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The Atheist's Massby Sylvia Raphael, Honore De BalzacISBN 0146001990 (0-14-600199-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Atheist's Mass'Book summary:One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles. [via]
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The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate Chopin, Sandra M. GilbertISBN 0142437328 (0-14-243732-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories'Book summary:The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar," "unhealthily introspective," and "morbid," the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. [via]
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Best New American Voices 2003by Joyce Carol Oates, Natalie Danford, John KulkaISBN 0156007169 (0-15-600716-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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Book of Enchantmentsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152055088 (0-15-205508-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Enchantments'Book summary:This witty and charming collection of ten short fantasies includes a new story set in the Enchanted Forest about Queen Cimorenes Frying Pan of Doom, a zany story about a magical blue chipmunk with a passion for chestnuts, and an eerie tale of a caliph who turns his viziers daughter into a wolf. A well-crafted anthology with several selections suited for reading aloud. --Booklist[via] -
Booknotes: Stories from American Historyby Brian LambISBN 0142002496 (0-14-200249-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Booknotes: Stories from American History'Book summary:American history is shaped by great and small events, and in recent years a generation of writers has brought these events to life. They have shared these stories with the viewers of the long-running C-SPAN author-interview program Booknotes, and here some of the best have been collected for readers to savor. In this volume, more than eighty contemporary writers and historians examine seminal moments from American history, celebrated and uncelebrated alike.[via]
Booknotes offers readers conversational essays edited from the interview show, providing an enticing selection of author-subject pairings. For anyone interested in America's rich history-and especially the devoted fans of C-SPAN's Booknotes-this is an engaging compendium of information, opinions, and new perspectives.More editions of Booknotes: Stories from American History:
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0192741810 (0-19-274181-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canterbury Tales'Book summary:They set off on an April morning with the rain dripping from the branches. Even with the rain, they were glad to be on their way--priests, nuns, tradesmen, men from the city, all pilgrims on the road to Canterbury.
To pass the long journey they told each other stories: of magic and trickery, of animals with blazing eyes, of people with their pants on fire, of two thousand men battling before smoking walls, stories of love and death and the devil. There were written down by Geoffrey Chaucer, and he called them The Canterbury Tales.
Geraldine McCaughrean retells The Canterbury Tales for children in a lively and humorous style which captures the original flair of Chaucer himself. She introduces us to the characters who told these tales: the shy, battle-hardened Knight, the Summoner whose breath smells of onions, the angry Miller with his read beard, and the Widow of Bath who likes a happy ending.
The stories and the characters are vividly brought to life by Victor Ambrus, with pictures of wild chases, exciting battles, and the April countryside through which the pilgrims travel. [via]More editions of Canterbury Tales:
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The Canterbury Talesby Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 019278109X (0-19-278109-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canterbury Tales'Book summary:Interest age: 9+ [via]
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The Classic Fairy Talesby Iona Opie, Peter OpieISBN 0192115596 (0-19-211559-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classic Fairy Tales'Book summary:Everyone has at one time been inspired or enchanted by fairy tales, with their evil witches, pure princesses, heroic princes, and happy endings. Yet over the years, most of these popular tales have undergone many transformations, as editors and storytellers have shortened and sentimentalized them, as well as slanted them to suit the demands of the time.
Now reissued, Iona and Peter Opie's magnificent The Classic Fairy Tales, presents twenty-four of the best-known fairy tales in their original written form. Drawing on years of expertise, the editors provide introductions to each fairy tale, tracing the development of each story and noting points of interest. We learn, for example, that in a 17th century version of "Sleeping Beauty", the prince actually raped the princess in her sleep. Goldilocks, it turns out, evolved from the little old woman of the original story into a young girl. Little Red Ridinghood was actually eaten by the wolf, and in an early version of the "Frog Prince," the princess had to sleep with the frog to free him from his spell.
With classic tales from the likes of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, and the works of such famous illustrators as Gustav Dore, Kate Greenaway, and George Cruikshank, The Classic Fairy Tales brings to life the charm and beauty of these timeless favorites. [via]More editions of The Classic Fairy Tales:
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Collected Poems, 1909-1962by T. S. EliotISBN 0151189781 (0-15-118978-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems, 1909-1962'Book summary:There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than this volume, published two years before his death in 1965.
Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. [via]
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A Collection of Essaysby George OrwellISBN 0156186004 (0-15-618600-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Collection of Essays'Book summary:Imagine any of today's writers of "creative nonfiction" dispatching a rogue elephant before an audience of several thousand. Now, imagine the essay that would result. Can we say "narcissism"? As part of the Imperial Police in Burma, George Orwell actually found himself aiming the gun, and his record--first published in 1936--comprises eight of the highest voltage pages of English prose you'll ever read. In "Shooting an Elephant," Orwell illumines the shoddy recesses of his own character, illustrates the morally corrupting nature of imperialism, and indicts you, the reader, in the creature's death, a process so vividly reported it's likely to show up in your nightmares ever after. "The owner was furious, but he was only an Indian and could do nothing.... Among the Europeans opinion was divided. The older men said I was right, the younger men said it was a damn shame to shoot an elephant for killing a coolie, because an elephant was worth much more than any damn Coringhee coolie."
This essay alone would be worth the cover price, and the dozen other pieces collected here prove that, given the right thinker/writer, today's journalism actually can become tomorrow's literature. "The Art of Donald McGill," ostensibly an appreciation of the jokey, vaguely obscene illustrated postcards beloved of the working classes, uses the lens of popular culture to examine the battle lines and rules of engagement in the war of the sexes, circa 1941. "Politics and the English Language" is a prose working-out of Orwell's perceptions about the slippery relationship of word and thought that becomes a key premise of 1984. "Looking Back on the Spanish War" is as clear-eyed a veteran's memoir of the nature of war as you're likely to find, and Orwell's long ruminations on the wildly popular "good bad" writers Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling showcase his singular virtues--searing honesty and independent thinking. From English boarding schools to Gandhi's character to an early appreciation of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, these pieces give an idiosyncratic tour of the first half of the passing century in the company of an articulate and engaged guide. Don't let the idea that Orwell is an "important" writer put you off reading him. He's really too good, and too human, to miss. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Complete Storiesby Dorothy Parker, Colleen Breese, Regina BarrecaISBN 0142437212 (0-14-243721-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Stories'Book summary:[via]As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Dorothy Parkers talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncertainties and disappointments of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
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Complete Poems 1913-1962by E. E. CummingsISBN 0156210622 (0-15-621062-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Complete Sonnets and Poemsby William Shakespeare, Colin BurrowISBN 019281933X (0-19-281933-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Sonnets and Poems'Book summary:This is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to the plays, and detailed notes explain the language and allusions. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism. [via]
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Complete Worksby Thomas MaloryISBN 0192812173 (0-19-281217-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works'Book summary:This single-volume edition of the complete works of Sirhe Thomas Malory retains his 15th-century English while providing an introduction, glossary, and fifty pages of explanatory notes on each romance. [via]
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Con Men And Cutpurses: Scenes From The Hogarthian Underworldby Lucy MooreISBN 0141003464 (0-14-100346-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Critical Theory Since Platoby Hazard Adams, Leroy SearleISBN 0155055046 (0-15-505504-6)
Hardcover, Heinle
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The Death of King Arthurby Janet Cowen, Thomas MaloryISBN 0146001427 (0-14-600142-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Detective Stories from the Strandby Jack AdrianISBN 0192123068 (0-19-212306-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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English Romantic Writersby David PerkinsISBN 0155226606 (0-15-522660-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub
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English Romantic Writersby Perkins DavidISBN 0155016881 (0-15-501688-1)
Hardcover, Heinle
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Romantic Writers'Book summary:When preparing english romantic writers, one of the principal considerations was the relevance of the english romantic writers to our own generation. This book offers a very generous selection from authors who have traditionally held a large place in our consciousness of english romanticism, but it also includes other figures, especially women, who have been less emphasized in the past. The intellectual discourses of the age concerning governance, politics, and the impact of the french revolution, gender and the status of women, the nature of nature and of human psychology, and the theory of literature and art are represented in the prose and poetry of writers like wordsworth, coleridge, the shelleys, and keats. There is also an usually large selection of ancillary materials -- letters, journals, reviews, and reminiscences of the writers [via]
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn, Alain De ButtonISBN 0192100408 (0-19-210040-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:The era in which faith and reason conflicted in a profound manner seems far away, and perhaps even a bit incomprehensible, to citizens of the modern world. Most of us take for granted our right to choose the life of the mind over that of the spirit without feeling remorse. At the very least, we've learned that the two need not be mutually exclusive. But this is hard-won ease, born of a conflict that began with the Victorians. Edmund Gosse's Father and Son (1907) traces his own reckoning--as well as that of his father, the eminent British zoologist Philip Gosse--with the clash. His story is, as he declares, "The diagnosis of a dying Puritanism."
