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Almanac of the Deadby Leslie SilkoISBN 0140173196 (0-14-017319-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almanac of the Dead'Book summary:In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Author readings. [via]
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The American Tradition in Literatureby Barbara Perkins, George B. PerkinsISBN 0070494231 (0-07-049423-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Tradition in Literature'Book summary:THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE has introduced nearly two million students to the historic sweep of American Literature. Now, in its eighth edition, this leading anthology once again presents the best collection published. Published in 3 volumes - I, II, and the Shorter Edition (a single volume) - they are all available in both hard and soft cover. This revision balances the major writers with new and newly appreciated voices. Literary merit, as identified by the most current criticism, remains the guiding principle of selection. The headnotes and bibliographies have been extensively revised to reflect recent scholarship, and the new selections that have been added represent more fully early American literatrue and the latter half of the twentieth century. Now in its fourth decade, George and Barbara Perkins continue to create the standard by which all other American literature anthologies are judged. [via]
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- The American Tradition in Literature: ISBN 0070493669 (0-07-049366-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - The American Tradition in Literature: ISBN 0070493685 (0-07-049368-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - The American Tradition in Literature/8th Shorter: ISBN 0070493707 (0-07-049370-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - The American Tradition in Literature: ISBN 0072491566 (0-07-249156-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - The American Tradition in Literature: ISBN 0075572087 (0-07-557208-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - The American Tradition in Literature: ISBN 0070493677 (0-07-049367-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College - The American Tradition in Literature: ISBN 0070494231 (0-07-049423-1)
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The American Tradition in Literatureby George B. PerkinsISBN 007049343X (0-07-049343-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The American Tradition in Literature: Brief Editionby Barbara Perkins, George B. PerkinsISBN 0070494207 (0-07-049420-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The American Tradition in Literature: Brief Editionby George B. PerkinsISBN 0070493413 (0-07-049341-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The American Tradition in Literature: Shorter Edition in One Volumeby Barbara Perkins, George B. PerkinsISBN 0073123730 (0-07-312373-0)
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Americanaby Don DelilloISBN 0140119485 (0-14-011948-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaretby Judy BlumeISBN 0130458562 (0-13-045856-2)
Hardcover, Bradbury Press
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0075542714 (0-07-554271-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Autobiography, and Other Writingsby Benjamin Franklin, Kenneth SilvermanISBN 0140390529 (0-14-039052-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography, and Other Writings'Book summary:OTHER WRITINGS INCLUDE: A RECEIPT TO MAKE A NEW ENGLAND FUNERAL ELEGY; ADVICE TO A FRIEND ON CHOOSING A MISTRESS; THE SPEECH OF MISS POLLY BAKER; HOW TO SECURE HOUSES, &C. FROM LIGHTNING; THE KITE EXPERIMENT; THE WAY TO WEALTH; AN EDICT BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA; THE MORALS OF CHESS (EXCERPT); THE ELYSIAN FIELDS; INFORMATION TO THOSE WHO WOULD REMOVE TO AMERICA (EXCERPT); AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY; A MISCELLANY OF FRANKLIN'S OPINIONS. [via]
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The Awakening And Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 0075542692 (0-07-554269-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening And Selected Stories'Book summary:The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are the themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar, " "unhealthily introspective, " and "morbid, " the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. This edition also includes selected stories from Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, and an introduction and notes by Nina Baym. [via]
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Big Fishby Daniel WallaceISBN 0140282777 (0-14-028277-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Fish'Book summary:In Big Fish, Daniel Wallace angles in search of a father and hooks instead a fictional debut as winning as any this year. From his son's standpoint, Edward Bloom leaves much to be desired. He was never around when William was growing up; he eludes serious questions with a string of tall tales and jokes. This is subject matter as old as the hills, but Wallace's take is nothing if not original. Desperate to know his father before he dies, William recreates his father's life as the stuff of legend itself. In chapters titled "In Which He Speaks to Animals," "How He Tamed the Giant," "His Immortality," and the like, Edward Bloom walks miles through a blizzard, charms the socks off a giant, even runs so fast that "he could arrive in a place before setting out to get there." In between these heroic episodes, Bloom dies not once but four times, working subtle variations on a single scene in which he counters his son's questions with stories--some of which are actually very witty, indeed. After all, he admits, "...if I shared my doubts with you, about God and love and life and death, that's all you'd have: a bunch of doubts. But now, see, you've got all these great jokes." The structure is a clever conceit, and the end product is both funny and wise. At the heart of both legends and death scenes live the same age-old questions: Who are you? What matters to you? Was I a good father? Was I a good son? In mapping the territory where myth meets everyday life, Wallace plunges straight through to fatherhood's archaic and mysterious heart. --Mary Park [via]
