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Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943by Erica FischerISBN 1555834507 (1-55583-450-7)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943'Book summary:Acclaimed in Germany and England, this tragic and remarkable real-life love story won a Lambda Literary Award when it was first published in America in 1995. Lilly Wust ("Aimée") was a conventional middle-class mother of four, estranged from her philandering husband, when she met Felice Schragenheim ("Jaguar") in 1941. Their passionate affair unfolded against the backdrop of the deportation of Jews from Berlin, but several months passed before Felice could even bring herself to tell Lilly that she was Jewish and living illegally on the streets. "I knew, of course, what it meant," Lilly recalled in old age. "Not for a moment did I think that I too could be in danger. On the contrary, all I wanted to do now was to save her." Lilly's heroic efforts to conceal and protect Felice through the next two years make for painful and inspiring reading. Felice was arrested in August 1944 and sent her last letter to Lilly four months later. In 1981 Lilly was awarded the German Federal Service Cross, though no one could read this as a happy ending. --Regina Marler [via]
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Aleister Crowley - Nature of the Beastby WilsonISBN 190465827X (1-904658-27-X)
Softcover, Aeon Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aleister Crowley - Nature of the Beast'Book summary:Poet, Magician, Mountaineer, Polemicist and Pornographer, Aleister Crowley was the most famous, or infamous, name in twentieth century occultism. The popular image of him as, in the words of Francis King, "an insatiable sexual athlete, a pimp who lived on the immoral earnings of his girl-friends, and a junkie who daily took enough heroin to kill a roomful of people", has a basis in fact; but there were other, less obnoxious and despicable aspects of this highly original character.
Crowleys greatest legacy is his eclectic occult system: his Magick persists, a potent synthesis of Golden Dawn magic, oriental esoteric techniques, sexual magic, and the all-encompassing Law of Thelema with its two fundamental principles, "Every man and woman is a star" and the notorious "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law". With his usual flair and style, Colin Wilson brings this complex and enigmatic figure to life and provides an engrossing portrait of the self-styled Great Beast, the man whom the contemporary press dubbed The Wickedest Man in the World. [via]More editions of Aleister Crowley - Nature of the Beast:
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Autobiography of Anthony Trollopeby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1594623198 (1-59462-319-8)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography of Anthony Trollope'Book summary:Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope was edited for students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT¿, SAT¿, AP¿ (Advanced Placement¿), GRE¿, LSAT¿, GMAT¿ or similar examinations.
PSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE¿, AP¿ and Advanced Placement¿ are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved. [via]More editions of Autobiography of Anthony Trollope:
The Autobiography of Charles Darwinby Charles Darwin, Francis DarwinISBN 1573928348 (1-57392-834-8)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Charles Darwin'Book summary:This gentle self-portrait provides a unique insight into the beliefs and principles of the moral man whose theories on evolution shook the foundations of traditional religion and whose legacy courts both controversy and the accolade of being part of scientific orthodoxy in equal measure to this day. [via]
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Bad Bloodby Lorna SageISBN 0060938080 (0-06-093808-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Artby Phoebe HobanISBN 0140236090 (0-14-023609-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art'Book summary:This minutely reported book is as much a portrait of the frenzied, prodigal New York art world of the 1980s as it is a biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died of a drug overdose at age 27 in 1988. Basquiat, one of very few African American artists to acquire an international reputation, left a thick web of dealers, collectors, friends, lovers, paintings, drawings, and used syringes behind him. Author Phoebe Hoban seems to have unblinkingly interviewed or examined them all. While she duly registers Basquiat's sad childhood, with his unstable Puerto Rican mother and punishing Haitian father, she doesn't make much of the deeper veins of sorrow and self-destruction that may have motivated the artist and informed his art. Rather, she allows his celebrity, which whisked him from street urchin to art star, to be the central trajectory of this story. The Warhol protégé would probably approve, as he was the primary obliterator of his own psychological depths, throwing away his short, phenomenally productive life in the edgy club and drug scene of downtown Manhattan. The miracle is that Basquiat was so good, and so serious, an artist, surrounded as he was by hype and cash. Hoban's book is a fluid, intricate, authoritative dissection of a time, a place, and--almost--a person. --Peggy Moorman [via]
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath, Frances McCulloughISBN 0060573090 (0-06-057309-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayasby Michka Assayas, BonoISBN 1594481733 (1-59448-173-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayas'Book summary:For the first time ever, Bono--the biggest rock star in the world--tells his life story.
