| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “Civil war” (Civil War)
books tagged “Civil war”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
-
100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0060919655 (0-06-091965-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: '100 Years of Solitude'Book summary:"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of 100 Years of Solitude:
The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopediaby Mark E. NeelyISBN 0070461457 (0-07-046145-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia'More editions of The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia:
-
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0140366768 (0-14-036676-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers -- from Sherwood Anderson to Twain's fellow Missourian, T.S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to J.D. Salinger -- "Huckleberry Finn," like the river which flows through its pages, is one of the great sources which nourished and still nourishes the literature of America. [via]
More editions of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
-
Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazerby Sena Jeter Naslund, Christopher WormellISBN 0060838744 (0-06-083874-4)
Softcover, Perennial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazer'Book summary:It has been said that one can see farther only by standing on the shoulders of giants. Ahab's Wife, Sena Naslund's epic work of historical fiction, honors that aphorism, using Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as looking glass into early-19th-century America. Through the eye of an outsider, a woman, she suggests that New England life was broader and richer than Melville's manly world of men, ships, and whales. This ambitious novel pays tribute to Melville, creating heroines from his lesser characters, and to America's literary heritage in general.
Una, named for the heroine of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, flees to the New England coast from Kentucky to escape her father's puritanism and to pursue a more exalted life. She gets whaling out of her system early: going to sea at 16 disguised as a boy, Una has her ship sunk by her own monstrous whale, and survives a harrowing shipwreck:
I was so horrified by the whale's deliberate charge that I could not move. Then my own name flew up from below like a spear: "Una!" Giles' voice broke my trance, and I scrambled down the rigging. No sooner did my foot touch the deck than there was such a lurch that I fell to my face. I heard and felt the boards break below the waterline, the copper sheathing nothing but decorative foil. The whole ship shuddered. A death throe.
The ship dies, but Una returns to land to pursue the life of the mind. The novel's opening line--"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"--also diminishes Melville's hero in the broader scheme of things. Naslund exposes the reader to the unsung, real-life heroes of Melville's world, including Margaret Fuller and her Boston salon, and Nantucket astronomer Maria Mitchell. There is a chance meeting with a veiled Nathaniel Hawthorne in the woods, and throughout the novel the story brims with references to the giants of literature: Shakespeare, Goethe, Coleridge, Keats, and Wordsworth. Although her novel runs long at nearly 700 pages, Naslund has created an imaginative, entertaining, and very impressive work. --Ted Leventhal [via]More editions of Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazer:
The American Heritage Book of Great Historic Placesby Richard M. KetchumISBN 0070344132 (0-07-034413-2)
Hardcover, American Heritage Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places'More editions of The American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places:
American History: Pre-Colonial Through Reconstructionby Robert James MaddoxISBN 0072425709 (0-07-242570-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American History: Pre-Colonial Through Reconstruction'More editions of American History: Pre-Colonial Through Reconstruction:
Angel Trumpet : A Civil War Mysteryby Ann McMillanISBN 014029838X (0-14-029838-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Angel Trumpet : A Civil War Mystery'More editions of Angel Trumpet : A Civil War Mystery:
Anonymous Americans: Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Social Historyby Tamara K. HarevenISBN 0130383988 (0-13-038398-8)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Anonymous Americans: Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Social History'More editions of Anonymous Americans: Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Social History:
-
Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 014036711X (0-14-036711-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:For a bet, Phileas Fogg sets out with his servant Passeportout to achieve an incredible journey - from London to Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York and back to London again, all in just eighty days. There are many alarms and surprises along the way - and a last minute setback that makes all the difference between winning and losing. [via]
More editions of Around the World in Eighty Days:
Battleground for the Union: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1877by William L. BarneyISBN 0130693863 (0-13-069386-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Battleground for the Union: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1877'More editions of Battleground for the Union: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1877:
Bitter Lemonsby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0140153187 (0-14-015318-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bitter Lemons'More editions of Bitter Lemons:
-
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracyby Joseph A. SchumpeterISBN 0061330086 (0-06-133008-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy'Book summary:2011 Reprint of 1947 Second Edition. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) was an Austrian-American economist and political scientist. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics. Schumpeter's most popular book in English is probably Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. This book opens with a treatment of Karl Marx. While he is sympathetic to Marx's theory that capitalism will collapse and will be replaced by socialism, Schumpeter concludes that this will not come about in the way Marx predicted. To describe it he borrowed the phrase "creative destruction", and made it famous by using it to describe a process in which the old ways of doing things are endogenously destroyed and replaced by new ways. [via]