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Big Surby Jack KerouacISBN 0140168125 (0-14-016812-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Sur'Book summary:Kerouac's gritty, moving take on the destruction of his own myth, as the King of the Beats approaches middle age! Unmistakably autobiographical, Big Sur, Kerouac's ninth novel, was written as the 'King of the Beats' was approaching middle-age and reflects his struggle to come to terms with his own myth. The magnificent and moving story of Jack Duluoz, a man blessed by great talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction, Big Sur is at once Kerouac's toughest and his most humane work. [via]
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Billy Buddby Herman Melville, Harold BeaverISBN 0140430296 (0-14-043029-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd'Book summary:Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Tales such as Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Tartarus of Maids or I and My Chimney, show the timeless poetic power of Melville's writing as he consciously uses the disguise of allegory in various ways and to various ends. [via]
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Storiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 0140390537 (0-14-039053-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'Book summary:Stung by the difficult reception of Moby Dick, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sense of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor" is a classic confrontation between good and evil, and the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. The other stories also illuminate the way fictions are created and shared by society. [via]
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By the Shores of Silver Lakeby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400050 (0-06-440005-0)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'By the Shores of Silver Lake'Book summary:The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect for their new little house. Laura takes her first train ride as she, her sisters, and their mother come out to live with Pa on the shores of Silver Lake. After a lonely winter in the surveyors' house, Pa puts up the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the beautiful shores of Silver Lake. The Ingallses' covered-wagon travels are finally over. [via]
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The Custom of the Countryby Edith WhartonISBN 0140181903 (0-14-018190-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Custom of the Country'Book summary:Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel', but concluded that the book was 'brilliantly written', and 'should be read as a parable'. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion. Wharton was re-creating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War America, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics. [via]
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The Deep End of the Oceanby Jacquelyn MitchardISBN 0140286276 (0-14-028627-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deep End of the Ocean'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1996: The horror of losing a child is somehow made worse when the case goes unsolved for nearly a decade, reports Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard in this searing first novel. In it, 3-year-old Ben Cappadora is kidnapped from a hotel lobby where his mother is checking into her 15th high school reunion. His disappearance tears the family apart and invokes separate experiences of anguish, denial, and self-blame. Marital problems and delinquency in Ben's older brother (in charge of him the day of his kidnapping) ensue. Mitchard depicts the family's friction and torment--along with many gritty realities of family life--with the candor of a journalist and compassion of someone who has seemingly been there. International publishing and movie rights sold fast on this one: It's a blockbuster. [via]
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Demon Boxby Ken KeseyISBN 0140085300 (0-14-008530-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Demon Box'Book summary:In this collection of short stories, Ken Kesey challenges public and private demons with a wrestler's brave and deceptive embrace, making it clear that the energy of madness must live on.[via]More editions of Demon Box:
The Diaries of Adam and Eveby Mark TwainISBN 007065610X (0-07-065610-X)
Hardcover, American Heritage Press
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Dogeatersby Jessica HagedornISBN 014014904X (0-14-014904-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy R. Parker, Brendan GillISBN 0140150749 (0-14-015074-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dorothy Parker'Book summary:Before there was Fran Leibowitz, there was Dorothy Parker. Before there was practically anyone, there was Dorothy Parker. When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, she's winner and still champion after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American pop lit in the '20s and '30s; like Ginger Rogers, she did it all backwards. Parker's held up well--maybe the best of all of them.
