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Alec: The King Vanute Crowdby Eddie CampbellISBN 0957789602 (0-9577896-0-2)
Softcover, Campbell Comics, Eddie
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alec: The King Vanute Crowd'Book summary:Alec is a brilliant and insightful romp through Eddie Campbell's own life, and it represents one of the best, and first, works in the autobiographical-comics genre. In it, we witness Eddie's progression from "beer to wine," or to put it more accurately, his inevitable maturation through time. Whether it's tales of his early pub-crawlin' days, or glimpses into his current private life with "wifey" and kids, there are "truths" here that transcend the factual and paint a picture of the way life should be. This collection, numbered at 51 in The Comics Journal's top comics of the century, has been much sought after by collectors of the serious graphic novel as well as readers new to the idea of comics.
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Alec: Three Piece Suitby Eddie CampbellISBN 0957789645 (0-9577896-4-5)
Softcover, Campbell Comics, Eddie
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All Men Are Brothersby Gandhi, Krishna KripalaniISBN 0826417396 (0-8264-1739-6)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Men Are Brothers'Book summary:All Men Are Brothers is a compelling and unique collection of Gandhi's most trenchant writings on nonviolence, especially in the context of a post-nuclear world. This compendium, which reads like a traditional book - "Gandhi without tears" - is drawn from a wide range of his reflections on world peace. "It is not that I am incapable of anger, but I succeed on almost all occasions to keep my feelings under control. Such a struggle leaves one stronger for it. The more I work at this, the more I feel delight in my life, the delight in the scheme of the universe. It gives me a peace and a meaning of the mysteries of nature that I have no power to describe.">[via]More editions of All Men Are Brothers:
Aloneby Richard Evelyn ByrdISBN 0874773881 (0-87477-388-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Alpine Path: The Story of My Careerby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0889020191 (0-88902-019-1)
Hardcover, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
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An Autobiographyby Edwin Muir, Peter ButterISBN 0862414237 (0-86241-423-7)
Softcover, Canongate Books
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The Autobiography of Leroi Jonesby Amiri BarakaISBN 0881910007 (0-88191-000-7)
Softcover, Independent Pub Group
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The Beckoning Silenceby Joe SimpsonISBN 0898869412 (0-89886-941-2)
Softcover, Mountaineers Books
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Before the Dawn: An Autobiographyby Gerry AdamsISBN 0863222897 (0-86322-289-7)
Softcover, Brandon Books
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Book of Dreamsby Jack Kerouac, Robert CreeleyISBN 0872863808 (0-87286-380-8)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Dreams'Book summary:San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: City Lights Books, 1981. Book. VG. Soft cover. Reprint. Jack Kerouac's private dream record of what he saw in his sleep, "the poetic raw material of the Kerouac sage, the substrata of his novelas and commentary upon them," dedicated to "the roses of the unborn.'' [via]
Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story Of A Nineteen-Year-Old's Capture By The Stone-Age Motilone Indians And The Impact He Had Living Out The Gospel Among Themby Bruce OlsonISBN 0884191338 (0-88419-133-8)
Softcover, Strang Communications Co
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C. H. Spurgeon Autobiography: The Full Harvest 1860-1892by Spurgeon, Susannah and Harrald, Joseph, Joseph HarraldISBN 0851511821 (0-85151-182-1)
Hardcover, Banner of Truth
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Chasing the Dragon: One Womans Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Densby Jackie Pullinger, Andrew QuickeISBN 0830734007 (0-8307-3400-7)
Softcover, Regal Books
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A Child of the Centuryby Ben HechtISBN 0917657411 (0-917657-41-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Christmas Memoryby Truman Capote, Etienne DelessertISBN 0871919567 (0-87191-956-7)
Hardcover, Creative Co
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Co Aytch Maury Grays First Tennessee Regiment: Or, a Side Show of the Big Showby Sam R. WatkinsISBN 0916107434 (0-916107-43-4)
Hardcover, Broadfoot Pub Co
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The Confessionsby St Augustine, Michael P. Foley, Peter Brown, F. J. SheedISBN 0872208168 (0-87220-816-8)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions'Book summary:The second hackett edition of the sheed translation, a classic in its own right, offers a wealth of notes on philosophical, theological, historical, and liturgical issues raised by the confessions, as well as paragraph numbers of the latin critical edition, and a thorough index [via]
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Confessions of an Art Addictby Peggy Guggenheim, Alfred Hamilton BarrISBN 0880015764 (0-88001-576-4)
Softcover, Ecco Pr
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Confessions of an Original Sinnerby John LukacsISBN 0899199569 (0-89919-956-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Conscience of a Conservativeby Barry GoldwaterISBN 0895265400 (0-89526-540-0)
Softcover, Regnery Pub
