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1984by George OrwellISBN 0452262933 (0-452-26293-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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36 Views of Mount Fuji : On Finding Myself in Japanby Cathy N. DavidsonISBN 0452272408 (0-452-27240-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Aeneidby Virgil, Patric DickinsonISBN 0451528638 (0-451-52863-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.[via] 
Age of Reason: The Seventeenth Century Philosophersby Stuart HampshireISBN 0452009898 (0-452-00989-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Albert Einstein : Creator and Rebelby Banesh Hoffman, Helen DukasISBN 0452261937 (0-452-26193-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Albert Einstein : Creator and Rebel'Book summary:Sketches Einstein's life and achievements against the scientific and political environment of his time.
Author Banesh Hoffmann studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Oxford, where he earned his bachelor of arts and went on to earn his doctorate at Princeton University. While at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Hoffmann collaborated with Einstein and Leopold Infeld on the classic paper Gravitational Equations and the Problem of Motion. Einstein's original work on general relativity was based on two ideas. The first was the equation of motion: a particle would follow the shortest path in four-dimensional space-time. The second was how matter affects the geometry of space-time. What Einstein, Infeld, and Hoffmann showed was that the equation of motion followed directly from the field equation that defined the geometry.
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And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoirby Joan BaezISBN 0452260949 (0-452-26094-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0452262771 (0-452-26277-1)
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Annotated Aliceby Lewis CarrollISBN 0452010411 (0-452-01041-1)
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The Aristosby John FowlesISBN 0452260442 (0-452-26044-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aristos'Book summary:Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he posited of constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was the Aristos, 'of a person or thing, the best or most excellent its kind'.'What I was really trying to define was an ideal of human freedom (the Aristos) in an unfree world,' wrote Fowles in 1965. He called a materialistic and over-conforming culture to reckoning with his views on a myriad of subjects - pleasure and pain, beauty and ugliness, Christianity, humanism, existentialism, socialism [via]
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Around The World In Eighty Daysby Jules Verne, Jacqueline RogersISBN 0451529774 (0-451-52977-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around The World In Eighty Days'Book summary:[via]One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompaned by his hot-blooded manservant Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard -- who believes that Fogg has robbed the Bank of England -- to win the extraordinary wager. Around the World in 80 Days gripped audiences on its publication and remains hugely popular, combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time.
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Bastard Out of Carolinaby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452269571 (0-452-26957-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bastard Out of Carolina'Book summary:Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family-rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furious-until their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back. [via]
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Beowulfby Burton RaffelISBN 0451626273 (0-451-62627-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, Beowulf was composed 400 years before the Norman Conquest. As a social document, this great epic poem reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death. As a work of art, it rings with a beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for more than twelve centuries.MASS MARKET PAPER [via]
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Black Voicesby Abraham ChapmanISBN 0451527828 (0-451-52782-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Voices'Book summary:BLACK VOICES is the most widely-read and acclaimed Afro-American anthology ever assembled. In its 720 pages is the core of the black literary heritage of America, ranging from slavery days to the post-Martin Luther King era. It includes fiction, poetry, autobiography and criticism by forty-four men and women who rank among the most talented writers - black or white - that this country has produced. If there is room in your budget for only one anthology of black American literature, BLACK VOICES should be your choice. [via]
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The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorderby Judith L. RapoportISBN 0452263654 (0-452-26365-4)
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, James Dean, Donald Roy HowardISBN 0451529685 (0-451-52968-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:The father of English literature shines in this authoritative selection from the greatest collection of narrative poems in the language.[via]
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Classic American AutobiographiesISBN 0451529154 (0-451-52915-4)
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Classic American Autobiographies: Mary Rowlandson/Benjamin Franklin/Frederick Douglass/Mark Twain/Zitkala-Saby William L. AndrewsISBN 0451628527 (0-451-62852-7)
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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Twoby Allan BerubeISBN 0452265983 (0-452-26598-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Roger CelestinISBN 0451529707 (0-451-52970-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:[via]Wrongfully imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes escapes to the island of Monte Cristo. What awaits him there is a fortune in gold-and a new identity with which to persue his revenge and redemption.
