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The Bedford Introduction to Literatureby Michael MeyerISBN 0312065469 (0-312-06546-9)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bedford Introduction to Literature'Book summary:The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing [Jan 01, 1999] Meyer, Michael [via]
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- The Bedford Introduction to Literature: ISBN 0312115636 (0-312-11563-6)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Bedford Introduction to Literature: ISBN 0312171404 (0-312-17140-4)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Bedford Introduction to Literature: ISBN 0312259182 (0-312-25918-2)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading Thinking and Writing: ISBN 0312412428 (0-312-41242-8)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Bedford Introduction to Literature: ISBN 0312443447 (0-312-44344-7)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Bedford Introduction to Literature: ISBN 0312065469 (0-312-06546-9)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins
- The Bedford Introduction to Literature: ISBN 0312115636 (0-312-11563-6)
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The Best American Essays 1997by Geoffrey C. Ward, Robert Atwan, Ian FrazierISBN 0395856957 (0-395-85695-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Essays 1997'Book summary:Each new volume of this acclaimed collection reflects the guest editor's distinctive taste and perspective. This year, Ian Frazier provides an unusually humorous and unpredictable selection. Here are some of our most respected writers - Susan Sontag, Roy Blount, Jr., Hilton Als, Thomas McGuane, and Joy Williams - exhibiting exquisite variations on the essay genre, from tall tale to riveting memoir. [via]
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The Best American Essays 2005by Robert Atwan, Susan OrleanISBN 0618357130 (0-618-35713-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Essays 2005'Book summary:The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.[via]
The Best American Essays 2005 includes
Roger Angell " Andrea Barrett " Jonathan Franzen " Ian Frazier " Edward Hoagland " Ted Kooser " Jonathan Lethem " Danielle Ofri " Oliver Sacks " Cathleen Schine " David Sedaris " Robert Stone " David Foster Wallace " and others
Susan Orlean, guest editor, is the author of My Kind of Place, The Orchid Thief, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, and Saturday Night. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1982, she has also written for Outside, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Vogue.More editions of The Best American Essays 2005:
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The Best American Short Stories 2000by E.L. Doctorow, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395926866 (0-395-92686-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories 2000'Book summary:When a great annual collection comes out, it's hard to know the reason why. Was there a bumper crop of high-quality stories, or was this year's guest editor especially gifted at winnowing out the good ones? Either way, the 2000 edition of The Best American Short Stories is a standout in a series that can be uneven. Its editor, E.L. Doctorow, seems to have a fondness for the "what if?" story, the kind of tale that posits an imagination-prodding question and then attempts to answer it. Nathan Englander's "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" asks: What if a WASPy financial analyst, riding in a cab one day, discovers to his surprise that he is irrevocably Jewish? In "The Ordinary Son," Ron Carlson asks: What if you are the only average person in a family of certifiable geniuses? And Allan Gurganus's "He's at the Office" asks: What if the quintessential postwar American working man were forced to retire? This last story is narrated by the man's grown son, who at the story's opening takes his dad for a walk. Though it's the present day, the father is still dressed in his full 1950s businessman regalia, including camel-hair overcoat and felt hat. The two walk by a teenager. "The boy smiled. 'Way bad look on you, guy.'"
My father, seeking interpretation, stared at me. I simply shook my head no. I could not explain Dad to himself in terms of tidal fashion trends. All I said was "I think he likes you."
The exchange typifies the writing showcased in this anthology: in these stories, again and again, we find a breakdown of human communication that is sprightly, humorous, and devastatingly complete. A few more of the terrific stories featured herein: Amy Bloom's "The Story," a goofy metafiction about a villainous divorcee; Geoffrey Becker's "Black Elvis," which tells of, well, a black Elvis; and Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Third and Final Continent," a story of an Indian man who moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Like the collection itself, Lahiri's story amasses a lovely, funny mood as it goes along. --Claire Dederer [via]More editions of The Best American Short Stories 2000:
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The Best American Short Stories, 1999by Amy Tan, Katrina KenisonISBN 039592684X (0-395-92684-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories, 1999'Book summary:A great story gets its hooks into you right from the start; you know you're in the hands of a good writer when the very first sentence transports you wholly into another world. "Mother preferred Zulu servants." "It must be, Ruth thought, that she was going to die in the spring." "Who would have thought that a war of such proportions would bother to turn in its fury against the fools of Chelm?"