This book is essential for any Parker fan, and an excellent way for new readers to make her acquaintance. It reprints her finest short stories and poems, some later articles, and all of her excellent "Constant Reader" book reviews from the Depression-era glory days of the New Yorker. The poetry, always light, has become brittle, sorry to say. But you've only to pick any story to be reminded that no middle-distance writer was better than Parker at her best. [via]
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Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374566 (0-14-037456-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hill'Book summary:Orphaned Rose Campbell is overwhelmed when she arrives at the "Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boy cousins. Life is certainly more exciting, but will she ever feel at home with this noisy family? [via]
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Farmer Boyby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400034 (0-06-440003-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farmer Boy'Book summary:While laura ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, almanzo wilder is living on a big farm in new york state. Here almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town. This is laura ingalls wilder's beloved story of how her husband almanzo grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where laura lived [via]
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The First Four Yearsby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 006440031X (0-06-440031-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Four Years'Book summary:Laura and Almonzo Wilder begin married life on their small prairie homestead with high hopes. The beautiful prairie world seems like a paradise. There are wildflowers in the spring, wild geese in autumn, pony rides, and warm and happy times together. But each year brings unexpected disasters as well - storms destroy the crops; there is sickness, fire, and always, always, unpaid debts. The first four years often prove heartbreaking for the Wilders. Still, they have each other, and their little daughter Rose, and a fierce determination to succeed. [via]
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Forty Storiesby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0140112456 (0-14-011245-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha TudorISBN 006440188X (0-06-440188-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:After losing her parents and being shipped from India to the Yorkshire Moors, Mary Lennox is terribly lonely. Living in her uncle's gloomy mansion, she has nobody to play with. But one day, she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that her uncle won't allow anyone to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed - and a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door. Slowly, she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined... [via]
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Galapagos: Key Environmentsby Roger PerryISBN 0080279961 (0-08-027996-1)
Hardcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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The Golden Bowlby Henry JamesISBN 0140432353 (0-14-043235-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ham on Ryeby Charles BukowskiISBN 006117758X (0-06-117758-X)
Softcover, Ecco Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ham on Rye'Book summary:Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, Ham on Rye, is the semi-autobiographical story of the early years of his alter ego Henry Chinaski. It is a finely written and honest account of the painful childhood of a boy marked out from his peers. Regularly beaten by his father, Chinaski is shown growing through his difficult and violent adolescence (struck with the worst case of acne his doctors have ever seen) through to the first jobs he can't and won't hold down. In this moving story of growing up Bukowski disciplines his muscular, concentrated writing and creates a novel that distils his poetry into the finest full-length piece of prose that he ever wrote. Bukowski is often good but in Ham on Rye he's great.
Sadly, best known as the alcoholic inspiration for the film Barfly (an experience he reflected on in his book Hollywood), it is as a poet, rather than a drunk, that Bukowski should be best remembered. His bitter, caustic, direct, humane, damaged poetry reflects a life dominated by poverty and booze. His poetry stretches over many, many volumes but Bukowski also wrote great novels: all of them have many faults but the first four books he wrote shine for similar reasons. Post Office and Factotum both dissect, quite brilliantly, the life of an angry, poor man forced to do mindless jobs, pushed around and considered mindless by the fools who force him to do them. Women, as Roddy Doyle points out in his short introduction, continues the themes but focuses on the numerous women who share his hero's bed and bottle. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, R. G. HampsonISBN 0140186522 (0-14-018652-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious trader Kurtz.[via]
@JungleFever Heading down to Africa on a boat. Too hot! I get the creeping sense this job isnt going to be as cushy as they made it sound.
The natives seem unhappy. Some are even violent! Why dont they appreciate how much weve done for them? Ungrateful welfare leeches, I say!
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140240179 (0-14-024017-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140431683 (0-14-043168-3)
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Henderson the Rain Kingby Saul BellowISBN 0140072691 (0-14-007269-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henderson the Rain King'Book summary:Bellow's glorious, spirited story of an eccentric American millionaire who finds a home of sorts in deepest Africa. [via]
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Homely Girl, a Lifeby Arthur MillerISBN 0140252797 (0-14-025279-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homely Girl, a Life'Book summary:In his long career, Arthur Miller has charted some of the most hidden aspects of the American character, and made us recognize ourselves. With Homely Girl, A Life, he turns his attention to a smaller, more intimate, canvas, but one that in its deceptive delicacy still encompasses a vast range of human fears, ambitions, and desires. Janicethe eponymous homely girlhas hated her face ever since she was a child and her mother held up Ivory Snow advertisements to her, saying, "Now that is beauty." Homely she is, but also fiercely herself. Still,it is not until she falls in love with a blind musician that she feels her full nature unfold in this exquisite portrait of a woman finding a language to describe herself.[via]Flanked by two stories also set in Manhattan, "Fame" and "Fitter's Night," Homely Girl, A Life pays homage to a city constantly reinventing itselfand to the classic Miller themes of work, honor, and identity.