Bono's career is unlike any other in rock history. As the lead singer of U2, Bono has sold 130 million albums, won fourteen Grammys, and played numerous sold-out world tours, but he has also lobbied and worked with world leaders from Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to Nelson Mandela on debt relief, AIDS, and other critical global issues. He has collaborated with the same musicians for nearly three decades and has been married to his childhood sweetheart since 1982. His life, at all turns, resists the rock star clichés.
In a series of intimate conversations with his friend Michka Assayas, a music journalist who has been with the band since the very beginning, Bono reflects on his transformation from the extrovert singer of a small Irish post-punk band into one of the most famous individuals in the world; and from an international celebrity to an influential spokesperson for the Third World. He speaks candidly about his faith, family, commitment, influences, service, and passion. Bono: A Self-Portrait in Conversation is the closest we will come, for now, to a memoir from the iconic frontman of U2. [via]More editions of Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayas:
The Bradbury Chroniclesby Sam WellerISBN 0060545844 (0-06-054584-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burtonby Byron FarwellISBN 0140120688 (0-14-012068-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton'Book summary:The scope of this biography of Richard Burton does full justice to his life. "no man can be all things at once, no matter how hard he tried, but no man tried harder than Richard Francis Burton". He made significant contributions in the fields of literature and geography. He was also a poet, traveller, soldier, diplomat, inventor, explorer, archaeologist, student of religion and more besides. Above all, however, Burton was an adventurer. [via]
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Condiby Antonia FelixISBN 1557046751 (1-55704-675-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Condi: The Condoleezza Rice Storyby Antonia FelixISBN 1557045399 (1-55704-539-9)
Hardcover, Newmarket Pr
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Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckleyby David BrowneISBN 0061076082 (0-06-107608-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Edmund Campionby Evlyn WaughISBN 1586170430 (1-58617-043-0)
Hardcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edmund Campion'Book summary:Evelyn Waugh presented his biography of St. Edmund Campion, the Elizabethan poet, scholar and gentleman who became the haunted, trapped and murdered priest as "a simple, perfectly true story of heroism and holiness."
It is written with a novelist's eye for the telling incident and with all the elegance and feeling of a master of English prose. From the years of success as an Oxford scholar, to entry into the newly founded Society of Jesus and a professorship in Prague, Campion's life was an inexorable progress towards the doomed mission to England. There followed pursuit, betrayal, a spirited defense of loyalty to the Queen, and a horrifying martyrs death at Tyburn. [via]
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Eleniby Nicholas GageISBN 1885778686 (1-885778-68-6)
Softcover, Seaburn Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleni'Book summary:The bestselling book by Nicholas Gage, the leading author of Greek ancestry. [via]
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Emperor of Scentby Chandler BurrISBN 1417634480 (1-4176-3448-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperamentsby Edmund GosseISBN 1845880188 (1-84588-018-8)
Softcover, Nonsuch Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments'Book summary:[via]Father & Son is the memoir of the childhood and young adulthood of the author Edmund Gosse. Both his parents were members of the religious sect the "Plymouth Brethren," and it was in an atmosphere of strict adherence to the teaching of this religion that Edmund grew up. From an early age he was taught that imagination was a sin, was told stories of missionaries rather than fairytales, and had no childhood companions. Yet this was not an unhappy childhood and his affection for his parents is clear, but they were unable to suppress the imagination and curiosity that is natural to every child. Over time, as the child suffers the death of his mother and grows into a young man, he starts to question the faith of his father so rigidly enforced upon him and to develop his own interests in the outside world, which leads to him pursuing his own path in life. This is an affecting and often emotional portrayal of the everyday life and crises of a remarkable Victorian family.More editions of Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments:
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Fever Pitchby Nick HornbyISBN 0140237291 (0-14-023729-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fever Pitch'Book summary:In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to Fever Pitch--which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive." Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle.
