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Adios Munecaby Raymond ChandlerISBN 8420672335 (84-206-7233-5)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adios Muneca'Book summary:Considerada por algunos críticos como la mejor novela de Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), la indagación en la corrupción que supone ADIÓS, MUÑECA (1940) supuso un paso más para el autor en su personal interpretación de las convenciones del género negro. Si en «El sueño eterno» (BA 0700) era un caso de chantaje el que servía de urdimbre para la acción de Philip Marlowe, en «Adiós, muñeca» será la búsqueda que emprende, tras salir de la cárcel, de su «pequeña Velma» el singular gigante Moose Malloy («Incluso en Central Avenue, que no es la calle más discreta del mundo en materia de vestimenta, pasaba tan inadvertido como una tarántula en un trozo de bizcocho») la que desencadene un siniestro recorrido que desenmascara los resortes del poder en una ciudad en la que «las leyes se hacen para los que pagan». [via]
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Against the Dayby Thomas PychonISBN 159420120X (1-59420-120-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Day'Book summary:Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.[via]With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.
-Thomas Pynchon
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Aloftby Chang-Rae LeeISBN 1594480702 (1-59448-070-2)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aloft'Book summary:Chang-Rae Lee, named by The New Yorker as one of its 20 writers for the 21st Century, has confirmed his place in that company with Aloft, a masterful treatment of a man coming to terms with his own disaffection. In two previous novels, Native Speaker and A Gesture Life, Lee, a Korean-American, writes of lives being not what they seem: in the first, the protagonist is an undercover agent; in the second, the two halves of Franklin Hata's life never quite come together. Both novels won numerous awards, including Best First Novel, the Hemingway PEN Award, the American Book Award and the Asian-American Literary Award, among others. In Aloft, Lee revisits alienation, a fractured family, mixed heritage and the quest for identity.
Jerry Battle, 59-year-old widower and father of two, retired from the family business--the unmistakably earthbound Battle Brothers Brick and Mortar--buys a small airplane because "From up here, a half mile above the Earth, everything looks perfect to me." All is not well below. Jerry knows it, saying
...the recurring fantasy of my life... is one of perfect continuous travel, this unending hop from one point to another, the pleasures found not in the singular marvels of any destination but in the constancy of serial arrivals and departures, and the comforting companion knowledge that youll never quite get intimate enough for any trouble to start brewing.
His view from aloft saves him from the gritty reality of the detritus of life--and from life itself.
This high-flyer must come to earth, however, when he finds that his daughter is newly pregnant, diagnosed with cancer, and refusing treatment; his son, who is running the company, has piled up enough debt that bankruptcy is imminent; and his father has gone missing from his assisted living facility. Jerry can no longer say, with impunity, "Jerry Battle hereby declines the Real." Lee takes us on great side trips into the pleasures of food and recreational sex; his wife Daisy's death; his longtime lover Rita's almost endless patience, weaving long, Miltonic sentences that start in one place and end up miles away--flights of fancy--trailing clouds of insight and poignancy. With Aloft Lee just keeps getting better. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Henry Adams to Dorothy Parterby Library of AmericaISBN 1883011779 (1-883011-77-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Anthology of American Literatureby Frederick C. Crews, George McMichaelISBN 0023796219 (0-02-379621-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Asfixia / Chokeby Chuck PalahniukISBN 8497933486 (84-9793-348-6)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Behind a Maskby Louisa May Alcott, Doris May LessingISBN 1843910861 (1-84391-086-1)
Softcover, Hesperus Pr
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The Black Cat and Other Storiesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 3895080918 (3-89508-091-8)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft
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Chandler - Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Windowby Raymond Chandler, Frank MacShaneISBN 1883011078 (1-883011-07-8)
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The Chosenby Chaim PotokISBN 0030556287 (0-03-055628-7)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen'Book summary:i took off my glasses and rubbed the tops of my ears. I felt a sudden momentary sense of unreality...as if all the previous years of my life had led me somehow to this one ball game, and all the future years of my life would depend upon its outcome... [via]
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Cold Sassy Tree With Connectionsby Olive Ann BurnsISBN 0030559944 (0-03-055994-4)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Collected Poetry and Proseby Wallace Stevens, Frank Kermode, Joan RichardsonISBN 1883011450 (1-883011-45-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Collected Stories & Later Writingsby Paul BowlesISBN 1931082200 (1-931082-20-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Collected Travel Writingsby Henry James, Myra JehlenISBN 1931082308 (1-931082-30-8)
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Corazones En La Atlantida / Hearts in Atlantisby Stephen KingISBN 9871138504 (987-1138-50-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Crime Novelsby Robert PolitoISBN 1883011469 (1-883011-46-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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El Dadorby Lois Lowry, Maria Luisa BalseiroISBN 8424159535 (84-241-5953-5)
