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ISBN 9780553213157 (0-553-21315-6, 0553213156)

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

ISBN 0553213156 (0-553-21315-6)
Softcover, Skylark

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Anne, now a joyful wife and mother, returns to visit the fishing village of Avonlea in this portrayal of family life on picturesque Prince Edward Island. [via]

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ISBN 9781417917716 (1-4179-1771-7, 1417917717)

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Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

ISBN 1417917717 (1-4179-1771-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]

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ISBN 9780517626399 (0-517-62639-X, 051762639X)

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Barchester Towers

by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 051762639X (0-517-62639-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]

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Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 0805013199 (0-8050-1319-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be found on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it's still a fabulous read and a great place to start if you're young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze. [via]

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ISBN 9781406501414 (1-4065-0141-7, 1406501417)

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Christmas Stories

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1406501417 (1-4065-0141-7)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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Large Format for easy reading. A series of Christmas short stories from one of the all time great British authors. [via]

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ISBN 9781853262685 (1-85326-268-4, 1853262684)

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Christmas Books

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1853262684 (1-85326-268-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life and The Cricket on the Hearth. [via]

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ISBN 9780831712969 (0-8317-1296-1, 0831712961)

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Christmas Tales

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0831712961 (0-8317-1296-1)
Hardcover, Gallery Books

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ISBN 9780785802051 (0-7858-0205-3, 0785802053)

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Christmas Tales from Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0785802053 (0-7858-0205-3)
Hardcover, Book Sales

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ISBN 9780553609417 (0-553-60941-6, 0553609416)

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Complete Anne of Green Gables

by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0553609416 (0-553-60941-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Av... [via]

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ISBN 9780553328257 (0-553-32825-5, 0553328255)

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 0553328255 (0-553-32825-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1; Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2. 2 Vols. [via]

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ISBN 9780802130204 (0-8021-3020-8, 0802130208)

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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

ISBN 0802130208 (0-8021-3020-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."

Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.

Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]

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ISBN 9781417904235 (1-4179-0423-2, 1417904232)

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Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

ISBN 1417904232 (1-4179-0423-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knowsgently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and enemies, crosses, and occasionally ecstasy in their wake. But it takes a death for them to make their mark on the landscape forever.

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ISBN 9781560005360 (1-56000-536-X, 156000536X)

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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

by Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 156000536X (1-56000-536-X)
Hardcover, Transaction Pub Large Print

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Collected in these two volumes are roe's legendary tales of terror that attest to his stylistic brilliance in evoking an atmosphere of gloom and obsession. Creatures, eyes, coffins, walls-all are symbols in roe's efforts to create an aura of evil. What reader would not share the anxiety of the traveler in The Fall of the House of Usher, who upon his first glimpse of the house, finds an "insufferable gloom pervading my spirit... an utter depression of the soul... an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart"? In volume 2 his nightmarish visions take us down untraveled paths revealing the dark side of the human experience.

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ISBN 9780802143471 (0-8021-4347-4, 0802143474)

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The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkers

by Nicholas Fearn

ISBN 0802143474 (0-8021-4347-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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The work of the classic philosophers is well known. But what do contemporary thinkers say about what it is to be a human being? In his serious, challenging, and remarkably accessible new book, Nicholas Fearn turns to contemporary philosophers to ask the age old questions: Who am I? What do I know? What should I do? In his search for higher meaning, Fearn consults with thinkers from around the world (including John Searle, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Richard Rorty, Daniel Dennett, Noam Chomsky, Derek Parfit, Nick Bostrom, among many others) to create an impressive survey of recent thought. Variously, they believe that free will, identity, and consciousness are not what they seem; that the difference between virtue and wickedness can be a matter of sheer luck; and that, one day, we will all be vegetarians. Fearn discovers that the topics havent changed, though our world has. Or has it? Moving deftly from pop culture to the writings of Plato, Philosophy is a brilliant and entertaining guide to the current state of the philosophical thought.

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ISBN 9781853261824 (1-85326-182-3, 1853261823)

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Little Dorrit: Library Edition

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1853261823 (1-85326-182-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning example of how thoroughly Dickens could put his flair for the theatrical and his comic genius the service of his passion for justice. [via]

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ISBN 9780802130181 (0-8021-3018-6, 0802130186)

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Marie and Bruce: A Play

by Wallace Shawn

ISBN 0802130186 (0-8021-3018-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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When Marie decides to leave Bruce, she delivers herself of a torrent of ferocious humor and foul-mouthed vituperation concerning him and their marriage, not to mention love, hate, caring, commitment, and all the other current clichés about relationships. As he follows Marie and Bruce through breakfast, a friends party, and dinner, Wallace Shawn brilliantly orchestrates her savage attacks and his slyly passive defenses into a symphony of subversive propositions about the nature of the marital state.