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De Profundisby Oscar Wilde, Rupert Hart-Davis, W. H. AudenISBN 0879518707 (0-87951-870-7)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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Fear and Loathing:on the Campaign Trail '72: On the Campaign Trail '72by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0879320532 (0-87932-053-2)
Hardcover, Straight Arrow Books
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First Lady from Plainsby Rosalynn CarterISBN 0896215652 (0-89621-565-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Fragments of the Centuryby Michael HarringtonISBN 0841502838 (0-8415-0283-8)
Hardcover, Saturday Review Press
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George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Golden Stringby Bede GriffithsISBN 0872431630 (0-87243-163-0)
Softcover, Templegate Pub
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Hiding Placeby John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, Corrie Ten BoomISBN 0916441806 (0-916441-80-6)
Hardcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hiding Place'Book summary:During the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family became leaders in the Dutch underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis. For their pains, all but Corrie found death in a concentration camp. Listeners will experience all the fear and tension associated with hiding from the Nazis during World War II. [via]
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I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinsonby Jackie Robinson, Hank AaronISBN 0880015446 (0-88001-544-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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I Was a Teenage Dominatrix: A Memoirby Shawna KenneyISBN 0867195304 (0-86719-530-4)
Softcover, Last Gasp of San Francisco
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In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesisby Philip K. Dick, Lawrence SutinISBN 0887330932 (0-88733-093-2)
Softcover, Underwood Books
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Intimate Journalsby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0872861465 (0-87286-146-5)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intimate Journals'Book summary:Dismissed as a vulgar drug addict who wrote about sex and death, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) went largely unrecognized until the 20th century. This collection of the notorious poet's essays transcends the squalor of his financial ruin and the torture of physical decline to offer compelling thoughts on his world, society, and philosophy.[via]More editions of Intimate Journals:
Italian Journeyby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0865470766 (0-86547-076-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountainsby Isabella BishopISBN 0891740252 (0-89174-025-2)
Softcover, Comstock Book Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains'Book summary:The American West of the late nineteenth century had seen its share of foreign travelers but none could compare to Isabella Bird, the archetypal Victorian Lady Traveler. The daughter of an English clergyman, Bird was on her way back from Hawaii, which she had spent nearly a year exploring on horseback, when she decided to stop off to investigate the Wild West. Having suffered from ill health as a child, Bird therefore threw herself into a life of open air and exercise as a means of recovery. A Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains is told through letters the intrepid author wrote to her sister in the winter of 1873 regarding this equestrian sojourn during which she explored the magnificent unspoiled wilderness of Colorado, ascended the highest mountains, observed the abundant wildlife, and observed life on the remote frontier in all its phases. Birds quest for equestrian adventure was to turn her into a compulsive traveler and eventually take her on other equestrian journeys to equally inaccessible places including Persia, Tibet, Japan, Korea and Morocco. Plus she was also the first woman ever to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of England. Yet this remains the most popular book the prolific author, and indefatigable traveler, ever penned. Enormously entertaining and amply illustrated, A Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains remains a vivid account of an astounding equestrian journey. [via]
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountainsby Isabella L. BirdISBN 0860682676 (0-86068-267-6)
Softcover, Virago Pr
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Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861by Victoria, Arthur HelpsISBN 0850670705 (0-85067-070-5)
Hardcover, Folio Society
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Lennon Remembersby John Lennon, Jann WennerISBN 0879320095 (0-87932-009-5)
Hardcover, Straight Arrow Books
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Lonely Planet the Last Grain Raceby Eric NewbyISBN 0864427689 (0-86442-768-9)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonesome Travellerby Jack KerouacISBN 084881746X (0-8488-1746-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonesome Traveller'Book summary:In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story fo the years when he was writing th books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years of wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer, and a fire lookout on the crest of Desolation Peak in the Cascde Mountains.[via]More editions of Lonesome Traveller:
Mellymobile, 1970-1981by George MellyISBN 0860511626 (0-86051-162-6)
Hardcover, Robson Books
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Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial and HopeISBN 0831773197 (0-8317-7319-7)