Fever Pitch is not a typical memoir--there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embarrassingly obvious to the then 15-year-old that his white, suburban, middle-class roots made him a wimp with no sense of identity: "Yorkshire men, Lancastrians, Scots, the Irish, blacks, the rich, the poor, even Americans and Australians have something they can sit in pubs and bars and weep about." But a boy from Maidenhead could only dream of coming from a place with "its own tube station and West Indian community and terrible, insoluble social problems."
Fever Pitch reveals the very special intricacies of British football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which Hornby presents with remarkable humor and honesty--the "unique" chants sung at matches, the cold rain-soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing on the tracks, thousands of policemen waiting in anticipation for the cargo of hooligans. The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby's life--making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographerby Richard HolmesISBN 0140139362 (0-14-013936-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Georges Perec: A Life in Wordsby David BellosISBN 1860466362 (1-86046-636-2)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Georges Perec: A Life in Words'Book summary:The first complete biography of the author of "Life A User's Manual". [via]
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Gertrude and Aliceby Diana SouhamiISBN 004440848X (0-04-440848-X)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gertrude and Alice'Book summary:"Twentieth century literature is Gertrude Stein," or at least so thought Gertrude Stein. The sentiment was shared by Alice B. Toklas--her longtime companion--and few others. Stein and Toklas met in 1907 in Paris and famously shared their lives from that day forth, souls in perfect complement--two magnificently eccentric and idiosyncratic women who became a legendary entity. They were photographed by Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, painted and feted by Picasso, and visited by writers such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Eliot. Theirs is a fascinating story, and they have found a wonderful and oddly sympathetic chronicler in Diana Souhami, whose book The Trials of Radclyffe Hall met with critical acclaim, and who proves the perfect foil to the "Steins." Her own touch of genius is to barely consider Gertrude's grand oeuvre, sparing the rod to an already spoilt child and freeing her readership from the unpalatable fare she generally served up (by contrast, Alice was a dedicated and talented cook).
Literary success came late to Stein: she was 57 when The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was published. After Stein's death in 1946, Toklas became the classic devoted author's widow, until her own death, just short of her 90th birthday. She was buried alongside Stein in Paris's Père Lachaise cemetery, though her inscription is on the back of the tombstone, as ever behind her lover. Souhami's two lives, refreshingly stripped of biographical dead wood, positively crackle with high-powered gossip and bristle with bitchy anecdotes, though her laconic touch is never asleep to touching cadences and wonderful absurdities. As a writer, a "literary cubist" who once tried to give up nouns, Stein is more to be admired than respected. As a life force, a mover and shaker, and as a partner to Toklas, she was massively successful. Their couple's life together was their greatest creation, and it's done justice by the talented Souhami's glorious account. Gertrude and Alice would have hated it. --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk [via]
Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Lifeby Lauren F. WinnerISBN 1565123093 (1-56512-309-3)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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God's Englishman Oliver Cromwell and the English Revby Christopher HillISBN 0061316660 (0-06-131666-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's Englishman Oliver Cromwell and the English Rev'Book summary:This is a nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts: fenland farmer and humble backbencher; stalwart of the good old cause and the New Model Army; key figure of the Commonwealth; and, finally Lord Protector. Hill leads the reader unsentimentally through Cromwell's life from his beginnings in Huntingdonshire to his brutal end. Hill brings all his considerable knowledge of the period to bear on the relationships God's Englishman had with God and England. Such a detailed understanding of the workings of providence is vital to understanding Cromwell. [via]
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinnersby John BunyanISBN 1598561421 (1-59856-142-1)
Hardcover, Hendrickson Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners'Book summary:Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners is one of the great classic autobiographies, part of the Christian tradition of testimony from The Confessions of St. Augustine to Corrie Ten Boom's The Hiding Place. In Grace Abounding, John Bunyan (1628-1688), the author of Pilgrim's Progress, describes his conviction of sin, his struggles against unbelief, his entrance into the meaning and comfort of the Holy Scriptures, and much more.
