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Adieux: A Farewell to Sartreby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 039472898X (0-394-72898-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre'Book summary:Simone de Beauvoirs account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartres life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartres last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir about his life and work, is more than just a philosophical examination. It is also a personal dialogue of astonishing frankness that illuminates one of the most famous and complex relationships of the twentieth century.
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The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.by Richard HofstadterISBN 0394700953 (0-394-70095-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.'Book summary:This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
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Akenfield: Portrait of an English Villageby Ronald BlytheISBN 0394738470 (0-394-73847-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village'Book summary:This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared. [via]
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Appointment in Samarraby John O'HaraISBN 0394711920 (0-394-71192-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Appointment in Samarra'Book summary:A twentieth-century classic, Appointment in Samarra is the first and most widely read book by the writer Fran Leibowitz called the real F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the music plays late into the night and the liquor flows freely. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline Englishthe envy of friends and strangers alike. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Appointment in Samarra brilliantly captures the personal politics and easy bitterness of small-town life. It is John OHaras crowning achievement, and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence of a major American novelist. [via]More editions of Appointment in Samarra:
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Bartholomew and the Oobleckby SeussISBN 0394800753 (0-394-80075-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartholomew and the Oobleck'Book summary:Bartholomew and the Oobleck easily qualifies as a Seuss classic, first told way back in 1949. And its message--the importance of owning up to your mistakes and saying that you're sorry--is as timeless now as it was then.
Bartholomew Cubbins serves thanklessly as pageboy to King Derwin of Didd, a headstrong man who's decided he isn't satisfied with mere sun, fog, rain, and snow. ("Humph! The things that come down from my sky!") He wants something else, something uniquely his own, so he calls in his royal magicians ("Shuffle, duffle, muzzle, muff. Fista, wista, mista-cuff. We are men of groans and howls, mystic men who eat boiled owls"). Happy to oblige, the magicians tell the king they can make "oobleck" fall from the sky, only nobody--not even the magicians--knows just what oobleck is. But after a night of arcane incantations, everyone in the kingdom gets a taste of the stuff (in the case of the Captain of the Guard, literally!), as the green, gluey goo gums up everything in sight.
Of course, Bartholomew tries to help, but it's up to the king to save the day, as he learns to utter not magic words but simple words with magic in them: "I'm sorry." (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes [via]
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Bell for Adanoby John HerseyISBN 0394756959 (0-394-75695-9)
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The Beloved Returnsby Thomas MannISBN 0394717457 (0-394-71745-7)
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A Bend in the Riverby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394743148 (0-394-74314-8)
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Betrayed by Rita Hayworthby Manuel PuigISBN 0394746597 (0-394-74659-7)
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perceptionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394710975 (0-394-71097-5)
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The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagnerby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 0394703693 (0-394-70369-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner'Book summary:The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Victorian era, and it sounded themes developed in the twentieth century by classicists, existentialists, psychoanalysts, and others.
The Case of Wagner (1888) was one Nietzsche's last books, and his wittiest. In attitude and style it is diametrically opposed to The Birth of Tragedy. Both works transcend their ostensible subjects and deal with art and culture, as well as the problems of the modern age generally.
Each book in itself gives us an inadequate idea of its author; together, they furnish a striking image of Nietzsche's thought. The distinguished new translations by Walter Kaufmann superbly reflect in English Nietzsche's idiom and the vitality of his style. Professor Kaufmann has also furnished running footnote commentaries, relevant passages from Nietzsche's correspondence, a bibliography, and, for the first time in any edition, an extensive index to each book. [via]More editions of The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner:
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A Book of Middle Eastern Foodby Claudia RodenISBN 0394719484 (0-394-71948-4)
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Born Freeby Joy AdamsonISBN 0394712633 (0-394-71263-3)
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worldsby Joy AdamsonISBN 039474635X (0-394-74635-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds'Book summary:First published in 1960 and closely followed by a hit movie of the same name, Joy Adamson's now classic memoir Born Free continues to introduce countless young people to the wildlife of Africa. Adamson recounts her adventures as the surrogate mother of an orphaned lion cub named Elsa (with parenting duties shared by her husband George and by a delightfully imperturbable rock hyrax named Pati), whom she raised as a welcome member of her human and animal family while painstakingly teaching Elsa the skills she would need to survive in the wild. Her teaching, against all odds, was effective: three years later, the Adamsons took Elsa to a place near that of her birth and set her loose, hoping that she would find her "real pride" among other lions of the Kenya grasslands--as she soon did.