"Chekhovian . . . deserves praising to the top of the highest skyscraper for its humanity, wit, depth" A.N. Wilson
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Icy Sparks: Library Editionby Gwyn Hyman RubioISBN 0140280146 (0-14-028014-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Icy Sparks: Library Edition'Book summary:The eponymous heroine of Gwyn Rubio's Icy Sparks is only 10 years old the first time it happens. The sudden itching, the pressure squeezing her skull, and the "little invisible rubber bands" attached to her eyelids are all symptoms of Tourette's syndrome. At this point, of course, Icy doesn't yet have a name for these unsettling impulses. But whenever they become too much to resist, she runs down to her grandparents' root cellar, and there she gives in, croaking, jerking, cursing, and popping her eyes. Nicknamed the "frog child" by her classmates, Icy soon becomes "a little girl who had to keep all of her compulsions inside." Only a brief confinement at the Bluegrass State Hospital persuades her that there are actually children more "different" than she.
As a first novel about growing up poor, orphaned, and prone to fits in a small Appalachian town, Icy Sparks tells a fascinating story. By the time the epilogue rolls around, Icy has prevailed over her disorder and become a therapist: "Children silent as stone sing for me. Children who cannot speak create music for me." For readers familiar with this particular brand of coming-of-age novel--affliction fiction?--Icy's triumph should come as no great surprise. That's one problem. Another is Rubio's tendency to lapse into overheated prose: this is a novel in which the characters would sooner yell, pout, whine, moan, or sass a sentence than simply say it. But the real drawback to Icy Sparks is that some of the characters--especially the bad ones--are drawn with very broad strokes indeed, and the moral principles tend to be equally elementary: embrace your difference, none of us is alone, and so on. When Icy gets saved at a tent revival, even Jesus takes on the accents of a self-help guru: "You must love yourself!" With insights like these, this is one Southern novel that's more Wally Lamb than Harper Lee. --Mary Park [via]
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Intruder in the Dustby William FaulknerISBN 0075536625 (0-07-553662-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140367144 (0-14-036714-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jo's Boys'Book summary:Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school. Sequel to "Little Men". [via]
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0140390243 (0-14-039024-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last of the Mohicans'Book summary:Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. As the savageries of war test these exiled men, they agree to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile Indian country - even if it means risking everything. An enduring American classic, "The Last of the Mohicans" is a fast-paced portrait of fierce individualism and courage, set against massacres, raids, battles and a doomed love affair. It is also the unforgettable story of the friendship between two men. [via]
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The Last Tycoonby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0140014950 (0-14-001495-0)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0140390502 (0-14-039050-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:This is Mark Twain's description of life on the Mississippi River, with observations and anecdotes about the culture and society along the river valley. It includes character sketches, historical facts, information and reminiscences of Twain's boyhood and experiences as a steam-boat pilot. Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, "Life on the Mississippi" is a memoir of the cub pilot's apprenticeship, a record of Twain's return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river's shores. [via]
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Little Houseby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400409 (0-06-440040-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400018 (0-06-440001-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little House in the Big Woods'Book summary:Although the Little House stories are traditionally seen as "girl" books, boys might be happily surprised if they take another peek at their sisters' shelves. Little House in the Big Woods--the first book of the series and Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's book--is full of the thrills, chills, and spills typically associated with "boy" books. Any boy or girl who has fantasized about running off to live in the woods will find ample information in these pages to manage a Wisconsin snowstorm, a panther attack, or a wild sled ride with a pig as an uninvited guest. Every chapter divulges fascinatingly intricate, yet easy-to-read, details about pioneer life in the Midwest in the late 1800s, from bear-meat curing to maple-tree sapping to homemade bullet making.
Wilder's autobiographical tales ring with truth and excitement. Readers will receive a perfectly painless history lesson, and in fact will clamor for more. Beloved illustrator Garth Williams spent years researching young Laura's pioneering family. His soft-line illustrations bring to life the full, simple days and nights in the family's log cabin. No one can read just one Little House book! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Little House on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400026 (0-06-440002-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Main Streetby Sinclair LewisISBN 0140189017 (0-14-018901-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Main Street'Book summary:Sinclair Lewis's barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God's Country and became a symbol of the cultural narrow-mindedness and smug complacency of small towns everywhere. At the center of the novel is Carol Kennicott, the wife of a town doctor, who dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community. The range of reactions to Main Street when it was published in 1920 was extraordinary, reflecting the ambivalence in the novel itself and Lewis's own mixed feelings about his hometwon of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the prototype for Gopher Prairie.[via]More editions of Main Street:
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Maine Woodsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0140170138 (0-14-017013-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maine Woods'Book summary:"What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." Henry David Thoreau[via]Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by moonlight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea and moose lips. Taking notes constantly, Thoreau was just as likely to turn his observant eye to the habits and languages of the Abnaki Indians or the arduous life of the logger as he was to the workings of nature. He acutely observed the rivers, lakes, mountains, wolves, moose, and stars in the dark sky. He also told of nights sitting by the campfire, and of meeting men who communicated with each other by writing on the trunks of trees. In The Maine Woods, Thoreau captured a wilder side of America and revealed his own adventurous spirit.