The 21 fictions featured in The Best American Short Stories 1999 have very little in common--but whether they're about ranchers or commuters, romantic seekers or New Age pilgrims, what they do share is a sense of urgency. In each of them, there's a kind of voice that announces its need to be heard. "I'm not a bad guy," pleads the narrator of "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars," and even though he cheats on his girlfriend, by the end of Junot Díaz's story you might be tempted to agree anyway. (Especially considering the charming way he turns Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener into a verb--as in, "A lot of the time she Bartlebys me, says, 'No, I'd rather not.'") "Real Estate," by that master of bittersweet comedy Lorrie Moore, starts by repeating "Ha! Ha! Ha!" for two solid pages but becomes a rueful take on marriage, house-hunting, and even death: "The body, hauling sadnesses, pursued the soul, hobbled after. The body was like a sweet dim dog trotting lamely toward the gate as you tried slowly to drive off, out the long driveway. Take me, take me too, barked the dog."
Other standouts in this collection include Alice Munro's "Save the Reaper," a kind of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" where no one is killed or saved; Rick Bass's haunting evocation of winter in the north country, "The Hermit's Story"; and Tim Gautreax's "The Piano Tuner," about a manic-depressive Creole princess playing cocktail piano in a motel lounge. (This is one tale that truly does end with a bang, not a whimper.) Taken together, they are ample evidence that the American short story is alive, well, and eminently able to--in the words of guest editor Amy Tan--"help us live interesting lives." --Chloe Byrne [via]
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Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, GrimmISBN 1853268984 (1-85326-898-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of 'Rapunzel', 'The Goose Girl', Sleeping Beauty', 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Snow White', there are the darker tales such as 'Death's Messengers' which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling. [via]
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Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poemsby Mark Thornton BurnettISBN 0460879952 (0-460-87995-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems'Book summary:Sensuous, passionate, disturbing, this is a collection of poems of love, violence and heroic deeds by arguably Shakspeare's greatest and most fascinating predecessor. [via]
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Collection of Canadian Playsby Rols KalmanISBN 0889240000 (0-88924-000-0)
Hardcover, Dundurn Pr Ltd
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- Collection of Canadian Plays: ISBN 0889240132 (0-88924-013-2)
Hardcover, Dundurn Pr Ltd - Collection of Canadian Plays: ISBN 0969045409 (0-9690454-0-9)
Hardcover, Dundurn Pr Ltd - Collection of Canadian Plays: ISBN 0969045506 (0-9690455-0-6)
Hardcover, Dundurn Pr Ltd - Collection of Canadian Plays: ISBN 0889240000 (0-88924-000-0)
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- Collection of Canadian Plays: ISBN 0889240132 (0-88924-013-2)
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Jacob Grimm, Lily OwensISBN 0517229250 (0-517-22925-0)
Hardcover, Gramercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:More than 200 tales by the Brothers Grimm. [via]
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Lily OwensISBN 051709293X (0-517-09293-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:L. Owens, ed. Presents all 215 stories recorded by the Brothers Grimm, many not available elsewhere, illustrated by renowned artists. Includes such timeless favorites as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Frog Prince. A delight for young and old alike. 100 b&w illustrations. 704 pages. [via]
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Jack David Zipes, John B. GruelleISBN 0553382160 (0-553-38216-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Jack D. Zipes, Johnny Gruelle, Jacob W. GrimmISBN 0553212389 (0-553-21238-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Bothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. Volume II contains 142 unabridged tales, including such bedtime favorites as "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes," as well as 32 little-known tales that the Brothers Grimm omitted during the course of their many revisions. These wonderful tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not only to children--who unabashedly love them--but to readers of any age. [via]
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Jacob Grimm, John B. Gruelle, Jack David ZipesISBN 0833515055 (0-8335-1505-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby John B. Gruelle, Jack ZipesISBN 0553371010 (0-553-37101-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of once upon a time, the fairly tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. [via]
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Josef ScharlISBN 0394709306 (0-394-70930-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:210 traditional tales with accompanying explanatory and historical material. [via]
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- The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0394494156 (0-394-49415-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0710082053 (0-7100-8205-3)
Hardcover, Routledge and Kegan Paul - The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0394709306 (0-394-70930-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0394494156 (0-394-49415-6)
