books tagged “american lit” (American lit)

books tagged “american lit”

›
› Find signed collectible books by ''

English

via
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy

ISBN 0792715756 (0-7927-1575-6)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Pretty Horses'
Book summary:
Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age. [via]
More editions of All the Pretty Horses:
- All the Pretty Horses: ISBN 0792715764 (0-7927-1576-4)
  Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
- All the Pretty Horses: ISBN 0792715756 (0-7927-1575-6)
  Softcover, Chivers North Amer
via
Black Boy
by Richard Wright

ISBN 0971075670 (0-9710756-7-0)
Hardcover, Everbind Anthologies

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Boy'
More editions of Black Boy:
- Black Boy: ISBN 0971075670 (0-9710756-7-0)
  Hardcover, Everbind Anthologies
via
Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth
by Richard Wright

ISBN 0808510525 (0-8085-1052-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth'
Book summary:
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot.
Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictmenta poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
[via]
More editions of Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth:
- Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth: ISBN 0808510525 (0-8085-1052-5)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy

ISBN 0844667935 (0-8446-6793-5)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Meridian'
More editions of Blood Meridian:
- Blood Meridian: ISBN 0844667935 (0-8446-6793-5)
  Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
via
Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy

ISBN 0880010924 (0-88001-092-4)
Softcover, Ecco Press

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West'
Book summary:
"The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence. [via]
More editions of Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West:
- Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West: ISBN 0880010924 (0-88001-092-4)
  Softcover, Ecco Press
via
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Stories
by Truman Capote

ISBN 0848804465 (0-8488-0446-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Stories'
Book summary:
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.

This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory, which the Saturday Review called one of the most moving stories in our language. It is a tale of two innocentsa small boy and the old woman who is his best friendwhose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.
[via]
More editions of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Stories:
- Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Stories: ISBN 0848804465 (0-8488-0446-5)
  Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
via
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London, Alyssa Harad, Cynthia Brantley Johnson

ISBN 1416500197 (1-4165-0019-7)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'
Book summary:
"The Call of the Wild" is considered to be one Jack London's greatest novels. During the Yukon Gold Rush of the late 19th century London traveled there to strike it rich. While he didn't find any gold he came away with the experiences that would inspire some of his greatest writing. "The Call of the Wild", one of the greatest examples of this inspiration, is an exciting tale of adventure set in the great frozen north of the Yukon wilderness. [via]
More editions of The Call of the Wild:
via
The Call Of The Wild
by Oliver Ho, Lucy Corvino

ISBN 140271274X (1-4027-1274-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call Of The Wild'
Book summary:
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts . The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price. Here is the ultimate dog story, one filled with emotion, adventure, and excitement. During the Gold Rush, Buck is snatched away from his peaceful home and brought to the harsh and bitter Yukon to become a sled dog. Will he adapt, and learn to trust men? Or will his newly awakened primitive instincts lead him to search for the freedom he has never known? [via]
More editions of The Call Of The Wild:
- The Call Of The Wild: ISBN 140271274X (1-4027-1274-X)
  Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
Child of God
by Cormac McCarthy

ISBN 0844667501 (0-8446-6750-1)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Child of God'
More editions of Child of God:
via
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier

ISBN 1405835672 (1-4058-3567-2)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Mountain'
Book summary:
Winner of the 1997 National Book Award

A New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year

Charles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land, a place where savagery coexists with splendour and human beings contend with the inhuman solitude of the wilderness. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving. [via]
More editions of Cold Mountain:
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

ISBN 0816141428 (0-8161-4142-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color Purple'
More editions of The Color Purple:
- The Color Purple: ISBN 0816141428 (0-8161-4142-8)
  Softcover, Thorndike Pr
via
Early Novels and Stories
by Willa Cather, Sharon O Brien