More editions of Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy:
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracyby Joseph Alois SchumpeterISBN 0060904569 (0-06-090456-9)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy'More editions of Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy:
-
Cicero and the Roman Republicby Frank Richard CowellISBN 0140203206 (0-14-020320-6)
Hardcover, Penguin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cicero and the Roman Republic'Book summary:The long, eventful history of the Roman people up to the time of Cicero, seen as a living story around the personality of this great orator, the one man whose thoughts in this critical period of world history have been preserved in detail. (from front cover) [via]
More editions of Cicero and the Roman Republic:
Civil War: A Library of Congress Bookby Martin W. SandlerISBN 0064462641 (0-06-446264-1)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Civil War: A Library of Congress Book'More editions of Civil War: A Library of Congress Book:
The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Centuryby Brian Holden ReidISBN 0060851201 (0-06-085120-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century'More editions of The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century:
Covered with Glory : The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburgby Rod GraggISBN 0060934778 (0-06-093477-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Covered with Glory : The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg'More editions of Covered with Glory : The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg:
Dead Marchby Ann McMillanISBN 0140280200 (0-14-028020-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead March'More editions of Dead March:
Elkhorn Tavernby Douglas C. JonesISBN 0061009237 (0-06-100923-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Elkhorn Tavern'More editions of Elkhorn Tavern:
Encyclopedia of the Confederacyby Richard N. Current, Paul D. Escott, Lawrence N. PowellISBN 0132759918 (0-13-275991-8)
Hardcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Encyclopedia of the Confederacy'More editions of Encyclopedia of the Confederacy:
Faces of Discord: The Civil War Era at the National Portrait Galleryby National Portrait Gallery, Marc PachterISBN 0061135844 (0-06-113584-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Faces of Discord: The Civil War Era at the National Portrait Gallery'More editions of Faces of Discord: The Civil War Era at the National Portrait Gallery:
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan Warby Misha GlennyISBN 0140235868 (0-14-023586-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War'More editions of The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War:
- The Fall of Yugoslavia : The Third Balkan War: ISBN 0140257713 (0-14-025771-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War: ISBN 0140172882 (0-14-017288-2)
Hardcover, Penguin - The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War: ISBN 0140234152 (0-14-023415-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books - The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War: ISBN 0140235868 (0-14-023586-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
- The Fall of Yugoslavia : The Third Balkan War: ISBN 0140257713 (0-14-025771-3)
The Flight of Ikaros: Travels in Greece During a Civil Warby Kevin AndrewsISBN 0140095314 (0-14-009531-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flight of Ikaros: Travels in Greece During a Civil War'More editions of The Flight of Ikaros: Travels in Greece During a Civil War:
Freedom's Ferment: Phases of American Social History to 1860by Alice F. TylerISBN 0061310743 (0-06-131074-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Ferment: Phases of American Social History to 1860'More editions of Freedom's Ferment: Phases of American Social History to 1860:
-
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americansby Alfred A. Moss, John H. FranklinISBN 007243046X (0-07-243046-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'From Slavery to Freedom'Book summary:This work charts the journey of african americans from their origins in the civilizations of africa, through slavery in the western hemisphere, to their struggle for freedom in the west indies, latin america and the united states. Topics covered include the dilemma of reconciliation between theory and practice in matters of race; popular culture in the period between world war i and world war ii; and the 1992 election, including discussion of the largest african-american voter turnout in history, largest number of african americans elected to congress, and the most african americans ever appointed to cabinet positions [via]
More editions of From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans:
- From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans: ISBN 0070219079 (0-07-021907-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans: ISBN 0072295813 (0-07-229581-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - From Slavery to Freedom: ISBN 007243046X (0-07-243046-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
- From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans: ISBN 0070219079 (0-07-021907-9)
Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroadby Ann PetryISBN 0064461815 (0-06-446181-5)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad'More editions of Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad:
The Heroic Ageby Stratis HaviarasISBN 0140079769 (0-14-007976-9)
Softcover, Penguin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heroic Age'More editions of The Heroic Age:
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Quaedaby John KeeganISBN 0091802296 (0-09-180229-6)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Quaeda'More editions of Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Quaeda:
-
Interesting Timesby Terry PratchettISBN 0061056901 (0-06-105690-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Interesting Times'Book summary:"May you live in interesting times." -- Ancient Curse
Another outrageously clever installment in the Discworld files, Interesting Times reminds the world why Terry Pratchett is considered the best fantasy and humor writer in the English speaking world.
When a carrier albatross arrives from the Counterweight Continent with an Urgent Request for a "Great Wizard," Rincewind is "volunteered." Along his absurdly delicious travels, he meets a colorful band of characters only Terry Pratchett could compile. Their mission is to either defend or destroy the Forbidden City of Hunghung. The instructions are not entirely clear.
