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Abba Eban: An Autobiographyby Abba Solomon EbanISBN 0394493028 (0-394-49302-8)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Thomas CooleyISBN 0393966402 (0-393-96640-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)by Mark Twain, E.W. KembleISBN 0394605217 (0-394-60521-7)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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Among the Porcupines: A Memoirby Carol MatthauISBN 0394582667 (0-394-58266-7)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among the Porcupines: A Memoir'Book summary:The former society woman describes her childhood in foster homes; her transformation into a debutante; her marriages to William Saroyan and Walter Matthau; and her friendship with Capote, Gloria Vanderbilt, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, Rex Harrison, and others. 50,000 first printing. [via]
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An Autobiographyby Igor StravinskyISBN 0393318567 (0-393-31856-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Autobiography'Book summary:While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this bookthe composer's firstwe hear from the man himself.
An Autobiography chronicles the first half-century of Stravinsky's life, all the while offering his opinions and "abhorrences." A Parsifal performance at Bayreuth? "At the end of a quarter of an hour I could bear no more." Nijinsky? "The poor boy knew nothing of music." Spanish folk music? "Endless preliminary chords of guitar playing." [via]More editions of An Autobiography:
A Bag of Marblesby Joseph JoffoISBN 0395193923 (0-395-19392-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty/91124by Edmund WhiteISBN 0394564448 (0-394-56444-8)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beautiful Room Is Empty/91124'Book summary:When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
"With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Eleanor G. Vance, Susan Jeffers, Antigone, Inc. StaffISBN 0394865758 (0-394-86575-8)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Black Knight, White Knightby Gloria VanderbiltISBN 0394544129 (0-394-54412-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Book of Laughter and Forgettingby Milan KunderaISBN 0394508963 (0-394-50896-3)
Hardcover, A. A. Knopf
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The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Familyby Oscar LewisISBN 0394702808 (0-394-70280-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family'Book summary:A pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist, The Children of Sanchez is hailed around the world as a watershed achievement in the study of povertya uniquely intimate investigation, as poignant today as when it was first published.
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It is the epic story of the Sánchez family, told entirely by its membersJesus, the 50-year-old patriarch, and his four adult childrenas their lives unfold in the Mexico City slum they call home. Weaving together their extraordinary personal narratives, Oscar Lewis creates a sympathetic but ultimately tragic portrait that is at once harrowing and humane, mystifying and moving.
An invaluable document, full of verve and pathos, The Children of Sanchez reads like the best of fiction, with the added impact that it is all, undeniably, true.More editions of The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family:
China Menby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0394424638 (0-394-42463-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Choice of Days: Essays from Happy Days, Newspaper Days and Heathen Daysby H. L. MenckenISBN 0394747607 (0-394-74760-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Closing the Ringby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0395075351 (0-395-07535-1)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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The Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglasby William Orville DouglasISBN 0394492404 (0-394-49240-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglasby William O. DouglasISBN 0394749022 (0-394-74902-2)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Jerome Hamilton BuckleyISBN 0393958280 (0-393-95828-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition reprints the original 1850 text of Dickens most autobiographical novel, and his own personal favorite, including all of the line drawings by Phiz.
The editor has made necessary typographical corrections and carefully introduced and annotated the text for the student reader.
Dickens number plans for David Copperfield, which reveal his practice both as a serial writer and as a craftsman, are also included.
"Backgrounds" focuses on Dickens personal involvement with and response to the novels publication. Included are passages from his letters relating to David Copperfield, an autobiographical fragment, his preface to the 1869 edition of the novel, and a relevant excerpt from Little Dorrit.
"Criticism" is comprised of twelve essays by distinguished Dickensians representing a wide range of judgment and analysis. John Forster, Matthew Arnold, E. K. Brown, Gwendolyn B. Needham, Monroe Engel, J. Hillis Miller, Mark Spilka, Harry Stone, Bert G. Hornback, Garrett Stewart, Robert L. Patten, and Alexander Walsh provide a variety of perspectives.