ISBN 0940450399 (0-940450-39-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Novels and Stories'
Book summary:
"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The vast Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow and the sky is huge and open, mirrors the uniquely American ethic of her characters: their heroic aspirations and stoicism, their passion for creativity, their rebelliousness of spirit. This volume, the first in The Library of America's authoritative three-volume collected Cather, includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," her first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," and "One of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize. [via]
More editions of Early Novels and Stories:
- Early Novels and Stories: ISBN 0940450399 (0-940450-39-9)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791036723 (0-7910-3672-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin'
More editions of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin:
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: ISBN 0791036723 (0-7910-3672-3)
  Hardcover, Facts on File
via
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story
by Dave Eggers

ISBN 0684863472 (0-684-86347-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story'
Book summary:
Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him. What to make of a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? For starters, there's a good bit of staggering genius before you even get to the true story, including a preface, a list of "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book," and a 20-page acknowledgements section complete with special mail-in offer, flow chart of the book's themes, and a lovely pen-and-ink drawing of a stapler (helpfully labeled "Here is a drawing of a stapler:").
But on to the true story. At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers. In the ensuing sibling division of labor, Dave is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8-year-old brother, Christopher. The two live together in semi-squalor, decaying food and sports equipment scattered about, while Eggers worries obsessively about child-welfare authorities, molesting babysitters, and his own health. His child-rearing strategy swings between making his brother's upbringing manically fun and performing bizarre developmental experiments on him. (Case in point: his idea of suitable bedtime reading is John Hersey's Hiroshima.)
The book is also, perhaps less successfully, about being young and hip and out to conquer the world (in an ironic, media-savvy, Gen-X way, naturally). In the early '90s, Eggers was one of the founders of the very funny Might Magazine, and he spends a fair amount of time here on Might, the hipster culture of San Francisco's South Park, and his own efforts to get on to MTV's Real World. This sort of thing doesn't age very well--but then, Eggers knows that. There's no criticism you can come up with that he hasn't put into A.H.W.O.S.G. already. "The book thereafter is kind of uneven," he tells us regarding the contents after page 109, and while that's true, it's still uneven in a way that is funny and heartfelt and interesting.
All this self-consciousness could have become unbearably arch. It's a testament to Eggers's skill as a writer--and to the heartbreaking particulars of his story--that it doesn't. Currently the editor of the footnote-and-marginalia-intensive journal McSweeney's (the last issue featured an entire story by David Foster Wallace printed tinily on its spine), Eggers comes from the most media-saturated generation in history--so much so that he can't feel an emotion without the sense that it's already been felt for him. What may seem like postmodern noodling is really just Eggers writing about pain in the only honest way available to him. Oddly enough, the effect is one of complete sincerity, and--especially in its concluding pages--this memoir as metafiction is affecting beyond all rational explanation. --Mary Park [via]
More editions of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story:
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story: ISBN 0684863472 (0-684-86347-2)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
via
House of Sand and Fog
by Dubus, Andre, III

ISBN 1400077354 (1-4000-7735-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Sand and Fog'
Book summary:
Andre Dubus III wastes no time in capturing the dark side of the immigrant experience in America at the end of the 20th century. House of Sand and Fog opens with a highway crew composed of several nationalities picking up litter on a hot California summer day. Massoud Amir Behrani, a former colonel in the Iranian military under the Shah, reflects on his job-search efforts since arriving in the U.S. four years before: "I have spent hundreds of dollars copying my credentials; I have worn my French suits and my Italian shoes to hand-deliver my qualifications; I have waited and then called back after the correct waiting time; but there is nothing." The father of two, Behrani has spent most of the money he brought with him from Iran on an apartment and furnishings that are too expensive, desperately trying to keep up appearances in order to enhance his daughter's chances of making a good marriage. Now the daughter is married, and on impulse he sinks his remaining funds into a house he buys at auction, thus unwittingly putting himself and his family on a trajectory to disaster. The house, it seems, once belonged to Kathy Nicolo, a self-destructive alcoholic who wants it back. What starts out as a legal tussle soon escalates into a personal confrontation--with dire results.
Dubus tells his tragic tale from the viewpoints of the two main adversaries, Behrani and Kathy. To both of them, the house represents something more than just a place to live. For the colonel, it is a foot in the door of the American dream; for Kathy, a reminder of a kinder, gentler past. In prose that is simple yet evocative, House of Sand and Fog builds to its inevitable denouement, one that is painfully dark but unfailingly honest. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of House of Sand and Fog:
- House of Sand and Fog: ISBN 1400077354 (1-4000-7735-4)
  Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
via
Howl, and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg

ISBN 0872860175 (0-87286-017-5)
Softcover, City Lights Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Howl, and Other Poems'
Book summary:
The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social taboos that copies were impounded as obscene, and the publisher, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was arrested. The court case that followed found for Ginsberg and his publisher, and the publicity made both the poet and the book famous. Ginsberg went on from this beginning to become a cultural icon of sixties radicalism. This works seminal place in the culture is indicated in Czeslaw Milosz's poetic tribute to Ginsberg: "Your blasphemous howl still resounds in a neon desert where the human tribe wanders, sentenced to unreality". [via]
More editions of Howl, and Other Poems:
- Howl, and Other Poems: ISBN 0872863107 (0-87286-310-7)
  Hardcover, City Lights Books
- Howl, and Other Poems: ISBN 0872860175 (0-87286-017-5)
  Softcover, City Lights Books
via
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou

ISBN 0808510576 (0-8085-1057-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Book summary:
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
More editions of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: ISBN 0808510576 (0-8085-1057-6)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
via
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Blooms Guides)
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791077683 (0-7910-7768-3)
Softcover, Facts on File

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Blooms Guides)'
More editions of I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Blooms Guides):
- I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Blooms Guides): ISBN 0791077683 (0-7910-7768-3)
  Softcover, Facts on File
via
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
by Truman Capote

ISBN 0785777636 (0-7857-7763-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences'
Book summary:
"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. [via]
More editions of In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences:
- In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences: ISBN 0785777636 (0-7857-7763-6)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
Long Valley
by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0783891644 (0-7838-9164-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Valley'
More editions of Long Valley:
- Long Valley: ISBN 0783891644 (0-7838-9164-4)
  Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
via
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791036669 (0-7910-3666-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Book summary:
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings accomplishes a controlled poignance in representing a portrait of the young artist as a black woman. Her novel is the focus of this edition of Bloom's Notes. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
More editions of Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:
- Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: ISBN 0791036669 (0-7910-3666-9)
  Hardcover, Facts on File
The Member of the Wedding
by Carson McCullers

ISBN 0877207569 (0-87720-756-9)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Member of the Wedding'
Book summary:
Twelve-year-old Frankie Adams, longing at once for escape and belonging, takes her role as "member of the wedding" to mean that when her older brother marries she will join the happy couple in their new life together. But Frankie is unlucky in love; her mother is dead, and Frankie narrowly escapes being raped by a drunken soldier during a farewell tour of the town. Worst of all, "member of the wedding" doesn't mean what she thinks. A gorgeous, brief coming-of-age novel. [via]
More editions of The Member of the Wedding:
- The Member of the Wedding: ISBN 0811200930 (0-8112-0093-0)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- The Member of the Wedding: ISBN 0877207569 (0-87720-756-9)
  Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
The Member of the Wedding
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791081729 (0-7910-8172-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Member of the Wedding'
More editions of The Member of the Wedding:
- The Member of the Wedding: ISBN 0791081729 (0-7910-8172-9)
  Hardcover, Facts on File
via
The Member of the Wedding: A Play
by Carson McCullers

ISBN 0811216551 (0-8112-1655-1)
Softcover, New Directions

Find This Book

› 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:
- The Member of the Wedding: A Play: ISBN 0811216551 (0-8112-1655-1)
  Softcover, New Directions
via
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden

ISBN 1400096898 (1-4000-9689-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Geisha'
Book summary:
The first thing you notice about the audio version of Memoirs of a Geisha is that Arthur Golden's 428-page novel has been reduced to a scant two cassettes. But dismay quickly gives way to mounting pleasure as Elaina Erika Davis (Contact, As the World Turns) begins her delicate rendering of geisha culture in the years before World War II. Davis reads the abbreviated story of Sayuri with an authentic-sounding Japanese accent--one mixed with a magical combination of Asian reserve and theatrical energy. As Sayuri ages from a 9-year-old peasant girl to a popular geisha in her late 20s, Davis directs her voice gently away from curious youth to a tone that reflects Sayuri's uphill life.
From start to finish, the listener is absorbed in the elegant spirit of Davis's performance, eager to hear the next chapter of Sayuri's transformation into one of the most famous geishas of the century. How unfortunate, then, to learn that book readers not only get the basic story, but a fascinating look at the intricate rules and rituals of geisha culture. Here, for example, is one of the many revelations omitted from the cassette: "Japanese men, as a rule, feel about a woman's neck and throat the same way that men in the West might feel about a woman's legs.... In fact, a geisha leaves a tiny margin of skin bare all around the hairline, causing her makeup to look even more artificial.... When a man sits beside her, he becomes that much more aware of the bare skin beneath."
We're also denied several subplots--the aborted friendship between Sayuri and a geisha named Pumpkin, for example, or much of the story involving the man Sayuri is secretly in love with. But what remains is as precious as a traditional Japanese kimono--at once artistic, suggestive, and moving. --Ann Senechal [via]
More editions of Memoirs of a Geisha:
Moo
by Jane Smiley

ISBN 0804117683 (0-8041-1768-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Moo'
More editions of Moo:
- Moo: ISBN 0804117683 (0-8041-1768-3)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
via
The Moon Is Down
by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0822215993 (0-8222-1599-3)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moon Is Down'
Book summary:
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americas greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersand to the many who revisit them again and again. [via]
More editions of The Moon Is Down:
- The Moon Is Down: ISBN 0822215993 (0-8222-1599-3)
  Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
via
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 0684833638 (0-684-83363-8)
Hardcover, Scribner

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Moveable Feast'
Book summary:
In the preface to A Moveable Feast, Hemingway remarks casually that "if the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction"--and, indeed, fact or fiction, it doesn't matter, for his slim memoir of Paris in the 1920s is as enchanting as anything made up and has become the stuff of legend. Paris in the '20s! Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived happily on $5 a day and still had money for drinks at the Closerie des Lilas, skiing in the Alps, and fishing trips to Spain. On every corner and at every café table, there were the most extraordinary people living wonderful lives and telling fantastic stories. Gertrude Stein invited Hemingway to come every afternoon and sip "fragrant, colorless alcohols" and chat admit her great pictures. He taught Ezra Pound how to box, gossiped with James Joyce, caroused with the fatally insecure Scott Fitzgerald (the acid portraits of him and his wife, Zelda, are notorious). Meanwhile, Hemingway invented a new way of writing based on this simple premise: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."
Hemingway beautifully captures the fragile magic of a special time and place, and he manages to be nostalgic without hitting any false notes of sentimentality. "This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy," he concludes. Originally published in 1964, three years after his suicide, A Moveable Feast was the first of his posthumous books and remains the best. --David Laskin [via]
More editions of A Moveable Feast:
- A Moveable Feast: ISBN 0684833638 (0-684-83363-8)
  Hardcover, Scribner
via
Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

ISBN 0802140181 (0-8021-4018-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Lunch'
Book summary:
"He was," as Salon's Gary Kamiya notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's."
Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroine addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.
Burroughs's literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself. [via]
More editions of Naked Lunch:
via
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather, Charles W. Mignon, Susan J. Rosowski, Kathleen A. Danker

