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800 Years of Women's Lettersby Olga Kenyon, P. D. JamesISBN 014023389X (0-14-023389-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: '800 Years of Women's Letters'Book summary:Few books offer such an historical panorama of women's issues in such a small space. A remarkable voyage through time, cultures, and ways of being female. [via]
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Adventures in the Dream Tradeby Neil GaimanISBN 1886778426 (1-886778-42-6)
Softcover, Nesfa Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures in the Dream Trade'Book summary:A collection of short stories, essays, poems, song lyrics, and a weblog from the time that his novel American Gods was going to press. [via]
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Alone Against Tomorrowby Harlan EllisonISBN 0020197802 (0-02-019780-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alone Against Tomorrow'Book summary:Third printing (1976) paperback. This is a 1971 collection of stories from this winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living author - including multiple Hugos, Nebulas and Edgars. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Song of the Soul (1970); I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967); The Discarded (1959); Deeper Than the Darkness (1957); Blind Lightning (1956); All the Sounds of Fear (1962); The Silver Corridor (1956); "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (1965); Bright Eyes (1965); Are You Listening? (1958); Try a Dull Knife (1968); In Lonely Lands (1959); Eyes of Dust (1959); Nothing for My Noon Meal (1958); O Ye of Little Faith (1968); The Time of the Eye (1959); Life Hutch (1956); The Very Last Day of a Good Woman (1958); Night Vigil (1957); Lonelyache (1964); Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes (1969). [via]
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Henry Adams to Dorothy Parterby Library of AmericaISBN 1883011779 (1-883011-77-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Bizarro Starter Kit Orangeby Carlton Mellick, Jeremy Robert Johnson, John Edward LawsonISBN 1933929006 (1-933929-00-6)
Softcover, Eraserhead Pr
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry Legends of King Arthurby Thomas Bulfinch, Charles MartinISBN 1593082738 (1-59308-273-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry Legends of King Arthur'Book summary:[via]Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch, 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:One of the leading popularizers of classical learning in the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch made the myths and legends of the ancient and medieval world available to American audiences through his three decisive works, The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne, collectively published and widely known as Bulfinchs Mythology.A banking clerk by day, Bulfinch spent his nights skillfully weaving often disparate versions of classical and medieval mythology into a coherent whole. The thoroughness with which he combed through his sources made his mythological books standard reference guides for many years, while the vigor of his storytelling enthralled generations of readers. Written to teach mythology not as a study but as a relaxation from study, these timeless volumes span the ages: The Age Of Fable describes the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome, as well as the mythology of the Germanic tribes, England, and the Near East; The Age of Chivalry tells the story of King Arthur and his court, Lancelot and Guinevere, and the death of Arthur; and Legends of Charlemagne gives a thrilling account of the reign of the first great French emperor, his wars, and his conquests.Charles Martin is a poet and translator. His verse translation of Ovids Metamorphoses was published in 2003 by W. W. Norton and received the Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets for 2004. His most recent book of poems, Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems, published in 2002 by the Sewanee Writers Series/The Overlook Press, was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets.More editions of Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry Legends of King Arthur:
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, Geraldine McCaughreanISBN 0140380531 (0-14-038053-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:[via]One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, The Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society.
The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves, encompassing comedy, pathos, tragedy, and cynicism. The Miller and the Reeve express their mutual antagonism in a pair of comic stories combining sex and trickery; in The Shipmans Tale, a wife sells her favors to a monk. Others draw on courtly romance and fantasy: the Knight tells of rivals competing for the love of the same woman, and the Squire describes a princess who can speak to birds. In these twenty-four tales, Chaucer displays a dazzling range of literary styles and conjures up a wonderfully vivid picture of medieval life.