A Chronology of Dickens Life and Works and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Death Be Not Proudby John J. GuntherISBN 0394604695 (0-394-60469-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Diaries of a Young Poetby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0393318508 (0-393-31850-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diaries of a Young Poet'Book summary:"In the diaries [Rilke] kept from 1898 to 1900, now translated for the first time . . . the overall impression is that of a genius just coming into his own powers."Boston Phoenix
In April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet twenty-three, began a diary of his Florence visit. It was to record, in the form of an imaginary dialogue with his mentor and then-lover, Lou Andreas-Salome, his firsthand experiences of early Renaissance art. The project quickly expanded to include not only thoughts on life, history, and artistic genius, but also unguarded moments of revulsion, self-doubt, and manic expectation. The result is an intimate glimpse into the young Rilke, already experimenting brilliantly with language and metaphor. "For the lover of Rilke, this superb translation of the poet's early diaries will be a watershed. Through Edward Snow's and Michael Winkler's brilliantly supple and faithful translation . . . a new and more balanced picture of Rilke will emerge."Ralph Freedman Illustrations, photographs, maps. [via]More editions of Diaries of a Young Poet:
Down These Mean Streetsby Piri ThomasISBN 0394719840 (0-394-71984-0)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Yearby May SartonISBN 0393313883 (0-393-31388-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Fan's Notesby ExleyISBN 0394729153 (0-394-72915-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Fear No Evilby Nathan SharanskyISBN 0394558782 (0-394-55878-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Gathering Stormby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0395075378 (0-395-07537-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gathering Storm'Book summary:Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed substantial literary talents. These two factors combine to make The Gathering Storm a unique work. The first volume of Churchill's memoirs, this selection is broken into two parts. The first, "From War to War," consists of Churchill's critical observations on the settlement of World War I and its place in the causes of the Second World War. The second volume contains letters and memoranda from the British government--of which Churchill was part--as the country plunged unprepared into war. This stands as the best of history: written as it was made, by the man who made it. [via]
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The Grand Allianceby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0395075386 (0-395-07538-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Great Escapeby Paul BrickhillISBN 0393325792 (0-393-32579-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Escape'Book summary:"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale."Philadelphia Inquirer
They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred menevery one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year. Made into the classic movie starring Steve McQueen. 16 pages of photographs [via]More editions of Great Escape:
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Hold On, Mr. Presidentby Sam DonaldsonISBN 0394553934 (0-394-55393-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Hostage to Fortuneby Ernest Kellogg GannISBN 0394499840 (0-394-49984-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0394847245 (0-394-84724-5)
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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiographyby May SartonISBN 0393312488 (0-393-31248-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In the Beginningby Irina RatushinskayaISBN 039457141X (0-394-57141-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Into the Heart of Borneoby Redmond O'HanlonISBN 0394755405 (0-394-75540-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Iris and Her Friendsby John BayleyISBN 0393320790 (0-393-32079-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Jigsaw : An Unsentimental Educationby Sybille BedfordISBN 0394493400 (0-394-49340-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Journal of the Plague Yearby Paula R. BackscheiderISBN 0393961885 (0-393-96188-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journal of the Plague Year'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition of one of Defoes most important works reprints the 1722 text, the only edition published in Defoes lifetime.
The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eyewitness account of the last great plague in England.
"Backgrounds" encourages comparison of 1665 documents with those of the early 1720s, when England feared a new outbreak of the plague.
Included are official government orders and newspaper accounts as well as writings by Defoe, John Graunt, the College of Physicians, and others.
"Contexts" includes eight comparative pieces united by the theme of a community in crisis.
From Thucydides to Boccaccio to modern accounts by Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Susan Sontag, this collection represents some of the most celebrated observers and critics in western civilization who have seen what plagues reveal about human nature.
"Criticism" reprints seven of the best essays on the novel, including interpretations by Sir Walter Scott, Maximillian E. Novak, John J. Richetti, and John Bender, among others.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of A Journal of the Plague Year:
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The Journals of John Cheeverby John CheeverISBN 0394572742 (0-394-57274-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Journey in Ladakhby Andrew HarveyISBN 0395340713 (0-395-34071-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Journey to the Western Islands of Scotlandby James Boswell, Samuel JohnsonISBN 0395051819 (0-395-05181-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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L' Amante Anglaiseby Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 0394750225 (0-394-75022-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Letters of a Woman Homesteaderby Elinore Pruitt StewartISBN 0395321379 (0-395-32137-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Herter NortonISBN 0393310396 (0-393-31039-6)
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Letters to a Young Poetby Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver KappusISBN 0394537629 (0-394-53762-9)
Hardcover, Random House
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Life Is a Banquetby Rosalind RussellISBN 0394421345 (0-394-42134-5)
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The Loverby Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 0394545885 (0-394-54588-5)
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Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.
Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today. [via]More editions of The Lover:
Memoirsby Andrei D. Sakharov, Richard LourieISBN 0394537408 (0-394-53740-8)
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Mr. Justice and Mrs. Black: The Memoirs of Hugo L. Black and Elizabeth Blackby Hugo L. Black, Elizabeth BlackISBN 0394544323 (0-394-54432-3)
Hardcover, Horizon Book Promotions
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My First Summer in the Sierraby John MuirISBN 0395285216 (0-395-28521-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My First Summer in the Sierra'Book summary:John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become the famed conservationist whom he liked to call "John o' the Mountains" when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada not long after the end of the Civil War. Having caught a glimpse of such magical places as Tuolumne Meadows and El Capitan, Muir ached to return, and in the summer of 1869 he signed on with a crew of shepherds and drove a flock of 2,500 woolly critters toward the headwaters of the Merced River.