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Cures: A Gay Man's Odysseyby Martin DubermanISBN 0452267803 (0-452-26780-3)
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Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Placesby Truman CapoteISBN 0452259096 (0-452-25909-6)
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The Essential Erasmusby John P. DolanISBN 0452009723 (0-452-00972-3)
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The Essential Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf, Christopher BingISBN 0452269687 (0-452-26968-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Frankenstein'Book summary:Horror expert Wolf's sublime edition of this literary masterpiece features in-depth and extensive notes on all the novel's most interesting aspects, plus biographical information revealing how Mary Shelley's turbulent personal life influenced her work. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings. [via]
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The Faith of a Hereticby Walter Arnold KaufmannISBN 0452004829 (0-452-00482-9)
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, George Reavey, Jane T. CostlowISBN 0451529693 (0-451-52969-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:Bazarova gifted, impatient, and caustic young manhas journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarovs outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place all across nineteenth-century Russia.[via]
Fathers and Sons enraged the old and the young, reactionaries, romantics, and radicals alike when it was first published. At the same time, Turgenev won the acclaim of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James for his craftsmanship as a writer and his psychological insight. Fathers and Sons is now considered one of the worlds greatest novels.
A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to comeand offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, changing world.
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FDR, an Intimate Historyby Nathan MillerISBN 0452006767 (0-452-00676-7)
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Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen Kingby Tim Underwood, Chuck MillerISBN 0452255279 (0-452-25527-9)
Softcover, Plume
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Fire from the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinistaby Omar CabezasISBN 0452258448 (0-452-25844-8)
Softcover, New American Library
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First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universeby Richard PrestonISBN 0452261708 (0-452-26170-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Flashman and the Redskinsby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0452264871 (0-452-26487-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashman and the Redskins'Book summary:The seventh volume of the "Flashman Papers" records the arch-cad's adventures in America during Gold Rush of 1849 and the Battle of Bighorn in 1876, and his acquaintance with famous Indian chiefs, American soldiers, frontiersmen and statesmen.[via]More editions of Flashman and the Redskins:
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Walter James MillerISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Geronimo: His Own Story.by S. M. Barrett, Geronimo, Frederick W. TurnerISBN 0452011558 (0-452-01155-8)
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrativeby Herbert Mason, John H. MarksISBN 0451627180 (0-451-62718-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative'Book summary:Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original. [via]
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The Good Timesby Russell BakerISBN 0452264227 (0-452-26422-7)
Hardcover, Plume
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Henry IVby William Shakespeare, Norman Norwood HollandISBN 0451528530 (0-451-52853-0)
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Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belongby John PrestonISBN 0452268559 (0-452-26855-9)
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The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at Mitby Pepper WhiteISBN 0452268419 (0-452-26841-9)
Softcover, Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at Mit'Book summary:While learning to cope with MIT's relentless academic demands and mastering the science of engineering, White plunges into three years of intense experience marked by stumbles and triumphant accomplishments. And when White leaves MIT as a full-fledged member of America's scientific elite, he has learned much more than engineering--he has learned to think. 36 line drawings. [via]
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The Iliadby HomerISBN 0451627237 (0-451-62723-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:Focusing on the closing days of the Trojan War, this novel incorporates the same epic cast of gods and warriors from The Odyssey. From the kidnapping of Helen from her Greek home to the death of Achilles's companion, the battle rages between two warring nations and the gods which protect both sides. Thrilling in content, but literate and subtle in its meaning, The Iliad remains a classic among classics. [via]
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, John CiardiISBN 0451527984 (0-451-52798-4)
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The Infernoby Alighieri DanteISBN 0451627091 (0-451-62709-1)
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Jazzby Toni MorrisonISBN 0452269652 (0-452-26965-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz'Book summary:Jazz embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, Jazz sways with a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.
Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners hoping for better lives. Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of this migration; madly in love with each other and the idea of this urban mecca, they "traindanced into the city." But like so many of the marriages in Morrison's novels, this union crumbles, and the dreams for a better life fade away. Joe finds another, a love "that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going."
In Jazz, time ebbs and flows like human memory, traversing between recollections of the past and expectations for the future; likewise, jazz music is often wild and chaotic. Here Morrison once again exemplifies herself as both a superb writer and a masterful storyteller. [via]
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The Kennedy Encyclopedia: An Z-To-Z Illustrated Guide to America's Royal Familyby Jeannie Sakol, Caroline LathamISBN 0452265207 (0-452-26520-7)
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Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon IIby Kenneth AngerISBN 0452257212 (0-452-25721-2)
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Geoff DyerISBN 0451528883 (0-451-52888-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Lay Bare the Heartby James FarmerISBN 0452258030 (0-452-25803-0)
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Peter Davison, Billy Collins, Gay Wilson AllenISBN 0451529731 (0-451-52973-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via] 
Leaving Homeby Garrison KeillorISBN 0451821971 (0-451-82197-1)
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Let the Trumpet Soundby Stephen OatesISBN 0452254426 (0-452-25442-6)
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Susan StraightISBN 0451529308 (0-451-52930-8)
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Lutherby John OsborneISBN 0452273552 (0-452-27355-2)
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert, Mildred Marmur, Robin MorganISBN 0451528204 (0-451-52820-4)
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Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a womans gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escapes the authors searing castigation; and it is the books final profound irony that only Charles, Emmas oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love. With its rare formal perfection, Madame Bovary represents, as Frank OConnor has declared, possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed; undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel&a book that invites superlatives&the most important novel of the century.