- Freshly established Middle English text with standardized spelling and punctuation and on-page glossing
- Features an introduction, a chronology of Chaucer's life and works, detailed explanatory notes, suggestions for further reading, a full glossary, and a bibliography
- Companion to the Penguin Classics original-spelling edition of Troilus and Criseyde
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Softcover, Penguin Classics - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0140424385 (0-14-042438-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0140434097 (0-14-043409-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0140044523 (0-14-004452-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0140440224 (0-14-044022-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0140380531 (0-14-038053-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Charlie Chan Is Deadby Jessica HagedornISBN 0140231110 (0-14-023111-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Storiesby CollingsISBN 1853261866 (1-85326-186-6)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Clive Barkers Books of Bloodby Clive BarkerISBN 1588810402 (1-58881-040-2)
Hardcover, Stealth Pr
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Collected Fictionsby Andrew Hurley, Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0140286802 (0-14-028680-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Fictions'Book summary:Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923--doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires--he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist--a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.
By the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style--poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises--was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." (Incidentally, the thrifty author later recycled the second of these aphorisms in his classic bit of bookish metaphysics, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Teris.") The glories of his middle period, of course, have hardly aged a day. "The Garden of the Forking Paths" remains the best deconstruction of the detective story ever written, even in the post-Auster era, and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" puts the so-called death of the author in pointed, hilarious perspective.
But Hurley's omnibus also brings home exactly how consistent Borges remained in his concerns. As late as 1975, in "Avelino Arredondo," he was still asking (and occasionally even answering) the same riddles about time and its human repository, memory: "For the man in prison, or the blind man, time flows downstream as though down a slight decline. As he reached the midpoint of his reclusion, Arredondo more than once achieved that virtually timeless time. In the first patio there was a wellhead, and at the bottom, a cistern where a toad lived; it never occurred to Arredondo that it was the toad's time, bordering on eternity, that he sought." Throughout, Hurley's translation is crisp and assured (although this reader will always have a soft spot for "Funes, the Memorious" rather than "Funes, His Memory.") And thanks to his efforts, Borgesians will find no better--and no more pleasurable--rebuttal of the author's description of himself as "a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short stories." --James Marcus [via]
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsby W. B. YeatsISBN 1853264547 (1-85326-454-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Complete Peganaby Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, S. T. JoshiISBN 1568821905 (1-56882-190-5)
Softcover, Chaosium
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Complete Pegana : All the Tales Pertaining to the Fabulous Realm of Peganaby S. T. Joshi, Lord DunsanyISBN 1568821166 (1-56882-116-6)
Softcover, Australian Centre for Innovation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Pegana : All the Tales Pertaining to the Fabulous Realm of Pegana'Book summary:Lord Dunsany is best known as a favorite of other writers--such as H.P. Lovecraft, who counted him second only to Edgar Allan Poe as an influence on his work. Lovecraft readers will be interested to know that two ideas Lovecraft got from Dunsany were (1) an artificial pantheon of gods and other entities (Dunsany's Pegana Mythos predates Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos) and (2) a cosmic vision of man as living on a tiny island of order amid a vast and chaotic universe. Perhaps, as S.T. Joshi writes in the introduction to this collection, "It is now time to appreciate Dunsany in his own right as a master fantasist whose prodigal imagination was equaled by few, whose prose style was a model of affecting simplicity, and whose bold philosophical vision remains challenging to the present day." This edition includes the complete stories from The Gods of Pegana (1905) and Time and the Gods (1906), plus three other stories belonging to the Pegana cycle. --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Kyle FreemanISBN 1593080344 (1-59308-034-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I'Book summary:[via]The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 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:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worlds most popular and influential fictional detectivethe eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmess comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to exercise that unique combination of detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.
Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes starts with Holmess first appearance, A Study in Scarlet, a chilling murder novel complete with bloodstained walls and cryptic clues, followed by the baffling The Sign of Four, which introduces Holmess cocaine problem and Watsons future wife. The story collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes feature such renowned tales as A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, and The Musgrave Ritual.