In this international bestseller, the funniest writer in fantasy strikes again with a rollicking tale of murder and mayhem in Discworld.
"The funniest parodist working in the field today, period." -- The New York Review of Science Fiction [via]
-
Is It a Choice?: Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gays and Lesbiansby Eric MarcusISBN 0062506641 (0-06-250664-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Is It a Choice?: Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gays and Lesbians'Book summary:An enlightening guide for the families and friends of men and women who've come out and for everyone else who wants to find out what it means to be gay. [via]
More editions of Is It a Choice?: Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gays and Lesbians:
- Is It a Choice?: Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay and Lesbian People: ISBN 006251623X (0-06-251623-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Is It a Choice?: Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gays and Lesbians: ISBN 0062506641 (0-06-250664-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- Is It a Choice?: Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay and Lesbian People: ISBN 006251623X (0-06-251623-X)
-
Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0060955678 (0-06-095567-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:It's Time to Rediscover the Wonderful Books We All Cherish.
"The Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable."-- Mark Twain
0riginally published in 1883, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's memoir of his youthful years as a cub pilot on a steamboat paddling up and down the Mississippi River. Twain used his childhood experiences growing up along the Mississippi in a number of works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but nowhere is the river and the pilot's life more thoroughly described than in this work. Told with insight, humor, and candor, Life on the Mississippi is an American classic.
[via]More editions of Life on the Mississippi:
Lincoln on Democracyby Abraham LincolnISBN 0060987006 (0-06-098700-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lincoln on Democracy'More editions of Lincoln on Democracy:
Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial And Executionby James L. Swanson, Daniel R. WeinbergISBN 0061237612 (0-06-123761-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial And Execution'More editions of Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial And Execution:
Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killby James L. SwansonISBN 0060853476 (0-06-085347-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Kill'More editions of Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Kill:
The Mask of Commandby John KeeganISBN 0140114068 (0-14-011406-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mask of Command'More editions of The Mask of Command:
On Fields of Fury: From the Wilderness to the Crater An Eyewitness Historyby Richard WheelerISBN 0060921633 (0-06-092163-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'On Fields of Fury: From the Wilderness to the Crater An Eyewitness History'More editions of On Fields of Fury: From the Wilderness to the Crater An Eyewitness History:
-
One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 006112009X (0-06-112009-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'Book summary:"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of One Hundred Years of Solitude:
-
One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gregory Rabassa, Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0060883286 (0-06-088328-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'Book summary:"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of One Hundred Years of Solitude:
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil Warby James M. McPersonISBN 0072320656 (0-07-232065-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War'More editions of Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War:
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhullby Barbara GoldsmithISBN 0060953322 (0-06-095332-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull'More editions of Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull:
An Outline of Arms and Armour in England from the Early Middle Ages to the Civil Warby Great Britain, James Gow Mann, Arthur Richard DuftyISBN 0116701358 (0-11-670135-8)
Hardcover, H.M. Stationery Off
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Outline of Arms and Armour in England from the Early Middle Ages to the Civil War'More editions of An Outline of Arms and Armour in England from the Early Middle Ages to the Civil War:
-
A People's History of the United Statesby Howard ZinnISBN 0060907924 (0-06-090792-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A People's History of the United States'Book summary:For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- its women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. Here we learn that many of our country's greatest battles -- labor laws, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against steel-willed resistance. This edition of A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of some of the most important events in this country in the past one hundred years.Featuring a preface and afterword read by the author himself, this audio continues Howard Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history. [via]More editions of A People's History of the United States:
-
A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Presentby Howard ZinnISBN 0060926430 (0-06-092643-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present'Book summary:Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, "A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, "A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new afterword by the author, this is "a brilliant and moving history of the American people" "(Library Journal). [via]
More editions of A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present:
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924by Orlando FigesISBN 014024364X (0-14-024364-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924'More editions of A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924:
-
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novelby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060930535 (0-06-093053-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel:
-
Profiles in Courageby John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Caroline KennedyISBN 0060854936 (0-06-085493-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Profiles in Courage'Book summary:The Illustrated Edition: The Pulitzer-Prize winning account of men of principle, integrity and bravery in American politics is now available in a handsome, illustrated format . Eight men who served in the United States Senate were selected by John F. Kennedy as models of virtue and courage under pressure. [via]
Quicksilver Poolby Phyllis A. WhitneyISBN 006100152X (0-06-100152-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver Pool'More editions of Quicksilver Pool:
Raintree County : A Great American Novel about Love, Tragedy, and the American Dreamby Lockridge, Ross, Jr.ISBN 014023666X (0-14-023666-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Raintree County : A Great American Novel about Love, Tragedy, and the American Dream'More editions of Raintree County : A Great American Novel about Love, Tragedy, and the American Dream:
Rayby Barry HannahISBN 0140059458 (0-14-005945-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ray'
Red Sorghumby Howard Goldblatt, Yen MoISBN 0099451670 (0-09-945167-0)
Hardcover, Arrow
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Sorghum'More editions of Red Sorghum:
-
Red Sorghumby Mo Yan, Yen Mo, Howard GoldblattISBN 0140168540 (0-14-016854-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Sorghum'Book summary:[via]The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature
Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s.