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Talesby Brothers GrimmISBN 0613718933 (0-613-71893-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A definitive compilation of more than 200 traditional fairy tales, compiled by the Brothers Grimm, is accompanied by explanatory and historical material, as well as commentary by Joseph Campbell. [via]
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales: Illustrations by Joseph Scharlby Joseph CampbellISBN 0415104416 (0-415-10441-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales: Illustrations by Joseph Scharl'Book summary:This is the complete English-language edition, first published by Routledge in 1948 and re-issued in its current form. All of the 210 stories are included here, precisely translated and including illustrations and explanatory texts by the editors. [via]
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The Complete Playsby Christopher MarloweISBN 0460879871 (0-460-87987-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Plays'Book summary:Blasphemy, perversion, defiance and transgression...in a series of compelling tragedies, Marlowe challenged every authority of heaven and earth. From the proud wrath of Tamburlaine, the tyrant of Asia, to the racked anguish of Edward II, himself in thrall to unspeakable desires; from God's own Machiavel, the Duke of Guise, to Barabas, the Jew of Malta, curse of Christianity: all are taboo-breakers, to be broken in their turn. And in the tragedy of Doctor Faustus we perhaps read Marlowe's own: a tale of brilliance and audacity - and of terrible, inexorable punishment. [via]
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Complete Plays of Christopher Marloweby Christopher Marlowe, Irving RibnerISBN 082900162X (0-8290-0162-X)
Hardcover, Irvington Pub
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Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Arthur RackhamISBN 0679417966 (0-679-41796-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:Thirty-seven selected stories from the Brothers Grimm, taken from the first English translation of 1823, are newly illustrated in black and white, with eight full-color plates by the artist from Stormy Weather. [via]
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Fairy Talesby Berlie Doherty, Jane RayISBN 0763609978 (0-7636-0997-8)
Hardcover, Candlewick Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:Berlie Doherty, author of many books for young people, including Carnegie Medal-winner Dear Nobody, says fairy tales "are enchanted dreams. We remember them as if they had been sung to us while we were under the spell of a long deep sleep." And according to acclaimed picture-book illustrator Jane Ray, "fairy tales are the earth beneath our feet, giving us roots and helping us find our place in the world, but they also offer a glimpse of the magical and the enchanted." With two such eloquently mystical creators at the helm, any collection of fairy tales is bound to be magical. Sure enough, this team's magnificent Fairy Tales glimmers and shines, giving new life to traditional favorites such as "Beauty and the Beast," "Cinderella," "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp," and "Hansel and Gretel." Doherty's retellings are respectful of the originals, while incorporating her own strong, vibrant voice. Ray's watercolor, ink, and collage illustrations, surrounding the gold-framed text, are truly stunning, in exotic colors and exquisite tapestry-style patterns. Characters seem to come from all parts of the world--appropriately enough, since the stories have "echoes in many different cultures." The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault would be proud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Fairy Talesby Publications International Ltd, Brian ConwayISBN 0785348689 (0-7853-4868-9)
Hardcover, Publications International
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:padded vinyl cover with square hole through which shows a cat reading a book; 4 classic tales including rumplestiltskin; cinderella; hansel and gretel and jack and the beanstock; beautiful, colorful illustrations; [via]
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Fairy Talesby Sulamith WulfingISBN 1885394403 (1-885394-40-3)
Hardcover, Amber Lotus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:This beautiful book includes a series of illustrations by Sulamith Wulfing which accompany stories about fairies and other related poems. [via]
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Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Kay Rasmus NielsenISBN 0670305650 (0-670-30565-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Grimm Fairy Talesby Arthur RackmanISBN 043495862X (0-434-95862-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:Twenty tales collected from German folklore and immortalized by the Brothers Grimm. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy TalesISBN 1404305378 (1-4043-0537-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
Find This BookBook summary:[via]Grimm's Fairy Tales, by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, 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:With the words Once upon a time, the Brothers Grimm transport readers to a timeless realm where witches, giants, princesses, kings, fairies, goblins, and wizards fall in love, try to get rich, quarrel with their neighbors, and have magical adventures of all kindsand in the process reveal essential truths about human nature.