Tired of writing stories about Holmes, his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, killed him off at the end of The Final Problem, the last tale in The Memoirs. But the public outcry was so great that eight years later he published the masterful The Hound of the Baskervilles, which supposedly takes place before Holmess death.
The separate Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes collects the remaining accounts of Holmess exploits, including The Adventure of the Empty House, which reveals the elaborate circumstances behind Holmess literary resurrection.
Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.More editions of The Complete Sherlock Holmes:
Complete Short Fictionby Oscar Wilde, Ian SmallISBN 0140434232 (0-14-043423-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Dragonsby Martin H. GreenbergISBN 1567311660 (1-56731-166-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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The Enlightened Heartby Stephen MitchellISBN 006092053X (0-06-092053-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enlightened Heart'Book summary:An extraordinary treasure chest of sacred poetry with selections from the world's most profound cultural and religious traditions read by outstanding figures in the contemporary spiritual landscape. 2 cassettes. [via]
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Gifts of Loveby Lisa KleypasISBN 0061151750 (0-06-115175-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Granta 88: Mothersby Ian JackISBN 1929001185 (1-929001-18-5)
Softcover, Granta Books
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How We Are Hungryby Dave EggersISBN 1932416137 (1-932416-13-7)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Are Hungry'Book summary:How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), the stories share a haunting and haunted sense of mortality. Though full of bursts of levity and humor, the book is deeply informed by the troubled times in which it was written. How We Are Hungry includes many never-before-published stories, along with a number of pieces that first appeared in magazines, both well known (Zoetrope, The New Yorker) and small and independent (h2s04, Ninth Letter). All previously published stories have been significantly revised. The urgency and experimentalism of Eggers's earlier work are still present, but are brought to a new level of precision and craft, injecting fresh life into traditional forms. Narratives are often linear, told by distinct and varied voices, and settings stretch from Egypt to Interstate 5.[via]More editions of How We Are Hungry:
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The Illuminatus Trilogyby Robert Shea, Robert Anton WilsonISBN 1567312373 (1-56731-237-3)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illuminatus Trilogy'Book summary:Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.
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The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Storiesby Gene WolfeISBN 009926580X (0-09-926580-X)
Hardcover, Arrow Books
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Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-Walker of the Icy Wastesby Robert M. PriceISBN 1568821247 (1-56882-124-7)
Softcover, Chaosium, Incorporated
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreamsby Sylvia PlathISBN 0060955295 (0-06-095529-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Journeys to the Twilight Zoneby Carol SerlingISBN 1567310931 (1-56731-093-1)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 1573920401 (1-57392-040-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:[via]Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, 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:When Leaves of Grass was first published in 1855 as a slim tract of twelve untitled poems, Walt Whitman was still an unknown. But his self-published volume soon became a landmark of poetry, introducing the world to a new and uniquely American form. The "father of free verse," Whitman drew upon the cadence of simple, even idiomatic speech to "sing" such themes as democracy, sexuality, and frank autobiography.
Throughout his prolific writing career, Whitman continually revised his work and expanded Leaves of Grass, which went through nine, substantively different editions, culminating in the final, authoritative "Death-bed Edition." Now the original 1855 version and the "Death-bed Edition" of 1892 have been brought together in a single volume, allowing the reader to experience the total scope of Whitman's genius, which produced love lyrics, visionary musings, glimpses of nightmare and ecstasy, celebrations of the human body and spirit, and poems of loneliness, loss, and mourning.Alive with the mythical strength and vitality that epitomized the American experience in the nineteenth century, Leaves of Grass continues to inspire, uplift, and unite those who read it.
Karen Karbiener received a Ph.D. from Columbia University and currently teaches at New York University. She also wrote the introduction and notes for the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Frankenstein.
Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Centuryby Cate Marvin, Michael Dumanis, Mark DotyISBN 1932511296 (1-932511-29-6)
Softcover, Sarabande Books
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Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generationby Barbara FindlenISBN 1580050549 (1-58005-054-9)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Literature of the Western Worldby James Hurt, Brian WilkieISBN 0024277002 (0-02-427700-2)
Softcover, Macmillan
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Literature of the Western World: Neoclassicism Through the Modern Periodby Brian Wilkie, James HurtISBN 0132275627 (0-13-227562-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Literature of the Western World: The Ancient World Through the Renaissanceby Brian Wilkie, James HurtISBN 0024278254 (0-02-427825-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Magicby Isaac AsimovISBN 0061052051 (0-06-105205-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic'Book summary:A final collection of original short fantasy stories assembles previously uncollected tales, stories about the two-centimeter demon Azael, several fairy tales, and a humorous adventure about Batman's old age. [via]
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Magic: The Final Fantasy Collectionby Isaac AsimovISBN 0061054127 (0-06-105412-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection'Book summary:Isaac Asimov and science fiction are one and the same to millions of readers.He was the field's transcendent genius, its reigning prophet, its genial patriarch, and its most prolific author. But Asimov also wrote fantasy, and invariably of an enduring quality. Magic is his final original collection, containing all of his uncollected fantasy stories that have never before appeared in book form.
In addition, this farewell collection of Asimov's writings also includes his thoughts on the genre of fantasy itself. Here are the fascinating musings of a wide ranging intelligence, discussing everything from Tolkien to Spielberg, from Unicorns to King Arthur, from the difference between maidens and damsels to the speed of Seven League Boots - scientifically calculated at last! [via]
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The Mammoth Book Of New Comic Fantasyby Mike AshleyISBN 1845291573 (1-84529-157-3)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf
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The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectivesby Michael AshleyISBN 1854874063 (1-85487-406-3)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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The Man Who Sold the Moonby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 1567231551 (1-56723-155-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Mcsweeney's 22by Dave EggersISBN 1932416668 (1-932416-66-8)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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Modern Irish Short Storiesby Ben ForknerISBN 0140246991 (0-14-024699-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shameby Robin RobertsonISBN 0060750928 (0-06-075092-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame'Book summary:A writer's public life is not -- as is often thought -- a round of glamorous parties, prize-acceptance speeches, and triumphant readings to amphitheatres full of loyal, cheering fans; it is, in fact, a grim treadmill of humiliation and neglect. Mortification sets the record straight, once and for all. A collection of seventy specially commissioned contributions -- true stories of public indignity by some of our finest living writers -- this is a celebration of defeat, and a chance to indulge in that most malicious of pleasures: schadenfreude.
You will read about dashed hopes and collapsing bowels, thwarted desire and unimpeded drinking; of fans queuing up for Stephen King's blood; Margaret Drabble bidding at a mock slave auction in Dallas; Louis de Bernières and the S&M prostitute; A. L. Kennedy's disintegrating trousers; William Boyd endorsing Shake 'n' Vac; Margaret Atwood's on-air brush with the Colostomy Association; about an author wanting to kill a member of her audience or another succeeding (accidentally) in killing his host's beloved pet.
These are the best kind of stories: those told against the teller. While readers may be transfixed by the baroque twists of fate, the toe-curling embarrassments, the body's betrayals, and the mind's vanishing acts, they will also wonder at these writers' brave acknowledgment of their own vulnerability and the willingness to expose their shame, a second time, before the public.
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New Lovecraft Circleby Robert M. PriceISBN 187825216X (1-878252-16-X)
Hardcover, Fedogan & Bremer
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New Twilight Zoneby Ed Greenberg, Martin Harry GreenbergISBN 1567310834 (1-56731-083-4)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fictionby Andrew J. Wilson, Neil WilliamsonISBN 1841830860 (1-84183-086-0)
Softcover, Crescent
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One More for the Roadby Ray BradburyISBN 0061032034 (0-06-103203-4)
Softcover, Avon Books
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The Oresteian Trilogyby AeschylusISBN 0140440674 (0-14-044067-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Poisoning a houses life
With darkness, treachery and strife (47Aeschylus (525c.456 BC) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the heros discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wifes infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestras crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.