Long targeted to preteen readers, Born Free is in fact a sophisticated work of environmental consciousness-raising, for Joy Adamson believed that any relationship between humans and wild animals had to be conditioned by an attitude "of absolute equality quite different from that between a dog and his master." Although Elsa's story had an ultimately tragic ending--the young lioness died of disease and, in separate incidents, Joy and George Adamson were both murdered--Joy Adamson's book continues to instruct and entertain readers of all ages. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Caligula & Three Other Playsby Albert CamusISBN 0394702077 (0-394-70207-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caligula & Three Other Plays'Book summary:'One word to tell the reader what he will not find in this book. Although I have the most passionate attachment for the theater, I have the misfortune of liking only one kind of play, whether comic or tragic. [via]
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Ben FowkesISBN 039472657X (0-394-72657-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital. [via]
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back!by SeussISBN 0394800028 (0-394-80002-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Cathedralby Raymond CarverISBN 0394712811 (0-394-71281-1)
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The Caucasian Chalk Circleby Bertolt BrechtISBN 039462372X (0-394-62372-X)
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Collected Storiesby Frank O'ConnorISBN 0394710487 (0-394-71048-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories'Book summary:"One of the masters of the short story".--NEWSWEEK. "In almost all the stories in this excellently balanced collection O'Connor's people explode from the page. The nice are here and the nasty: the gentle, the generous, the mean, the absurd, those rich in dignity, those without a shred of it. . . . Without adornment, he simply tells the truth".--WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD. [via]
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Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957by W. H. AudenISBN 0394720156 (0-394-72015-6)
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The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowenby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0394752961 (0-394-75296-1)
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Collected Stories of William Faulknerby William FaulknerISBN 0394722574 (0-394-72257-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories of William Faulkner'Book summary:This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this book are such classics as "A Bear Hunt, " "A Rose for Emily, " Two Soldiers, " and "The Brooch." [via]
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0394718917 (0-394-71891-7)
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Complete Plays of John M. Syngeby John Millington SyngeISBN 039470178X (0-394-70178-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Plays of John M. Synge'Book summary:This volume includes the complete texts of all the plays by J.M. Synge. Produced at the Abbey Theater which Synge founded. Represents one of the major dramatic achievements of the 20th century. [via]
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The Constitution of the United States of Americaby Sam FinkISBN 0394752732 (0-394-75273-2)
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The Counterfeitersby Andre GideISBN 0394718429 (0-394-71842-9)
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Dain Curseby Dashiell HammettISBN 0394718275 (0-394-71827-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dain Curse'Book summary:Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside job. From the stray diamond found in the yard to the eyewitness accounts of a "strange man" casing the house, everything was just too pat. Gabrielle Dain-Leggett has enough secrets to fill a closet, and when she disappears shortly after the robbery, she becomes the Op's prime suspect. But her father, Edgar Leggett, keeps some strange company himself and has a dark side the moon would envy. Before he can solve the riddle of the diamond theft, the Continental Op must first solve the mystery of this strange family. [via]
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The Death of the Heartby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0394605047 (0-394-60504-7)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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A Fableby William FaulknerISBN 0394724135 (0-394-72413-5)
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The Face of Battleby John KeeganISBN 0394724038 (0-394-72403-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Face of Battle'Book summary:The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the point of maximum danger. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles, John Keegan vividly conveys their reality for the participants, whether facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt, the levelled muskets of Waterloo or the steel rain of the Somme. [via]
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Feminist: The Essential Historical Writingsby Miriam SchneirISBN 0394717384 (0-394-71738-4)
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The Foucault Readerby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394713400 (0-394-71340-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foucault Reader'Book summary:Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.
The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor.