Softcover, Everest De Ediciones Y distribucion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Dador'Book summary:Así se describe el incierto futuro de un nino que habita un mundo supuestamente ideal: sin conflictos, pobreza, desempleo. divorcio. injusticia ni desigualdades. Una sociedad en la que los valores de familia son de máxima importancia, la rebelión juvenil es algo desconocido y la educación es casi una forma de vida. Contado con una sencillez que engana, esta es la provocativa historia de un nino que experimenta algo increíble y emprende algo imposible. Este libro cuestiona todos los valores que siempre hemos dado por supuestos y vuelve a examinar nuestras creencias mas profundas. Diciembre es le mes en el que se celebre la Ceremonia anual, en el que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comité de Ancianos. Pero Jonas, un nino que cumple sus doce anos, ha sido elegido para algo muy especial. Cuando su selecciona le lleva ante el mas honorable de los Ancianos - el Dador -, Jonas comienza a darse cuenta de los oscuros secretos que subyacen bajo la frágil perfección de su mundo. [via]
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El Ladron De Cuerposby Anne RiceISBN 9500814331 (950-08-1433-1)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
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El Padrino / The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 8466617434 (84-666-1743-4)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Padrino / The Godfather'Book summary:A searing evocation of the Mafia underworld and an instant classic, this novel introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that would be passed from father to son. With its exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition, and its themes of the seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and family allegiance, this is the definitive gangster novel.[via]More editions of El Padrino / The Godfather:
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El Talento De Mr Ripleyby Patricia HighsmithISBN 8433902997 (84-339-0299-7)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Talento De Mr Ripley'Book summary:Esta es la mas celebre novela de esta autora. Aparece aqui su mas fascinante personaje, el inquietante y amoral Tom Ripley, figura prototipica de un genero que ella ha inventado, y que se situa entre la novela policiaca y la novela negra. Un millonario americano que le pide a Tom Ripley, que intente convencer a su hijo Dickie para que regrese al hogar. Tom acepta el encargo y de paso pone tierra por medio a posibles problema spoliciales, y encuentra a Dickie y a su amiga Marge, con quienes establece una turbia y compleja relacion. [via]
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Erotique Legsby Carlton Books StaffISBN 1858688701 (1-85868-870-1)
Hardcover, Carlton Books, Limited
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The Glimpses of the Moonby Edith WhartonISBN 0020383053 (0-02-038305-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Good Soldierby Ford Madox Ford, Bill HutchingsISBN 1857543009 (1-85754-300-9)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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The Good Soldierby Frank Kermode, Ford Madox FordISBN 1593082681 (1-59308-268-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier'Book summary:[via]The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal good soldier and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues. But for his creator, Ford Madox Ford, he also represents the corruption at societys core. Beneath Ashburnhams charming, polished exterior lurks a soul well-versed in the arts of deception, hypocrisy, and betrayal. Throughout the nine years of his friendship with an equally privileged American, John Dowell, Ashburnham has been having an affair with Dowells wife, Florence. Unlike Dowell, Ashburnhams own wife, Leonora, is well aware of it.
When The Good Soldier was first published in 1915, its pitiless portrait of an amoral society dedicated to its own pleasure and convinced of its own superiority outraged many readers. Stylistically daring, The Good Soldier is narrated, unreliably, by the naïve Dowell, through whom Ford provides a level of bitter irony. Dowells disjointed, stumbling storytelling not only subverts linear temporality to satisfying effect, it also reflects his struggle to accept a world without honor, order, or permanence. Called the best French novel in the English language, The Good Soldier is both tragic and darkly comic, and it established Ford as an important contributor to the development of literary modernism.Frank Kermode has taught at Manchester, London, and Cambridge Universities as well as at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. Among his many books the most recent are Shakespeares Language, Pieces of My Mind, and The Age of Shakespeare.
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Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingwayby Not AvailableISBN 1593083386 (1-59308-338-6)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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Hawaiiby James A. MichenerISBN 8401321883 (84-01-32188-3)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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Henry James: Complete Stories 1864-1874by Henry James, Jean StrouseISBN 1883011701 (1-883011-70-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry James: Complete Stories 1864-1874'Book summary:For the first time in 30 years, the Master's complete stories are again available--in a handsome, authoritative collector's edition
With this fifth and final volume of The Library of America's historic new edition, Henry James's world-famous stories are again available in their entirety.