The diary he kept while tending sheep forms the heart of My First Summer in the Sierra; published in 1911, it enticed thousands of Americans to visit the Yosemite country. The book is full of the concerns Muir would later voice as America's foremost preservationist and wildlands advocate, which would bear fruit in the creation of several national parks and monuments. And it resounds with Muir's nearly pantheistic regard for the natural world: with celebrations of the Sierra's lizards that "dart about on the hot rocks, swift as dragonflies," its mountain lions and tall trees and fierce thunderstorms and bears; with Muir's overarching awe for places that civilization had yet to tame. Though perhaps a little purple by modern standards, Muir's book continues to inspire readers to seek out such places for themselves and make them their own--and as such it stands among the enduring classics of environmental literature. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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My First Forty Yearsby Plácido DomingoISBN 0394523296 (0-394-52329-6)
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Naked Lunchby William S. BurroughsISBN 0394538838 (0-394-53883-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Lunch'Book summary:"He was," as Salon's Gary Kamiya notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's."
Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroine addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.
Burroughs's literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself. [via]
The Name Above the Title: An Autobiographyby Frank CapraISBN 0394712056 (0-394-71205-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Narrative and Selected Writingsby Frederick Douglass, Michael MeyerISBN 0394329813 (0-394-32981-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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The Norton Book of Women's Livesby Phyllis RoseISBN 0393312909 (0-393-31290-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Book of Women's Lives'Book summary:This amazingly rich lode of memoirs, letters, and diaries jumbles together a great roster of 20th-century women, including Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Bernadette Devlin, Emily Mashinini, Sara Suleri, and Santha Rama Rau.
Le Ly Hayslip, the sixth child in a Vietnamese peasant family, describes a life pinched between the violence of Viet Cong revolutionaries and South Vietnamese republicans. Poet and lesbian feminist Audre Lorde writes about being introduced to the wonders of reading as a stubborn, bright, legally blind youngster. "I lay spreadeagled on the floor of the Children's Room like a furious brown toad, screaming bloody murder and embarrassing my mother to death," she recalls. Jill Ker Conway tells of her father's depression and death when a drought crushed their sheep farm in the Australian outback.
The excerpts drop us smack into the middle of each life; inventive cross-referencing encourages the reader to fly back and forth, sampling other writings on "filial exasperation," for example, or child's-eye views of romance and war. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
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Once upon a Time: A True Storyby Gloria VanderbiltISBN 039454112X (0-394-54112-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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An Open Bookby John HustonISBN 0394404653 (0-394-40465-3)
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Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartlandby Micahel DirdaISBN 0393326144 (0-393-32614-4)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North, Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even Thereby Harriet E. WilsonISBN 0394532104 (0-394-53210-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Blackby Henry Louis Gates, H. E. WilsonISBN 0394715586 (0-394-71558-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Painted Birdby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0394604334 (0-394-60433-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Play Power: Exploring the International Undergroundby Richard NevilleISBN 0394440536 (0-394-44053-6)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Play Power: Exploring the International Underground'Book summary:Richard Neville was a main figure of the 60s youth scene. Making a name for himself by founding the subversive review OZ in Australia, for which he faced an obscenity trial, he went on to issue his counterculture publication from the UK while roaming the world to report on what the "Underground" was up to. PLAY POWER is an exhaustive (300 pages) compilation of anecdotes about the Underground scene, mainly 1967 to early 1970, with a few references back to the American civil rights movement or Beatnik predecessors. The book has little structure, being simply a series of self-contained writings charting some events that caught Neville's interest. The reader is soon absorbed in these years of wild happenings. Neville describes topics from making love behind the Paris barricades in May 1968 to roaming the Istanbul-Kathmandu trail to how to buy dope or even grow your own. There are sad vignettes and heartwarming bits such as an old man's reminisces about joining the Underground after a long life as a straight. In the last part of the book he draws a useful distinction between the Underground and the New Left, two scenes which tend to be conflated in stereotypical depictions of the 1960s today. Neville writes about these massive social changes with obvious delight, feeling that these self-empowered young people are a wave of the future. That the Underground pretty much evaporated after the book was published makes this optimism rather poignant. Still, one mostly can't help share his enthusiasm for the promise of this era. For anyone interested in the radicalism of the late 1960s, Neville's book is a must-read. Sad that it fell out of print--though it is so much of its time that a new edition would be hard to come up with--but seek it out on the used market with zeal. [via]
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Plexusby Henry MillerISBN 0394623703 (0-394-62370-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Numberby Jacobo Timerman, Toby TalbotISBN 0394514483 (0-394-51448-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Private Domainby Paul TaylorISBN 0394516834 (0-394-51683-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : An Anthologyby Lester Bangs, Greil MarcusISBN 039453896X (0-394-53896-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Recovering: A Journalby May SartonISBN 039331717X (0-393-31717-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Remembrance of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 0394711831 (0-394-71183-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way, Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394711823 (0-394-71182-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:Here are the first two volumes of Prousts monumental achievement, Swanns Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passedhis mothers good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swanns daughter Gilbertespring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grovewhich won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant famethe narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.