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Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponteby Lorenzo Da Ponte, Elisabeth Abbott, Charles RosenISBN 0940322358 (0-940322-35-8)
Softcover, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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Merry Hallby Beverley Nichols, Nichols BeverleyISBN 0881924172 (0-88192-417-2)
Hardcover, Timber Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Merry Hall'Book summary:First in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England. Though Mr. Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious. [via]
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Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977by Benedict XVI, Cardinal RatzingerISBN 0898707021 (0-89870-702-1)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977'Book summary:Rich in humor and culture, passion and love for the cause of God and of man, Milestones is the autobiography of one of the most influential men in the Catholic Church at the turn of the millennium. In his famous Apology, Cardinal Newman accounted for his conversion to Catholicism. In this biography, which in certain respects recalls Newman's masterpiece, Ratzinger tells of his family life, the years of the Nazi oppression and of the war, his extraordinary academic path, and his participation in the Second Vatican Council. Illustrated. [via]
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The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Meby Lillian Gish, Ann PinchotISBN 0916515400 (0-916515-40-0)
Softcover, Mercury House
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Much Ado About Meby Fred AllenISBN 0884112918 (0-88411-291-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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My Brilliant Careerby Miles FranklinISBN 0860681939 (0-86068-193-9)
Softcover, Virago
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My Traitor's Heartby Rian MalanISBN 087113229X (0-87113-229-X)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Off to the Side: A Memoirby Jim HarrisonISBN 0871138603 (0-87113-860-3)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0898705525 (0-89870-552-5)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addictby Peggy GuggenheimISBN 0876633378 (0-87663-337-8)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Owls in the Familyby Farley MowatISBN 0881038636 (0-88103-863-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Path to Romeby Hilaire BellocISBN 0898709202 (0-89870-920-2)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Petrarch's Secret: Or, the Soul's Conflict With Passion Three Dialogues Between Himself and S. Augustineby Francesco PetrarchISBN 0883555964 (0-88355-596-4)
Hardcover, Gibson Pr
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Pole to Pole: North to South by Camel, River Raft, and Balloonby Michael PalinISBN 0912333413 (0-912333-41-3)
Softcover, Bay Soma Publishing
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James HoggISBN 0862413400 (0-86241-340-0)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:Written in 1824, James Hogg's masterpiece is a brilliant portrayal of the power of evil. Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The reader, while recognising the stranger as the Devil, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally deciding whether, for all his vividness and wit, he is more than a figment of the imagination. This is the only complete edition of Hogg's Confessions, since it was first published. All subsequent editions, until now, have altered the text or omitted both the engraved Frontispiece and the (fictional) Dedication. In his notes to the Canongate edition, David Groves discusses the significance of both, in terms of the novels structures and ironies. [via]
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Quench the Lampby Alice TaylorISBN 0863221122 (0-86322-112-2)
Hardcover, Brandon
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The Reveries of a Solitary Walkerby Jean J. Rousseau, Charles E. ButterworthISBN 0872201635 (0-87220-163-5)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Reveries of a Solitary Walkerby Charles E. Butterworth, Jean J. RousseauISBN 0872201627 (0-87220-162-7)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Right from the Beginningby Patrick J. BuchananISBN 0895267454 (0-89526-745-4)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Rediscovered Diary of Opal Whiteleyby Benjamin Hoff, Opal Stanley WhiteleyISBN 0899194443 (0-89919-444-3)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Skating to Antarcticaby Jenny DiskiISBN 0880016035 (0-88001-603-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Jenny Diski's obsession with the cool purity of white began early in life, when as a small child, she was taken for weekly skating lessons at the local ice rink. Between practicing figure eights, she would watch the Zamboni move across the ice scraping away the pitted, blade-scored surface: "It was all taken away in minutes and underneath was pure, untouched surface again, gleaming milky white, virgin, immaculate ice." This gleaming, immaculate ice stands in stark contrast to Diski's dark and emotionally fraught home life with two abusive parents. Skating to Antarctica is an unusual blend of travel essay and personal memoir, one that uses the phases of a physical journey to trace the trajectory of the inner life. Both journeys begin for Diski when her 18-year-old daughter Chloe decides to search for the maternal grandmother she has never met. It has been 30 years since Diski last saw her mother, and she has no desire to find her; is it merely coincidence that she books her passage to Antarctica shortly after Chloe begins the hunt?