ISBN 0803264372 (0-8032-6437-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'O Pioneers!'
Book summary:
Willa Cather said that O Pioneers! was her first authentic novel, the first time I walked off on my own feeteverything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom I admired. Cathers novel of life on the Nebraska frontier established her reputation as a writer of great note and marked a significant turning point in her artistic development. No longer would she let literary convention guide the form of her writing; the materials themselves would dictate the structure.
The paperback edition contains all the text and scholarly apparatus found in the original Willa Cather Scholarly Edition. Edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association, this volume presents the full range of biographical, historical, and textual information on the novel.
[via]
More editions of O Pioneers!:
via
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth

ISBN 1400079497 (1-4000-7949-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plot Against America'
Book summary:
In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America-and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother. [via]
More editions of The Plot Against America:
- The Plot Against America: ISBN 1400079497 (1-4000-7949-7)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
The Professor's House
by Willa Cather

ISBN 0766198200 (0-7661-9820-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor's House'
Book summary:
The scholarly edition of The Professor's House incorporates into its textual analysis findings from a recently discovered and significantly reworked draft of the novel. Willa Cather's perennial claims that there were no extant drafts make this discovery especially important to Cather scholars.
Written in 1925, when she was fifty-two years old, The Professor's House was Cather's seventh novel. Cather explained that in this novel she had attempted two structural experiments. The first experiment she took from the practice of early French and Spanish novelists of inserting a "nouvelle into the roman," hence the first-person "Tom Outland's Story" wedged between the other two parts of the novel. Second, she compared the novel's structure to a sonata form in music, with the center section in significant contrast to the surrounding sections
Behind the understated prose relating the story of Professor Godfrey St. Peter, who, despite his success, experiences at midcareer a profound disappointment with life, is the fierce account of how he decides to continue living despite those disappointments. Tom Outland's thrilling tale of a long-lost civilization is both an ironic contrast to the professor's staid outer life and a mirror of the imaginative interior life he experiences in his attic study.
[via]
More editions of The Professor's House:
- The Professor's House: ISBN 0803214286 (0-8032-1428-6)
  Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
- The Professor's House: ISBN 0766198200 (0-7661-9820-0)
  Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
via
Readings on the Red Pony
by John Steinbeck, Clarice Swisher

ISBN 0737701927 (0-7377-0192-7)
Softcover, Greenhaven Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Readings on the Red Pony'
More editions of Readings on the Red Pony:
- Readings on the Red Pony: ISBN 0737701927 (0-7377-0192-7)
  Softcover, Greenhaven Pr
The Red Pony
by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0816158991 (0-8161-5899-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Pony'
More editions of The Red Pony:
- The Red Pony: ISBN 0816158991 (0-8161-5899-1)
  Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
via
Separate Peace
by John Knowles

ISBN 0743253973 (0-7432-5397-3)
Softcover, Scribner

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Separate Peace'
Book summary:
Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowless crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic. [via]
More editions of Separate Peace:
via
Song Of Solomon
by Toni Morrison

ISBN 140003342X (1-4000-3342-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Song Of Solomon'
Book summary:
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. [via]
More editions of Song Of Solomon:
- Song Of Solomon: ISBN 140003342X (1-4000-3342-X)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
The Song of the Lark
by Willa Cather

ISBN 1406794090 (1-4067-9409-0)
Softcover, Read Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of the Lark'
Book summary:
[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]

In this semiautobiographical portrait of a young artist in the making, Willa Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self.

Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, has dreams and gifts that her humble hometown will not satisfy. With the support of a few allies who recognize her rare qualities, she follows her ambitions to the big city, determined to be an opera diva. As she moves through a series of music teachers in Chicago, Thea finds that the attitudes and standards of those around her rarely match her own. It is only when she reconnects with pure nature in a brilliant Arizona desert canyon that Thea rediscovers the sensuous, mystical openness that is the source of her art. Realizing she must protect this experience at all costs, she resolves to shed all relationships that don't serve her higher purpose. [via]
More editions of The Song of the Lark:
via
Stowe:Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kathryn K. Sklar

ISBN 0940450011 (0-940450-01-1)
Hardcover, Library of America, The

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Stowe:Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks'
Book summary:
Described by Henry James as "much less a book than a state of vision," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is probably the most influential work of fiction in American history. Stowe's moving Christian epic turned millions of Americans against slavery, bringing the "peculiar institution" immeasurably closer to its fiery destruction. In "The Minister's Wooing" and "Oldtown Folks," Stowe examines the interplay of religion, domesticity, and women's roles and choices in the shaping of American culture. [via]
More editions of Stowe:Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks:
- Stowe:Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks: ISBN 0940450011 (0-940450-01-1)
  Hardcover, Library of America, The
via
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller

ISBN 0811216020 (0-8112-1602-0)
Softcover, New Directions

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
Book summary:
Starring Rosemary Harris as the vulnerable Blanche DuBois, this dazzling drama of love, lust, and unbridled passion set against the steamy backdrop of New Orleans is an unrivaled classic of modern American theatre. This recording features the cast of the smash revival in 1973 at Lincoln Center. [via]
More editions of A Streetcar Named Desire:
via
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien

ISBN 0767902890 (0-7679-0289-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Things They Carried'
Book summary:
"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of The Things They Carried:
- The Things They Carried: ISBN 0833574868 (0-8335-7486-8)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
- The Things They Carried: ISBN 0767902890 (0-7679-0289-0)
  Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
via
Three Lives
by Gertrude Stein

ISBN 1406510106 (1-4065-1010-6)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'
Book summary:
The first published work of fiction by legendary author and poet Gertrude Stein, Three Lives is a collection of two short stories and a novella focusing on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the-century America.
Each impoverished woman must labor as a domestic worker to survive, and all three protagonists have their own tales of hardship. "The Good Anna" tells the story of a young German servant who must decide between loyalty to her employer and love. In "The Gentle Lena," another German servant girl marries the wrong man, and finds herself trapped as a wife and mother. And the introspective "Melanctha" examines the tragic life of a mulatto woman and those she loved.
Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enriched for the contemporary reader. This edition of Three Lives has been prepared by Brenda Wineapple, professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College. It includes her introduction, a selection of critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading, as well as a unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs. [via]
More editions of Three Lives:
via
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791081710 (0-7910-8171-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried'
Book summary:
"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried:
- Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: ISBN 0791081710 (0-7910-8171-0)
  Hardcover, Facts on File
via
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Christopher Paul Curtis

ISBN 068985126X (0-689-85126-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'
Book summary:
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Harriet Beecher Stowe's scathing indictment of slavery in the Old South, a novel that has become a landmark of American literature. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: ? A concise introduction that gives readers important background information ? A chronology of the author's life and work ? A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context ? An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations ? Detailed explanatory notes ? Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work ? Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction ? A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON [via]
More editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
via
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly
by Harriet Beecher Stowe

ISBN 0895773678 (0-89577-367-8)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly'
Book summary:
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an American classic written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth-century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. An overtly moralistic work of unabashed propaganda, it is an attempt to make whites North and South see slaves as mothers, fathers, and children as human beings. Her basic question remains penetrating even today: Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? Uncle Tom's Cabin is an American classic that every American should read. [via]
More editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly:
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly: ISBN 0895773678 (0-89577-367-8)
  Hardcover, Reader's Digest

Spanish

via
El Museo Castillo Serralles
by Neysa Rodriguez Deynes

ISBN 0965005909 (0-9650059-0-9)
Hardcover, Patronato del Castillo Serralles

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'El Museo Castillo Serralles'
Book summary:
Sea-Wolf, The, by London, Jack [via]
More editions of El Museo Castillo Serralles:
- El Museo Castillo Serralles: ISBN 0965005909 (0-9650059-0-9)
  Hardcover, Patronato del Castillo Serralles

Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 NEXT