A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely newand unforgettable.More editions of Red Sorghum:
The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 014037454X (0-14-037454-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'-
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journeyby Fergal KeaneISBN 0140247602 (0-14-024760-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey'Book summary:Fergal Keane, an Irish journalist, formerly BBC correspondent in South Africa, was sent in 1994 to cover the war in Rwanda that had left one million Tutsis dead, most of them gruesomely hacked to death by their Hutu neighbors. The power of this account lies in Keane's profound emotional shock at barely imaginable cruelty, and in the personal testimony of the survivors he interviewed. Keane also searches for meaning. Like many familiar with Africa, he rejects the too easy explanation of "tribal hatred," with its assumption that the problem is intractable and internal. He emphasizes instead the economic and class disparities driving a political bloodlust, reminiscent perhaps of revolutionary France. Even though understanding such atrocity seems out of reach, Keane bears eloquent witness to evil. [via]
More editions of Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey:
Sherman's Marchby Richard WheelerISBN 0060974133 (0-06-097413-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherman's March'More editions of Sherman's March:
The Sherwood Ringby Elizabeth Marie Pope, Evaline NessISBN 0140349111 (0-14-034911-1)
Softcover, Puffin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sherwood Ring'More editions of The Sherwood Ring:
The Siege of Vicksburgby Richard WheelerISBN 0060974141 (0-06-097414-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Siege of Vicksburg'More editions of The Siege of Vicksburg:
-
The Sound and the Furyby William FaulknerISBN 0075536668 (0-07-553666-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound and the Fury'Book summary:The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three Compson brothers: first Benjy, the "idiot" man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the family's former pasture; next Quentin, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Caddy's lost virginity and his own failure to recover the family's honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally Jason, heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family.
If Benjy's section is the most daringly experimental, Jason's is the most harrowing. "Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say," he begins, lacing into Caddy's illegitimate daughter, and then proceeds to hurl mud at blacks, Jews, his sacred Compson ancestors, his glamorous, promiscuous sister, his doomed brother Quentin, his ailing mother, and the long-suffering black servant Dilsey who holds the family together by sheer force of character.
Notoriously "difficult," The Sound and the Fury is actually one of Faulkner's more accessible works once you get past the abrupt, unannounced time shifts--and certainly the most powerful emotionally. Everything is here: the complex equilibrium of pre-civil rights race relations; the conflict between Yankee capitalism and Southern agrarian values; a meditation on time, consciousness, and Western philosophy. And all of it is rendered in prose so gorgeous it can take your breath away. Here, for instance, Quentin recalls an autumnal encounter back home with the old black possum hunter Uncle Louis:
And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless October, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dogs and to the echo of Louis' voice dying away. He never raised it, yet on a still night we have heard it from our front porch. When he called the dogs in he sounded just like the horn he carried slung on his shoulder and never used, but clearer, mellower, as though his voice were a part of darkness and silence, coiling out of it, coiling into it again. WhoOoooo. WhoOoooo. WhoOooooooooooooooo.