Complete Stories 1864-1874 brings together his first 24 published stories, 13 never collected by James. Here are the first explorations of some of James's most significant themes: the force of social convention and the compromises it demands; the complex and often ambiguous encounter between Europe and America; the energies of human passion measured against the rigors of artistic discipline. Encompassing a wide range of subjects, settings, and formal techniques, these stories show the young James exploring contemporary events, as in three stories that treat the effects of the Civil War on civilians, and exhibiting his famous psychological acuity, as in "Guest's Confession," where the ferociously comic portrayal of an arrogant businessman hints at the narcissism and sadism that motivate him. Early examples of James's lifelong fascination with art and artists include "A Landscape Painter," which explores a young painter's distorted attraction to a family living in a desolate coastal town, and "The Madonna of the Future," where an aging artist avoids the inevitable unveiling of his "masterpiece." Adumbrating later triumphs, and compelling in their own right, the stories in this volume reveal an accomplished young talent mastering the art of the short story. [via]More editions of Henry James: Complete Stories 1864-1874:
The Illustrated Manby Ray BradburyISBN 188736806X (1-887368-06-X)
Hardcover, Gauntlet Pr
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The Illustrated Souls Of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du Bois, Eugene F. Provenzo, Manning MarableISBN 159451030X (1-59451-030-X)
Hardcover, Paradigm Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Souls Of Black Folk'Book summary:The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line . . . - W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903. This prophetic statement made by W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago is from The Souls of Black Folk. One hundred years later, Souls remains the most important treatment of African-American life and culture published in the Twentieth century. Richly illustrated, this special edition of Du Bois's seminal work includes historical woodcuts and engravings, photos, and documents. Most of the photos, engravings, and documents are from the 19th and early 20th century and depict American slavery and its legacy, African-American life, and the prominent figures and events associated with the book's content. Assembled by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., this illustrated edition of The Souls of Black Folk also offers extensive annotations, commentary, and related materials from government, the media, advertising, and popular culture. Documents include: the Act Establishing the Freedman's Bureau; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech; W. E. B. Du Bois's essay The Talented Tenth; Ida B. Wells-Barnett's The Lynch Law in Georgia; W. E. B. Du Bois's report The Negro in the Black Belt; Alexander Crummell's sermon Common Sense and Schooling; W. E. B. Du Bois's story The Black Man Brings His Gifts; Thomas W. Higginson's Negro Spirituals, and more. Annotated, Illustrated, Documentary Editions are a new series of books created by Eugene Provenzo and Paradigm Publishers, offering classic works in Literature, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities with extensive commentary, illustrations, and related documentary sources. [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet A. JacobsISBN 1593082835 (1-59308-283-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:These two slave narratives expand our knowledge of the differing ways males and females coped with enslavement and later ordeals in flight. This popularly-priced anthology contains the often taught Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the recently discovered A True Tale of Slavery by John S. Jacobs, her younger brother, now reprinted for the first time.
After Harriet's owner, a physician, repeatedly abused her, she escaped his sexual advances for a time by entering into a relationship with a local attorney. Her owner continued to harass her, and she sought refuge in a crawlspace where she lived in hiding. After her escape to the North, she published her narrative.
John S. Jacobs "walked away" as he put it, from his owner, a congressman. He sailed on a whaling ship and educated himself. He then became a paid agent of the Anti-Slavery Society, made a lecturing trip with Frederick Douglass, and finally settled in London, where he remained until it was safe for a fugitive to return to the North. He wrote his story for a London Sunday school journal where it was published in 1861. [via]More editions of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:
LA Milla Verdeby Stephen KingISBN 9871138962 (987-1138-96-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Milla Verde'Book summary:En el mundo de la penitenciaría de los condenados a muerte, Stephen King disecciona en profundidad la inquietante y compleja relación entre los prisioneros y el carcelero. ¿ Quién es realmente John Coffe, el condenado, y que terribles efectos ejercerá en la vida de los carceleros. [via]
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbonby Richard ZimlerISBN 1900850036 (1-900850-03-6)
Softcover, Arcadia Books Ltd
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Later Novels and Other Writingsby Raymond Chandler, Frank MacShaneISBN 1883011086 (1-883011-08-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Later Novels and Other Writings'Book summary:Raymond Chandler is arguably the best American pulp novelist. His prose is so acutely visual, his characters so raw and intense that it is small wonder that all but one of his books have been made into movies. And his hero Philip Marlowe has graduated into American legend. Together with its companion volume (Stories and Early Novels), Later Novels and Other Writings forms the most complete Chandler collection in print. In addition to his later novels, this collection contains selected essays and letters, biographical information, and textual as well as explanatory notes. As an added bonus, the editor has included Chandler's screenplay to Double Indemnity, the classic Billy Wilder film adapted from James M. Cain's novel. You're able to compare the script to the finished movie and have the rare opportunity to see how one major crime novelist altered and interpreted another. [via]
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Leaves of Grass and Selected Proseby S. BradleyISBN 0030079659 (0-03-007965-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby James AgeeISBN 1931082812 (1-931082-81-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:A passionate literary innovator, eloquent in language and uncompromising in his social observation and his pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee (1909- 1955) excelled as novelist, critic, journalist, and screenwriter. In his brief, often turbulent life, he left enduring evidence of his unwavering intensity, observant eye, and sometimes savage wit.