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The Master Butchers Singing Clubby Louise ErdrichISBN 0066209773 (0-06-620977-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master Butchers Singing Club'Book summary:Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club is a powerfully told story of love, death, redemption, and resurrection. After German soldier Fidelis Waldvogel returns home from World War I to marry his best friend's pregnant widow, he packs up his father's butcher knives and sets sail for America. He settles in Argus, North Dakota, where he sets up a meat shop with his wife Eva, who quickly befriends the struggling yet resourceful Delphine Watzka. Delphine, who runs a vaudeville show with her balancing partner Cyprian Lazarre, has returned home to Argus to care for her alcoholic father. While most of this emotionally rich novel focuses on the changing landscape of small-town life as seen through Delphine and Fidelis's eyes, Erdrich does a masterful job of illuminating hidden dramas through her secondary characters. Erdrich's portrayal of these various townsfolk, including members of the Master Butchers Singing Club, truly shows off her storytelling talent. Her ability to infuse each character with a distinct and multifaceted personality makes this novel an intimate and thought-provoking adventure. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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McTeagueby Frank NorrisISBN 0140187693 (0-14-018769-3)
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The Midwife's Apprenticeby Karen CushmanISBN 006440630X (0-06-440630-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Midwife's Apprentice'Book summary:Karen Cushman likes to write with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek, and her feisty female characters firmly planted in history. In The Midwife's Apprentice, which earned the 1996 Newbery Medal, this makes a winning combination for children and adult readers alike. Like her award-winning book Catherine, Called Birdy, the story takes place in medieval England. This time our protagonist is Alyce, who rises from the dung heap (literally) of homelessness and namelessness to find a station in life--apprentice to the crotchety, snaggletoothed midwife Jane Sharp. On Alyce's first solo outing as a midwife, she fails to deliver. Instead of facing her ignorance, Alyce chooses to run from failure--never a good choice. Disappointingly, Cushman does not offer any hardships or internal wrestling to warrant Alyce's final epiphanies, and one of the book's climactic insights is when Alyce discovers that lo and behold she is actually pretty! Still, Cushman redeems her writing, as always, with historical accuracy, saucy dialogue, fast-paced action, and plucky, original characters that older readers will eagerly devour. (Ages 12 and older) --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Monkey Wrench Gangby Edward AbbeyISBN 0072434244 (0-07-243424-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monkey Wrench Gang'Book summary:Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief. The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation ("Hell of a place to lose a cow," Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. "Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"). Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. It's comic, yes, and required reading for anyone who has come to love the desert. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Of Mice and Men/Cannery Rowby John SteinbeckISBN 014004891X (0-14-004891-X)
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An Old-fashioned Girlby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374493 (0-14-037449-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Old-fashioned Girl'Book summary:Polly never questioned the way she was until she went to visit her city cousins. Fanny looks too glamorous to be Polly's age and wouldn't be caught dead sledding down a hill. Only Tom, Fanny's brother, supports Polly as she tries to see where she fits in. By the author of "Little Women". [via]
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On the Banks of Plum Creekby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400042 (0-06-440004-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Banks of Plum Creek'Book summary:The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.
And so continues Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.