What Faulkner has created is a modernist epic in which characters assume the stature of gods and the primal family events resonate like myths. It is The Sound and the Fury that secures his place in what Edmund Wilson called "the full-dressed post-Flaubert group of Conrad, Joyce, and Proust." --David Laskin [via]More editions of The Sound and the Fury:
The South: A Concise Historyby Jeanette KeithISBN 0130220566 (0-13-022056-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The South: A Concise History'More editions of The South: A Concise History:
The South Through Time: A History of an American Regionby John BollesISBN 0131304569 (0-13-130456-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The South Through Time: A History of an American Region'More editions of The South Through Time: A History of an American Region:
- The South Through Time: A History of an American Region: ISBN 0131835483 (0-13-183548-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - The South Through Time: A History of an American Region: ISBN 0131835491 (0-13-183549-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - The South Through Time: A History of an American Region: ISBN 0130959154 (0-13-095915-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - The South Through Time: A History of an American Region: ISBN 0131573063 (0-13-157306-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - The South Through Time: A History of an American Region: ISBN 0131573144 (0-13-157314-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - The South Through Time: A History of an American Region: ISBN 0138250502 (0-13-825050-2)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall - The South Through Time: A History of an American Region: ISBN 0131304569 (0-13-130456-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
- The South Through Time: A History of an American Region: ISBN 0131835483 (0-13-183548-3)
Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchellby Darden Asbury PyronISBN 0060975016 (0-06-097501-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell'More editions of Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell:
Spanish Anarchistsby Murray BookchinISBN 0060906073 (0-06-090607-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Spanish Anarchists'More editions of Spanish Anarchists:
-
A Star Called Henryby Roddy DoyleISBN 0140296131 (0-14-029613-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Star Called Henry'Book summary:Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story. From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role as soldier (and lover) in the Irish Rebellion, Henry recounts his early years of reckless heroism and adventure.
At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque novel brimming with both poignant moments and comic ones, and told in a voice that is both quintessentially Irish and inimitably Roddy Doyle's.
A New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, New York Post, and Independent bestseller
A Star Called Henry--one of only four works of fiction--was chosen by the editor's of The New York Times Book Review as one of the eleven Best Books of the Year
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, Esquire, Newsday, Miami Herald, Seattle Times, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution
An American Library Association Notable Book
Nominated for Best Fiction of 1999, the New Yorker Book Awards [via]More editions of A Star Called Henry:
Stephen Cranes the Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0130246050 (0-13-024605-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephen Cranes the Red Badge of Courage'More editions of Stephen Cranes the Red Badge of Courage:
Stuart Englandby J. P. KenyonISBN 0140137688 (0-14-013768-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Stuart England'Book summary:Stuart England is the subject of continual and active research, and Professor Kenyon's survey presents a unified picture of this contentious century, as well as featuring a full and up to date critical bibliography. [via]
Surveys from Exileby Karl Marx, David FernbachISBN 0140216030 (0-14-021603-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Surveys from Exile'More editions of Surveys from Exile:
Sword over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaignby Richard WheelerISBN 006092067X (0-06-092067-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sword over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign'More editions of Sword over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign:
The Tamarack Treeby Patricia ClappISBN 0140324062 (0-14-032406-2)
Softcover, Viking Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tamarack Tree'More editions of The Tamarack Tree:
Thunder on the Tennesseeby G. Clifton WislerISBN 0140376127 (0-14-037612-7)
Softcover, Puffin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thunder on the Tennessee'More editions of Thunder on the Tennessee:
-
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0140367217 (0-14-036721-7)
Softcover, Puffin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:A mission to rid the seas of a monstrous creature becomes a terrifying nightmare when Professor Arronax, Conseil and Ned Land are thrown overboard. The huge marine animal which has haunted the water is no living beast, but a spectacular man-made vessel, and the three men find themselves the helpless prisoners of Captain Nemo. Resigned to their fate, they begin a miraculous journey on the submarine ship which can travel through waters never before explored. For the Professor, at least, this voyage is one he would not have missed for the world. [via]
More editions of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea:
Two Roads to Sumterby William Bruce CattonISBN 0070102554 (0-07-010255-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Roads to Sumter'More editions of Two Roads to Sumter:
The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Antietam: The Maryland Campaign of 1862by Jay LuvaasISBN 0060971606 (0-06-097160-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Antietam: The Maryland Campaign of 1862'More editions of The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Antietam: The Maryland Campaign of 1862:
The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville & Fredericksburgby Jay Luvaas, Harold W. Nelson, Army War CollegeISBN 0060972521 (0-06-097252-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville & Fredericksburg'More editions of The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville & Fredericksburg:
-
United States & CanadaISBN 0134337093 (0-13-433709-3)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
Find This BookBook summary:Chapter 1 The United States and Canada [via]
More editions of United States & Canada:
-
World Turned Upside Downby Christopher HillISBN 0140218203 (0-14-021820-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'World Turned Upside Down'Book summary:Great Penguin classic. [via]
More editions of World Turned Upside Down:
-
World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolutionby Christopher HillISBN 0140137327 (0-14-013732-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution'Book summary:Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic - the ideology of the propertied class - there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success 'might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished the state church and rejected the protestant ethic. In "The World Turned Upside Down" Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering 'masterless' men, the outbursts of sexual freedom, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan - these and many other elements build up into a marvellously detailed and coherent portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs. [via]
More editions of World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}