This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it. [via]More editions of The Foucault Reader:
Four Medieval Epicsby William AlfredISBN 0394607872 (0-394-60787-2)
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A Gathering of Old Menby Ernest J. GainesISBN 0394725913 (0-394-72591-3)
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Gift from the Seaby Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 0394724550 (0-394-72455-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gift from the Sea'Book summary:I found a 1955 printing of this book in an old waterfront cabin and was struck by the care with which the previous owner had read it. Eve (the name inscribed inside the front cover and then again above the heading for chapter 3) made pencil marks on nearly every paragraph of the book, underlining a phrase, highlighting many passages with strong vertical marks, scratching out some words that she seems to have found superfluous and even x-ing out whole sections that apparently missed their mark with her altogether. Two rusting paper clips isolate several pages, absent any marking at all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh's lyrical words are still relevant and presage so many of the themes of today's most popular books: simplicity, peaceful solitude, caring for the soul, a woman finding her place in society and life. I heard that the woman who had lived in the cabin had actually passed away some time before. Thank you, Eve, for your gift... from the sea. [via]
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Go, Dog. Go!by P. D. EastmanISBN 0394800206 (0-394-80020-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go, Dog. Go!'Book summary:Life lessons? Romance? Literary instruction? Go, Dog. Go! offers all this and more, wrapped up in one simply worded, warmly hued package. Using single-syllable words in rhythmic repetition, and introducing colors and prepositions, this Seuss-styled classic has been an early favorite of children since 1961. For those looking for deeper meaning in a beginning reader book, here you'll find nothing less than a microcosm of life. Green dogs, yellow dogs, big dogs, little dogs. Dogs who prefer cars, dogs who favor skis. All represent the diversity a child will find in the world. And the slow-to-bud romance between the cheerfully oblivious yellow dog and the mincing pink poodle explains more succinctly than most self-help books what goes on in many grown-up relationships. Nonetheless, Eastman takes the concept of "primary" to heart, with his simple silly phrases and solidly colored illustrations. Not only will this book inspire peals of laughter in kids, it will also help them make the magical connection between those mysterious black squiggles on the page, and the words they hear and speak. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Gods, Graves and Scholarsby C.W. CeramISBN 0394743199 (0-394-74319-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gods, Graves and Scholars'Book summary:C.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the ridicule of the learned world, he actually unearths the remains of the ancient city of Troy. We share the excitement of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter as they first glimpse the riches of Tutankhamen's tomb, of George Smith when he found the ancient clay tablets that contained the records of the Biblical Flood. We rediscover the ruined splendors of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the wonders of the ancient wold; of Chichen Itza, the abandoned pyramids of the Maya: and the legendary Labyrinth of tile Minotaur in Crete. Here is much of the history of civilization and the stories of the men who rediscovered it. [via]
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Growth of the Soilby Knut HamsunISBN 0394717813 (0-394-71781-3)
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Guerrillasby Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0394744926 (0-394-74492-6)
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Hawthorne's Short Storiesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Newton ArvinISBN 0394700155 (0-394-70015-5)
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The Iceman Cometh: A Playby Eugene O'NeillISBN 039470018X (0-394-70018-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iceman Cometh: A Play'Book summary:The Place: Harry Hope's bar, a cheap gin-mill of the five-cent whiskey, last-resort variety situated downtown on the West Side of New York.
The Time: Salesman Hickey's birthday celebration, two days during the summer of 1912 -- a time when all tomorrows are forced abruptly to become today; when the delineation between hopes, dreams, and pipe dreams disintegrates; when "self-knowledge" destroys self-respect, compassion -- and life.
