literature, but was also acknowledged by no less than T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Lesbian readers will admire the exquisite craftsmanship and Barnes' penetrating insights into obsessive passion. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood "while it was still running." That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the lesbian love of her life. [via]
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seasby Herman MelvilleISBN 0810101602 (0-8101-0160-2)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert Darwin, Morse PeckhamISBN 0812219546 (0-8122-1954-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:The theories propounded by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species have had a profound and revolutionary effect, not only on biology but also on philosophy, history, and theology. His concept of natural selection has created eruptive disputes among scientists and religious leaders of his time and ours. The phenomenal importance of his brilliant work is universally recognized, but the present volume marks the first scholarly attempt to compile a complete variorum edition of The Origin of Species, covering all of the extensive variants in the six texts published between 1859 and 1872.
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The Plucker: An Illustrated Novelby BromISBN 0810957922 (0-8109-5792-2)
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Prentice Alvinby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812502124 (0-8125-0212-4)
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Ramesses II: Greatest of the Pharaohsby Bernadette MenuISBN 0810928701 (0-8109-2870-1)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0812504798 (0-8125-0479-8)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0809594617 (0-8095-9461-7)
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This edition of Robinson Crusoe includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R. L. Fisher.
Caught in the howling turmoil of hurricane and tidal wave, a young gentleman merchant named Robinson Crusoe was flung onto the shore of a deserted tropical island. His ship--destroyed. His crew--dead. His location--unknown. The only human across the ocean--were savage cannibal tribes.
Crusoe was without food, without shelter, without supplies--and had never trained to live apart from the luxuries of civilization. But somehow, using only wreckage and his wit, Robison Crusoe would have to learn to survive. Without help. Without hope of rescue.
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Secret Agentby Joseph ConradISBN 0809594706 (0-8095-9470-6)
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Siddharthaby Hermann HesseISBN 081120068X (0-8112-0068-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gautama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahman, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Sons And Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0809593823 (0-8095-9382-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:"They're my houses, those two," said the mother-in-law. "And not clear either. It's as much as I can do to keep the mortgage interest paid." Gertrude sat white and silent. She was her father now. -- "Then we ought to be paying you rent," she said coldly. -- "Walter is paying me rent," replied the mother. -- "And what rent?" asked Gertrude. -- "Six and six a week," retorted the mother. It was more than the house was worth. Gertrude held her head erect, looked straight before her. -- "It is lucky to be you," said the elder woman, bitingly, "to have a husband as takes all the worry of the money, and leaves you a free hand." The young wife was silent. She said very little to her husband, but her manner had changed towards him. Something in her proud, honorable soul had crystallized out hard as rock. [via]
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Sophocles: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812216660 (0-8122-1666-0)
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Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogyby Sophocles, Gerald Lee RatliffISBN 0812034309 (0-8120-3430-9)
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Soul Catcher: A Journal to Help You Become Who You Really Areby Kathy Eldon, Amy Eldon, Michelle BarnesISBN 0811821943 (0-8118-2194-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soul Catcher: A Journal to Help You Become Who You Really Are'Book summary:Soul Catcher is a guided journal which will help you become who you really are. Through a series of questions, charts and guided artwork, you will be able to identify and work through what makes you feel worried, frightened, angry , sad or happy. It will guide you to access your dreams and wishes, and it will help you to find ways to break through barriers and overcome any blockages whihc stand in your way. It will assist you to hear the wisdom of your inner voice, and will support you as you define for yourself your own true purpose and live the life of your choice. [via]
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Still Angry Little Girlsby Lela Lee, Lee LelaISBN 0810949156 (0-8109-4915-6)
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Street of Five Moonsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0812512448 (0-8125-1244-8)
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Stuff on My Cat: The Bookby Mario GarzaISBN 0811855384 (0-8118-5538-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stuff on My Cat: The Book'Book summary:It began with a handful of digital photographs of office supplies, toys, and spare computer parts thoughtfully placed on Mario Garza's snoozing cat, Love. Over time, the objects became bigger: remote controls, shoes, empty pizza boxes. And then cat owners everywhere were sucked into the Internet phenomenon that is defined by a simple motto: stuff + cats = awesome. From Stuffonmycat.com (the amazingly popular website that redefines hilarious and that was named one of the coolest sites of the year by Yahoo! And GQ magazine) comes Stuff On My Cat: The Book. Culled from the thousands of outrageous photographs submitted by mischievous animal lovers, here are 200 of the most unbelievably entertaining images of cats with all manner of things on them: wigs, Easter eggs, dogs, cheeseburgers, cookware, gummi bears, action figures, tiaras, beer cans, pinecones, a statue of the Buddha, and much more. An introduction by the site's creator explains the Stuff on My Cat philosophy, and playful illustrations and graphics are sprinkled throughout. Just try to keep a straight face. [via]
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There Will Be Timeby Poul AndersonISBN 0812523083 (0-8125-2308-3)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Alan DurbandISBN 0812035739 (0-8120-3573-9)
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Troubleshooting the Castby Ed Jaworowski, Harry W. RobertsonISBN 0811729427 (0-8117-2942-7)
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Twelfth Nightby William Shakespeare, Alan DurbandISBN 0812036042 (0-8120-3604-2)
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1. Helpful background information that puts each play in its historical perspective.
2. Discussion questions that teachers can use to spark student class participation, and which students can use as springboards for their own themes and term papers.
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Typeeby Herman MelvilleISBN 0810101599 (0-8101-0159-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Typee'Book summary:Almost from the time of its publication in 1846, Melville's first book, based on his own travels in the South Seas, has been recognized as a classic in the literature of travel and adventure. Although initially rejected as too fantastic to be true, Typee was immensely popular and regarded in Melville's lifetime as his best work. It established his reputation as the literary discoverer of the South Seas and inspired the likes of Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson.[via]
Two common sailors jump ship and are held in benign captivity by Polynesian natives. Through the narrator's eyes we see a literate (if romanticized) portrait of the people and their culture presented in vivid, even scientific, detail. Melville's racy style and irreverence toward Christian missionaries caused a scandal, and critics denounced the narrator's suggestion that the native life might be superior to that of modern civilization. An adventure story above all, albeit one with a philosophical bent, Typee is a combination of elements that even early in Melville's career hinted at the towering ambition he would fulfill with Moby-Dick. -
Under Milk Wood, a Play for Voicesby Dylan ThomasISBN 0811202097 (0-8112-0209-7)
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Virgil's Aeneidby Virgil, Kathleen O'NeillISBN 0812034007 (0-8120-3400-7)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0809593130 (0-8095-9313-0)
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Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, W. Meitcke, W. MeitcheISBN 0812034260 (0-8120-3426-0)
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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Michael SpringISBN 0812034236 (0-8120-3423-6)
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Written Livesby Javier Marias, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0811216896 (0-8112-1689-6)
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