This volume collects his fiction along with his extraordinary experiment in what might be called prophetic journalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a collaboration with photographer Walker Evans that began as an assignment from Fortune magazine to report on the lives of Alabama sharecroppers, and that expanded into a vast and unique mix of reporting, poetic meditation, and anguished self-revelation that Agee described as "an effort in human actuality." A 64-page photo insert reproduces Evans's now iconic photographs from the expanded 1960 edition.
A Death in the Family, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that he worked on for over a decade and that was published posthumously in 1957, re-creates in stunningly evocative prose Agee's childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the upheaval his family experienced after his father's death in a car accident when Agee was six years old. A whole world, with its sensory vividness and social constraints, comes to life in this child's-eye view of a few catastrophic days. It is presented here for the first time in a text with corrections based on Agee's manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
This volume also includes The Morning Watch (1951), an autobiographical novella that reflects Agee's deep involvement with religious questions, and three short stories including the remarkable allegory "A Mother's Tale." [via]More editions of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families:
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Los Ojos Del Dragon / the Eyes of the Dragonby Stephen KingISBN 9875660647 (987-566-064-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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The Man With the Golden Armby Nelson AlgrenISBN 1888363185 (1-888363-18-5)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Mr. Bridgeby Evan S. ConnellISBN 1593760590 (1-59376-059-0)
Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. Bridge'Book summary:Best-selling author Evan S. Connell is expert at sketching the banalities and trivialities of middle-class values, customs, and habits. Like Mr. Bridge, its counterpart, Mrs. Bridge is comprised of over one hundred titled chapters, containing vignettes, an image, a fragment of conversation, an eventall building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family, closely knit on the surface but deeply divided beneath by loneliness, boredom, misunderstandings, isolation, sexual longing, and terminal alienation. With a surgeons skill Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development beneath. Mrs. Bridge recedes more and more into doubt and confusion as her three children and husband become more remote and silent. The raised evening newspaper becomes almost a fire screen to deflect any possible spark of conversation. A fly caught unawares in amber for eternity is no more immobilized and exposed than Mrs. Bridge, trapped in her garage as her novel ends.[via] 
My Life As a Manby Philip RothISBN 0030126460 (0-03-012646-0)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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A Night at the Moviesby Robert CooverISBN 0020191200 (0-02-019120-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Novels and Other Writings: The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million; The Day of the Locust; Other Writings; Lettersby Nathanael West, Sacvan BercovitchISBN 1883011280 (1-883011-28-0)
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Novels, 1942-1952by John Steinbeck, Robert DemottISBN 1931082073 (1-931082-07-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels, 1942-1952'Book summary:This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.[via]
The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders. In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in The Pearl (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. The Pearl appears here with the original illustrations by José Clemente Orozco.
Ambitious in scale and original in structure, East of Eden (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, East of Eden is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance.More editions of Novels, 1942-1952:
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Novels, 1957-1962by William Faulkner, Noel Polk, Joseph BlotnerISBN 1883011698 (1-883011-69-8)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels, 1957-1962'Book summary:William Faulkner's fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County culminates in his three last novels, rich with the history and lore of the domain where he set most of his novels and stories. "The Town" (1957), the second novel of the Snopes trilogy that began with "The Hamlet," charts the rise of the rapacious Flem Snopes and his extravagantly extended family as they connive their way into power. In "The Mansion" (1959), the trilogy's conclusion, a wronged relative finally destroys Flem and his dynasty. Faulkner's last novel, "The Reivers: A Reminiscence" (1962), distinctly mellower and more elegiac than his earlier work, is a picaresque adventure that evokes the world of childhood with a final burst of comic energy. "Novels 1957-1962," like previous volumes in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of William Faulkner, has been newly edited by textual scholar Noel Polk to establish an authoritative text, that features a chronology and notes by Fau! lkner's biographer Joseph Blotner. [via]
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On Beautyby Zadie SmithISBN 1594200637 (1-59420-063-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Beauty'Book summary:In an author's note at the end of On Beauty, Zadie Smith writes: "My largest structural debt should be obvious to any E.M. Forster fan; suffice it to say he gave me a classy old frame, which I covered with new material as best I could." If it is true that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Forster, perched on a cloud somewhere, should be all puffed up with pride. His disciple has taken Howards End, that marvelous tale of class difference, and upped the ante by adding race, politics, and gender. The end result is a story for the 21st century, told with a perfect ear for everything: gangsta street talk; academic posturing, both British and American; down-home black Floridian straight talk; and sassy, profane kids, both black and white.