The only Puritanism that dies here, however, is the author's. His parents were Christian fundamentalists and as a result, young Edmund was denied interaction with other children as well as all variety of fictional tales. "Here was perfect purity," Gosse writes, "perfect intrepidity, perfect abnegation; yet there was also narrowness, isolation, and absence of perspective, let it boldly be admitted, an absence of humanity." Despite all of this, the child maintained his sense of humor, which adds much levity to a tale of such potentially grim proportions.
When Edmund was 8, his mother died of cancer, leaving him the care of a man in whom "sympathetic imagination ... was singularly absent." Philip Gosse held on to his faith in God above all else--so much so, in fact, that when evolutionary theory was announced to the world, he dismissed it entirely because it discounted the book of Genesis. Little by little, Edmund began to chafe against the traditions he had inherited. By the age of 11, he already saw himself "imprisoned for ever in the religious system which had caught me and would whurl my helpless spirit." At this point he believed his fate was sealed and went through the motions of piety. It is not until he goes off to boarding school, and discovers the Greeks and Romantic poetry, that he slowly chooses his own path. Eventually he comes to realize that he and his father "walked in opposite hemispheres of the soul." Their split encapsulates a particular moment in history but also embodies their destiny: "one was born to fly backward, the other could not help being carried forward." --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Four Major Playsby Henrik IbsenISBN 0192815687 (0-19-281568-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Major Plays'Book summary:Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. [via]
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Game Timeby Roger Angell, Steve KettmannISBN 0151008248 (0-15-100824-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Game Time'Book summary:In Game Time, Roger Angells essays illuminate baseballs heart and history in careful prose that New Yorker readers have grown to anticipate each spring. The collection spans the forty-plus years of Angells baseball writing career and includes many of his favorite pieces as well as never-before-published material.
Rather than stringing the selections together chronologically, the book's editor, Steve Kettman, groups them by the three seasons of the gamespring, summer, fall. The structure works well to expose the breadth and depth of Angells writing across the years. As Richard Ford promises in the introduction, "It is by getting those. . . baseball essentials (strategies, nuances, protocols) down onto the page, and cementing the hard foundation without which sporstswriting cant earn your time away from the game itself, that Angell has made his bones."
The downside of this approach, however, is that some selections feel dated or misplaced for readers who did not live through the seasons in question. Many of the rookies scouted or players traded have long since faded into the obscurity. And for essays like "Distance," which profiles pitcher Bob Gibson, placement in "Summer" seems forced, the piece beginning as it does with recollection of Gibsons seventeen strikeout record set in the 1968 World Series.
But these are faults to be expected in a collection that represent the vastness of Angells contribution to baseball. In Angell, baseball is blessed to have found its perfect fan: literate, humble, and always eager for spring.--Patrick OKelley [via]
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Game Time: A Baseball Companionby Steve Kettmann, Richard FordISBN 0156013878 (0-15-601387-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Game Time: A Baseball Companion'Book summary:In Game Time, Roger Angells essays illuminate baseballs heart and history in careful prose that New Yorker readers have grown to anticipate each spring. The collection spans the forty-plus years of Angells baseball writing career and includes many of his favorite pieces as well as never-before-published material.
Rather than stringing the selections together chronologically, the book's editor, Steve Kettman, groups them by the three seasons of the gamespring, summer, fall. The structure works well to expose the breadth and depth of Angells writing across the years. As Richard Ford promises in the introduction, "It is by getting those. . . baseball essentials (strategies, nuances, protocols) down onto the page, and cementing the hard foundation without which sporstswriting cant earn your time away from the game itself, that Angell has made his bones."