One of the last of Eugene O'Neill's plays, The Iceman Cometh stands today with Long Day's Journey into Night and A Moon for the Misbegotten as the supreme expression of his dramatic genius. [via]More editions of The Iceman Cometh: A Play:
The Immense Journeyby Loren C. EiseleyISBN 0394701577 (0-394-70157-7)
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The King Must Dieby Mary RenaultISBN 0394751043 (0-394-75104-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King Must Die'Book summary:The story of the mythical hero Theseus, slayer of monsters, abductor of princesses and king of Athens. He emerges from these pages as a clearly defined personality; brave, aggressive and quick. The core of the story is Theseus' Cretan adventure. [via]
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Kiss of the Spider Womanby Manuel PuigISBN 0394744756 (0-394-74475-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kiss of the Spider Woman'Book summary:Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before. [via]
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Knight's Gambitby William FaulknerISBN 0394727290 (0-394-72729-0)
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Leave It to Psmithby P. G. WodehouseISBN 0394720261 (0-394-72026-1)
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Losing Battlesby Eudora WeltyISBN 0394726685 (0-394-72668-5)
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Lyrical and Critical Essaysby Albert CamusISBN 0394708520 (0-394-70852-0)
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reasonby Michel FoucaultISBN 039471914X (0-394-71914-X)
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The Mask of Apolloby Mary RenaultISBN 0394751051 (0-394-75105-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mask of Apollo'Book summary:Set in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he finds himself at the center of a political crisis in which the philosopher Plato is also involved. Much of the action is set in Syracuse, where Plato's friend Dion is trying to persuade the young tyrant Dionysios the Younger to accept the rule of law. Through Nikeratos' eyes, the reader watches as the clash between the two looses all the pent-up violence in the city. [via]
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Mastering the Art of French Cookingby Julia Child, Simone Beck, Louisette BertholleISBN 0394721772 (0-394-72177-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking'Book summary:The sequel to the classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Here, from Julia Child and Simone Beck, is the sequel to the cooking classic that has inspired a whole American generation to new standards of culinary taste and artistry. On the principle that mastering any art is a continuing process, they continued, during the years since the publication of the now-celebrated Volume One, to search out and sample new recipes among the classic dishes and regional specialties of Francecooking, conferring, tasting, revising, perfecting. Out of their discoveries they have made, for Volume Two, a brilliant selection of precisely those recipes that will not only add to the repertory but will, above all, bring the reader to a yet higher level of mastering the art of French cooking.
This second volume enables Americans, working with American ingredients, in American kitchens, to achieve those incomparable flavors and aromas that bring up a rush of memoriesof lunch at a country inn in Provence, of an evening at a great Paris restaurant, of the essential cooking of France.
Among its many treasures:
" the first authentic, successful recipe ever devised for making real French breadthe long, crunchy, yeasty, golden loaf that is like no other bread in texture and flavorwith American all-purpose flour and in an American home oven;
" soups from the garden, chowders and bisques from the seaincluding great fish stews from Provence, Normandy, and Burgundy;
" meats from country kitchens to haute cuisine, in master recipes that demonstrate the special art of French meat cookery;
" chickens poached (thirteen ways) and sauced;
" vegetables alluringly combined and restored to a place of honor on the menu;
" a lavish array of desserts, from the deceptively simple to the absolutely splendid.
But perhaps the most remarkable achievement of this volume is that it will make Americans actually more expert than their French contemporaries in two supreme areas of cookery: baking and charcuterie.
In France one can turn to the local bakery for fresh and expertly baked bread, or to neighborhood charcuterie for pâtés and terrines and sausages. Here, most of us have no choice but to create them for ourselves.
And in this book, thanks to the ingenuity and untiring experimentation of Mesdames Child and Beck, we are given instructions so clear, so carefully tested, that now any American cook can make specialties that have hitherto been obtainable only from Frances professional chefs and bakers.
With the publication of Volume Two, one can select from a whole new range of dishes, from the French bread to a salted goose, from peasant ragoûts to royal Napoleons. Each of the new master recipes is worked out, step by infallible step, with the detail, exactness, and clarity that are the soul of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. And the many drawingsfive times as many as in Volume Oneare demonstrations in themselves, making the already clear instructions doubly clear.
