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The Alchemistby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. ClarkeISBN 0613334582 (0-613-33458-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist'Book summary:Amazon.co.uk Review Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sense a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalucian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." [via]
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0671009761 (0-671-00976-1)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Aseninato De Rogelio/Murder of Roger Akroydby Agatha ChristieISBN 061353476X (0-613-53476-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia PlathISBN 0606022945 (0-606-02294-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0606040463 (0-606-04046-3)
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The Call of the Wildby Jack London, Earl J. Wilcox, Elizabeth H. Wilcox, Wilcox EarlISBN 0618300090 (0-618-30009-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:The courageous dog Buck's struggle to survive and the great gold rush in Klondike, Alaska, are integral parts of The Call of the Wild. [via]
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- The Call of the Wild: ISBN 0670867969 (0-670-86796-9)
Softcover, Viking Childrens Books - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 067170494X (0-671-70494-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 0618003738 (0-618-00373-8)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 067086918X (0-670-86918-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Call of the Wild: ISBN 0606025049 (0-606-02504-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Call of the Wild: ISBN 0618300090 (0-618-30009-0)
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- The Call of the Wild: ISBN 0670867969 (0-670-86796-9)
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The Call of the Wild and White Fangby Jack London, Abraham RothbergISBN 0613027000 (0-613-02700-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang'Book summary:[via]The Call of the Wild and White Fang, by Jack London, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Jack Londons two greatest novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fangoriginally intended as companionsare here compiled in one volume. The Call of the Wild centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within.
White Fang tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himhuman love.
Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated.Tina Gianquitto holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.
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Cannery Rowby John SteinbeckISBN 0670202819 (0-670-20281-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cannery Row'Book summary:Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Floods bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values.[via]First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it isboth the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, and interweaves their stories in this world where only the fittest survivecreating what is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck returns to the setting of Tortilla Flat to create another evocative portrait of life as it is lived by those who unabashedly put the highest value on the intangibleshuman warmth, camaraderie, and love.
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The Captain's Daughter and Other Storiesby Alexandr Pushkin, Paul DebreczenyISBN 0679413316 (0-679-41331-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Chosenby Chaim PotokISBN 0679402225 (0-679-40222-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Collected Storiesby Franz Kafka, Gabriel JosipoviciISBN 0679423036 (0-679-42303-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Franz Kafkas imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.
This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writers extraordinary range and intensity of vision.
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Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679600078 (0-679-60007-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works--"The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Annabel Lee," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--as well as less-familiar stories, poems, and essays. [via]
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The Complete Storiesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679417400 (0-679-41740-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Edgar Allan Poes gift for the macabrehis genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingswas so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful representin contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitmanthe other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.More editions of The Complete Stories:
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0679600256 (0-679-60025-6)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Edmond RostandISBN 0631005501 (0-631-00550-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 0679600493 (0-679-60049-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from "stories of my childhood" through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland. [via]
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End of the Affairby Graham GreeneISBN 0671445359 (0-671-44535-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Charles Hepburn JohnstonISBN 0670298891 (0-670-29889-1)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large. Eugene Onegin is not merely the greatest poem in the Russian language by its most influential poet: it is a global culture, social and political icon of the highest order. The historical power of this work - a novel in verse - is made all the more extraordinary by the simplicity of its subject. Eugene Onegin is a story of disappointed love. Tatyana falls for the handsome Eugene to whom she daringly makes advances. He cooly rejects her, then flirts with her sister, Olga. When challenged by Olga's fiance, Lensky kills him in a duel, seemingly indifferrent to the grief he causes. (Ironically, Puskhin himself was to be killed in similar circumstances in 1937, some seven years after he completed the work). Onegin leaves the district. When he returns four years later, Tatyana has married another man and it is her turn to reject his advances. But it turns out that Onegin's hauteur is affected: he has always loved her passionately. She loves him too and both reflect painfully on what might have been. [via]
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Faust, Parts One and Twoby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0671478206 (0-671-47820-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust, Parts One and Two'Book summary:Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, "Faust" has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in "Faust," "Part 1," the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe's characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches' Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen's tragic fate.