Philip Vellacotts verse translation makes this eternal dramatic masterpiece accessible for the modern reader. In his introduction, he examines the historical context and the literary style of the plays.
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The Penguin Book Of English Verseby P. J. KeeganISBN 0140424547 (0-14-042454-7)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Book Of English Verse'Book summary:[via]This revolutionary collection abandons the traditional poet-by-poet approach of most anthologies, presenting seven centuries of English verse as an uninterrupted sequence of poems ordered according to their first individual appearance in the language. The result is a more continuous view of English verse that reveals a fascinating new chronology. Furthermore, this volume chronicles the evolution of English verse in linguistic and historical-rather than only biographical-terms, presenting the texts with original spelling and punctuation. Through the words of the well known and the anonymous, in epitaphs, ballads, folk poetry, and nonsense verse, this definitive anthology gives readers the true voice of English poetry as it has developed from the fourteenth to the late twentieth century.
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The Penguin Book of Gay Short Storiesby David Leavitt, Mark MitchellISBN 014024249X (0-14-024249-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Planets That Stay at Home: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fictionby Jack DannISBN 1580230059 (1-58023-005-9)
Softcover, Jewish Lights Pub
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The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetryby Ed J. Paine, Jeffery PaineISBN 0060951931 (0-06-095193-1)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Portable Faulknerby William Faulkner, Malcolm CowleyISBN 0140150188 (0-14-015018-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Science Fiction:101by Robert Silverberg, Greg BearISBN 1596870648 (1-59687-064-8)
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Ted NasmithISBN 0007173024 (0-00-717302-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via] ![[???]: Singers of Strange Songs](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568821042.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "Singers of Strange Songs (1568821042) by [???]")
Singers of Strange SongsISBN 1568821042 (1-56882-104-2)
Softcover, Chaosium
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The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Storiesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Jenny DavidsonISBN 1593080549 (1-59308-054-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories'Book summary:[via]The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 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:Idealistic young scientist Henry Jekyll struggles to unlock the secrets of the soul. Testing chemicals in his lab, he drinks a mixture he hopes will isolateand eliminatehuman evil. Instead it unleashes the dark forces within him, transforming him into the hideous and murderous Mr. Hyde.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde dramatically brings to life a science-fiction case study of the nature of good and evil and the duality that can exist within one person. Resonant with psychological perception and ethical insight, the book has literary roots in Dostoevskys The Double and Crime and Punishment. Today Stevensons novella is recognized as an incisive study of Victorian morality and sexual repression, as well as a great thriller.
This collection also includes some of the authors grimmest short fiction: Lodging for the Night, The Suicide Club, Thrawn Janet, The Body Snatcher, and Markheim.Jenny Davidson is Assistant Professor of eighteenth-century literature and culture in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her novel Heredity appeared from Soft Skull Press in 2003.
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Strange Wineby Harlan EllisonISBN 1596870702 (1-59687-070-2)
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Things Invisible to Seeby Lawrence SchimelISBN 1885865228 (1-885865-22-8)
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True Pornby Kelli Nelson, Rina Ayuyang, Robin BougieISBN 189186789X (1-891867-89-X)
Softcover, Alternative Comics
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Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamitiesby Marian KeyesISBN 0060562080 (0-06-056208-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities'Book summary:From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium.
Her novels are read and adored by millions around the world, and with Under the Duvet, Marian Keyes tackles the world of nonfiction. These are her collected pieces: regular bulletins from the woman writing under the covers.
Marian loves shoes and her LTFs (Long-Term Friends), hates realtors and lost luggage, and she once had a Christmas office party that involved roasting two sheep on a spit, Moroccan-style. She's just like you and me ...