Howard Belsey is a middle-class white liberal Englishman teaching abroad at Wellington, a thinly disguised version of one of the Ivies. He is a Rembrandt scholar who can't finish his book and a recent adulterer whose marriage is now on the slippery slope to disaster. His wife, Kiki, a black Floridian, is a warm, generous, competent wife, mother, and medical worker. Their children are Jerome, disgusted by his father's behavior, Zora, Wellington sophomore firebrand feminist and Levi, eager to be taken for a "homey," complete with baggy pants, hoodies and the ever-present iPod. This family has no secrets--at least not for long. They talk about everything, appropriate to the occasion or not. And, there is plenty to talk about.
The other half of the story is that of the Kipps family: Monty, stiff, wealthy ultra-conservative vocal Christian and Rembrandt scholar, whose book has been published. His wife Carlene is always slightly out of focus, and that's the way she wants it. She wafts over all proceedings, never really connecting with anyone. That seems to be endemic in the Kipps household. Son Michael is a bit of a Monty clone and daughter Victoria is not at all what Daddy thinks she is. Indeed, Forster's advice, "Only connect," is lost on this group.
The two academics have long been rivals, detesting each other's politics and disagreeing about Rembrandt. They are thrown into further conflict when Jerome leaves Wellington to get away from the discovery of his father's affair, lands on the Kipps' doorstep, falls for Victoria and mistakes what he has going with her for love. Howard makes it worse by trying to fix it. Then, Kipps is granted a visiting professorship at Wellington and the whole family arrives in Massachusetts.
From this raw material, Smith has fashioned a superb book, her best to date. She has interwoven class, race, and gender and taken everyone prisoner. Her even-handed renditions of liberal and/or conservative mouthings are insightful, often hilarious, and damning to all. She has a great time exposing everyone's clay feet. This author is a young woman cynical beyond her years, and we are all richer for it. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Pandoraby Anne RiceISBN 1890885029 (1-890885-02-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pandora'Book summary:Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.
The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life.
Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English And American Literatureby Elizabeth KantorISBN 1596980117 (1-59698-011-7)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Postcardsby Annie ProulxISBN 0020811853 (0-02-081185-3)
Hardcover, Collier Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postcards'Book summary:Reproduced as graphics that preface narrative sections, the postcards in this novel -- communications between the Blood family and their son Loyal, as well as other personal mail and advertising material -- progressively reveal the insecurity of the rural Bloods in the changing post-war world. Loyal has fled into exile after an accidental killing, but cannot find a haven of rest. The family patriarch, Mink, writes vitriolic letters to local agricultural agents when the real object of his ire is his absent son. Loyal's brother sends off for an artificial arm to replace the one he lost in an accident; his sister answers a mail order ad for a husband. Through the mail, Proulx inventively reveals the inchoate longings of a difficult existence in this winner of the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award. [via]
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The Reefby Edith WhartonISBN 1598182420 (1-59818-242-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reef'Book summary:When she was young, Anna Summers married a wealthy American named Fraser Leath, whose one real passion was his collection of snuffboxes. Really! Wouldn't you just know how well that'd work out? And then Mr. Snuffbox snuffs it, and Anna runs into an old acquaintance, George Darrow, who still wants to marry her. Until he gets involved with a poor girl named Sophie Viner . . . It sounds like the stuff of soap opera, but this is an Edith Wharton novel. And it really is something special, even if the plot does sound like something from The Days of Our Lives. If you haven't read Edith Wharton, you're in for a treat. [via]
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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyagesby Richard Henry Dana, Thomas L. PhilbrickISBN 1931082839 (1-931082-83-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyages'Book summary:This volume collects three sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam.
Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age 19 and sailed from Boston in 1834 as a common seaman. Two Years Before the Mast (1840) is the classic account of his voyages around Cape Horn and time ashore in California in the decade before the Gold Rush. Written with an unprecedented realism that challenged the romanticism of previous maritime literature, Dana's narrative vividly portrays the daily routines and hardships of life at sea, the capriciousness and brutality of merchant ship captains and officers, and the beauty and danger of the southern oceans in winter. Included in an appendix is "Twenty-Four Years After" (1869), in which Dana describes his return to California in 1859-1860 and the immense changes brought about by American annexation, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, and the growing commerce of "a new world, the awakened Pacific."
Dana first visited Cuba in the winter of 1859 while the possible annexation of the island was being debated in the U.S. Senate. To Cuba and Back (1859) is his entertaining and enthusiastic account of his trip, during which he toured Havana and a sugar plantation; attended a bullfight; visited chuches, hospitals, schools, and prisons; and investigated the impact on Cuban society of slavery and autocratic Spanish rule.
Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860 records the 14-month circumnavigation that took Dana to California, Hawaii, China, Japan, Malaya, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Europe. Written with unflagging energy and curiosity, the journal provides fascinating vignettes of frontier life in California, missionary influence in Hawaii, the impact of the Taiping Rebellion and the Second Opium War on China, and the opening of Japan to the West, while capturing the transition from the age of sail to the faster, smaller world created by the steamship and the telegraph. [via]More editions of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyages:
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The Riders of the Purple Sageby Zane GreyISBN 1853265764 (1-85326-576-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riders of the Purple Sage'Book summary:In the remote border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, a gunman in black leather, who routs the persecutors and then gradually recounts his own history of an endless search for a woman abducted long ago by the Mormons. Secrecy, seduction, captivity, and escape: out of these elements Zane Grey built his acclaimed story of the American West. First published in 1912, Riders of the Purple Sage set the pattern for the modern Western and went on to sell over a million copies. [via]
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Riders Of The Purple Sage: The Restored EditionISBN 1594141304 (1-59414-130-4)
Hardcover, Five Star
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This splendid, powerful, classic novel was written in 1911, but for over ninety years it has existed only in a profoundly censored version, one that undermined the truth of the characters and the integrity of Zane Grey's masterpiece. With a text based on Zane Grey's handwritten manuscript, the real Riders of the Purple Sage can be read at last as the author wrote it!
109 films have been based on Zane Grey's work, a record not yet equaled by any other author. [via]
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Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Richard Poirier, Mark RichardsonISBN 188301106X (1-883011-06-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Sheltering Skyby Paul Bowles, Daniel HalpernISBN 1931082197 (1-931082-19-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sheltering Sky'Book summary:Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important composer when at age 39 he published The Sheltering Sky and became recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. From his base in Tangier he produced globally ranging novels, stories, and travel writings that set exquisite surfaces over violent undercurrents. His elegantly spare novels chart the unpredictable collisions between "civilized" exiles and a Morocco they never grasp, achieving effects of extreme horror and dislocation.
This Library of America Bowles set, the first annotated edition, offers the full range of his achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last century. In addition to his novels-The Sheltering Sky (1949), Let It Come Down (1952), The Spider's House (1955), Up Above the World (1966)-and his collected stories-including such classics as "A Distant Episode" and "Pages from Cold Point"-they contain his masterpiece of travel writing, Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963). Throughout, Bowles shows himself a master of gothic terror and a diabolically funny observer of manners as well as a prescient guide to everything from the roots of Islamist politics to the world of Moghrebi music. With a hallucinatory clarity as dry and unforgiving as the desert air, Bowles sends his characters toward encounters with unknown and terrifying forces both outside them and within them. [via]More editions of The Sheltering Sky:
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles Lemert, Manning MarableISBN 1594510059 (1-59451-005-9)
Softcover, Paradigm Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein VeblenISBN 1905432038 (1-905432-03-8)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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Three Gothic Novelsby Charles Brockden Brown, Sydney J. KrauseISBN 1883011574 (1-883011-57-4)
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The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 188937234X (1-889372-34-X)
Hardcover, Sweetwater Pr
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Vampiro Pandoraby Anne RiceISBN 9500821427 (950-08-2142-7)
Softcover, Atlantida Editorial S.A.