This newly revised edition, which offers Peter Salm's wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us "Faust" in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe's words. [via]
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0618002227 (0-618-00222-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkiens peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.[via]
No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkiens large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .More editions of Fellowship of the Ring:
- Fellowship of the Ring: ISBN 0618574948 (0-618-57494-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Fellowship of the Ring: ISBN 0618153985 (0-618-15398-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Fellowship of the Ring: ISBN 061826051X (0-618-26051-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Fellowship of the Ring: ISBN 0618129030 (0-618-12903-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Fellowship of the Ring: ISBN 0618260269 (0-618-26026-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Fellowship of the Ring: ISBN 0618346252 (0-618-34625-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Fellowship of the Ring: ISBN 0618002227 (0-618-00222-7)
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- Fellowship of the Ring: ISBN 0618574948 (0-618-57494-8)
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrativeby Herbert MasonISBN 0618275649 (0-618-27564-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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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]More editions of Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative:
The Giverby Lois LowryISBN 0606069909 (0-606-06990-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Golden Notebookby Doris May LessingISBN 0671287702 (0-671-28770-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Guermantes Wayby Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Mark TreharneISBN 0670033170 (0-670-03317-0)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Honorary Consulby Graham GreeneISBN 0671632493 (0-671-63249-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Honorary Consul'Book summary:A morally complex and mature work from a modern master[via]
IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene? featuring a new introduction?the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studies and exciting drama on an international stage. In The Honorary Consul, a British consul with a fondness for drink is mistaken for an American ambassador and kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries. -
If on a Winter's Night a Travelerby William Weaver, Italo CalvinoISBN 0679420258 (0-679-42025-8)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler'Book summary:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space." [via]
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In Search of Lost Timeby Marcel ProustISBN 0679600280 (0-679-60028-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Lost Time'Book summary:The Guermantes Way, in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantess château near Combray. It also represents the narrators passage into the rarefied social kaleidoscope of the Guermantess Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantess drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of In Search of Lost Time:
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flowerby Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, James GrieveISBN 0670032778 (0-670-03277-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower'Book summary:Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, Swanns Way, along with the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. These superb editionsthe first completely new translation of Prousts novel since the 1920sbring us a more comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrators memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. In it, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. [via]
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The Invisible Man/the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0671471139 (0-671-47113-9)
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Jack London's the Call of the Wild and White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0671006851 (0-671-00685-1)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Journey to the Center of the Earthby Billy AronsonISBN 0613052846 (0-613-05284-6)
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July's Peopleby Nadine GordimerISBN 0670410489 (0-670-41048-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Little Menby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0613377095 (0-613-37709-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Men'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The classic story about young boys growing up in nineteenth-century New England. [via]
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Little Men : Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boysby Louisa May Alcott, Frank T. MerrillISBN 067944503X (0-679-44503-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Long Fatal Love Chaseby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0679445102 (0-679-44510-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ringby Alan Lee, J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0618260587 (0-618-26058-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:Three-volume boxed set edition lavishly illustrated in full color by Alan Lee[via]
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.
From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo dissapeared bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard, the hobbits Merry, Pippin and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.More editions of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ring:
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The Man Who Loved Childrenby Christina SteadISBN 0679443649 (0-679-44364-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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McTeagueby Frank NorrisISBN 0679602380 (0-679-60238-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'McTeague'Book summary:Something of a cult classic, McTeague was one of the founding works of unflinching realism and naturalism in American writing. McTeague was first published in 1899; this new Modern Library edition brackets the book's 100-year journey through literary consciousness, from its first splash as a rather lurid literary sensation in its retelling of a true-life crime in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, to its renewed popularity among modern readers. [via]