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm set out to collect stories in the early 1800s, their goal was not to entertain children but to preserve Germanic folkloreand the hard life of European peasants was reflected in the tales they discovered. However, once the brothers saw how the stories entranced young readers, they began softening some of the harsher aspects to make them more suitable for children.
A cornerstone of Western culture since the early 1800s, Grimms Fairy Tales is now beloved the world over. This collection of more than 120 of the Grimms best tales includes such classics as Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Grethel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Frog Prince, as well as others that are no less delightful.
Elizabeth Dalton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Barnard College. She has published fiction and criticism in The New Yorker, Partisan Review, Commentary, and The New York Times Book Review.More editions of Grimm's Fairy Tales:
- Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 1593080565 (1-59308-056-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 1587170922 (1-58717-092-2)
Hardcover, Seastar Books - Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0448409410 (0-448-40941-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0681102713 (0-681-10271-3)
Softcover, Longmeadow Pr - Grimms' Fairy Tales: ISBN 033360184X (0-333-60184-X)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl - Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0448060094 (0-448-06009-4)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan - Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0670355321 (0-670-35532-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 068100794X (0-681-00794-X)
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Brothers GrimmISBN 1406821411 (1-4068-2141-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimms' Fairy Tales'Book summary:A collection of fairy tales collected in Germany by two brothers. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. GrimmISBN 1853261017 (1-85326-101-7)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings. [via]
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Grimm's Grimmestby Maria TatarISBN 0811850463 (0-8118-5046-3)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Grimmest'Book summary:A scholar of fairy tales, Maria Tatar, provides a fascinating introduction about the history and meaning of the stories assembled by the Brothers Grimm. She writes, for example, "We now know that the stories collected in the nineteenth-century folktale anthologies ...had their origins in an irreverent peasant culture that arose in conscious opposition to the feudal state's ruling class. By overdoing it in the realm of storytelling, these narrators were able to alleviate--if only temporarily--some of the tedium that marked the daily life of their audience ... [These tales] can be seen as the ancestors of our urban legends about vanishing hitchhikers and cats accidentally caught in the dryer or as the preliterate equivalents of tabloid tales describing headless bodies found in topless bars. But in many ways, it is the horror film to which the matter and manner of these folktales has most conspicuously migrated. Like horror films, folktales trade in the sensational--breaking taboos and enacting the forbidden with uninhibited energy."