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Gulag Archipelagoby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 006080503X (0-06-080503-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulag Archipelago'Book summary:The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation. [via]
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Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 an Experiment in Literby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060139110 (0-06-013911-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060007761 (0-06-000776-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation'Book summary:The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyns attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953. Various sections of the three volumes describe the arrest, interrogation, conviction, transportation, and imprisonment of the Gulags victims by Soviet authorities over four decades. The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyns own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment.Upon publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn was immediately attacked in the Soviet press. Despite the intense interest in his fate that was shown in the West, he was arrested and charged with treason on February 12, 1974, and was exiled from the Soviet Union the following day.[via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation:
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Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Parts I-VIIby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060912804 (0-06-091280-4)
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Parts I-VII:
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-IIby Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynISBN 000262253X (0-00-262253-X)
Hardcover, Collins : Harvill Press
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-II:
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The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1by Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060803320 (0-06-080332-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1'Book summary:The Soviet Union had the largest secret political prison system of its time, scattered into the most remote corners of Eastern Europe and Asia. When Solzhenitsyn came out, he told the stories of shattered lives in a shattered nation. [via]
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His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Timeby Carl Bernstein, Marco PolitiISBN 0140266917 (0-14-026691-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time'Book summary:Two veteran reporters, American Carl Bernstein (co-author of All the President's Men) and Italian Marco Politi have teamed up to present the case that Pope John Paul II worked closely with American political figures to cause the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Their conclusions are controversial, but His Holiness provides an insightful look at the connections between governments, the Catholic Church and the Solidarity movement in the Pope's native Poland. [via]
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Hudson TaylorISBN 9971972638 (9971-972-63-8)
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Intellectualsby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060916575 (0-06-091657-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intellectuals'Book summary:Conservative historian Paul Johnson wears his ideology proudly on his sleeve in this often ruthless dissection of the thinkers and artists who (in his view) have shaped modern Western culture, having replaced some 200 years ago "the old clerisy as the guides and mentors of mankind." Taking on the likes of Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, Lillian Hellman, and Noam Chomsky in turn, Johnson examines one idol after another and finds them all to have feet of clay. In his account, for instance, Ernest Hemingway emerges as an artistic hero who labored endlessly to forge a literary style unmistakably his own, but also as a deeply flawed man whose concern for the perfect phrase did not carry over to a concern for the women who loved him. Gossipy and sharply opinionated, Johnson's essay in cultural history spares no one.
Does it really matter that Henrik Ibsen was vain and arrogant, that Jean-Paul Sartre was incontinent? In Johnson's view, it does: these all-too-human foibles disqualify them, and other thinkers, from presuming to criticize the shortcomings of society. "Beware intellectuals," he concludes (though, given the subjects of his book, it seems he means intellectuals only of the left). "Not only should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice." Whether one agrees or not, Johnson's profiles are frequently amusing and illuminating, as when he suggests that the only proletarian Karl Marx ever knew in person was the poor maid who worked for him for decades and was never paid, except in room and board, for her labors. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 1555460208 (1-55546-020-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Considered to be cast in a daring rhetorical mode, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel by James Joyce. Originally published as a series, the novel continually interacts with Irish history and culture.