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ISBN 9780316767729 (0-316-76772-7, 0316767727)

Nine Stories

by J. D. Salinger

ISBN 0316767727 (0-316-76772-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worry--Seymour hasn't lost control. Mention of a book he sent her from Germany and several references to his psychiatrist lead the reader to believe that World War II has undone him.

The war hangs over these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage. Salinger's children are fragile, odd, hypersmart, whereas his grown-ups (even the materially content) seem beaten down by circumstances--some neurasthenic, others (often female) deeply unsympathetic. The greatest piece in this disturbing book may be "The Laughing Man," which starts out as a man's recollection of the pleasures of storytelling and ends with the intersection between adult need and childish innocence. The narrator remembers how, at nine, he and his fellow Comanches would be picked up each afternoon by the Chief--a Staten Island law student paid to keep them busy. At the end of each day, the Chief winds them down with the saga of a hideously deformed, gentle, world-class criminal. With his stalwart companions, which include "a glib timber wolf" and "a lovable dwarf," the Laughing Man regularly crosses the Paris-China border in order to avoid capture by "the internationally famous detective" Marcel Dufarge and his daughter, "an exquisite girl, though something of a transvestite." The masked hero's luck comes to an end on the same day that things go awry between the Chief and his girlfriend, hardly a coincidence. "A few minutes later, when I stepped out of the Chief's bus, the first thing I chanced to see was a piece of red tissue paper flapping in the wind against the base of a lamppost. It looked like someone's poppy-petal mask. I arrived home with my teeth chattering uncontrollably and was told to go straight to bed." [via]

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Oedipus

by Sophocles

ISBN 1854596101 (1-85459-610-1)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group

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The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother.

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ISBN 9781420926033 (1-4209-2603-9, 1420926039)

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Oedipus Rex

by Sophocles, E.H. Plumptre

ISBN 1420926039 (1-4209-2603-9)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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'Sophocles, in a play that won only second prize, created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama. In it he played on certain latent terrors that are part of man's nature in all kinds of societies and at all epochs; terrors whose influence may pervade our lives in ways we scarcely guess ...' These words come from the Introduction to Dr Dawe's edition of Oedipus Rex. In an attempt to analyse why this play 'Has exercised such a powerful and long-lasting fascination on the human mind' Dr Dawe devotes his Introduction to an examination of the content of the story and to the technique displayed by Sophocles in the unfolding of the plot. The commentary deals authoritatively with problems of language and expression. This is an edition for classical scholars, undergraduates, and students in the upper forms of schools. The Introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and may be read by anyone interested in Greek literature and drama. [via]

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Oedipus Rex: Literary Touchstone Edition

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ISBN 1580495931 (1-58049-593-1)
Softcover, Prestwick House Inc

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To make Oedipus more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. We hope that the reader may, through this edition, more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama. Sophocles Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, "Who am I?" The play, a story of a king whoacting entirely in ignorancekills his father and marries his mother, unfolds with shattering power; we are helplessly carried along with Oedipus towards the final, horrific truth. This vibrant, new translation invites its readers to lose themselves in the unfolding of this tragic taleas suspenseful as a detective mystery, yet with an outcome long ago determined by Fate. [via]

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ISBN 9781416500339 (1-4165-0033-2, 1416500332)

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Oedipus the King: Uses And Abuses

by Sophocles

ISBN 1416500332 (1-4165-0033-2)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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A new edition of a dramatic classic about a king's struggle with pride, incest, and murder features period illustrations and photographs, a historical background, and a modern critical perspective that relates the piece to contemporary issues. Reissue. [via]

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ISBN 9780816606672 (0-8166-0667-6, 0816606676)

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Oedipus the King.

by Anthony Burgess

ISBN 0816606676 (0-8166-0667-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr

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Washington Square Press Enriched Classics make great literature even more accessible to a new generation of readers, with expanded and updated reader's supplements and essential historical information. Oedipus the King is the 2,000-year-old masterpiece that raises basic questions about human behavior that are still vigorously debated by students and scholars. Photos and illustrations. [via]

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ISBN 9780808509004 (0-8085-0900-4, 0808509004)

Oedipus the King

by Bernard Knox

ISBN 0808509004 (0-8085-0900-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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ISBN 9781599869513 (1-59986-951-9, 1599869519)

Oedipus the King: Oedipus Rex

by Sophocles

ISBN 1599869519 (1-59986-951-9)
Softcover, Filiquarian Pub Llc

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Softcover, Filiquarian Pub Llc

Oedipus Tyrannus

by Sophocles, Paul Woodruff, Peter Meineck

ISBN 0872204928 (0-87220-492-8)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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ISBN 9780882950945 (0-88295-094-0, 0882950940)

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Oedipus, the King ; And Antigone

by Sophocles

ISBN 0882950940 (0-88295-094-0)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson

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Translated and edited by Peter D Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy -- Oedipus the King and Antigone -- for performance and study. The editor's introduction contains a brief biography of the playwright and a description of Greek theatre. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Sophocles and a bibliography. [via]