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Wieland, or the Transformationby James P. Lynch, C. B. BrownISBN 1931468028 (1-931468-02-8)
Softcover, Invisible College Pr Llc
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The Works of Walt Whitmanby WhitmanISBN 1853264334 (1-85326-433-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Adios Munecaby Raymond Chandler, Cesar AiraISBN 9500425181 (950-04-2518-1)
Softcover, Emece
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Aquellos Anos Doradosby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 8427932553 (84-279-3255-3)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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Asfixia / Chokeby Chuck PalahniukISBN 8439708262 (84-397-0826-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asfixia / Choke'Book summary:Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of cheques, week in, week out. Victor also works at a theme park with a motley group of losers, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his mother, whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his parentage. [via]
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La Biblia De Neonby toole KennedyISBN 8433966561 (84-339-6656-1)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Los Caballeros Las Prefieren Rubias. . .pero Se Casan Con Las Morenasby Anita LoosISBN 8472236293 (84-7223-629-3)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Carter Engana Al Diabloby David Gold GlenISBN 842533814X (84-253-3814-X)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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LA Casa Del Bosque/Little House in the Big Woodsby Sharon Creech, Montserrat Solanas I Mata, Garth WilliamsISBN 8427932405 (84-279-3240-5)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Casa Del Bosque/Little House in the Big Woods'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oat crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher. [via]
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Ciudad de Cristalby Paul Auster, Maribel De JuanISBN 8433914766 (84-339-1476-6)
Softcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ciudad de Cristal'Book summary:Con esta obra se inicio la Trilogia de Nueva York, un deslumbrante conjunto de thrillers posmodernos que, segun los criticos, marca un nuevo punto de partida para la novela norteamericana. [via]
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La Costa de los Mosquitosby Paul TherouxISBN 8483105381 (84-8310-538-1)
Hardcover, Tusquets Editores
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Cuentos Sin Plumas / Without Feathersby Woody AllenISBN 8472232832 (84-7223-283-2)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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La Dama Del Lago/ The Lady in the Lakeby Raymond ChandlerISBN 8420672300 (84-206-7230-0)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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De LA Ceniza Volverasby Ray BradburyISBN 844507363X (84-450-7363-X)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Erecciones, Eyaculaciones, Exhibicionesby Charles BukowskiISBN 8433914553 (84-339-1455-3)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Erecciones, Eyaculaciones, Exhibiciones'Book summary:Este es el primer libro publicado en Espana de un autor entonces desconocido, que alcanzo rapido gran popularidad. En pocos anos paso de escritor maldito a leyenda viviente. Los relatos de este libro parecen extraidos de las tripas ulcerosas de su narrador, escritos entre ataques de delirium tremens, orgias y fantasias alcoholicas, con el crudo lenguaje de la calle como nadie lo habia hecho. [via]
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La Fortaleza Digital / Digital Fortressby Dan Brown, Eduardo G. MurilloISBN 8489367019 (84-89367-01-9)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Fortaleza Digital / Digital Fortress'Book summary:Susan Fletchr, la criptografa estrella de la ultrasecreta Agencia de Seguridad Nacional (NSA) o puede dar credito a sus oidos cuando su jefe, el subdirector de la Agencia, le informade que han interceptado un codigo que ni siquiera la mayor supercomputadora conocida puede descifrar... [via]
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El Hombre Ilustradoby Ray Bradbury, Francisco AbelendaISBN 8445073990 (84-450-7399-0)
Softcover, Minotauro Ediciones Avd
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La Invencion De La Soledad / the Invention of Solitudeby Paul AusterISBN 8433920979 (84-339-2097-9)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Las Manzanas De Oro / the Golden Applesby Eudora WeltyISBN 8437621127 (84-376-2112-7)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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El Padrinoby Mario PuzoISBN 8466604359 (84-666-0435-9)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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El Padrino / The Godfatherby Mario Puzo, Angel ArnauISBN 8466304479 (84-663-0447-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Padrino / The Godfather'Book summary:Vito Corleone is the most respected Don of New York. He is merciless with his rivals, but also intelligent, astute and faithful to honor and friendship. His life and businesses, as well as those of his son and heir, make up the storyline of this masterpiece. With the publication of The Godfather, for the first time the Mafia was portrayed from the inside. Later, Puzo himself would write the scripts for the famous trilogy of Francis Ford Coppola.
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Vito Corleone es el Don más respetado de Nueva York, ciudad a la que llegó como emigrante desde su Sicilia natal a los doce años. Don Corleone es implacable con sus rivales, pero es también un hombre inteligente, astuto y fiel a los principios del honor y la amistad. La vida y negocios de Don Corleone, así como los de su hijo y heredero, conforman el eje de esta obra maestra.