The downside of this approach, however, is that some selections feel dated or misplaced for readers who did not live through the seasons in question. Many of the rookies scouted or players traded have long since faded into the obscurity. And for essays like "Distance," which profiles pitcher Bob Gibson, placement in "Summer" seems forced, the piece beginning as it does with recollection of Gibsons seventeen strikeout record set in the 1968 World Series.
But these are faults to be expected in a collection that represent the vastness of Angells contribution to baseball. In Angell, baseball is blessed to have found its perfect fan: literate, humble, and always eager for spring.--Patrick OKelley [via]
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The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese : And Other Tales of the Far Northby Howard Norman, Leo Dillon, Diane DillonISBN 0152309799 (0-15-230979-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese : And Other Tales of the Far North'Book summary:Based on decades of research and extended collaboration with Inuit storytellers, award-winning author Howard Normans masterful retellings of ten Inuit tales invite readers on a unique story--journey from Siberia and Alaska to the Canadian Arctic and Greenland. Dramatic illustrations inspired by stonecut art of the Inuit people capture the beauty and mystery of these stories as they carry us--sometimes laughing, sometimes crying--from village to village over taiga, tundra, snow plains, and the iceberg-filled sea.[via]More editions of The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese : And Other Tales of the Far North:
Her Blue Body Everything We Knowby Alice WalkerISBN 0156028611 (0-15-602861-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Her Blue Body Everything We Know'Book summary:The quest for peace and joy in a difficult world drives Walker's poetry. Even the most difficult moments can be redeemed, she seems to be saying in the excellent "Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See you in the Morning." Walker has grown as a poet, so that much of the strongest material comes in the later work, especially the wistful "Poem at Thirty-Nine." Highly recommended. [via]
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know : Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Completeby Alice WalkerISBN 0151400407 (0-15-140040-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Her Blue Body Everything We Know : Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete'Book summary:The quest for peace and joy in a difficult world drives Walker's poetry. Even the most difficult moments can be redeemed, she seems to be saying in the excellent "Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See you in the Morning." Walker has grown as a poet, so that much of the strongest material comes in the later work, especially the wistful "Poem at Thirty-Nine." Highly recommended. [via]
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Literature Reading Reacting Writingby Stephen R. Mandell, Laurie KirsznerISBN 0155004964 (0-15-500496-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace College Publishers
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Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writingby Laurie G. Kirszner, Stephen R. MandellISBN 0155073486 (0-15-507348-6)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing'Book summary:This compact edition of Laurie Kirszner and Steve Mandell's LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, retains all the features that have made the full edition so successful in classrooms over 4 editions in a smaller, affordable volume. [via]
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Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing Compact Editionby Laurie G. Kirszner, Stephen R. MandellISBN 0155053221 (0-15-505322-1)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Moviesby Gilbert AdairISBN 0141180846 (0-14-118084-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Mrs. Dalloway Readerby Francine ProseISBN 0151010447 (0-15-101044-7)
Hardcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. Dalloway Reader'Book summary:This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party, and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. This complete volume illuminates the creation of a beloved book and the genius of its author.[via]More editions of Mrs. Dalloway Reader:
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The Mrs. Dalloway Readerby Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose, Mark HusseyISBN 0156030152 (0-15-603015-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mrs. Dalloway Reader'Book summary:This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. Now with additional scholarly commentary by Mark Hussey, professor of English at Pace University, this complete volume illuminates the creation of a celebrated story and the genius of its author.[via]
Includes essays and commentary from:
Michael Cunningham
E. M. Forster
Margo Jefferson
James Wood
Mary Gordon
Elaine Showalter
Daniel Mendelsohn
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Nebula Awards 29by Pamela SargentISBN 0156001195 (0-15-600119-5)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Nebula Awards No. 31: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Yearby Pamela SargentISBN 0151001073 (0-15-100107-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The New Oxford Book of Christian Verseby Donald DavieISBN 0192804863 (0-19-280486-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse'Book summary:Offering both familiar poems and some fascinating unfamiliar ones, this anthology contains over 250 poems that deal with Christianity. Ranging from the Anglo-Saxon masterpiece "The Dream of the Rood" to the works of modern poets such as T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Sir John Betjeman, and John Berryman, Davie has chosen works from around the world, including several women poets--such as Elizabethan Countess of Pembroke and Emily Dickinson--as well as the four men whom he describes as "the masters of the sacred poem in English": George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Christopher Smart, and William Cowper. Stressing the importance of "the plain style" in Christian poetry throughout the ages, Davie also includes a large selection of congregational hymns. [via]
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The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verseby Christopher RicksISBN 0192141546 (0-19-214154-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Roomby Paul Auster, Luc SanteISBN 0143039830 (0-14-303983-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room'Book summary:The New York Trilogy is the series that made New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster a renowned writer of metafiction and genre-rebelling detective fiction. The New York Review of Books has called his work one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature. Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, these uniquely stylized detective novels include City of Glass in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. Hes drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case thats more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.