Weaving painful memories of a childhood spent entangled in her parents' vicious sexual psychodramas and an adolescence in and out of mental wards into an account of her slow journey south, Diski imbues both voyages of discovery with a resonance that comes largely from twinning these tales. Like all polar travelers, she has the experiences of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton before her; instinctively she rejects the "heroism" of Scott's pointless death in a blizzard, embracing, instead Shackleton's pragmatic rescue of his stranded crew. "The will to live was not strong in my family," Diski writes near the end of her book; Skating to Antarctica, however, is proof that this apple at least fell far, far from the tree. [via]
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0899664008 (0-89966-400-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-17by Peter King, Ernest ShackletonISBN 0943955505 (0-943955-50-5)
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The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Stormtroop Officer on the Western Frontby Ernst JungerISBN 0865274231 (0-86527-423-1)
Softcover, Howard Fertig Pub
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Sun & Steelby Yukio Pseud Mishima, John BesterISBN 0870114255 (0-87011-425-5)
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Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovichby DmitriÖI Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Solomon Volkov, Antonina W. BouisISBN 0879100214 (0-87910-021-4)
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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'BrienISBN 0833574868 (0-8335-7486-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Things They Carried'Book summary:"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Thoughts and Adventuresby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0850522595 (0-85052-259-5)
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Through Gates of Splendorby Elisabeth ElliotISBN 0842371516 (0-8423-7151-6)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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A Time of Giftsby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 084466264X (0-8446-6264-X)
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To the Heart of the Stormby Will EisnerISBN 0878161333 (0-87816-133-3)
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The Unquiet Graveby Cyril ConnollyISBN 0892550589 (0-89255-058-9)
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Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been collected in book form and published to wide acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. The Unquiet Grave is considered by many to be his most enduring work. It is a highly personal journal written during the devastation of World War II, filled with reflective passages that deal with aging, the break-up of a long term relationship, and the horrors of the war around him. It is also a wonderfully varied intellectual feast: a collection of aphorisms, epigrams, and quotations from such masters of European literature as Horace, Baudelaire, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, and Goethe. Dazzlingly original in both form and content, The Unquiet Grave has continued to influence generations of writers. [via]More editions of The Unquiet Grave:
Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen Pleaseby John MillsISBN 0899190243 (0-89919-024-3)
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The Voyage of Charles Darwinby Charles Darwin, Christoher RallingISBN 0831792124 (0-8317-9212-4)
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We Took to the Woodsby Louise D. RichISBN 0892720166 (0-89272-016-6)
Softcover, Down East Books
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Words to Say Itby Marie CardinalISBN 0941324095 (0-941324-09-5)
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Writing the Memoirby Judith BarringtonISBN 0933377509 (0-933377-50-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing the Memoir'Book summary:[via]Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80,000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there." It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics to questions of craft and the crucial retrospective voice. An appendix provides information on legal issues.
Judith Barrington, an award-winning memoir writer and acclaimed writing teacher, is attuned to the forces, both external and internal, that work to stop a writer; her tone is respectful of the difficulties and encouraging of taking risks. Her nimble prose, her deep belief in the importance of this genre, and her delight in the rich array of memoirists writing today make this book more than the typical "how-to" creative writing book. In this second edition the author has added new material and reflects on issues raised since Writing the Memoir was written, early in the memoir boom.
"No student of memoir writing could fail to learn from this wise, pragmatic, and confiding book. One hears on every page the voice of an intelligent and responsive teacher, with years of thinking about memoir behind her."Vivian Gornick
Judith Barrington is the author of Lifesaving: A Memoir and numerous individual memoirs which have been published in literary magazines and anthologies. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Trying to Be an Honest Woman, History and Geography, and Horses and the Human Soul (forthcoming in 2002). She has taught creative writing for the past twenty years.
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Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Artby Judith BarringtonISBN 0933377401 (0-933377-40-1)
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Zen and the Art of Writing and The Joy of Writing: Two Essaysby Ray BradburyISBN 0912264799 (0-912264-79-9)
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Joni: La Inolvidable Historia De La Lucha De Una Joven Contra La Cuadriplejia Y La Depresionby Joni Eareckson TadaISBN 0829707743 (0-8297-0774-3)
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