The text of the 19 tales in this collection is based on the 1822 edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Nursery and Household Tales) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm--before the tales were expurgated and rewritten to make them more "suitable" for children. It's bound in a handsome faux-antique format, and lavishly illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray (15 full-page color paintings, and a black-and-white drawing on nearly every page). Most of the tales will be unfamiliar to American and English readers, who may be surprised by the graphic descriptions of incest, murder, mutilation, and cannibalism. Chronicle Books has done us a service in helping restore to our adult culture these vivid, evocative folktales. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Grimm's Household Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Lucy Crane, Walter CraneISBN 0831745827 (0-8317-4582-7)
Hardcover, Wh Smith Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Household Stories'Book summary:Includes such well-known titles as "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Sleeping Beauty" as well as lesser known tales such as "The Little Farmer," and "The Golden Bird." Illustrations are by Walter Crane. [via]
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Ralph ManheimISBN 0385110057 (0-385-11005-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories'Book summary:A new and modern translation of the entire collection of folk and fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm. [via]
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Oldby Ralph ManheimISBN 0385189508 (0-385-18950-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Tales for Young and Old'Book summary:Ralph Manheim, the highly acclaimed and prize-winning translator, has rediscovered in the original German editions of the Grimms' works the unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they were first recorded. [via]
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Grimms Fairy Tal/Specby Jacob GrimmISBN 0448424363 (0-448-42436-3)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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The Grimms' German Folk Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Francis P. Magoun, Grimm Brothers, Alexander Haggerty KrappeISBN 0809303566 (0-8093-0356-6)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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The Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Arthur Rackham, Wilhelm K. Grimm, Jacob W. GrimmISBN 0517285258 (0-517-28525-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:Sixty tales from the collections of the Grimm brothers. [via]
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Medea: Harlan's Worldby Ellison HarlanISBN 0932096360 (0-932096-36-0)
Hardcover, Phantasia Pr
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Medea, Harlan's Worldby Harlan Ellison, Jack WilliamsonISBN 0553341707 (0-553-34170-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpiecesby Maynard MacKISBN 0393954323 (0-393-95432-3)
Softcover, Norton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces'Book summary:This groundbreaking Norton Anthology offers the best of the literatures of India, China, Japan, the Middle East, Africa, and native America alongside the masterpieces of the Western tradition.
These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers. Like all Norton Anthologies, the Expanded Edition in One Volume of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is foremost a teaching anthology, edited to meet the needs of todays students discovering a range of literary traditions for the first time. [via]More editions of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces:
- The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: ISBN 0393961400 (0-393-96140-0)
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Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: ISBN 0393972895 (0-393-97289-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: ISBN 0393950360 (0-393-95036-0)
Hardcover, Norton - The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: ISBN 0393954285 (0-393-95428-5)
Hardcover, Norton - The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: ISBN 0393963470 (0-393-96347-0)
Hardcover, W.W. Norton - The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: ISBN 0393954323 (0-393-95432-3)
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- The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: ISBN 0393961400 (0-393-96140-0)
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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: Beginnings to 1650by Maynard MacKISBN 0393963462 (0-393-96346-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: Beginnings to 1650'Book summary:In 1995, Norton changed the way world literature is taught by introducing The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition. Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Now published in 2 slipcased sets (this set, Package 1, contains three volumes covering from the beginnings of world lit to 1650), the new anthology boasts slimmer volumes, thicker paper, a bolder typeface, and dozens of newly included or newly translated works from around the world.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature represents continuity as well as change. Like its predecessor, the anthology is a compact library of world literature, offering an astounding forty-three complete longer works, more than fifty prose works, over one hundred lyric poems, and twenty-three plays. More portable, more suitable for period courses, more pleasant to read, and more attuned to current teaching and research trends, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most authoritative, comprehensive, and teachable anthology for the world literature survey.
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The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume A: Beginnings to A.D. 100 (ISBN 0393977552)
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume B: 100 to 1500 (ISBN 0393977560)
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume C: 1500 to 1650 (ISBN 0393977579) [via]
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Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetryby Ted Hughes, Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571225837 (0-571-22583-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry'Book summary:The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature's leading poets.[via]
Moreover, Heaney and Hughes have elected to list their favorites not by theme or by author but simply by title (or by first line, when no title is given). As they explain in their Introduction: "We hope that our decision to impose an arbitrary alphabetical order allows the contents [of this book] to discover themselves as we ourselves gradually discovered them--each poem full of its singular appeal, transmitting its own signals, taking its chances in a big, voluble world."
With undisputed masterpieces and rare discoveries, with both classics and surprises galore, The Rattle Bag includes the work of such key poets as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath among its hundreds of poems. A helpful Glossary as well as an Index of Poets and Works are offered at the conclusion of this hefty, unorthodox, diverse, inspired, and inspiring collection of poetry.More editions of Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry:
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The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetryby Seamus Heaney, Ted HughesISBN 057111976X (0-571-11976-X)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry'Book summary:The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature's leading poets.[via]
Moreover, Heaney and Hughes have elected to list their favorites not by theme or by author but simply by title (or by first line, when no title is given). As they explain in their Introduction: "We hope that our decision to impose an arbitrary alphabetical order allows the contents [of this book] to discover themselves as we ourselves gradually discovered them--each poem full of its singular appeal, transmitting its own signals, taking its chances in a big, voluble world."