This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction from author and professor Luc Sante, as well as a pulp novel-inspired cover from Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers.
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Oddly Enoughby Bruce CovilleISBN 0152000933 (0-15-200093-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oddly Enough'Book summary:A short fiction collection by the author of Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher ranges from the characteristic hilarity of ""Dusty's Jacket"" to the solemn war message of ""With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm."" [via]
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Old Peter's Russian Talesby Arthur RansomeISBN 0172212014 (0-17-221201-4)
Hardcover, Nelson
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The Orwell Readerby George OrwellISBN 0156701766 (0-15-670176-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Blake to Heaneyby John WainISBN 0192804227 (0-19-280422-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Oxford Anthology of Great English Poetry: Spenser to Crabbe/Blake to HeaneISBN 0192100149 (0-19-210014-9)
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The Oxford Book of Short Storiesby V. S. PritchettISBN 0192801910 (0-19-280191-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Short Stories'Book summary:Only V.S. Pritchett, one of the most distinguished living writers of short stories in English, could tackle the daunting task of compiling a short story anthology, a project that entails displaying in a single volume the wealth and variety of an art that spans over 200 years and has evolved out of many divergent literary traditions. Accepting the challenge, Pritchett has chosen over forty stories written in the English language during the period between the early nineteenth century and the present day.
Since the time of Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Great Britain, America, and especially Ireland have developed great traditions of short-story writing, which Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, John Updike, and V.S. Pritchett himself have perpetuated in this century. Demonstrating the full range of invention and ability within the genre, Pritchett includes a sampling of stories by such Irish masters as James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, and Liam O'Flaherty, as well as stories by Canadian, Indian, New Zealand, and Australian writers.
In the Introduction, Pritchett stresses that the collection does not necessarily contain "the best" short stories. Instead, he has chosen these stories based on his own personal tastes seasoned by "seventy years of passionate addiction to the short story and fifty years as a fellow writer" in the art. Rejecting over-anthologized stories in favor of ones previously overlooked, Pritchett brings together some of the most original examples of this changing art. In this way, The New Oxford Book of Short Stories bears witness to the talent of the past and the talent that continues to flourish. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of Short Stories:
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The Oxford Book of Essaysby John GrossISBN 0192141856 (0-19-214185-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Essays'Book summary:When Montaigne developed the essay in the sixteenth century, he could not have imagined the power and longevity of his creation. "He did not set up for a philosopher, wit, orator, or moralist," wrote Hazlitt, "but he became all these by merely daring to tell us whatever passed through his mind." Ever since, writers have seized upon his example, and for over four hundred years we have encountered astonishing insights and breathtaking language by following what has passed through their minds, as recounted in the essay. And now some of the finest essays of all time have been gathered together by John Gross, former editor of The New York Times Book Review, in an outstanding new anthology.
Ranging from the early 1600s through the 1980s, this sweeping collection includes 140 essays by 120 of the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross has collected classics and rare gems, representative samples and personal favorites, intimate essays and learned, serious reflections and hysterically funny satire, by both British and American writers. Here is Eveleyn Waugh, providing tips on how to move in Well-Informed Circles ("Attribute all facts of common knowledge to personal information; for instance, do not say, 'What a wet week it has been,' but, 'They tell me at Greenwich they have registered the highest rainfall for six weeks'"); Ralph Waldo Emerson on conservatism and innovation; Ambrose Bierce on "the horror of the characteristic American custom of promiscuous, unsought, and unauthorized introductions"; Oscar Wilde on the critic as artist ("It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless"); Rose Macaulay on dinner parties; and James Baldwin, musing about what a remote Swiss village tells him about race in the wider world ("Joyce is right about history being a nightmare--but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.").