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Patience and Sarahby Isabel MillerISBN 0070420351 (0-07-042035-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Patience and Sarah'Book summary:Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another. First self-published in 1969 in an edition of 1,000 copies, it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award. Patience & Sarah is a historical romance that was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the late 1960s and early 1970; it celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today. This edition features an appendix of supplementary materials, as well as an introduction by Emma Donoghue, whose numerous books include Stirfry, Hood, and Life Mask, which was shortlisted for a 2005 Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award. [via]
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The Portable Beat Readerby Ann ChartersISBN 0140151028 (0-14-015102-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Beat Reader'Book summary:The Portable Beat Reader is an excellent and thorough study of the Beat Generation, compiled and edited by Ann Charters, biographer of Jack Kerouac and one of our most notable experts on Beat literature and ideas. This lively work of scholarship goes deeply into the history of the Beat movement, investigating events such as the discovery (by writer William Burroughs) of the word beat to describe this literary generation. The reader includes essays on all the major prose and poetry writers, such as Allen Ginsberg, and offers rare insight into the literary-historical context of the movement. [via]
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0075536374 (0-07-553637-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. [via]
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark Twain, Malcolm BradburyISBN 0140430407 (0-14-043040-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'Nhead Wilson'Book summary:Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions. The indulged Tom (now heir to a fortune rightfully that of Chambers) goes to Yale, where he learns how to drink and gamble, while Chambers looks set to remain a subservient drudge. But then a strange sequence of events begins - one in which the much-derided lawyer, 'Pudd'nhead' Wilson, has a key part to play - and changes everything. Darkly ironic, blending farce and tragedy, "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a complex and fascinating depiction of human nature under slavery. [via]
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0140367101 (0-14-036710-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'Book summary:Stephen Crane's classic work [via]
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Softcover, Penguin USA - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0140390219 (0-14-039021-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books - Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories: ISBN 0140390812 (0-14-039081-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0140367101 (0-14-036710-1)
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The Reefby Edith WhartonISBN 0140187316 (0-14-018731-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reef'Book summary:"I put most of myself into that opus, " Edith Wharton said of "The Reef, " possibly her most autobiographical novel. Published in 1912, it was, Bernard Berenson told Henry Adams, "better than any previous work excepting "Ethan Frome." [via]
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Roughing Itby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne ClemensISBN 0140390103 (0-14-039010-3)
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Sailor Songby Ken KeseyISBN 0140139974 (0-14-013997-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sailor Song'Book summary:This epic tale of the north is a vibrant moral fable for our time. Set in the near future in the fishing village of Kuinak, Alaska, a remnant outpost of the American frontier not yet completely overcome by environmental havoc and mad-dog development, Sailor Song is a wild, rollicking novel, a dark and cosmic romp. The town and its denizenscolorful refugees from the Lower Forty-Eight and DEAPs (Descendants of Early Aboriginal Peoples)are seduced and besieged by a Hollywood crew, come to film the classic children's book The Sea Lion. The ensuing turf war escalates into a struggle for the soul of the town as the novel spins and swirls toward a harrowing climax. Writing with a spectacular range of language and style, Kesey has given us a unique and powerful novel about America.[via]More editions of Sailor Song:
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 0140186794 (0-14-018679-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer'Book summary:[via]A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires Edith Wharton called Summer her "hot Ethan." In their rural settings and their poor, uneducated protagonists, Summer (1916) and Ethan Frome represent a sharp departure from Wharton's familiar depictions of the urban upper class. Charity Royall lives unhappily with her hard-drinking adoptive father in an isolated village, until a visiting architect awakens her sexual passion and the hope for escape. Exploring Charity's relation to her father and her lover, Wharton delves into dark cultural territory: repressed sexuality, small-town prejudice, and, in subtle hints, incest.
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Sweet Thursdayby John SteinbeckISBN 0140187502 (0-14-018750-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweet Thursday'Book summary:In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Rowthe weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tearsfrom Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter. [via]
To a God Unknownby John Steinbeck, Robert DemottISBN 0140187510 (0-14-018751-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To a God Unknown'Book summary:While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity and the farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, "To A God Unknown" is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and to understand the ways of God. [via]
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Tortilla Flatby John SteinbeckISBN 0140042407 (0-14-004240-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tortilla Flat'Book summary:Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America?s 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 readers?and to the many who revisit them again and again."[via] -
The Wayward Busby John SteinbeckISBN 0140187529 (0-14-018752-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wayward Bus'Book summary:This book is a replica of the original from the collections of The New York Public Library; it was produced from digital images created by The New York Public Library and its partners as part of their preservation efforts. To enhance your reading pleasure, the aging and scanning artifacts have been removed using patented page cleaning technology. We hope you enjoy the result. [via]
What Maisie Knewby Henry James, Paul TherouxISBN 0140432485 (0-14-043248-5)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry JamesISBN 0140432639 (0-14-043263-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, David McKeeISBN 0140366938 (0-14-036693-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz, Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion, who accompany her to the Emerald City to look for a wizard who can help Dorothy return home to Kansas. [via]
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