The title, James Joyces A Portrait of Artist As Young Man, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on James Joyces A Portrait of Artist As Young Man through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on James Joyce, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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John Bunyan: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinnersby John BunyanISBN 1840300175 (1-84030-017-5)
Softcover, Emerald House Group Inc
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Jonathan and Sarah--an Uncommon Unionby Edna GerstnerISBN 1573580112 (1-57358-011-2)
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Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabiaby Michael AsherISBN 1585671428 (1-58567-142-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia'Book summary:Thomas Edward Lawrence was born illegitimate in 1888, "the son of unmarried parents who had vanished from one life to recreate themselves in another." (His father left four daughters, a marriage, and a hefty inheritance in Dublin to start a new life in England with the woman who'd been his children's governess.) Lawrence matured into an elusive man whose shifting personas baffled admirers and detractors alike. Explorer and Arabian scholar Michael Asher, himself familiar with the desert lands in which Lawrence made his military reputation during the First World War, accepts him as a complex bundle of contradictions. The story of this romantic Englishman's involvement in the Arab revolt against Turkey is, as always, a gripping physical, political, and spiritual adventure, and Asher retells it well. The book's most noteworthy achievement, however, is the balanced assessment of Lawrence as "a real man with a real blend of strengths and weaknesses ... whose inner lack of strong identity allowed him to be anything and anyone he felt others needed him to be." Biography purists may be put off by Asher's first-person intrusions into the narrative (frequently to retrace Lawrence's most famous journeys or to consider the veracity of incidents Lawrence described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom), but they serve to anchor a near-mythic existence in the geographic realities of the region he loved. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdiniby Ruth BrandonISBN 1568361009 (1-56836-100-9)
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The Life of Andrew Jacksonby Robert V. ReminiISBN 0060937351 (0-06-093735-1)
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The Life of Andrew Jackson/3 Volumes in 1by Robert Vincent ReminiISBN 0060159049 (0-06-015904-9)
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The Life of Katherine Mansfieldby Antony AlpersISBN 014006219X (0-14-006219-X)
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Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochesterby Graham GreeneISBN 0140101543 (0-14-010154-3)
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Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the Westby Lesley DownerISBN 1592400507 (1-59240-050-7)
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At twenty-nine, she captivated the worlds stage. From San Francisco to New York, Paris, and Berlin, audiences thrilled to her mesmeric acting and exquisite dancing. She performed for the American President and for the Prince of Wales in London. Picasso painted her. Gide, Debussy, Degas, and Rodin were among her devoted fans. She was Sadayakko, Japans most notorious geishaand its first international superstar.
In Italy, Puccini was working on Madame Butterfly. He had the plot for his opera, but he had yet to see a real live flesh-and-blood Japanese womanuntil Sadayakko arrived with her troupe of traveling actors.
Madame Sadayakko is the true story of this extraordinary womanmuse to writers, artists, and fashion designers. Her adventures lift the veil on the secretive world of the geisha and reveal a missing piece of history from the turn of the last century, when Japanese women wore bustles and learned the waltz and women in the West wore Sadayakko kimonos. [via]
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiographyby Sidney PoitierISBN 0061357901 (0-06-135790-1)
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The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricciby Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 0140080988 (0-14-008098-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci'Book summary:Matteo Ricci (1552-1616), an Italian Jesuit, entered China in 1583 to spread Catholicism in the largely Confucian country. In order to make a persuasive argument for the educated Chinese to abandon their traditional faith for the new one he was carrying, Ricci realized that he would have to prove the general superiority of Western culture. He did so by teaching young Confucian scholars tricks to increase their memory skills--an important advantage in a nation with countless laws and rituals that had to be learned by heart. Ricci attracted numerous students with this method; more important, Ricci came to have a sympathetic understanding for China that he communicated to Rome, and thence to the European nations at large. Spence's portrait of Ricci is a gem of historical writing. --Gregory MacNamee [via]
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Merton: A Biographyby Monica FurlongISBN 0060630795 (0-06-063079-5)
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Mi Pais Inventadoby Isabel AllendeISBN 0060545682 (0-06-054568-2)
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Monk Swimmingby Malachy McCourtISBN 1568956711 (1-56895-671-1)
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Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earthby Andrew SmithISBN 0007155425 (0-00-715542-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth'Book summary:The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine surviving members of this elite group to find their answers to the question "Where do you go after you've been to the Moon?"
A thrilling blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Moondust rekindles the hopeful excitement of an incandescent hour in America's past and captures the bittersweet heroism of those who risked everything to hurl themselves out of the known world -- and who were never again quite able to accept its familiar bounds.