The authors Gross has gathered form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from John Dryden to Ben Franklin, from Geoge Eliot to George Bernard Shaw, from E.B. White to Joan Didion. Including book reviews and travel sketches, history lessons and meditations, reflections on art and on potato chips, these essays sample four centuries of eloquence and insight in a collection that is at once immensely enlightening, edifying, and entertaining. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of Essays:
The Oxford Book of Londonby Paul BaileyISBN 0192141929 (0-19-214192-9)
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The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translationby Adrian Poole, Jeremy MauleISBN 0192142097 (0-19-214209-7)
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Talesby Chris BaldickISBN 0192141945 (0-19-214194-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales'Book summary:"But sometimes when I wake in the grey morning, and between waking and sleeping, think of all those things that I must shut out from my sleeping and waking thoughts, I wonder was I right or was he? Was he mad, or was I idiotically incredulous? For--and it is this thing that haunts me--when I found them dead together in the vault, she had been buried five weeks. But the body that lay in John Hurst's arms, among the mouldering coffins of the Hursts of Hurstcote, was perfect and beautiful as when he first clasped her to his arms, a bride."
E. Nesbit's "The Hursts of Hurstcote" is only one of the many stories found in The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, the first anthology of this spinetingling genre. Though Gothic fiction has generally been identified with Walpole's"Castle of Otranto" and the works of Ann Radcliffe, these thirty-seven selections compiled by Chris Baldick provide a unique look at the genre's development into its present-day forms. We see standard gothic elements of incest, murder, and greed in "The Poisoner of Montremos," a late eighteenth-century story by Richard Cumberland. We find in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" the tale that set a new standard of decadence for Gothic stories. In Hawthorne's "Rappacini's Daughter," a young girl is raised on the very essence of poison. In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," a woman's death satisfies a neighborhood's curiosity with a bizarre discovery. In other tales, a ghost reveals his sin of parricide, madness drives a man to murder,and a young girl spends her lifetime locked in a single room. All these stories and more contain the common elements of the gothic tale: a warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, dynastic corruption, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet they also reveal the progression of the genre from stories of feudal villains amid crumbling ruins to a greater level of sophistication in which writers brought the gothic tale out of its medieval setting, and placed it in the contemporary world.
Bringing together the work of such writers as Robert Louis Stevenson, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Jorge Luis Borges, Eudora Welty, Patrick McGrath, and Isabel Allende, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales:
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Storiesby Theodore GoossenISBN 0192803727 (0-19-280372-7)
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The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotesby James SutherlandISBN 0192819364 (0-19-281936-4)
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The Oxford Book of Villainsby John MortimerISBN 0192141953 (0-19-214195-3)
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The Oxford Book of War Poetryby Jon StallworthyISBN 0192804545 (0-19-280454-5)
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The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of thby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0192123297 (0-19-212329-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th'Book summary:Any fan of detective fiction knows that there is no substitute in all of literature for a few hours of reading pleasure at 221 B Baker Street. The tobacco in the persian slipper, the piles of monographs and newspaper clippings covering the floor and table, the unanswered correspondence affixed to the mantle with a dagger. What will the next visitor or urgent message bring? Perhaps a request from a mysterious stranger to help prevent "A Scandal in Bohemia." Perhaps Watson will tell us the story, discretely leaving out certain names, of how he and Holmes had to step outside the law to protect a certain royal personage from a blackmailer in "The Case of Charles Augustus Milverton." Or, for a very unusual treat, perhaps Holmes himself, in quiet retirement in Sussex, will tell a tale in his own words as in "The Lion's Mane."
In the more than a century since the publication of the first tale featuring Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and stories have inspired countless films, plays, pastiches, literary tributes, and tens of thousands of imitations. Now, Oxford is proud to announce The Oxford Sherlock Holmes, the complete works gathered together in nine handsomely bound, meticulously edited volumes. The books themselves are beautiful, and the entire set comes in an attractive display box, perfect for gift-giving.