Featuring a wide compilation of Marian's journalism from magazines and newspapers, plus some exclusive, previously unpublished material, Under the Duvet is bursting with funny stories: observations on life, in-laws, weight loss, parties and driving lessons that will keep you utterly gripped -- either wincing with recognition or roaring with laughter.
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The Virago Book of Erotic Myths and Legendsby Shahrukh HusainISBN 1860498019 (1-86049-801-9)
Softcover, Virago Pr
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The Virago Book of Fairy Talesby Angela CarterISBN 1853812056 (1-85381-205-6)
Hardcover, Virago Press
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The Waste Land and Other Poemsby T. S. Eliot, Randy MalamudISBN 1593082797 (1-59308-279-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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We Are Still Marriedby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140131566 (0-14-013156-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purpleby Sandra MartzISBN 1576010783 (1-57601-078-3)
Softcover, Papier Mache Pr
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When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple: Petite Versionby Sandra MartzISBN 157601083X (1-57601-083-X)
Softcover, Papier Mache Pr
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White Stainsby Anais NinISBN 1584190205 (1-58419-020-5)
Softcover, Masquerade Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Stains'Book summary:Collection of short stories written by Ms. Nin and some of her friends written for Roy Johnson back in the '40s. (Johnson paid $1 a page for private smut... Henry Miller also wrote for him.) Contains six stories and a brief guide to lovemaking, for no apparent reason. One of the tales is definitely by Nin. [via]
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White Stains - Anais Nin & Friendsby C.J. ScheinerISBN 1897767110 (1-897767-11-0)
Hardcover, Delectus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Stains - Anais Nin & Friends'Book summary:This collection of six sensual, yet explicit short stories is thought to have been written for an Oklahoma oil millionaire, Roy M. Johnson. Anais Nin is said to have paid a dollar per page to produce typescripts of explicit erotica for his own private amusement. In 'Alice' a couple spying on another couple screwing in a public park become involved in a steamy group sex scene. In 'Florence', a New York office girl enjoys sex for the first time sleeping with two men in quick succession! In 'Memories' a man recounts his youth and his teenage initiation into sex by a variety of older women.
This facsimile reproduction also contains an explicit sex manual, Love's Cyclopaedia, originally published with the stories. The intorduction by Dr. C.J. Schiener tells the story of the book's first clandestine edition by New York publisher Samuel Roth during the 1940s and all the evidence for attributing this anonymous work to Anais Nin. [via]
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Moreby Roald DahlISBN 0140328742 (0-14-032874-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Works of Rudyard Kiplingby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1588278174 (1-58827-817-4)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Works of Rudyard Kipling'Book summary:This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues and extended ballads. He is often thought of as glorifying war, militarism, and the British Empire, but an attentive reading of the poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwell's hard-hitting account of Kipling's poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling. [via]
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Year's Best Science Fictionby David G. Hartwell, Kathryn D. CramerISBN 006106453X (0-06-106453-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The astonishingly possible is once again showcased in a breathtaking volume of the best short form SF the past year had to offer. Contributed by some of the most revered and exciting voices in the genre -- and compiled by acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell -- these stories of wonder and terror, astounding technologies and miraculous discovery, stretch the imagination into realms and universes never dreamed of before. Each tale is a dazzling gem, rocketing readers across light years and into unknown dimensions -- exploring the intricate cultures of alien races and the strange, secret workings of the human mind. And together they form an unparalleled whole -- a collection of luminous visions that shines more brightly than a newborn sun.
New tales from: Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Greg Egan Bruce Sterling Michael Swanwick Gene Wolfe and many more [via]
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Cuentos De La Taberna Del Ciervo Blanco/ Tales from the White Heartby Arthur C. Clarke, Flora CasasISBN 8420672939 (84-206-7293-9)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Irrealidades Virtualesby Alfred BesterISBN 8445073079 (84-450-7307-9)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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UN Pescador Del Mar Interiorby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 8445074210 (84-450-7421-0)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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