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My Invented Country: A Memoirby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0060545674 (0-06-054567-4)
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My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chileby Isabel AllendeISBN 0060565691 (0-06-056569-1)
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My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actorby Alec GuinnessISBN 0140277455 (0-14-027745-5)
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The Naked Civil Servantby Quentin CrispISBN 0030224519 (0-03-022451-9)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Nisa, the Life and Words of a !Kung Womanby Marjorie Shostak, NisaISBN 1853830607 (1-85383-060-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nisa, the Life and Words of a !Kung Woman'Book summary:Married at twelve, then separated, divorced and widowed, Nisa is the mother of four children, none of whom survived. She is strong, capable of foraging on her own in one of the world's most hostile environments, not dependent on any man for her daily sustenance and ready to talk to anyone as her equal. Wise, full of humour at the absurdities of life and courageous in the face of its defeats, she is bawdy, practical and incurably romantic. She is a woman of the !Khung people who live by means of humanity's oldest survival strategy - gathering and hunting. This book is the remarkable story of Nisa's life, told in her own words to Marjorie Shostak. It is a story full of echoes from a female past that we can never know directly. But it is also Nisa's unique story, her own voice, her own dignity. In anyone's culture, she is a remarkable woman. [via]
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042598 (0-14-004259-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Road'Book summary:On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. [via]
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Orwell: The Authorized Biographyby Michael SheldenISBN 0060921617 (0-06-092161-7)
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Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man And Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 159308031X (1-59308-031-X)
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 1416500316 (1-4165-0031-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man'Book summary:Originally published in serial format, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," is the semi-autobiographical portrayal of James Joyce's early upbringing as an Irish Catholic in late 19th century and early 20th century Dublin. At the center of the novel is the protagonist Stephen Dedalus whose life is depicted from its various stages starting in childhood and moving through early adulthood. The language of the novel changes throughout the book to correspond with the artistic development of Stephen Dedalus as he ages and matures. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a masterful depiction of the process of self-discovery that is indicative of the early stages of everyone's life. [via]
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Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921by Isaac DeutscherISBN 1859844413 (1-85984-441-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921'Book summary:This first volume of the trilogy traces Trotskys political development.
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotskys extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience; and yet there was at one time a danger that his name would disappear altogether from history. Isaac Deutschers magisterial three-volume biography was the first major publication to counter the powerful Stalinist propaganda machine, and in this definitive work Trotsky emerges in his real stature, as the most heroic, and ultimately tragic, character of the Russian revolution.
This first volume of the trilogy, originally published in 1954, traces Trotskys political development: his early activities, the formation and crystallization of his distinctive and motivating ideathe permanent revolution his long feud and final reconciliation with Lenin and Bolshevism, and his role in the October insurrection of 1917. The volume ends in the year 1921, when Trotsky, then at the climax of his power, unwittingly sowed the seeds of his own defeat. [via]More editions of Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921:
Sir Walter Raleghby Robert LaceyISBN 1842120891 (1-84212-089-1)
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Star Trek Movie Memoriesby William ShatnerISBN 0061093297 (0-06-109329-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Trek Movie Memories'Book summary:The sequel to the bestselling Star Trek Memories, documenting in deliciously lurid and candid detail all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans in the making of the six Star Trek movies, with on-the-scene reporting from the set of the seventh in which...Kirk dies!
Star Trek Movie Memories recounts all the chaos, creative turmoil, backstage politics, power plays and production nightmares that permeated every one of the six Star Trek movies, including the accumulated grudges that haven't yet mellowed with the passage of time. And the stories... Nicholas Meyer writing the script for Star Trek II in twelve days... Kirstie Alley doing her Leonard Nimoy imitation in an audition... How Kirk's love interest in Star Trek IV began as a role for Eddie Murphy, and you can imagine the rest (or maybe not).