Beautifully designed, boasting an introduction by a Doyle authority, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and notes, all carefully researched and assembled, this magnificent set will enhance the reading pleasure of readers new to Doyle's work and veterans of Holmsian arcana. A goldmine of reading pleasure, The Oxford Sherlock Holmes is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in crime fiction. [via]More editions of The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th:
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetryby Jon SilkinISBN 0141180099 (0-14-118009-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Perrine's Story and Structureby Laurence PerrineISBN 0155037218 (0-15-503721-8)
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkinsby Gerard Manley HopkinsISBN 0192810944 (0-19-281094-4)
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Poet's Choiceby Edward HirschISBN 0156032678 (0-15-603267-8)
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Poetical Worksby Edmund SpenserISBN 0192810707 (0-19-281070-7)
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The Portable Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, J. Gerald KennedyISBN 0143039911 (0-14-303991-1)
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A fully revised collection of Poe's work
The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the author's familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture.More editions of The Portable Edgar Allan Poe:
The Portable Graham Greeneby Philip Stratford, Graham GreeneISBN 0143039180 (0-14-303918-0)
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Science Fictionby Dick Allen, L David AllenISBN 0155786512 (0-15-578651-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Dept City & Regional
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Science Fiction:the Future: The Futureby Dick AllenISBN 0155786504 (0-15-578650-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Selected Stories Ruyard Kiplingby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0141186755 (0-14-118675-5)
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Katherine Duncan-JonesISBN 017443474X (0-17-443474-X)
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaintby Stanley WellsISBN 0192820265 (0-19-282026-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint'Book summary:The most famous collection of love poems in the English language, Shakespeare's Sonnets have spoken to generations of readers who have turned to them again and again when searching for supreme examples of expressions of love. Covering the whole range of emotions from joy to anguish, these sonnets reveal the beauty, power, inventiveness, and originality of Shakespeare's verse.
The collection depicts in beautiful, poignant, and intriguing language the poet's celebration of his passionate friendship with a young man, his grief over a friend's seduction by his own mistress, his chagrin at the friend's relationship with a rival poet, and, in the final group of poems, his own humiliating infatuation with "a woman colored ill"--the Dark Lady who has tempted his "better angel" from him.
Lyrically beautiful and psychologically fascinating, the sonnets both appeal as individual poems, and as an intricately related sequence. This volume presents all the sonnets in a freshly edited text, along with Shakespeare's wry, touching portrait of a forsaken maiden in A Lover's Complaint, a poem first printed with the sonnets in 1609. It also includes little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. [via]More editions of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint:
Sidney's the Defence of Poesy and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticismby Philip Sidney, Gavin AlexanderISBN 0141439386 (0-14-143938-6)
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The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0174434731 (0-17-443473-1)
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Story and Structureby Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. ArpISBN 0155837885 (0-15-583788-5)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Strange Tales from the Strandby Jack AdrianISBN 019212305X (0-19-212305-X)
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Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellersby Jane RobinsonISBN 0192802011 (0-19-280201-1)
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Vice & Virtue in Everyday Life: Introductory Readings in Ethicsby Christina Hoff SommersISBN 0155030396 (0-15-503039-6)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Vice & Virtue in Everyday Life: Introductory Readings in Ethicsby Fred Sommers, Christina Hoff SommersISBN 0155003755 (0-15-500375-5)
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Vice & Virtue in Everyday Life: Introductory Readings in Ethicsby Robert J. Fogelin, Christina Hoff Sommers, Frederic Tamler SommersISBN 0155948911 (0-15-594891-1)
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Vice and Virtue in Everyday Lifeby Christina SommersISBN 0155067966 (0-15-506796-6)
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Victorian Love Storiesby Kate FlintISBN 0192123300 (0-19-212330-0)
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Waterby Robin McKinley, Peter DickinsonISBN 0142402443 (0-14-240244-3)
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Women of Wonderby Pamela SargentISBN 0156000334 (0-15-600033-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Works [of] Maloryby Thomas Malory, Eugene VinaverISBN 0192541633 (0-19-254163-3)
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Youth, Heart of Darkness, the End of the Tetherby Joseph Conrad, Robert KimbroughISBN 0192816268 (0-19-281626-8)
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