@TheRealDesperateHousewife My sadness is bothersome. He says I need to change scenery. That will help like a trip to Italy cures TB. What I need is a good poking.
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Made in Japanby Akio MoritaISBN 0452259878 (0-452-25987-8)
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Makeba: My Storyby James A. Hall, Mirian MakebaISBN 0452262348 (0-452-26234-8)
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Making of the President, 1964by Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 045161190X (0-451-61190-X)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Men Who Loved Meby Felice PicanoISBN 0452265282 (0-452-26528-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Metamorphosesby Ovid, Horace GregoryISBN 0451527933 (0-451-52793-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Modern Dictators: Third World Coup Makers, Strongmen, and Populist Tyrantsby Barry RubinISBN 0452010365 (0-452-01036-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Monkeys on the Interstate: And Other Tales from Americas Favorite Zookeeperby Jack HannaISBN 0452264359 (0-452-26435-9)
Softcover, Plume
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Marilyn SidesISBN 0451529723 (0-451-52972-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldierby Joseph Plumb MartinISBN 0451528115 (0-451-52811-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0452254264 (0-452-25426-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As a Medical Studentby Perri KlassISBN 0452272580 (0-452-27258-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Pamela TaylorISBN 0452258464 (0-452-25846-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Odysseyby HomerISBN 0451628055 (0-451-62805-5)
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Oedipus Plays of Sophoclesby Paul RocheISBN 0451628470 (0-451-62847-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, Paul RocheISBN 0452011671 (0-452-01167-1)
Softcover, Plume
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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: Agamemnon; the Libation Bearers; the Eumenidesby Paul Roche, AeschylusISBN 0452011663 (0-452-01166-3)
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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: The Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenidesby AeschylusISBN 0451628195 (0-451-62819-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Orphansby Eileen SimpsonISBN 0452260604 (0-452-26060-4)
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Paradise Lost and Other Poemsby John B. Milloni, Edward Le Comte, John MiltonISBN 0451628268 (0-451-62826-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost and Other Poems'Book summary:With the three works included in this volume-- Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Lycidas --Milton placed himself next to Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer as one of the greatest literary genius in history. [via]
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Paradisoby Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, John FrecceroISBN 0451627008 (0-451-62700-8)
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The Paradisoby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451528050 (0-451-52805-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hallby William L. RiordonISBN 0452010942 (0-452-01094-2)
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Poems by Robert Frostby Robert Frost, William PritchardISBN 0451527879 (0-451-52787-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Poems by Robert Frost A Boys Will and North of Boston
The publication of A Boys Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part of the American national heritage.
This is the only edition to present these two classics in their original form. A Boys Will introduced readers to Frosts unmistakable poetic voice, and in North of Boston, we find two of his most famous poems, Mending Wall and The Death of the Hired Man. With an introduction by distinguished critic and Amherst professor William H. Pritchard and an afterword by poet and critic Peter Davison, this centennial edition stands as a complete and vital introduction to the work of the quintessential modern American poet.
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The Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri, John CiardiISBN 0451528026 (0-451-52802-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Playerby Robert RodriguezISBN 0452271878 (0-452-27187-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Richest Man in Babylonby George S. ClasonISBN 0452267250 (0-452-26725-0)
Softcover, Plume
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Robert Kennedy: A Memoirby Jack NewfieldISBN 0452260647 (0-452-26064-7)
Softcover, Plume
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Sayings of Confuciusby James WareISBN 0451627636 (0-451-62763-6)
Softcover, Mentor Books
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Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivorsby Elinor J. Brecher, Jill Freedman, Thomas KeneallyISBN 0452273536 (0-452-27353-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Selected Poetry of Keatsby KeatsISBN 0452009561 (0-452-00956-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sleeping Arrangementsby Laura Shaine CunninghamISBN 0452265576 (0-452-26557-6)
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This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamerby Kay MillsISBN 0452270529 (0-452-27052-9)
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Tough and Tender: The Story of Mr. Tby Veronica MichaelISBN 0451821068 (0-451-82106-8)
Softcover, New American Library
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Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 0452009456 (0-452-00945-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Uncommon Lives: Gay Men and Straight Womenby Catherine WhitneyISBN 0452265908 (0-452-26590-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Warhol: A Personal Photographic Memoirby Christopher MakosISBN 0452262313 (0-452-26231-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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What Women Wantby Patricia IrelandISBN 0452272491 (0-452-27249-1)
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The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slaveryby John Chester MillerISBN 0452005302 (0-452-00530-2)
Hardcover, New American Library
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