With stories and quotes from the principles that have never before been uttered in public, this will deliver a truly unprecedented behind-the-scenes view of the Trek films that will amaze even the most avid Trekker. And on top of it all, the hardcover will be published in time for the seventh film, which will present the perfect opportunity to tie the old crew and stars including Robert Wise, Ricardo Montalban, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Plummer, Christian Slater to Patrick Stewart and the cast of The Next Generation. The torch will be passed, and William Shatner will tell us all about how it feels as his character is killed off in the film's finale. [via]
The Unmasking of Oscar Wildeby Joseph PearceISBN 0002740516 (0-00-274051-6)
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Mi Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostalgico por Chileby Isabel AllendeISBN 0060545658 (0-06-054565-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mi Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostalgico por Chile'Book summary:El primer recuerdo que Isabel Allende tiene de Chile es el de una casa que nunca conoció: la "casa grande y vieja" de la calle Cueto, donde nació su madre. Esta casa, evocada por su abuelo con tanta frecuencia que Isabel cree haber vivido allí, se convierte en la protagonista de su primera novela La Casa de los Espíritus. Dicha obra vuelve a aparecer al comienzo de las fascinantes y seductoras memorias, Mi País Inventado, que ahora nos ofrece esta talentosa escritora.
Los asiduos lectores de Allende reconocerán inmediatamente a los miembros de esta familia chilena --abuelos, bisabuelos, tías, tíos y amigos--, personajes de carácter mítico que pueblan este magnífico libro. A su vez, es un retrato inolvidable de la idiosincrasia del pueblo chileno, su historia violenta y su espíritu indomable. Aunque Isabel afirma haber sido una extranjera en su propio país --"Nunca encajé en ningún sitio, ni en mi familia, ni en mi clase social ni en la religión que se me confirió"--lleva consigo hasta hoy la marca de la política y la magia de su tierra natal. En Mi País Inventado explora el papel de la memoria y la nostalgia que le ayudaron a dar forma a su vida y a sus libros.
Dos acontecimientos vitales alteran la peripatética narrativa de este libro: el golpe militar y la violenta muerte de su tío, Salvador Allende Gossens el 11 de septiembre de 1973 que la condujeron a exiliarse y a convertirse en escritora, y el ataque terrorista del 11 de septiembre del 2001, en los Estados Unidos, que sucita en ella un sentimiento de lealtad a su segunda patria. Mi País Inventado, cuya estructura sigue el funcionamiento de la memoria, recorre de acá para allá la distancia temporal en la que se acumulan las vida pasada y presentes de la autora. Esta obra se dirige al inmigrante, ya que refleja su experiencia y su lucha por mantener una vida interior coherente en un mundo lleno de contradicciones.
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Retrato Del Artista Adolescente/ Portrait of the Young Artistby James JoyceISBN 9685270740 (968-5270-74-0)
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LA Vie Sexuelle De Catherine M.by Catherine MilletISBN 2020551306 (2-02-055130-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Vie Sexuelle De Catherine M.'Book summary:"Je suis entrée dans la vie sexuelle adulte comme, petite fille, je m'engouffrais dans le tunnel du train fantôme, à l'aveugle, pour le plaisir d'être ballottée et saisie au hasard", déclare la narratrice. En quatre chapitres le nombre, l'espace, l'espace replié et détails, soit la multiplication des aventures, d'une partouze à l'autre, les relations à l'emporte-pièce, les lieux et le corps apprécié dans ses coins et recoins , Catherine se livre volontiers et sans fard à toutes les confessions, baisant "comme elle respire". Nulle chronologie, nulle construction véritable dans ce récit débridé conduit tout entier à la première personne.
La quatrième de couverture parle de tradition érotique et de littérature française. Soit. La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. n'est pourtant pas un texte érotique mais plutôt pornographique. Il a encore moins partie liée avec la littérature. Mais l'Suvre signée par la directrice d'Art Press a cependant un avantage : les vingt premières pages sont égales aux deux cents qui suivent. Le lecteur pourra toujours consommer sur le pouce. Il n'y perdra rien. --Céline Darner [via]
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Le Vite De Piu Eccellenti Architetti, Pittori, Et Scultori Italiani, Da Cimabue Insino A Tempi Nostri: Nell'edizione per I Tipi Di Lorenzo Torrentino, Firenze 1550by Giorgio Vasari, Aldo Rossi, Luciano Bellosi, Giovanni Previtali, Lorenzo TorrentinoISBN 880612787X (88-06-12787-X)
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