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Memoirs of a Nunby Denis Diderot, Francis BirrellISBN 0679413243 (0-679-41324-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722794 (0-671-72279-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0671531409 (0-671-53140-9)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0613850831 (0-613-85083-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0670474983 (0-670-47498-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0671722794 (0-671-72279-4)
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0671531409 (0-671-53140-9)
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A Midsummer Nights Dreamby Barbara A. Mowat, Paul WerstineISBN 0671042904 (0-671-04290-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Nights Dream'Book summary:The New Folger Library edition features brief and simple clarification of seventeenth-century language, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and explanatory notes illuminating obscure and obsolete expressions. [via]
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Monarch Notes on Goethe's Faustby Paul MontgomeryISBN 0671005219 (0-671-00521-9)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monarch Notes on Goethe's Faust'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... the proper company for his Cadaverousness. In a letter of 1780, Goethe playfully applies the name £rad)e to his friend Merck, who was also a gaunt man. 5671. iBJnrlcrlol', 'wooden cross'; in sarcastic allusion to the Lean Person's appearance. 5678. bctUCflt, 'excitedly'; adv. with entfctltett. 5681. llmfrfjiipytc = befcfjupte, 'scaly.' 5685-6. J)o6cn... fycrnitiictraticn. The dragons (without hands, hence the marvel) take the box, with Mephistopheles sitting on it, out of the chariot and bring it to (heron) where Faust is standing. 5691. ft!) fief lit, 'motley.' 56g6. jur GtnfomfeU. Cf. the words of the Poet in the Prelude, 11. 59 ff. 5706. ticrrnftjcu. Poetry is self-revelation, i.e., self-betrayal. Cf. the lines in the West-Ostlicher Divan, IX, 19: ®rft ficfi im fflefjetmnifs toteflcn, £mn ter)I(mtetn friif) unb fpatl SUcfjter ift umfonft Berf(6wieflen, Sidjten fel&ft ift fdjott Serratfj. 5712. (loltmcnt SBlitte; figurative for the red-golden liquid which rises in the pots and threatens to dissolve the jewels. 5717. ftJimeljen fid), 'are melting,' i.e.,' are on the point of melting,'--whence the need of seizing them quickly. 5718. ©emiinte SRoHcn, 'minted rolls,' i.e., coins. 5719. $u!aten... gepragt = OotbftiidCe tote getorfigte £ufatcn, 'pieces like genuine ducats.' But Schroer says tote geprtigt = hrie lieu ge« torogt. 573-©olb unb 2Bertfy; i.e., roerthtjolle? (roirfltd)e«) ©olb. 5735-6. The meaning is: What 's the use of truth for such as you, ever the ready victims of stupid illusion?--9ln alien 3tyfeltt patfctl, 'to lay hold of by every tag,' i.e., to lay hold of with all one's might. 5753-Oil' UltS all', 'all together,' 'every one of us.' Cf. Sltt OTe in 1. 8483+. 5761-2. Plutus as magician draws an... [via]
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Monkey: Folk Novel Of Chinaby Cheng'En WuISBN 0613710215 (0-613-71021-5)
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Murder in the Calais Coachby Agatha ChristieISBN 0671774484 (0-671-77448-4)
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The Murder of Roger Ackroydby Agatha ChristieISBN 0671701185 (0-671-70118-5)
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Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha ChristieISBN 060612439X (0-606-12439-X)
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander Solzhenitsyn, H.T. WillettsISBN 0679444645 (0-679-44464-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich'Book summary:Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication in 1962. It is painfully apparent that Solzhenitsyn himself spent time in the gulags--he was imprisoned for nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory statements about Stalin in a letter to a friend. [via]
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The Portable Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Stanley Weintraub, Richard AldingtonISBN 0670767433 (0-670-76743-3)
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Rainbow Valleyby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0606026134 (0-606-02613-4)
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farmby Patricia Reilly Giff, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Barbara McClintockISBN 0618346945 (0-618-34694-5)
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Roderick Hudsonby Henry JamesISBN 067802801X (0-678-02801-X)
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Short Novels of John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 0670641383 (0-670-64138-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Short Novels of John Steinbeck'Book summary:Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels-Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row, and The Pearl. From Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in Of Mice and Men, to his tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl's examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck created stories that were realistic, rugged, and imbued with energy and resilience. [via]
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0618126988 (0-618-12698-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work that he could not publish in his lifetime because it grew with him. Its origins stretch back to a time long before THE HOBBIT. But THE HOBBIT was caught up in what Tolkien called "the branching acquisitive theme" he began in THE SILMARILLION, and eventually THE LORD OF THE RINGS emerged from this as well.[via]
Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other works. This is the story of the creation of the world and the happenings of the First Age, the ancient drama to which the characters in THE LORD OF THE RINGS look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part.
The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, the most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. THE SILMARILLION is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.