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ISBN 9780156031516 (0-15-603151-5, 0156031515)

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Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey, Maria Dibattista

ISBN 0156031515 (0-15-603151-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon. [via]

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Otter Nonsense

by Norton Juster, Eric Carle

ISBN 039920931X (0-399-20931-X)
Softcover, Horizon Book Promotions

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We've got some great gnus for ewe here--lots of other hilarious animal puns that are sure to shark you. In this brilliantly illustrated book you can see the seal of approval, and meet a moose with a mousetache. The 80 outrageous puns in the collection will make this just the condor book you'll gopher. Full color. [via]

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ISBN 9780394820378 (0-394-82037-1, 0394820371)

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The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer

ISBN 0394820371 (0-394-82037-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.

Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.

As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]

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ISBN 9780816148011 (0-8161-4801-5, 0816148015)

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The Phantom Tollbooth

by Jules Feiffer, Norton Juster

ISBN 0816148015 (0-8161-4801-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.

Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.

As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]

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Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

ISBN 9780553212419 (0-553-21241-9, 0553212419)

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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen

by Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 0553212419 (0-553-21241-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Novels and Stories

Volume I

Since his first appearance in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyles classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmess adventures in crime!

Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmess famous seven percent solution and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.

Also included are Holmess feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling  The Adventure of the Speckled Band, the baffling riddle of The Musgrave Ritual, and the ingeniously plotted The Five Orange Pips, tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time. [via]

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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen: ISBN 0553212419 (0-553-21241-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

ISBN 9781853996436 (1-85399-643-2, 1853996432)

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Sophocles

by Richard C. Jebb, P. E. Easterling, Jeffrey Rusten

ISBN 1853996432 (1-85399-643-2)
Softcover, Bristol Classical Pr

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This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb. Each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with Jebb and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebbs treatment of the individual play and its value for--and contrast with--subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included. [via]

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Sophocles' Antigone

by Sophocles, Judith Affleck, P. E. Easterling

ISBN 0521010721 (0-521-01072-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Sophocles' Antigone: ISBN 0521010721 (0-521-01072-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

ISBN 9780892367641 (0-89236-764-4, 0892367644)

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Sophocles' Oedipus the King

by Sirish Rao, Gita Wolf-Sampath, Indrapramit Roy

ISBN 0892367644 (0-89236-764-4)
Hardcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns

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Among the Greek tragedies, none is better known than the story of Oedipus, the king of Thebes, who sets out to uncover the sin for which his people are being punished, only to discover that it is he who has unwittingly committed unspeakable acts. Oedipus's slow uncovering of the truth of his birth, marriage, and kingship, and the dreadful punishments he and his unfortunate mother and wife exact upon themselves are masterfully retold here. Original illustrations, silk-screened on handmade paper, accompany the story. This unique, handcrafted book will be a treasured addition to the libraries of those who love the arts of ancient Greece and the art of fine, contemporary bookmaking. [via]

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Sophocles' Oedipus the King: ISBN 0892367644 (0-89236-764-4)
Hardcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns

ISBN 9781879582415 (1-879582-41-4, 1879582414)

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Stories for Christmas by Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 1879582414 (1-879582-41-4)
Hardcover, Platinum Pr

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This prolific collection of favorite Charles Dickens classics is a heartwarming treasure, perfect for the holidays. Assembled here are familiar and welcoming Christmas stories that will awaken warm and exciting holiday memories. A Christmas Carol, for example, juxtaposes fright and warmth as Scrooge learns not only the meaning of Christmas but the meaning of friendship. All of these stories are peppered with the profound characterizations, humor, and quintessential Dickens sentimentality that paint a cherished picture of a bygone era. The nearly 500 pages feature A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth as well as selected Christmas stories from Household Words and All the Year Round. This deluxe edition presents these timeless stories in a beautiful cloth-bound hardcover that makes this piece a valuable edition to any household. --Jacque Holthusen [via]

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Stories for Christmas by Charles Dickens: ISBN 1879582414 (1-879582-41-4)
Hardcover, Platinum Pr

ISBN 9780802131782 (0-8021-3178-6, 0802131786)

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Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

ISBN 0802131786 (0-8021-3178-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate American in Paris was deemed obscene and banned from publication in this country for years. When you read this, you see immediately how much modern writers owe Miller. [via]

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ISBN 9780802138439 (0-8021-3843-8, 0802138438)

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Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

ISBN 0802138438 (0-8021-3843-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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Forty years have passed since Grove Press first published Henry Miller's landmark masterpiece -- an act that would forever change the face of American literature. Initially banned in America as obscene, Tropic of Cancer was first published in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards permitted its publication. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century." Also banned in America for almost thirty years, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature. Together, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn are a lasting testament to one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century and his contribution not only to literature but to the cause of free speech. [via]

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Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricorn: ISBN 0802138438 (0-8021-3843-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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