With undisputed masterpieces and rare discoveries, with both classics and surprises galore, The Rattle Bag includes the work of such key poets as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath among its hundreds of poems. A helpful Glossary as well as an Index of Poets and Works are offered at the conclusion of this hefty, unorthodox, diverse, inspired, and inspiring collection of poetry.More editions of The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry:
Romanticism: An Anthologyby Duncan WuISBN 1405120851 (1-4051-2085-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romanticism: An Anthology'Book summary:This work provides a selection of poetry and prose by the British Romantics - containing, in addition to work by the six major poets, a wide-ranging selection by writers in other genres. It features complete and uncut texts of: Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience"; Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads"; Wordsworth's "The Thirteen-Book Prelude"; Keats' "The Odes" and "The Fall of Hyperion"; Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound"; and Byron's "Manfred", "Don Juan Dedication" and "Canto I". "Romanticism: an Anthology" reflects recent developments in Romantic scholarship, particularly in the expansion of the literary canon. Women writers represented include: Anna Seward; Hannah More; Charlotte Smith; Ann Yearsley; Mary Robinson; Mary Wollstonecraft; Joanna Baillie; Helen Maria Williams; Ann Radcliffe; Maria Edgeworth; Dorothy Wordsworth; Mary Russell Mitford; Mary Shelley; Felicia Hemans; and Laetita Landon. It includes extracts of works by political and philosophical writers: Thomas Paine; Edmund Burke; Richard Price; William Godwin; John Thelwall; William Frend; and James Mackintosh. It also represents diarists, painters, balladeers, reviewers and letter-writers. All texts derive from either the earliest available printed or manuscript source. [via]
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Softcover, Blackwell Pub - Romanticism: An Anthology: ISBN 0631204814 (0-631-20481-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub - Romanticism: An Anthology: ISBN 063119195X (0-631-19195-X)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub - Romanticism: An Anthology: ISBN 1405120851 (1-4051-2085-1)
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- Romanticism: An Anthology: ISBN 0631191968 (0-631-19196-8)
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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythosby LovecraftISBN 034542204X (0-345-42204-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos'Book summary:"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
--H. P. LOVECRAFT, "Supernatural Horror in Literature"
Howard Phillips Lovecraft forever changed the face of horror, fantasy, and science fiction with a remarkable series of stories as influential as the works of Poe, Tolkien, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. His chilling mythology established a gateway between the known universe and an ancient dimension of otherworldly terror, whose unspeakable denizens and monstrous landscapes--dread Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, the Plateau of Leng, the Mountains of Madness--have earned him a permanent place in the history of the macabre.
In Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of horror and fantasy's finest authors pay tribute to the master of the macabre with a collection of original stories set in the fearsome Lovecraft tradition:
¸ The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: The slumbering monster-gods return to the world of mortals.
¸ Notebook Found in a Deserted House by Robert Bloch: A lone farmboy chronicles his last stand against a hungering backwoods evil.
¸ Cold Print by Ramsey Campbell: An avid reader of forbidden books finds a treasure trove of deadly volumes--available for a bloodcurdling price.
¸ The Freshman by Philip José Farmer: A student of the black arts receives an education in horror at notorious Miskatonic University.
PLUS EIGHTEEN MORE SPINE-TINGLING TALES!
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseasesby Mark Roberts, Jeff Vandermeer, Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow, K. J. BishopISBN 0553383396 (0-553-38339-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases'Book summary:Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid youre afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn! Book Sense
You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembledeach disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isnt heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome.
Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that cant go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you dont have Pentzlers Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection. [via]More editions of The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases:
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Storiesby Tobias WolffISBN 0679745130 (0-679-74513-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Women & Risk: How to Master Your Fears and Do What You Never Thought You Could Doby Nicky MaroneISBN 0312071159 (0-312-07115-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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World Masterpiecesby Maynard MacKISBN 0393096165 (0-393-09616-5)
Softcover, Norton
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Writing New York: A Literary Anthologyby Phillip LopateISBN 1883011620 (1-883011-62-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing New York: A Literary Anthology'Book summary:Few cities on earth exert New York's pull on the literary imagination. There may be nothing like Paris in springtime, or a foggy day in London Town, but for sheer page volume, neither of these can rival the city that never sleeps. In celebration of Greater New York's centenary, the Library of America has assembled almost 200 years' worth of literary Gothamiana--no small task, given the scope from which they had to choose. The result is a hefty, pleasingly eclectic anthology that works as both historical document and literary revelation. Editor Phillip Lopate has wisely chosen to include both the familiar (Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry") and the unknown (the diaries of English actress Fanny Kemble). Edith Wharton, Oscar Hijuelos, Henry Miller, Willa Cather, Tom Wolfe, Hart Crane: these are only a few of the writers who offer up their takes on the city, in terms that vary from nostalgic to cynical, romantic to tart. "I want this new novel to be delicate and cutting--nothing will cut New York but a diamond," observes Dawn Powell; "I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse," writes a homesick Thoreau. F. Scott Fitzgerald mourns the giddy New York of 1919, his "lost city," while E.B. White lauds the metropolis for its dual bequests, "the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy." Vibrant, opinionated, more than a little bit overwhelming, the anthology is a fitting tribute to a city whose most enduring characteristic is the speed at which it can change. In the words of E.B. White, "A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines." [via]
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Year's Best Fantasy & Horrorby Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant, James FrenkelISBN 0312329288 (0-312-32928-8)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'Book summary:For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field-- nearly four dozen stories, ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol-style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror and Year's Best sections--on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge and on film and television by Edward Bryant. This is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.[via]
*Terry Bisson *Kevin Brockmeier *Dan Chaon *Peter Crowther *Theodora Goss *Daphne Gottlieb *Glen Hirshberg *Brian Hodge *Nina Kiriki Hoffman *Kij Johnson *Paul LaFarge *Thomas Ligotti *Sara Maitland *Maureen F. McHugh *Steve Rasnic Tem *Benjamin Rosenbaum *Michael Marshall Smith *Michael Swanwick *Karen Traviss *Megan Whalen TurnerMore editions of Year's Best Fantasy & Horror:
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Softcover, St Martins Pr - Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: ISBN 0312094221 (0-312-09422-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: ISBN 031226416X (0-312-26416-X)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press - Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: ISBN 0312262744 (0-312-26274-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: ISBN 0312329288 (0-312-32928-8)
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The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 19th Annual Collectionby Kelly Link, Gavin J. GrantISBN 0312356153 (0-312-35615-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 19th Annual Collection'Book summary:[via]For nearly two decades, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant continue this critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen works ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magic realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and sections on graphic novels, by Charles Vess; on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge; on media, by Ed Bryant; and on music, by Charles de Lint. With a long list of Honorable Mentions, this is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.Isabel Allende
Laird Barron
Elizabeth Bear
Andrew Bonia
Chaz Brenchley
Tom Brennan
Jack Cady
Jennifer Chang
Robert Coover
Albert E. Cowdrey
Kelly Everding
Jeffrey Ford
Theodora Goss
Elizabeth Hand
Joe Hill
Glen Hirshberg
Pentti Holappa
Dave Hutchinson
China Miéville, Emma Bircham, and Max Schäfer
Sarah Monette
Ralph Robert Moore
Adam L.G. Nevill
Kim Newman
Reggie Oliver
Chuck Palahniuk
Stacey Richter
Barbara Roden
Deborah Roggie
Jay Russell
Geoff Ryman
Mark Samuels
Willa Schneberg
Nisi Shawl
Delia Sherman
Bruce Sterling
Howard Waldrop
Daniel Wallace
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The Year's Best Fantasy And Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collectionby Gavin Grant, Kelly Link, Gavin J. GrantISBN 0312356145 (0-312-35614-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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