The book includes several other, shorter works in addition to THE SILMARILLION. Preceding it are "The Ainulindale," a myth of the Creation, and "The Valaquenta," in which the nature and power of the gods is set forth. After THE SILMARILLION comes "The Akallabeth," a tale of the downfall of the kingdom of Numeno, and finally "Of the Rings of Power," the connecting link to THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
This second edition features a number of minor textual corrections along with a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien describing his intentions for the work, written more than twenty-five years before its eventual publication. As described by Christopher Tolkien in the preface, it serves as a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages of Middle-earth. -
Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, NextextISBN 061808598X (0-618-08598-X)
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The Stories of Edith Whartonby Edith Wharton, Anita BrooknerISBN 0671655272 (0-671-65527-2)
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The Tailor of Panamaby John Le CarreISBN 0679454462 (0-679-45446-2)
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The Tin Drumby Günter Grass, John Reddick, Ralph ManheimISBN 0679420339 (0-679-42033-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tin Drum'Book summary:Meet Oskar Matzerath, "the eternal three-year-old drummer." On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a striped pullover and patent leather shoes, and clutching his drumsticks and his new tin drum, young Oskar makes an irrevocable decision: "It was then that I declared, resolved, and determined that I would never under any circumstances be a politician, much less a grocer; that I would stop right there, remain as I was--and so I did; for many years I not only stayed the same size but clung to the same attire." Here is a Peter Pan story with a vengeance. But instead of Never-Never Land, Günter Grass gives us Danzig, a contested city on the Polish-German border; instead of Captain Hook and his pirates, we have the Nazis. And in place of Peter himself is Oskar, a twisted puer aeternis with a scream that can shatter glass and a drum rather than a shadow. First published in 1959, The Tin Drum's depiction of the Nazi era created a furor in Germany, for the world of Grass's making is rife with corrupt politicians and brutal grocers in brown shirts:
There was once a grocer who closed his store one day in November, because something was doing in town; taking his son Oskar by the hand, he boarded a Number 5 streetcar and rode to the Langasser Gate, because there as in Zoppot and Langfuhr the synagogue was on fire. The synagogue had almost burned down and the firemen were looking on, taking care that the flames should not spread to other buildings. Outside the wrecked synagogue, men in uniform and others in civilian clothes piled up books, ritual objects, and strange kinds of cloth. The mound was set on fire and the grocer took advantage of the opportunity to warm his fingers and his feelings over the public blaze.
As Oskar grows older (though not taller), portents of war transform into the thing itself. Danzig is the first casualty when, in the summer of 1939, residents turn against each other in a pitched battle between Poles and Germans. In the years that follow, Oskar goes from one picaresque adventure to the next--he joins a troupe of traveling musicians; he becomes the leader of a group of anarchists; he falls in love; he becomes a recording artist--until some time after the war, he is convicted of murder and confined to a mental hospital.The Tin Drum uses savage comedy and a stiff dose of magical realism to capture not only the madness of war, but also the black cancer at the heart of humanity that allows such degradations to occur. Grass wields his humor like a knife--yes, he'll make you laugh, but he'll make you bleed, as well. There have been many novels written about World War II, but only a handful can truly be called great; The Tin Drum, without a doubt, is one. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Miles DonaldISBN 0679405844 (0-679-40584-4)
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Two Towersby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0618002235 (0-618-00223-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Towers'Book summary:The second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings[via]
"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." -- C. S. Lewis
"Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century. The book presents us with the richest profusion of new lands and new creatures, from the beauty of Lothlorien to the horror of Mordor, adventures to hold us spell-bound, and words of beauty and evocation to bring all vividly before us." --Sunday Telegraph
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkeness bind them
Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. Now they continue the journey alone down the great River Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.More editions of Two Towers:
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Under Western Eyes: Library Editionby Joseph ConradISBN 0679405542 (0-679-40554-2)
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The Voyage Outby Virginia WoolfISBN 0613501403 (0-613-50140-3)
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, Scot MillerISBN 0618457178 (0-618-45717-8)
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By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreaus account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane, invigorating in its awareness of humanitys place in the moral and natural order, Walden represents the progressive spirit of nineteenth-century America at its eloquent best. [via] 
The Wandererby Alain FournierISBN 0678035520 (0-678-03552-0)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0671673041 (0-671-67304-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 067960006X (0-679-60006-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swanns Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swanns daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attentionAlbertine, a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of Within a Budding Grove:
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0613357620 (0-613-35762-0)
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. DenslowISBN 067941794X (0-679-41794-X)
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Anne, LA De Avonlea/Anne of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0613068777 (0-613-06877-7)
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