More than a million American families now own Volume One. For them and, in fact, for all who would master the art of French cooking, Julia Child and Simone Beck open up new worlds of expertise and good eating. Bon appétit! [via]More editions of Mastering the Art of French Cooking:
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0394747232 (0-394-74723-2)
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Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrianby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 0394605055 (0-394-60505-5)
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Mildred Pierceby James M. CainISBN 0394725824 (0-394-72582-4)
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Morte D'Urbanby J.F. PowersISBN 0394741358 (0-394-74135-8)
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Museums and Women, and Other Storiesby John UpdikeISBN 0394747623 (0-394-74762-3)
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Nexusby Henry MillerISBN 039462369X (0-394-62369-X)
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeby Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0394716574 (0-394-71657-4)
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Obscure Destiniesby Willa CatherISBN 0394711793 (0-394-71179-3)
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The Ogreby Michel Tournier, Barbara BrayISBN 0394724070 (0-394-72407-0)
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Orientalismby Edward W. SaidISBN 039474067X (0-394-74067-X)
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Parade's Endby Ford Madox Ford, Robie MacauleyISBN 0394741080 (0-394-74108-0)
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Platero Y Yo/Platero and Iby Juan Ramon JimenezISBN 0394736249 (0-394-73624-9)
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Playbackby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757661 (0-394-75766-1)
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"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:" -- Ross Macdonald [via]More editions of Playback:
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Plexusby Henry MillerISBN 0394623703 (0-394-62370-3)
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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Numberby Jacobo TimermanISBN 0394751310 (0-394-75131-0)
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Pylonby William FaulknerISBN 0394747410 (0-394-74741-0)
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Remembrance of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 0394711831 (0-394-71183-1)
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Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394711823 (0-394-71182-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:Here are the first two volumes of Prousts monumental achievement, Swanns Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passedhis mothers good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swanns daughter Gilbertespring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grovewhich won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant famethe narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.
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Remembrance of Things Past/Captive, the Fugitive, Time Regainedby Marcel ProustISBN 039471184X (0-394-71184-X)
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Requiem for a Nun: Playscript Materialsby William FaulknerISBN 0394714121 (0-394-71412-1)
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Resistance, Rebellion, and Deathby Albert CamusISBN 0394719662 (0-394-71966-2)
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Sapphira and the Slave Girlby Willa CatherISBN 0394714342 (0-394-71434-2)
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughesby Langston HughesISBN 0394719107 (0-394-71910-7)
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke ; Edited and Translated by Stephen Mitchell ; with an Introduction by Robert Hassby Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0394716361 (0-394-71636-1)
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Seven Famous Greek Playsby Eugene O'Neill, Whitney Oates, Oates, Whitney & O'Neill, EugeneISBN 0394701259 (0-394-70125-9)
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Shikastaby Doris May LessingISBN 0394749774 (0-394-74977-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shikasta'Book summary:This is the first volume in the series of novels Doris Lessing calls collectively Canopus in Argos: Archives. Presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, this purports to be a general study of the planet Shikastaclearly the planet Earthto be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives. For eons, galactic empires have struggled against one another, and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds.Johar, an emissary from Canopus and the primary contributor to the archives, visits Shikasta over the millennia from the time of the giants and the biblical great flood up to the present. With every visit he tries to distract Shikastans from the evil influences of the planet Shammat but notes with dismay the ever-growing chaos and destruction of Shikasta as its people hurl themselves towards World War III and annihilation. [via]
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Sleepless Nightsby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0394743636 (0-394-74363-6)
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St. Mawr and the Man Who Diedby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0394700716 (0-394-70071-6)
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The Summer Before the Darkby Doris May LessingISBN 0394710959 (0-394-71095-9)
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0394701534 (0-394-70153-4)
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Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electraby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0394701658 (0-394-70165-8)
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A Very Easy Deathby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0394728998 (0-394-72899-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Very Easy Death'Book summary:A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoirs masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mothers death shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence (The Sunday Telegraph).
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Wallby John Richard HerseyISBN 0394756967 (0-394-75696-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wall'Book summary:Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down. [via]
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The Wall Jumper : A Berlin Storyby Peter A. Schneider, Leigh HafreyISBN 0394728823 (0-394-72882-3)
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When Things of the Spirit Come First: Five Early Talesby Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick O'BrianISBN 0394722353 (0-394-72235-3)
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Wild Palmsby William FaulknerISBN 039470262X (0-394-70262-X)
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The Will to Powerby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, R.J. Hollingdale, Walter Arnold KaufmannISBN 0394704371 (0-394-70437-1)
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Wiltby Tom SharpeISBN 0394724186 (0-394-72418-6)
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The Wine of Astonishmentby Earl LovelaceISBN 0394727959 (0-394-72795-9)
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The Woman Destroyedby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0394711033 (0-394-71103-3)
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The Woman in the Dunesby Kobo AbeISBN 0394718143 (0-394-71814-3)
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0394723929 (0-394-72392-9)
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Young Torlessby Robert Musil, Eithne Wilkins, Ernst KaiserISBN 0394710150 (0-394-71015-0)
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