La publicación de El Padrino en 1969 supuso una convulsión en el mundo literario, pues por primera vez la Mafia aparecía novelada desde su interior; presentada como una compleja contrasociedad con una cultura, unas interrelaciones y unas jerarquías comúnmente aceptadas. Posteriormente, el propio Puzo escribiría los guiones de la famosa trilogía de películas de Francis Ford Coppola. [via]
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El Pais De Las Ultimas Cosasby Paul Auster, Maria Eugenia CiocchiniISBN 8433920987 (84-339-2098-7)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Las Telaranas de Carlota/Charlottes Webby E. B. WhiteISBN 8427933886 (84-279-3388-6)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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El Vampiro Armandby Anne RiceISBN 9500824094 (950-08-2409-4)
Softcover, Atlantida Editorial S.A.
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El Vino Del Estio/Dandelion Wineby Ray BradburyISBN 8445070576 (84-450-7057-6)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Roter Dracheby Robert HarrisISBN 3453025423 (3-453-02542-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roter Drache'Book summary:[Thomas Harris: Roter Drache Taschenbuch (Akzeptabel) Heyne 1991 12. Auflage] [via]
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Der Talentierte Mister Ripleyby Patricia HighsmithISBN 3257204817 (3-257-20481-7)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlag AG
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Talentierte Mister Ripley'Book summary:Aus der Amazon.de-Redaktion Anthony Minghellas eindrucksvolle Verfilmung von Patricia Highsmiths Der talentierte Mr. Ripley, die seit einigen Wochen in den Kinos zu sehen ist, bietet eine gute Gelegenheit, noch einmal den ersten Auftritt Tom Ripleys, einer der faszinierendsten Gestalten der Kriminalliteratur, nachzulesen. Patricia Highsmith veröffentlichte ihren ersten Ripley-Roman 1955 und beschrieb einen ehrgeizigen, aber mittellosen Mann, der unerwartet Gelegenheit erhält, das Leben zu führen, von dem er geträumt hat. Er wird vom reichen Fabrikanten Greenleaf beauftragt, dessen Sohn Dickie in Italien aufzustöbern und nach Hause zurückzuholen. Ripley findet Dickie, denkt jedoch nicht im Traum daran, ihn tatsächlich zurückzubringen, sondern gewinnt nach und nach dessen Sympathie. Er genießt das schöne Leben im Schlepptau von Dickie und dessen attraktiver Freundin Marge, bis -- ja bis ein Streit ihn mit Greenleaf entzweit und Ripleys Traum in Gefahr gerät. Tom Ripley plant den perfekten Mord, um in die Rolle seines "Freundes" schlüpfen zu können. Mit großer Meisterschaft hat Patricia Highsmith ihren Anti-Helden konstruiert und vor allem seine Psyche bis ins letzte Detail ausgefeilt. Aus einer Figur auf dem Papier wurde ein Mensch mit seinen Zweifeln, seinen Träumen, seiner Niedertracht, Eifersucht, kriminellen Energie und -- seinem Charme und seiner Liebenswürdigkeit. Ripley war geboren. Die Leser freuten sich über mehrere Wiedersehen in weiteren Romanen der Autorin. [via]
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 3404139585 (3-404-13958-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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LA Ligne Verteby Stephen KingISBN 2290301868 (2-290-30186-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Ligne Verte'Book summary:Octobre 1932, pénitencier d'État, Cold Mountain, Louisiane. Le bloc E, celui des condamnés à mort, reçoit un nouveau pensionnaire : John Caffey rejoint ceux qui attendent de franchir la ligne verte pour rencontrer la chaise électrique, Miss Cent Mille Volts. Mais Caffey n'est pas comme les autres. D'accord, on l'a retrouvé auprès des cadavres ensanglantés de deux petites filles, mais il est étrangement absent. Jusqu'au jour où Paul, le gardien-chef, tombe malade et alors une terrible vérité semble s'esquisser. Qui est ce prétendu meurtrier aux pouvoirs étranges ? Qui dresse Mister Jingles, l'étrange souris, bien trop intelligente ? Quand Paul commence à répondre à ces questions, il sent que personne dans le bloc E ne sortira indemne de la rencontre avec John Caffey.
Renouant avec la tradition des feuilletonistes, Stephen King, le prolifique auteur de fantastique, propose un récit troublant, initialement en six volumes, entre roman noir et conte de fées, dont a été tiré un film, La Ligne verte, avec Tom Hanks. --Lisa B. [via]
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La Toile de Charlotteby E. B. WhiteISBN 221102288X (2-211-02288-X)
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Drago Rossoby Robert Harris, Marco AmanteISBN 8804397705 (88-04-39770-5)
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