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Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1-3 Box Setby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394712439 (0-394-71243-9)
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Remembrance of Things Past/Captive, the Fugitive, Time Regainedby Marcel ProustISBN 039471184X (0-394-71184-X)
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Return to Earthby Wayne Warga, Edwin E. AldrinISBN 0394488326 (0-394-48832-6)
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A Romantic Educationby Patricia HamplISBN 0393319059 (0-393-31905-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Roughing It in the Bush: Authoritative, Text Backgrounds, Criticismby Susanna Strickland MoodieISBN 0393926672 (0-393-92667-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Runawayby Lucy IrvineISBN 0394545109 (0-394-54510-9)
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Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way of Baseballby David Falkner, Sadaharu OhISBN 0394741056 (0-394-74105-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sculpting in Time : Reflections on the Cinemaby Andrey Tarkovsky, Kitty Hunter-BlairISBN 0394555996 (0-394-55599-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Showings Of Julian Of Norwichby Julian of Norwich, Denise N. BakerISBN 0393979156 (0-393-97915-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Showings Of Julian Of Norwich'Book summary:Julian of Norwich is among the most intriguing religious visionaries in Christian history.
Carefully edited for the undergraduate reader, this Norton Critical Edition includes an informed introduction, focusing on Julians theology and preparing students to understand the complex, controversial themes of the text, particularly Julians solution to the problem of evil in Revelation XIII and XIV. Paragraph divisions have been organized to emphasize the thematic units of each chapter, and the sentences have been punctuated for clarity.
The text included is a Middle English edition, based on the Paris manuscript (15801650) of the long text, with language akin to Chaucers and therefore more accessible than other Middle English editions.
"Contexts" includes contemporary texts that help students better understand Julians originality, including selections from works by Margery Kempe, Augustine, Aelred of Rievaulx, and Walter Hilton.
"Criticism" brings together interpretations that address the themes and style of the Showings by Sandra McEntire, Lynn Staley, B. A. Windeatt, and David Aers, among others.
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The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiographyby Gregor Von RezzoriISBN 0394574427 (0-394-57442-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Son of the Revolutionby Heng Liang, Judith Shapiro, Jerome A. CohenISBN 039452568X (0-394-52568-X)
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Son of the Revolutionby Judith Shapiro, Liang Heng, Heng LiangISBN 0394722744 (0-394-72274-4)
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Taking It like a Womanby Ann OakleyISBN 0394536428 (0-394-53642-8)
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Triumph and Tragedyby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0395075408 (0-395-07540-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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U and I: A True Storyby Nicholson BakerISBN 0394589947 (0-394-58994-7)
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The Vampire Chronicles/the Queen of the Damned/the Vampire Lestat/Interview With the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0394581865 (0-394-58186-5)
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The Vampire Lestatby Anne RiceISBN 0394534433 (0-394-53443-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vampire Lestat'Book summary:After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints. But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview, finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat.
As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan's Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed "The Vampire Lestat") and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species.
While very different from the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat has proved to be the foundation for a broader range of narratives than is possible from Louis's brooding, passive perspective. The character of Lestat is one of Rice's most complex and popular literary alter egos, and his Faustian strivings have a mythopoeic resonance that links the novel to a grand tradition of spiritual and supernatural fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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What It's All Aboutby Michael CaineISBN 039458421X (0-394-58421-X)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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What's to Become of the Boy? : Or, Something to Do with Booksby Heinrich Böll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0394530160 (0-394-53016-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Working It Out : 23 Women Writers, Artists, Scientists and Scholars Talk about Their Lives and Workby Sara Ruddick, Pamela DanielsISBN 0394735579 (0-394-73557-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The World: Travels 1950-2000by Jan MorrisISBN 0393326489 (0-393-32648-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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